As they talked, the hidden venomous insects sensed the presence of Lu Wen and the others and emerged from the cliffs and cracks in the buildings.
The subtle rustling sounds rose simultaneously, turning into a chaotic grinding noise.
The women heard this sound and drew closer to Lu Wen, some in fear, while they observed what was causing the commotion.
A large number of venomous centipedes poured out from the crevices like water. Centipedes the length and thickness of an arm, densely packed, covered the ground and charged toward Lu Wen and the women.
Even Lu Wen, let alone Poison Island Yazi and the others, felt a chill run down his spine. But he remained calm and ordered the Yinling Warriors: "Slay all the centipedes."
To deal with these arm-sized centipedes, Lu Wen controlled the Yinling Warriors to maintain their size at one meter tall, dividing them into three lines of defense to intercept the centipedes’ advance.
The Yinling Warriors had no fear or negative emotions toward the venomous centipedes.
The outermost line of Yinling Warriors used their weapons to sweep back and forth across the ground, cutting the bodies of countless centipedes. The centipedes writhed and struggled on the ground, waiting for death to arrive.
But the Yinling Warriors’ combat skills were not high, and they couldn't block all the attacking centipedes.
Some lucky centipedes broke through the first line of defense. They crawled over the Yinling Warriors’ bodies.
However, the Yinling Warriors were not living beings. In the centipedes' perception, they were like stones. These centipedes did not attack the Yinling Warriors.
They fell from the Yinling Warriors’ bodies and continued crawling towards their food.
But before these centipedes could excitedly get closer to their food, they were chopped into pieces by the Yinling Warriors of the second line of defense.
Seeing that the defense was stable, Lu Wen observed the attacking centipedes.
After their bodies were cut, the centipedes’ shells released a pool of poisonous blood, but there was no flesh inside. These were not edible species.
Lu Wen sighed: "What a pity."
At the same time, he extended a small-scale magnetic field, covering all the women on the sedan chair.
Many of the venomous centipedes died, their poisonous blood turning into poisonous fog, which began to fill the bottom of the cliff valley.
After a few minutes, many centipedes were dead, and their shell corpses formed a thick layer on the ground. The poisonous fog became visible to the naked eye.
As if sensing danger, the venomous centipedes’ relentless attack slowed down. After a dozen seconds, there were no more centipedes attacking.
Lu Wen and the women felt a deep sense of relief. Although they knew there was no danger, being surrounded by a sea of centipedes still put a lot of pressure on their hearts.
Being able to wait safely in the middle of the defensive lines was also a test of their mental fortitude.
"Is it over?" Takajo Saya asked, her face pale.
The other women had similar expressions.
But Lu Wen shook his head: "No, those were just the foot soldiers. The real monsters haven’t come out yet."
As he spoke, his magnetic field perception spread out, locking onto a powerful magnetic field target in the underground palace.
At the same time, he withdrew the ten teams of Yinling Warriors in front of him into the Emperor’s Banner to recharge them, and then summoned ten more teams of Yinling Warriors.
Although the venomous centipedes had not caused any harm to the Yinling Warriors, their energy was greatly depleted in the poisonous fog, and they were no longer in top condition.
He prepared himself for the possible battle to come.
The six-winged centipede in the underground palace was originally asleep. At night, it would release its inner pill to absorb the moonlight.
But the noise of the battle between the Yinling Warriors and the swarm of venomous centipedes was quite loud, waking up the six-winged centipede.
A massive black shadow emerged from the large hole in the roof of the underground palace. Upon closer inspection, it was a gigantic centipede.
Even though Lu Wen knew about the existence of this six-winged flying centipede, he was just as surprised as the women.
Centipedes, such insects, could actually grow to the size of a train car—extraordinary power is truly miraculous.
Lu Wen sighed in amazement but didn’t dwell on it. He gave orders to the Yinling Warriors.
The Yinling Warriors flew up, like paper airplanes taking flight, quickly approaching the six-winged flying centipede in the air.
The six-winged flying centipede was enormous, so its flying speed wasn’t very fast.
The Yinling Warriors quickly caught up with their target and immediately stuck to the flying centipede.
Their weight was very light, even with two or three teams of them sticking to the flying centipede at once, it didn’t put much burden on it.
After sticking to the flying centipede, the Yinling Warriors plunged their weapons deeply into its body.
The flying centipede’s shell couldn’t withstand the weapons that had been honed by the Yinling Warriors.
After piercing the flying centipede’s shell, the Yinling Warriors decisively let go of their weapons and flew away.
The flying centipede felt intense pain and instinctively struggled to shake off the Yinling Warriors on its body.
But the Yinling Warriors had already escaped. The flying centipede’s struggle caused the weapons embedded in its vital parts to inflict even more severe wounds.
The flying centipede paused, no longer able to maintain flight, and fell from the air, crashing onto the roof debris.
Seizing the opportunity, Lu Wen controlled two more teams of Yinling Warriors to charge forward, plunging their weapons fiercely toward the flying centipede.
Most of the weapons successfully pierced the flying centipede’s body. The violently struggling flying centipede knocked away several Yinling Warriors.
With the added power of its massive size, this blow was no different from being hit by a car driving on the road.
These Yinling Warriors were immediately severely injured, their energy greatly depleted, and cracks appeared in their paper bodies.
Lu Wen calmly withdrew these heavily wounded Yinling Warriors, allowing them to recover in the Emperor’s Banner.
He then controlled two more teams of Yinling Warriors to stand ready, prepared to attack the flying centipede at any moment.
The violently struggling flying centipede destroyed a large area of roof tiles in the valley bottom.
Although dozens of weapons had pierced its body, the flying centipede was tenacious. It struggled so hard that it suffered even more serious injuries but didn’t die.
But after a few dozen seconds, the flying centipede’s injuries worsened. It lay limp on the roof, no longer struggling violently, only twitching constantly.
Lu Wen had no intention of approaching. He controlled the Yinling Warriors to surround it in layers.
He approached the flying centipede’s head and prepared to end its life with a single blow.
As the Yinling Warriors approached, the flying centipede sensed the extraordinary energy they contained. Filled with resentment, it mustered its last breath, used its inner pill to spit it out, and smashed it fiercely toward the Yinling Warriors.
Although it was only gigantic in size and lacked any divine abilities, the flying centipede was, after all, a refined demon.
This inner pill attack was the flying centipede's trump card, its power formidable. Even the Corpse King at the top of Bottle Mountain dared not face it.
Lu Wen, with his powerful physique, reacted in time when the flying centipede was about to launch its inner pill, but controlling the Yinling Warriors had a certain delay. He could only watch helplessly as the Yinling Warriors were pierced by the inner pill.
The inner pill pierced through the bodies of three Yinling Warriors and finally got stuck in the fourth one.
The three pierced Yinling Warriors all had fist-sized holes in their bodies.
But they only had their energy seriously depleted. Nothing else happened.