“Taken care of? This monster feels a bit weak,” said Yakuza, Poison Island.
From the moment the six-winged flying centipede appeared, all the women stared at this legendary monster in astonishment.
They had thought a great battle would ensue, but instead, the two waves of attacks from the Yinling Warriors defeated the enormous monster.
Lu Wen chuckled, “This world may be in an era of declining spiritual energy. There’s no soil for extraordinary creatures to exist. These monsters are all clinging to life. They’re already lucky to survive, don’t expect them to be strong.”
In the original plot, several of the protagonists, who were slightly stronger than normal people, were able to kill the six-winged flying centipede. Lu Wen, controlling ten teams of one hundred Yinling Warriors, easily defeated the flying centipede, which was to be expected.
After commanding the Yinling Warriors to kill the flying centipede with a single blow, Lu Wen approached and used the Emperor's Banner to capture and suppress the flying centipede's soul.
Instead of rushing to combine it, Lu Wen took the flying centipede's inner core and carefully examined it.
It was a solid object composed of a small amount of Yin energy, Sha Qi, Ling Qi, and strange energy, as well as a large amount of unknown components.
“It's not a pure energy-condensed inner core. Did the flying centipede condense the medicinal and poisonous gas it absorbed into this?” Lu Wen guessed.
In the original plot, consuming this inner core seemed to increase one’s strength, but Lu Wen didn't care about that kind of increase. He had better ideas.
He directed the Yinling Warriors to dismantle the flying centipede's armor, starting with its wings.
Then he combined the flying centipede's soul with the Emperor's Banner, completely controlling it.
He then combined the flying centipede's soul, wings, and inner core.
The flying centipede was a monster. After a little refinement, it submitted to Lu Wen and became very close to him.
The wings would increase the flying centipede's flight ability.
Although the inner core wasn't entirely solidified energy, it still had the ability to store energy due to the limitations of the world's environment.
And after combining it, it could be further refined into an energy inner core, increasing its upper limit for storing energy.
The flying centipede's soul had strong energy. After all, it was a monster that had lived for hundreds of years, but it was only slightly stronger than a normal person.
Lu Wen planned to specially refine a paper shell for it later, making it his mount for the next period.
He would also take the time to combine the flying centipede's original shell to increase its defense.
While Lu Wen was dealing with the flying centipede, the Yinling Warriors transformed into paper figures and, under the command of Nan Li Xiang, Bai He Zi, and the other women, searched the underground palace for a passage, excavating a path for Lu Wen and the others to pass through.
Combining the flying centipede and refining the specially made paper figure took half a day.
The Yinling flying centipede could transform between the size of a palm and a train car. It had an inner core that could store more energy.
In this world where there was no extraordinary energy, Lu Wen had to provide energy for the flying centipede to carry people.
Lu Wen experimented with the mount he had spent so much effort and thought combining and creating. The flight speed and energy consumption were better than carrying them on two teams of Yinling Warriors before.
It's just that the appearance of this flying centipede mount didn’t look like it belonged to a good person.
“Make do with it for now. We’ll think of ways to enhance and modify the mount later,” Lu Wen thought to himself.
Nan Li Xiang, Bai He Zi, and the other women had been commanding the Yinling Warriors to excavate a passage while Lu Wen was busy combining the flying centipede.
“Did you find anything?” Lu Wen asked as he reached the entrance to the passage.
Nan Li Xiang and the others shook their heads. She said, “There are no creatures in this underground palace, but we found a lot of bones and ancient artifacts.”
The group entered the underground palace. This was the place where the alchemist worked. Alchemists were considered high-level talents.
Their benefits and treatment were relatively good, so the buildings and various metal decorations in the room were extremely exquisite.
Lu Wen's group entered through the main entrance and walked forward along the buildings of the underground palace. They didn't encounter any attacks along the way.
Those poisonous centipedes also had the instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. After a large number of their kind were slaughtered, even the flying centipede was killed, how could these small monsters dare to appear in front of Lu Wen and his group.
With the Yinling Warriors scouting ahead, Lu Wen soon made a discovery, “This way.”
The group came to a well and urged the flying centipede to descend from the mouth of the well.
Lu Wen, on the back of the flying centipede, stretched out his electromagnetic field to isolate the inside and outside.
He remembered that in the original plot, Chen Yu Lou and his group seemed to have fallen into some kind of trap, and many of them went mad and attacked their own people.
The Yinling Warriors didn’t have to worry about this, but Poison Island Yakuza and the others, as well as Lu Wen himself, had to be careful.
They followed the passage from the mouth of the well to the bottom, where the space was very vast.
A huge alchemy furnace stood in the middle of the room, surrounded by many corpses. It was obvious that a battle had taken place here, and in the end, everyone died here.
Lu Wen had the women around him help control the Yinling Warriors to deal with the corpses. He didn't even think about leaving the flying centipede to deal with it himself.
He didn't know if these corpses were from hundreds of years ago, but in this special environment, the bodies had not decayed, but had become something like mummies.
Lu Wen controlled the flying centipede to approach the alchemy furnace. He didn't sense any extraordinary fluctuations from it and immediately lost interest. Who knows how this alchemy furnace was used?
This was the place where the emperor refined pills. In order to seek immortality, the emperor would do anything.
Humans were also a kind of great medicine. Many ancient alchemists liked to use them.
If this alchemy furnace was a magic weapon or a spiritual weapon, Lu Wen would have put it in his pocket space.
Even if he didn't use it himself, he could sell it for resources in the right world in the future.
So many people died here. This underground space was also the core area of the underground palace complex. Lu Wen and his group continued to search the space with the Yinling Warriors.
They soon made a discovery. Gao Cheng Sha Ye said, “Lu Wen-kun, I’ve found a library over here.”
Lu Wen was overjoyed. “Be careful. Control the Yinling Warriors and don't go in. In what direction? We’ll go right away.”
Lu Wen didn't care much about the various ancient artifacts and treasures in this underground palace. What he cared most about were the books and knowledge in this library.
This was the emperor's alchemy place. There must be precious knowledge in the library.
But hundreds of years had passed, and Lu Wen was afraid that these books had decayed.
The Yinling Warriors’ hands and feet were rough. If they went in rashly, they might damage a lot of books.
They quickly came to the library. The temperature and humidity were very suitable for storing books. Lu Wen carefully entered and saw all kinds of books on the shelves.
There were bamboo slips, scrolls, stone carvings, and a large number of paper books.
The bamboo slips and stone carvings were in good condition, but the scrolls and paper books were already decayed and fragile.
Lu Wen thought for a moment and chose a book to combine with him directly, so that he could get the content recorded in it without having to touch the book.