PDLP Chapter 38 Xuan Yuan Water Centipede Venerable
Chapter 38 Xuan Yuan Water Centipede Venerable
The rusty spear vibrated and trembled, causing the rift valley at the bottom of the pool to shake.
The rust on the gun barrel began to peel off little by little, revealing a flowing, blood-red halo beneath it.
Is this because he's been manipulated to the point of bursting forth?
"It seems Princess Wansheng's gun-drawing skills are quite good," Lu Changgeng muttered to himself.
Princess Wansheng was delighted to see the gun barrel acting strangely and increased the force and frequency of its strike.
"Rumble..."
A dull thud came from beneath the stone platform. Large pieces of rust fell off, finally revealing the spear shaft itself—a long spear shimmering with a blood-red light!
The gun barrel is covered with flowing patterns that extend from the butt to the tip, each pattern flowing slowly as if it were alive.
Inlaid between the patterns are some fine dark gold ancient seal script characters, each character being an ancient water pattern script, the script used by the great god Gonggong to command all the water creatures in the world.
The runes flickered like the tides, disappearing into the spear god when they darkened and glowing like phosphorescence when they lit up. Each flicker seemed as if the spear was breathing, with a deep, resonant light emanating from it.
The spear tip revealed its true form, resembling neither a spear nor a snake, with a dense, sharp aura of bloodlust emanating from it, covering a distance of three zhang.
What's even more astonishing is that after the gun revealed its true form, a vacuum zone was formed around it, and the pools of water automatically dispersed around it, making it impossible to approach.
Princess Wansheng's dragon claws gripping the gun barrel were trembling slightly, whether from excitement or from the vibrations caused by the gun barrel itself, it was hard to tell.
She tried her best again, but the gun barrel remained unmoved.
"That's enough!"
A muffled thunderous sound suddenly echoed from the bottom of the pool.
Under the illumination of dozens of luminous pearls, a huge shadow suddenly covered the area above Princess Wansheng's head.
Princess Wansheng froze completely, and Lu Changgeng concealed all his aura, hiding in a corner of the stone platform, becoming invisible.
He kept thinking to himself: Damn it, I was wondering why there were no guards, so they were waiting here.
This aura is no less than that of the Old Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints.
I don't know where this thing was hiding, how did it appear so quietly?
Princess Wansheng then came to her senses and cautiously looked back.
It was a centipede-shaped monster that was completely black, over thirty feet long, so large that it blotted out the sky and exuded an extremely oppressive aura.
Its back is covered with layers of dark carapace, each edge of which is covered with fine barbs.
On each side of its body is a row of segmented fins, with hundreds of pairs of them, each fin tip gleaming with a cold, eerie green light.
It has two pairs of compound eyes on its head, each of which is composed of countless small eyes, with a faint green light flowing within them.
The mouthparts are in two pairs, upper and lower, and when they open and close, you can vaguely see the dense, fine teeth inside the cavity, like a grinding disc for mincing meat.
Its tail is raised high, with the tip splitting into three forks. At the end of each fork is a venom sac the size of a fist, which glows with a faint purple light in the green glow.
This is an ancient and exotic species from the bottom of the Azure Pool, the Mysterious Abyss Water Centipede.
It had been lurking in the cold abyss at the bottom of the pool for countless years. After being subdued by the Old Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints, it was ordered to guard the Xuanming Canglan Spear here and had never left the rift valley.
The water centipede demon's two pairs of compound eyes turned simultaneously, and hundreds of small pupils locked onto Princess Wansheng, who was holding a gun.
Its mouth opened suddenly, emitting a hoarse, low roar, its fine teeth vibrating rapidly, causing ripples to spread across the bottom of the pool.
"I recognize you, you little brat from the Wan Sheng family. What are you doing here?"
"I...I came to take a look..." Princess Wansheng answered softly. She didn't know why, perhaps it was because she felt guilty, but even though the water centipede demon's aura was similar to her father's, she couldn't help but tremble.
"Are you aware that this gun is your father's private property, and that you are not allowed to enter this place without his verbal permission?"
"I...I was just curious and wandered around, and I ended up here by accident..."
"What a careless mistake! There's no good way out of this icy abyss." The water centipede demon stretched its massive body across her face, its hundred pairs of flippers slowly paddling in the water. Its enormous compound eyes snapped close to hers. "Considering this is your first offense, I won't report this to your father. You'd better leave this place now, as if you'd never been here. Otherwise, even for your father's sake, I'll capture you and imprison you in the icy abyss's water dungeon."
Princess Wansheng was not giving up. She had gone through great hardships to finally pull the gun a little off, and it was only a hair's breadth away from being pulled off. How could she give up so easily?
She opened her mouth as if to say something, but the water centipede demon saw through her thoughts and didn't give her a chance to speak. A black shadow swept past, and the tip of its tail coiled around her waist, lifting her entire dragon body up.
She twisted and struggled, and the water centipede flicked its tail, throwing her straight up toward the entrance of the rift valley.
At the exit of the rift, Princess Wansheng tumbled several times in the water before regaining her balance. She transformed back into human form, gritted her teeth, and glared fiercely at the direction of the rift. In the end, she didn't dare to venture in again and stomped her foot heavily.
"asshole!"
Once the water centipede's aura had completely disappeared outside the rift, it moved its mandibles and resealed the entrance to the rift. As if still not satisfied, it cast another spell.
It then slowly retracted its tail tip, glanced at the blood-red Xuanming Canglan Spear, and its massive body coiled back into the dark stone cave.
The two pairs of compound eyes scanned every corner of the rift valley one by one, and only after confirming that there was nothing else unusual did they bury their heads into their coiled bodies, and the light of the compound eyes gradually dimmed.
Silence returned to the rift valley, with only the Xuanming Canglan Spear gleaming with a blood-red light in the darkness.
Lu Changgeng remained motionless in the shadows, watching helplessly as the water centipede demon placed a barrier on the entrance to the rift valley. He thought to himself that he was now trapped here.
If he had used his magic to run away quickly, he would have inevitably exposed his presence. Moreover, he was still concerned about the spear, and if he left, he didn't know when he would have another chance to come back.
After a brief moment of thought, he decided to stay there for now. He figured there was always a way out, and he would deal with everything else once he got the gun.
After patiently waiting until the water centipede demon's compound eyes were completely extinguished, and then waiting for an unknown amount of time, Lu Changgeng silently slid out from the corner of the stone platform.
He did not reveal himself immediately, but instead slowly approached the Xuanming Canglan Spear by moving along the stone platform in the form of water. He paused for a moment every foot he got closer, and only continued to move forward after confirming that the water centipede demon did not react.
He covered a distance of only a few feet, but it took him the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
When he finally reached the spear, he reformed into human form and stood before the spear, which was much taller than him, examining it closely.
Blood flowed, golden patterns flickered—what a divine spear!
He's determined to have this gun!
Even when Princess Wansheng unleashed her full power, the spear barely budged. He was merely a spring spirit in the early stages of transformation, and while he was no match for the little female dragon in terms of brute strength, he possessed profound magical power. It was uncertain whether he could pull it out.
It's not shameful if you can't pull it out; you can always find another way later.
He reached out and grasped the gun barrel. The moment his palm touched the barrel, Lu Changgeng suddenly felt something burn him in his arms.
A thought struck him, and he took out the item, which turned out to be a fragment of the five-colored stone!