novelraw Chapter 501 The Vicious Woodlice
Chapter 501 The Vicious Woodlice
To the southeast, about 120 li from the City of Fire.
The outline of a medium-sized city slowly emerges on the horizon.
Unlike Jiangcheng, this city is mostly ruins, likely destroyed by a strange tide.
The city's silhouette floated on the horizon, like a giant beast reduced to a skeleton, its whiteness gleaming in the blood-red sun.
Xu Si did not rush to land.
He hovered in the air at the edge of the city, his star veins fully extended, his perception enveloping the entire city.
Ruins, crumbling walls, mountains of rubble, and murky, putrid orbs of psychic energy hidden in the shadows flickered like will-o'-the-wisps about to go out in the cracks of the city.
The city was teeming with more eerie and unsettling creatures than Xu Si had imagined.
This is quite rare.
Xu Si also found the two level-six anomalies that Fu Xiaojian had mentioned, but he did not see any higher-level anomalies that might exist.
Then there are only two possibilities: either it has already left this area, or it never existed at all.
Fu Xiaojian's judgment was correct; this city was indeed a good hunting ground, at least the number of low-level monsters met the hunting and training needs of the others in the City of Fire.
Xu Si naturally wouldn't eliminate them all; his target was only the two level-six strange creatures.
For him, the level six strangeness was no longer enough to achieve the purpose of training.
However, it is indeed a threat to the City of Fire. No matter how strong Chen Pei is, he is already struggling to deal with a level six monster. Facing two monsters and successfully killing them is extremely risky.
Therefore, Xu Si only planned to eliminate one of them, leaving the other one for Chen Pei to hone his skills.
As for the low-level monsters in the city, they are naturally the targets for the people in the City of Fire to exchange for Fire Points, so Xu Si doesn't need to eliminate them.
Xu Si hovered in the air for a moment, confirming the location of the two strange level-six creatures, before his body plummeted into the city ruins like a meteorite.
He didn't even use the Sword of Kingship.
As he fell, Xu Si slowly clenched his right fist at his side, and crimson star power condensed on his fist, a restrained, compressed, dark light.
The level-six eerie creature, which had already sensed something was wrong, suddenly turned around.
Its size is not exaggerated, about three meters long, and its whole body is covered with dark red carapace, with dense, wriggling black bristles growing between the gaps in the carapace.
One of its claws was flung directly at Xu Si.
Xu Si felt a sudden jolt of gravity throughout his body, which then returned to normal.
His fist smashed the single claw that was trying to resist to pieces.
Xu Si looked at his fist with some surprise. In recent days, he had achieved a considerable level of control over his body.
His entire body was in a state of readiness to explode at any moment.
Just like the Sword Demon, whose body is covered in blades, Xu Si can now make his body a starburst.
As he gradually came to understand the meaning of different levels of life, Xu Si became increasingly adept at using his own energy.
Dark green fluid gushed from the giant scorpion's eerie severed claws, splashing a corrosive mist across the ruins.
It let out a sharp screech, and its remaining pincer slammed into the ground, causing the entire ruins to tremble.
The rubble exploded like cannonballs.
The gravity around Xu Si also increased exponentially, but unfortunately this had no effect on Xu Si, whose current physical strength was much stronger than that of ordinary high-level monsters.
He clenched his right fist again, this time with all his might.
However, the power of the Starburst was not invoked.
As the starlight dissipated, his figure broke through the poisonous fog and appeared eerily beside the giant scorpion.
"boom"
The fist slammed into the giant scorpion's eerie carapace, producing a dull, resounding thud, like striking a drumhead.
The dark red carapace has radial cracks radiating outwards from the center of the fist, with the cracks spreading like a spider web across the entire back.
The last remaining pincer tried to resist.
Xu Si didn't give it any chance.
With the third punch, the giant scorpion's eerie head caved in, and dark green fluid gushed out from the cracks in its carapace, turning the surrounding ruins into a putrid swamp.
The corpse then vanished, and he held a dark green ball of light in his palm.
[Mysterious Drop Detected: Giant Scorpion Core]
【Specialties: Gravity Manipulation, Corrosive Mist, Shell Reinforcement】
Xu Si casually put it into his spatial cloak, his gaze falling on the spot where the giant scorpion, which had disappeared, had strangely been coiled in the ruins.
Level 6, bizarre, achieved in just three punches.
He didn't even feel any effort.
This feeling is wonderful; it's not a simple expansion of power, but rather an improvement in the precision of my control over that power.
Every punch was perfectly timed, just enough to destroy the target without wasting a single bit.
Xu Si looked down at his fist; there wasn't even a scratch on his knuckles.
"Wanliuchun, can you sense the presence of your kind?" Xu Si asked.
Regarding the possible strange occurrences at high levels, he did not rule out the possibility that the other party had evaded his detection.
"no."
Wanliuchun floated out from behind him, her bare feet hovering half an inch above the ruins, her skirt untouched by a speck of dust.
"No?" Xu Si frowned.
"At least not within the city limits, and there are no strange, high-altitude boundary markers here either." Wan Liuchun's voice carried a hint of uncertainty.
"No, it happened here!" the sword ghost said.
"Impossible, the Strange One cannot leave its fiefdom!" Wanliuchun said.
He and Jian Gui are just isolated cases. If everyone were like Xu Si, wouldn't this divine selection be a joke?
"It's simple, just ask the highest-ranking of the strange creatures!" the Sword Ghost said.
He was referring, of course, to the level-six strange creature that Xu Si had deliberately left behind.
Another level-six eerie entity is lurking inside a half-collapsed stadium in the east of the city.
When Xu Si found it, it was curled up in a sunken pit in the center of the ruins, its whole body covered with grayish-white, rough skin like cement.
Its shape resembles a flattened, magnified version of a woodlice, with its body covered by a grayish-white, hard shell like dried cement.
A dozen or so pairs of slender legs were curled up on either side of the body, each pair of legs ending in sharp, hook-shaped toenails that were deeply embedded in the crevices of the gravel.
This is a strange creature adept at hiding; perhaps it discovered that a living Yama had entered the city, so it buried itself deep in a pit.
However, for Xu Si, such hiding was tantamount to burying his head in the sand.
However, judging from his behavior, he is at least intelligent enough.
Perhaps it was because he had been under Xu Si's gaze for so long that he finally realized that he had been exposed.
His grayish-white hard shell trembled slightly, emitting a soft, rustling sound like pebbles rubbing together.
More than a dozen pairs of legs stretched out at the same time, supporting its bloated body from the pit. It was nearly ten meters long and looked a bit like a pill bug.
[Level 6 Weird Detection: Vicious Woodlice]
[Characteristics: Camouflage, Hard Shell Defense, Corruption Breath, Terrain Collapse]