Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

Chapter 507: Chapter 458: Thousand-legged Demon Centipede, Underground Level 2

That was right.

The Corrupt Knight was not dead. It could still swing its hammer and fight.

And from its chest, a Centipede Demon had emerged, waiting for an opportunity to strike. Its sharp mouthparts were aimed at Su Ye’s throat and heart at all times!

This meant Su Ye had to fight two opponents at the same time!

And neither of them was weak!

"Monsters in the dream world are indeed a cut above those in the real world!" Su Ye took a deep breath. The pressure from these two opponents was immense!

He could sense that both the Corrupt Knight and the Centipede Demon were definitely at the Golden Core Perfection level.

They just had certain flaws.

They weren’t as well-rounded or balanced as a true Golden Core Perfection cultivator.

Therefore, as soon as the second phase began, the initial exchange put Su Ye at a complete disadvantage!

’Thankfully...’

’In the real world, Qin Wuyou and the others are holding their own... They must have dealt a lot of damage, because the strength of these two monsters has clearly dropped!’

The Centipede Demon’s appearance was his doing. He had used the power of his Divine Techniques to force the Corrupt Knight into its second phase.

But after entering the second phase, the Centipede Demon’s power was continuously declining.

It was obvious.

In the real world, Qin Wuyou and the others were going all out to weaken the Centipede Demon!

’So...’

’I can kill this thing!’

A glint flashed in Su Ye’s eyes.

SWISH!

He swung his Moonfall Halberd, a Moon Arc sweeping out, using the immense physical strength of his body to knock back the Corrupt Knight.

At the same time, he brought the halberd into a two-handed grip, condensing a black-and-white spear. As Daoist rhythm flowed around it, it radiated an aura of absolute authority over life and death, of exterminating evil and breaking armies!

A Divine Technique.

—[End of Tracing Origin]—

SHINK!

The black-and-white spear, imbued with Life and Death Qi, shot forward with a whistle!

Moving at several times the speed of sound, it arrived in an instant, once again striking the Corrupt Knight in the chest—and this time, the hit was even better than the last!

The Corrupt Knight’s body was sent flying backward and pinned to the wall at the end of the corridor. It trembled uncontrollably as its dry, brown flesh began to disintegrate and crumble away!

"HISS!"

A piercing shriek, like a mournful wail, echoed from within the Corrupt Knight.

[Thousand-legged Demon Centipede slain. [Pastor of the Sea] EXP +8290]

A message appeared on his status panel.

The Centipede Demon that had been inhabiting the Corrupt Knight’s body had been directly annihilated by Su Ye’s Divine Technique!

Su Ye glanced at the panel, unfazed. Once he used a Divine Technique, no one of the same cultivation level could possibly withstand it!

But...

’Just one kill notification? The old knight doesn’t count?’ Su Ye raised an eyebrow.

’Or... is he not dead yet?’

At this thought, he formed a hand seal and cast a spell.

He manifested an Illusionary Substitute Body, which walked over to the Corrupt Knight and asked.

"Are you all right?"

"Hss..."

The Corrupt Knight’s voice was incredibly weak.

However, it held a hint of what sounded like relief. After the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede was killed, the Corrupt Knight’s mind seemed to have cleared up considerably.

"Thank you... for destroying that centipede..."

His words were finally somewhat coherent.

"Don’t mention it," Su Ye said calmly.

’Don’t just thank me, hurry up and give me my reward, or I’ll just have to finish you off for it... As a dream monster, this thing should give EXP, right?’

Su Ye thought with ill intent.

The Corrupt Knight said, "Netherworld Divine Envoy..." He paused, clearly suspicious of Su Ye’s identity.

’The Nether Divinity is correct.’

’But...’

’What’s with those Magical Power fluctuations?’

’It’s not like I don’t recognize the Spiritual Mechanism Immortal Dao.’

The Corrupt Knight hesitated, but then he considered his current situation and sighed internally.

He took out a stone slate from within his armor.

"Follow the formula on this slate to open the door to the second basement level."

"To protect the seal, the Lord is in a deep slumber. I ask that you lend your aid and alleviate the seal’s weakening..."

"If you cannot..."

"Then please... help the Lord... find release."

The Corrupt Knight said sorrowfully.

After speaking.

His aura began to fade rapidly.

"I will."

SHINK.

Su Ye nodded.

He thrust his Moonfall Halberd into the Corrupt Knight’s chest.

Icy-silver Magical Power flowed out, transforming into breathtakingly beautiful ice flowers that spread across its body.

Then...

An ice explosion!

BOOM!

[Temple Heroic Spirit slain. [Pastor of the Sea] EXP +9232]

The kill was secured.

Su Ye examined the stone slate in his hand.

With his level of knowledge, he could tell it recorded an unfamiliar magical art.

The so-called ’formula’?

’He sounded sincere, but... I’m still not convinced. Logically speaking, shouldn’t these knights consider their lord’s life to be more important than anything?’

’And now he just hands me the formula to open the door, a matter concerning the Lord’s safety?’

’Is that reasonable?’ Su Ye mused.

Then...

He smiled.

"That’s right."

’I can send this formula to Qin Wuyou.’

’Let them try opening the door in the real world first!’

’Perfect!’

...

「Real World.」

Feng Shaochai lay in a pool of his own blood, gasping for air. The clothes on his abdomen were stained red, and they gave off a putrid, rotting stench!

A curse-like purplish-black color could be seen spreading from his lower abdomen throughout his entire body.

"Damn it!"

"Am I really going to fall at the hands of this worm today?"

Feng Shaochai gave a bitter smile, coughing up blood nonstop.

In the distance, the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede rose up on its hind legs. It was dozens of feet long, its sharp mouthparts glinting with a blinding, cold light and tinged with a virulent, purplish-black hue.

The Thousand-legged Demon Centipede was in no hurry to attack.

A strikingly human-like expression of mockery and derision appeared on its face.

"Damn it..."

Qin Wuyou stood with his sword in hand, his face pale and weak.

Of all the cultivators present, he was the only one left standing.

However, his body was covered in sharp cuts from which large amounts of blood flowed.

But these wounds were not inflicted by the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede. Qin Wuyou had cut them himself—from these gashes, large quantities of poisoned blood could be seen flowing out.

He was using the unique properties of his Blood Spirit Sword Body to rapidly generate new blood and dilute the toxicity.

As for the other Golden Core cultivators who lacked such an ability, Feng Shaochai and the other two were all poisoned, collapsed on the ground, with less than a tenth of their combat power remaining.

"This centipede’s venom is truly vicious!" Qin Wuyou grit his teeth. The Thousand-legged Demon Centipede was using its superior speed not to land killing blows, but to prioritize poisoning them!

This strategy was very effective.

The result was that all four Golden Core cultivators had been afflicted with the potent venom.

In exchange, however, the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede had also suffered considerable damage—a two-meter-long section of its body lay nearby.

Zheng Yunzhe had restrained it while Qin Wuyou had used his Spirit Sword to sever it!

Therefore, the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede didn’t dare to fight them head-on, even now.

But even so, the scales of victory were steadily tipping in the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede’s favor.

The poison was only a secondary reason.

The main reason was that after two vicious battles, the four Golden Core cultivators—including Chen Xuankong, who had lost his ability to fight at the very beginning—were about to run out of Magical Power.

Without Magical Power, it was extremely difficult to suppress the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede’s venom, even for Golden Core cultivators.

The three of them could only protect their heart meridians to preserve their own lives.

As for doing anything more, they had the will but not the strength.

Qin Wuyou frowned in concentration and thought to himself, ’Do I have no choice but to use the trump card my master gave me? But this secret realm rejects existences at the Nascent Soul level...’

’If I activate a Nascent Soul-level technique and trigger the fire poison... wouldn’t that be mutual destruction?’

’But if I don’t...’

Qin Wuyou’s heart was in turmoil.

However, at that very moment,

the Thousand-legged Demon Centipede’s body suddenly went rigid.

Then, its body disintegrated, and it collapsed, dead.

[Qin, you’ve worked hard.]

Words appeared on his arm guard.

"Eh?" Qin Wuyou was stunned, his expression complicated.

’Four of us against one, and three were taken out.’

’And you, Su Ye, killed it by yourself?’

"This..."

"This..."

A look of utter shock appeared in Qin Wuyou’s eyes.

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