Chapter 343: The power of the sword! (2)

"Hahahaha! What is this? You turned into a turtle!" the Desert Centipede King wriggled on the ground, seeming to be laughing.

While Wang Dong could not understand the other party, body language was said to be universal. Therefore, from the way the centipede was wriggling on the ground with tears flowing down on both its eyes while screeching incessantly, Wang Dong knew for sure that the Desert Centipede King must be laughing at him right now!

After all, it was known that monsters of such level possessed a certain degree of intelligence and could even understand human intentions!

"Detestable puny worm!" Wang Dong cursed as he gritted his teeth indignantly with reddened face. He was also not sure on how this current form of his came to be.

How can my majestic figure turned into as such so suddenly just as I was prepared to fight to the death?

Looking at his right hand, he was shocked to see that the Ten Commandment sword was no longer there!

"Could it be..?" a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

While he was dumb for most of the time, he was not totally beyond saving in term of intelligence. At least, he was smarter than the Desert Centipede King in front of him.

This armor has a turtle shell on its back after I activated my 'Abs Flexing Technique Supreme Turtle's Crust'!

Does this mean that the Ten Commandment Sword responds to one's skill arts and transform the user accordingly?

"Let me give it a try- huh?"

Just as Wang Dong was trying to confirm his theory by using another skill art, a sudden fatigue hit him.

"How... I only have a third of my spiritual Qi left?!"

This realization immediately left him feeling rattled.

It seems that every transformation would take a significant amount of spiritual Qi to activate!

"I can't be too choosy now that it's like this... let's see..."

If there is a follow-up skill after activating the Abs Flexing Technique, it would be...

Justice Dash!

With a single dash, Wang Dong head straight on towards the Desert Centipede King with the intention to ram on it!

Squeak! Squeak!

"Eh?"

Automatically, his body was sucked into the turtle shell on his back, leaving only the shell itself to speed towards the monster as it spun on its own axis like a rotating arrow head!

PENGGG!!

"KREEEEE!!" the wriggling centipede was taken by surprise from this attack and was bolted far away from the resulting impact!

Squeak!

Wang Dong's head poked out from the turtle shell as he laughed out loud, "Hahahahaha! This is great! Again!"

Squeak! Squeak!

Justice Dash!

PENGGG!!

"KREEEE!!"

Justice Dash!

PENGGG!!

PENGGG!!

Just like that, Wang Dong continued to harass the Desert Centipede King like an annoying mosquito under the speechless watch of both Shen Murong and Wei Wang.

...

Meanwhile, outside the entrance hole where Shen Murong and the gang entered before, stood Princess Meixiu and her expedition party.

"They've entered the ruin for a while now, so any mishaps or enemies down there should already be attracted to their presence. Princess, I think now is the time to enter!" said Elder Cheng Chao confidently with her hands placed behind her back.

"En! Men, prepare yourself!" Princess Meixiu ordered her men to jump into the hole one after another before finally jumping into the hole herself!

Whooshhh!!

As she dived into the hole, she let her body slid according to the movement of the sand. Flight was entirely impossible as the hole swiftly became narrow, such that only three people could probably fit in at the same time. Throughout the journey spiraling downwards, she never let her guard down even a single breath, and used defensive skill arts to protect herself. Additionally, her focus towards her surrounding was heightened to the max, and she was ready to counter any ambush along the way!

"Ahhh!!"

"Help! Help me!"

Then, she heard screams from below her, and she recognized them to be coming from her men that dived in first beforehand!

"They're under attack? Damn it!" she gritted her teeth in frustration. After all, there was nothing she could do in this situation to help them.

"KREEEE!!" a monster suddenly emerged from below her feet with its two incisor fangs opening wide to devour and mangle her into a corpse.

"Desert Centipede!" her eyes widened in surprise but only lasted for a single moment before it narrowed into a cold glance.

It was a common monster found in the desert and measured only about six meters in length. The only dangerous part of the Desert Centipede was its two poisonous fang. Other than that, it can also twist its body around its prey like a snake, suffocating them before devouring them whole.

With a harrumph full of disdain, she punched out a fist!

Doulou's Royal Punch!

BOOMMM!!

The Desert Centipede monster was blown into pieces and its flesh splattered on the sand around her as she continued to slid down. Then, as if sensing their kind was killed, more Desert Centipede started to appear from the sand to attack her!

Doulou's Royal Chop!

Chopping her hand down, a series of miniature burst in the air opened in front of her and sliced all Desert Centipedes into tiny bits of flesh!

POOMMMM!!

After massacring a few more dozens of Desert Centipedes, she finally reached the bottom of the hole and landed on her feet. Not a single stain could be seen on her luxurious robe despite exploding more than fifty monsters to pieces!

Looking around, the rest of her expedition party was also nearby, and as soon they saw her finally arriving, they began to rally with her as the center!

"Where are the others?" she asked with furrowed brows.

"Reporting!" a few squad captain came forward.

As it turns out, a dozen of her men was killed during the process. Hearing this news, she was feeling mixed emotions on whether to pity those that didn't make it or scold them for being lax in their training. After all, if word were to leak out that that her own private army was killed by mere Desert Centipedes, she wouldn't know where to put her face at!

Nevertheless, she only gave it a huge sigh. To vent one's frustration onto the innocent would be worthless. Since those people died, they could only blame themselves for being weak.

"Form ranks!"

After a while, her expedition party was once again organized and they began to march forward along the tunnel while being extremely warry towards their surroundings. Since it was a sandy environment all around them, they had to be careful of ambush from the Desert Centipedes as they could be laying around in wait to attack them.

Finally reaching a vast open space, they were elated to see hundreds, perhaps thousands of swords stabbed onto the ground. Feeling that they had reached the jackpot, the Princess ordered her men to split up and search the area.

One of them has to be the legendary ultimate graded weapon, the Ten Commandment Sword!

"What's wrong Elder Cheng Chao?" Ling Shin said as he approached the Head of the Royal Maid who was also the Princess's personal maid.

With a contemplative look on her, she pointed out, "Where do these swords come from? How are there so many of them here?" she asked seriously.

"Oh? I'm no appraisal expert, but from what I've heard among the soldiers, these swords appeared to be from the Empyrean dynasty!" Ling Shin replied.

"!!!" Elder Cheng Chao's eyes widened before she immediately turned around and bellowed, "Stop! Don't pick up those swords!"

"Eh? What's going on?"

The soldiers turned to each other in confusion.

BRRRRR!!!!

Suddenly, the ground below them began to quake!

Splash! Splash!

One by one, skeletons began to emerge from the sands below their feet!

"Ah!"

Even worse, some of the skeletons immediately stabbed the startled soldiers who were too slow to react accordingly, increasing the number of fatalities from the previous count rapidly!

Undead Skeletons!

"This is bad! Everyone, rally around the Princess!" Ling Shin, Elder Cheng Chao and Ruo Hen commanded.

The numbers of Undead Skeletons also began to rise exponentially, swiftly growing beyond a thousand!

...

"So, what are your plans Your Excellency?" Patriarch Jiu asked with a polite tone.

After they finished their oath, the way they treated Duan Li was completely different. If before he was treated like an outsider, now he felt like he had suddenly become their father!

"My plans are simple. We need to boost our strength in order to prepare for what is to come!" Duan Li replied as he opened his mask, revealing his true face for the first time towards the eight patriarchs!

So young!

The eight patriarchs were visibly stunned after they laid their eyes on Duan Li's face. They had imagined him to be young, but not THIS young!

Due to the unique nature of the material which Duan Li used to make his mask, their Soul Sense was not able to penetrate beyond it. This was why their reaction was so great that it made Duan Li blushed a little.

"Patriarchs, please don't stare too much like that... I'm afraid that even if you compliment me to be handsome, I regret to say that I'm not willing to marry anyone yet!" Duan Li quickly confessed.

"Ah?" his sudden statement caught the patriarchs off guard and they almost keeled over to the ground.

Duan Li had always heard from his village before that clan leaders loves to propose marriage relationship between their clan and the most handsomest and capable guy that they laid their eyes on, and Duan Li felt that he met that criteria after his wonderful showcase of strength with them just now.

In his opinion, even though he was handsome and capable, he was still far too young to settle down, and there were also other important things to prepare for the future, so before they could even throw a marriage proposal to him, he had to shoot them down first!

On the other hand, it took quite a while for the patriarchs to understand the meaning behind Duan Li's words, and when they finally did, they had the urge to pummel him!

It seems like even the Imperial Overseer is not right in the head!

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