Chapter 362: Chapter 360: The Might of the Black Fire
When the stone hit the Snow Worm’s head, Jiang Chen’s heart nearly leaped into his throat.
He stopped breathing.
He knew he must have startled the Snow Worm.
An enraged Snow Worm was a terrifying thing.
Using his two swords to cling to the edge of the passage, Jiang Chen hung silently, not daring to breathe.
WHOOSH!
In the space below, a brown light flared once more.
The snoring stopped.
Jiang Chen felt like dying.
He tilted his head and looked down.
After all, he had only climbed a few meters up the passage, putting him perilously close to the Snow Worm below.
The Snow Worm only needed to look up to devour him in a single bite.
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, a dull thud echoed from below.
Jiang Chen saw the Snow Worm stir.
"Who is it? Who dares disturb this king’s slumber?"
"Who?"
A coarse, booming voice echoed from below.
The color drained from Jiang Chen’s face.
The One-Eyed Snow Worm was awake. He knew he was in deep trouble now.
One small mistake had plunged him into mortal danger.
At that moment, the Snow Worm below abruptly lifted its massive, ferocious head. Its single, colossal brown eye burned with a vicious light.
Its maw was filled with razor-sharp fangs.
It was a horrifying sight.
The Snow Worm stared up at the passage above, its brown eye reflecting the image of a pitifully small and weak human figure.
A vicious light flashed in its eye as the One-Eyed Snow Worm roared, "Human brat, you dare interrupt this king’s sleep!"
"I will devour you today!"
Cold sweat instantly poured down Jiang Chen’s back.
He said hastily, "I really didn’t mean to!"
"Damnation!"
Before he could finish, the One-Eyed Snow Worm’s terrifying maw gaped open, and a thick, ten-foot-long whip shot out.
No, it wasn’t a whip. It was the Snow Worm’s tongue.
The tongue was nearly as thick as the escape tunnel Jiang Chen was climbing.
Before the tongue even reached him, Jiang Chen was assaulted by an overwhelming, fetid stench.
He was horrified.
’I refuse to become food for some Snow Worm!’
At that, Jiang Chen roared.
"Black Fire, detonate!"
He was enraged. First, he’d been captured by the City Lord’s Mansion for no reason, and now he was about to become food for a Snow Worm.
Jiang Chen’s heart seethed with rage and frustration.
Fueled by his fury, he decided to bet everything.
As the tongue shot toward him, threatening to devour him at any moment...
A black light flared around Jiang Chen. In that instant, a scorching heat permeated the entire passage.
That’s right—it was Jiang Chen’s Black Fire.
None of his other abilities could block the Snow Worm’s tongue, nor could they help him escape.
But the Black Fire offered a chance.
As the Black Fire appeared, Jiang Chen roared, "Black Gold Silk Armor, manifest!"
A desperate Jiang Chen was a terrifying thing.
The Black Gold Silk Armor immediately materialized, completely encasing his body.
The Black Gold Silk Armor’s defensive power was astonishing, and that was exactly what he needed.
Because, in a stroke of genius born from desperation, Jiang Chen planned to detonate the Black Fire to escape.
But he himself would not escape the blast; he would likely be killed by it.
That was why he had summoned the Black Gold Silk Armor.
He didn’t know if even the Black Gold Silk Armor could withstand the explosion of the Black Fire.
FWOOSH!
Jiang Chen mobilized a full half of the Black Fire generated by his Black Fire Spark.
The Black Fire appeared in the passage, swirling around Jiang Chen.
Although the Black Fire was immensely powerful, it would not harm Jiang Chen, its master.
"Detonate!" he roared.
The Snow Worm’s tongue surged toward Jiang Chen, getting closer by the second. If it touched him, he’d be dead ten times over.
He decisively detonated the Black Fire.
BOOM!
As his voice fell, a deafening roar erupted throughout the passage.
An endless, destructive force then swept through the passage, surging upward from below.
Jiang Chen felt the boundless, fiery force slam into him, launching his body upward like a kite with a snapped string. He was violently flung up the passage.
His body was no longer under his control.
Worst of all, the power of the Black Fire’s self-detonation was simply too immense.
Even wearing the Black Gold Silk Armor, he felt as if his entire body was being torn apart.
Not even the Black Gold Silk Armor could fully block the force of the detonation, and wounds spread across his body.
He coughed up a mouthful of blood.
A moment later, he passed out.
Finally, he disappeared into the upper reaches of the passage.
Down below, the One-Eyed Snow Worm’s tongue had been just about to strike Jiang Chen.
But then, Jiang Chen had detonated the Black Fire.
KABOOM!
The violent force of the explosion slammed into the One-Eyed Snow Worm’s tongue.
Even for a being with Martial God Cultivation like the One-Eyed Snow Worm, its defense was astonishing.
However, its tongue was not nearly as tough as its exterior.
Furthermore, this Black Fire was a Fire of Heaven and Earth.
The sudden detonation caught the Snow Worm completely off guard.
SPLAT!
Half of its tongue was blown clean off by Jiang Chen’s Black Fire.
"SKREEEEEEEEEE...!"
In that instant, the Snow Worm shrieked in agony deep underground.
Yet when the blast wave of the Black Fire hit the Snow Worm’s body, its defenses weren’t fazed in the slightest.
But the Snow Worm was enraged.
Its tongue had been severed.
It was an utter humiliation. Never before had anyone been able to harm it, but this time, it had been caught off guard and wounded by a puny human.
It bellowed in fury.
Its eye turned from brown to blood-red.
Roaring, it prepared to charge out and settle the score with Jiang Chen.
But the moment its colossal body moved, an eerie blue light filled the entire subterranean space.
WHOOSH!
The blue light flashed into a dense web, instantly ensnaring the Snow Worm.
The Snow Worm was forcibly pinned in place by the blue light, unable to escape.
"Damned humans! Damn you! All of you deserve to die!"
"You’ve trapped this king here, and you dare to enslave me! Raaaargh...!"
The Snow Worm shrieked, its resentment running deep.
It seemed someone had imprisoned it beneath Guyue City.
And as the Snow Worm stirred, so too did the entirety of Guyue City above.
In the dead of night, the city suddenly began to rumble and shake, as if struck by a massive earthquake.
Countless people were jolted from their sleep. Even the Martial Cultivators were terrified, having no idea what was happening.
"What’s happening?"
Wen Shixuan and Grand General Ming Zhe appeared at the City Lord’s Mansion, their faces etched with surprise.
The City Lord, Zhao Bing, looked panicked. He stammered, "Crown Prince, perhaps it was an earthquake."
He seemed to know something but didn’t share it with Wen Shixuan and the others.
After all, the terrifying Ancient Beast underground stirred from time to time, and its every movement caused Guyue City to tremble ceaselessly.
An untold number of people had been disturbed.
Fortunately, the tremors subsided after a short while.
「In a forest outside Guyue City.」
BOOM!
Suddenly, with a tremendous bang, a section of the peaceful woods was abruptly blown apart.
A pitch-black tunnel appeared in the middle of the woods.
At the same time, a wave of heat blasted out from the tunnel.
A human figure shot out along with it, riding the heatwave.
He flew into the air.
Then, his momentum gone, he began to fall.
THUD!
The figure crashed into the woods with a heavy thud, then fell silent.
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