I Have 10 Equipment Slots
Chapter 296 - 179: Obtaining an Exotic Insect Again
While the two of them watched, the remnants of the round stone pillar, some three to four hundred meters away, began to crack rapidly with a CRACK, CRACK sound.
BOOM—!!
A loud explosion sent rubble flying and filled the air with dust.
Where the stone pillar had been, the explosion left a large hole.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH~
A searing, foul wind suddenly erupted from the hole, spewing upwards and outwards, howling as it swept through the area.
HISS~!
A series of hissing cries immediately followed from inside the hole.
Before Gu Zheng and Nangong Yaoguang could move closer to investigate.
SWOOSH~
SWOOSH!
A black shadow suddenly shot out of the hole, bursting onto the surface and carrying a foul, pungent stench.
In an instant, the aura of an Ancient Demon filled the entire underground cavern.
"More Ancient Demons?"
Nangong Yaoguang frowned. "Why didn’t it come out just now?"
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
The foul wind blasted toward them.
The black shadow that had burst from the hole lunged toward Gu Zheng and Nangong Yaoguang’s position like a bolt of lightning.
SHING~
SWOOSH!
Gu Zheng dodged first, with Nangong Yaoguang right behind him.
As they moved, they both attacked simultaneously.
ZING ZING ZING!
Gu Zheng controlled a dozen or so blades, shooting them toward the black shadow.
Nangong Yaoguang swung his stone axe, unleashing slashes of light.
CLANG! CLANG!
HUM! HUM!
The blades struck the black shadow’s body, ringing out like metal on metal.
The axe-light slashed against it, creating ripples before quickly dissipating with a hum.
However, both attacks found their mark, stopping the shadow’s charge and revealing its body.
It was a giant snake, over twenty meters long, with two heads.
No, it should have been three heads.
It was just that one of its heads had been severed, leaving only a stump.
Of its two intact heads, one spat poisonous gas while the other spat black flames.
HISSSS~
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
The poisonous gas mixed with the black flames, burning the very air and creating a strange hissing sound.
After a brief pause, the giant snake lunged at Nangong Yaoguang and Gu Zheng again.
ZING ZING ZING!
The blades danced through the air, shooting forward.
This time, the blades suddenly vanished mid-flight.
When they reappeared, they burst out from inside the giant snake’s two ferocious heads without warning.
"SQUELCH!" "SQUELCH!"
Blood sprayed everywhere as its hissing cries intensified.
Roaring in agony, the giant snake fell to the ground and thrashed about wildly, its massive body smashing through row after row of walls.
"Gu, your Saber Technique is..."
RUMBLE~!
Suddenly, the ground began to tremble and shake violently. From the hole revealed by the explosion of the stone pillar, groups of black shadows charged out with a series of sharp whooshes.
Giant snakes!
They were all giant snakes that should have had three heads, but with one missing, leaving only two. They charged out of the hole, riding a foul wind as they lunged ferociously at Gu Zheng and Nangong Yaoguang.
ZING ZING ZING~!
All three hundred and sixty blades shot out, striking one giant snake after another.
A series of crisp CLANGS echoed through the cavern.
"Nangong, go! Quick!"
Gu Zheng yelled, his figure flashing away as he drew most of the giant snakes toward the other side.
WHOOSH WHOOSH~!
"If we’re leaving, we leave together!"
Nangong Yaoguang swung his stone axe, unleashing streams of axe-light that forced the giant snakes to pause again and again.
ZING ZING ZING!
The dancing blades sent a shower of sparks flying.
The scales of these two-headed Giant Snake Ancient Demons were too hard for the blades to pierce.
’The only way to kill them is to plunge the blades directly into their heads and out the other side...’
’No, the first Giant Snake Ancient Demon isn’t dead yet. Even though I pierced both its heads, it’s still writhing on the ground, hissing nonstop.’
ZING ZING~
As Gu Zheng sped past, he split off ten blades and sent them piercing through the first giant snake’s two heads once more.
"SQUELCH! SQUELCH! SQUELCH!"
Several more bloody holes were pierced through its heads.
The first Giant Snake Ancient Demon finally stopped thrashing, and its aura dissipated.
SWISH SWISH~
Gu Zheng flew close to the cavern ceiling, avoiding the pursuing snakes, and performed Spirit Capturing from a distance.
[Demon Points +103]
’As expected, the energy from an Ancient Demon is so abundant!’
ZING ZING ZING~
"BOOM!" "BOOM!"
Cold glints of light flashed nonstop, and the sound of impacts echoed endlessly.
Gu Zheng led the giant snakes on a high-speed chase, weaving through the underground cavern.
Hearing Nangong Yaoguang’s shouts, he yelled back, "You go first! I’ll catch up!"
"I can’t..."
"Stop wasting time!" Gu Zheng roared. "If you keep this up, neither of us will make it out!"
WHOOSH WHOOSH~
Nangong Yaoguang swung his stone axe, moving swiftly to evade a pursuing giant snake.
Hearing Gu Zheng’s roar, Nangong Yaoguang’s face showed a flicker of indecision before his gaze hardened with resolve.
"Fine!"
Nangong Yaoguang gritted his teeth and led the giant snake he was fighting toward Gu Zheng.
"Gu, I’ll go get Mr. Feng for backup! You have to hold on!"
With that, he suddenly accelerated, using Instant Teleportation to reach the exit and dive back into the crevice they’d come through.
The giant snake pursuing him saw him vanish, immediately turned around, and joined its companions in chasing Gu Zheng.
ZING ZING ZING~
Gu Zheng controlled his three hundred and sixty blades, which spun and shot around him at high speed.
But when they struck the giant snakes, they only produced a series of CLANGS.
’The defensive power of these Giant Snake Ancient Demons’ scales is comparable to a high-grade Spiritual Soldier!’
’My Chaotic Heaven Shield’s second form can’t break through their defenses from the outside.’
’I have to destroy them from inside their heads.’
’But with over a dozen giant snakes chasing me relentlessly, it’s difficult to get the blades straight into their heads.’
’I can’t control dozens of blades and send them into all their heads at once.’
’This requires an opportunity.’
’And Nangong Yaoguang leaving is that opportunity!’
SHING~
A cold light flashed.
Gu Zheng took out the Half-sized Divine Weapon. Acting as a vanguard, he controlled it with Divine Wondrous and shot it straight at one of the Giant Snake Ancient Demon’s heads.
"SQUELCH!"
The hard, impenetrable scales were instantly pierced by the Divine Weapon, leaving a bloody hole.
The dancing blades immediately followed, entering the Giant Snake Ancient Demon’s head and rapidly churning its insides.
’The Divine Weapon clears a path, and the blades follow!’
The threat posed by the Giant Snake Ancient Demons instantly diminished.
SWISH SWISH SWISH~
Gu Zheng activated his three Divine Seeds.
One allowed him to fly swiftly and evade attacks. Another controlled the Divine Weapon. The third controlled the three hundred and sixty blades.
He split his focus three ways!
Soon, the dozen or so relentlessly pursuing Giant Snake Ancient Demons fell one by one, both heads of each snake shattered into pieces.
Spirit Capturing!
[Demon Points +99]
[Demon Points +102]
...
Each Giant Snake Ancient Demon yielded nearly one hundred Demon Points.
’What a haul...’
"WHOOSH~ WHOOSH!"
HISS~! ROAR~!
The sound of rushing wind rose again from the hole in the ground.
Hissing cries and a foul, stinking wind followed close behind, sweeping across the cavern floor.
’More?’
Gu Zheng, who had been about to leave, paused.
He hovered in mid-air, watching as another dozen or so two-headed Giant Snake Ancient Demons charged out of the hole.
SWOOSH!
"SQUELCH~"
The Half-sized Divine Weapon led the charge, piercing through a giant snake’s two heads.
ZING ZING ZING~
The blades from the Chaotic Heaven Shield’s second form followed behind, entering the head through the bloody hole torn open by the Divine Weapon. They churned its insides before bursting out the other side, securing the kill.
Then, Spirit Capturing! Spirit Capturing!
[Demon Points +101]
[Demon Points +100]
...
Splitting his focus three ways, he annihilated another batch of Giant Snake Ancient Demons.
Before Gu Zheng could leave, yet another batch of more than a dozen Giant Snake Ancient Demons charged out of the hole, their foul wind howling through the entire cavern.
Gu Zheng repeated the process, slaying all of them and collecting their Demon Points.
...
He slaughtered several more batches this way.
In total, more than two hundred Giant Snake Ancient Demons that had been slumbering underground died at Gu Zheng’s hands.
All told, Gu Zheng had harvested just over twenty thousand Demon Points!
Only when no more Giant Snake Ancient Demons emerged from the hole did Gu Zheng finally stop and take a moment to regulate his breathing.
Afterward, his Divine Wondrous surged as he emptied his largest Storage Pouch and began collecting the corpses of the Giant Snake Ancient Demons.
One after another, he collected over a hundred of them.
He only stopped when the Storage Pouch was stuffed completely full.
’The meat of these Giant Snake Ancient Demons probably isn’t edible.’
’But their Snake Scales are incredibly tough.’
’If I take these back, cut off the scales, and forge them into Snake Scale Armor, each set would be a high-grade Spirit Armor!’
’Spirit Armor comparable to the Great Sun Armor.’
’The scales from one Giant Snake Ancient Demon can be used to make three to five sets.’
’A hundred snakes... that’s three to four hundred sets of high-grade armor!’
’So much high-grade armor... I’ve really hit the jackpot on this trip!’