Bright Moon Forest (Part 3)
The Yingyue Spirit Deer let out a vigilant deer cry, and its translucent body gradually turned into opaque silver. The silver halo flew lightly towards everyone, giving everyone a buff of strength, speed, and physical recovery in a short period of time.
"Everyone, form an O-shaped battle formation and prepare for battle." Lin Yin's expression was serious, and his Wuji Qi began to circulate.
Almost the next second after the teenagers formed a circle, a giant centipede rushed out from the dense forest.
It was over five meters long, each segment thicker than Kaia's waist. Its entire body was covered in a glossy black carapace, with a dark red mist emanating from the carapace's joints. Dozens of legs moved swiftly across the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust that landed squarely in Mahuyu's face.
"Not armored?" Linyin reminded Song Baiyue.
After the growth period, the phantom beasts can be armored and cooperate with humans in combat. After armoring, the three-dimensional values of human physical agility will increase to varying degrees, and the phantom beast armor itself also has a strong protective effect on the human body.
At the same time, the phantom beast's original skills are usually retained. Therefore, except for those with particularly weak physical strength, who would be very concerned about the extra physical strength consumed after armoring, in other cases, in formal battles, the phantom beast's main body is rarely used separately from the person.
"The Rust Centipede is just a Earth-level mythical beast. You can deal with it." Song Baiyue seemed very confident in her.
"Then give it a try." Coincidentally, she was also very confident in herself.
Purely wild, Earth-level beasts are incredibly feral and possess violent tempers. Even within the same tier, the danger level of wild beasts differs significantly from that of training beasts accustomed to humans. Centipedes, in particular, are fast-moving, erratic, and toxic mist-generating machines, making them the most challenging targets.
Linyin's eyes focused on the centipede's weakness. She found the perfect moment and leaped forward, leveraging several trees for leverage before swiftly stomping down on the centipede's head. With the buff from the Spirit Deer, the force of this kick was even greater than the one she'd used to knock out the Earth Spirit.
The kitten seemed to know that he could not help much, so he hid obediently behind everyone's luggage, with only his head showing, and his eyes were always on Rin.
The centipede seemed to sense the danger and twisted its head suddenly. Linyin stepped on it with all her strength, but only grazed its shell.
Lin Yin, who had steadied herself and landed on the ground, was not surprised that this move could not do anything to the nimble centipede. She mobilized the Wuji Zhenqi to her hand, wrapped the dagger around it, and stabbed it straight into the centipede's gray eyes.
In the centipede's vision, the person closest to it had an aura that made it particularly uneasy.
So, even though she was so close, the centipede didn't choose to pierce her with its hooked legs. Instead, it held its head high to avoid her dagger. Then, it turned around and quickly approached the others standing on the other side.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Why didn't Rinyin entangle it?!" Mahuyu, his hands still stained with the aroma of chicken cutlets, bore the brunt of the centipede's attack. The moment the massive head, with its two shiny, oil-dipped hooked legs, appeared before him, his legs gave way, unable to support himself, and he sat down. Fearful, he dodged behind his teammates, instantly breaking the circular battle formation.
"Let go!" Crystal pulled the hem of her training clothes back from his hands, "Hurry and stand up."
"No! I'm afraid of insects!" Mahuyou held his head with both hands, half lying down and retreating backwards, trying to hide in the encirclement of several people to escape the front battlefield.
"Give him a can of Leibi, and everyone else disperse." Seeing Mahuyu's expression, Rinyin gave Shuijing a decisive look. Shuijing understood Rinyin's meaning immediately, pulled the ring, and the can rolled hissingly to Mahuyu, who was hiding in the middle of the circle.
The Moonlight Deer cried out, and a thin, silver barrier formed between the trio and Mahuyu. Seeing the burning fuse, Mahuyu was terrified. "I'm reporting you! You're taking revenge! You're murdering a classmate!" Fear surged his adrenaline, and he scrambled away, using his hands and feet.
boom.
The can exploded, but only opened a small crack in the centipede's abdominal shell.
"It's still not powerful enough." Crystal shook her head slightly and took out a stack of CDs from her belt. "Try this."
Crystal threw the old CDs all over the floor like frisbees. At the same time, Yuzhu and Kaiya stood on her left and right to block the centipede's sight.
The Rusty Centipede was furious, but it still did not forget its original intention - the box of self-heating chicken rice.
The hook was too big for the lunch box and it easily pierced through it.
No, that's not what it wants.
The rusty centipede dropped its lunchbox in frustration, its tentacles, the tips of which were thicker than a human arm, twitching a few times. Who should it prick next? The centipede hesitated.
Yuzhu subconsciously moved her feet to block the crystal more tightly.
Sure enough, the next second, the centipede's dozen pairs of legs moved with incredible swiftness, creating the visual effect of a dense mass of legs. It charged toward the crystal with an unstoppable momentum, the spirit deer's barrier only slightly slowing its forward movement for a moment.
At the critical moment, a shadow appeared, as light as a swallow, with legs as fast as a whip, and a crackling sound was heard breaking through the air before it approached the centipede.
Yuzhu kicked the centipede hard from the side on the injured part of its carapace. The centipede felt the pain and was forced to change direction. Its tail foot then stepped on the disc that Crystal had dropped.
"Try my new boat invention!" Crystal watched expectantly as the rust centipede's tail seemed glued to the ground. A closer look revealed that all five of its legs were pressed against the disc, firmly pinned to the spot. It exerted force from its front, stretching its shell like a tug, yet its tail remained motionless.
Lin Yin seized the opportunity and while the centipede was struggling, she rushed to its other side in one step, and the dagger wrapped in Wuji Zhenqi slashed at its hooked feet without hesitation.
"bite."
With a crisp sound, one of the centipede's hooked legs was cut off cleanly.
Lin Yin looked down at the chipped dagger in her hand and put it back to her waist with regret. Even with the bonus of Wuji Zhenqi, the dagger worth one gold coin could not compare with the hardness of the main attack part of the earth-level fantasy beast. It seemed that she could only go back and find someone to try to recast it.
The hopelessness of being fixed in place, coupled with the sudden heavy blow, drove the Rust Centipede completely crazy.
It twisted wildly, raising countless dust. The surrounding trees were shaken and their leaves rustled. Its gray eyes gradually turned blood red.
"Oh no, it's going crazy." Song Baiyue noticed its red eyes.
Animals' eyes usually turn red due to anger, but the difference between exotic beasts and fantasy beasts is that they are untamed and much more violent than fantasy beasts. When injured or extremely angry, they have a chance to enter a frenzy state, increasing their combat power to two to three times their normal level.
"Is it the berserk one we taught about in the mythical beast common sense class?" There was a slight tremor in Kaiya's voice. Oh my God, he never dreamed that a weak first-year student like him would actually face a berserk earth-level mythical beast in the wild. If he could go back alive, he could brag about it for the rest of his life.
The Moon-Reflecting Deer transformed into a stream of light and rushed towards Song Baiyue.
The stream first touched Song Baiyue's toes, and then a layer of translucent armor, as if cast from moonlight, began to emerge. The armor was smooth and nimbly climbed up his calves, knees, and thighs. Every inch it spread was accompanied by tiny shimmers, like moonlight on a shimmering lake.
Soon, the armor covered his chest and arms, outlining his slender figure.
"So handsome." Lin Yin whistled despite being busy.
“…”
Song Baiyue slowly raised his hands, palms facing each other, and a silver sphere emitting a soft light gradually condensed into shape.
The sphere slowly rotated and rose into the air, the light becoming more and more dazzling. When it rose to a height of 5 meters, it instantly emitted more than a dozen beams of light, covering Rin and the trio.
Linyin felt a warm current flowing from the top of her head down through her body. Her Wuji Qi flowed more smoothly, and her fatigue was swept away. She gave him a thumbs-up: "Teacher, that's great, really great."
Song Baiyue's expression finally showed a crack, and he gritted his teeth a little: "...Don't be distracted."
"Okay." Linyin knocked out Mahuyu, who was lying trembling in the grass, with a punch - to prevent him from running around in fear and causing them trouble again.
Next, Wuji Qi filled his entire body, instantly revealing the Rust Centipede's weaknesses. Without a dagger, he transformed his fingers into swords!
Lin Yin's inner energy surged, as if igniting golden flames. She leaped into the air, soaring through the air at speeds indiscernible to the naked eye. With dull, penetrating sounds, the rust centipede's shell was pierced again and again, sending dark green blood splattering.
The centipede felt pain, its dozens of pairs of legs scratching the ground, gouging deep furrows in the soft forest earth. A dark red light seeped from the cracks in its carapace, as if some violent energy was accumulating. Suddenly, it let out a sharp hiss and twisted its body violently.
"Boss, be careful! It's trying to break free!" Crystal exclaimed, and the Rust Centipede used its abdomen as a fulcrum and swung the back half of its body towards Rinyin Rinyin.
Both sides of the feet turned blood red, and sticky poisonous juice oozed from under the skin, gradually covering all the feet.
For martial arts masters without the phantom beast armor, defense is their weakness.
Just like Rinyin at this moment, if she makes a mistake and fails to avoid it, she may be pierced by the hard centipede legs. The venom of the frenzied rust centipede is even more toxic. Rinyin definitely does not want to stay in the medical cabin at her own expense.
She was about to dodge, but she found that the surface of the Rust Centipede's shell was wriggling, and the place she had just pierced was repairing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Crack!”
Rin's right hand cracked. The rust centipede's repaired shell, like a living, conscious being, wrapped tightly around her finger, causing her to sprain when she tried to pull it away.
Lin Yin immediately activated the Wuji Qi to burn the shell, but it was too late.
The centipede's tail came through the air with a fishy red mist. She could clearly see the direction of every barb on its feet. Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
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