Chapter 1327: New Poison Leader

**Chapter 1327: The New Poison Head**

**Author:** Sannin Onkyoku**Word Count:** 1187

Chen Ling could not enter the human realm, but he moved with impunity in the Grey Realm.

With tens of thousands of poisonous insects from the Ghost Scorn Abyss, several powerful poison heads, and Chen Ling himself possessing eighth-tier combat power, he was undoubtedly a "tyrant" across both the Grey Realm and Earth. The once incredibly troublesome Scarlet Sky Sect strongholds now appeared to him as perfect elixirs awaiting excavation.

As Chen Ling pondered, the primal struggle below intensified. Both centipedes seemed to be fighting to the death, completely disregarding any possibility of recovery from their severe injuries. They were simply battling each other at all costs, with only one goal in their eyes: to kill the other!

The Centipede Poison Head bit Wu Yi's head. Though in extreme pain, Wu Yi did not flinch. Enduring the risk of having its head bitten off, it bit back inside the Centipede Poison Head's mouth, precisely at the half-torn flesh that was about to fall off. The latter recoiled in pain, quickly releasing its bite.

The Centipede Poison Head's attack was indeed vicious, but it hadn't expected this junior centipede to be even more ruthless. While others might wound an enemy by a thousand and harm themselves by eight hundred, Wu Yi's fighting style was to wound an enemy by a thousand and harm itself by two thousand! It wasn't battling the Centipede Poison Head; it was a contest of who had more "health" and who could survive until the end.

"I'm going to sleep for a bit. Wake me when they're about to decide a winner."Although Chen Ling had sobered up, his head was still fuzzy. After instructing the Scorpion Poison Head, he lay down on the spot and quickly fell asleep.

The Scorpion Poison Head was startled, seemingly not expecting him to fall asleep so readily, especially on its back... It deeply understood the principle of "accompanying a ruler is like accompanying a tiger," so for years, it had intelligently maintained a precise distance from the king, neither too close nor too far, using its shrewd and unique insight to judge the course of events.

This included the Centipede Poison Head's attempt to assassinate the king; the scorpion had secretly fanned the flames. When the centipede couldn't find an opportunity to strike, it was the scorpion who encouraged the Toad to host a welcoming banquet. Unlike the centipede, the scorpion bore no deep grudge against the king. Its actions were merely a way to use the centipede as a pawn to test the king's "personality" this time, thereby determining its future "social distance" from him.

But the current scene was entirely unexpected.It was the first time the king had been so......close?

The king was truly asleep, and deeply so. The scorpion could even hear faint snores from its back.

It was worth noting that the scorpion's deadly tail hook was currently dangling and swaying in the air. If the scorpion wished, it could instantly tear Chen Ling's body apart with that hook... Unlike the centipede's arduous struggle, the scorpion felt that if it acted now, there was a very high chance it could directly kill the king!

A flicker of internal conflict crossed its eyes, but it still chose not to act.On one hand, it still fundamentally feared the king;On the other hand... it felt that this iteration of the king was somewhat different.Perhaps, this time, it could try to shorten the "social distance"... provided, of course, that this personality of the king persisted for a while.

Time passed, second by second. Finally, the battle below drew to a close.

The scorpion gently tapped Chen Ling's shoulder with its tail hook."King, you should wake up now."

Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes and sat up from the scorpion's back... His profound gaze briefly swept over the scorpion beneath him, then directly fixed on the battlefield.

The two centipedes were now disfigured from the savage biting. While the Centipede Poison Head had only half its head bitten off by Chen Ling earlier, its body was now broken into seven or eight segments, and most of its head was crushed, presenting a truly miserable sight.

Meanwhile, Wu Yi, also left with only half a head, was furiously wriggling like an earthworm into the severed neck of the Centipede Poison Head, as if intending to burrow directly into its brain and devour its marrow.

The Centipede Poison Head's life force was almost entirely depleted; it was utterly unable to stop Wu Yi's gnawing. As Wu Yi burrowed its half-head into the Poison Head's brain, within a mere few seconds, the Centipede Poison Head's vitality completely extinguished. After a final, unwilling glance in Chen Ling's direction, its broken body collapsed like mud onto the ground.

After using its last remaining strength to devour the Centipede Poison Head's brain marrow, Wu Yi stumbled and dragged its mutilated body out of the Centipede Poison Head's corpse, then prostrated itself before Chen Ling.It had succeeded.It had not failed its mission.

To be honest, even Chen Ling hadn't expected Wu Yi to actually defeat the Centipede Poison Head. Thus, when he saw Wu Yi crawling towards him, he felt a mix of surprise and relief... Although his time with Wu Yi had been short, Wu Yi's extreme loyalty had successfully earned his favor. Now that Wu Yi was the new Centipede Poison Head, Chen Ling was naturally very pleased.

"Although you've defeated the former Poison Head, you must not lower your guard," Chen Ling calmly stated. "Next, many seventh-tier poisonous insects might challenge you... Only when you fight your way through them will you truly secure this position."

Wu Yi already knew all of this. It slowly got to its feet, its mutilated body forcefully radiating a fierce fighting spirit, staring intently at the surrounding poisonous insects with their varied gazes.

Killing the Centipede Poison Head was just the beginning. What followed would be countless extremely arduous and brutal battles.This was the inevitable path for every generation of Poison Head.

Chen Ling no longer paid attention to it, instead fixing his gaze on the Centipede Poison Head's corpse in the distance...

The other poisonous insects were immersed in the shock of Wu Yi killing the Centipede Poison Head, but Chen Ling was different... In his vision, a faint, illusory soul with the outline of a centipede was slowly rising from the Centipede Poison Head's corpse.

This was a new ability granted to him by "Self-Reconstruction of Biological Magnetic Fields and Consciousness Frequencies": the ability to see the souls of living beings.

The Centipede Poison Head's soul ascended little by little into the sky. It seemed to retain a last shred of consciousness, looking down at Wu Yi, prostrate before Chen Ling, and the other astonished poisonous insects below... Its gaze held pain, resentment, and profound helplessness.

But suddenly, its gaze met Chen Ling's, and it froze on the spot.The King could see it?!

As the centipede soul stood stunned, Chen Ling rubbed his chin with one hand, as if pondering something...

A moment later, he tentatively raised his hand and beckoned towards the centipede soul floating in the sky.

The next second, the centipede soul actually flew straight towards Chen Ling!

"...So that's how it is."Chen Ling murmured to himself.Chen Ling looked down at his hands, a glint flashing in his eyes:"A new sixth-tier ability... interesting."