The tunnel in which Li Jing was walking was becoming darker and darker to the point that Li jing couldn't see anything anymore, even with his enhanced sight.
There was a high risk that there were traps and Demonic Beasts in this tunnel so Li Jing needed a source of light.
He took out his Lightning-flame Spirit Daggers and injected his Qi inside the red dagger. The dagger was then surrounded by a bright red flame and repelled the darkness around Li Jing thanks to the intense light it emitted.
As Li Jing continued to walk at a rapid pace, he wondered just how long this tunnel was, he couldn't see its end!
Squitt! Squitt! Squitt!
Tsk tsk! Tsk tsk! Tsk tsk!
Suddenly, dozen and dozen of rats and bats were coming towards Li Jing from the other side of the tunnel. Although they had the same size as normal rats and bats, they were actually tier-1 Demonic Beasts known as Steel Jaw Rats and Horned Bats!
These Demonic Beasts were formidable because the razor-sharp teeth of the Steel Jaw Rats and the strong horn of the Horned Bats could easily pierce through rock and metal.
Seeing all these beasts rushing loudly towards him, Li Jing knew that he had made the right decision by increasing his Body cultivation realm because now that his skin was extremely sturdy, these bats and rats had no chance to pierce through it.
His two daggers in hand, he got into a fighting position and waited for the beasts to charge him.
Once they were close enough Li Jing started to cut them with his daggers but because there were too many of them, he couldn't handle them all at once.
Some rats climbed up and grabbed onto his body to bite him while many bats surrounded him and repeatedly charged him with their sharp horn. An ordinary cultivator in the Qi Gathering realm would have died a hundred times under so many attacks. However, thanks to his strong and powerful body, they couldn't pierce through Li Jing's skin. He felt no pain at all and could just ignore their attacks while continuing to slaughter them.
For several minutes, Li Jing slashed the bats that were flying around him while violently stamping on the ground to crush the rats, turning them into meat paste. The whole tunnel was shaking under his powerful attack!
Slash!
Finally, Li Jing killed the last Horned Bat that fell on the ground cut in half. All around him, at least a hundred corpses of Demonic Beasts were visible. There was a large quantity of blood on the ground and on the walls, and his clothes were bloody and completely torn…
Li Jing took a deep breath, killing these beasts took him longer than expected but at least he gained 1680 Experience Points!
He decided to store the bodies in his spatial ring to extract their Demonic Cores later and continued to walk along the tunnel with his fire dagger in hand.
A few minutes later, he finally exited the tunnel and find himself in a huge room lit by numerous Spirit Crystals encrusted on the walls and the ceiling which emitted an intense blue light.
A Spirit Crystal was quite similar to a Spirit Stone excepted that it was glowing and could only contain the spiritual energy inside it for three hundred years before being extinguished.
Seeing this, Li Jing deduced that the Devil Monarch Zhang Mo was dead less than three hundred years ago and since 'Devil Monarch' was a title only given to demonic cultivators before the Righteous Purge, it meant that he was one of the survivors of the Righteous Purge!
He Inspected the room and noticed a large stone coffin at the back surrounded by many Blood Lotuses. The body of the Devil Monarch Zhang Mo had to be inside the coffin.
A Blood Lotus was a rare spiritual flower that could sometimes grow around the dead body of a cultivator. It could be sold for a lot of Spirit Stones since it was one of the main ingredients of the Body Strengthening Pill recipe.
Li Jing walked carefully towards the coffin. Although he didn't see any enemy, he was sure that he would be attacked very soon.
CRACK! CRACK!
After just a few steps, he suddenly heard cracking noises on his right and saw two huge centipedes emerging from the ground.
They had a gigantic size of at least fifteen feet, strong pincers able to chop everything in their path, and a steel-like golden carapace.
These monsters were known as Golden Armored Centipede, a tier-2 Demonic Beast!
The strength of a Golden Armored Centipede was around 4000 Jin. Although it was weaker than Li Jing, it could spray acidic poison from its mouth, had a powerful defense thanks to its armored carapace, and could hide in the ground by digging holes.
The two Golden Armored Centipedes crawled rapidly towards Li Jing, one from the left, the other from the right. They were planning to corner him by attacking him from both sides!
Li Jing, seeing them approach, went into combat position, his two Sky-grade daggers in hand. Since they wanted to trap him, he will make them fall into their own trap.
He waited until the very last moment before their pincers were about to chop him to activate his Elusive Smoke Steps technique.
The two Golden Armored Centipedes, seeing that the human in front of them didn't move, were sure that they would instantly cut him into small pieces. However, instead of chopping him, they actually passed through his body and crashed into each other!
"WAAAAAAA!!"
"WAAAAAAA!!"
The two centipedes screamed in pain. They were bleeding profusely because their mouths were one of the only parts of their body that were not protected by a shell.
Li Jing gave them no respite, while they were on the ground writhing in pain, he jumped on the head of the centipede on his right and ruthlessly pierced his eyes with his daggers.
The golden centipede screamed and struggled by moving its body in all directions but Li Jing kept his balance by firmly holding his daggers still sunk in the eyes of the beasts.
Li Jing injected his Qi inside his daggers and Lightning Qi and Fire Qi penetrated the head of the centipede, turning it into a smoky mush.
[Host has killed a tier-2 Demonic Beast: XP + 50.]
'Only one left." Thought Li Jing, landing on the ground at the same time as the lifeless body of the Demonic Beast.
Following the death of the first Golden Armored Centipede, Li Jing was about to rush towards the second one but the beast dug a hole and took refuge underground.
Seeing this, Li Jing remained on guard and tried to hear and feel the vibrations of the ground with his enhanced senses to determine the location of the beast.
CRACK!
A moment later, the huge centipede emerged from the ground far behind Li Jing and spat its poison on him.
Li Jing had already determined that the beast would emerge from behind him and rolled to the right to dodge its poison spay.
However, the Golden Armored Centipede didn't stop here and continuously spat its poison towards Li Jing.
Annoyed, Li Jing reactivated his Elusive Smoke Steps and let the poison spays pass through his body while rushing at full speed towards the centipede.
"Lightning Hammer Fist!"
Crack!
Li Jing thought that he could destroy the centipede's shell with his technique but he was wrong, only small cracks appeared on it.
The Golden Armored Centipede had low intelligence. When it saw Li Jing just next to it, it opened its pincers widely and tried to chop him. It was its mistake. The head of the beast passed through Li Jing's body who took this opportunity to jumped on it.
The same way Li Jing killed the first centipede, he stabbed its eyes with his daggers and inject his Qi inside them, killing the beast.
[Host has killed a tier-2 Demonic Beast: XP + 50.]
Li Jing sighed. Tier-2 Demonic Beasts were indeed far stronger than tier-1 beasts. If he didn't have his Elusive Smoke Steps Martial technique and his Lightning-flame Spirit Daggers, he wouldn't have killed them so easily…
Although he just killed the two tier-2 Demonic Beasts that were probably the guardians of the burial chamber, Li Jing dared not let his guard down as he walked towards the stone coffin.
He kept his Elusive Smoke Steps technique active while removing the lid from the coffin just in case it was trapped…