183: Death coffin

The terrain of Centipede Cave was winding and rugged; some areas were wide, while others were extremely narrow.

This greatly increased the difficulty of Tie Shengnan's command.

If small teams leveled up here, they could easily be swallowed by a sudden surge of monsters, making it extremely dangerous.

However, because the monsters here were fragile, easy to kill, and densely packed, in the previous life, this place became a treasured leveling ground for various major powers.

They only needed to choose a spacious area, have the Metal Element Users form a meat shield on the perimeter, high-level Assassins would lure the monsters, and once lured, the Mages inside the circle would begin indiscriminate bombardment, quickly harvesting a large wave of experience.

They twisted and turned along the way, encountering numerous forks in the road.

Fortunately, they had the route map provided by Huang Chen; otherwise, first-time visitors to Centipede Cave could easily get lost here.

They killed dozens of waves of monsters on the road, passing through places called “Forbidden City Water House” and “Iron Lantern House” before finally arriving at their destination, the Death Coffin.

The map here is shaped like the character “ enter” (ru, meaning enter/to enter). At the intersection of the two strokes, there is a huge space dozens of meters high and nearly a thousand meters in diameter. That is the area where the monsters in the Death Coffin are most densely concentrated.

Every time monsters spawned along the strokes of the “ enter” shape, they would accumulate here.

By the time they arrived here, the Baby Wyverns had basically all reached Level 30, each nearly 2.5 meters tall.

The Level 30 Epic Battle Pets and Diamond Battle Pets had dozens of times more HP than Trial Takers equipped with full Level 50 Dark Gold gear. Under Huang Chen's Refraction Aura, the Baby Wyverns could now enter the fray and take a beating.

Following Tie Shengnan's command, everyone, including Tie Shengnan, shouted bizarre calls to summon their battle pets.

The eight Epic-grade Elite Wyverns carrying Huang Chen immediately tossed the sedan chair aside upon hearing their masters' call, flapping their fleshy wings and rushing toward their respective masters.

Everyone was excited to finally ride their battle pets and fly freely, so they eagerly pulled out the prepared “saddles” and fastened them onto their pets.

No one noticed Huang Chen, who had been tossed aside and was feeling utterly disheveled.

Of course, this did not include Liu Ruyan, who had been rewarded with an Elite wyvern egg by Huang Chen for her superior vocal skills. Her dragon egg had only incubated for five or six days and needed another four or five days to hatch.

“Ah~ Master!” Liu Ruyan quickly ran over, covering the distance in just a few steps, and helped Huang Chen up.

“Only my Ruyan the Great is good to me!” Huang Chen angrily dusted off his clothes and said, “Those tiger women definitely did that on purpose. Tonight, I'll make them pay!”

The eight Wyverns carrying him were precisely the Elite Wyverns belonging to Tie Shengnan, Xie Chunyan, and the others.

After helping Huang Chen up, Liu Ruyan looked enviously at the hundreds of Dragon Riders soaring into the sky with their Dragon Pets.

Her Dragon Pet still needed four and a half days to hatch. She wondered if she could ask her Master to take her Dragon Pet along to level up once it hatched.

However, Liu Ruyan's envious expression froze on her face less than a second after it appeared.

Originally, while All the women were on the ground, they only attracted the surrounding monsters.

But this time, hundreds of dragons ascending simultaneously, creating a massive commotion and having completely unobstructed visibility, immediately made them the most glaring targets in the Death Coffin.

Consequently, any long-range attacking venomous insects that entered range immediately launched frantic attacks.

Wyverns were Diamond-grade creatures, just like the monsters in Centipede Cave.

However, there was a 30-level difference between the two sides, and the Dragon Pets were all inexperienced “babies.” Facing the overwhelming attack, one by one, they were scared out of their wits, frantically flapping their wings trying to dodge the attacks.

Yet, the speed of flight was no match for the speed of skills.

As the skills exploded, hundreds of battle pets simultaneously “crashed” and fell into the monster horde.

The frenzied insects submerged the people and dragons on the ground in just half a second, piling up in layers like mountain peaks.

“Beautifully done!!”

Huang Chen burst into laughter and slapped Liu Ruyan hard on the butt.

With Refraction and Beiming present, especially in such a high-density monster area, the Forbidden City Legion was practically immortal.

A classic case of: the more enemies I have, the stronger I become!

How disgusting was it to be crushed under thousands of insects?

Especially the Giant Maggots, which constantly dripped green mucus from their mouths.

For a moment, the entire Death Coffin was filled with the screams of women and the wails of the young dragons.

Dying was impossible, but being bitten by the insects definitely hurt.

Tie Shengnan was the quickest to react; she only froze for a moment before instantly teleporting back to Huang Chen's side, constantly retching while leaning against the cave wall.

After a good while, flashes of white light rapidly appeared around Huang Chen, and the remaining women, covered in foul-smelling mucus, flew back to their original positions.

The young dragon hatchlings were still wailing. Facing “uncles and aunts” 30 levels higher than them, they were completely defenseless.

They all turned their gaze toward Huang Chen. Now, only Huang Chen could quickly rescue the young dragons.

Huang Chen remained unmoved, whistling, looking up at the sky, feeling a surge of delight in his heart.

It was about time these little beasts suffered a bit, or they wouldn't know who was boss later.

“Hubby! Please help me save my little dragon!”

Li Ruo tugged on Huang Chen's hand, frowning as she stared at her little dragon pinned down by countless insects.

Although she was a tomboy, she treasured this little dragon she had hatched herself immensely.

Seeing her little dragon being “bullied” by so many disgusting insects, she felt as distressed as if she were watching her own son being bullied.

“Hmph!”

Huang Chen remained unmoved, pretending to be fierce as he said, “Don't think I don't know, your dragon was among those carrying the sedan just now.”

“I'm sorry!!”

Li Ruo's eyes were teary.

Although the experience panel kept flooding the screen, indicating that insects were constantly dying under the effect of Refraction.

But how many insects were in the entire hall?

Describing them as being in the thousands was a massive understatement.

They rushed forward, piling up on the hundreds of young dragons, forming small mountains. Not only did their numbers not decrease, but the mountains seemed to grow larger and larger.

Seeing that Huang Chen was still unmoved, Li Ruo had no choice. Finally, gritting her teeth and with her ears flushed red, she whispered into Huang Chen's ear, “At most... at most, I'll let you be a shareholder tonight!”

Hearing this, Huang Chen's eyes immediately lit up.

“Are those words true?”

Since Star Abyss descended so long ago, he had traveled the Upper Path and the Water Path, but the only one he hadn't experienced yet was the Dry Path.

Since Li Ruo had actively proposed it now, how could he not be delighted?

He immediately cleared his throat twice and asked, “Whether it's a path or not doesn't matter; the main thing is that your dragon is cute after all. Tell me, which one is yours!!”

Following the direction Li Ruo pointed, Huang Chen instantly teleported and hovered above one of the small mountains.

Subsequently, countless Karma Flames dripped down. Amidst the roaring, the entire “small mountain” was quickly burned to ashes.

As the Karma Flames spread across the floor, they also ignited the surrounding venomous insects.

This scene, resembling grasshoppers being burned alive, looked exceptionally spectacular.

As soon as Li Ruo's young dragon was freed, it immediately shot into the sky and flew back to its original spot, following Huang Chen.

While flapping its fleshy wings, it glanced back in terror at the other “small mountains.”

Two large tears even rolled down its eyes.

Flying next to Li Ruo, the young dragon pitifully crouched beside her, its huge dragon head whimpering and constantly rubbing against Li Ruo's calf.

It looked incredibly pathetic.

This scene instantly struck a chord in the hearts of All the women present.

Finally, Chen Yichun was the second one who couldn't bear it.

“Hubby, can you save my dragon too?”

Tearfully, she said, “If you want to, I can do it too!”

Following Chen Yichun's statement, the others quickly responded, allowing Huang Chen to make demands.

After all, the appearance of Li Ruo's young dragon was truly miserable.

And since their own young dragons were still suffering in the monster horde, they would rather “sacrifice” themselves than delay rescuing their pets.

After accepting the commission from All the women, Huang Chen glanced at the monster horde.

In fact, by this point, the venomous insects surrounding the young dragons had basically turned into attacking Puppets.

It was just that too many had piled up, so they still looked like “small mountains.”

With a thought, the hundreds of small mountains collapsed with a crash.

Then, hundreds of young dragons instantly appeared behind everyone.

This distance was still within his Teleportation Domain; he only needed to simultaneously teleport the young dragons to their original positions to bring them all out.

There was no need to deal with them one by one.

After rescuing the young dragons, this time, the women refused to step forward and kill monsters.

Anyway, with the mist concealment spear's Poison Mist Domain active, there was no need for them to fight the monsters themselves.

Huang Chen didn't say anything upon seeing this. Letting the Puppets fight, it wouldn't be a big problem to bring these young dragons up to Level 50 today.

Since they were idle anyway, Huang Chen immediately brought out his outdoor three-piece set (sofa, grill, food) and invited everyone to eat.

While eating barbecue, everyone enjoyed watching the Puppets and the venomous insects tear each other apart.

Five or six hours passed just like that.

The monsters in the Death Coffin also became increasingly sparse.

Just as everyone relaxed their guard—some chatting, some taking a short nap.

A furious roar came from the bottom right corner of the “ enter” shape. The sound seemed to act directly upon everyone's souls, causing everyone to involuntarily shiver... [Severe writer's block!! My apologies, I will reorganize my thoughts and write properly...]