ATPnovel Chapter 647 Outmatched? A Protracted Battle!
Chapter 647 Outmatched? A Protracted Battle!
On the stage, Chen Fan ignored the taunts and mockery around him.
He took out the insect cage and summoned the golden cicada. The cicada fluttered its wings and landed in his palm. Its body, about the size of half a sesame seed, gleamed with a dark golden luster in the sunlight. Its dark red compound eyes stared intently at the dark green insect cage on the waist of the snake spirit opposite him. The pure black tentacles beside its mouthparts trembled rapidly, emitting a series of extremely faint but battle-ready buzzing sounds.
Seeing Jin Chan's eager posture, the Snake Spirit's smile deepened: "Overestimating yourself. Very well, since you insist on throwing your life away, I will grant your wish."
He took the dark green insect cage from his waist, opened the cage door, and a beam of emerald light flew out of the cage and landed in the center of the arena.
It was a snake-like insect with a bright green body, only three feet long, which was quite small compared to the previous insects that were several feet long. However, the aura emanating from its body made the entire arena's barrier light screen tremble slightly.
Its body was covered with a layer of fine, green scales, each scale gleaming with a faint, poisonous light in the sunlight. Its head was triangular, and its two eyes were dark gold, with ancient Gu patterns faintly flowing within the vertical pupils.
The Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Stage.
As soon as the Azure Phosphorous Serpent King landed, the temperature of the entire arena dropped several degrees. It slowly raised its head, its dark golden eyes staring down at the tiny golden cicada opposite it, its tongue flicking in and out with a hissing sound.
That is the natural suppression of lower-level Gu worms by higher-level Gu worms, like a tiger suppressing a lamb.
The Gu cultivators from the Snake Gu Clan below the stage all wore smug expressions.
In their view, the outcome of the match was already decided!
The difference between a Nascent Soul Grand Perfection cultivator and a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator—three minor realms—is obvious even to a child. Ulihan clenched his fists in excitement; he had just been publicly humiliated by Chen Fan and now wished he could see Jin Chan torn to pieces.
"The duel begins!"
The moment the words left his mouth, the Jade Phosphorus Serpent King launched its attack.
It opened its mouth, and a stream of dark green venom shot towards the cicada like an arrow.
The air hissed and corroded wherever the venom passed, and the arena floor was eroded by the splashed venom into several fist-sized pits, the edges of which continued to spread outwards, emitting pungent blue smoke.
The cicada transformed into a thin, dark golden thread, narrowly avoiding the venom at the last second. Its speed was imperceptible to the naked eye, leaving afterimages on the arena as it circled around to the left flank of the snake-like creature.
The Azure Phosphorus Serpent King reacted even faster, its tail sweeping across like a green lightning bolt, the resulting shockwave sending dust flying everywhere on the arena.
The cicada barely avoided the snake's tail sweeping attack, but was still hit by the aftershock. Its small body tumbled several times in the air before regaining its balance.
A gasp of surprise rippled through the audience.
This was the first time the cicada had been hit in the battle against the Gu worms.
Chen Fan's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.
He used his divine sense to lock onto the cicada's condition and found that although it was hit by the aftershocks, its shell was not damaged; only the insect spirit energy inside its body was shaken and surged a few times.
The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Gu King at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage is far superior to the previous early and mid-stage Nascent Soul Gu worms in terms of both speed and power.
While the Golden Cicada's Devouring Divine Power is domineering, it requires finding an opening in the opponent's defenses to pierce its body with its proboscis. However, the Azure Phosphorous Serpent King's scales are as hard as refined iron. The Golden Cicada had tried several times to approach its head, but was forced back by its serpentine tail, unable to even touch a gap in its shell.
The Jade Phosphorus Serpent King launched another attack.
This time, instead of spraying venom from a distance, the snake suddenly sprang up, transforming into a streak of emerald lightning as it pounced straight at the cicada.
The snake's mouth was wide open, its four fangs gleaming coldly in the sunlight, with drops of dark green venom clinging to their tips.
Instead of retreating, the cicada advanced, transforming into a thin, dark gold line that rushed forward, drawing a strange arc in mid-air as it grazed the edge of the venomous fangs, its mouthparts stabbing fiercely at the corner of the snake gu's mouth.
A piercing clang of metal rang out.
The cicada's mouthparts pierced the scales at the corner of the snake-like creature's mouth, sending up a trail of sparks.
Although its devouring power had flowed into the snake gu's body through its mouthparts, it only lasted for less than half a breath before being forcibly shaken off by the snake gu's immense demonic power, and the insect spirit power it devoured was negligible.
The snake-like creature, in pain, let out an angry hiss and lashed out with its tail, striking the golden cicada hard. The cicada was sent flying backward, crashing into the barrier's light screen before bouncing back onto the arena floor, creating a small dent.
The Gu cultivators from the Snake Gu Clan below the stage erupted in cheers.
Ulihan stood up excitedly, his face beaming with delight.
Chen Fan's gaze fell on Jin Chan.
It rose again from the crater, a faint white mark appearing on its dark gold shell—a mark left by the snake's tail lash, but without damaging the inside of the shell.
It shook the dust off its wings and took flight again. Instead of fear, its dark red compound eyes burned with an even more intense fighting spirit.
It is adapting.
Chen Fan could sense that the Golden Cicada was adapting to the attack rhythm of the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Gu King at an astonishing speed.
Since it hatched from the insect cage, it has undergone several molts, but this is the first time it has truly fought a life-or-death battle.
The previous Blood Scorpion Gu and Jade Phosphorus Snake Gu were far too weak to unleash its true potential.
The Azure Phosphorus Serpent King before them possessed speed, strength, and defense that were just enough to suppress it but not enough to kill it instantly.
Such an opponent is the best whetstone.
The cicada launched another attack.
This time, its flight trajectory was even more bizarre, no longer a simple straight line, but turning into irregular arcs, leaving several afterimages in the air that were hard to distinguish from reality.
The Jade Phosphorus Serpent King swept its tail three times, each time only striking the afterimage, while the Golden Cicada's true form had already circled behind its head.
Its mouthparts pierced fiercely into the seam between the snake worm's head and neck, where the scales met.
This strike was as precise as if measured with a ruler, a result of the divine sense accurately locking onto the target under the enhancement of the Fixed Word Technique.
The snake-like creature let out a sharp hiss, its head snapping back as demonic power surged towards the back of its head like a flood, attempting to shake the golden cicada away.
The cicada held on tightly, its pure black tentacles digging deep into the gaps in the scales. It unleashed its full devouring power, drawing out the insect spirit power from the snake gu's body strand by strand, like peeling silk from a cocoon.
It could feel a surge of powerful demonic energy flowing into its body through its mouthparts. It was the purest insect spirit power of a Nascent Soul Great Perfection Gu worm, more than ten times more concentrated than any Gu worm it had previously devoured.
The Azure Phosphorus Serpent King was utterly enraged.
It suddenly coiled its body and lashed its tail at a terrifying speed toward the back of its head, determined to force the cicada back, even at the cost of self-harm.
Just as the snake's tail was about to strike, the cicada released its mandibles and narrowly escaped the attack.