Chapter 18: Chapter 18: Taming the Demon Centipede!

Looking at these few Spirit Medicines, Yellow Spirit, Gu Yuan’s gaze was somewhat fervent.

Soon after, he jumped off the rock and began to dig a pit nearby using a machete as a shovel.

He dug with great effort for nearly half an hour, creating a pit half a person deep. Even though Gu Yuan was in decent physical shape, his arms grew somewhat sore from exhaustion.

The soil on this mountain was mixed with rocks and roots, and it was frozen hard like iron, making it very hard to dig.

After resting for a while, Gu Yuan began setting up a trap.

First, he moved a large stone, propped it at the mouth of the pit with a branch, and tied a thin rope to the branch, leading it to a tree a dozen meters away.

Gu Yuan tested it out to make sure that pulling the rope would cause the stone to fall into the pit. Satisfied, he nodded reassuringly.

Then, Gu Yuan opened his bamboo basket and took out a rooster with bright feathers and a bright red comb.

A line of small purple words appeared before Gu Yuan:

[You have captured a rooster (white), would you like to tame it?]

“No!”

Gu Yuan refused outright.

Although he had plans to tame another Spirit Pet, he didn’t intend to make a big rooster his second Spirit Pet.

Moreover, at this moment, he needed to use this rooster!

That’s right, ever since he gained the Iron Teeth talent from the Iron-toothed Rat, his body underwent a transformation. Gu Yuan realized he could tame Spirit Pets once again.

This led Gu Yuan to suspect that the number of Spirit Pets he could tame might be related to his physical condition.

The stronger his physique and the higher his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, perhaps he could tame more Spirit Pets!

After all, when he tamed the mountain rat earlier, his Spiritual Power had condensed into a mysterious talisman, imprinted on its forehead, successfully taming it.

Therefore, the key to taming Spirit Pets might lie in the strength of his Spiritual Power!

At this moment, the rooster had its wings and claws bound by Gu Yuan, and even its beak was tightly wrapped with cloth to prevent it from making any noise and alarming the demon centipede.

Then, Gu Yuan used the machete to cut the rooster’s neck.

As blood flowed out, the rooster seemed to sense approaching death and began to struggle violently.

Gu Yuan quickly threw it into the pit and then hid behind a bush, holding the thin rope, quietly waiting for the fish to take the bait.

As for the Iron-toothed Rat, Ah Huang, to prevent any accidents, Gu Yuan had already ordered Ah Huang to hide early on. Should trouble arise, Ah Huang would immediately assist!

With the rooster’s violent struggles and the spreading scent of blood, Gu Yuan soon noticed some commotion among the roots of the Yellow Spirit Spirit Medicines.

The demon centipede had been disturbed!

Seeing this, Gu Yuan held his breath, trying to reduce his presence and noise.

Soon, a more than two-foot-long, iron-blue centipede crawled out from under a carcass.

Its mandibles were sharp like knives, glowing with a ghostly blue hue; its carapace was hard, gleaming with a metallic sheen. The two rows of sharp feet beneath it resembled hooks flashing coldly as they etched marks on the hard stone ground!

Wisps of gray mist emanated from the demon centipede, appearing extremely toxic, and wherever it went, the weeds turned wilted and black, sizzling as they were corroded.

“Such terrifying poison!”

Gu Yuan’s eyes narrowed, silently thinking, “Even a Martial Master might be poisoned to death if they encounter even a trace of this poison?”

Next, under Gu Yuan’s gaze, the demon centipede first raised half of its body, then its two antennae wavered, seemingly sensing and distinguishing the smell.

Then, it crawled unhurriedly towards the trap set by Gu Yuan.

Soon, it arrived at the pit’s edge, glanced down, and without hesitation, crawled in.

“Now’s the time!”

At this moment, Gu Yuan reacted, hurriedly pulling the rope.

Bang!

As the supporting branch was drawn away, the large stone fell accordingly, kicking up some dust.

Gu Yuan took out a wet cloth, tied it around his mouth and nose, and rushed to the pit.

The rock he found weighed over a hundred pounds. Although the demon centipede was not ordinary, it was only about two feet long, as thick as a child’s arm, and was temporarily unable to break free after being hit.

The rock fit quite well in the hollow pit, which increased the difficulty for it to escape.

Despite this, as the two rows of sharp feet struggled, dirt flew everywhere, and the stone began to shake prominently, revealing its enormous strength in struggling.

Even the gray mist from the demon centipede became denser, corrosively marking the stone pressing on it.

Gu Yuan didn’t rush to take further action, seeming to wait for something.

After a few breaths, still lacking the Spirit Pet System’s notification that the demon centipede was captured, Gu Yuan felt somewhat disappointed: “Could it be that because this demon centipede can freed itself from the trap at any time, it’s not considered captured?”

“Then…”

Gu Yuan drew the machete from behind, eyes glimmering: “What if I beat it half to death?!”

Indeed, Gu Yuan intended to tame this demon centipede!

This demon centipede was extraordinary, and Gu Yuan guessed it was either a Cyan Elite Level Spirit Pet or a Red Excellent Level Spirit Pet!

Moreover, he speculated it was most likely the latter!

If he could truly tame it, it would be an excellent ally!

Gu Yuan raised the machete, seizing the opportunity to smash down heavily.

Bam!

With a dull sound, Gu Yuan struck the demon centipede’s head.

The machete, forged from wrought iron, clashed with its carapace, producing a faint metallic sound. Even Gu Yuan felt a numbness in his hand wielding the machete from the countershock, proving just how hard the demon centipede’s carapace was!

The demon centipede’s body paused momentarily, with its head’s carapace showing faint cracks, and its struggling became noticeably more intense, its tail swinging side to side.

Yet, seeing this, Gu Yuan was thrilled:

“It really works?! Well, then, I’ll use physical taming on you today!”

Saying that, he slammed down another blow.

Bam!

The demon centipede’s body trembled, its vigor noticeably weakened.

Suddenly, a thick gray mist emerged from its body, converging into an arrow, shooting straight towards Gu Yuan.

“Demon Art?!”

Gu Yuan’s scalp tingled, rolling on the spot to dodge the arrow barely.

However, the machete in his hand was grazed by the gray arrow, causing a segment of the blade tip to sizzle, corroded into gray molten metal, dripping onto the ground.

The ground was corroded into small pits by this gray molten metal!

The arrow struck a large tree behind him, blasting open a bowl-sized hole.

Sssss——

As the gray mist spread and corroded, the waist-thick tree snapped in half, collapsing to the ground.

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