Centipedes travel under the ground, and with their bodies, like they were, they couldn’t just rely on their hearing, so they were built in a way that their entire body was a sensor.

In other words, like many other insects, they were sensitive to sound and vibrations. Now what would happen if an extremely loud noise was deployed anywhere near their bodies?

The entire body would suffer.

Wei Jun used to experiment on them a lot when he was a child. Using ultrasounds, sounds from microphones or how loud the noise was needed, vibrations of different kinds and their intensity.

Unfortunately, however, ever since he came to that world, he faced many different monsters but he never required any scientific mean to deal with them. This monster, however, was large enough and strong enough that Qi would be useless.

Not to mention he couldn’t use his Qi to deal with it at the risk of exposure to the rest. But that was why he had others.

“AAAAHHHH!!!”

General Ming yelled out loud without holding back, assaulting the senses of the centipede.

The centipede that was retreating back into the ground halted as the loud noise struck its body, making it waver. While others covered their ears, Wei Jun ignored the pain of his eardrums being torn apart and prepared a punch with his full behind it.

It was pure physical power with no Qi to back it up but even without that when Wei Jun’s punch connected with the centipede, the monster’s exoskeleton cracked open and Wei Jun’s fist went through.

Green blood of the monster coated Wei Jun and the poison present in the blood burned his skin but Wei Jun ignored that because it wasn’t enough to melt his skin.

Wei Jun retracted and attacked the monster again while it was still disoriented, in the same spot he had hit before and this time, his fist went in deeper and then another strike before Wei Jun was sure that his Death Qi would be masked by the evil Qi emitting from the worm and released a whopping hundred points of Death Qi inside its body.

Just as he did, he retreated to the back as the worm began to let out loud noises that were strange to the ear. It also began to wiggle around as if in pain and soon enough, its body that was out of the ground yet, that was still as tall as a ten story building fell on the ground, producing a tremble that traveled far and wide, throwing the sand around.

“Haa… Haa…”

Wei Jun breathed heavily as his wounds healed on their own due to his class ‘Immortal’. The speed wasn’t as fast as when the green power healed him, but it was still enough and Wei Jun expected to be fully healed in ten minutes.

[You have eliminated an S rank Sand lord]

[Your Death Qi has increased by 100]

[You have obtained an S rank miasma core]

[Number of sand shards obtained: 1]

[Shards required to open the temple: 100]

[Remaining shards required: 99]

Wei Jun looked at the first three notifications with glee but his expression changed for the worse as he read the next three. His skin color, already pale, turned paler as he felt the ground tremble underneath his feet and he knew this wasn’t just the mother earth saying hello.

“JUMP ON THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!!”

Wei Jun yelled and grabbed the closest people to him without hesitation and jumped up in the air to get on the temple wall. General Shao and General Ming, well aware of Wei jun’s reputation did the same and jumped up in the air. The three idiots followed suit without hesitation and the three grandmasters with them did the same.

However, many, many of the cultivators who couldn’t react in time were the victims of only one fate.

“Aaahh!!!

The ground split apart beneath their feet and all they saw was an open mouth and then nothing. Almost three-fourths of the party was eaten just like that, military and imperial members alike.

The monsters that rose in the sky slowly fell down but they didn’t enter the ground again. The remained outside of it and when the survivors saw the ground full of monsters like before that covered the ground like so that nothing beneath could be seen, they forgot that almost all of their party had just been eaten.

Pale, they all watched the centipedes on the ground like waves of darkness on top of each other, covering the entire area around the temple.

“How the hell…?” Even Wei Jun was at a loss for words. He didn’t know how he could ever deal with those monsters without risking his life. Although they were big and were an easy target, that situation changed when their numbers increased by almost a hundred.

Wei Jun closed his eyes and took deep breaths repeatedly until he was able to calm himself down. He looked around to assess the situation, to see how many of them there were and what strategy would be best in that situation.

“Wha–What are those?” A cultivator from the military side muttered but he was too scared to continue. Even General Shao and General Ming were silent.

“Monsters we need to kill.” Wei Jun simply replied before he approached the crown prince and asked, “How were you going to get inside the temple?”

“Maintain a distance from the prince.” The man with smirk approached Wei jun but Wei Jun closed his eyes to take a deep breath and looked at him, his eyes turning so chilly the smirk man froze on the spot, “You interrupt me again, and I’m gonna rip your vocal cords out of your neck.”

Wei Jun simply turned his attention back to the crown prince and asked, “How were you going to enter the temple?”

“Who said anything about the temple?” The crown prince asked in his gentle and smooth voice, “How would we know in the first place?”

Wei Jun looked at him for a few moments before he sighed and simply…

“Kugh!!!”

“What the!!!”

“Let him go!!!”

The three grandmasters with the imperial family unleashed their Qi but stopped in their tracks when they noticed how

serious it was.

Wei Jun held the crown prince by his throat and pushed him over to the wall. If Wei Jun were to let go of him now, one fate would await him no matter how strong he was. Even the crown prince himself knew that but he wasn’t panicked in the least.

He simply kept his gaze locked with Wei Jun and asked, “How would we know?”

“Because you’re evil cultivators.” Wei Jun replied.

“That is why instead of using your Qi to protect yourselves, you brought items for every situation. Even now, only your subordinates reacted but even when I’m holding you like this, you cannot use your Qi, can you?”

When Wei Jun made the claim, everyone thought he was out of it but once he explained the situation, it didn’t make sense to the most but it did to those who mattered. Especially General Shao and General Ming.

“How dare you accuse a member of the imperial family of such a thing?!” The grandmaster in charge of the imperial family’s security yelled in rage but Wei Jun simply ignored him and asked, “Then why don’t you show us all your Qi and I’ll apologize if I’m wrong.”

Wei Jun’s words were received well as General Shao and General Ming moved forward to stop the three grandmasters of the imperial family from advancing.

The imperial prince kept his gaze locked with Wei Jun for a while before a smile appeared on his face. A smile so charming that no woman could have resisted as he replied, “You’re more clever than I thought.”

If it was just exposing them, Wei Jun could have done it in the secret to use it to his full advantage. After all, if he was the sole secret keeper, he could blackmail none other than the imperial family. Not many people in the world knew that.

But by exposing them out in the open, in front of the military especially, Wei Jun had pushed them both to the brink of a fight, where no matter who won, the true victor would be the one on the sidelines.

Him.

“How were you planning on getting inside?” Wei Jun once again asked.

“By using the keys.” The crown prince replied.

“What keys?” Wei Jun asked.

“You’re holding one of them.” The crown prince replied.

“What?” Wei Jun asked.

“What? You never wondered why there were three of us specifically when the main mission was just supposed to be me. The woman buried underneath is our ancestor. The blood of her bloodline is required to open the tomb.”

[It’s most probably a blood lock]

‘A what now?’ Wei Jun asked.

[A bloodline lock]

[It has very strict requirements]

‘Such as?’ Wei Jun asked.

“So how about you let me go now, since if you were to kill me, the only way to get inside is by killing them.” The crown prince said as he pointed at the monsters on the ground.

“Haa…” Wei Jun sighed and threw the crown prince to the side before he asked the system, ‘Put that conversation on hold.’

[Yes, host]

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