boundless plain.
A giant centipede measuring several thousand meters in length displays its enormous mandibles and extends its sharp claws menacingly, releasing a poisonous gas that fills the sky and obscures everything. Its entire body glows with dark red light, even more brilliant than the sun.
The giant centipede beast made everyone tremble with fear.
However, before Wu Kojiu, Qin Ming, Zhang Ling, and the others had time to fear, a sea of golden light rose from the ground innumerable times.
Suddenly, a giant rooster emerged from the golden light. It was head like a mountain ridge, eyes blazing, beak as sharp as an iron tower, and body ablaze with flames. From its head to its feet, it stretched over ten thousand zhang (a unit of length in China). From its tail to its body, it extended over several thousand zhang in length.
The great rooster flapped its wings and crowed as soon as it appeared.
It shook the mountains and moved the earth, causing heaven and earth to tremble!
On the other side was a giant centipede beast, with a length of over one thousand zhang, displaying its ferocious and imposing aura.
On the other side was Chen Yun transformed into a towering great rooster, demonstrating his awe-inspiring might!
Wu Kojiu was entranced by it.
Qin Ming couldn't help but inhale a deep breath of cold air, staring at the giant rooster in disbelief.
Zhang Ling, Sun Yan, and the rest of everyone were even more visibly shocked, floating in mid-air.
A few days ago, they had known that Chen Yun had temporarily practiced transformation magic, but they never expected him to actually transform into a towering great rooster that was over ten thousand zhang high.
Most importantly, whether it was Wu Kojiu, the two high-level magicians, or Zhang Ling and Sun Yan and other cultivators with weaker strength, all of them were releasing their power now. However, neither by eye nor through the power inquiry before them could they detect any trace or aura of Chen Yun from this enormous rooster.
It was as if it were just a giant rooster of tens of thousands of zhang in height!
"Mr. Chen, you are truly majestic," Zhang Ling couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
Sun Yan watched in awe, her eyes filled with admiration, "The transformation technique is indeed profound and mysterious. I can't sense any trace of Mr. Chen's aura with my power."
The remaining cultivators all looked moved, their mouths filled with praise.
Only Wu Kojiu and Qin Ming remained silent, their faces still serious.
Yes, Chen Yun did indeed summon a towering great rooster made of blazing flames that reached over ten thousand zhang in height. However, whether it could scare away the centipede beast that was more powerful than human immortals remained uncertain at that moment.
If it fails to scare off the centipede beast, then no matter whether Chen Yun changes into a ten-thousand-zhang-tall rooster today or a one-hundred-thousand-zhang-tall rooster, everyone in this group will die!
Given the matter of life and death, it's understandable that Wu Kojiu and Qin Ming, two high-level magicians, could not be unconcerned.
Roosters are natural predators of centipedes.
After Chen Yun transformed into the ten-thousand-zhang-tall rooster, the previously unrestrained centipede beast seemed to be scared. Not only did its toxic gas immediately subside, but the dark red light was also absorbed back into its body. Then, it plummeted from the sky to the ground, its body curling up as it pressed its abdomen tightly against the ground, as if fearing an attack.
This is a survival instinct of the centipede.
Generally speaking, centipedes are afraid and easily frightened. The slightest shock will cause them to abandon their nests and flee for their lives, or to curl up and stay still. Some centipedes react even more violently, actively shedding limbs to escape.
Currently, the centipede beast is curled up, which indicates that it has not yet been frightened to the point of fleeing recklessly.
Or, it may be completely stunned and can only curl up motionless.
Chen Yun's transformation into a ten-thousand-zhang-tall rooster was precisely intended to scare away the centipede beast.
He watched as the centipede beast showed no sign of fleeing, and for a moment, he felt an undercurrent of anxiety in his heart.
Chen Yun knew that he had to do something to scare away the centipede beast.
Thoughts racing, he fluttered his crimson cockerel comb, his long neck extending and lifting instantly. His two wings unfurled, blocking out the sky, displaying a posture of attack.
The centipede beast was so frightened that it trembled, but it still dared not make any move.
Seeing that the centipede beast had not fled despite being in an attacking position, Chen Yun knew he had no choice but to attack head-on.
Otherwise, if he continued in this manner, his power would not last long in this giant rooster form.
He raised his massive claw, the size of a mountain, and brought it down towards the centipede, emitting a "cock-a-doodle-doo" rooster's crow.
Seeing this movement, Wu Kojiu was frightened at the sight and asked, "Mr. Chen, what are you doing?"
Qin Ming was also tensed and sweating profusely, "Is he going to fight the centipede beast?"
Zhang Ling, Sun Yan, and the rest of everyone were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
Who doesn't know that Chen Yun's true strength is an upper-level magician?
The centipede beast is even more powerful than a human immortal.
If they really fought, it's likely that the giant rooster transformed by Chen Yun would be instantly annihilated.
However, what is unexpected is that the centipede beast doesn't seem to be frightened at all. When it saw the giant rooster coming to attack, it not only didn't use its powerful "qi" within its body to counterattack, but instead, it acted only on instinct and kept dodging on the spot.
Chen Yun, seeing the centipede beast frightened into forgetting to use its "qi," was overjoyed and struck down with a confident peck.
The centipede beast suddenly darted away, dodging the peck and opening its enormous mouth to counter-bite.
If the centipede beast uses its "qi" within its body, its movements would be extremely fast, and Chen Yun would have no chance to dodge.
But now that it has been scared into inaction, it is only acting on instinct and its movements are not as fast as they would be if it were using its "qi."
The rooster transformed by Chen Yun quickly hopped, causing the centipede to miss its target.
In an instant, he grabbed with his claws, and with a sharp beak, he once again struck.
For a moment, Wu Kojiu, Qin Ming, Zhang Ling, and others were dumbfounded.
They had thought that Chen Yun's proactive attack on the centipede beast would result in his immediate annihilation.
No one expected this to turn into a scene of a rooster pecked by a centipede.
The only difference is that both the rooster and the centipede have been magnified by countless times.
In fact, the battle was just like a normal rooster pecking at a centipede.
The giant rooster was displaying its martial prowess, constantly pursuing and stepping on the cowering and jumping centipede beast.
The centipede beast, on the other hand, was completely devoid of any resistance and could only emit a continuous "sss" sound as it tried to avoid the attack.
Neither of them was using any "qi," it was purely an animal instinct.
The giant rooster chased the centipede for a whole half-hour.
Suddenly, it pushed off with its feet, rapidly closing the distance to the centipede beast above it, and with a sharp beak like an iron tower, it struck down with a fierce peck!
The strike was so fierce that it seemed as if the earth, mountains, and rivers would be pounded into powder.
In a state of emergency, the centipede beast could not react in time, and its back was severely pecked by the sharp beak of the giant rooster.
An awe-inspiring scene unfolded!
Wu Kojiu, Qin Ming, Zhang Ling, and others watched in shock as the centipede beast, which was over a thousand zhang long, was caught in the air by the giant rooster and then dropped hard onto the ground. The rooster then pecked down fiercely, with each attack more forceful than the last.
The shell of the centipede beast was like steel, and it did not sustain any damage.
However, its animal instincts caused it to be terrified and frantically call out, struggling to escape.
Chen Yun saw that the centipede beast seemed to be getting scared from the beating, knowing that he couldn't continue to provoke it. Otherwise, if the centipede beast used its "qi," Chen Yun was sure he would not be able to withstand it.
He deliberately left a weak spot, and when he made his next move, the movement became slower.
As expected, the centipede beast quickly darted away, leaping over tens of li in distance.
Chen Yun feared that the centipede beast might not have escaped far enough.
Don't wait for it to come back. At that time, he won't have the power to transform into such a huge rooster again.
He also crowed and flapped his wings to soar into the air, chasing after the centipede beast.
The centipede beast was terrified and had no intention of fighting back.
Even though it was being chased by Chen Yun, the centipede beast felt a sense of urgency and activated its emergency response by chopping off one of its "feet," hoping to attract the attention of the rooster so that it could find a chance to escape.
Wu Kojiu, Qin Ming, and Zhang Ling were all dumbfounded.
They all knew how powerful the centipede beast was.
No one expected the centipede beast, which was stronger than human immortals, to show no resistance and only know how to run instinctively after Chen Yun transformed into the giant rooster.
It is precisely because of this that the crowd only saw the giant rooster vigorously chasing the centipede beast, and there were no scenes where they predicted the centipede beast would counterattack everyone, or a grand battle that shook the heavens and earth.
Chen Yun dared not pursue too closely.
Seeing the centipede beast running away by chopping off a limb, Chen Yun decided to pretend to peck at the centipede's leg and stopped pursuing it.
Seeing the giant rooster truly get distracted by the centipede's leg, the centipede beast finally remembered to use its "qi" within its body.
The centipede beast's body was illuminated with dark red light, and it instantly transformed into a streak of light, swiftly escaping towards the northern horizon.
One must know that the centipede beast is stronger than human immortals.
When it remembered to use its "qi" within its body and escape, the speed was unimaginable.
In a blink of an eye, the centipede beast disappeared from everyone's sight, merging into the boundless misty horizon.
Chen Yun also took advantage of the opportunity to end the transformation and return to his original form.
A sense of relief and release surged through him.
Although he had only transformed into a giant rooster of ten thousand zhang in height, it seemed that he hadn't used real "qi" to attack.
However, maintaining such a large body required a significant consumption of his true qi.
In a brief moment, the boundless true qi he had just advanced to an upper-level magician's level had already completely dissipated.
"If the centipede beast doesn't run away soon, I might not have enough power to maintain the form of the giant rooster. Thankfully, it fled in a panic."
Chen Yun couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
The consumption was simply too enormous, so he couldn't even summon wind to fly. He could only immediately take out a pill from the "Hu Tian Sheng Xing" space to replenish his true qi, then sit down cross-legged and meditate to restore his true qi.
He was safely recovering his true qi there.
However, the dozens of li away from there, Wu Koju, Qin Ming, and Zhang Ling, as well as everyone else, were all stunned by that scene.
That was the centipede beast, which was even stronger than a human immortal!
How could it have been chased and beaten by the rooster transformed by Mr. Chen?
The crowd questioned themselves, thinking if they could have transformed into a giant rooster like Chen Yun and have the courage to chase and beat the centipede beast?
The answer was naturally no!
One could say that Mr. Chen's actions were brazen to the extreme!
If the centipede beast hadn't been frightened, he might have been served a plate of instant noodles right there and then.
However, what was laughably sad for the crowd was that Mr. Chen's seemingly impulsive move actually worked, not only driving the centipede beast away but also leaving behind a centipede leg.
Mr. Chen is really talented and brave!
Wu Kojiu, Qin Ming, and Zhang Ling couldn't help but exclaim.
(Chapter ends)
