After delivering the message to Lu Yu, Su Peng remembered something and said, "Weren't you just at the military camp by the Demon Well? Why did you exit the game?"

Lu Yu's face froze; he almost forgot that he was forcibly exited from the game.

Seeing Lu Yu's expression, there was no need for words; both understood what was going on. They had done this kind of thing quite often.

Su Peng quickly said, "Hurry back, even with the system's protection, accidents can easily happen in dangerous areas."

Zhang Jingyang stood up and said, "We need to go too, quickly head back!"

When Su Peng was going out, he suddenly remembered something. He turned around and said to Lu Yu, "When I arrived earlier, I found two players downstairs. They seemed like they wanted to target the occupants here, but I can't tell if their target is you."

Zhang Jingyang said, "I saw a cross coffin tattoo on their arms. They should be from the Iron Tomb. If there are no other players here, their target is likely you."

"Want me to handle them for you?" Su Peng said casually.

Lu Yu was slightly taken aback, then said, "I'll leave it to you."

He was eager to return to the game and had no time to deal with the people from Iron Tomb.

As Su Peng and Zhang Jingyang went downstairs, they stepped over the bodies of two people lying on the ground. Once they were gone, the two on the staircase silently vanished, as if they had never been there.

"What a pity, no login device. I thought I could make some extra money."

"It's normal. Generally, players don't carry their login devices with them."

"True."

Their figures disappeared into the city.

Lu Yu sat on the bed, glanced at the rain-washed world outside the window, took a deep breath, braced himself for the troubles he might encounter in the game, put on the game helmet, and entered the Divine Martial World.

Probably as a residual effect of being forcibly logged off earlier, when Lu Yu entered the game, his head still felt a bit dizzy, as if wrapped in layers of thick cotton, with his soul and body not completely fused.

Lu Yu reappeared in the Divine Martial World, where people in the army tents were as anxious as ants on a hot plate, and they sensed the existence of divine soldiers again. They hurriedly called out to summon the divine soldiers back.

The feeling of losing the divine soldiers and facing a dark future was unbearable.

The City Lord of Beifeng City suddenly opened his eyes to stop the crowd from summoning back the divine soldiers, "Stop! My divine soldier is with him too, and I'm not panicking, why should you?"

"Besides, haven't you noticed that the divine soldiers' positions haven't changed? This indicates Lu Yu doesn't intend to take our divine soldiers. It might be that he entered a special zone, causing a temporary break in our connection with the divine soldiers."

Now, Lu Yu's position is very deep underground. Calling him up would require Lu Yu to use secret techniques, needing enough spiritual power to sustain the earth escape ability, and who knows if he could continue to find the demon's lair?

Once these clan leaders retrieve their divine soldiers, they will surely find various excuses not to deploy them again. The City Lord of Beifeng City doesn't want that to happen.

Ling Jingtian at this moment can only stand by the City Lord of Beifeng City's side, after all, he had been supporting Lu Yu.

The others had no choice but to restrain their impulses, suppress the power of the divine soldiers, and contain the divine soldiers' aura.

However, sitting in the army tent, they were not doing nothing. They were strengthening their connection with the divine soldiers, ready to summon them back at any sign of anomaly, even activating them to kill Lu Yu.

There was definitely someone among them thinking about doing this.

Lu Yu saw the divine soldier in his hand suddenly glow, and his heart tightened, wanting to throw it away, but the light quickly dimmed again.

He took a closer look at the divine soldier resembling a feather and a long sword in his hand. It was the Yang family patriarch's divine soldier; when it emitted waves just now, Lu Yu felt it posed the greatest threat.

He withdrew the spiritual treasures and array set around him, used earth escape and plunged into the soil, sinking downward.

This time, he came down alone, without needing Yu Xiaoman's help to find the Heavenly Poison Centipede; it was confirmed that the creature was hiding in the underground river, leaving only when sensing danger.

Now it's a demon's lair, not merely a demonized monster. Though capable of moving, it's inconvenient, and the broad underground river suits it best for residing.

As Lu Yu used earth escape, he often saw demons passing by. Some demons capable of digging didn't follow the path of the Demon Well but carved new channels themselves.

This was why, despite military blockage, demons continued to emerge constantly.

Besides seeing demons going out, he also saw them returning with large quantities of flesh and spoils of war. By following these trophy-laden demons, Lu Yu easily found the demon's lair.

Using earth escape and clairvoyance, Lu Yu didn't disturb any demons along the way, tracking back following the demons to the demon's lair.

The City Lord of Beifeng City and others guessed right, the Heavenly Poison Centipede indeed hid in the underground river. The river was already dry, with the dramatically changed Heavenly Poison Centipede lying in the riverbed.

One demon after another continuously delivered flesh and spoils into the caveholes on the Heavenly Poison Centipede, from which newly born demons crawled out under its shell.

Through gaps between the shells, Lu Yu saw that the flesh inside the Heavenly Poison Centipede had disappeared, leaving only a husk.

Inside the husk, once the sent in flesh and spoils of war melted, they adhered to the inner wall of the husk. In no time, a demon fused with various things crawled out of the husk and started crawling towards the passage.

The Heaven Poison Centipede had turned into a magic cave, which was essentially a war machine manufacturing factory.

Lu Yu floated within the rock strata, following the underground river to search for the core of the Heaven Poison Centipede, which was also the core of the magic cave.

If the core of the magic cave was not restrained, the Heaven Poison Centipede, spanning hundreds of meters, could completely choose to abandon part of its body and escape with the core, making it much harder to locate again.

Soon, Lu Yu saw a distinct area—the head of the Heaven Poison Centipede, where the demonic qi was more than ten times denser, the river channel nearly filled by the emanating demonic qi, and Lu Yu could feel its corrosion even within the rock strata.

The Exorcism Sword, forged from thousand-year-old Thunderstruck Wood, dispelled the demonic qi encroaching around Lu Yu. Being a fifth-grade spiritual treasure, the Exorcism Sword could significantly restrain demons, valued at 7.6 million points.

While capable of restraining demonic auras, the Exorcism Sword also held great power, capable of severely injuring or even killing a peak Martial Cultivator of the Qi Cultivation realm; however, it required massive amounts of spiritual power to fully unleash its potential.

In Lu Yu's possession, its brilliance couldn't yet fully shine and could only serve the purpose of an Evil-Slaying Treasure Pearl.

Glancing at the centipede head shrouded in demonic qi, Lu Yu left Yang Jiawei's divine soldiers in place and swam to a distance before throwing all the divine soldiers in his hand towards the head of the Heaven Poison Centipede.

The earth tunneling light enveloped the numerous divine soldiers as they penetrated through the soil, flying towards the head of the Heaven Poison Centipede.

The communication talisman in Lu Yu's hand was burning, and the City Lord of Beifeng City saw the burning communication talisman on the table, shouted loudly without checking the incoming message, "Take action!"

The radiance of all the divine soldiers burst, attacking the direction forward, while the feather-like long sword divine soldier Lu Yu left behind suddenly erupted with great might, incinerating the surrounding soil, its attack direction differing from all the other divine soldiers.

Before the action, Lu Yu had made a pact with them to throw the divine soldiers towards the core of the Heaven Poison Centipede, while others would control the divine soldiers to attack the direction where the soldiers flew, and everyone adhered to the agreement, launching an attack towards the Heaven Poison Centipede.

Only Yang Jiawei's divine soldier attack exploded in all directions, which clearly aimed to put Lu Yu to death.

Facing everyone's suspicion, he only needed to explain that the divine soldier was too far away from him, making it uncontrollable directionally; who would stand up for Lu Yu then?

Rumble! The Heaven Poison Centipede, under attack, began to twist frantically, shaking the surrounding soil layer into turbulence akin to a violent underwater vortex, carrying Lu Yu around.

Lu Yu couldn't control his movement direction, striving not to fall out of the soil layer, as the consequences of doing so were unimaginable.

"Force it out!"

The Beifeng City Lord, sensing his divine soldier hit the Heaven Poison Centipede, shouted excitedly, putting full force in controlling the divine soldier's power to lift the Heaven Poison Centipede upwards.

The rest of the divine soldiers moved along the body of the Heaven Poison Centipede, engulfing it in the power of the divine soldiers, preventing it from shedding its tail to escape, lifting the entire magic cave towards the surface.

Noticing a lack of divine soldier power, the Beifeng City City Lord glared at Yang Jiawei, "Yang Patriarch, what are you doing? If there's nothing else to do, break the ground above the Heaven Poison Centipede's head."

Yang Jiawei furrowed his eyebrows slightly, unsure if the Celestial Phoenix Sword had finished off Lu Yu, but hearing the City Lord of Beifeng City, he hurriedly controlled the Celestial Phoenix Sword to break open the soil layer above the Heaven Poison Centipede's head, opening a channel to the surface.

The seven divine soldiers worked together to control the Heaven Poison Centipede's body, constantly rising along the channel broken open by the Celestial Phoenix Sword, increasing in strength the closer they got to everyone.

Completely unable to resist, the Heaven Poison Centipede was forced out of the ground, enveloped by numerous divine soldiers.

After its body was transformed into a magic cave, its qi blood was already depleted, power greatly diminished, utterly incapable of resisting the power of the divine soldiers.

Boom! The ground near the blockade line exploded open, making ground and mountains shake, a flaming red long sword divine soldier flying out, followed closely by vibrant divine soldiers, enveloping a black centipede hundreds of meters long.

A part of the newborn demons inside the Heaven Poison Centipede were destroyed by the power of the divine soldiers, while others had their demonic qi drained completely by the core of the Heaven Poison Centipede, dying as a result.

The Beifeng City Lord, in high spirits, flew at the forefront, with other Core Formation Realm experts following behind, heading towards the Heaven Poison Centipede.

It shouldn't be called the Heaven Poison Centipede, it should be called the magic cave.

Ling Yuyan looked worryingly at the ground; she hadn't felt Lu Yu's presence so far and wondered if something unexpected happened to him underground?

After all, that was the power of divine soldiers, and any slight spread to Qi Cultivation realm practitioners could leave no bones behind.

The power of the magic cave continuously converged into the core, and the demonic qi enshrouding the Heaven Poison Centipede's body disappeared, revealing its hollowed, shell-only form.

With the demonic qi enveloping the Heaven Poison Centipede's body gone, the divine soldiers' power directly crushed the centipede's shell, yet the dangerous aura emanating from the magic cave core grew stronger.

The demonic qi in the Heaven Poison Centipede's head, at the core of the magic cave, vanished entirely, a tumor appearing before everyone. An arm tore through the tumor, protruding from it.

Squelch! The sound of tearing flesh echoed, black demonic blood splattered, and a figure emerged from the tumor.

Ling Yuyan's face changed dramatically seeing the figure within the tumor.

Not just her, everyone's expression shifted, for this figure was strikingly—a Demon General.

The tumor withered away, revealing the figure of the Demon General; he only had an upper body, his lower half fused into the Heaven Poison Centipede's head.

The Array Master, seeing the Demon General's figure, suddenly realized, "I was wondering how a creature corroded by demonic qi could possibly create a magic cave. It turns out it was the Demon General behind this!"

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