The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

The hateful ringing of the bell was like a needle piercing Jiang Chen's mind.

He didn't wait any longer.

"Brother Jiang, please stop!"

Before Shen Suxin could finish speaking, Jiang Chen had already made his move.

He raised his right foot and kicked down on the huge bluestone slab covered with runes.

There was no loud noise.

There was only one muffled "plop".

The bluestone slab, strong enough to withstand heavy artillery fire, shattered like a piece of paper, caved in from the center, and fell into the darkness at the bottom of the well.

An extremely strong, fishy stench rose into the sky from the wellhead.

"vomit……"

For the first time in her life, Shen Suxin, who was "poisoned by all kinds of herbs," felt nauseous.

That wasn't just the smell of decay.

It was filled with deadly poison, resentment, and a stench from a mixture of tens of thousands of insect pheromones.

In the darkness of the well, countless pairs of red, green, and purple compound eyes lit up.

Xiao Ruoye gripped the medicine hoe tightly, her entire body tense.

She couldn't see anything, but she could sense that something, many things, was rapidly awakening in the well.

"Stay close to me."

Jiang Chen uttered three words and leaped into the air.

He jumped straight into the darkness.

"Walk!"

Xiao Ruoye gritted her teeth, grabbed Shen Suxin who was still feeling nauseous, and jumped down after her.

The descent was very short, only about ten meters.

The stone steps underfoot were wet, slippery, and sticky.

This is not a well.

This is the entrance to an underground palace.

The walls on both sides of the stone steps were inlaid with eerie green phosphorescent light, which made the entire underground palace look ghostly.

The air was filled with the rustling sound of crawling.

"Where...where is this?"

Shen Suxin's face turned pale as she looked at the black scorpion peeking out from the crack in the wall and the colorful spider web hanging from the ceiling.

Jiang Chen ignored her.

His gaze traveled through the long passageway and landed at the deepest part of the underground palace.

There is a pool of blood there.

The pool water wasn't red, it was black, and it was still bubbling away.

A girl was hanging directly above the pool of blood.

The girl looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, barefoot, and wearing only a thin white prison uniform.

Four thick black iron chains, each as thick as a baby's arm, were locked around her wrists and ankles from four different directions.

And on her shoulder blades and knees, there were four thinner, black nail-like objects.

Fresh blood flowed from the wound on the nail and dripped into the pool of blood below.

The blood wasn't red.

It has a faint purple hue.

Something was churning in the pool of blood.

It's an insect.

Countless black-armored centipedes, purple-eyed spiders the size of human heads, and all sorts of unidentifiable poisonous insects, resembled a pot of boiling black porridge.

They frantically fought over the blood dripping from the girl's body.

Some of the bolder ones even climbed up the chains onto the girl's body and gnawed at the flesh around her wounds.

The girl remained motionless.

She appears to be dead.

But the moment Jiang Chen stepped into the underground palace, she slowly raised her head, which had been hanging down.

In his half-open eyes were a pair of dark purple pupils.

There was no pain, no despair.

Those eyes were fixed on Jiang Chen, and a smile even appeared on his lips.

It was a smile that was both innocent and terrifying.

"Big brother..."

The girl's voice echoed in the empty underground palace, carrying an ethereal quality.

"Are you here to eat me?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ruoye felt a chill run down her spine.

"Madmen...this whole family are madmen!" she muttered under her breath.

"Activate the Myriad Gu Pool!"

A loud shout came from the shadows of the underground palace.

Several of the Jun family's shadow guards, hidden behind the stone pillars, simultaneously pressed a mechanism on the wall.

Rumbling--

The ground of the underground palace shook violently.

Hidden doors opened one by one in the surrounding walls.

Black water surged out from those hidden doors.

It's an insect swarm!

Three thousand carefully selected deadly Gu worms converged into an unstoppable black torrent, rushing towards Jiang Chen and his companions.

Wherever they went, even the bluestone slabs on the ground were corroded and hissed.

"Be careful!"

Xiao Ruoye roared, and the Geng metal energy within her body erupted instantly, ready to meet the attack.

"Don't move."

Jiang Chen pressed down on her shoulder.

He stared at the overwhelming swarm of insects, his face expressionless.

"This little bit of stuff doesn't even deserve to be called 'Ten Thousand Gu'?"

He raised his right hand and clenched it in the air ahead.

There is no external release of true qi.

There was no dazzling gold.

But behind him, a huge, pale golden dragon claw phantom appeared in the air.

The phantom image vanished in a flash.

"roar--"

A roar from the pinnacle of life resounded throughout the underground palace.

That wasn't a sound.

It was a kind of species-based pressure that transcended hearing.

The Gu worm at the forefront suddenly stiffened.

then.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of explosions rang out.

Those three thousand deadly Gu worms, enough to make even a grandmaster's scalp tingle, exploded one after another like firecrackers being lit.

There was no bloodshed or carnage.

They were fried into clumps of colorful paste.

The foul-smelling liquid was splattered everywhere.

Less than three seconds.

The black torrent that could have swallowed everything vanished.

Only a thick layer of sticky liquid, still steaming, remained on the ground.

Inside the underground palace, the few shadow guards of the Jun family were completely dumbfounded.

"What...what kind of monster is this...?"

One of the shadow guards muttered to himself, his grip on the knife slipping from his hand, and it fell to the ground with a clatter.

Jiang Chen didn't even glance at them.

He moved swiftly, crossing the ravaged ground and appearing above the blood pool.

He landed next to the girl who was hanging.

The girl's eyes lit up, the kind of light that comes from seeing a new and exciting toy.

Jiang Chen stretched out two fingers and pinched the black nail embedded in her shoulder blade.

"Soul-Locking Nails"

He uttered three words.

The moment his fingertips touched the nail, an extremely cold and malevolent aura surged from his fingertips, trying to penetrate his body.

The malevolent aura was accompanied by the wails of countless wronged souls.

"roll."

A wisp of dark golden true energy emerged from Jiang Chen's fingertips.

The chilling, malevolent aura seemed to have met its nemesis, letting out a piercing shriek before retreating back into the nail.

Jiang Chen tightened his fingers slightly.

"Click."

He broke the Soul-Locking Nail, forged from black iron mixed with countless insidious materials, in half.

He did the same thing, removing the other three Soul-Locking Nails from the girl's body.

Then, he pointed with one finger.

The chains binding the girl's limbs snapped instantly.

The girl's body slumped softly towards the pool of blood below.

Jiang Chen reached out and pulled her into his arms.

It feels very light when you hold it, just like ice.

"Big brother, the smell on you..."

The girl snuggled against him, her dark purple eyes filled with adoration.

"...It smells so good."

Jiang Chen ignored her.

He held the girl and landed steadily beside the pool of blood.

The poisonous insects that were previously thrashing about in the blood pool are now all at the bottom, motionless, as if they were dead.

They are afraid.

"What's your name?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Junyao," the girl replied, her voice tinged with excitement, "Brother, will you take me away?"

Jiang Chen has not yet answered.

"tread."

"tread."

"tread."

From the depths of the underground palace came a series of heavy footsteps.

The sound wasn't fast, but each thud felt like a footstep on someone's heart.

An old man, with a withered figure and carrying a giant axe, slowly emerged from the darkness.

He didn't look at Jiang Chen.

His gaze fell on Jun Yao in Jiang Chen's arms, and a hint of greed flashed in his cloudy eyes.

"Put down the 'medicinal catalyst'."

The old man's voice was so hoarse it sounded like two stones rubbing together.

"I can make your death quicker."