General of the Heavens

"Holy shit!" Ning Chen blurted out a vulgar curse.

He was pulled by the upward force of the six-winged centipede, and his whole body was like a falling leaf. He guessed that if he let go, he would be smashed into a pulp.

Suddenly, the six-winged centipede left the cliff face, leaped into the air, and burst out using the huge impact generated by its frantic scrambling in fright.

At that moment, the sun was high in the sky, its rays shining directly on the earth. The six-winged centipede was unwilling to linger. It made a sharp turn in mid-air and disappeared into the deep moisture.

In an instant, it disappeared into the chaotic clouds, and as the scratching sound on the wall ceased, the six-winged centipede vanished without a trace.

Ning Chen was thrown off his head by the six-winged centipede as it fell. He mustered all his strength and tumbled through the air before crashing into the canopy of a large tree.

The tree was lush and leafy. Ning Chen hadn't injured any bones or muscles, but even so, he felt unbearable pain all over his body, and his mouth twitched.

The sound of profanity was incessant…

Seeing the giant centipede disappear into the depths of the clouds, Luo Laowai and the others pulled out their pistols and fired several shots, but to no avail.

He then quickly pulled Ning Chen down from the tree. Although Chen Yulou was still shaken, he was equally concerned about Ning Chen's safety.

Ning Chen saved his life!

"Brother Ning, how are you?"

Chen Yulou called out to Ning Chen several times before he opened his eyes. The giant centipede had been scurrying around wildly, and after a few turns, Ning Chen saw stars and could only see blurry images.

After a long pause, he weakly said, "Brother Chen, this almost killed me! You have to compensate me for my emotional distress!"

"Don't worry, Brother Ning, you can take anything that we have. The most important thing is to take care of yourself, brother..."

Although Chen Yulou didn't understand what compensation for emotional distress was, at least Ning Chen himself was not seriously injured, which was already very good.

However, the next second Ning Chen suddenly shivered. He remembered that his right hand had just been bitten by a patterned centipede!

That's a deadly poison. At first glance, Ning Chen's bitten hand had already begun to rot, and the situation was not optimistic.

"Oh dear! Brother Ning has been bitten by a centipede! Commander Luo, quickly fetch some medicine!" Chen Yulou was shocked; this kind of injury was no joke.

"Okay... Hang in there, Brother Ning..."

Luo Laowai ran away in a flash.

However, the venom of the patterned centipede is so potent that no medicine can cure it, and Chen Yulou is not sure if it will work. He can only hope that the ancestral master will bless him...

Ning Chen's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and pus kept oozing from his hands. Almost instinctively, he activated his Golden Eyes and used his spiritual energy to bite the tiger's mouth of his right hand!

A tingling sensation surged through his heart, and the excruciating pain in his hand lessened considerably. At that moment, the medicine was brought over, and Chen Yulou smeared it onto Ning Chen's hand.

"Ouch! That hurts so much!"

"Huh? How come this medicine is so effective?" Chen Yulou was quite surprised to see that Ning Chen's complexion seemed to have become rosier and his voice was full of energy.

Ning Chen could no longer hold on after attaching spiritual energy to the wound for a full quarter of an hour. He felt that at least half of the spiritual energy in his eyes had been lost!

"This is money I saved up with great effort..."

Ning Chen's heart bled. "This is a huge loss! Damn it, I'm going to rob this Ping Mountain tomb no matter what! My spiritual energy..."

After settling Ning Chen in, Chen Yulou breathed a sigh of relief. An unprecedented sense of exhaustion washed over him, and all he wanted to do was get a good night's sleep.

Luo Laowai quickly waved to his men, as there were many mountain roads in western Hunan, making it inconvenient for powerful people to travel by horse or sedan chair.

Therefore, it was more common for two people to carry the sedan chair. Luo Laowai found a sedan chair and had someone carry Chen Yulou to reorganize the formation and retreat back to the foot of Ping Mountain.

It wasn't until dusk that Chen Yulou came to his senses. This tomb raiding expedition had gone wrong, and he had suffered an unprecedented setback. The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became.

At the same time, he felt a pang of regret for not heeding Ning Chen and Partridge Whistle's words. If he had waited for Partridge Whistle to return, perhaps his capable henchmen wouldn't have died...

Among the dead were his strategist, Hua Maguai, who had followed Chen Yulou for many years and often offered him advice.

"Why should a man be afraid of life and death?"

Chen Yulou had no choice but to console himself in this way. As the leader of the Unloading Ridge, how could he face people to gossip after leading his men to rob tombs without any success?

On the Green Forest Road, human life is the least valuable thing; face is the most important. Even if we bring people into the underground palace again, we will only repeat the same mistakes. That ancient tomb is simply the lair of the poisonous mirages, and the power of the Unloading Ridge alone is simply not enough to deal with it.

As Chen Yulou hesitated, someone advised him, "Commander, we have lost the advantage of timing and terrain. Why not retreat for now and plan our next move later..."

Upon hearing someone advising Chen Yulou to retreat, Luo Laowai thought, "How can that be allowed?" He interrupted before Chen Yulou could finish speaking.

"Hold on, I, Luo Laowai, am a soldier. I aim for a successful start and hate returning empty-handed. Now that we have brought our brothers here, how can we explain going back empty-handed?"

Manager Chen, let's go all out. Since we can't get in from above, let's dig open the tomb entrance from the bottom of the mountain and pave it with lime step by step.

"Hehe, this tactic is called 'advancing step by step' in military strategy. Although it's troublesome, it has no weaknesses. Even if there's a six-winged centipede in the tomb, a few volleys of gunfire will riddle it with a hundred or so holes..."

Chen Yulou also gave up on robbing the tomb through the crack, but after failing twice in front of Ning Chen, he was really embarrassed. He even felt more and more that he would never be able to hold his head up in front of Ning Chen and Partridge Whistle in the future...

It seems that we can only adopt Luo Laowai's strategy now, and at least we have to achieve some results to avoid losing face for the Xieling lineage.

Thus, under Chen Yulou's command, the bandits of the Unloading Ridge began preparing for their third attempt to rob the Ping Mountain tomb.

It seems that no matter how many bags of lime are poured from the mountaintop, it is difficult to reach the poisonous insects hidden in the rock crevices and underground palaces. Going down the cliff, one still has to feed the centipedes.

Moreover, the six-winged centipede hidden deep inside couldn't be killed even with lime; perhaps only a barrage of bullets could kill it.

So the first thing to do was to send people back to transport more supplies. Then Chen Yulou deployed the rest of his troops near the underground gate at the bottom of Ping Mountain.

Although it would take some effort, Chen Yulou didn't care. He had become obsessed with Ping Mountain, and success or failure depended on this one time!

Using his most proficient skill of geomancy, Chen Yulou roughly planned several locations, all of which could be the entrance to the tomb passage. Then, he instructed Luo Laowai to direct the engineering corps to dig through the night with lamps lit.

Around midnight, a sudden storm broke out in the mountains, with the rain intensifying and thunder rumbling. The heavy rain made it impossible to light torches, but the digging and excavation of graves at the foot of the mountain did not stop.

Luo Laowai and Chen Yulou both understood one principle: time is money! Wasting time is wasting money!

The two skinning demons simply had people use lanterns for lighting and provided the team with rain gear such as straw hats and raincoats, so that everyone could dig in the ground to find the tomb entrance in the midst of a storm.

"Chen Yulou, you bastard!"

After Ning Chen's injuries had slightly recovered, he almost vomited blood and died of anger upon hearing this. That bastard Chen Yulou was up to his old tricks again!

Wouldn't it be better to just wait for Partridge Whistle to come back?

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