Stronger with More Jobs-Chapter 242 - 168: Dual Transformation Realm Cores, The Truth of the Pit!?
Boom——!
An even more majestic and purer surge of lava erupted violently within Fang Qingyu!
The volume of the Red Tribulation Jade swelled several times over, emanating a brilliant light, and the power of the Tribulation Fire burned intensely like surging geothermal magma, washing over, expanding, and strengthening every meridian!
The thunderous sound of muscles and bones resonating seemed to transform into a deep lava roar!
Red Bright Tribulation Fire Scripture Second Transformation, Melt Bone Realm!
Almost simultaneously, the liquid star core deep within the sea of consciousness suddenly collapsed to the limit, then erupted violently!
Transforming into a more condensed, heavy, and coldly imposing silver-blue celestial body!
The dazzling starlight flowed like mercury, and the sense of inertia in the force field almost turned tangible!
Nine Heavens Primordial Visualization Method, Transformation Realm!
The dual cores broke into the Transformation Realm together!
An overwhelming and irresistible sense of power filled the whole body!
Meanwhile, the experience bar on the martial artist’s profession panel on the chart, after this period of tempering, finally reached just over halfway!
[Profession: Martial Artist (★) Lv.2 (211/400)]
Just as Fang Qingyu was sensing the earth-shattering changes within his body, and his aura was not yet fully restrained.
Rumble rumble rumble——!
A sudden and violent tremor struck without any warning!
The entire underground tunnel shook wildly as if gripped by an invisible giant hand!
Loose stones fell, and the rock walls groaned under unbearable weight, threatening to collapse at any moment!
"Guard!" 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
Fang Qingyu’s eyes sharpened, instantly snapping out of the aftermath of the breakthrough, and shouted in a low voice.
The three reacted extremely swiftly, almost at the same moment the tremor came, they backed against the rock wall, weapons drawn, their auras instantly elevated to the peak, vigilantly scanning the darkness where the tremor originated.
The darkness ahead tore open like water where a boulder had been thrown!
A battered figure sped out at a life-burning speed, moving so fast it left a blurred afterimage in vision!
The standardized combat uniform on that person was damaged in many places, stained with filthy blood and dirt, clearly the defender responsible for the previous communication node.
His face was pale, his eyes full of extreme fear and despair, pushing his speed to the limit his body could withstand!
And behind him—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The dull, massive, destructive impacts sounded like war drums pounding!
The entire tunnel trembled violently in response! An overwhelming suffocating rancid wind carrying chilling malice surged forth like a tangible tide, instantly flooding the senses of Fang Qingyu and the others!
That feeling, as if some horrific ancient existence was crushing through the rock layers, closing in step by step!
"Molting Level? Or... Eldritch Serpent?!"
Fang Qingyu’s heart rang with intense warning signs, immediately envisaging two worst possibilities! Neither of which they could possibly confront directly!
The fleeing defender also evidently noticed Fang Qingyu and the others at the fork.
His eyes flashed with intense struggle, hesitation, even a glimmer of faint hope upon seeing others of his kind, but when he felt the terrifying presence almost touching his back, that hope was instantly drowned by greater despair.
He gritted his teeth fiercely, his eyes left with a nearly tragic resolve!
He let out a beast-like roar from his throat, using the last of his strength, twisting his body at lightning speed, forcibly changing his escape course, dashing toward the opposite dark path from where Fang Qingyu and the others stood!
Simultaneously, using all the air in his lungs, he let out a rending roar filled with a warning and sacrifice:
"Run——!!!"
The voice was shrill, like the final echo!
However, before his shout had completely faded, the darkness behind him was utterly shattered by an unimaginably massive and terrifying silhouette!
Crash——!!!
He charged into the mouth of that tunnel.
The barrier covered with thick rock crumbled like paper!
Red! Lava-like red!
A gigantic, ferocious snake’s head, filling the entire tunnel entrance, emerged with violent fury!
Its head, covered with heavy red-gold scales, with burning eyes of dark golden vertical pupils filled with agony and madness, instantly locked onto the small figure ahead exuding a scent of "prey"!
It was the Eldritch Serpent!
It seemed to have lost patience with that fleeing prey, its abyss-like mouth yawned wide, generating a terrifying suction in an instant!
The desperately fleeing team’s body abruptly halted, as if gripped by an invisible giant hand, his face losing all color, opening his mouth in despair, but unable to utter any sound.
The next moment, his body, along with the surrounding debris, was irresistibly drawn back, directly swallowed into the gaping maw filled with hideous white fangs!
"Crunch... Gulp..."
The chilling chewing and swallowing noises were overly sharp and piercing amidst the rumbling vibrations.
Fang Qingyu and the other two, at the moment of the vibration’s onset and that team member’s dash, had tacitly retreated to the shadow corner of a relatively narrow fork, avoiding the Eldritch Serpent’s direct gaze.
The massive serpent’s head slowly turned, its cold vertical pupils sweeping over the desolate and chaotic cave, pausing momentarily on the "Seashell" node’s faint blue glow, then passing over the entrance to Fang Qingyu and his companions’ hiding place.
That gaze was indifferent, carrying a hint of annoyance at being disturbed, yet seemed to dismiss these three "insects."
For it, who had just devoured a Mystic Martial Artist.
The energy fluctuations from this little bit of "food" couldn’t interest it at all.
The enormous snake’s head slowly retracted into the shattered fissure, and with the wall’s creeping rumble, the crack began to rapidly mend, the heart-palpitating crimson and terrifying oppression receding, leaving only the wreckage and cloying scent of blood behind.
