Chapter 124 Fled

A flash of saber-light was seen and a yellow shadow moved swiftly.

Almost unobstructed at all, whether it was ou Yangming’s military saber or the big yellow dog’s sharp claws, they easily killed the Black Magic Crawlers. The process was as easy as one-two-three.

Ou Yangming and the big yellow dog were more puzzled when they looked at the dead bodies beneath them.

‘If we’ve previously met a Black Magic Crawler’s larva, what about now?

‘Could it be that the Black Magic Crawlers are all larvae? That doesn’t sound right no matter what.’

Ou Yangming picked up a crawler with the tip of his sword to observe it carefully, especially its mouthparts. After inspecting it for some time, his face changed. This was because he clearly saw stone chips between its mouthparts.

Ou Yangming gasped, and his face took on a grave expression when he checked the stone walls around them.

Although the stone walls there were not of featured steel’s standard, their quality was not too far from that. In other words, even the steel from the military camp was inferior to the stone walls.

However, the Black Magic Crawlers were actually munching on the stone walls’ bits.

The big yellow dog shivered as it sensed Ou Yangming’s discovery as well. “Big Yellow, do you remember what Senior Ni told us before we came in?” Ou Yangming said slowly, “He said that the most powerful thing about the Black Magic Crawlers is their quantity and teeth. I don’t know what their total quantity is, but I know that their teeth are indeed not easy to deal with.”

The big yellow dog nodded. It was closely related to its life, after all, thus it could not be indifferent

Ou Yangming scanned the dog’s body and suggested, “But in order to test their teeth’s toughness, it’s best to be bitten by them once.”

The big yellow dog was stunned and instantly looked at Ou Yangming with rage.

Ou Yangming quickly explained, “Take it easy, I meant that I’ll try it. Let’s not sneak an attack on them the next time, and fight them to see how exactly powerful they are.”

It was only then when the big yellow dog looked more at ease. Evidently, Ou Yangming, who was fully equipped, was a better candidate than the big yellow dog for the test.

After twitching its nose, the big yellow dog continued walking. On the other hand, Ou Yangming said to himself when he looked at the remains of the Black Magic Crawlers, ‘What a pity!’ Though he really wanted to turn their flesh and blood into energy for himself, he could not keep it a secret from the dog if he absorbed everything. Hence, Ou Yangming made a wise decision to give up the idea after some consideration.

While they had only encountered Black Magic Crawlers near this area after walking for a long time, since they knew that the crawlers would win by quantity, they were sure that the creatures lived in groups. Therefore, finding one meant that there was a group nearby. As expected, the big yellow dog picked up the same smell after a brief moment.

When Ou Yangming and the dog sneaked closer without a sound, they saw five Black Magic Crawlers gnawing on stone chips with their heads lowered. The crawlers were so focused that they were unconcerned about their surroundings.

Ou Yangming thought, ‘If Big Yellow and I sneak and attack again, we’ll easily eliminate the crawlers again, but since we want to test their combat power, we can’t do that.’

He held his military saber and walked past the big yellow dog to advance forward. His heavy footsteps finally alerted the crawlers, which were chomping on food with their heads lowered. They looked up almost at the same time and noticed Ou Yangming, who was approaching them slowly.

Without any hesitation, the five Black Magic Crawlers crawled toward Ou Yangming.

They were exceptionally fast, so much so that they did not seem like crawlers at all. Instead, they looked like agile lynxes that arrived before Ou Yangming in the blink of an eye.

Ou Yangming lowered himself into a half squat, then a flash of saber-light was seen as he slashed one of the crawlers. The crawler’s body was instantly split into two but it did not affect its other companions’ fighting spirit. As such, the four remaining crawlers opened their mouths to bite Ou Yangming.

Ou Yangming knew what the creatures fed on, so he was not going to let them hurt his fatal body parts so easily. He took a step back, and saber-light was seen again as he killed another crawler. Nonetheless, the remaining three crawlers were already getting closer to him one after another. Following that, they actually jumped at the same time as though springs were attached to their legs, where they sprung toward Ou Yangming at the speed of light.

The jumps were unexpected. If the crawlers jumped as fast as they crawled, Ou Yangming was likely going to suffer a huge loss. Nevertheless, Ou Yangming was well-prepared, and his mental power was already in a near-perfect state.

His spiritual sense caught every change happening outside his body.

It was reasonable for him to be wary. After all, the creatures were feared by the Supreme Great Ancestors, so how could he underestimate them?

Thus, when the three crawlers moved at a strange speed, Ou Yangming responded in advance. That said, instead of slashing the crawlers into halves, he tilted his military saber and lightly tapped it twice in the void. Consequently, the three crawlers fell on his body and bit his armor, greave, and military saber respectively.

Ou Yangming had done this on purpose, or the five crawlers could not have hurt him at all.

Next, he heard ear-piercing grinding sounds as though a hacksaw was being used to cut steel. It made his teeth feel itchy.

Ou Yangming felt chills down his spine, and he dared not delay it any further. Flashes of saber-lights were