Abyss Summoner

Chapter 565 - 552: Tenfold Ambush

After the two figures collided with each other, they suddenly separated. The fierce collision of flesh sounded like the explosion of wood after a tree has dried out.

Lu Wei’s entire body was heavily skeletalized, and his right arm was covered in white bone, forming a cone shape. However, at this moment, the bones were in a pitiful state, covered in small cracks, on the verge of shattering at any moment.

But Chen Feng had no intention of retreating. After stepping on the beach, he rushed out like an arrow, swiftly drawing out the flame blade and slashing at Lu Wei’s head. If this strike landed, Lu Wei would undoubtedly die.

However, just as Chen Feng was about to strike down, his entire body suddenly broke out in goosebumps. Instinctively, he sensed a huge danger approaching!

"It’s from below!"

Chen Feng’s pupils shrank into a fine line. He instinctively sensed a hint of crisis from below, and the flame blade changed direction halfway, slashing downward with the force of a crushing mountain.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

A series of explosions rang out, and from beneath the soft sand, dozens of bone spikes suddenly grew wildly, like a dense forest overlapping with each other. Once one fell among them, they would surely be pierced through and through!

Yet, as Chen Feng made the slashing motion, the entire weapon suddenly expanded, turning into a massive blade three meters long, slashing down with a roar. The bone spikes were immediately torn to pieces, and some fish and insects lingering by the shoreline got caught, staining the surroundings bright red with fresh blood.

Lu Wei was panting heavily, appearing as if the previous strike had exhausted all his strength.

"Sir, how has your power grown so fast? Could it be that you’ve already broken through to the legendary realm? No, your aura hasn’t changed and differs greatly from the legendary tier you described before. But both speed and destructive power have increased by thirty percent, this is truly amazing!"

Lu Wei stopped his guard stance and instead spoke with a face full of shock.

In the past month, Chen Feng had devoured soul stones, thoroughly cleansing his soul. Besides that, his physical strength had also undergone some changes.

At this moment, his delicate skin glowed with a slight sheen, his jet-black hair and increasingly sturdy teeth gave off an appearance of tranquility. Yet, beneath this veneer lurked an explosive and overwhelming presence that emanated from within.

Earlier, Chen Feng had engaged in real combat training with Lu Wei.

Lu Wei’s body had merged with the flesh and blood of two devils, possessing the advantages of both the Scorpion Demon and the Bone Demon. From the beginning, he had astonishing potential and lethality. However, despite Chen Feng not transforming, Lu Wei was still defeated at the last moment!

This meant that even without transforming, Chen Feng’s power was comparable to that of a Silver Peak powerhouse. If he were to transform into the Blazing Demon, with its scorching heat, he could even entangle with a master like Flora for a short period without being killed in one blow.

More importantly, Chen Feng, relying on the soul stones, had completely stabilized the power of the Blood Sacrifice. Furthermore, a portion of those impure sources of belief had been cleansed, causing his senses to mutate, such as his vision and hearing being somewhat enhanced.

At night, he could even determine the location of mosquitoes just by sound.

For this reason, Chen Feng’s sixth sense was sharper than before, allowing him to instantly detect Lu Wei’s deadly strike.

Seeing Chen Feng deep in thought, Lu Wei didn’t press further questions and sensibly stood aside.

As dusk approached, perhaps due to the rain yesterday, a thin mist spread around, casting a hazy feeling over the entire sea surface.

Chen Feng ignored Lu Wei and stepped towards the coastline, walking step by step on the beach.

As the sky darkened, the beach fell into silence as usual. For ordinary people, the beach was a forbidden area. It wasn’t that the major forces didn’t allow them to fish or catch shrimps, but because often before they could even make a move, they would be devoured by the hidden Hunter beneath the beach.

In the apocalypse, insects had become an indispensable layer of the food chain. Although the Gorge Gate organized personnel to repeatedly exterminate the insects, their greatest strength was their reproductive ability. It could only be suppressed but never completely eradicated.

Just like when humans blasted mountains and cleared forests, bears, leopards, snakes, and insects would hide in remote areas. Understanding that their days of dominance were over, they no longer flaunted themselves but hid in some secret corners, waiting for prey to appear, and then devouring them.

Walking on the beach, Chen Feng felt the softness of the beach’s sand with every step, unleashing his hearing and spirit. Instantly, every movement within dozens of meters around him came to his ears.

The images reflected from these sounds presented themselves one by one in Chen Feng’s mind.

This is a power that only those with a strong Power of the Soul can exhibit. It was as if after hearing the sound, the images hiding in the sand on the beach also appeared before him.

The weaker fish and shrimp were nothing, but deep beneath his feet, about a dozen meters down, the silhouette of a worm caught Chen Feng’s attention.

It was an enormous sea worm, winding its stout neck like the Venice Water Monster, with just the neck alone stretching about five or six meters long. Its body, hidden under the sand, emitted a chilling white frost, covered entirely in coarse gray scales that exhaled an icy aura, seemingly capable of turning the entire sea into a glacier.

This was clearly a Frost Giant Earthworm with Silver Power.

It was a type of sea worm, living in the ocean, but with its mutated body, it gained the ability to operate on land. At this moment, this hideous worm was lurking beneath the sand, completely motionless as if it were dead.

However, Chen Feng knew that to ordinary people and even somewhat weaker professionals, this worm was incredibly terrifying.

While it lay under a dozen meters of sand, its body was covered with countless sensitive feelers. The moment someone stepped on the sand, it could sense the presence. The Frost Giant Earthworm had the ability to turn the sand into a mire. If an ordinary person stepped onto this beach, one second it might look normal, and the next second, it would open wide, dropping straight into the earthworm’s maw.

The Frost Giant Earthworm’s stomach contained an extraordinarily frightening gastric acid, even stronger than sulfuric acid by tenfold. In such a situation, once prey fell into its mouth, survival was impossible.

A perfectly executed ambush ability.

Facing such an engulfing attack, even professionals of the same tier wouldn’t be able to anticipate it.

But now, Chen Feng, having just battled with Lu Wei, still carried an aura of the Golden Tier. It was precisely because the Frost Giant Earthworm sensed this that it remained completely still, entering a hibernation state to avoid detection by Chen Feng.

Chen Feng had no intention of playing the good citizen by removing this malignant creature, merely finding some humor amidst the apocalyptic world full of possibilities. Even a worm had learned to conceal its strength and avoid exposure, merely to avoid an encounter with him.

Besides the Frost Giant Earthworm, many other creatures were lurking around, including a giant sea star about a meter long clinging to the rocks along the coast. However, unlike its docile previous state, this sea star was entirely pitch black, with a gigantic mouth filled with dozens of razor-sharp teeth at its center. Once attached to an enemy, the teeth rotated like a wheel, gouging out a bloody hole.

There were also some hermit crabs on the coast, having shed their former cute image. Instead of using shells, each had taken up residence in human skulls, quietly waiting on the shore for the arrival of new homes.

Even the seemingly harmless jellyfish had undergone mutation. While their bodies hadn’t changed in size, their poison had intensified; even an elephant stung by them could die trembling within seconds.

No wonder Li Hongyi prohibited ordinary people from hunting along the coast; with so many monstrous creatures waiting, even a hundred people could be slaughtered within moments.

Yet, the relentless hunger continued to torment the ordinary people.

Although jelly-like food made from cockroaches was supplied daily, it only sustained life without satiating hunger. Consequently, when night fell and coastal defenses slackened, many people still risked their lives, wave after wave like the incoming tide.

Were those people fools, oblivious to the dangers of coming to the coast? Yet, driven to the brink of collapse by extreme hunger, they still made such desperate choices.

Hunger was like torture, tying you to a chair, where one would exhaust every method to torment and brutalize you. In this state, those with no way out were more inclined to use the death penalty as a punctuation to end their lives.

The night fell.

Unnoticed, half an hour had passed, and just as Chen Feng was about to turn and leave, the thin mist over the sea slowly began advancing toward him.

Those mists seemed to have a life of their own; as Chen Feng took a step, they approached inch by inch, invisible to ordinary eyes.

As the fog was about to envelop Chen Feng, he stopped in his tracks, not turning his head, and said in a calm voice, "Playing hide and seek, is it fun?"

"Heh heh... We’ve been waiting here for you for a long time."

Suddenly, a gloomy voice came from behind Chen Feng, and simultaneously, several figures, equally powerful as the Golden Tier, appeared around him.

These figures seemed to materialize out of thin air, forming a triangular formation encircling Chen Feng.

"I didn’t come looking for you, yet you come to me?"

Chen Feng turned around, exhaling deeply, gathering all his concentration!