338: Devourer of the Ten Thousand Legs Abyss

Huang Chen had essentially tempered his soul to the peak of his current realm through battling the Soul-Devouring Bee King; the Howlers' attacks were painless to him, though the women were caught off guard and suffered some minor losses.

"Stay where you are and attack from there. I'll go take care of them!"

After saying this, Huang Chen transformed into a turret once again, clearing the path with Rapid Light Cinema and sweeping the field with Ice Roar!

Chains of lightning leaped incessantly between the floating stone platforms, paralyzing groups of Void Howlers in place.

The ensuing ice crystal storm ruthlessly reaped their lives.

The pressure on All the women eased significantly, and they began to coordinate with Huang Chen to clear out the stragglers.

Thirty-eight minutes later, the seventh floor was cleared.

Stepping into the eighth floor, the group arrived at a massive crystal labyrinth.

[Ding! Welcome to the eighth floor of the Mirror Shadow Tower, Illusion Labyrinth!]

[Challenge objective for this floor: Kill 3,000 Illusion Weavers within three hours!]

"Why did the level decrease?" Liu Ruyan asked, somewhat puzzled as she examined the level 90 Illusion Weavers.

These monsters were shaped like spiders, but their bodies were made entirely of crystal, allowing them to Reflect light and create all sorts of illusions.

"Don't be careless; these things are very strange," Tie Shengnan said in a deep voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, an Illusion Weaver activated its ability. Hum! Light and shadow distorted, and in front of it, an Obsidian Golem identical to the one from the sixth floor appeared.

"It can even summon?"

Feng Wu blasted it with a Karma Fire Burns the City, but the illusionary golem simply dissipated without taking any damage.

But at the same time, dozens of Illusion Weavers activated their abilities simultaneously. In an instant, the group's vision was flooded with illusions of various monsters they had encountered before, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.

"Hubby, how do we fight this?" Xie Chunyan asked, feeling a bit of a headache.

"Simple," Huang Chen grinned. "Who cares if they're real or fake? Just cover the whole area, won't that work?"

He took a deep breath, and the water elements within his body surged wildly. "Ice Roar!" Boom! Boom! Boom!

One ice crystal storm after another exploded in every corner of the labyrinth. The illusions dissipated one after another in the blizzard, while the real Illusion Weavers had nowhere to hide, with massive damage numbers floating above their heads.

Fifty-eight minutes later, the eighth floor was cleared.

When the group stepped onto the light ladder leading to the ninth floor, everyone's expression became grave. It was the final floor.

Before they had even left the light ladder, a cavern of unimaginably massive proportions appeared before them.

On the four walls of the cavern grew countless giant mushrooms emitting a ghostly blue light, illuminating the entire space with a dreamlike quality.

The air was filled with a strange odor, a mixture of sulfur and decay.

At the very center of the cavern, a hideous behemoth was coiled there, seemingly asleep.

Its body resembled a giant python magnified countless times, covered entirely in a dark purple, metallic-lustered carapace.

But unlike a python, beneath its hundreds-of-meters-long abdomen grew countless pairs of sharp, dense articulated limbs, like a centipede; every slight movement caused the ground to emit a "rustling" friction sound.

Its head had no eyes; instead, it possessed two incredibly huge, dark red compound eyes like those of a dragonfly, and within every facet of these compound eyes flickered a heart-stopping, ghostly light.

Beneath the compound eyes was a long, mosquito-like proboscis, its tip gleaming with a chilling, cold light.

This monster seemed to be a stitched-together hybrid of a snake, centipede, dragonfly, and mosquito, full of an uncoordinated, nauseating, and terrifying beauty.

[Ding! Welcome to the ninth floor of the Mirror Shadow Tower, Ancient Lair!]

[Challenge objective for this floor: Kill the final guardian—Myriapod Abyss Devourer!]

The moment the system prompt sounded, the coiled behemoth slowly... moved.

Its massive compound eyes turned toward the direction of Huang Chen and the others.

"It's actually a level 100 special boss!" After checking the boss information, Tie Shengnan couldn't help but frown and say: "This increase is way too fast."

However, at this moment, a hint of excitement appeared on Huang Chen's face.

A few days ago, facing the level 100 Sky-Burning Flame Phoenix in the Asura Battlefield, he had been completely powerless, but outside, his strength had increased by who knows how many times.

He reckoned that killing a level 100 special monster shouldn't be a big problem, and this would be a perfect opportunity to test the strength of a level 100 special boss.

Moreover, this was the final level of the Mirror Shadow Tower; once he killed the monster before him, the Mirror Shadow Tower would be his.

After pondering for a moment, Huang Chen decided to let All the women wait where they were, while he went to lead the charge.

After all, his HP was thick enough that even a Saint-rank level 100 boss couldn't do anything to him, and could a level 100 special boss be stronger than a level 100 Saint-rank one?

Boom! Fearless, Huang Chen kicked off the light ladder with both feet, his entire body launching forward and transforming into a streak of light as he slammed toward the Devourer.

Boom! Boom! Boom! -123211! -132121! ... As soon as Huang Chen appeared, he was met with an incoming attack of red fireballs.

These fireballs were not only nearly a meter in diameter, but they were also extremely dense, blocking off all space for evasion.

In an instant, Huang Chen had already taken a dozen fireballs.

"This attack... it's not even comparable to Blackie."

The Devourer was much weaker than expected. Now, Tie Shengnan and the others had nearly a million HP each, counting their own base HP plus equipment and the Lotus Halo, and with Life Link active, as long as they managed their healing, it shouldn't be a big problem.

However, Huang Chen didn't intend to let them join the battle immediately, as he didn't know what other trump cards the boss might have.

"Soul Severing Stab!" Using the momentum from the Soul Severing Stab, Huang Chen accelerated and crashed straight through the fireballs in front of him, the tip of the demon slayer spear thrusting directly toward the Devourer's left compound eye.

"Splurt!" -21251231! A massive damage number appeared, and under the Northern Darkness Aura, the over one million HP Huang Chen had lost during his charge was instantly restored to full.

"Yang Guan Three Stacks!" "Ying-wa~" Huang Chen and the Devourer launched their attacks almost simultaneously; as a dozen fireballs smashed into Huang Chen, his Yang Guan Three Stacks landed entirely on the left compound eye.

What Huang Chen didn't expect was that such a hideous monster would make a sound like a crying infant.

And just as the Devourer was knocked slightly backward by the hit, Huang Chen tilted his body slightly and flashed directly to the boss's left side.

"Returning Wind Falling Goose!" "Doo~" The two attacked at the same time again.

The boss didn't summon fireballs this time, but instead used its "proboscis" like a spear, thrusting directly at Huang Chen.

"Pfft!" -521232! Seeing the damage number pop up above his head, Huang Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although this boss looked terrifying, its attack power didn't match its appearance at all. This attack power, which would be enough to make ordinary players despair, was, in front of Huang Chen, only slightly harder to kill than an ordinary monster.

The two attacks he had just landed on the boss also allowed Huang Chen to roughly estimate the boss's HP, which should be around ten billion.

If he had to whittle down this amount of HP using spear skills, it would take a long time.

Having finished his probing, Huang Chen began blasting the boss with Ice Roar.

He no longer needed to dodge the boss's attacks, so in a situation of trading blows, a skill like Ice Roar that could stack infinitely was the most useful.

The two traded blows for about two minutes, and the boss's HP bar dropped by about 2%. At this output pace, Huang Chen would be able to slay the boss on the spot in less than 10 minutes.