To be honest, Zhang Ze really hopes that the one pretending to be dead is the little monk.
Whether it's a corpse demon or corpse king, if it's him, at worst, he can just have a fight, throw a couple of punches, and break him down again.
But unfortunately, the one 'pretending to be dead' is a Southern Twin-Tail.
A giant roach erged from the mud, its limbs stretched, wings trembled, and its flat body almost blocked most of the cave.
Just like that wolf-head centipede, the head of this roach had so mutations too, changing from brown to white, and shaped like a human head, looking disgusting and eerie.
The little monk's skeleton was currently being held tightly atop this giant roach's head by a black aura.
Although a bit disrespectful, it looked like this giant roach had styled its hair into a slanted fringe.
Probably because it felt it was covering its eyes, the giant roach flicked its head, tossing the fringe to the back.
The slanted fringe turned into a slicked-back hairstyle.
After tidying its hairstyle, it didn't imdiately attack but instead rubbed its hands on the spot, tilting its head to look at Zhang Ze and his group of three.
It seed to be thinking.
Zhang Ze was also thinking. He couldn't understand why there was such a big roach here near the Ancestral Master's Mausoleum of Dragon Tiger Mountain, not in so remote mountainous area in Diannan.
Also, being big is one thing, but why does it have to be so realistic?
When did this thing co here? Have we been walking on its back just now?
A lot of questions, and Zhang Ze even thought about using the thod of Floating Life Listening to Spirits to communicate with this Twin-Tail and ask so questions.
But in the next second, he dismissed the idea.
He saw the belly of this giant roach wriggling, and in the gaps between its shells, many person-sized little Twin-Tails were poking in and out...
This kind of mother leading kids is better left alone, don't provoke it, it'll easily cause trouble.
Zhang Ze pulled Li, who had already run behind him, out and pointed at the giant roach.
"It's decided, Li, get on it! Eat it, eat it clean."
Li shook its head like a rattle drum, crawled back behind Zhang Ze's arm again, hugged it, and clung to Zhang Ze's neck, refusing to let go.
"If you want to eat, you eat. If you like it, just eat more."
"Seriously, you can eat centipedes, what's the difference with this roach?"
"I don't want it; I'm not a trash can, don't stuff everything into my mouth." Li began to burrow into Zhang Ze's clothes.
Junior Sister on the side was a bit speechless, "A big man and a dragon, normally fearless, but now scared of a big...big bug. You two move aside, watch ."
After she said that, she stepped forward, slashed with her sword, exuding an aura of dominance.
"No!"
Zhang Ze wanted to stop her, but it was too late.
Probably because it was the first ti cutting such a thing, Junior Sister's slash was a bit off, splitting the roach in two, but not completely severing its head...
And no matter what species a roach is, it always has a death-triggered chanism.
Roaches in the Immortal Cultivation Realm are no different.
When Zhang Ze went to Diannan before, he had experienced it once.
The bisected roach didn't die completely; instead, the two halves crazily charged toward Zhang Ze.
While running, it was crashing into the cave walls, staggering, shedding soup-like fluids, and its descendants.
Seeing this scene, the forrly fearless Junior Sister instantly turned pale, lost her montum, passed the sword to Zhang Ze, and hid behind him.
A look of 'I can kill but not handle the aftermath' on her face.
Zhang Ze had no choice but to brace himself.
"You can't run either, co and help."
Zhang Ze grabbed Li, who wanted to escape, and brought it into the rging Spirit State.
At least this way, he wouldn't have to get himself splashed.
Zhang Ze raised his hand, conjured a wave of fire, and evaporated the splashing fluids.
One person, one dragon, their minds were in sync, without Zhang Ze needing to instruct, Li flicked its dragon tail and retrieved the past-life skeleton of the little monk.
After getting it, Zhang Ze had no more scruples. He clasped his hands, and a giant hand made of Ice Soul appeared out of thin air, grasping in the middle, sealing the two halves of the roach within.
Then the ice crystal shattered, completing the harmless disposal.
"Phew." Zhang Ze let out a sigh of relief, exited the rging Spirit State, returned to Junior Sister, and knocked her on the head.
"Can we stop being like Mom, pulling out knives at every turn? So things can't be chopped; they'll splatter all over you."
Junior Sister awkwardly smiled and quickly changed the subject.
"Next ti, there won't be a next ti. But it's strange, why couldn't we sense the aura of that roach or the previous centipede?"
Zhang Ze thought for a mont and said, "Probably mutated."
Junior Sister, "Mutated?"
"Yeah." Zhang Ze nodded, "You didn't go with to Diannan last ti, but oversized roach bugs like cats and rats were everywhere there, so could even hide their aura.
"While chatting with locals, a store owner with a chin like a behind told that his grandfather's generation didn't have so many bugs. It was after an earthquake fifty years ago that this situation appeared. People from dicine King Valley are still investigating, but haven't figured it out.
"If it weren't for the secret dicines concocted by dicine King Valley and the local cultivators, the array setup, and the frequent de-bugging, their towns would have been swallowed by bugs long ago.
"Not only the environnt causes mutations, humans can too. Rember the story Li Yueqi told us?
"There was a mysterious evil cultivator studying mutated flower mosquitoes that could sting cultivators. Luckily, Beast Taming Sect found out early; otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable." Zhang Ze said.
"But even with mutations, these bugs are way too big, aren't they? And this is the territory of Dragon Tiger Mountain, not so dense forest in Diannan, where did these co from…?"
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