Chapter 26: Torrential Rain—The Giant Underground Earthworms!

“Sha sha sha …… Hua hua!”

In just a few words, the fine rain condensed into droplets.

They landed on Lin Xian’s hand, stinging painfully.

Lin Xian watched the increasing rain, his head moving back and forth between the wood on the ground and the figure chopping trees in front of him.

“Forget it, I’ll help you!”

Luan Ma and Lin Xian let go of the vines at the same time and walked back.

With three people working together, the tree was quickly chopped down.

“Bang!”

The trunk fell with a roar, making the surrounding soil tremble slightly.

Thumb-sized red fruits that grew on the tree scattered everywhere.

The three of them worked together again to cut off the excess branches, reducing the weight.

Without the cover of leaves, the three of them were soon soaked to the bone.

Lin Xian wiped away the rain and hair sticking to his face, struggling to open his eyes.

“Peh! I hope I won’t get a debuff for catching a cold when I log in tomorrow.”

Or maybe leveling up will reset the game character state or something.

The three of them dragged the processed wood back.

At that moment.

Lin Xian’s foot slipped.

“Wu cao!”

The soil next to the freshly chopped tree stump was unusually wet from the rain for some reason.

It was like a patch of swamp.

If Luan Ma hadn’t reacted quickly and grabbed him, Lin Xian would have already sunk in.

Lin Xian stepped back two steps, still in shock.

“What the hell is this? A ground collapse?”

As soon as he finished speaking.

The muddy ground suddenly bulged unevenly, shifting constantly.

A huge cylindrical creature burst out of the earth!

It appeared before the three of them.

“Wo cao!”

Only the most primal exclamation could express Lin Xian’s shock at the creature in front of him.

Even with the rain obscuring his vision, the bright red color on its body filled Lin Xian’s sight.

It was a giant red worm, with a body at least three meters in diameter!

Thicker than all the tree stumps they had cut today!

The ringed segments on its body looked like twisted tree vines, appearing especially menacing.

Lin Xian muttered, “Damn, who said this morning they’d never seen a magic beast?”

“Hua!”

The red worm’s body rubbed through the mud, lifting its head towards the three.

With a sudden thrust!

The three scattered in all directions.

“Ah ah ah Ye Hui Fei, look at the magic beast you wanted!”

Lin Xian shouted as he ran.

“I — never — want — again –”

Ye Hui Fei yelled in the heavy rain, swallowing half a mouthful of water.

He wanted to see a magic beast, not a monster!

The worm had dug out the only road for the three to return to town, then used its massive body to block the other exits.

They could only run in circles nearby, being chased.

“Creak!”

The worm knocked over a small tree not far ahead of Lin Xian.

“Damn it, I’m done running!”

Lin Xian panted.

Rain soaked him, chilling his whole body.

But the blood in his veins burned hot from the intense movement.

If they kept running, they’d just collapse from exhaustion and die anyway.

Might as well fight back!

He gripped the Kuangjing Leaf in his hand, his chest rising and falling.

“At least I was second place in the school javelin competition in college—there’s no reason I can only take hits!”

Ye Hui Fei saw this and ran toward the worm.

“Xiu-ge, let me draw its attention!”

Ye Hui Fei grabbed a stone from the ground and threw it at the worm!

The worm turned, opening its mouth and lunging at Ye Hui Fei.

Ye Hui Fei turned and darted through the trees like a monkey.

Now’s the time!

Lin Xian took a deep breath, tensing his muscles, and assumed a textbook javelin-throwing pose.

He leaned back and hurled!

The Kuangjing Leaf sliced through the rain, aiming straight for the worm’s vulnerable mouth!

Then, just three centimeters from the worm, the Kuangjing Leaf’s speed suddenly dropped.

It dropped straight down.

Lin Xian clutched his head.

“Crap, I missed!”

Ye Hui Fei looked back as he ran.

“What?! Didn’t you say you were second place in the school javelin competition?!”

“Because only three people entered!”

“I you #¥@!”

Lin Xian thought with such a big target at such a short distance, nothing could go wrong.

But something still went wrong.

Lin Xian hurriedly said, “I’ll run this way, I’ll save you!”

“Puchi!”

The Kuangjing Leaf, forgotten by everyone, finally hit the ground—right into part of the worm’s body.

A clean stab.

Half the blade went in.

The worm shrieked in pain and quickly burrowed into the ground.

Ye Hui Fei: “?!!!”

Lin Xian’s eyes widened.

“Wu cao, I’m awesome!”

Ye Hui Fei: “Is this monster’s defense really that low?”

Judging by the worm’s earlier ground-clearing prowess, he’d thought its defense would be sky-high.

So he hadn’t dared to fight head-on.

Luan Ma snapped out of his shock and shook his head.

“No, it’s not that the worm’s defense is low—it’s that our task item is too strong.”

A blade that could cut over a dozen trees without dulling—its sharpness was obvious!

He grabbed the vine tied to the wood on the ground and called to the others.

“Don’t just stand there—move while we can!”

The other two hurried to help.

But before long.

The worm returned from the mud, the Kuangjing Leaf Blade that had wounded it now missing.

It had already dealt with it.

Wounded, the worm was even more furious.

Its massive body stirred up mud as it charged the three!

But now that they had a way to fight back, the trio wasn’t as terrified as before.

Ye Hui Fei spun the Kuangjing Leaf Blade in his hand.

“Let me try this time!”

He readied himself like he was about to skip a stone on a pond.

The moment the worm opened its mouth, he hurled the blade.

But then.

The worm twisted its head a second later.

The blade’s target shifted from the important head to the tougher midsection.

Ye Hui Fei gaped.

“This thing can dodge skills?!”

He clearly saw the smug aura on the worm as the Kuangjing Leaf left his hand.

What’s more—

As the blade was about to hit, tiny bristles suddenly jutted out from the worm’s body segments.

Though small, the bristles were tough enough to knock the blade aside, sending it flying back!

“Damn, what the hell is this!”

Ye Hui Fei and Lin Xian shouted in unison.

It even had a hidden form?!

How were they supposed to fight this???

Suddenly, Luan Ma darted out, caught the flying blade, and spun.

With a Kuangjing Leaf in each hand, he stabbed again!

Since Luan Ma was in close combat, the worm’s bristles couldn’t block his strike.

He stabbed down hard!

Puh!

Puchi!

Two sounds of flesh tearing.

Swish!

The worm writhed in pain, its tail thrashing and shrieking against the ground.

It tried to pull in its bristles and escape back into the mud like before.

But Luan Ma didn’t give it the chance.

With the bristles gone, Luan Ma used both hands to cling to the worm with the Kuangjing Leaf, clambering up its slimy surface.

He braced his feet for leverage, then bit down and shouted with effort.

“Die!”

“Puh puh puh!!”

On the worm’s body, Luan Ma dragged both Kuangjing Leafs down like unzipping a zipper.

Pink flesh and blood spilled out.

The more the worm struggled, the wider the wound grew.

Half its body was almost severed.

Lin Xian and Ye Hui Fei were utterly stunned by Luan Ma’s ferocity.

Then they snapped out of it and rushed to help.

With the three of them together, before the worm could burrow, they hacked it completely in half!