Chapter 957: Kill It Alone, Try Again

The Poisonous Baby Worm is indeed a formidable threat in this hellish realm!
For cultivation teams, killing it not only takes a long time but also requires significant manpower and effort.
As a flying monster with iron-hard exoskeletons, it emits a force that slows down both movement and attack speeds by about 10%, making it extremely difficult to unleash one’s full strength. Even more dangerous is its deadly poison—its entire body is coated in vicious toxins. Upon contact, these toxins activate immediately, combined with the worm’s resonant sound waves, piercing into the enemy’s bloodstream and reducing their strength by 30% while causing blood loss.
The Poisonous Baby Worm’s attacks aren’t particularly terrifying…
So, after poisoning its enemies, it quickly switches targets until all enemies within its range are defeated, then proceeds to massacre them one by one.
Its incredible resilience and deadly toxins pose a huge challenge to martial artists. Long ago, someone managed to kill one, but at a tremendous cost—hundreds of skilled martial artists—only to obtain a meager reward: poison sacs and materials for crafting swords and weapons, far less than what was invested.
Since then, most attempts to kill Poisonous Baby Worms end the same way—great effort yields only a pitifully small reward!
Thus, even advanced cultivation groups will leave without hesitation if they encounter such a creature, staying far away.
But Happy, having just arrived, was unwilling to waste time searching for a new cultivation site in this hellish place, so he foolishly stayed to confront it.
However…
Although Happy’s swordsmanship wasn’t highly advanced, his unique sword technique, Black Flame, had a remarkably strong destructive effect, roughly equivalent to an increase in combat power by two levels. Combined with his swift and precise sword strikes, it could still cause the Poisonous Baby Worm considerable trouble and pain.
Happy’s attacks were rhythmic and purposeful!
While maintaining a safe distance from the worm, he directed half of his sword strikes at its steel-like wings, using the rest to constantly probe its body in search of weaknesses and breakthrough points…
After two minutes of probing, Happy finally gained some insight.
The face!
The Weak point of the Poisonous Baby Worm was its face—that terrifying and disgusting infantoid worm face.

The pinkish giant had such smooth and delicate skin, making it the natural focus of Kaixin’s careful attention… A group from the Hunter Family had gathered around Da Pang and Xiao Pang. The two sat down to use their energy to heal them and expel toxins, while the others stared intently at them.
“What’s Kaixin Boss doing? The face of the Demon Infant is the hardest part to attack. It’s said to be protected by an invisible barrier that weakens all attacks.”
“I seem to have heard of that too…”
“Huh? Look, the face of the Demon Infant Poison Bug has turned black.”
“That’s Kaixin Boss marking it.”
“It seems to be working…” “Stop arguing. It looks like scorpions and spiders are appearing over there. Go and hold them off.”
As they talked, groups of monsters emerged from the miasma…
…Blades flashed.
Every time Kaixin attacked, he felt an invisible force weakening his sword energy, effectively blocking the blade from piercing through, as if there was an invisible protective layer covering the Demon Infant Poison Bug’s face. This effect was completely different from other parts of its body, making it seem even harder to attack.
However, Kaixin also noticed that whenever he launched a fierce attack against this invisible barrier, the Demon Infant Poison Bug would scream even more shrillly and sharply, while also spraying foul venom from time to time. This was a sign of extreme anger and panic!
Although he hadn’t yet broken through, Kaixin believed that other parts of the Demon Infant Poison Bug were as hard as steel, but its face probably wasn’t. Once the invisible barrier was shattered, it would be the moment the Demon Infant Poison Bug was severely injured.
Calm down, Kaixin thought. He continued to attack while struggling to dodge the venom sprays from the Demon Infant Poison Bug…
This went on for about ten minutes.
Suddenly!
A strong wind blew from behind.
“Be careful!!!”
Yu Long was terrified when he saw a ghost scorpion suddenly appear behind Kaixin.
Kaixin’s body twisted miraculously, causing the ghost scorpion’s fierce attack to miss, almost hitting the Demon Infant Poison Bug…
One after another, spiders and scorpions killed by Yu Long and the others reappeared, turning the valley into a chaotic and tense place.
“Kaixin, let me distract them for you.”
“Continue practicing. Draw a few over here. Leave those you can’t handle. I’m fine,” Kaixin said decisively.

Although the Poisonous Baby Worms posed a greater threat with their flying abilities and those of scorpions and spiders, Happy already had a thorough understanding of the Ghost Scorpions and Eight-Eyed Parasitic Spiders. He knew their speeds and could predict every move they made; their attacks hardly posed a threat to his Immortal Body.
“Good!”
Seeing Happy calmly leading the group of monsters in circles, Yu Long mustered the courage to lure two Eight-Eyed Parasitic Spiders over, leaving the scorpions behind.
Happy secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If Yu Long had lured away the scorpions, the remaining spiders might have been too numerous to maneuver effectively. Now it was better—since it was just Ghost Scorpions, they could be treated as mere pursuers. With that thought, Happy decided to use the Poisonous Baby Worms and scorpions for training! He continued to attack the worms’ huge faces with sword energy while maintaining a safe distance…
Although it seemed simple, each turn, angle, force control, and precision judgment required extreme stability.
Time passed by…
Da Pang and Xiao Pang finally recovered and joined in the training as well. The valley fell silent once more.
If not for Happy occasionally drifting near Yu Long and the others, one might have thought the Poisonous Baby Worms in the valley had disappeared.
…
After nearly an hour of effort, the invisible protective layer on the Poisonous Baby Worms’ surface was finally broken…
At this point, the worms’ disgusting huge faces were covered in crisscrossing black marks, making them look even more ferocious, like true poisonous insects.
What thrilled Happy even more was that the moment the protective layer disappeared, the worms’ cries lost their original intensity…
Feeling as if a heavy burden had been lifted, Happy’s sword moved at lightning speed, and his body became incredibly light.
“Haha! Trying to run?”
As soon as the protective layer was broken, Happy detected signs of the worms trying to turn and flee. Already prepared, he swiftly swung his sword twice, killing the two troublesome Ghost Scorpions, then chased after the Poisonous Baby Worms—had there still been those strange crying sounds, he might not have been able to catch up, but with his speed restored to normal, catching up was no problem.
Thud!!
The sword struck!
The Poisonous Baby Worm was pierced right through.
“As expected, this worm’s huge face is quite soft.”
Without the protective layer, the worm’s huge face was as soft as tofu, allowing Happy to pierce it effortlessly. Its wings flapped uncontrollably a few times before it crashed heavily to the ground, spilling a foul-smelling green liquid everywhere.
Ding!
System notification:
“Successfully killed a Mythical-level Poisonous Baby Worm!”
“Battle rating: S-grade!”

“Comprehensive Combat Assessment: S Grade!”
“Insight increased by 3 points!”
“Insights gained from battle: ‘Demonic Hong World-Annihilation Art’ upgraded by 5 levels! Current level: 52.78.”
“Insights gained from battle: ‘Void-Step Technique’ advanced by one realm! Current level: 41.39.”
“Hm?”
The consecutive system notifications left Kai Xin stunned and delighted.
He had received three S-grade assessments in a row.
Previously, at the Myriad Beasts Villa, he had gotten one S-grade combat assessment and 1 point of insight increase, but that only led to a small level rise.
After all, he was currently practicing sword techniques, movement skills, and defensive arts at the Liberation Realm. Even with an S-grade combat assessment, the level increase was minimal regardless of his realm, and it became even smaller as he progressed.
But this time, his sword technique level had increased by half a realm, and his movement skill level by an entire realm…
The most astonishing part was the movement skill!
In his past training, movement skills were rarely improved!!
“Did you kill it?”
As the cry of the Poisonous Infant Bug disappeared, Yu Long rushed over. Seeing the corpse on the ground, he was overjoyed: “Haha, now we can focus on training properly. By the way, the materials on this thing are quite good; they can be sold for about ten to fifty million… Let me help you collect them.”
“…Wait, don’t rush. Let me ask you something…”
Kai Xin told Yu Long about the strange phenomena happening to him. Yu Long was also stunned and frowned deeply: “An increase of fifteen levels at once? After reaching the Liberation Realm, I haven’t heard of anyone leveling up this drastically. At most, in the later stages, people might increase their level by three to five levels at a time…”
“…”
“The movement skill is even more strange. An S-grade combat assessment—I’ve never heard of anyone improving their light-footwork skills this way. Movement skill training is too slow, and usually, few people practice it repeatedly during battles. Experts at the Liberation Realm generally only master one type of light-footwork technique.” Yu Long’s expression grew increasingly peculiar: “Could it be because of the Poisonous Infant Bug?”
“Why do you say that?”
Kai Xin frowned, not understanding Yu Long’s meaning.
Yu Long quickly explained, “The Poisonous Infant Bug has a very hard body, fast flying speed, and its sonic attacks greatly affect a person’s movement speed. Usually, players are forced to run away… The only difference is that so far, you seem to be the only one who has killed a Poisonous Infant Bug alone and received an S-grade combat assessment.”
As he spoke, Yu Long’s eyes gradually lit up, as if he had found an explanation for Kai Xin and resolved his own doubts.
“If that’s the case, it does make sense…”

Happy murmured this, then changed tone: “But I actually want to try again!”
“Huh?”
Yu Longtou’s skin tingled—killing a demon infant was so troublesome, and the rewards weren’t significant either.
But Happy’s next words lit up his eyes!
“If it’s really as you say, it means the value of demon infant poisons is meant to boost players’ lightness skills… I can not only practice sword techniques but also quickly improve my movement skills, accelerating the growth of my internal energy and movement attributes.”