Looting the life force of demons to forge a golden body Martial God-Chapter 395 - 383: Investigation, Soaring Sense of Crisis, the Snake Demon Must Die! Intelligence and Tactical Objectives
Chapter 395: Chapter 383: Investigation, Soaring Sense of Crisis, the Snake Demon Must Die! Intelligence and Tactical Objectives
Chu Feng jumped down the city wall and silently burrowed into the camp to scout the surface situation.
While scouting, he noticed that whenever he passed by the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons, they would cease their actions and turn their heads to look at him!
Only when Chu Feng held his breath and remained utterly still for a while would those Snake Demons skeptically turn their heads away.
From this, he uncovered a disturbing fact: those Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons seemed to sense his presence!
Or rather, they seemed to feel that something discordant lingered where Chu Feng was and could react to it.
Only when he calmed down would the Snake Demons ignore these slight discordances.
’How exactly do these creatures sense something is amiss? Would higher-realm Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons have sharper Spiritual Sense and discover me more easily?’ he wondered.
This realization cast a small shadow over Chu Feng’s heart, inadvertently tensing his nerves, making him somewhat paranoid.
Fortunately, there were not many Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons active on the surface, which didn’t much hinder his infiltration.
Most of them were concentrated underground, exhibiting behaviors similar to the ants on Blue Star, preferring to dig tunnels.
After digging deep enough, they connected their tunnels with those of other Serpent Demons, forming a complex network of caves.
When the Human Race took the offensive, this habit undoubtedly caused significant trouble for humans.
Once they launched an attack on the lair of the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons and entered the underground caves, they faced the predicament of "three burrows for a cunning beast," constantly alert for attacks that could come from any direction.
If the battle was taken outside the Demon Battlefield, humans had plenty of ways to deal with them, Ground-penetrating Bombs were created for situations like this.
But within the weapon-restricted Demon Battlefield, they could only rely on the warriors’ flesh and blood to burrow into the lair of the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons and engage in physical combat.
High-realm warriors, with their immense power from mere gestures, weren’t much less effective than conventional weapons, but they also had to contend with high-level warriors from the Demon Clan and certainly couldn’t spare the effort to lead an assault.
This behavior also dealt a severe blow to Chu Feng’s plan—how could he poison underground caves?
The interconnected burrows were absolutely the bane of poison tactics, a little digging could easily block the spread of toxic fumes.
As for poisoning the water supply, that was even less likely. The Serpent Demons’ burrows could reach a hundred meters underground, where groundwater was abundant; could they really lack a water source?
Even if Chu Feng were deranged, he couldn’t contaminate the entire underground water circulation system with poison!
’Anyway, let’s explore first, gather intelligence, and let the Staff Department worry about it!’ he thought.
Chu Feng tapped his head and started looking for a suitable entrance.
Serpent Demons were frequently entering and exiting the holes beneath the mounds, their slick soft tails entwining in a disgusting tangle, much to Chu Feng’s disgust.
Disgusting as it was, he needed to explore, and eventually, he pinched his nose and dove into a burrow that hadn’t shown Serpent Demon activity for a while.
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In the dimly lit underground cave, Chu Feng relied on the strong senses developed from being in the Zhou Tian Realm to barely make out the scene inside the cave.
The ground was littered with dead skin fragments shed by the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons, evidently, they had occupied this place for a long time.
The walls of the cave had also been smoothed out by the frequent traffic of Serpent Demons, their surface gleaming with a greasy sheen, and a strong stench wafted from them.
As Chu Feng progressed, he found the cave became wider and wider, eventually expanding to over twenty meters wide, much like a spacious highway.
As the cave widened, more and more Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons passed by him, from occasionally one or two to often groups of three or four walking side by side.
Chu Feng’s urge to kill surged every time he passed near a Serpent Demon, as they would stop slithering and cast doubtful glances his way.
This was becoming increasingly intolerable to him!
With the traits Wind Concealment and Concealment, the former hiding his tracks and the latter his spiritual power fluctuations, the combination had become one of his most important trump cards.
Relying on these two miraculous traits, he could freely enter and exit the heartland of the Demon Clan, ensuring his safety while recklessly poisoning and harvesting Attribute Points.
He had discovered that the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons seemed able to detect his traces!
This undoubtedly posed a significant threat to his life!
’The Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons must die! This time, I must annihilate them!’
Chu Feng drew a gentle breath, firming the killing intent in his heart.
’Moreover, I must figure out exactly how these beasts are detecting something’s amiss! Is it the smell? The sound?’
He buried his killing intent deeply within himself and tried his best to bypass all the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons, stealthily moving towards the source of a tremendous aura.
Until he reached the entrance of a spacious cave, he stopped his steps.
Looking inside the cave, nearly two hundred meters away, teeming with Snake Demons and among them, one particularly huge, train-sized Yin Yang Realm Spirit-Eye Serpent Demon, he cautiously halted.
’One Yin Yang Realm Snake Demon, approximate coordinates 158.94, 649.83, -96.52...’
After recording the coordinates on his information terminal, Chu Feng quietly retreated and headed towards another location of strong aura.
What he didn’t notice was that, soon after he left, the python-like Spirit-Eye Serpent Demon raised its head, its giant eyes the size of searchlights suddenly turning toward the spot he had just vacated.
Then, the giant python issued a deep hissing sound, and soon a horde of Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons started leaving its side, rushing towards the vicinity of the cave entrance...
...
’Suspected Hunyuan Realm Snake Demon spotted, approximate coordinates 820.43, 320.11, -158.26...’
’No, must leave quickly, these beasts are too sensitive, they really can detect my presence!’
Just as Chu Feng approached the cave with the strongest aura, he felt a chilling sensation rise in his heart, a numbness creeping from his tailbone all the way to his scalp, making every hair stand on end.
The horrendous sense of danger made him decisively give up continuing his approach and to turn back the way he had come.
On his way back, he sensed that the atmosphere within the cave had changed as well.
A large number of Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons were pouring out of various sized caves, grouping together and searching for something everywhere, giving off a feeling as if all the grass and trees were soldiers.
Chu Feng felt slightly heavy-hearted, guessing that these creatures were perhaps searching for him!
’Not sure if the Yin and Yang Realm Snake Demon or that Hunyuan Realm Snake Demon detected me...’
While nervous inside, he was also relieved that he had curbed his greed and not ventured further into the areas of similarly powerful auras for exploration.
Had he alarmed the possibly present three Hunyuan Realm Snake Demons in this cave of one hundred and fifty meters depth, he would have had no chance of escape!
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Emerging from the cave, Chu Feng clenched his fists, suppressing the killing intent and resignation within him.
’Whether tactical poisoning can be executed, let the staff of the Second Army evaluate it!
’Worse comes to worst, going back once more and delaying some time, but these Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons must be annihilated!’
He crawled into a collapsed building’s ruins, found a corner, and began sending intelligence to the Staff Department of the Second Field Army:
[Captain Chu Feng, calling the Staff Department of Demon Suppression City in the Eastern War Zone of the Second Field Army!]
[I have surveyed the Demon Clan military camp in area D58-31, real-time video has been sent, attached with the list of materials I carried.]
[Please receive and review this at the Staff Department, and formulate a detailed and feasible combat plan based on it.]
[Tactical Objective One: Eliminate as much of the Demon Clan’s living force within that camp as possible.]
[Tactical Objective Two: Breach the cave’s defense system and kill all the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons!]
