Not long after the Mighty Ape climbed up, Lin Huang suddenly heard a strange sound. It sounded like something was rubbing against the ground. However, the sound was so soft that it was almost unnoticeable.
In the beginning, Lin Huang thought it was just the sound of the wind. However, he soon sensed that something had entered his territory.
"Is there something in the bark?!"
Lin Huang could clearly sense that something was moving in the cracks of the bark not far away from him. They were not moving very fast, but there were many of them. Judging from the way they were moving, they did not look like humans.
"Be careful." After instructing the Mighty Ape, Lin Huang was on high alert. A couple of telekinetic flying daggers floated in front of him.
There were monsters on the Stairway Tree, and one could obtain points by killing them. Lin Huang had heard about this from Yao Lan before. Since they were not moving like humans, they could only be monsters.
The Mighty Ape leaped a few times and climbed up more than 1,000 meters.
Just when it leaped into the air again, a couple of white threads shot out from a crack nearby, entangling it.
In the void, several rays of silver light flickered, instantly slicing the threads apart, and then directly shooting towards the source of the attack.
A few moments later, a couple of groans were heard. The few monsters that attacked the Mighty Ape were killed by Lin Huang in an instant.
Lin Huang had been expecting the monsters to attack him. As soon as they attacked, he reacted immediately.
In reality, he did not even see how the monsters looked like. He only sensed their location with his territory and killed them easily with his flying daggers.
The telekinetic flying daggers combined with his territory was a combat method that Lin Huang had developed earlier. It seemed to be effective, but the radius of his territory was a little small. In reality, ever since Lancelot leveled up to immortal-level rank-2, the radius of Lin Huang's territory and Lancelot's Saber Dao Territory had increased from 1,000 meters to 2,000 meters. However, he still felt that it was not enough.
Although he had killed a few monsters that he could not see, Lin Huang did not relax at all. Hearing those miserable cries, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Just as he was about to urge the Mighty Ape to leave the area, the monster in the bark crevice nearby suddenly became agitated. The screams of the monsters when they died were like a stone thrown into the calm water, immediately setting off waves.
Within the range of the Territory, Lin Huang sensed that almost all the monsters in the cracks on the bark were surging towards the surface of the bark.
"Let's go!" Lin Huang shouted at the Mighty Ape as he sensed that something was amiss.
The Mighty Ape seemed to have sensed the danger instinctively, so it increased its climbing speed to the maximum and started climbing up crazily.
Standing on the shoulder of the Mighty Ape, Lin Huang finally saw the true face of these monsters.
Wriggling worms crawled out of the gaps in the bark in all directions. Although they were crystal clear white, these white worms with mucus on them made Lin Huang feel a little nauseous.
These worms were like maggots that had been magnified hundreds of times. The smaller ones were at least two meters long while the bigger ones could reach a length of more than five meters.
As they crawled out of the bark, the worms continued to crawl on the bark steadily, climbing towards the direction of the Mighty Ape and Lin Huang.
Many of them had their lower bodies stuck on the bark while they lifted their upper bodies and spat white silk towards the direction of the Mighty Ape.
Lin Huang did not dare to hold back anymore. More than 300 Life Power daggers shot out of his body and cut the threads that were coming at him. They then flew towards the worm monsters that were blocking their way, clearing the path for the Mighty Ape to move forward.
However, soon, Lin Huang's facial expression changed. After more than 10 of the worms were killed, they began to self-destruct. Green fluid shot out in all directions and their carcasses turned into pieces and disappeared into thin air.
The green fluid made a hissing sound when it came into contact with the bark. There was even green smoke coming out of it. Apparently, it was extremely corrosive.
Seeing that, Lin Huang immediately opened up his umbrella-shaped Dark Mirror to shield himself and the Mighty Ape. However, he could not prevent the green fluid from touching the Mighty Ape.
After the Dark Mirror was turned transparent, the Mighty Ape's vision was no longer obstructed. It endured the pain of being corroded by the worm's fluid and continued to climb upwards.
Lin Huang, on the other hand, controlled hundreds of telekinetic flying daggers to cut a bloody path through the defensive layer of the Dark Mirror.
If not for Lin Huang's telekinetic daggers and the Dark Mirror's defense, it would not have been easy for him to pass the fourth checkpoint.
The weakest of the worms was gold flame-level while many of them were immortal-level rank-1 and rank-2. There were tens of thousands of them in Lin Huang's field of vision. They were coming towards him and the Mighty Ape from all directions.
When the worms died, they exploded and released a green liquid that was extremely corrosive. The Mighty Ape had accidentally come into contact with a few drops of the fluid, causing its hair to turn bald and its skin to rot rapidly.
Fortunately, the area that was contaminated was not big and the Mighty Ape had the Enhanced Regeneration ability. As its body was corroded, its Enhanced Regeneration ability healed itself. However, the speed of recovery was extremely slow.
Within seven to eight minutes, Lin Huang had killed at least thousands of worms. The Mighty Ape had finally escaped from the worm's encirclement and successfully broke through the fourth checkpoint with Lin Huang.
As soon as the human and the monster broke through the fourth checkpoint, the worms did not chase after them. Instead, they retreated back to the tree bark. In less than 20 seconds, none of the white worms that were crawling all over the tree bark could be seen. It was as if everything that had happened earlier was just an illusion to Lin Huang.
If not for the wounds on the Mighty Ape's body caused by the worm's fluid that had yet to heal, Lin Huang would have thought that what had happened was an illusion.
"There are already immortal-level monsters blocking the way on the fourth checkpoint. Although the worms are slow and have weak defense, there are too many of them and the corrosive effect of their fluid is terrifying. It's not easy to break through below immortal-level rank-4. " Lin Huang estimated the difficulty of the fourth checkpoint. The higher they climbed, the more he admired those who could reach the 60th to 70th checkpoint.
After breaking through the fourth checkpoint, the Mighty Ape carried Lin Huang all the way up. Soon, they arrived at the fifth checkpoint.
On the fifth checkpoint, there was a bird with a sharp beak that Lin Huang had never seen before in the monster guide. It flew at an extremely fast speed and its combat strength ranged from immortal-level rank-1 to rank-3.
On this checkpoint, the Mighty Ape suffered a lot. As Lin Huang had the protection of the Dark Mirror, he was not injured at all. It was proven that the rule that prohibited flying on the Stairway Tree only applied to humans and their summoning monsters. It did not apply to the native creatures on the Stairway Tree. On this checkpoint, the bird with a sharp beak flew happily.
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