American Comics: Tales of Cultivator

# Chapter 190: Playing Dead, Skullcrawler

There's a saying that goes, if an immortal plays dead, even the Buddha is afraid! If a corpse suspected to be a Pure Yang True Immortal level expert plays dead, Boss Tang is afraid too.

It wasn't that this situation had never occurred in the Jambudvīpa World. Some High-level Daoist Cultivators' remains would gain sentience and become Zombies, slaughtering everything in their path upon excavation.

Flying and escaping underground were minor matters; how about blood sucking from a distance? Wherever this thing stood, just its breathing and exhaling would completely Devour the Blood Qi of all living beings within a ten-mile radius. This was no longer a Zombie, but a Drought Demon, truly leaving behind barren land for thousands of miles wherever it went!

Tang Song tightly clutched his Five Yin Wallet, having made up his mind. If this thing really played dead, he would directly throw out the great killer weapon he treasured.

Inside the Five Yin Wallet was a one-megaton nuclear warhead. As for why Boss Tang would carry a nuclear warhead with him...

As a big shot in the Underworld, there was no guarantee he wouldn't be "acting righteously" by some nosy Superhero. Was it reasonable to carry a nuclear warhead for self-defense? Very reasonable!

Once activated, this modified nuclear warhead was enough to shatter this Underground Cave. As for what impact it would have on Earth, that was outside Tang Song's consideration.

His entire body's True Essence circulated according to the predetermined meridians route, ready to activate a mystic art called "Heavenly Demon Blood Escape" at any moment.

Looking at the giant corpse whose leg was twitching non-stop, but whose other body parts showed no reaction, Tang Song cautiously used his Divine Sense to investigate. Upon doing so, his brow relaxed. Annoyed, Tang Song manipulated his Sword Pill, sending two beams of white light straight out. They pierced through the giant corpse's body, pinning the culprit to the Ground.

Two Silver Armored Corpses stepped forward. The two Silver Armored Corpses worked together to lift the giant corpse's leg, pulling the ten-meter-long lizard out from underneath it and dragging it in front of Tang Song.

Tang Song raised an eyebrow, sizing up the guy who had made him look foolish.

Lizard? Not really. This thing only had two legs and a long tail behind it. Its skin was pale white. Its head, pierced by two Sword Pills, was still struggling.

If it weren't for the two Silver Armored Corpses suppressing its head and limbs, judging by the way it was flicking its tongue, it would definitely try to take a bite out of Boss Tang. It looked truly ferocious.

However, looking at this thing's skeleton-like head, Tang Song felt it looked familiar no matter how he looked at it. He stroked his chin, carefully examining its appearance.

Isn't this a Skullcrawler?

King Kong's mortal enemy on Skull Island, living in the Subterranean World! Oh, this *is* the Subterranean World. Could it be that this place connects to the Skull Island where King Kong is located?

Tang Song thought for a moment, then had over a dozen Silver Armored Corpses work together to flip the giant corpse over. Each Silver Armored Corpse had at least several hundred thousand jin of force in their arms.

Moreover, standing on the Ground, these Silver Armored Corpses could borrow Earth Vein Power, making their strength extraordinarily great. Even so, over a dozen Silver Armored Corpses exerted their full strength, and Tang Song also controlled the Ghoul White Bone Banner, letting down thick Black Energy ropes woven from Black Energy, binding the giant corpse's arms and legs. They used all their might to barely flip the giant corpse over.

Rumble! After a shaking that felt like the Earth was moving and the mountains were shaking,

Tang Song saw a large Pit, a hundred meters across, where the giant corpse had been lying. It looked like this Skullcrawler had crawled out of this Underground Cave.

Just as Tang Song was about to walk over to take a look, his Divine Sense swept across, and he suddenly discovered a fifty-meter-wide hole on the giant corpse's back. He flew up to take a look, and inside the hole, he could vaguely see the giant corpse's internal structure.

Unlike a human's flesh and blood body, the giant corpse's inside was a solidified energy body. Tang Song used his Divine Sense to peer inward from the hole. The giant corpse seemed to have been hollowed out from the inside by some creature, looking tall but more like a giant flesh and blood shell.

From the marks, it didn't look like something a Skullcrawler would do. Instead, it looked like a fifty-meter-tall human form creature had crawled out of the hole.

Could it be that a Celestial from the Celestials gave birth to a Child?

Tang Song's imagination ran wild, then he chuckled to himself as he swept his Divine Sense over the Deep Pit.

Upon seeing it, he was stunned. This Deep Pit was clearly artificially dug, like a Pit a Child would dig in the Sand.

The Passage went vertically downwards. His Divine Sense probed to the end of the Passage, which was a scorching Lava Layer.

Something seemed to have crawled out of the giant corpse's belly and drilled into the Earth's core Lava Layer.

Could it be that this giant corpse really gave birth from its belly? Tang Song released his Divine Sense, wanting to search if there were any living beings in the Lava.

Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, he found nothing. However, upon retracting his Divine Sense, he did discover some other situations!

......

Splish, splash!

The dry Blood Pit was refilled.

The Blood Pit was piled high with the carcasses of various large marine creatures.

A horned black python was coiled in a snake formation nearby, flicking its tongue, exhausted.

"Alright, you inferior goods!"

Tang Song dipping his brush in blood ink and drawing talismans, glaring at Xiao Hei, who was pretending to be tired. He released a handful of blood pills from his Five Yin Wallet and scattered them over.

The black python immediately raised its snake head, no longer showing any sign of fatigue. Its upper half shot out like lightning, swallowing the blood pills into its mouth.

After using up a pool of blood ink, Tang Song finally finished coating the back of the giant corpse with Corpse Refining Talismans.

However, he had originally planned to leave the giant corpse's body here. It seemed he had to find another Place! Tang Song looked at the hundred-meter Giant Pit leading deep into the Earth's core, patted his Five Yin Wallet, and swept his Divine Sense over the Space inside the Five Yin Wallet.

It wasn't completely full, but trying to stuff a thousand-meter giant corpse inside would be a bit difficult.

But it wasn't impossible...

Tang Song looked at the Giant Pit, leaving two Silver Armored Corpses to guard it. The vast numbers of Skeleton Demons transformed back into white jade beads and fell into the Five Yin Wallet. Tang Song, with the Great Desolation Bell above his head and the Ghoul White Bone Banner in his hand, jumped directly into the hundred-meter-wide Giant Pit.

Below the Giant Pit, the Earth's core Lava was six to seven thousand degrees Celsius at a depth of over ten kilometers. Tang Song jumping down was naturally not to take a Lava bath.

When the Ghoul White Bone Banner released a mass of Black Cloud to carry him down to a depth of one to two hundred meters, a thirty to forty-meter-diameter Oval Cave appeared on one side of the Pit.

Just as Tang Song's feet on the Black Cloud leveled with the Entrance, he saw a Skullcrawler poking its head out of the Cave.

Tang Song waved the Ghoul White Bone Banner. The White Bone Banner expanded against the wind, and thick Black Energy ropes hung down, binding the four to five-meter-long Skullcrawler.

Crunch, crunch! Black Energy intertwined, and amidst screams and roars, countless blood water spilled down from the cocoon wrapped in Black Energy.

"It seems this is the Skullcrawler's Lair!"

Tang Song summoned the Five Yin Pouch and swallowed the mass of giant lizard corpse into it.

The Black Cloud descended into this Cave. The Five Yin Pouch opened and closed, and Silver Armored Corpses were released again.

At this moment, the Silver Armored Corpses were all carrying thick Vulcan Cannons. Behind them were modified giant ammunition boxes, and even their silver-white bodies were wrapped with several loops of thick ammunition belts...

Da da da da—

Heavy footsteps echoed within the Cave, accompanied by the occasional sound of heavy machine gun fire and the painful roars of monsters.

Tang Song walked behind four Silver Armored Corpses, holding the Five Yin Wallet in his hand. The wallet's opening was wide, revealing a black, swirling vortex inside. Several ropes as thick as adult legs extended from the black hole, grabbing and locking onto the Skullcrawler remnants that had been shredded by the Vulcan Cannons, dragging them into the Five Yin Wallet.

With the replenishment of a large amount of high-quality flesh and blood, the Space within the Five Yin Wallet was visibly growing. Besides doing his old line of Cleaner business (Underworld), Boss Tang also moonlighted as a reloader. He divided the twenty-four Silver Armored Corpses into six groups. When one group ran out of ammunition, he would switch to the next group.

Inside his Five Yin Wallet, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of boxes of specially made Vulcan Cannon ammunition, more than enough to switch out.

It was also a good opportunity to clear out some Space in the Five Yin Wallet.

Four incredibly strong Silver Armored Corpses carrying six-barreled Gatling Vulcan Cannons with a rate of fire of three thousand rounds per minute were, if not unstoppable gods, then definitely unstoppable Buddhas.

Along the way, Tang Song collected hundreds of Skullcrawler carcasses. In any case, not a single Skullcrawler could withstand a minute of concentrated fire from four Silver Armored Corpses.

However, the further Tang Song walked along the Cave, the stranger he felt. This didn't seem like a Skullcrawler's Lair; it felt more like a Passage.

After walking another three to four kilometers along this Passage, Tang Song collected dozens more Skullcrawler carcasses along the way. The Cave in front of him suddenly opened up.

If the previous Cave could only accommodate Skullcrawlers twenty to thirty meters long, the Passage in front of him widened by five to six times.

Tang Song walked another two kilometers or so along the widened Cave Passage, encountering over a dozen more Skullcrawlers over thirty meters long along the way.

This time, Tang Song released eight Silver Armored Corpses. If an enemy couldn't be solved by one Vulcan Cannon, then arrange another one.

If two weren't enough, then four. Well, Boss Tang arranged eight.

In front of humanity's top-tier firearms, a flesh and blood body is, after all, just a flesh and blood body—

A certain Cultivator, while praising humanity's technology inventions, collected the giant lizard carcasses on the Ground that had been battered like torn pockets by heavy machine gun bullets.

After sighing a few times, Tang Song walked towards the bright light Outside.

As soon as he walked out of the Cave, Tang Song felt a sense of disorientation, a feeling of heaven and Earth being inverted.

He was clearly standing on the Ground, but standing at the Cave Entrance, he felt as if his feet were on the ceiling, a strong sense of being upside down.

No, there's something wrong with the gravity here!

Before Tang Song could think further, a Skullcrawler forty to fifty meters long suddenly crawled into the Cave and attacked him.

"Da da da da da da—"

Eight Silver Armored Corpses stood in front of Tang Song like an indestructible silver wall, pulling the trigger of their Vulcan Cannons. Eight thick metal torrents swept towards the Skullcrawler in front of them.

"Roar!"

Hit by the thick bullets from the Vulcan Cannons, this Skullcrawler let out a painful roar, blood blooming all over its body, and charged towards Tang Song, pushing through the attack.

This giant lizard was forty to fifty meters long. Although it only had two front limbs, these two strong and powerful front limbs, along with its tail, formed a stable support structure.

It stood upright. The eight Silver Armored Corpses looked like eight little bugs in front of it. It extended its long tongue, wrapping it towards Tang Song, wanting to coil him up and swallow him into its belly.

But before the giant lizard could even lift its claws, it felt something hugging its tail.

It whipped around, looking at the two Silver Armored Corpses holding its tail, and was about to lash its tail to throw these two little things away.

But a patch of earthy yellow radiance rose from the feet of the two Silver Armored Corpses. Their feet seemed to have grown together with the Ground.

No matter how hard the Skullcrawler tried, it couldn't shake off its tail. It turned its head back, preparing to bite the two Silver Armored Corpses.

The two Silver Armored Corpses suddenly opened their mouths, spraying out two streams of pale white Corpse Flame, which directly enveloped the Skullcrawler's head.

Almost in the span of a breath, the two masses of Corpse Flame spread and enveloped the entire Skullcrawler's body. In a dozen breaths, the Skullcrawler was burned into a pile of white bone.

The two Silver Armored Corpses opened their mouths, and the Corpse Flame covering the Skullcrawler flew back into their mouths like young swallows returning to their nest—

"Bastard, did you really think I went through all that trouble to refine these Silver Armored Corpses just to withstand machine guns!"

Tang Song took out a cigar and put it in his mouth, took out a lighter to light the cigar, and blew smoke rings while cursing at the white bone left by the Skullcrawler in front of him.

Out of the Cave, Tang Song Cloud Riding to a high point above the Basin. In the distance was a Fantasy World shimmering with a faint green radiance, which looked even larger than the Subterranean World Tang Song had come from.

Looking at the forty to fifty-meter-long Skullcrawlers in the Basin and the monsters Outside the Basin, often dozens of meters long, Tang Song was hesitating whether to go and see the world Outside the Basin.

Standing on the Black Cloud, he attracted some aerial predators.

A Mingshe suddenly swooped down towards Tang Song from above. This big guy was over a hundred meters long. The upper half of its body had red membrane-like wings, one large pair and one small pair.

The protruding parts on the outer edges of the wings were similar to claws, incredibly sharp, and they grabbed towards Tang Song, who was standing on the Black Cloud.

What is the concept of over a hundred meters? The most direct concept is three passenger planes combined length crashing towards you.

The strong wind stirred up caused the Black Cloud beneath Tang Song's feet to scatter and drift.

Compared to this guy, Tang Song was like a little bug. He didn't know why it was putting in so much effort for this meal! Tang Song looked up at the big guy above his head, which felt like Mount Tai pressing down, and instantly flashed his figure, transforming into a streak of sword light and slipping back into the Cave within the Basin.

This hundred-meter-long giant beast with a torso like a python suddenly lost track of the little bug it had just been aiming at. Angrily, it opened its large mouth and let out a roar, revealing fangs four to five meters long on its lower jaw.

It flapped its two pairs of wings, looked at the densely packed Skullcrawlers in the Basin, opened its mouth, and sprayed out a sheet of venom—

Splash, splash—

Over several kilometers, it was as if a heavy acid rain had fallen. Tang Song stood inside the Cave, and with his naked eye, he could see Skullcrawlers falling down in swathes!

The potency of this Mingshe giant beast's venom was so strong that some one to two-meter-long giant lizard younglings were directly corroded into white bone.

This poison was clearly unbearable for ordinary twenty-meter-long Skullcrawlers as well.

Only those adult Skullcrawlers thirty meters and above could resist the Mingshe's venom attack.

However, this Mingshe giant beast's reckless behavior also provoked a strong reaction from the Skullcrawlers. In the center of the Basin, a large Skullcrawler, lying there like a small mountain, silently propped itself up with its tail and stood upright.

The front limb joints of this skull lizard had spikes like bone spikes protruding, making it look even more ancient.

Its hundred-meter height was completely comparable to that Mingshe. It climbed up the side of the Basin, quickly reaching the Mountainside of the Basin. Its skull-shaped head shook, and a long tongue suddenly shot out. The thick tongue directly coiled around the Mingshe's python tail! (Stuck on writing, and don't want to pad, so the word count is a bit low)

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