Using the blinding speed of her thunder-flash technique, Yi Renmei broke out of the encirclement, only to lose her bearings deep within the cave. Though a few centipedes occasionally caught up with her, she was still able to fend them off on her own.
"If I keep fighting like this endlessly, my strength will give out sooner or later. But which way is actually the exit?" Yi Renmei wandered once again into a junction where three different tunnels branched off.
Just as she hesitated, three more centipedes slowly crawled toward her from the three passages. Gathering her spiritual energy, she found she could no longer summon her thunder-flash technique. She brandished her sword, staring coldly at the three creeping centipedes as every step they took produced a rustling sound. It was this very sound that filled Yi Renmei with a growing, bottomless terror, as if it were an endless nightmare that would never vanish.
Chapter 146