"Yu Ge, hurry and separate from him! I can't use my skills to sneak attack like this, I'll accidentally hurt you!"

Yang Xiangdi yelled anxiously from the side. Qiao Yu's close-quarters combat with the giant scorpion left him no room to maneuver.

The giant scorpion almost coughed up a mouthful of blood when it heard this.

Can't you see I'm about to be beaten to death by him, you fatso? You still want to sneak attack me? Is there no morality left in this world?

"Alright! I'll create an opportunity for you! This giant scorpion is incredibly strong, be careful!" Qiao Yu said.

The giant scorpion was about to suffer internal injuries. Just who was incredibly strong here? Was there still justice in the world?

Qiao Yu didn't give the giant scorpion a chance to ask questions. He seized the opportunity and activated the Skeleton King's Ring.

A punch amplified by fifty percent sent the giant scorpion flying, coughing up blood, its body soaring like a cannonball.

"Well done! Sand Binding!"

Yang Xiangdi was overjoyed to see this and waved a large amount of sand, catching the giant scorpion's body like a buffer.

"Earth Explosion Technique!"

Boom!

The already heavily injured giant scorpion was blasted to the brink of death, barely clinging to life.

"Yu Ge, we're really awesome."

Yang Xiangdi walked over, gleefully kicking his hands.

Fang Xun and the others were dumbfounded. Were these two some大佬 (da lao - big shots) slumming it with small accounts to bully newbies?

That giant scorpion was so strong, yet it couldn't even inflict a scratch before almost being beaten to death? Terrifying!

"I held back a bit, to avoid blasting him to death. This giant scorpion definitely knows a lot of secrets about the Myriad Poison Cave. We'll interrogate him properly!" Yang Xiangdi said.

Qiao Yu nodded and walked towards the heavily injured and dying giant scorpion.

"Bah! You group of fiends, don't even dream about it! Kill me if you want, I will never betray our tribe!" The giant scorpion cursed fiercely.

"Alright, then I'll inflict the most cruel punishment in the world on you," Qiao Yu said.

"Heh, go ahead, I, the Giant Scorpion, won't even groan! I'll be your grandson if I do!" The giant scorpion spat out a mouthful of blood and glared fiercely.

A tough guy like him wasn't afraid of any torture.

"Alright, you said it." Qiao Yu walked towards Fang Yuan, who was still in shock. "Lend me a few strands of your hair."

"A-ah, okay." Fang Yuan stammered.

Qiao Yu plucked a few long hairs from Fang Yuan's head, twisted them into a strand, and walked towards the giant scorpion with a cruel smile.

The giant scorpion watched Qiao Yu's actions, filled with doubt and confusion.

Weren't you going to use torture? What do you mean by taking a few strands of hair and smiling so pervertedly?

A hint of fear crept into the giant scorpion's heart. The unknown was the most frightening.

"Yang Xiangdi, help restrain him!" Qiao Yu said.

"You got it!" Yang Xiangdi waved his staff, and several ropes of sand bound the giant scorpion.

At this moment, the giant scorpion couldn't move anything except his eyelids and lips.

"W-what are you going to do? I'm telling you, I won't be afraid of you!" The giant scorpion shouted, putting on a brave face.

"Hehehe, you'll find out soon."

Qiao Yu revealed a perverted smile, and the giant scorpion's Adam's apple bobbed up and down, his fear slowly amplified.

Qiao Yu slowly brought the strand of hair closer to the giant scorpion's nostril, then gently pushed it in. The strand of hair entered the giant scorpion's nasal cavity.

As Qiao Yu's wrist gently flicked, the strand of hair spun in the giant scorpion's nasal cavity, back and forth, in and out, constantly rubbing against the giant scorpion's nose hairs.

"Hehehe, hahaha, hahahahaha!"

Itch!

An indescribable, uncontrollable itch!

That was the giant scorpion's only feeling now. His tiger eyes were filled with tears. He was laughing, but his laughter was more painful than crying.

"Ah! Kill me, please kill me! Hahahaha!"

The indescribable itching made the giant scorpion want to die immediately. He wanted to struggle, but his entire body was controlled by Yang Xiangdi and he couldn't move at all.

No wonder that kid said this was the most cruel punishment in the world. This was even more unbearable than a mountain of knives or a sea of fire.

"Huh? He's really a tough guy, so good at enduring?" Qiao Yu muttered in surprise.

"Fang Yuan, lend me a few more strands of your hair."

Qiao Yu took a few more strands of hair. This time, he didn't spare the giant scorpion's other nostril.

A two-pronged approach, attacking from both sides.

The giant scorpion was caught between life and death.

Just watching this scene made Fang Xun and the others feel itchy in their noses, and they couldn't help but want to pick their noses.

"Grandpa! Grandpa, I was wrong, I'll say anything, hahahaha! Please, kill me! Hahaha!"

The giant scorpion, tears streaming down his face, finally couldn't help but beg for mercy. This unbearable itching sensation was simply not something a human could endure.

"You should have done this earlier, why did you have to wait until you were tortured before you were willing to talk? Why bother?"

Qiao Yu threw away the two strands of hair in disgust.

The giant scorpion wanted to cry but had no tears. He really wanted to say, Big Brother, I didn't know you were such a pervert!

"I'll ask you, what was the ritual you just performed? What is the origin of that bluestone well?" Qiao Yu asked directly.

"That was a bug sacrifice. It is the day we offer fresh flesh and blood to the insect swarm. Our Myriad Poison Cave signed a contract with the Insect Queen, and we must offer fresh flesh and blood every month."

"That bluestone well is where the Insect Queen lives and breeds."

The giant scorpion knew everything and said everything, fearing that Qiao Yu would scratch his nostrils with hair again.

"Insect Queen..." Qiao Yu pondered for a moment. The Insect Queen should be the final boss of the Myriad Poison Cave dungeon, right?

It seemed that this dungeon might be even more difficult than Nightmare Village, after all, Qiao Yu was not good at group attacks.

Although Yang Xiangdi's Earth Explosion Technique was powerful and wide-ranging, he had to wait a while before he could use it again.

Damn it, why doesn't the other world sell insecticides?

"Yu Ge, I think I know why Xiaodong and his family helped us detoxify," Yang Xiangdi said, gritting his teeth.

"They want to use us as sacrifices for the next bug sacrifice!"

Qiao Yu nodded and continued to ask the giant scorpion.

"Does the Insect Queen have any weaknesses?"

"Weaknesses..." The giant scorpion thought for a while and slowly shook his head.

"I don't know. I have never seen the Insect Queen. The fact that the Insect Queen lives at the bottom of the well has been passed down from generation to generation by the clan leaders."

"One last question, why does Xiaodong call the tribe the Myriad Spirit Cave, while you call the tribe the Myriad Poison Cave?"

"Xiaodong? What Xiaodong?" A look of astonishment appeared on the giant scorpion's face. "In our entire Myriad Poison Cave tribe, there is only one person whose name contains the character 'Dong', and that is our clan leader."

"What is your clan leader's name?" Qiao Yu quickly asked.

"Her name is Xun Dong."