Chapter 701 334: One Who Faces Death to Live

You Su instinctively took a step back, and a thunderous roar echoed in his ears.

It didn't sound like thunder, more like the sky was collapsing.

Rain pelted down relentlessly, as a lightning serpent roamed frantically.

The tricolor light of the "Three Element Purple Gold" gradually faded backward, replaced by an onyx-like pupil.

Embedded in the center of this pupil were two slender scarlet fissures, mysterious and deep, eerie and dazzling, as if it gathered all the Spiritual Qi and malevolence of the world, exuding a suffocating pressure.

You Su finally understood why just a piece of stone could emit such overwhelming pressure as if it were a living creature.

Because it wasn't a stone at all; it was originally a living creature!

And their pursuit of the Three Element Purple Gold had awakened this faceless monster!

The people behind were still unwilling to let You Su take the lead, they charged forward, roaring in a grand spectacle.

At this moment, the eyeball on the altar suddenly turned, its icy vertical pupil staring at You Su and everyone rushing recklessly behind him.

A chill spread from his spine, and You Su snapped back to reality.

His heart tightened, and he immediately turned back, using all his strength to shout this heartrending command:

"Run!!"

Long Chiyu, who was closest to You Su, also witnessed this bizarre scene as she sidestepped him. She could hardly believe it, thinking at first that rain had blurred her vision. But the gaze of that eyeball was so real, real enough that it seemed to foretell her own death.

She had grown up in the icy lands of Beiao Continent, where occasionally a vibrant flower would bloom on the vast snowy plains. But everyone from Beiao Continent knew it wasn't a rare gentleness of the snowfield; it was the bait of the most dangerous hunter beneath the white snow——the snow lizard.

Could the dazzling precious Three Element Purple Gold also be bait laid by the owner of this eyeball?!

Long Chiyu had no time to think about it all because her mind was already shaking violently.

It wasn't because she was trembling from fear; it was because the ground truly began to tremble beneath her!

The entire altar started to collapse, and the ground began to arch in an exaggerated arc, then rapidly cracked, as if some colossal creature was about to break through!

Everyone simultaneously halted, followed by continuous screams that seemed to tear apart their lungs.

Whether on the mountain, the hillside, or the foot, everyone noticed the sudden, enormous change.

No matter who they were, there was only one thought in their hearts——to survive.

You Su immediately found Ji Xueruo in the crowd with a shocked expression and wanted to grab the girl's hand to lead her away.

Just from the pressure that constrained all the prodigies, it was evident that whatever was in the soil was beyond what they could handle.

But Ji Xueruo stood as the only cultivator still facing the altar among all those retreating. She was frozen in place, as if in a stupor.

"Xueruo! Let's go!"

You Su urged urgently; the Three Element Purple Gold was obviously a trap, and staying here was not wise.

These pressures that had once impeded their approach now in turn hindered their retreat.

But Ji Xueruo remained unmoved, gazing at the monster's ice mountain corner revealed among the crumbling earth, murmuring:

"This... is a snake..."

A snake?

You Su initially found it strange, but then quickly recalled the earlier query about the lack of snakes on Celestial Awakening Island.

Celestial Awakening Island wasn't snake-less; it was just that the fiercest and most vicious one dwelled here, making ordinary snakes absent!

You Su looked over; the whole mountaintop was already lopsided, on the verge of collapsing, and they hardly had any place to stand.

Could there really be such a large snake... he couldn't help but wonder.

"No matter, let's leave here first!"

Right now, You Su only wanted to lead his beloved away from danger, without pondering all these chaotic matters.

But Ji Xueruo was still unmoved, her gaze complex and indescribable, her clear eyes reflecting the giant serpent's colorful teal scales.

"This, this is the Ancestral snake."

The girl hesitantly offered her judgment.

You Su was stunned; having spent so much time with Ji Lingruo, of course, he couldn't be ignorant of the 'Ancestral snake.'

This was the Snake Race's acknowledged ancestor, the source of all snakes! The Snake Ancestor Temple and the Ancestral snake's blood had always been the foundation for the Snake Race!

"How is that possible? Wasn't the Ancestral snake long dead?"

"I don't know... but it looks exactly like the statue in the Snake Ancestor Temple..."

Ji Xueruo could barely suppress her inner shock, feeling as if the blood in her body was boiling.

The giant snake head in the Snake Ancestor Temple that exuded the Ancestral snake's blood was merely a sculpture, colorless, but this buried giant snake had already revealed its true form.

The dazzling Three Element Purple Gold appeared to be its eye color; its massive onyx-like pupil gazing down on all things, its scales tending toward a deep teal hue, yet each scale was individually unique. The whole small mountain seemed to be its body, surely the largest creature You Su had ever seen.

Beautiful and dangerous, enormous and mysterious—this was You Su's most direct impression.

Amidst the storm, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled; the monstrous python broke free from the earth, colossal stones rolling off its body, and everyone fled frantically as if in a human purgatory.

Ji Xueruo's beautiful eyes suddenly narrowed, seeing that surprisingly on this gigantic serpent body, several chains as thick as oak trees were bound.

It curved in the air but couldn't escape the cold chains' restraints, and its struggles torn scales apart, revealing flesh that had long since festered.