Chapter 42 - 41: Battle of Snake Valley! Charge! Charge

Chapter 42: Chapter 41: Battle of Snake Valley! Charge! Charge

"Kill!"

When enemies meet, their eyes blaze with hatred!

Li Wanqing, Zhao Zhenshan, and the others erupted with Qi and Blood, charging straight at Li Tianyi.

"Hehehe, you actually survived the landslide?

"You sure are lucky!

"This Sword Qi was sealed inside your body by Demon Suppression General Chen Jianqiu, wasn’t it?

"What a pity. Being able to leave one streak of such Sword Qi to save your life is already the limit!"

Atop the head of the completely ink-green Snake King, Li Tianyi looked at Li Wanqing and the others with disgust, his face twisting with jealousy and venomous resentment. He wondered why he, who had risked everything, still couldn’t compare to the talent and fortune of these so-called geniuses.

"Kill them! I’ll play with you after I retrieve this treasure!"

Li Tianyi glared coldly at the five people pursuing him. He leaped off the massive snake’s head and sprinted toward the palace exposed on the hillside.

HISS...

The Ink Green Snake King, measuring a full fifteen zhang in length, turned around and let out a piercing hiss. Immediately, a massive swarm of snakes slithered out from the ruins of Snake Valley, surging madly toward Li Wanqing, Zhao Zhenshan, and the other three. Among them were plenty of Qi and Blood Great Demons measuring several zhang, or even over ten zhang long!

"Breath of Ice!"

Li Wanqing’s expression hardened as her body radiated a freezing aura. Ice formed beneath her feet, freezing everything in her path. As she cracked her Spirit Snake Whip, all the venomous snakes within several zhang were instantly frozen to death. Even a massive, vibrantly colored python—seven or eight zhang long and as thick as a barrel—had more than half its body frozen when struck by the Spirit Snake Whip, shattering like a block of ice.

A Snake Demon comparable to the Qi and Blood Tiger Realm was instantly killed in a single blow!

"Captain Li! Leave these Snake Demons to us! Conserve your Qi and Blood to deal with Li Tianyi!" Zhao Zhenshan shouted deeply.

To escape the collapsing mountainside, Li Wanqing had continuously deflected falling boulders and unleashed her sealed Sword Qi to carry the five of them out. She had already consumed a massive amount of Qi and Blood. If she continued to exert herself like this, the toll would be too great, even though she was the personal disciple of a Demon Suppression General and a top-tier expert at the Qi and Blood like a Dragon stage. Even with Qi and Blood like a Dragon, as long as one hadn’t opened their Qi Veins to connect with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, their Qi and Blood reserves, no matter how profound, were ultimately limited.

With that said, Zhao Zhenshan’s own Qi and Blood erupted.

BOOM!

A continuous dragon’s roar echoed as the spiraling, razor-sharp light from his spear flared over a zhang long. While he admitted he wasn’t Li Wanqing’s equal, clearing out these mere grunts with his Dragon Roar Spear was a trivial matter.

Chen Sheying drew the Long Saber from his waist. Its cold edge gleamed like snow as it unleashed a blade aura several zhang long, cleaving an incoming Qi and Blood Realm Snake Demon in two. Lin Jianqing and Zhang Shun were also consumed by fury, brandishing their Battle Saber and longsword. Frost-like Sword Qi and bursting blade light swept through vast swaths of the snake swarm.

Inside the narrow confines of the mountain belly, they hadn’t dared to unleash too much power. But now, out in the open where the surging snakes were ten times denser than inside, they naturally held nothing back.

"Alright!"

Li Wanqing didn’t waste words. She glanced at the tide of red-eyed snakes swarming over the hills and fields, then looked back at the four men behind her. There were simply too many snakes in Snake Valley. Even after killing a batch and sacrificing another in the mountain belly, over thirty Qi and Blood Realm Great Demons still remained. The Enlightened Snake Demons below the Qi and Blood Realm numbered nearly a thousand. As for ordinary venomous snakes, they were innumerable!

Wiping them all out was almost impossible.

After the continuous intense battles, Zhao Zhenshan, Chen Sheying, and Zhang Shun were still faring decently. Lin Jianqing, however, was deathly pale, his face tinged with an ashen grey. The blade Li Tianyi had used to pierce him was clearly coated in a potent poison. Even after taking an Antitoxic Pill, he was only barely suppressing it. Given enough time, the poison would inevitably flare up.

Their only option was to kill Li Tianyi!

Yet, charging through was easier said than done. The completely ink-green Snake King, fifteen zhang in length, charged at them with a deafening roar. Atop its head were two prominent bulges—it was a Great Demon comparable to the Qi and Blood like a Dragon stage, on the verge of transforming into a Flood Dragon! Trailing behind it were five slightly smaller blood-red pythons. Though they hadn’t yet reached the Qi and Blood like a Dragon stage, their sheer massive Demon Fiend bodies made killing them no easy feat!

This was troublesome!

Feeling that over half her Qi and Blood was already depleted, Li Wanqing’s expression darkened. She could only watch helplessly as Li Tianyi dashed into the palace.

But the next moment...

"Damn it!"

Li Tianyi, who had just reached the black palace, let out a furious roar. He struck the structure with his sword, his face entirely twisted in rage! The black palace was actually still protected by a thin Spiritual Energy Shield! Although it flickered unsteadily under his assault and seemed ready to vanish at any moment, it hadn’t shattered.

"All your schemes have come to nothing! Li Tianyi, you’re still going to die!" A hint of mockery broke through Li Wanqing’s icy expression.

"Hmph! You’re celebrating too soon. I’ll just have to kill you first before taking the treasure! This Array is already broken; this is merely the last remnant of its power."

With a contorted face and eyes brimming with madness, Li Tianyi whipped his head around. His emaciated body appeared to have shifting lumps moving beneath the skin.

Li Wanqing was about to say something when she suddenly looked up at the distant sky. It wasn’t just her. Li Tianyi, Zhao Zhenshan, Chen Sheying, Zhang Shun, Lin Jianqing, and even the vast hordes of Snake Demons turned their gaze toward the distant sky.

SCREECH...

Deep, resonant cries that could pierce metal and crack stone echoed from the faraway sky, vibrating with raw power. A full twenty-eight Black Thorn Eagles, each with a wingspan exceeding two zhang, shrieked as they furiously flapped their wings, flying straight toward Snake Valley. Their terrifying aura sent ripples of panic through the vast numbers of venomous snakes below.

RUMBLE...

The ground trembled as if caught in an earthquake. Roars and howls erupted from the distant jungle. Five Profound Armor Barbarian Bears, standing nearly five meters tall at the shoulder, charged out, closely followed by a massive swarm of Rapid Insects. They barrelled straight into Snake Valley.

They were invincible!

Like primordial Fierce Beasts, the Profound Armor Barbarian Bears smashed a bloody path through the tide of snakes. The bladed arms of the Rapid Insects slashed frantically, sending the flesh and blood of ordinary venomous snakes and even Enlightened Snake Demons flying in all directions. On the outskirts of the valley, Qi and Blood Realm Snake Demons, seven or eight zhang long, roared furiously. Relying on their formidable strength and shrouded in a bloody mist, they lunged at the Insect Swarm.

A Profound Armor Barbarian Bear roared as its massive body slammed forward. In the next instant, the Snake Demon was sent flying backward. It was then heavily trampled beneath the bear’s feet.

The Rapid Insects swarmed over it. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Rapid Insects crawled all over the Qi and Blood Snake Demon’s body. Bladed arms blurred in motion. The protective bloody mist around the Snake Demon shattered almost instantly. Its Scale Armor and flesh were shredded to pieces.

The combat power unleashed by a clustered Insect Swarm was far beyond what one or two Rapid Insects could achieve. The greater their numbers, the more terrifying they became!

Charge! Charge!

The amassed swarm charged madly, slaughtering everything in its path.

"What is that? Friendly forces?" Zhao Zhenshan looked at Li Wanqing, his eyes filled with shock and confusion.

However, Li Wanqing also shook her head. Although these charging War Beasts were only at the Bone Forging Realm, their combat prowess was terrifyingly high, capable of instantly killing even Qi and Blood Realm Snake Demons. The Flying War Beasts circling above, though merely hovering, possessed a ferocious appearance and exuded an intimidating aura that struck fear into their hearts.

What shocked them even more was that atop one of the Flying War Beasts stood a human figure. Even from a thousand meters away, with their keen eyesight, they could still clearly see that it was a handsome youth in black armor, wielding a Longbow!

Could this be Li Wanqing’s reinforcements?

"I don’t know!" Li Wanqing slowly shook her head, her pale green vertical pupils equally filled with astonishment and doubt.

Only Zhang Shun reacted differently. His voice was dry as he stared at the Rapid Insects and the young man in the sky, speaking in disbelief.

"I think... these are indeed reinforcements!

"That young man is Qin Yu of the Qin Family, the one I told you about before!"