Chapter 397

The giant snake's neck was several meters thick, ferocious like a heaven-propping fiend.

Liang Qu was bold and fearless; his true Qi circulated, and a green dragon coiled up from the spear tip. A white ape appeared behind him, holding a dragon-coiled pillar. Amidst a roar, he and Liang Qu swung the pillar down fiercely together!

Internal energy surged wildly, and the waves exploded.

Clang!

Fubo whistled, the tungsten-gold long blade tearing out a white vapor trail like silk. The dragon-coiled pillar smashed down from the air, blasting out a lotus of water spray.

The giant snake suddenly poked out from the murky mist. Just as its old strength had passed and its new strength had yet to be unleashed, it instinctively pushed off the water to dodge. Who would have thought that the surrounding water would churn up a massive amount of bubbles, causing the power of its water-pushing to vanish by more than half in an instant!

In the blink of an eye, the true steel and the spiritual weapon both collided with the snake scales, emitting a harsh sound of clashing metal.

The giant snake had nowhere to hide and wanted to forcefully withstand the offensive, swallowing the despicable villain who used tricks in one gulp.

Who would have expected that after a clear sound, the long spear's green light swirled, actually slicing through skin and flesh, boring straight into the giant snake's skull!

Shattered bone fragments splattered everywhere, the broken surface was a mess of scarlet. The white ape held the pillar, and endless true Qi blasted into the wound, invading it.

Heart-piercing pain!

Accompanied by an extremely suppressed low roar, the giant snake raised its head and bellowed, and the blood mist exploded and scattered!

The Dragon-men in the distance saw it clearly; there was distinctly a shocking spear mark sliced open from the snake's head, forcefully pushing against the white bone, cutting open a zhang of skin and flesh!

Worthy of being the reincarnation of the Long Jun; even as a human, he is this fierce!

Liang Qu coiled his long spear, the red tassel flying, flashing to the wound on the giant snake's waist and abdomen, turning around to slash again!

Fubo had completely digested the essence of the Redfire Bird. Even if his strength was insufficient, with such a divine weapon, how could a snake demon block it?

The giant snake endured the intense pain and the chaotic feeling of its water-pushing being powerless, rolling its body to barely avoid the wound on its waist and abdomen. While swimming, its long tail smashed down fiercely.

The vortex swept up, and Liang Qu brushed past it to dodge.

For a time, it was like a wild dragon passing through the water, with mud and filth churning.

Relying on his control of the water flow and Fubo's sharpness, Liang Qu's figure flickered and dodged, entangled in a fight with the giant snake. Both sides went back and forth, turning into two blurred light shadows of green and white, attacking each other.

However, just as the fierce battle was at its peak, the giant snake, which had gained several wounds in a few breaths, suddenly contracted its body, coiling like a mountain. It did not dodge or avoid Liang Qu's attacks, opened its snake maw, and sprayed out rolling green mist!

The green mist churned, and a needle-like sense of danger surged into his heart.

Liang Qu quickly retreated from the encirclement, tapped his tongue against his mouthguard, swallowed an antidote pill and a Yuan-increasing pill, and opened and closed his five fingers. He originally wanted to control the poisonous mist to make it backflow into the giant snake's wound, adding fuel to the fire, but who would have expected that where the poisonous mist permeated, the surrounding water flow would lose all control!

Liang Qu was shocked in his heart.

Caught off guard, a long tail tore through the poisonous mist, drawing out a large vacuum underwater, and smashed fiercely into Liang Qu.

Whoosh!

In the eyes of the Dragon-man brothers in the distance, they only saw the giant snake's long tail flick, immediately drawing out a blurred black shadow, pulling out a large expanse of white vapor, blasting him dozens of zhang away, smashing fiercely into the river bottom, and kicking up a large expanse of dust and sand.

Not good!

The giant snake's body coiled, wriggling all its muscles, closing the terrifying wound created by the Bursting Spear on its waist, its vertical pupils staring fiercely at the spreading and flying mud and sand, feeling extremely gratified.

Although it didn't know what method the opponent used to manipulate the water flow, causing it to be unable to borrow even half a point of water power, leading to much chaos and frequent bad moves, the realm was a hard wound!

Wherever the poisonous mist in the water permeated, it was all mixed with its Qi!

According to the human martial artist's saying, it was mixed with its "Root." Unless the realm was several levels higher, forcefully using "Root" to crush it, otherwise the opponent would have no way to manipulate the water flow!

A tiny Wolf Smoke martial artist, the "Root" of the two sides was worlds apart!

That strike just now, he would either be dead or injured!

However, before the mud mist could disperse to reveal the battle results, streaks of golden light pierced through the turbidity, illuminating the area with rosy light.

The giant snake's heart sank fiercely.

The wooden token, broken into two halves, passed through the smoke and dust, floating upward shakily.

A golden figure holding a long spear diagonally walked out from the smoke and dust.

Countless golden lights surged into his body, wrapping him into a brilliant golden body. An unprecedented sense of stability surged into his heart, making one immovable like a Vajra.

Even the true Qi great ape holding the dragon pillar, under the shroud of the Qi, also transformed into a ferocious golden ape.

Liang Qu tore off his tattered upper garment, Fubo pointed horizontally at the giant snake, and all over his body, golden light flickered; there was actually not even half a wound!

The carefully planned strike had not achieved a single inch of merit.

The giant snake was extremely furious, staring tightly at the floating token with the residual aura.

Strength is average, but there are many kinds of methods!

Let's see how long your external objects can last!

No nonsense, coiling its body to charge!

Liang Qu did not dodge or avoid, holding the spear with both hands, bullying his way up again!

The green and white figures crossed again, and the dragon roars hissed frequently.

Liang Qu could not control the water to interfere, but he could still rely on the vortex flow refined in his vortex orifices to roam in all directions, crushing the protective token given by the old monk, further boosting his golden body, and facing the giant snake's attack without any fear!

At the same time, "Cannot Move," who was hiding in the distance to avoid the fight between the two sides, finally finished weaving the divine wood brand. Just as it was about to send it out, it heard Liang Qu's order from the link to temporarily accumulate and not move.

Kui Ge looked down at the Great Marsh from top to bottom.

The original milk-like white mist was mixed with a few strands of evil pale green, and there was a trend of it intensifying.

A little bit was affected by the river wind, drifting onto the shore, causing the trees to turn yellow and wither. Fortunately, everyone was on the low mountain.

The common people were terrified in their hearts.

"Why did the fog turn green?"

"What is going on?"

"Master, if my guess is correct, it should be that the giant snake has sprayed poison!"

A Wolf Smoke expert beside Li Xiaoheng cupped his hands to remind him.

The martial artist that the Li family previously sent to join forces with the Zhang family to deal with the spirit monster giant snake was exactly him; how could he not know the methods of those beasts.

Li Xiaoheng nodded slightly, his brows locked tightly.

Zhang Wenhu was not much better, his brows full of worry.

Liu Shiqin's strength was slightly worse, and the distance was too far. He could only perceive the flow of Qi in the water, but could not distinguish the specific prosperity or decline. Not knowing the situation, he looked left and right, feeling anxious.

"Master Zhang, Master Li, why do you have such expressions? What exactly is the situation underwater?"

Zhang Wenhu and Li Xiaoheng looked at each other, nodded slightly, and then both shook their heads.

"Not optimistic."

"This... why is this?"

"There were many auras underwater before, at least seven or eight. Although I don't know if they are human or beast, at the moment, only two are fighting and emitting them, like the scorching sun, colliding with each other. One of them is exactly the one that came from the south by lifting the waves; it is undoubtedly that giant snake.

At first, when large bubbles rose on the water, the giant snake's aura obviously dropped by a notch! Now it is also slowly dropping, while the other one has risen slightly, which can be considered as one falling and the other rising."

"In that case, our side's aura is rising and the opponent's aura is declining, isn't that a good thing?"

"Not so! Magistrate, why is it that when dealing with demon beasts underwater, we try our best to have three against one? Is it because human martial artists are incompetent? Absolutely not!

The root cause is that on land there are only four sides: east, west, south, and north, but underwater there are six sides: east, west, south, north, up, and down! And with environmental blessings, they are fast and we are slow, making it easier for water beasts to escape!

Unless the strength is crushing, otherwise, when our human martial artists face water beasts underwater, one-on-one or two-on-one, they can often only win but not kill! Only by having three against one, in a pincer formation, can we steadily exterminate them!"

Zhang Wenhu added: "At the moment, the aura in the water is indeed one falling and the other rising, but the change is slow, obviously already trapped in a tug-of-war. Even if we can win against the giant snake, how can we kill it?

If we can't kill the giant snake, the crisis in Xiangyi County will not decrease in the slightest. Furthermore, if that giant snake gets anxious, perhaps the situation will become even worse!"

Li Xiaoheng sighed: "I don't know what role Liang Shui Lang played among the many auras, but looking at it now, if no accidents occur, I'm afraid we won't be able to solve the great disaster of Xiangyi!"

Liu Shiqin's face turned pale, full of regret.

No hair on the mouth, things are not done firmly!

I shouldn't have trusted that kid in the first place!

I've been taken for a huge ride by his mother!

White vapor surged, and during the collision, thousands of thin snake streams were squeezed out.

Liang Qu coiled Fubo, the golden light on his body gradually dimming, but he was fighting heartily.

As for forcefully withstanding the giant snake several times, the old monk was too modest.

From the outbreak until now, he had persisted for a full dozen breaths, more than a minute, and had at least forcefully withstood more than a dozen times. The giant snake only had the share of being beaten!

Grandmaster methods are extraordinary!

"Satisfying, satisfying!"

Liang Qu forcefully withstood the giant snake's tail flick and flew out. He spat out his mouthguard, swallowed all the pills in one gulp, and laughed up at the sky.

"You snake demon! Last year in midsummer, I beheaded a green long snake in Pingyang County and distributed the meat to the common people. Its strength was about the same as an initial Great Spirit Monster. Looking at its appearance, it is quite similar to you. Let me ask you, exactly how many snake sons and grandsons do you have?"

"Midsummer! Midsummer! Ah, it's you! So it was you, my youngest son, my youngest son!"

The giant snake's pupils bled, and it raised its head and roared in sorrow.

Hearing the Dragon's order, it sent its second son and third son one after another to the south bank to find the thief. During midsummer, it had palpitations, and in the depth of winter, its second son was injured. It returned to the Great Marsh to call its eldest son to help, but both were captured.

Now......

All three sons have died!

"I want you to die! I want you to die!"

The giant snake rolled its body, looking like a mad demon.

Just at this moment, Liang Qu's protective golden light completely shattered, and his aura dropped sharply.

The giant snake was overjoyed.

However, Liang Qu grinned, the scales on his arm guards surged, pushed out a second small token, pressed his palm down, and snapped it with a crack.

The scorching golden light reappeared!

The white ape's true Qi re-plated its golden fur!

The giant snake stared at the golden light, extremely grief-stricken, but only for a moment.

The giant snake, which had been dancing wildly and going crazy, suddenly restrained its breath, stopped attacking, and instead coiled its body, trying its best to contract and heal its wounds.

It saw it.

The golden light's duration is extremely short!

Let's see how long the thief can last!

The Dragon-man brothers hiding in the distance to watch the battle were very anxious.

What a cunning giant snake!

However, Liang Qu was not in a hurry at all when facing the giant snake that was defending with all its might. He even took the initiative to let go of Fubo, manipulated the vortex to pass the long spear to the side of the fat catfish, and exhaled a chilling hot breath underwater.

"A family of snakes should be neat and tidy!"

The giant snake endured its anger, just about to mock him, when it suddenly felt a hazy aura lingering around the opponent's whole body, and immediately a green light flew from not far away and merged into it.

But that green light was definitely not a key point!

The giant snake's vertical pupils trembled, staring tightly at Liang Qu who was emitting golden light.

Accompanied by the flow of Qi around its body, it seemed that something was pulled out from the water one after another, manifesting into countless white silk ribbons, completely wrapping Liang Qu and forming a large white ball!

Wrong!

An intense sense of danger shrouded the giant snake, and all thoughts in its heart were empty, leaving only one—must not let the opponent succeed!

Will die!

The giant snake swam its body, not caring about the blood spurting from its wounds, flowing out a deep mark and turning into a wild dragon to crash into the white ball, attempting to stop Liang Qu's behavior.

The giant snake opened its snake maw, bit the white ball fiercely, and pushed it forward all the way, plowing out more than a few miles.

However, in just a split second, the giant snake's forward momentum suddenly stalled. Its snake scales opened and closed one by one. Even though it exhausted all its strength and its wounds burst, it still couldn't advance an inch!

The giant snake's heart beat violently, its pupils trembled, and its perspective shifted downward.

A huge white ape several zhang tall came into view!

The white ape stepped on the water, its white fur flying all over, its long arms firmly grabbing its upper and lower jaws.

Eyes met, golden light blasted into its mind, and the instinctive terror of being a subordinate filled the giant snake's heart chamber!

What is this!?

Why, why does it make me so afraid?

Long Jun?

The white ape exhaled a chilling cold breath, suddenly revealing a mocking smile with its canine teeth protruding from its mouth, suddenly hugged the long snake, and threw it fiercely toward the water!

In an instant, a majestic force like moving mountains and driving seas struck, and the pain of its head and body almost being torn apart filled its whole body.

Light and shadow were infinitely blurred.

The giant snake only felt its scales rubbing against the water at high speed, then its body sank suddenly. Within its hazy vision, the sky light was bright, countless water liquid evaporated, bringing a bone-chilling coolness.

Pfft!

Thick fog surged and galloped.

The crowd on the shore raised their heads in unison, collectively losing their voices.

The giant snake, over a hundred zhang long, was forcefully thrown out of the water, flew out of the Great Marsh, pulling out thousands of silk-like white vapors, and cast a large distorted shadow in the sky!

The long wind whistled.

Before the giant snake could fall, another huge white ape jumped from the water, tore through the gale, chased after the panicked giant snake in mid-air, grabbed its long tail, turned its back and threw it fiercely, the force penetrating the snake's body, smashing it down fiercely!

Rumble~~~

The waves of the Great Marsh rose high, and the endless tide collapsed in all directions, overflowing with layer after layer of delicate white foam, layered one upon another!

"White Ape!"

"White Ape God!"

"That is the River God! The River God has come to save us!"

Everyone was stunned.

Liu Shiqin suddenly remembered what Liang Qu said when he left.

Dealing with the snake demon, there is someone else!

So that's it!

So that's it!

Zhang Wenhu and Li Xiaoheng looked up at the sky in unison, their brains blank, and then an indescribable joy surged into their hearts.

The giant snake soaked and sank, with severe pain all over its body. It was thrown into a daze, but before the giant snake could react, the white ape fell like a meteor, jumped into the water from a thousand meters high, and looked down from a high position.

Snake scales exploded!

The white ape opened its arms, blocking the sunlight, casting a cross-shaped shadow on the snake's face.

Endless flood waves surged into the white ape's palms.

Tens of thousands of tons of water flow gathered, condensing into a heaven-propping giant pillar. The white ape hugged the giant pillar, roared loudly, aimed at the snake's head, and blasted straight down!

Thousands of blue waves collapsed into countless turbulent currents, like a white dragon dancing wildly!

The giant snake's pupils shrank into narrow vertical slits, blood-red!

"No......"

Thud!

The giant ape struck the bell.

The snake's eyes turned white.

A transparent ripple rippled out from the vast water bottom, spreading to the endless wilderness. The earth trembled, silt floated, and countless broken water grasses flew.

The white ape's golden eyes were burning, without a moment's rest, it flashed and sank, landed on the giant snake's head, and its hands took turns squeezing out a pale Bai Long spear, like a god throwing thunder, rising and falling suddenly, and a large amount of fresh blood surged.

The ink-green long scales cracked one by one, and a foul, fishy smell surged into the tip of its nose.

The little brother Great Spirit Monster who finally rushed over from a distance saw this, did not dare to stay for even half a point, turned its body, and fled in a hurry.

However, everything could not escape the white ape's perception. With a casual water spear, it flew like thunder, piercing through the entire giant snake!

Don't know how long passed.

Water grass floated to the shore, the leaves covered with dense white foam.

Scattered water birds flew low, pecking at the floating blood threads.

The white fog shrouding the Great Marsh gradually faded.

The shore was bustling with people.

Suddenly someone shouted.

"Over there!"

Everyone looked over.

Only to see two small giants stepping on the earth, dragging a hundred-zhang-long snake, slowly coming ashore!