Chapter 40: Everyone Shocked!

Inside the courtyard, a silence as deathly as a grave.

Everyone's gaze, due to this sudden shocking change, converged upon that black giant snake that had originally been lying on the ground, motionless!

Ning Chuan... Ning Chuan actually spoke human words?!

That cold and majestic voice, like a thunderclap, exploded in everyone's ears, causing their brains to fall into a brief blank.

A snake, can speak?!

This already exceeded the scope of cognition for all of them!

After a moment of shock, an indescribable ecstasy instantly burst forth in the eyes of Qu Lingfeng, Lu Chengfeng, and the others!

They never expected that this snake brother had hidden so deeply!

He not only was not poisoned, but moreover... could speak!

What does this mean?

This means that they perhaps... still have a chance!

Huang Rong's small mouth also gaped slightly, her beautiful eyes wide open; although she had long known that Brother Ning Chuan could speak, hearing it with her own ears at this moment still made her feel immense shock and excitement.

Brother Chuan is finally going to make his move!

In stark contrast to the joy of Qu Lingfeng and the others, Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng's faces were filled with horror and disbelief!

"You... you demon snake! Actually... actually not poisoned?!"

Mei Chaofeng screamed in a lost voice, her voice becoming sharp and piercing due to extreme fear.

She could never believe that the Ten Fragrance Softening Sinew Powder she had carefully prepared, a strange poison capable of felling even Innate Realm experts, was actually ineffective against this snake?!

Chen Xuanfeng wore a sneering smile on his face, but that smile carried a hint of boldness masking inner cowardice.

He forced calmness and shouted sternly: "Junior Sister, do not panic! Even if this demon snake still has some strength left, it must be little! It is surely pretending to be a god or ghost, bluffing! You and I join hands, kill it, and cut off future troubles!"

Subconsciously, they still believed that even if Brother Ning Chuan could resist part of the poison, his strength must be greatly reduced, and thus not worth fearing.

After all, in their eyes, no matter how miraculous Brother Ning Chuan was, he was ultimately a beast; how could he compare to them, Innate Realm experts who had cultivated superior Wu Gong?

Hearing this, Mei Chaofeng's fear in her heart decreased slightly, replaced by boundless anger and killing intent.

She was after all a true disciple of Taohuadao, and now possessed a cultivation base of the first turn of the Innate Realm; how could she fear a snake?!

"Demon! Accept death!"

Mei Chaofeng cried out sharply, her innate true qi exploding instantly within her body; her figure moved like lightning, both palms striking out together, exactly one of Taohuadao's supreme arts, the Splitting Air Palm!

The sharp palm winds, carrying a piercing whistle that tore through the air, like two invisible blades, fiercely struck at Brother Ning Chuan's huge head!

She wanted to completely blast and kill this demon snake that dared to obstruct her good deeds and had made her feel fear.

However, facing this full-power strike of Mei Chaofeng's, which had condensed ten percent of her strength and was confident enough to split stones and crack mountains.

In Brother Ning Chuan's pair of cold, dark snake eyes, a thick disdain and mockery flashed.

He did not even bother to dodge.

That snake tail, carrying terrifying force and innate true qi, like a black lightning bolt, arrived after being launched yet before the opponent, directly meeting Mei Chaofeng's extremely sharp pair of palms!

"Boom!!!"

A dull, drum-beating-like loud noise exploded violently in the silent courtyard!

Mei Chaofeng felt a mighty, irresistible, terrifying power, like a mountain collapsing and a sea surging, coming from the opponent's snake tail!

Her body-protecting true qi, in the face of this unmatched power, was as fragile as thin paper; it could not resist for even a single breath before being instantly shattered!

Immediately after, that rough, domineering, unmatched great force fiercely struck her two arms!

"Crack! Crack!"

The crisp sound of bones shattering was clearly audible, making one's scalp go numb!

Mei Chaofeng let out a terribly piercing scream; her whole body, like being hit by a carriage moving at high speed, had her arms twisted in an unnatural, eerie way; blood spurted wildly from her mouth, and like a kite with a broken string, she was fiercely slapped away, falling heavily onto the ground several zhang away, kicking up a cloud of dust!

Brother Ning Chuan is now of the Innate Realm, and the true qi cultivated within his body is the Black Water Black Snake True Qi, which is more domineering and pure than ordinary innate true qi!

Plus his physical body strength, which has been strengthened several times and already far surpasses same-rank strange beasts, and is even more terrifying than some body-refining martial artists!

The two combined, their power so strong that it is far beyond what a martial artist like Mei Chaofeng, who merely just entered the Innate Realm, could resist!

If Brother Ning Chuan had not held back seven-tenths of his force at the last moment, using only three-tenths, this one tail strike would have been enough to slap Mei Chaofeng directly into a mush of blurred flesh!