Chapter 1149: The Mutation of the Green Serpent

Boom!

Violent energy fluctuations surged among the grand, gloomy cluster of palaces, and an intense great battle erupted almost in an instant.

Top students like Feng Lingyuan and Wang Kong directly joined forces to hold off the "Blood Coffin Man," while the remaining students were also doing their utmost to block the other Black Coffin Men.

But the green-black giant serpent that had suddenly charged into the field took the opportunity to tear straight through everyone's defensive line, then shot toward Li Luo in the rear at astonishing speed.

Several students along the way tried to intercept it, but they were all blasted coughing up blood and sent retreating by the surging waves of frigid energy that came howling in.

The energy fluctuations emanating from the green-black giant serpent's massive body were terrifyingly beyond everyone's imagination.

"Wei Chonglou, block it!"

Li Hongyi, seeing the green-black giant serpent pounce straight toward Li Luo's position, also showed a trace of anxiety in her eyes, but she still had to attend to Feng Lingyuan's side, so she could only shout at Wei Chonglou, who was positioned behind the defensive line.

Hearing that shout, Wei Chonglou's expression couldn't help but shift. He stared at the green-black giant serpent howling toward him, and at the top of the giant serpent's head, a graceful woman's silhouette seemed to faintly appear—only half of that figure was submerged into the serpent's head, as if the two had fused together, looking bizarre to the extreme.

"Such powerful energy fluctuations!" A trace of dread surfaced in Wei Chonglou's eyes. This bizarre green-black giant serpent seemed no weaker than the Blood Coffin Man from before. How could he possibly block it alone?

And all for the sake of protecting a Li Luo.

For Li Luo, to fight a mysterious, powerful enemy to the death?

A dark shade flashed through Wei Chonglou's eyes. Then, gritting his teeth, his figure actually took the initiative to dodge aside from the green-black giant serpent, exposing Li Luo behind him.

"You can't blame me for this! I can't block it either!" Wei Chonglou said in his heart.

Then he looked again at the green-black giant serpent howling toward him and muttered, "Go find him!"

Only, as he stepped aside, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to sense that the graceful figure atop the green-black giant serpent had cast a glance his way.

Within that gaze, a cold killing intent seemed to flow out.

This made Wei Chonglou pause for a moment. I cleared the path for you and you're still not satisfied? Must be an illusion—where in the world would there be such a strange creature?

But just as this thought flashed through his mind, the howling green-black giant serpent suddenly made a turn, its massive body wrapped in rolling frigid energy, like a ten-thousand-li Heihe spanning the horizon, and slammed viciously into him.

The tremendous pressure of energy swept over him, and Wei Chonglou's hair instantly stood on end. He couldn't help wanting to curse out loud—why is this damned thing coming at him instead of going after Li Luo?

Wei Chonglou didn't dare be careless. With a sharp howl, his crimson "Celestial Phenomenon Diagram," blazing like a sea of fire, manifested. In the next instant, a giant flaming palm roared forth and collided head-on with the charging green-black giant serpent.

Boom!

Violent energy fluctuations ravaged outward.

The giant flaming palm was almost instantly swallowed by the surging frigid energy, and Wei Chonglou's figure was sent flying back in a wretched state, coughing up fresh blood as he crashed into a Zuodadian. The palace collapsed with a rumble, reduced to rubble that buried him.

After only a few breaths, however, Wei Chonglou crawled out from beneath the rubble. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stared in shock and fury at the green-black giant serpent that, after sending him flying, had only now begun to charge toward Li Luo. He was so furious he nearly vomited blood.

Because at the moment of the earlier collision, he seemed to faintly hear a cold voice say: "A useless person who can't even protect his companion might as well be dead."

Wei Chonglou nearly couldn't stop himself from cursing out loud. You half-human, half-ghost monster, and you're lecturing me about righteousness?

What damned bad luck!

The green-black giant serpent paid no heed to his feelings. After briefly dealing with Wei Chonglou, its massive body shot forth and directly caught up with Li Luo, who was rapidly retreating.

At this moment, Li Luo's expression was also extremely ugly.

Because his condition was also extremely bad. The evil aura that had suddenly erupted in his left arm left him unable to spare attention for the outside; he could only mobilize all his phase power to suppress the invading evil aura.

So right now, his combat strength was completely suppressed, and even his consciousness was beginning to blur.

But that bizarre green-black giant serpent was charging straight at him, and that terrifying energy fluctuation was clearly not friendly.

Running again now was impossible.

A decisive glint flashed through Li Luo's eyes. He stopped retreating and instead dropped straight down toward a plaza below. His feet hit the ground, and the entire surface was continuously cracking apart under the tremendous impact.

He stared at the green-black giant serpent howling toward him, already prepared to unleash every last trump card. If it truly came down to it, he could only awaken the slumbering "Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf." As for whether its fierce, baleful energy would trigger an evil-aura invasion—that was no longer within Li Luo's considerations.

The green-black giant serpent, wrapped in sky-filling frigid energy, howled as it dove down.

Behind them, the Blood Coffin Man, who was locked in fierce combat with Feng Lingyuan and the others, saw this and shouted in great delight: "Green Serpent, shatter that kid's body and take his left arm!"

Boom!

The green-black giant serpent howled down, its hideous serpent maw opening wide, and in one gulp it swallowed Li Luo whole. Then the giant serpent whipped around, transforming into a streak of black light as it fled into the distance.

The green-black giant serpent's sudden departure directly stunned the Blood Coffin Man. Then, as if understanding something, he flew into a rage: "Green Serpent, you dare steal my 'True Demon Embryo Egg'!"

"I will kill you!"

The Blood Coffin Man roared. His eyes instantly turned blood-red, and a frenzy of evil aura ravaged out from within his body. His already hideous and terrifying frame swelled once more, transforming into a giant over a dozen zhang tall.

Boom!

He threw a punch, like a meteor falling, and sent Wang Kong flying thousands of zhang away with a single blow.

Although the attacks from Feng Lingyuan and the others that landed on his body tore open hideous wounds, the flesh squirmed and repaired them in the blink of an eye.

But now the Blood Coffin Man could no longer be bothered with Feng Lingyuan and them. He could not tolerate that half of the True Demon Embryo Egg falling into the Green Serpent's hands. So he stamped his foot, the ground collapsed, and his figure hurriedly pursued in the direction the green-black giant serpent had fled.

Thus the original fierce battle instantly descended into chaos once more.

The green-black giant serpent was extremely fast. Moments later, it darted into a Zuodadian, opened its maw, and spat Li Luo out.

Li Luo was on full alert, suppressing the evil aura in his left arm while also preparing to erupt into action at any moment.

However, just as Li Luo was thinking about how to fight for his life, from within the giant serpent's maw before him, a slender jade hand suddenly reached out. The jade hand gripped a sharp venomous fang, and then a graceful figure stepped out from the shadows of the serpent's maw.

At the same time, a verdant Green Serpent Staff also appeared within Li Luo's line of sight.

He stared at that familiar Green Serpent Staff and was instantly stunned.

Immediately after, an even more familiar voice, carrying a faint trace of a smile, drifted into his ears.

"I say, it's only been a short while, how did you end up in such a wretched state?"

As the voice arrived, a face wearing a half-green-serpent mask came into Li Luo's view.

Li Luo stared at the half-concealed face, then glanced at the Green Serpent Staff. His eyes suddenly widened, and a somewhat shocked, involuntary cry rang out in the vast, deathly silent Zuodadian.

"Ling… Cousin Li Lingjing?!"