Chapter 304: Second Chapter

Twelve dragon-python-like shadows.

Clinging, twisting, lazy, ferocious.

All facing them standing in the middle of the jade disk.

"... What is this thing." Li Piaoqing's throat was dry, "This kind of thing... how to..."

"It's okay." Seeing Pei Ye tightened his grip on her hand, but did not look back. He kept looking at the top of the high platform and said softly, "Take care of yourself."

Those clouds and fog surged even more violently, and the things inside were indeed gradually waking up.

If it were the person taking the edict, they should have left this secret realm long ago, but they were assassins who came to face the tyrant directly.

Without the etiquette of waiting for greetings after waking up, the first time the sword momentum was accumulated, Seeing Pei Ye swept up!

Ignoring the fine tips surrounding from the bamboo forest behind, he went straight to the top of the high platform covered by thick fog.

No matter what it was, the boy was never afraid of facing it directly.

His upward sweep seemed to startle the Divine Child faster. In the chaos of clouds, two long tentacles as thick as a waist suddenly sprang away from the high platform, breaking through the fog and piercing out.

Its color was not consistent. Inside was gorgeous ghostly blue fluorescent light, but the scales were noble black-purple. Seeing Pei Ye saw these long tentacles for the first time, but unlike the young girl who gasped in shock behind, he was not entirely unfamiliar with such things.

In the cellar of Feng Huai, in the Xincang bug fighting, the seed that drilled into his abdomen from the top of the "Dragon Tongue" always used sharp long tentacles to suck the food dry, and he would never forget this blackness lingering with ghostly fire—if it were lingering with lightning, it would be exactly the same as the appearance of Him walking alone into the city.

It was just that the tentacles in the Dragon Tongue were cold and sharp, without tough scales on them, and the ends were not this smooth and tapering.

Now, this tentacle of unknown length was truly like a strange dragon, fast as a hurricane, powerful as a thunderbolt. The distance of more than ten zhang passed in the blink of an eye, and one strike would shatter the boy's body.

Seeing Pei Ye focused his eyes and raised his sword, and with the other hand, he pressed on the sword box, and the flowing light suddenly clanged out.

Even though it was far away in Xincang, it was after all not as far as the two thousand li of Tianshan on that day. This was still the strongest power in Seeing Pei Ye's hand at this time, just stepping on the threshold of the Mystic Gate.

This sword was mighty as soon as it left the box, sweeping away several zhang of white fog, but it did not meet the surging tentacles.

Seeing Pei Ye did not use it to provide any guarantee for his own safety. He pointed with his fingers, and the flowing light swept directly toward the high platform throne!

The next moment, the equally mighty long tentacles pierced through. Seeing Pei Ye retracted his arms and twisted his body, narrowly missing it. The wild wind stirred up made his hair flutter and his clothes messy.

Seeing Pei Ye held the hilt tightly with one hand and supported the sword body with the other, pressing the sharp blade of Shanyu on the tentacle that flew past him.

Metal clashed with a sharp sound, and brilliant sparks exploded in groups. In an instant, Seeing Pei Ye felt as if he had been hit by a mountain, his arms were injured and shaken, and his posture in the air was suddenly messy.

But in this dark swallowing of blood, Seeing Pei Ye still gritted his teeth and supported all his strength and true Qi on the sword. Everything was collapsing, only Shanyu seemed to be welded stably. The sword blade pressed against the roaring long tentacles, pressing down with all his might.

Only after one breath, the metal clashing sound suddenly turned into a sound of cutting leather, and ghostly blue blood exploded in the air. The long sword had already cut into it by nearly half.

Seeing Pei Ye confirmed that there were indeed no bones in this thing. The blood splashed on his face, only staining his skin for a moment, then quickly seeped under the skin, turning into a new support for Shanyu in his hand.

Encountering injury, the long tentacles immediately sprang away, bypassed a sharp circle, and returned, remotely wrapping the boy in the center.

Another tentacle had already risen from below.

Seeing Pei Ye glanced down, fell on the mountainside of the high platform, and wiped the residual blood on the sword body from top to bottom with his fingers.

Once again facing this kind of enemy whose strength could not be defined by human realms.

No true Qi, only vast and irresistible power, tough scales that were hard to break, twelve long bodies more than ten zhang long... Seeing Pei Ye's only certainty was that even if he tried his best, he might not be able to cut off such a tentacle.

【Bingle】 also failed to take effect as desired.

Unlike when facing Yi Nandai, at that time Yi Nandai was still alive and kicking, but as soon as Seeing Pei Ye pressed on his body, the dragon meat in his body melted and poured out, flowing toward him without any resistance. This was exactly the same as when 【Dragon Tongue】 ate people—after humans were alienated into frost ghosts, they did not need to be killed. As long as the Dragon Tongue pierced into the body, they could be sucked dry.

The 【Bingle】 mirror of the Dragon Tongue was also supposed to be like this.

But in fact, there was an exception that Seeing Pei Ye knew.

—"The consciousness of the 'food' has not disappeared, so Bingle cannot enjoy it first." Only when facing the Immortal Lord.

And the contact with these tentacles could not make him swallow this thing directly... its consciousness should be of the same status as the Immortal Lord.

But at the same time, Seeing Pei Ye also believed that he was not truly facing the Immortal Lord—otherwise, those blood droplets that left the body would have turned into countless sharp spikes piercing his body, and there would never be any chance of survival.

The next moment, two tentacles wrapped around from above, below, left, and right again.

The long bloodstain that the long sword had just cut was now completely gone. The injury seemed unable to bring it any influence. It was another roaring and irresistible momentum. Following its complete awakening, its speed and power went up a level again.

And on the jade disk, the young girl and the black cat also encountered the first wave of attacks. Two long tentacles pierced vertically and horizontally. The black cat had turned into a Chi shape, and Li Piaoqing's figure was floating, but the sword blade was difficult to leave an effective enough injury on the tentacles.

"Jade Jade Sword" was not a sword technique written to deal with this kind of thing.

Seeing Pei Ye withdrew his gaze. The roaring wind came again. He set up a stable sword frame again, but his heart and lungs tightened when he was about to take it—this was definitely not a power he could face head-on.

The control power that was perfect to the peak appeared here again. Seeing Pei Ye pressed his long sword against this dragon-python body, nimbly borrowed strength to swing up, but the next moment this tentacle turned around and wrapped, and another tentacle also arrived at his body in the air.

This was truly like intersecting and winding tree roots, woven into a suffocating cage. The boy could neither break this tough scale meat nor escape the twisting and horizontal shape. It was truly nowhere to escape.

And at this critical moment, Seeing Pei Ye did nothing, but tilted his head to look at the top of the high platform.

There, Zhanxin Liuli, sweeping like a startled swan, pierced the white fog from bottom to top, creating a huge hole. Just like Zhuan Zhu stabbing before the steps, behind the white fog, the figure sitting on the high platform had been forced out of a vague shape.

It was much smaller than Seeing Pei Ye imagined.

A slender body, approximate human shape, with head, shoulders, and waist, but no legs, and the body size was only slightly larger than a normal human, even more slender than the tentacles extending from under it.

It sat there straight, motionless, like ancient silence, but around it, the white fog surged, and the mighty flowing light swept up. All the clinging and lazy tentacles suddenly rose like predators, and dragon shadows crisscrossed in the air.

Facing this sword, the purple forest high platform suddenly changed and rioted.

Seeing Pei Ye's gaze calmly pierced through everything, reaching the top of the final end.

Zhanxin Liuli went straight to its forehead.

The remaining eight tentacles all rushed back, sealing the sword path of this sword.

Seeing Pei Ye withdrew his gaze, but did not care about being trapped at all. He twisted his waist and exerted his arms, and a sword 【Broken Leaf Returning Waves】 exploded a ghostly blue blood wave on the tentacle.

This was indeed a sword with all his might. After this strike, let alone escaping from this bundled cage, even the second tentacle that came to strangle him, he had no strength to deal with.

That heavy toughness pressed from behind. Seeing Pei Ye's arms were shaken and lost strength. He twisted his eyes, the sword light returned to the scabbard, and he placed it horizontally in front of his chest.

The next moment, his back was pushed and hit by huge force against the scabbard, and a mouthful of blood was sprayed out. But Shanyu had become a bone born horizontally for him. In its unbearable trembling sound, Seeing Pei Ye was able to temporarily avoid the fate of being strangled inch by inch.

This was of course drinking poison to quench thirst. The long sword could not be unsheathed, the body could not move, only true Qi could continue his life. Death was just the ending after a moment.

And in such a situation, Seeing Pei Ye held the hilt, but his gaze was still not on himself, but suddenly cast into the air a few zhang away.

Where he focused his eyes. On the purple bamboo, in the white fog, violent flames suddenly exploded from the void, submerging a tentacle returning to the high platform in the blink of an eye.

Seeing Pei Ye left three dragon shadows alone.

The remaining seven had sealed Zhanxin Liuli's path of entry.

Zhanxin Liuli did not dodge at all. Cloud-white true Qi lingered on the sword body, and it hit it straight!

In an instant, scales flew and blood surged. The clouds and fog stirred up ripples of several zhang in the air. The entire sword body of Zhanxin Liuli sank into the forest formed by scale bodies. The trunk, branches, and leaves were messily shredded. It was indeed the most mighty strike so far.

But it still could not rush out from the other side.

The Divine Child's forehead was right there, but the winding tentacles had already firmly blocked it.

The clouds and fog in front were completely driven away by this sword. The Divine Child still sat motionless, lowering its eyebrows to look at them. Its face was also human-like. Under the scales, there was a special handsomeness. In a trance, one could even capture the expression that flashed by, as if sad, and as if peaceful.

But it was just an old shadow that flashed by, "Feast come." It said indifferently.

Li Piaoqing had already swept up from the bottom of the platform, the black Chi behind dragging two tentacles, and she rushed straight toward Seeing Pei Ye who was trapped by the Divine Child.

But it was still a step late. As the Divine Child's voice fell, the long tentacles binding Seeing Pei Ye suddenly retracted. In an instant, the boy who had no power to resist was sent before the Divine Child.

Seeing Pei Ye was motionless, as if completely still, looking down at this magical creation within reach.

Jade-like and gold-like scales, gorgeous crimson-gold vertical pupils, every line outlining the body was so handsome, it was like a sharp sword born of heaven, and like an elf covered in scales.

And outside them, dragon shadows danced wildly, blocking everything outside.

Seeing Pei Ye finally confirmed the source of everything at this time.

The vast and high will, the perception like truth and illusion, the poisonous flame pressing the mind... all came from the thing in front of him.

That was indeed His will, but this will had no consciousness. It was naturally emitted, sowing toward all places where purple bamboo grew.

The dragon body tightened again, Shanyu made an unbearable wail, and Seeing Pei Ye was like a bird strangled by the throat, suffocating and speechless in it.

The Divine Child did not have the idea of necessarily strangling him. It looked at the boy who could not move in front of it and gently opened its thin, sharp lips.

More than ten dragon tongues surged out like lotus flowers.

For it, this was not an enemy that must be killed, but a feast just offered.

Under the high platform, the green-clothed young girl was rushing up with her sword regardless of everything, but she could see nothing. The pervasive dragon shadows blocked all her field of vision and routes. And on the other side, Zhanxin Liuli finally swept out from the residual scales and blood waves, turned around, and stirred up fog and wind again, killing toward the Divine Child.

Those broken tentacles were also repairing at the fastest speed, but the severely damaged parts could not recover in the blink of an eye. The original seven tentacles that could block Zhanxin Liuli might now have leaks.

And every sword of Zhanxin Liuli would not diminish.

At this time, the fully awakened Divine Child glanced at the young girl below indifferently, and actually retracted the two tentacles that were chasing.

It clearly identified the only thing in the audience that was a threat to it.

Ten dragon shadows coiled into a wall of scale bodies before its throne, completely cutting off the feast and the enemy.

Like two worlds.

It had indeed reached the time limit for the feast. The previous heart-mind had been about to be obliterated. As the Listening to the Edict Child, it had waited too long for the new successor.

The dragon tongue bloomed and stabbed toward the boy who could not move.

And outside the scale wall, Li Piaoqing gritted her teeth and slashed at it with all her strength, but apart from two blood waves, nothing could be shaken.

But the next moment, the flying sword hit the center of this wall with a bang!

The stirred-up airflow almost knocked the young girl over. The scale wall collapsed and shook, and the fog stirred up several zhang.

Zhanxin Liuli had truly tried its best. Its momentum of piercing everything was unstoppable. The sword shadow like flowing light sank into the sea of scales, stirring up waves like collapse.

But in the end, it still stagnated in the sea.

The clear sword tip had already pierced out, but the eleventh dragon shadow peeled off from Seeing Pei Ye's body and blocked it.

Eleven dragon pythons rubbed their scales and strangled tightly. Zhanxin Liuli was completely strangled inside.

And behind this wall, the dragon tongue pierced into Seeing Pei Ye's body in an instant.

All disturbances were blocked. On the quiet fog high platform, no one could disturb them anymore.

The boy with sharp objects entering his body opened his eyes.

Stared straight at this strange face in front of him.

From the time the body completely collapsed into silence until now, a considerable period of time had passed.

Seeing Pei Ye knew this was a sacrificial feast. The so-called "... close your eyes tightly, let it swallow, wait for it to eat at least fifteen jin of bones and flesh, then open your eyes to face it." The Divine Child did not kill the person who entered the realm, but swallowed it.

Seeing Pei Ye had also looked at it with his eyes condensed just now. These twelve tentacles were only arm-like things. Their tips did not have sharp hardness, nor did they have the ability to turn a person into liquid food from afar.

If the Divine Child wanted to feast, it could only bring the food to its front.

He accepted the binding calmly.

Just now he dragged three dragon shadows for Zhanxin Liuli, and now Zhanxin Liuli dragged eleven dragon shadows for him.

Thus, the assassin was able to come before the emperor who was alone.

The snowy plains of the high mountains that had not changed for thousands of years seemed to have never been stepped on by any living creature since they existed.

Now, in this complete silence, a whistling sound suddenly rang out from nowhere, distant as if at the edge of the sky, and as if under his feet. No matter where he flew, it was becoming more roaring.

Only in the panic of having nowhere to place his mind did he realize that the whole world was collapsing and roaring.

The huge white brought the shadow that covered the sky.

The loose and paralyzed body suddenly tightened, and the sound of unsheathing rang through the high platform.

The tentacles that tightly bound the boy's body snapped instantly, and blood scales drifted like rain.

Seeing Pei Ye spat out a lot of blood himself, and in the splashing of blood and ghostly blue, he pierced the forehead of the thing in front of him with one sword.

"Snow Collapse" Second Chapter: 【Coming and Going】.

But there was no roar or stiffness. The Divine Child slowly raised its eyebrows to look at him, a pair of golden vertical pupils calm and silent, bright as day.

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