Chapter 99: The Demon Snake Appears (Second update, please bookmark!)

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Yu Lei returned to Zhuge Qing's side, whispered a few words in a low voice, and then slowly departed.

The young woman nodded slightly, a look of nervousness suddenly appearing on her face. She turned back to look at the remaining six cultivators and said:

"Once the demon snake appears, we must immediately lure it into the 'Xiao Liu Paths Sumeru Great Array'; we must not engage it in battle here!"

Zhang Nuo also stood among the six, nodding solemnly. Yet even now, he still did not understand what method Zhuge Qing intended to use to lure out the two-headed snake!

After arranging everything properly, Zhuge Qing tapped the Storage Bag at her waist with her jade hand. With a flash of light, several blood-colored beads the size of thumbs flew out. These beads were entirely blood-red, and each one emitted a not-insignificant fluctuation of Spirit Power.

With a series of flicks from her jade fingers, the young woman cast several incantations that sank into the beads. In an instant, the several blood-colored beads spun rapidly and all submerged into the 'Black Swamp' before her.

Upon entering the swamp and encountering the blood of the demon beasts floating on the surface, the beads suddenly shone brightly, and with a few muffled 'whoosh' sounds, they burrowed into the depths of the swamp.

After finishing all this, Zhuge Qing retreated rapidly as if she had seen a ghost, standing in the middle of Zhang Nuo and the others. Her expression was extremely ugly, as if she had just committed a grave mistake.

Just moments after the blood-colored beads submerged into the swamp, the hundreds of demon beasts tied to the trees suddenly began to howl in pain all at once, their cries more tragic and intense than before! At the same time, the blood in the bodies of these demon beasts flowed out rapidly, as if attracted by something, all flowing toward the 'Dark Swamp'!

Next, a bizarre scene appeared: in the depths of the 'Dark Swamp' mud, countless blood-colored threads slowly spread toward its deepest point. The streaks of blood were like the blood vessels in a human body, crisscrossing in a dense, tangled mess!

Before long, a bloody stench began to drift from the depths of the swamp, and slowly, the air over a small half of the 'Dark Swamp' was filled with the scent of blood.

"What kind of secret technique is this? How bizarre!"

Yu Lei looked at everything before him in astonishment, taking a long time to utter a single sentence. The others were the same as him, staring wide-eyed at Zhuge Qing.

"It is the Demonized Blood Bead! Once this bead encounters blood, it produces a large amount of Demonic Qi itself. Driven by the Demonic Qi, they will rush toward the place in this area where the Demonic Qi is densest. I suspect that the two-headed snake in the 'Dark Swamp' must live where the Demonic Qi is most concentrated; as soon as this bead touches the snake demon, it will immediately explode!"

Having said this, Zhuge Qing pursed her lips and smiled, saying no more!

"How much power could such a small bead have?"

Chu Budong looked at the young woman skeptically, his eyes full of disbelief.

"How much power? You will know in a moment!"

The young woman deliberately kept them in suspense, which made the five of them feel quite curious! However, just as the young woman finished speaking, a heaven-shaking loud noise suddenly came from the distance of the 'Dark Swamp'.

The 'Boom—' sound sent the mud and water in the swamp flying dozens of feet into the air, and at the same time, a massive pillar of black light, a zhang thick, shot into the sky, scattering much of the black mist that had been floating over the 'Dark Swamp'.

Seeing this, Zhang Nuo could not help but gasp in a breath of air thick with the smell of blood; in terms of power, the black pillar of light just now was enough to blast a cultivator until not even their bone fragments remained!

Before he could react, a second! A third! The black pillars of light shot into the sky again, and in an instant, the 'Dark Swamp' was stirred into turmoil by these three pillars of light.

"Awoo!"

A shrill, miserable cry resounded over the 'Dark Swamp'. Zhang Nuo and the others hurriedly covered their ears, but the shrill sound was like a maggot on a tarsal bone, echoing incessantly in everyone's ears!

"The two-headed demon snake is about to come out! Everyone, get ready to lure it into the prepared great array!"

Her face losing some color, Zhuge Qing transmitted her voice to remind everyone. At this moment, Zhang Nuo looked toward the distance of the 'Dark Swamp' and saw yet another black pillar of light shooting into the sky.

Immediately following, a massive figure surged up from the depths of the swamp. This figure was at least twenty zhang long and over a zhang thick, its entire body covered in black scales—it was unmistakably the body of a giant snake!

Looking up, a sense of fear could not help but rise in Zhang Nuo's heart; he saw that on the head of the giant snake body, there were actually two snake heads, one black and one white, each with a single horn growing from its crown.

Four snake eyes were glaring with hatred in the direction of Zhang Nuo and the others. Being stared at by those snake eyes, a chill instantly ran through the hearts of the few of them; that feeling of terror, as if one had been seen through at a single glance, rose rapidly from the bottom of their hearts. Even the legs of Chu Budong and the others were trembling!

"Do not look into the demon snake's eyes! Its cultivation is far beyond ours; we cannot contend with its pupil power alone! Run! Lure it into the great array!"

It was unknown what method Zhuge Qing used, but she suddenly snapped out of the terror, and with a loud shout, she awakened the others as well!

The six of them moved almost at the same time, turning and sprinting toward the direction of the 'Xiao Liu Paths Sumeru Great Array'!

The two-headed demon snake lay in the swamp, black energy flashing within its four snake eyes as it discovered Zhuge Qing and the others fleeing. It immediately let out another shrill cry, its massive body twisting a few times on the swamp, and in the blink of an eye, it had traveled over a hundred zhang!

With another movement of its body, it covered another hundred zhang; in just a few moments, the two-headed snake appeared at the edge of the 'Dark Swamp'. The eyes on the white snake head looked down into the forest below, seeing that the hundreds of low-level demon beasts were all trapped on the trees, their bodies almost completely drained of blood!

A trace of anger suddenly appeared in the eyes of the white snake head, and with a sweep of its massive tail, it destroyed everything before it! Meanwhile, the black snake head looked in the direction where Zhang Nuo and the others were sprinting.

After another shrill cry, the massive black snake mouth opened, and a pillar of light as black as ink shot out from it. This pillar of light was as thick as a thigh, and in a flash, it arrived behind Zhang Nuo and the others!

"Quick, dodge!"

Sensing the powerful fluctuation of Spirit Power behind him, Yu Lei shouted a warning, while his body quickly flashed to the side.

"Boom!"

A loud noise mixed with two miserable screams rang out. Zhang Nuo turned his head to look and was shocked! He saw that, apart from Yu Lei, Chu Budong, himself, and Zhuge Qing, the other two Foundation Establishment Mid-stage cultivators had been struck by the pillar of light spat from the black snake's mouth; in an instant, not even their corpses remained!