Chapter 203

Gluttonous Bird

Holding a Glutton Divine Spear snatched from a subordinate's hand, Taotie Ya immediately stood before the black snake with the spear across his chest, smiling arrogantly and restrainedly: 'Black-skinned snake, offer your bloodline power to me…… This is your heaven-ordained fate.'

The black snake slowly lowered its head, its two huge grim-green eyes fixedly staring at Taotie Ya.

From Taotie Ya and his long spear, the black snake sensed an inexplicable threat, a feeling like a wild wolf in the outskirts encountering a hungry lion.

One ferocious beast had encountered another, even more powerful ferocious beast.

Demon Chapter King

The black snake disliked this feeling, so it suddenly opened its huge mouth, its long tongue drawn straight inside, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound, and it spat out a pitch-black water mist.

The viscous, cold water mist carried a terrifying corrosive property; the black mist sprayed out, heavily striking the ground, thus corroding the rocky ground into a pit hundreds of meters in diameter and over ten meters deep.

Gluttonous Divine Spear

Taotie Ya snorted coldly, he opened his mouth and took a deep breath, swallowing the water mist sprayed by the great snake in one gulp.

A faint black flickered across Taotie Ya's face, his eyes suddenly brightening as he laughed at the great snake: 'Beautiful, so delicious…… Is this the true essence of the true water power mastered by your Black Water Mystic Snake clan?'

'Another gulp, a few more…… Once I have devoured enough true water power, perhaps I too could awaken such a heavenly gift?'

Taotie Ya burst into wild laughter, behind him a blood mist rose; within the Blood Light, a hideous, ferocious giant beast could be faintly seen lurking.

The black snake let out an angry roar to the heavens, then it reared up its body nearly a kilometer high like a collapsing mountain, and fiercely smashed down upon Taotie Ya.

Taotie Ya narrowed his eyes at the huge-bodied black snake, then he leapt up, dodging the snake's falling body with a flash, and slammed his left fist hard onto the snake's 'lips'.

With a tremendous boom, several scales on the snake's 'lips' were shattered, the flesh beneath the scales split open, and snake blood gushed out like a spring, carrying a piercing Cold Qi; the black snake's head throbbed left and right in pain, continually emitting sharp hisses.

The several cultivators standing on the black snake's head shouted in anger simultaneously, they rose into the air, vast power fluctuations rolling around their bodies, their cloaks dancing with the power fluctuations, vivid Bodhi tree embroidery clearly visible.

Twelve Executive Families

Every cultivator standing on each black snake's head was, surprisingly, a master of the Life Pond realm; even those who had just condensed a Life Pond and just entered the Life Pond realm, newcomers, were not weak in strength.

At the very least, Taotie Ya dared not let those few swords strike his body directly.

He brandished the Glutton Divine Spear, specks of spearlight blocking the swords before his body; looking at the several Life Pond cultivators, he kept praising: 'What a grand hand, what a grand hand, this Da She Yi actually brought over two hundred Life Pond masters!'

'Truly a grand hand, Great Snake clan, are you really this strong? Then how were they exterminated and driven out of the Black Snake Territory back then?'

Several Life Pond cultivators, while stalemating with Taotie Ya, coldly sneered arrogantly: 'We are not subordinates of the Great Snake clan; we come from the Three Linked City-States, we are one of the twelve executive families of the Three Linked City-States, members of the Bodhi clan.'

Taotie Ya's expression shifted slightly: 'Three Linked City-States…… I've heard of you…… a powerful force, but today I finally get to see a living person. Hehe, Bodhi clan?'

The black snake shook its head, suddenly opened its mouth, and lashed its tongue fiercely at Taotie Ya.

Taotie Ya struck back with a palm, 'Bang!' his palm hit the black snake's tongue, sending the snake's tongue flying back, the flexible tongue flailing wildly, almost coiling around the black snake's neck.

'However, no matter what clan, you all will ultimately be mine today.' Taotie Ya laughed brightly, then he raised his head and murmured a chant toward the vault.

Possibly "Black Snake" excluded

A hexagonal icy shard about a li in diameter, dark blue, whistled down from the vault; this enormous shard thin as a cicada's wing, carrying a terrifying Cold Qi, slammed hard onto the black snake's huge head.

With a crisp crack, the ice shard shattered, large swaths of dark blue Cold Qi writhed like a viscous broth, rapidly spreading across the black body. The black snake's body froze segment by segment, changed color, and was quickly sealed in a thick block of Mystic Ice.

"Ice Chip" excluded

Several Bodhi clan warriors failed to dodge the cold slurry bursting from the ice shards; their limbs touched the droplets of cold slurry, and the ice layer rapidly spread and flooded over them.

Taotie Ya laughed, taking advantage of the opponents' stiff, numb bodies, he thrust his spear into the brow of a Bodhi cultivator. The Glutton Divine Spear burst with black divine light, in one gulp draining that cultivator's Life Pond and soul completely dry.

'I've said it, you are all mine…… mine…… from flesh to soul, all mine!' Taotie Ya laughed especially brightly.

Beneath the thick Mystic Ice, the black snake's massive body still slowly writhed, struggling to resist the invasion of the Cold Qi.

However, the Cold Qi hidden in the falling ice shards was terrifying to the extreme; the black snake's body was frozen into chunks of ice, and no matter how he struggled, he merely clung to life, unable to break the ice layer and escape confinement.

"You too, you are also mine." The Taotie Crow laughed until his eyes narrowed into slits.

Behind the Taotie Crow, the four Taotie clan experts at the Life Pool realm also only grinned, baring their teeth, laughing especially brightly; such a delicacy is an irresistible temptation for any member of the Taotie clan.

Wu Tie followed Old Knife Wind forward at a quick pace; the surrounding crowd was mixed, with many cultivators from the Great Serpent Cave calling out to friends, throwing the team into utter chaos.

Suddenly, a familiar aura appeared beside Wu Tie.

Wu Tie turned his head sharply and saw the Demon Chapter King walking stiffly beside him, exerting all his strength, straining to keep up as they rushed forward.

"What are you doing here?" Wu Tie looked at the Demon Chapter King, puzzled.

The Demon Chapter King had received the cultivation method transmitted by Wu Tie; although his progress was extremely rapid, he was merely a minor cultivator of the Sensory Mystery realm.

Even though his innate divine abilities were strange and ordinary attacks seemed unable to harm him in the slightest, who knows what dangers might arise on such a battlefield?

It's one thing for Wu Tie to get tangled in trouble, but why did the Demon Chapter King suddenly show up out of nowhere?

"They are, the people of the Bodhi clan among the Twelve Governing Families…… the Bodhi-tree embroidery on their cloaks, I will never forget it even in death."

The Demon Chapter King stared fixedly at the elite cultivators' formation ahead, murmuring: "I can't forget, I absolutely can't forget…… the very first ones who stormed the imperial palace back then were precisely those of the Bodhi clan……"

"Even if the fall of the Great Peacock Dynasty was just desserts…… but I am taking revenge—am I wrong?"

"Regardless of right or wrong, I only seek personal vengeance—this is only natural, isn't it?"

The Demon Chapter King looked at Wu Tie with his eyes slightly reddened.

Wu Tie fell silent for a moment, then slapped the Demon Chapter King on the shoulder with such force that he nearly drove him into the ground.

"Absolutely correct, this is only natural…… follow behind me, stay alert and keep up with me at all times—don't get separated…… well, let's give them a taste of their own medicine."

Having captured Sun Zuo, Wu Tie had in fact long wanted to leave the Great Serpent Cave.

But the Great Serpent Blaze blocked all the exits of the Great Stone Cavern, making it impossible for him to lead anyone out.

This guy still insists on courting death with some Great Serpent blood sacrifice, opening his mouth to kill half the living beings inside the Great Serpent Cave. Wu Tie originally didn't want to wade into this murky situation, but now he's been forced to get involved.

Now it's even better—he has an excuse from the Demon Chapter King……

Wu Tie raised the White Tiger Split; the Great Serpent Blaze's formation ahead was only three to five li away.

Wu Tie let out a loud shout, thrusting his spear hard into the ground; then he swung the spear violently, and a booming roar came— the rock layer before him, over two li long, about a hundred meters wide, and ten-odd meters thick, was pried up by his spear.

With a shake of the spear, the massive rock slab tumbled upward like a huge brick, slamming down squarely onto the Great Serpent Blaze's formation.

Behind Wu Tie, a flicker of yellow light flashed, and the illusory outlines of several mountains appeared and disappeared within the glow.

This is the "Drive Mountain Fill Sea" great divine ability, able to move the earth veins, rock layers, and all earth and stone structures for one's own use.

Otherwise, Wu Tie thrusting his spear into the ground could shatter the nearby ground, but no matter what, it would be impossible to just happen to have such an intact slab of rock lift up by hand for him to use to strike someone.

On top of the opposing black snake's head, Da She Yi gave a disdainful cold laugh.

"Trivial tricks, who can break them for me?"

At Da She Yi's command, the dozens of cultivators in splendid armor standing beside him remained motionless, none making a move, all secretly glancing at his burly back with smiles in their eyes.

Da She Yi's face turned ugly, he let out a cold snort, and simply crossed his arms, likewise remaining motionless.

The rock layers rolled and howled, about to crash down.

Those about to be struck are the warriors of the Bodhi clan, not his Great Snake clan's people……what does he have to worry about?

Da She Yi didn't move, nor did the cultivators beside him; ahead of the lower army formation, among those hundred or so commanders, someone moved……no matter what Da She Yi and his lot are up to, these commanders simply can't just watch that slab of rock smash down.

A burly man strode out, looking at the rock slab about to smash down from above, he fiercely slapped the back of his head with his right hand.

A huge hand of green‑rising light mist burst forth from the back of that burly man's head; the palm, originally only a few dozen zhang in size, instantly expanded to a radius of several dozen li upon catching the wind.

The thick, mist‑rising big hand seized the rock slab about to smash down from above.

The terrifying immense force that Wu Tie had attached to the rock layer erupted, the giant palm letting out a huge "creak" as giant cracks split across it, on the verge of being shattered by the rock layer.

Three other commanders at the Life Pond Realm likewise stepped forward, each slapping the back of their heads, and three similar green‑rising great hands shot up from the sky to grab that rock layer.

"Bang!"

The massive boulder was crushed in one grip by the four huge palms; countless fragments ground together, continually emitting dull bursting sounds, and in the snap of a finger turned into drifting sky‑filled stone dust.

The four Bodhi clan commanders at the Life Pond Realm simultaneously shuddered; the one who struck first shuddered even more, stepping back a pace, with a faint trace of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

Wu Tie laughed loudly.

Lao Dao Feng clapped his hands and laughed loudly.

The senior members of the Blood Saber Blade and the cultivators alike shouted loudly in unison.

The senior members of the many other forces of the Great Snake Den twitched at the corners of their eyes, each looking at Wu Tie with inexplicable shock.

You brat, you're only at the Chonglou Realm!

Looking at your "simple and clear" aura, it's obvious you've just entered the Chonglou Realm not long ago, still having unlocked few of the heavenly‑earthly shackles, having grasped little of the divine abilities and secret arts—a novice at the early stage of the Chonglou Realm.

How could such a novice possibly match, in a direct clash of strength, the four Life Pond Realm powerhouses without being inferior?

No, it's not that they're evenly matched; rather, Wu Tie clearly holds the advantage, while the four Life Pond Realm opponents on the other side are losing ground.

The black serpent swarm transformed from Da She Yi's long whip has already charged over.

These black serpents, ranging from three to five meters in length and as thick as a bowl's mouth, opened their huge mouths, bared fangs, and hissed as they surged into the ranks of the low‑level Golden Dead Spirit cultivators forming the vanguard.

Over ten thousand cultivators and several thousand black serpents became tangled in a melee.

The black serpents frenziedly tore and lashed, while over ten thousand cultivators swung their weapons, hacking and slashing indiscriminately; flesh and blood flew across the battlefield, and continual miserable howls could be heard.

Da She Yi stood atop the black serpent's head, looking coldly and arrogantly at the battle ahead.

"You dare to rebel? But have you measured the strength gap between us? You, a mere Great Snake Den, how could you possibly be a match for the many elite forces I have brought?"

Da She Yi's voice thundered like a clap of thunder, reaching the ears of all the Great Snake Den allied forces that had gone into battle.

Lao Dao Feng laughed loudly and shouted: "That's still better than being eaten by you as food……the Great Snake clan is infamous, whether it's the Great Snake Den or the Black Snake Domain, no one wants you to come back."

"If you dare to come back, you will die here."

Lao Dao Feng's laughter spread slowly, and the Demon Chapter King, within that laughter, drew a deep breath, his chest swelling to a diameter of several dozen meters, then he let out a "pfft" and expelled a long breath forcefully.

A murky black‑red mist, tinged with a hint of blue and a speck of green, roiled and surged forward like a living creature.

This mass of toxic mist swept past the Golden Dead Spirit cultivators who were battling the black serpents, and plunged straight into the Bodhi clan's battle formation.

A Bodhi clan commander unleashed a divine ability, summoning a howling gale to rush toward the toxic mist sprayed by the Demon Chapter King, but the gale produced not the slightest movement; the Demon Chapter King's mist was viscous and heavy, possessing certain strange efficacies, and the gale could not budge it in the slightest.

Over twenty thousand people were quickly covered by the toxic mist.

In the span of a single breath, Bodhi clan cultivators' faces turned black, their bodies swayed, and they collapsed face‑first to the ground.