Chapter 38

"Moo—woo—!" Outside the door, the black goat's roar sounded again.

Its heavy hoofsteps paced back and forth outside the door, each step making the ground tremble slightly, and its nostrils exhaled scorching airflow.

Black Goat, Iron Door, Study, Mental Suppression, Swallowing Sky Python. Also maybe inner and outer shackles not named.

In an instant, Li Qingxuan subdued the constantly struggling Swallowing Sky Python, the whole process unusually smooth.

Li Qingxuan's condensed spiritual power fell into the Swallowing Sky Python's mind; the black snake's body trembled slightly, the ferocious aura in its blood-red vertical pupils quietly dissipated, revealing a hint of innocence.

He didn't even need to use his full strength; the spiritual barrier like a gentle cocoon lightly wrapped the young python.

The little creature merely gave a symbolic twitch twice, then obediently lowered its head, and its original hiss turned into a soft, cooing croon like a spoiled child.

The black goat outside let out a loud snort, its hoofsteps eased, obviously sensing that the threat had been lifted.

He leaned down and lightly touched its scales; the young python obediently coiled around his arm, flicking its tongue to lick his fingertips.

"Is this all right?" Li Feifei approached holding the Chi Tiger, seeing the giant python docile like a pet, she widened her eyes in surprise. The Chi Tiger cub also curiously touched the new companion with its nose, and the two actually showed no hostility at all.

"It's just a cub," Li Qingxuan chuckled, his fingertip tracing the snake's head, "Now that it's subdued, we'll raise it slowly."

He looked toward the door; the black goat had lain back in the shadows, its breathing long, evidently letting down its guard toward this new member.

Inside the study, the candle flame burned peacefully, with no trace of turmoil.

Li Qingxuan and Li Feifei were playing with these two newborns, watching the Swallowing Sky Python slowly devour the eggshell, they found a place to settle them, and the two were preparing to go back to sleep.

Just then the black goat suddenly rose to its feet, "Moo—ah!" its eyes fixed on the distance.

Hearing the black goat's call and feeling its spiritual fluctuation, Li Qingxuan said, "The latter half of the night probably won't be so peaceful."

The Swallowing Sky Python swiftly climbed up Li Qingxuan's arm, its head held high, while Li Feifei tightly embraced the Chi Tiger cub in her arms.

giant python

They raised their huge triangular heads, dark-gold vertical pupils icy cold, locking onto the strange beast walking through the mist ahead; their tongues hissed, greed and killing intent spreading like a tangible substance.

Li Qingxuan opened the window and looked outside, seeing two giant pythons encircling the black goat; Li Feifei came to his side, and the two giant pythons instantly turned their heads, staring fixedly at the Chi Tiger cub in Li Feifei's arms.

Weird Creature: Netherfire Snake

Type: Flesh Type

Constitution: 234

Spirit: 140

Rank: D Rank

Abilities: Nether Shield, Purgatory Breath, Flame Prison Strangle

Weak Point: head, Seven-inch Weakspot

Description: Netherfire Snake wandering Youmingzhidi, possessing strong defense and flame capable of melting rock

Weird Creature: Nightmare Soul Python

Type: Spirit Type

Constitution: 178

Spirit: 256

Rank: D Rank

Abilities: Bewildering Gaze, Illusory Dream Breath, Nether Whisper

Weak Point: head, Seven-inch Weakspot

Description: Can temporarily control creatures with lower spirit, possessing terrifying spiritual ability

The attributes of these two giant pythons were not much different from those of the Swallowing Heaven Giant Python previously encountered; the black goat's massive body was sandwiched between them, and two gazes that chose to devour people stabbed forward like blades.

Its thick hooves stomped heavily on the ground, head lowered, the curved, coiled great horns resembling two battle axes poised to strike, pointing directly at the more threatening Netherfire Snake.

Beneath its skin covered with living mane, muscles bulged like steel cables, its massive frame exuding a mountain‑heavy pressure.

"Hiss—!" The Netherfire Snake struck first! Its huge maw flung open, its throat not flesh and bone but a surging sheet of dark‑green molten rock!

A scorching dark‑green flame pillar, capable of warping air, like a hellish geyser, carrying a temperature hot enough to melt steel, shot toward the black goat's head! Before the fire arrived, the heat wave already made Li Qingxuan and Li Feifei by the fortress window feel a stinging on their skin.

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The black goat let out a deafening roar, its mane standing on end all over, the sound wave turning into a visible shockwave that spread outward.

The dark‑green molten lava struck the sound‑wave barrier and paused for an instant; the black goat's massive body, in the nick of time, lurched sideways, its tough hide covered in living mane scraping past the scorching dark‑green torrent, filling the air with the pungent smell of scorched flesh.

That terrifying Purgatory Breath slammed hard into the ground behind it, instantly melting the hard rock into a boiling, turbulent dark‑green magma pool; the scorching heat wave, laden with rock fragments, blasted outward in all directions.

Almost at the moment the Netherfire Snake attacked, the Nightmare Soul Python's pair of dark‑gold vertical pupils suddenly blazed, like two deep ghost lamps, their depths swirling with an eerie, unfathomable vortex.

A soundless soul undulation, wrapped in a hazy halo, instantly crossed the distance between them and precisely enveloped the black goat's head!

The black goat's massive body shuddered violently, its movements momentarily disrupted; its four hooves hammered the ground, cracking it with fissures, while the ground beneath the Netherfire Snake suddenly collapsed.

"Oh no! That Nightmare Soul Python is interfering with the black goat's spirit!" Li Qingxuan's pupils contracted sharply, instantly grasping the danger of the situation.

The two giant pythons acted in perfect sync—one launched a frontal assault creating enormous pressure, the other struck from the side to disrupt defense and spirit; the black goat instantly fell into an extremely disadvantageous position!

Inside the fortress, the Chi Tiger cub held tightly in Li Feifei's arms seemed to sense its master's tension and the terrifying spiritual undulation outside; it writhed uneasily, letting out a low growl tinged with a hint of draconic might, its obsidian‑like eyes fixed on the direction of the Nightmare Soul Python beyond the window, its tiny body instinctively tensing, a layer of extremely faint, barely perceptible azure halo flowing across its juvenile scales.

Meanwhile, the Swallowing Sky Python cub coiled around Li Qingxuan's arm also raised its head, covered in pure black serrated scales.

Its blood‑red vertical pupils were no longer the earlier innocence; stimulated by the terrifying aura of the two colossal beasts outside, they flashed a feral light mixing instinctive greed and wariness.

It fixed its gaze on the two giant pythons radiating powerful energy waves, especially the flame power flowing through the Netherfire Snake; its slender tongue flicked rapidly, emitting a faint "hiss," as if assessing the prey's strength.

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