Chapter 65

Screech—!

The spear tip ripped through the air, bearing Li Qingxuan's full strength and death-defying resolve, transforming into a silver flash that tore the heavens, straight stabbing the King Snake's lower jaw, sheathed in Dark Gold Scales and slightly swollen from gathering power!

The spear tip clashed violently with the Dark Gold Scales, spraying blinding sparks, like crimson-gold fireworks exploding in the dark night!

Under the immense force contained in the spear tip, the hard scales dented inward and deformed, emitting a grating metal‑twisting sound that made the teeth ache!

"Roar—!" The King Snake's lower jaw was injured; the intense pain instantly interrupted the condensation of its venom, and the surging dark‑green toxin deep in its throat shuddered violently, like thick mud into which a huge stone has been thrown!

Its dark‑green vertical pupils contracted to a slit from the sudden pain, then burst forth with an even fiercer, brutal glare!

Its massive head jerked upward from pain and rage, and a terrifying, overwhelming force surged wildly up the spear shaft!

Li Qingxuan felt his tiger's mouth burst open instantly, blood flowing, his arms numbed with excruciating pain as if struck by lightning, and his whole body was hurled backward by that tremendous force!

He flew backward like a broken‑kite, the spear nearly slipping from his grasp!

"Li Qingxuan—!" On the fortress terrace, Li Feifei's shriek rose piercingly, changing tone, heart‑rending!

She watched helplessly as Li Qingxuan's figure, like an arrow loosed from a bow, traced a fierce arc in the air and slammed hard into the cold stone of the city wall!

Thud!

That dull impact struck the heart like a heavy hammer, making it pound uncontrollably.

Li Qingxuan's back smashed like an iron hammer against the hard city wall; his throat sweetened, a gush of warm, bloody fluid surged into his mouth, which he forced down, and instant agony swept his whole body, stars flashing before his eyes, his innards feeling as if they'd shifted.

He slid down the wall like a deflated ball, dropping to one knee, gripping the spear tightly with both hands, bracing himself just enough not to fall completely.

At the instant he was flung away, the Shadowy Thorn Main Vine at the city‑wall breach, which had been struggling like a guttering candle in the wind, finally snapped completely under the violent onslaught of the freed King Snake and the frenzied, mad‑dog‑like charge of the snake horde!

Crack! Boom!

The tough vine, under attack from inside and out, let out a final death‑rattle like a dying beast, then snapped violently and collapsed to the ground like a mountainside giving way!

The blocked breach, like a dam about to burst, instantly gave the long‑accumulated dark‑green snake tide an outlet, flooding in like a raging, debris‑laden mudslide!

"Hiss—!"

The frantic hissing swelled like a tsunami into a wave of death; countless icy triangular snake heads, like starving wolves, surged forward, their poison fangs dripping like daggers, their vertical pupils locking like cold stars onto the fallen, temporarily defenseless Li Qingxuan on the ground and the isolated Li Feifei on the distant fortress terrace!

The snake horde, like a bursting flood, instantly overwhelmed the inner side of the city wall near the breach with a mountain‑moving, sea‑overturning force!

Even more deadly, the enraged Ancient King Snake, the instant it flung Li Qingxuan away, saw its interrupted Decayed Bone Venom frenziedly reconverging deep in its throat!

The dark‑green venom was fiercer and more violent than ever before, like boiling hell‑lava, exuding an extreme aura of decay!

Its raised head snapped toward the interior of the city wall, its icy vertical pupils cutting through the surging snake tide, locking firmly onto the human who had just wounded it and was now struggling to rise—Li Qingxuan!

The will to destroy, condensed into substance! Deep in its throat, the mass of dark‑green destructive venom had already taken shape!

The Black Goat surged to Li Qingxuan's side, lifted its long horn, and Li Qingxuan flung himself onto its back; its hooves dug into the ground, trampling several attacking poisonous snakes, its massive hooves kicking up spattered filth as it lunged hard toward the fortress!

Almost at the same instant, the mass of intensely brewed dark‑green light deep in the King Snake's throat erupted explosively!

A viscous, substance‑like stream of dark‑green venom, reeking of intense decay and death, tore through the air with a scalp‑splitting shriek, shooting straight at the spot where Li Qingxuan had just fallen!

"Boom—!"

The Decayed Bone Venom exploded violently!

The city‑wall stone, like ice thrown into lava, instantly melted and collapsed over a wide area amid a harsh sizzling, forming a huge charred crater!

The terrifying shockwave, laden with deadly dark‑green smoke and debris, swept outward like a death storm!

The nearby snakes, under the venom's aftershock, instantly turned to ash, not even having time to cry out!

Carrying Li Qingxuan, the Black Goat was like a tiny boat in a raging surge, barely skirting the edge of the devastation. A scorching heat wave, wrapped in violent venom, slammed hard against its back, eliciting a pained grunt as its thick fur instantly scorched and curled.

Li Qingxuan leaned forward, pressed tight against the Black Goat, a sweet‑metallic taste of blood rising continuously, his vision blurring; he could only clutch the goat's mane desperately, his ears filled with the furious roars of the snakes and the King Snake.

At the breach, the main vine had vanished, leaving the snake tide unobstructed, surging like a turbulent dark‑green torrent over the uneven, venom‑eaten ground!

Their target was clear—straight for the fortress! And the meddler on the terrace who controlled the vines!

Li Feifei watched helplessly as the destructive venom poured down toward Li Qingxuan's figure, her heart nearly stopping, until she saw the Black Goat bearing him burst out of the smoke, whereupon she sucked in a breath, the suffocating feeling making her vision go black.

But the next instant, icy fear seized her again—the tide‑like swarm of snakes was frantically lunging at the fortress's foundations!

"Quick! Forget the breach, give everything to entangle that giant snake!" Li Qingxuan's hoarse shout came from the Black Goat's back.

He gritted his teeth against the pain, backhanded the spear, and precisely pinned a poisonous snake lunging at the Black Goat's belly from the side in mid‑air, filthy blood spraying.

The Black Goat roared, its massive hooves striking like thunder, trampling the snakes blocking the way, and it surged forward with all its might toward the fortress's closed gate.

Yet behind them, the Ancient King Snake's mountain‑sized body was already slowly turning in the venom‑explosion dust, its two dark‑green vertical pupils locked firmly onto the retreating backs of Li Qingxuan and the Black Goat!

Hearing Li Qingxuan's call, Li Feifei sent several main vines to coil around the King Snake; the deep‑purple vines writhed like giant pythons, frantically constricting the Ancient King Snake's thick neck!

The Spiked Oral Apparatus gnawed like a blade at the weak points of the Dark Gold Scales, deep‑purple juice seeping like poisonous blood into the scale seams.

The King Snake's furious hiss made the city wall tremble; its huge head thrashed like a gale, while the taut main vines kept squeezing and contracting, tightly restricting its movements.

The Decayed Bone Venom about to erupt churned violently in its throat, the dark‑green toxin flashing and dimming, yet it could never fully lock onto the Black Goat racing through the snake tide.

The Black Goat bore Li Qingxuan, forging a bloody path through the sea of snakes; each heavy hooffall smashed like thunder into the poisonous snakes lunging at them, spraying filthy blood mixed with flesh.

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