bookandnovel Chapter 13 Fierce Battle!
Chapter 13 Fierce Battle!
The Dark Serpent moved.
Its head rose from its coiled body, its black tongue flicking in and out rapidly, and its triangular pupils dilated slightly in the darkness.
It sensed the vibrations in the ground, but could not determine the source of the vibrations.
The noise of the Crimson Flame Scorpion is diffused in all directions and has no directionality.
The Dark Serpent's body began to slowly stretch out, changing from a coiled position to a semi-standing position.
Its head swayed from side to side, as if searching for something.
"Feint attack team, move out."
The Crimson Flame Scorpion was the first to rush out.
Thirty-five meters is only a matter of three or four seconds for a hundred-year-old Crimson Flame Scorpion.
Its eight legs moved swiftly on the ground, its tail hook was raised high, and the noise on its carapace vibrated at its maximum frequency.
It charged toward the tail of the Dark Serpent.
It's not a critical issue, but it's enough to attract attention.
The Dark Serpent discovered it.
It wasn't because of the noise, but because of the moment the Crimson Flame Scorpion rushed into the thirty-meter perception radius.
Its heat source sensor locked onto this small creature that had suddenly appeared and whose temperature was significantly higher than the surrounding environment.
The Dark Serpent abruptly turned its head toward the Crimson Flame Scorpion, its fangs emerging from its gums, spraying out a gush of venom.
The Crimson Scorpion was hit head-on by the venom.
Its body twitched for two seconds in the venom, then remained completely still.
The nerve-paralyzing toxin of the Dark Serpent is also effective against the undead.
It's not about killing, but rather temporarily freezing the stability of the undead form.
The Crimson Flame Scorpion's body began to turn transparent, and gray mist seeped from its body, slowly enveloping it and pulling it back to the underworld.
But it has already accomplished its mission.
The Dark Serpent has used up its venom spray.
Moreover, its attention was drawn to it.
Just as the Dark Serpent was spitting out venom, the Nether Wolf rushed out from another direction.
Its speed was much faster than the Crimson Flame Scorpion. The strength of an eight-hundred-year-old soul beast was among the top of the hundred-year-old soul beasts. Its dark purple figure left a blurry afterimage in the darkness, heading straight for the side of the Dark Nether Python.
The Dark Serpent reacts extremely quickly.
It suddenly swung its body, and its tail lashed out at the Netherwolf like a whip.
The Nether Wolf tried to dodge, but the Dark Serpent was too fast. Its tail struck the wolf squarely in the waist, sending it flying and crashing into the stone wall with a thud.
The Nether Wolf's body shattered upon impact, releasing a cloud of gray mist that pulled it back to the underworld.
But it also accomplished its mission.
The Dark Serpent's attention was further diverted.
When the ironback lizard charged, the dark python's venom was still building up and couldn't be sprayed.
It chose to entangle.
Its body coiled around the ironback lizard like a black rope, moving at an astonishing speed.
The Ironback Lizard has the strongest defense among hundred-year-old soul beasts, but in the face of the strangulation power of the six-thousand-year-old Dark Nether Python, its shell is as thin as paper.
With a snap, the carapace shattered, and the ironbacked lizard's body was twisted in two, releasing a cloud of gray mist that pulled it back to the underworld.
Then came the Windblade Bird, which swooped down from above, its wings unleashing wind blades that struck the Dark Serpent's back, leaving faint white marks.
The Dark Serpent's back scales were too thick for the Wind Blade to penetrate, but the Wind Blade Bird's harassment forced the Dark Serpent to distract itself.
One after another.
The seventeen hundred-year-old soul beasts were defeated one by one by the Dark Nether Python, each taking about ten to twenty seconds to kill.
Some were paralyzed by venom, some were whipped to pieces by tails, some were strangled and constricted, and some were pierced by venomous fangs.
But not one retreated, not one hesitated.
They rushed up, were scattered, pulled back to the underworld, and then immediately reformed from the underworld, rushed out again, and rushed up again.
This is what makes the spirits of the underworld truly terrifying.
They are not afraid of death because death is just a brief "reset" process for them.
What is consumed is only the energy of the underworld, and the energy of the underworld can be replenished by killing and absorbing dead things.
The Dark Serpent was consuming energy, while the Dark Flight was replenishing it.
Three minutes have passed.
The Dark Serpent has sprayed its venom six times, and it takes thirty seconds to recharge after each spray.
Its tail lashed out more than ten times, coiled around five times, and its venomous fangs bit eight times.
Its strength is declining, its reaction speed is slowing down, and some small cracks are beginning to appear on its scales.
That was caused by Ghost Tiger and three human undead under the cover of a feint attack group.
Ghost Tiger found an opportunity during the third feint attack.
The Dark Serpent had just strangled a hundred-year-old soul beast, and its body was not yet fully extended, with its tail exposed.
Ghost Tiger sprang out from the shadows on the west side, its three gleaming claws precisely slicing through the gaps in the scales of the Dark Serpent's tail, leaving three deep, bone-revealing blood grooves.
The Dark Serpent let out a sharp hiss, its body twisting violently as it turned its head toward the Ghost Tiger. But the Ghost Tiger had already retreated and disappeared into the darkness.
The woman's sword also pierced the Dark Serpent's abdomen during the fourth feint attack.
At that moment, the Dark Serpent was lashing out at a Nether Wolf with its tail, and a gap was revealed in the scales on its belly as it twisted.
The woman burst out from the Dark Serpent's blind spot, her sword tip precisely piercing the crevice to a depth of about two inches, before swiftly retreating.
The Dark Serpent's black blood gushed from its wound, staining the soil black.
The two men made relatively smaller contributions, but they successfully diverted the Dark Serpent's attention.
The night watchman's shield blocked one of the Dark Serpent's venomous fangs from biting.
The shield was bitten through, but the man's arm was saved.
The man from the second ring left seven or eight shallow scratches on the Dark Python's back with his short knife. They didn't break through its defenses, but they forced the Dark Python to repeatedly turn its head to defend itself.
Mingfei had been waiting.
He was waiting for the right opportunity.
The moment when a Dark Serpent's defenses develop a fatal flaw.
The Dark Python's weak point is its abdomen, but although the scales on its abdomen are softer than those on its back, they are not easily pierced.
The woman's previous thrusts only penetrated two inches deep because she lacked strength and the sword was not sharp enough.
But the Hades Sword is different. Its sharpness far surpasses that of ordinary martial souls. As long as the angle is correct and the power is sufficient, it can pierce through the internal organs of the Dark Serpent with a single strike.
The question is how the stab was made.
The Dark Serpent's body was constantly writhing, and its abdomen was not always exposed.
It was clever; after being attacked several times, it began to consciously press its belly against the ground, using mud and stones to protect its weak points.
Mingfei needed the Dark Serpent to lift its belly.
How do you make a python lift its belly?
Attack its head.
The head is the part that the Dark Serpent values most.
If someone attacks its head, it will instinctively raise or tilt its head to the side.
At this point, the rest of the body will lose balance, and the abdomen will briefly lift off the ground.
Mingfei gave Ghost Tiger his final orders.
Ghost Tiger sprang out of the darkness, and this time it did not retreat.
It went straight for the Dark Serpent's head, its three claws drawing three cold streaks in the darkness, its target the Dark Serpent's left eye.
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