The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Qinghai Lake has become a hellish ice bowl.

On the vast, icy plain, bloodstains crisscrossed, as if a god had used a hot cinnabar brush to freely scribble and outline on a blank sheet of rice paper.

Broken limbs, frozen blood, and discarded remnants of soldiers are scattered among the spiderweb-like ice cracks.

The martial arts heroes who had miraculously survived were already terrified. Screaming and shoving each other, they fled desperately towards the lake shore like ants being doused with boiling water.

The stench of blood was so thick it was almost impenetrable, mingling with the biting cold, weighing heavily on everyone's hearts, making it hard for them to breathe.

At the summit of Haixin Mountain, Yinglong's enormous bronze-colored body stands like a mountain.

The molten gold vertical pupils were fixed on the huge ice hole on the icy plain, which was churning with turbid blood waves.

The ice at the edge of the ice hole was an eerie dark red, and floating ice blocks and bits of flesh rose and fell with the waves.

Just now, a terrifying hunt from beneath the ice has just ended.

The giant python, which had been lurking at the bottom of the dark lake for thousands of years, suddenly broke through the ice and attacked while the martial artists were intimidated by Yinglong and their minds were scattered!
The enormous serpentine shadow materialized like a nightmare from the abyss, its gaping maw opening and closing, its gleaming fangs like the razor of death. With each swallow, it precisely snatched away three or five unfortunate souls on the ice who were slowed to move by fear.

The screams were brief, quickly drowned out by the sickening sounds of bones cracking and viscous swallowing. A dozen or so skilled martial artists, enough to establish their own schools, had become the giant python's sudden, lucrative prey!
Yinglong lay low on the mountain rock, his chest covered with bronze scales heaving violently, and a suppressed, deep roar like muffled thunder rolled from his throat!
Within those cold, golden vertical pupils burned boundless fury and a rare hint of vigilance!
It sensed a threat! A feeling that originated from the depths of its ancient bloodline, cold and slippery, carrying the putrid stench of lakebed silt—it was the aura of another apex predator, powerful and greedy!

The python's devouring was not just about stealing its prey; it was more like a blatant provocation, a bloody mark left on the edge of the forbidden territory it guarded!
It temporarily suppressed its soaring killing intent, not out of fear, but because its predator instincts told it that a rash attack in the chaos might not be able to seriously injure that cunning serpent that could disappear into the deep water at any moment!

It was waiting, waiting for a fleeting opening, waiting for the moment when the creature, having swallowed a prey far larger than its usual size, would be momentarily stunned!

Inside the icy cave, the turbid waves of blood finally subsided. The enormous snake head slowly rose above the water, droplets of water mixed with scarlet blood dripping down its dark green, slippery, and glistening scales!

The python's head was as large as a cartwheel, covered with tough horny protrusions. Its two upright, diamond-shaped eyes were a murky, dark yellow, so cold that they lacked any warmth that life should have, showing only the satisfaction of devouring and a chilling indifference!
It seemed oblivious to the towering Yinglong in the distance. Its thick, long tongue hissed as it licked the remaining bits of flesh and blood from the corner of its mouth. Its massive body stirred the water, slowly coiling around, its dark green body appearing and disappearing in the murky blood. Clearly, it had eaten and drunk its fill and was preparing to sink back into the cold nest that had nurtured it to slowly digest the feast in its belly.

Just as the giant snake's head dipped slightly, and its entire body was about to sink into the blood-red ice cave!

Moved!

At the top of Haixin Mountain, the colossal bronze statue overlooking the frozen lake suddenly vanished!
It's not an elegant flight, but a violent catapult that tears through all obstacles!

Yinglong stomped its huge hind legs, and the hard rock beneath its feet shattered like a crisp pancake!
The enormous fleshy wings instantly swelled to their maximum size, and the huge wing membranes tore through the frozen air, emitting a piercing, ear-piercing shriek!
Its massive body transformed into a bronze meteor that tore through the sky, its target incredibly precise, aimed directly at the thousand-year-old giant python in the ice cave that had not yet fully submerged!
A hundred-foot stretch of ice, reached in an instant!
The python's murky, dark yellow vertical pupils suddenly contracted, sending out a frantic alarm from the keen intuition of a top predator!

Its descent abruptly halted, and its massive serpentine body twisted violently within the ice cave. Its enormous tail, like a giant steel whip covered in dark green scales, lashed upwards with a piercing shriek and overwhelming force, taking the lead and meeting the swooping bronze meteor head-on!

The python's tail churned the lake water, creating towering waves of blood, carrying immense power as it tried to slam this aerial overlord into the icy, bone-chilling lake!

A hint of almost contempt flashed in Yinglong's golden vertical pupils. Faced with this terrifying tail strike that could collapse a city wall, it actually folded half of its fleshy wing during its dive, and its strong body, covered with thick bronze scales, forcibly twisted in the air in an incredible, almost right-angled, bizarre posture!
The enormous serpent's tail, carrying a foul stench, narrowly missed its scaly chest and abdomen, before slamming into the ice beside it with a deafening roar! The several-foot-thick layer of hard ice shattered instantly into countless massive chunks, which shot into the sky like fragile glass!
In the blink of an eye, as the snake's tail missed its target and the giant python's old strength gave way to new strength, Yinglong's twisted body had already adjusted into position! Its three giant hook-like hind claws, each with a blade curved like a thick steel scythe, gleaming with a sinister metallic luster, were now fully extended, like death claws descending from the sky!

"Pfft! Sizzle—!"

The sound of claws tearing through tough flesh was dull and teeth-grinding!
Three enormous hind claws, like red-hot irons plunged into grease, precisely and deeply dug into the python's relatively soft belly, covered with fine, dark green scales! Dark red snake blood, carrying a strong, fishy smell, gushed out like a fountain, instantly staining the Yinglong's bluish-gray forelimb scales red!

The intense pain caused the giant python to let out a sharp hiss that echoed throughout the entire frozen lake!

Its massive body twisted and struggled wildly, trying to break free from this deadly grip. The enormous force stirred up waves throughout the ice cave, and the sound of ice blocks colliding and shattering was incessant!
Yinglong flapped its wings angrily, creating a violent whirlwind that forcefully dragged the part of the giant python's body embedded in the ice cave upwards! It wanted to drag this scourge away from the water completely!

The dark black python's body was forcibly pulled out of the water, heavily slapping and rolling on the edge of the ice cave, covered in ice shards and bloodstains, looking utterly wretched!

The excruciating pain fully unleashed the python's ferocity! It violently twisted its massive head, sending a stench of poison rushing towards you. Its viscous, gaping maw opened to an unbelievable angle, revealing four terrifying, dagger-like fangs that gleamed with a ghostly blue light! A large cloud of dark green, highly corrosive, and foul-smelling venomous mist, like a viscous liquid cannonball, erupted from deep within its throat, shooting directly at the dragon's head, which hovered in mid-air, only a few feet away!
Yinglong was clearly extremely wary of the poisonous mist. It suddenly raised its head and simultaneously flapped its powerful wings backward! Its massive body retreated rapidly in an instant! The movement was incredibly swift, yet even so, several wisps of dark green poisonous mist still grazed its hard, thick breastplate scales.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!"

A chilling, slight corrosive sound rang out! The layer of bluish-gray scales, strong enough to withstand the slashing of divine weapons, turned as if splashed with strong acid the moment they came into contact with the poisonous mist, sending up wisps of nauseating blue smoke!

The scales instantly turned charred and pitted! Yinglong let out a low, painful roar, and the ferocious light in its molten gold vertical pupils intensified!
Having landed a successful blow, the giant python's ferocity intensified. Ignoring the excruciating pain of its abdomen being pierced by the claws and bleeding profusely, it seized the opportunity of Yinglong's retreat to suddenly coil upwards! Abandoning its futile drag, its cold, slippery body became like a giant noose, its target no longer Yinglong's body, but rather the roots of Yinglong's massive, fleshy wings that controlled the sky! This was its instinctive, deadly attack—the Death Coil!
Once completely bound, even Yinglong would find it difficult to break free and would ultimately be dragged into the cold abyss it dominates!

An unimaginable, overwhelming force originating from the wilderness instantly flowed from the coiled python's body!

For the first time, Yinglong's wings, strong enough to support its mountain-like body, felt the terror of being bound! Its wing bones groaned under the unbearable weight!
It flapped its wings with all its might, and the whirlwind it stirred up scattered the broken ice and bloodstains on the ice surface, forming a storm zone, but the giant python's coils were like a bone-deep affliction, tightening more and more!
Yinglong could only rely on its immense strength, and its huge body, suspended in mid-air, began to shake violently and sink!
On the frozen lake, the martial arts masters who had not yet fled far were already stunned and disoriented by the unimaginable battle between gods and demons before them.

They lay prostrate in the ice crevice, their faces ashen, trembling violently, barely able to breathe. They watched helplessly as the soaring dragon god was coiled and dragged by the icy serpent, slowly being pressed into the enormous, death-laden ice cave that had devoured countless of their comrades!
The icy lake water has begun to lick the tips of Yinglong's wing claws!

The moment the lake water touched its scales, a bone-chilling cold, accompanied by a strong sense of repulsion and disgust, swept over it, causing the muscles beneath its scales to spasm! It let out a roar that was a mixture of anger and pain, and its molten gold vertical pupils contracted to the point of needles in rage!

The coils were still tightening! The chilling aura of death spread along the python's body! At this critical moment, Yinglong's long tail, which had been coiled behind him like a giant bronze whip, moved silently!

The end of the tail was not the usual blunt shape, but rather it was constricted and hardened in a peculiar way, like a peerless curved blade cast from bronze and naturally tempered!
The blade gleamed with a chilling light in the dim daylight! At this moment, this silent, naturally divine weapon, carrying all its accumulated power, tore through the air and, without warning and with unparalleled precision, slashed down silently at the seven-inch mark on the snake's neck, where the giant python was coiled around the base of Yinglong's left wing! There was no whistling sound, only a low sonic boom caused by the speed exceeding its limit!

"Plop—smash!"

That was the sound of tough snake scales being forcibly torn apart, followed by the sound of bones being cleanly severed! The sound was muffled and short, yet it carried an absolute sharpness that could decide life and death!

The giant python's massive head, covered in horny protrusions and menacingly open with its venomous slit, suddenly froze!

In his murky, dark yellow vertical pupils, the cold, bloodthirsty light froze instantly, replaced by an incredulous bewilderment and... terror!
The serpentine body that coiled around the base of Yinglong's wing suddenly vanished like a receding tide, its power capable of crushing steel disappearing.

A smooth, mirror-like cut appeared at the dark green snake's neck. The next moment, the hideous head, with a broken neck bone, fell heavily and silently from the sky like a felled giant tree.

"Boom!!"

The enormous snake head slammed onto the blood-stained ice below, splashing up sticky blood and ice shards, and the light in its eyes went out completely! During this time, the ice layer froze even thicker, and the snake head was unable to break through it!

The enormous, headless python's body remained coiled and stiff for a moment before, like a massive rope that had lost all support, it slipped and loosened weakly from the base of the Yinglong's wing, crashing heavily into the churning, blood-red ice cave below. It stirred up towering, turbid waves and slowly sank into the eternal darkness, leaving behind only a huge whirlpool of water churning wildly and a rapidly spreading filth of dark green and scarlet!

The underwater behemoth died just like that, as if it had never existed!

Yinglong flapped its wings sharply, breaking free from the headless snake's grasp, and its massive body swayed slightly as it rose back into the air. Its molten gold vertical pupils swept over the blood-red vortex beneath its feet that had devoured the giant python's corpse, and then over the petrified ants in the distance!
Where the giant python coiled around its left wing, the bronze scales twisted and shattered, revealing the bulging muscles beneath, with several deep, bone-revealing marks winding across them.

The area of ​​the breastplate corroded by the poisonous fog emitted barely visible wisps of blue smoke, and the scorch marks were glaringly obvious!

The icy lake water dripped down its talons stained with snake blood. Each drop of water caused the muscles beneath its scales to twitch slightly, and a hint of undisguised disgust and exhaustion flashed in its eyes!
It let out a deep and majestic roar, like a horn announcing the ownership of its territory, which resounded over the dead silence of the frozen lake!
Immediately, its powerful wings flapped sharply, whipping up a gust of wind mixed with blood and ice shards. Its massive body, with the air of a victor, rose again and steadily flew back to the snow-covered hollow atop Haixin Mountain, where a soft, seven-colored halo still flowed.

The shattered scales gleamed with a cold, hard bronze and blood-red luster in the dim light, like an ancient deity returning from a bloody battle.

In the valley at the mountain peak, several warm and jade-like "Heavenly Roc Eggs" lay dormant, their flowing seven-colored radiance seemingly brighter and softer than before, as if sensing the return of their guardians, silently responding to the blood and desolation that permeated the air.

The martial arts heroes suffered heavy casualties, and no one dared to approach rashly anymore.

But no one is willing to leave like this!

Many gangs quietly chose to take a detour, circling around from the flanks from a distance. The bigger the detour, the safer they felt!

Yinglong slowly turned his head and glanced at the long convoy of cars, which continued to move backward without getting any closer to the island. It seemed that they really were just passing by!
Exhausted from the fierce battle, Yinglong lay down on its side again, entering hibernation once more like some animals! Shockingly, its color changed without warning, blending seamlessly with its surroundings, as if it had transformed back into a massive rock, an impregnable fortress!

Bigwolf said, "Are we still going forward? If we go any further, we'll be too far away!"

Feng Jiuxiao suddenly jumped off the carriage: "Keep going! Stop only when you're three hundred zhang away! Otherwise, it's dangerous!" The speed of the Yinglong far exceeded his expectations! Three hundred zhang might only be a safe distance! Within one hundred zhang, the Yinglong could reach you in the blink of an eye! Within one hundred zhang, whether it's a person or a horse, almost everyone would be doomed!

Bigwof didn't ask any questions, only said "okay," and continued driving.

Pang Shiwu, Zeng Yong, and the others parked their carriage three hundred feet away before returning to Feng Jiuxiao's side together.

Feng Jiuxiao was about 150 zhang away from Yinglong!
He fell into deep thought! At this distance, the power of the Heaven-Shaking Bow could be fully unleashed!

He slowly took out the Heaven-Shaking Bow.

Suddenly he noticed two figures standing still several dozen feet away, seemingly watching him.

Yan Qi and Mr. Mo!

He had heard of this Yan Qi; his lightness skill was considered among the best of the younger generation! His identity was mysterious, and he didn't know which sect he belonged to.

Mr. Mo, who was standing next to him, was also remembered by Feng Jiuxiao.

"You two have been following me the whole way. What, why are you hiding so far away? Come here!"

Yan Qi and Lao Mo exchanged a glance, then steeled themselves and walked towards Feng Jiuxiao. What's meant to be will be.

Above: Yinglong and the Giant Python (End of Chapter)