A Scroll of Infinite Glory

As the foul-smelling, cold wind swept through the jungle, accompanied by a hissing sound that seemed completely unlike anything a snake could make.

The high-pitched and lingering sound was as if a great horn had been blown on a cliff, stirring up the clouds and shaking the streams and rain.

Such imposing presence, such a physique, such a voice—their imposing presence pressed down on people's hearts, forcing Guan Luoyang and the old eunuch Chen to join forces without a second thought.

Guan Luoyang shifted his stance to a bow position and lunged diagonally. As he dodged, he gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands, swung it high, and slashed upwards with the sword, striking the giant python's jaw from the side. The blade produced a fierce spark and a piercing screech.

The python's wide-open mouth twitched and jerked, but its jaws remained undamaged, preventing any blood from spurting out.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the old eunuch Chen crouched down, took half a step forward, arched his back, straightened his waist, and then suddenly thrust his body upward, using a hands-up-the-sky posture with his palms overlapping, and struck down at the bottom of the giant python's body.

The collision of the palm with the scales produced a vibration like the sound of a large drum being struck, and the two-meter-long section of the python's body, from its head, suddenly rose upwards.

The massive halberd, which had been dragging along the ground, suddenly jerked up, reflecting the sunlight.

Master Jiuying leaped high into the air with such ferocity that it was like a galloping horse leaping off a cliff. He swung his broadsword down from a height higher than the giant python's head.

The 64-pound Spring and Autumn Broadsword was made from a piece of cold iron stored in Wudang Mountain. It was forged and tempered over many times, and mixed with gold, copper, and silver. In addition to its hardness and strength, it also possesses a toughness that far surpasses that of ordinary steel swords.

Master Jiuying's strike was so powerful that the entire blade bent noticeably when it struck the giant python.

The elasticity accumulated on the blade propelled the giant python's body and Daoist Jiuying apart in two directions the instant after the collision.

when!!!!

It was as if a heavy bronze bell weighing a thousand pounds had been cleaved in two.

Guan Luoyang and Eunuch Chen quickly dodged to the sides, and the giant python's body fell to the ground.

Thick, scalding blood splattered from between the broken scales, releasing visible steam as it landed on the withered leaves on the ground.

A wound more than two feet long appeared on the python's back, slicing diagonally across its entire back. The huge, metallic scales were all cut through by this cut, and deep within the trembling, bright red flesh, even the stark white, jagged bones were exposed.

Daoist Jiuying landed ten steps away, staggered several steps, his hands trembled, his tiger's mouth split open, and he could hardly hold the knife in his hand.

The blade of that large sword was still trembling.

That brief exchange just now, though seemingly short, was actually the result of three top experts working together.

Guan Luoyang countered the giant python's charge, and Eunuch Chen tossed the python's body upwards, giving Daoist Jiuying the opportunity to deliver a clean, decisive strike, ensuring that not a single ounce of force was wasted.

But after taking two breaths, Master Jiuying was startled by the scene before him when he took his third breath. He lost his breath and coughed.

After a brief period of unconsciousness, the giant python raised its body again and roared as it rose from the ground.

Its hindquarters emerged from between the canopies of several towering trees, accompanied by many broken branches and leaves falling to the ground. Its heavy body moved with incredible speed, twisting and turning, sweeping out its tail.

Master Jiuying blocked the attack by pushing the hilt of his sword with both hands.

The snake's tail, which made a whistling sound as it cut through the air, bent and coiled the moment it touched the hilt of the knife, instantly engulfing Daoist Jiuying along with the knife.

With a flick of its tail, Daoist Jiuying was involuntarily propelled into the air and thrown into the gaping, scarlet mouth that was flicking its forked tongue.

This monster was clearly severely injured by that knife just now, but now it doesn't care about the threat of that knife at all. As soon as it gets a chance, it shows a greedy and furious desire to chew up the person and the knife together.

Yes, it should be chewed.

Pythons normally use constriction and swallowing to slowly digest their prey, but this monster had many sharp teeth distributed on both the upper and lower sides of its mouth. The upper jaw alone showed three rows of sharp teeth, short, dense, and hard, capable of grinding iron and stone.

A roar!

The serpent lunged forward with its massive jaws, tearing off a piece of Daoist Jiu Ying's robe.

At the critical moment, Guan Luoyang flew over, snatched the Daoist Jiu Ying, stepped on the coiled python's body, and swiftly flew twenty meters away.

He held the Cheng Zhou sword in his mouth, reached out with his right hand, grabbed the King of Yue, and stomped heavily on the ground, creating a shallow pit half a foot deep in the fallen leaves and soil. In just a few steps, he traversed a long distance in the forest and threw the two men in his hands at the Ming soldiers.

Qiu Shi and Qiu Di acted first, using a gentle, embracing motion to catch the two people and neutralize the impact of their throw.

On the other side, the giant python, bleeding profusely from behind, gradually lost control, roaring incessantly. With a flick of its head, it spotted Old Eunuch Chen and lashed out with its tail.

Having learned from Master Jiuying's example, how could Old Eunuch Chen possibly stand in his way?

With one hand hooking and the other striking, he slammed the thick snake's tail, causing it to pause. He then shifted his feet and escaped the range of the snake's swirling tail.

The giant python's scales writhed, transmitting force to its tail, which then lashed out again.

The old eunuch Chen used only two simple actions—hooking, slapping, and smashing—yet he repeatedly escaped unscathed from the snake's tail lashes, even cracking some of the scales on the snake's tail.

The python, in pain and enraged, lunged and bit down repeatedly with its head.

Old Eunuch Chen increased the stride of his feet, covering several meters in a single movement, but his hand movements remained the same, able to swat away both the snake's tail and head.

This is the Wudang School's Turtle and Snake Millstone Double Palm Change, a kind of power change that was comprehended from the action of pushing a millstone.

The Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain practice their skills whether walking, sitting, or lying down. They don't use oxen or donkeys to pull the millstone; they push large stone mills themselves to grind beans and grains, day after day, year after year. They practice the two forces of pushing palms and hooking and rotating until they reach a state of extreme simplicity after great complexity.

Pushing the palm is like a black tortoise, hooking and spinning is like a soaring serpent.

With one palm strike and the other hook and flick, when fighting, as long as you get close to the enemy, the two forces alternate faster and faster, like waves accumulating until, with a certain palm strike or a certain arm flick, they turn into an invincible flood that breaks through the dam.

However, this style of play, which involves constantly accumulating potential energy and increasing speed, is aimed at people.

Now, Eunuch Chen was facing a giant python that was nearly thirty meters long. No matter how much strength he accumulated, it was impossible for him to smash the thirty-meter-long python in one go.

He had no intention of fighting the monster alone. With a few quick movements, he unknowingly led the giant python toward Guan Luoyang.

After hitting the snake's tail again, the old eunuch Chen twisted his spine and lunged to the side, dodging a knife that came down from behind him.

Guan Luoyang's first strike missed, which was expected. He tilted his head back, and bronze-colored patterns flowed and lit up his upper body. He slightly tiptoed, and the light feeling made his body seem to float.

This is a characteristic he noticed while he was on the riverbank.

In addition to generating extraordinary heat, the Bluebird's energy also has the effect of reducing the force of gravity on itself.

Roughly estimated, his weight decreased by one-third in this state, while his limb strength remained unchanged, thus his agility and speed suddenly jumped to a new level.

As the snake's head lunged down, Guan Luoyang retreated and flipped, moving with the agility and speed of a ghost, leaping onto the python's back and stabbing his knife into the wound on its back.

The wound was already deep enough to expose the bone, and this stab cut directly down along the bone, cutting through even more flesh, blood vessels, and even internal organs protected by the bones.

The giant python shook violently and slammed its back directly into the ground.

Guan Luoyang lost his balance due to the giant python's rampage, and heard a violent gust of wind in his ears.

The ground was rapidly receding from him, and when it reached a certain distance, the giant python's body would flip over, dragging him down with it.

His heart suddenly raced, and in that split second, a somewhat crazy idea flashed through Guan Luoyang's mind.

The Three Sovereigns' Continuous Force, the Arhat's Flipping Hammer!

With a whoosh, the hammer's shadow slammed into the hilt of the knife, piercing the entire blade. Immediately afterward, the figure hunched over, arching his back and tearing the wound open with every inch of force, then burrowed downward.

As the giant python's back slammed into the ground, Guan Luoyang forced his way into the damp, scalding blood.

After the initial tremor, it was hot! Scalding! Stuffy!

These sensations occupied all of Guan Luoyang's senses.

The temperature inside this giant python was probably close to the boiling point of water. More importantly, the suffocating heat not only made it impossible to breathe through the mouth, but also squeezed the chest and even constricted and compressed every pore on the body.

A bronze halo was gathering, Guan Luoyang's ten fingers tore through flesh and blood, and his arms, relying on the unique power of short-range force, tore open space for movement.

He could even feel the python's muscles retaliating.

Even from the outside, the giant python appeared to be lying on the ground, with only slight spasms throughout its body.

But inside, the monster's muscles, blood, bones—every part of it—is still trying to repel anything that intrudes, or even destroy it.

The life of a demon is the best masterpiece of the wild and ferocious natural world. It is only by following the opportune time and place of the earth dragon turning over that this true demon, born from shedding its skin, is created.

Even if the python's own consciousness weakens and it becomes fearful, the body's instincts will not give up the fight.

However, when Guan Luoyang was able to move his limbs and tried to stand up inside the giant python, the last remaining resistance of this man-eating monster was no longer so important.

The python's body was lifted up, and Guan Luoyang stood on the ground with his hands reaching out from the wound. He grabbed the sides with his fingers, lifted the python's corpse off his body, and pushed it away.

Blood drenched his entire body, blurring Guan Luoyang's hair and eyes.

BOOM!!!

Old Eunuch Chen came from behind and slapped him on the head.

Guan Luoyang's feet sank three inches into the ground, his body swayed, but his back remained almost straight. He spun around, raised his arm, and slammed it backward, retaliating against the old eunuch with an elbow.

Old Eunuch Chen flew out and landed on the ground. As soon as his back touched the wet soil, he tried to use his waist and back to straighten up.

But all that's reflected in front of me is the sky.

"Huh? Why didn't ours stand up?"

He tried several times in his mind before he felt his hand slowly rise and press on his abdomen, slowly groping upwards.

Every muscle and bone that used to move with ease had become inexplicably dull and numb until he touched his chest and suddenly realized what was happening.

It turned out that his chest had caved in; his heart had been ruptured by that elbow strike.

Old Eunuch Chen's eyes widened, his pupils dilated, and he breathed his last, unwilling to accept his fate. In his final moments, he was still thinking.

"Unbelievable! He actually perished together with an unknown nobody..."

He would never know that there was a hole in his clothes, and the edges of the torn fabric looked like embers from a fire.

He would never have known that the only consequence of slapping Guan Luoyang was a dizzy head and vomiting all over the place.

Qiu Shi rushed over: "Brother Guan..."

"I'm fine, ugh!!"

Guan Luoyang had only eaten medicinal herbs in the past two days, and they had mostly been digested and excreted. What he vomited was all bitter water. He managed to say, "Those people have been playing the iron pipes, so they must have accomplices. I can't make a move for now. Let's go."

"The corpse of that monster..."

"No, let's go!"

The python's carcass was abandoned, but Qiushi still insisted on digging something out of its belly.

Just as Guan Luoyang and his group left, figures draped in cloaks rushed out of the woods.

Another group of men in tight-fitting clothes and sorcerers with unusual temperaments arrived one after another.

When Hua Mi stepped into the pool of demon blood, more than 500 people had already gathered in this area.

The middle-aged man with a short, needle-like beard said, "The ambush failed. Damn it, we must hurry back and inform Lord Ma."

This group of people were Ma Qiang's trusted confidants.

Hua Mi put her hand on the shoulder of the middle-aged man who was turning to leave.

"Who said it was a failure?"

She looked at the corpse of Eunuch Chen, frowned, then relaxed, and snorted, "It's still more than fifty li from here to the garrison in Chengyin. This matter is not over yet."

Previously, they had to divide their forces to search for people in the dense jungle, but after this battle, the whereabouts of the King of Yue have been completely exposed.