Becoming a Martial Master: Starting as a Swordsmith

The snake demon immediately felt the pain and roared, its attack becoming even more ferocious.

His claws lashed out at Shen Chu in rapid succession, as fast as a storm, each claw accompanied by a sharp whistling sound and a foul-smelling poisonous mist.

Good grief, it's a bio-engineered soldier!

Shen Chu dared not be careless at all. He used all his skills to move around the temple, while using the pillars, walls and fire as cover to deal with the snake demon.

However, after a dozen or so moves, Shen Chu's heart sank.

This snake demon is too fast and too strong.

Although his silver-patterned meteorite iron longsword could offer some resistance against the snake demon, the difference in strength between the two was undeniable.

The fact that they were able to withstand these few moves without being defeated was already due to their superior weapons and the snake demon's underestimation of them.

If the fight continues, he will undoubtedly lose.

run!

The thought flashed through Shen Chu's mind.

He shifted his stance, feinted a strike to force the snake demon back, and turned to rush towards the temple gate.

However, he had only taken two steps when he suddenly stopped.

The temple entrance had been sealed off by a layer of gray-black fog at some point.

The mist writhed slowly like a living thing, emitting a sweet, fishy smell that made people dizzy just by getting close.

Clearly, the snake demon sealed off the entire dilapidated temple after making his move to prevent him from escaping!

Shen Chu's heart sank to the bottom.

"Still trying to run?"

The snake demon let out a sinister laugh, its vertical pupils flashing with cruel light.

"You think I'll fall for your tricks a second time? You're not going anywhere tonight. You'd better be my meal!"

He pounced forward suddenly, his claws outstretched, aiming straight for Shen Chu's vital points!

Shen Chu gritted his teeth and raised his knife to parry.

With a loud clang, the blade and claw collided. Shen Chu felt an overwhelming force emanating from the blade, which made his tiger's mouth go numb and his entire right arm lose feeling. The long sword almost flew out of his hand!

He was thrown backward by the immense force, crashing heavily into the wall.

A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood!

He struggled to get up, but his arms were trembling so badly that he could barely hold the knife.

The snake demon approached step by step, extending its long, forked tongue to lick its lips, its eyes filled with greed and smugness.

"Good bones and muscles, vigorous blood and energy; this must be very nourishing!"

Just as his claws were about to fall,

A thin figure suddenly rushed over from the side.

The man held a sharp iron rod in his hand and, with all his might, plunged it into the snake demon's neck!

The scales in that area were a slightly lighter color and also a bit smaller than the other scales.

That's precisely the snake demon's Achilles' heel!

puff!

The iron rod pierced through the iron rod with a loud thud, penetrating to a depth of about half a foot!

The snake demon's body stiffened abruptly, letting out a piercing scream, and its entire body convulsed violently.

Shen Chu looked up and saw...

It was that boy who did it.

He was gripping the blood-stained iron rod with both hands, trembling all over, but with a resolute look on his face!

"you!!"

The snake demon roared and tried to turn around to grab the boy, but at this moment his weak point was broken, and his demonic power surged out of the wound like a flood, and his body began to convulse uncontrollably.

After staggering a few steps, the snake demon finally collapsed to the ground, struggled a few times, and then stopped moving.

The boy released the iron bar, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

Seeing this, Shen Chu's tense nerves finally relaxed.

He stepped forward, helped the boy up, forced a smile, cupped his hands in thanks, and said, "Thank you for your help, young brother..."

The boy raised his head, his lips trembling, about to say something, when his expression suddenly changed.

His gaze went past Shen Chu's shoulder, fixed on what was behind her, his pupils filled with fear: "It...it's...it's up again..."

Shen Chu's heart sank, and she turned her head away with difficulty.

The snake demon, which had been lying on the ground, slowly stood up once again.

Its body was covered in cracks, and large patches of scales were peeling off. Black mist continuously seeped from its body, making it look countless times more wretched than before.

But the fierce light in those vertical pupils was more intense than ever before!

It looked at Shen Chu, then glanced at the terrified boy, its eyes filled with a mixture of anger, humiliation, and a barely perceptible fear.

It was so close, just a tiny bit away, that it was killed by those two ant-like creatures!

hateful!

If I hadn't been injured, how could I have ended up in this state!

"You two..."

The snake demon's voice was hoarse and deep.

"Very good...very good..."

The snake demon then walked towards Shen Chu step by step, leaving a charred footprint on the ground with each step.

Its injuries were too severe; it was at its last gasp. But the hatred in its eyes, the desire to tear Shen Chu to shreds, sustained it as it moved forward step by step.

As Shen Chu watched it approach step by step, she tried to raise the knife in her hand, but found that her arm was completely out of her control.

The boy instinctively grabbed his arm and moved backward step by step.

The two could only watch helplessly as the snake demon dragged its broken body closer and closer to them.

"I'm going to eat you alive!"

The snake demon's face was full of sinister grins.

He walked up to Shen Chu, raised his sharp claw high, and pointed the claw directly at Shen Chu's heart!

A deep sense of powerlessness welled up in Shen Chu's heart.

He still has so many things he hasn't done, so many things he hasn't yet seen to see just how big the world really is...

Am I really going to die here like this?

To die in a dilapidated temple, to die at the hands of a snake demon?

He is not willing!

But he really had no strength left!

Just at this critical moment, a crimson light suddenly shone from Shen Chu's arms!

The red lotus that the strange man in the green robe had given him seemed to sense something and flew out of his arms on its own, hovering in mid-air.

The petals then slowly bloomed, and the crimson light grew stronger and stronger, staining the entire dilapidated temple with a blood-red hue.

A mysterious and eerie aura emanated from the red lotus, carrying an irresistible pressure.

When the snake demon saw the red lotus,

He was stunned at first, then the fierce light in his eyes was replaced by fear!

"No! How could this be! How could you have...?"

The snake demon let out a shrill scream and turned to run away, but it was too late.

The red lotus flower suddenly opened, like a giant mouth, generating a powerful suction force.

The snake demon's body was utterly powerless against this suction force, like a withered leaf caught in a vortex, completely sucked into the red lotus.

The petals of the red lotus closed up and trembled slightly, as if chewing on something, before returning to calm after a moment.