Chapter 134: Slaying the Python
The team leader grabbed An Yiqi, and both of them crashed into the stone wall, feeling a massive object rushing past them like a high-speed train.
Those scales emitting a blue-white fluorescence under the Scale Glasses brushed past them at high speed, directly knocking the glasses off their faces.
Sparks flew everywhere as their armor clashed with the scales, forcing their bodies against the cave wall so they couldn't move, feeling as if they'd be crushed, nearly out of air in their chests.
"Ah!" the two couldn't help but scream out loud.
Chen Guan, who was stuck to the nest's exit, activated the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm at the first moment the Ghost-Eyed Python charged out, striking towards the python's body as it crashed in like a train.
But since the Ghost-Eyed Python moved too quickly, Chen Guan hit right behind its head. By the time his palm met the python, it was already at the rear end. Fortunately, he still managed to hit it.
The Yin Fire Force from the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm entered the Ghost-Eyed Python's body, and immediately, bluish flames seemed to rise from within its body.
Chen Guan didn't pause, continuously striking with both hands, hitting the Ghost-Eyed Python again and again with the Profound Nether Yin Fire Palm. By the time its entire body rushed through, it had already been hit four times by Chen Guan's Yin Fire Palm, igniting the Yin Energy within, making its body somewhat translucent, as if turned into a blue flame serpent.
The Ghost-Eyed Python was so large that it couldn't turn around in this cave passage, continuing to rush forward.
Chen Guan glanced at the other side towards the team leader and An Yiqi, noticing their Reserve Team Silver Armor was already tattered, with many parts completely destroyed, exposing their flesh, bleeding in several places, looking quite grim.
"Get into the nest, the Ghost-Eyed Python will be back soon," Chen Guan shouted to them.
The team leader and An Yiqi knew if it hit again, they'd probably lose their lives, so they hastily ran inside the nest without addressing their wounds.
Chen Guan summoned Embers Rabbit, also running into the nest and had Embers Rabbit stand at the entrance to distract the Ghost-Eyed Python.
His gaze turned to the snake sheddings and the strange tree root, standing within the nest, about twenty to thirty meters long, thinner towards the top and thicker at the bottom, buried in thick snake sheddings, unclear whether it grew from underground or was placed there by the Ghost-Eyed Python.
Chen Guan pulled the snake sheddings, discovering these Ghost-Eyed Python sheddings weren't as soft as ordinary ones; the scales were still hard and very elastic, cold to the touch.
The connecting parts of the scales were translucent, smooth, and silky like satin.
Chen Guan tried pulling this entangled snake shedding but couldn't move it, while sharp scraping and rumbling sounds echoed from the passageway.
It seemed the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python found a turning spot and was turning back.
Chen Guan leaped to the side of the tree root, pulling aside adjacent snake sheddings, finding this root wasn't growing from underground but stuck in a crack in the ground.
Feeling its unusually hard and smooth texture, Chen Guan suddenly had an idea, telling Embers Rabbit to guard the entrance while shouting to the team leader and An Yiqi, "Quick, come help pull away the sheddings."
The two quickly came over to assist, joining Chen Guan in pulling the sheddings towards the nest entrance, piling up a large mound behind Embers Rabbit.
"Push this thing over..." Hearing the noise outside growing nearer, Chen Guan had no time for explanations, urging the two to help topple the tree root.
The tree root was surprisingly heavy, as if made of iron, and even with the combined strength of the three, they couldn't lift it.
"There's no time... together now..." Chen Guan heard the noise outside intensifying, knowing the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python was almost upon them. He ran to the root's far side, calling the team leader and An Yiqi to join him, leading all three to kick the root simultaneously.
The root didn't budge, not a hint of damage, but the rock crevice beneath it couldn't endure such force, developing cracks.
"Again..." Chen Guan said in a low voice.
The three simultaneously kicked hard again, one kick after another amid the roaring noise as the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python charged back.
At the moment it dashed into the nest, the rock gripping the root broke, causing the root to topple in the direction they applied force, landing right onto the snake sheddings.
"Dodge!" Chen Guan roared, commanding Embers Rabbit, who was bravely facing the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's charge, to move aside.
Though Embers Rabbit was powerful, its body size was vastly outmatched. No matter how fierce a rabbit, it couldn't withstand a rhino's charge head-on.
Embers Rabbit sneered wickedly, adjusting its position to sidestep, and as the Ghost-Eyed Python's gaping mouth approached, it leaped with astonishing speed into the air.
The Ghost-Eyed Python struck at the air, its momentum carrying it into the snake sheddings.
Meanwhile, the root fell among the sheddings, its point aimed squarely at the Ghost-Eyed Python's open mouth, piercing right in.
The Ghost-Eyed Python charged too intensely, with poor vision, failing to spot the root. Its immense inertia forced the entire root into its body.
Releasing a ghastly screech, the Ghost-Eyed Python's half-body became rigid and unbendable, desperately shaking its head to dislodge the swallowed root.
But it was too late. Without Chen Guan's command, Embers Rabbit had already leapt again, its paws wielding the Pig-killing Saber, chopping at the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's head.
Crack!
Embers Rabbit's slash buried the whole blade into the snake's head, the sound of bones and scales shattering audible.
Yet the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python hadn't died, still struggling. The body held rigid by the root, unable to bend, leaving only its tail thrashing wildly, unable to reach Embers Rabbit standing atop its head.
Crack! Crack!
Stroke after stroke, Embers Rabbit's saber cleaved blood and bone into the air, cutting innumerable times until it hacked the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's head in half.
The Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python finally lay still, its entire body covered in the python's bloody shredded flesh and fragments of bone, Embers Rabbit gripping the Pig-killing Saber, standing in the split head's center, its silhouette indescribably eerie and terrifying.
"Is this the Evil Adorable Rabbit? How is this Evil Adorable Rabbit so fierce?" The team leader and An Yiqi were stunned. To split the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's head, what kind of destructive power was this? When did the Evil Adorable Rabbit gain such mighty capability?
Embers Rabbit licked the blood on its face, about to use the Blood-sucking Technique to drain the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's energy, but suddenly noticed innumerable particles rising from its body.
Without the Scale Glasses, the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's body appeared gray-purple, with scales like translucent gray-purple crystals, exuding a mysterious and sinister aura.
At this point, its flesh, scales, and bones all disintegrated into tiny particles, floating towards Chen Guan.
In Chen Guan's pocket, a creature just larger than a palm-sized animal was trying hard to open its eyes wide, its eyes shining with peculiar halos, staring intently at the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python's body.