Chapter 179: Fierce Battle with the Ancestral Serpent
"You should know that I never take any threats."
Qinchuan had a calm expression; he didn't take the Primordial Ancestral Serpent's fierce threats to heart at all.
"You forced me! Since you insist on not letting me go, today I'll fight you to the death!"
"Roar!"
The Primordial Ancestral Serpent roared angrily, despite its innate fear of Qinchuan.
However, it couldn't just sit and wait to die.
"Fight to the death? You think too highly of yourself!"
Qinchuan sneered, the Undying Mountain floating in his hand, "The fish may die, but the net will not break!"
"Roar!"
The Primordial Ancestral Serpent howled in rage, the ferocity in its eyes blazing. It could no longer contain the boundless anger and resentment bursting forth.
It growled lowly, its body twisting as its terrifying aura burst forth, causing the entire Myriad Spirit Garden to tremble.
Its size surged, expanding from dozens of zhang to over a hundred, its massive form filling the ethereal realm, causing continuous trembles in the void.
Even the Sect Elders from various major sects waiting outside the Myriad Spirit Garden sensed something and showed shock and trepidation on their faces.
"What's going on, such a terrifying aura, what has happened inside the Myriad Spirit Garden?!"
The Primordial Ancestral Serpent's terrifying aura even penetrated out of the Myriad Spirit Garden.
At the same time, people saw a terrifying huge figure shifting in the void above the Myriad Spirit Valley.
The figure was blurry and indistinct, unclear, but it caused one's spirit to tremble, feeling fear and panic from the depths of their hearts.
The Tianxuan Elder of the Taixuan Sect and the Red Sword Elder of the Red Daen Gate, along with all the waiting Elders of various sects, all opened their eyes wide, shocked as they looked toward the terrifying apparition projected in the void.
"Boom!"
The void trembled as if it exploded.
The huge figure shook, causing fear.
Inside the Myriad Spirit Garden.
The Primordial Ancestral Serpent moved, attacking first, its ferocious gaping maw swallowing towards Qinchuan.
The terrifying aura that plummeted pressed down so heavily that even the ground sank.
Qinchuan stood tall, his calm gaze fixed on the Primordial Ancestral Serpent, the Undying Mountain revolving in his hand, igniting blazing treasure light.
"It's been a hundred thousand years, and you still can't change your bad habit of gluttony!"
"How did those twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords taste?"
Qinchuan's hair flew about wildly, even though his cultivation level was only at the first layer of the Meridian Opening Realm. Facing such a fierce beast from the Primordial Wilderness, he was not at all panicked and never really took his opponent too seriously from beginning to end.
With one hand holding the Undying Mountain and the other forming a spell, his tranquil eyes suddenly burst forth with a blazing crimson light.
The crimson gaze cascaded down like a waterfall as the Emperor Soul within him fully blossomed in that instant. The terrifying murderous aura that penetrated deep into his bones and spirit erupted from Qinchuan's sliver of Emperor Soul.
"Whoosh!"
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In an instant, the heavens and earth changed color, sun and moon both sunk into oblivion!
The entire Myriad Spirit Garden, in that instant, was illuminated by a crimson hue, the tangible blood-colored murderous aura roiling, filling the whole garden, and staining the sky!
It even penetrated to the outside world, causing the sky above the outside Myriad Spirit Valley also to be dyed red!
The terrifying murderous aura caused the heavens and the earth outside to change color as well, and even Qinchuan's figure was projected and manifested, enveloped in the boundless blood-colored murderous aura, appearing like a towering Asura!
The Elders from various sects waiting outside the Myriad Spirit Garden, seeing this spectacle, were all scared stiff, shocked by that figure and the terrifying murderous aura, and they trembled in horror.
"Roar!"
As they watched, along with the figure enveloped in the endless blood-colored murderous aura, like an Asura forming a hand seal, the blurred figure of the huge Primordial Ancestral Serpent projected in the void suddenly raised its head to cry out in grief, its body painfully twisting in the void, instantly filled with even greater terror.
"Who is that?! That blood-colored aura, is it murderous intent?! Such terrifying killing intent, what kind of dreadful being could have soaked in so much blood to condense such a horrifying aura of murder?!"
"And that beast, what monster could it possibly be, to possess such a terrifying presence, to cause such an anomaly!"
The elders of Tianxuan and the others felt a chilling horror, their hands and feet ice-cold.
Within the Myriad Spirit Garden.
As Qinchuan formed hand seals, the Primordial Ancestral Serpent immediately let out a piercing, agonized wail. Its gaping maw that was hurtling towards Qinchuan to swallow him did not close, but its body suddenly twisted and rolled violently.
When it had consumed Gu Li and the others earlier, it had swallowed them whole along with their swords.
The twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords had been directly devoured into its stomach.
Now Qinchuan had fully activated the awakening sliver of his Emperor Soul, ushering the Spiritual Intelligence within the Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords and took control with the Divine Art, manipulating the twelve Divine Swords to slash within the body of the Primordial Ancestral Serpent.
Although the exterior of the Primordial Ancestral Serpent's physical body was extremely tough, its internal organs could not possibly be as indestructible as its exterior.
Furthermore, the twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords, being far from mortal grade, were roused by Qinchuan's Emperor Soul and harnessed with the Divine Art, posing a threat to the Primordial Ancestral Serpent.
"I will kill you!"
The Primordial Ancestral Serpent lowly growled, enduring the pain and charging forcibly towards Qinchuan, spewing out elemental breath.
A terrifying beam of destruction erupted from the mouth of the Primordial Ancestral Serpent, piercing through the void, shooting towards Qinchuan.
"Go!"
Qinchuan was unruffled. With a flip of his left hand, Undying Mountain immediately surged forward to meet the attack, growing as it caught the wind. Brilliant divine light sparked across its surface, revealing various Mysterious Runes of ancient text.
Those Mysterious Runes of ancient text took the forms of terrifying fierce beasts: the Taotie, the Qiongqi, the Vermilion Bird, the Fenghuang, the Kunpeng, the Teng Snake…
All sorts of notorious fierce beasts surged out from the Undying Mountain, not their True Bodies but forms manifested by the imprinted Mysterious Runes within the mountain.
The layers of divine light triggered by the Undying Mountain blocked the destructive beam fired by the Primordial Ancestral Serpent.
A host of awe-inspiring fierce beasts pounced towards the Primordial Ancestral Serpent, engaging it in a fierce battle.
"You were not my match ten thousand years ago, and you think you can stir up a storm against me now, after ten thousand years?"
Watching the Primordial Ancestral Serpent caught in a predicament, Qinchuan remained calm.
Even though his Cultivation Level was not as in the past, the contingencies he had left were beyond count.
The twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords that had suppressed the Primordial Ancestral Serpent in ancient times, as well as the Undying Mountain, were all extraordinary treasures of this world.
Having been severely wounded in ancient times and forcibly suppressed in this place by him, the Primordial Ancestral Serpent had been subjected to the torment and weakening of both the Demon-Sealing Great Formation and the Time Formation night and day. Its strength had fallen to the lowest of lows, far from the untouchable Primordial Ancestral Serpent that once wreaked havoc in the Myriad Realms.
That is also why the life force of the Primordial Ancestral Serpent is terrifyingly tenacious.
Any other being, if stricken severely by Qinchuan and then suppressed by the Demon-Sealing Great Formation and Time Formation for a hundred thousand years, would have long since turned into a pile of bones.
To have lived until now was already a stroke of fortune for the Primordial Ancestral Serpent.
As for retaining any strength, that was but a foolish daydream.
Qinchuan ceaselessly manipulated the spells, with the twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords and Undying Mountain working in tandem, rendering the Primordial Ancestral Serpent utterly miserable and struggling with difficulty.
"Stop…"
"Spare me, spare my life… I am willing to be suppressed again, never to emerge!"
In the end, the Primordial Ancestral Serpent, in fright, could not help but beg for mercy; it was completely overpowered by Qinchuan.
If it had not carelessly swallowed the twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords in the beginning, it would not be in such a wretched state now.
But at that time, the Primordial Ancestral Serpent, having barely escaped its confinement, clouded by towering resentment towards the Human Race, did not think too much and swallowed Gu Li and the others—Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords included—laying the groundwork for calamity.
Now, despite its struggle to expel the Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords, controlled by Qinchuan, they moved through its body, rendering them impossible to be expelled.
Meanwhile, the approach of Undying Mountain added insult to injury, worsening its dire situation.
"Since I've said before that the day you break free will be your day of demise, then today, there will not be a second outcome," Qinchuan said, his long hair fluttering, his scarlet eyes cold without a hint of emotion.
His right hand shifted hand seals, and the twelve Evil-Suppressing Divine Swords suddenly merged into one, with increased sharpness, piercing through its body all the way up to the top of its head. With a "puff," it burst out from the top of its head, slaying its Primordial Spirit.