Chen Xin’s ears twitched. Amidst the sky-filling buzzing of bees, he detected a distinctly different sound. It was as if a massive beast was flapping its wings in the air, guiding the wind as it flew and circled.
A Bone-devouring Flying Eagle!
Chen Xin immediately thought of Bird’s Beak, one of the Four Demon Nether Envoys who possessed the Eagle Training Inheritance. What he raised was exactly an Exotic Beast with ancient bloodlines—a Bone-devouring Flying Eagle with a wingspan of nearly thirty feet.
Looking out of the corner of his eye toward the source of the sound, Chen Xin spotted two transparent panels floating behind the right side of the swarm.
"Very well, I’ve found your positions... I’ll kill you guys later," he muttered.
"I must kill the injured one first!" The thought flashed through Chen Xin’s mind, and his Lightweight Skill moved accordingly. Holding Unstoppable, he charged at the Golden Snake Demon.
The Golden Snake Demon’s expression changed drastically. He swung the broken half of Assault Wind, viciously smashing it into the ground. Fierce True Qi poured into the earth along the whip, and the ground within a thirty-foot radius instantly exploded, sending dirt and rocks into the sky.
Then, the Golden Snake Demon exerted force with his wrist, sending the long whip upward. The whip’s wind whipped up the dirt and rocks, pouring down with the might of thunder.
Celestial Spirit Thousand Splits: Earth Dragon Flipping Over!
The Golden Snake Demon’s original Assault Wind was over ten feet long. With force penetrating to the tip of the whip, it sounded like startling thunder exploding in the void, producing a majestic whip wind that paired perfectly with the move Earth Dragon Flipping Over.
However, after Chen Xin’s Unstoppable severed a third of it, the Golden Snake Demon used Earth Dragon Flipping Over again. Although it still carried massive momentum, its power was no longer what it used to be, retaining only seventy percent of its original strength.
Having struck with one whip, the Golden Snake Demon, knowing his own limits, moved like a meandering snake, rapidly leaving his original spot.
Without even sparing a glance, Chen Xin unleashed a blood-red Sword Qi with a slash of his saber, tearing apart the flipping earth dragon. Its power did not diminish, and its momentum did not stop. If the Golden Snake Demon hadn’t run fast enough, this Sword Qi would have been enough to cleave him in two.
Meanwhile, the "dark cloud" blotting out the moonlight swooped down. Tens of thousands of frenzied wasps all aimed the stingers on their abdomens at their target, entirely unafraid of death. The dense, incessant buzzing rose and fell, seeming to fill every corner of the world!
Every single frenzied wasp was far larger than ordinary. Who knew what Exotic Beast bloodline they possessed or what bizarre toxins they carried? It was best not to get stung... Chen Xin stepped like a meteor, moving like a falling star. He was even faster than the swarm and vanished in an instant!
The sky full of frenzied wasps pounced on empty air. Immediately after, Chen Xin slashed out another wave of Sword Qi, weaving a thorny net of thousands of blades and forks. This was the exact move he had previously used against Venerable Wuxiang, Zhou Yin—the Seven Kills Saber Technique: Star Fall Silence.
It was yet another massive net of Sword Qi that almost engulfed every available gap in heaven and earth! This time, it wasn’t meant to counter Zhou Yin’s unpredictable Soft Whip Technique, but to catch the sky full of frenzied wasps in one fell swoop!
SWISH!
The network woven by Sword Qi swept through the bodies of the frenzied wasps without any hindrance, as if cutting through tofu. Like a torrential downpour, a ceaseless stream of wasp corpses plummeted to the ground.
SCREECH!
Suddenly, amidst the buzzing and the pitter-patter of corpses hitting the ground, a discordant, ear-piercing shriek rang out, echoing like thunder!
Chen Xin’s gaze focused. He held his saber horizontally in front of his chest, secretly circulating True Qi to protect his body.
BANG!
A giant eagle carrying two Demon Nether Envoys suddenly appeared, violently breaking through the wasp swarm. Like an unstoppable seventy-mile-per-hour heavy truck, it crashed into Chen Xin.
Chen Xin was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing heavily into a cypress tree. The massive tree shook violently, seemingly on the verge of falling apart. Although Chen Xin had raised his saber with his right hand to block the strike, the immense force still caused blood to spill from the corner of his mouth, leaving half his body numb.
A faint rustling sound echoed, as if a venomous snake was slithering through the weeds.
WHOOSH!
A severed whip shot out like lightning, aiming straight for the crown of Chen Xin’s head. A smug sneer surfaced on the Golden Snake Demon’s sinister face. He had been lying in wait for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.
Little did he know, Chen Xin was also luring the snake out of its hole.
The Golden Snake Demon’s Wandering Snake Step was treacherous and unpredictable, its Grade no less than that of the Meteor Meteor Body Technique. If he failed to kill his opponent with an unexpected strike and wanted to flee, Chen Xin might not be able to catch up to him in the dense forest terrain.
But now, it was different since the Golden Snake Demon had revealed himself.
Chen Xin reached out his left hand, moving later but arriving first. His index and middle fingers clamped down on the approaching Assault Wind whip with pinpoint precision. As his Finger Force surged, it shattered the True Qi the Golden Snake Demon had channeled into the whip.
This move was the Breaking Rope Technique of the Majestic Seven Luminaries Finger, specifically Venus’s Swift Movement, which could break all types of soft weapons.
Venus was the Evening Star. When the Evening Star dispatched troops, going along with it brought good fortune, while going against it brought disaster.
This sudden clamp left the Golden Snake Demon greatly astounded. Not only did it break his whip technique, but the Finger Force even traced upstream, surging so intensely that he couldn’t channel Qi through the many meridians and acupoints in his right hand.
"This is bad," the Golden Snake Demon thought. Just like a venomous snake, he prepared to swiftly retreat since his strike had failed.
But a flash of saber light was even faster than him. In an instant, it slashed across his neck, decapitating him with a single strike.
After cleanly slaying the Golden Snake Demon, Chen Xin didn’t linger. He executed the Meteor Meteor Body Technique and shot out rapidly.
A breath after Chen Xin left the tree, the "dark cloud" of frenzied wasps swarmed over, relentlessly clinging to his trail.
SCREECH!
Just as Chen Xin broke free from the swarm, he saw a giant eagle swooping down once again in the night sky, beneath the round moon.
"Beast, try this!" Chen Xin sneered. With a flip of his left wrist, an iron-gray sphere appeared in his hand.
It was a Thunderbolt Fire Bomb produced by Zhurong Hall, a bonus item Kongkong’Er had voluntarily given him along with the Ba Snake Bag.
On the back of the Bone-devouring Flying Eagle, the eyes beneath the Nuo masks of Bird’s Beak and Wasp suddenly shrank to the size of pinpricks. Under the moonlight, the object in Chen Xin’s hand was clearly visible—it was Zhurong Hall’s Thunderbolt Fire Bomb!
They were well aware of this item’s power. It was utterly terrifying. Once triggered and detonated, even an Outer Realm expert would suffer severe injuries, and anyone within a thirty-foot radius wouldn’t be able to escape the fate of being reduced to ash.