Another characteristic of Burmese pythons is that their numerous vertebral growths continually lengthen their bodies, and females are even larger than males.
Given ample food and no natural predators, Burmese pythons will continue to grow. Even before the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had revived, people had discovered Burmese pythons reaching lengths of 10 meters.
Especially this type of python, with a lifespan of up to twenty-five years, such a long life allows them sufficient time to grow into massive bodies.
Furthermore, the combat skills of Burmese pythons are astonishing. Although they appear sluggish in their daily lives, they attack with incredible speed. They use their massive bodies to tightly constrict their prey, crushing bones and organs, causing severe internal bleeding or suffocation.
The Burmese python's diet even includes ferocious beasts like tigers and crocodiles. An adult female Burmese python can swallow an entire deer or a calf in one gulp.
Originally, there were no pythons from Southeast Asia in the United States. However, Americans, who are fond of novelty, imported many pythons to keep as pets.
The problem is that Burmese pythons never stop growing. Many of these snakes exceed 5 meters. Once these cold-blooded animals reach a certain size, they are no longer cute. Consequently, these snakes were abandoned.
In places like Florida, the air is humid, food is abundant, and pythons have almost no natural predators. Many crocodiles even become food for pythons. As a result, these pythons began to breed prolifically in the wild, becoming an invasive species that greatly troubles Americans.
Ling Tian was very satisfied with these reptiles, which possessed such impressive attack and defense capabilities, and thus, he decided to capture some.
Seeing the giant snake preparing to attack, Ling Tian commanded Shadow Leopard to retreat. After all, once the python attacked, its speed was astonishing, and if Shadow Leopard were caught, it would also perish.
Although Shadow Leopard could conceal itself in the darkness and dim light, this was useless against snakes. Snakes use their loreal pits to sense temperature changes and locate prey.
Now, this giant snake had sensed the arrival of another large creature.
Ling Tian did not approach directly to subdue the snake, as doing so required him to place his hand on its head and perform a ritual over a period of time.
What he needed to do now was to calm the snake down and make it wait obediently for his favor.
Ling Tian directly took out several talismans and slowly infused them with his true essence.
Soon, the patterns drawn on the talismans lit up, emitting a blue glow.
This blue light slowly dispersed and finally drifted towards the giant snake.
As the blue light enveloped the giant snake, the temperature around it began to drop.
Even the temperature sensing of the snake's loreal pits was disturbed. The giant snake was puzzled, feeling that it had lost track of Ling Tian and the others.
As the energy from the talismans was slowly released, the temperature around the giant snake continued to decrease, eventually dropping below zero degrees Celsius.
This drastic cooling, while not immediately fatal to the giant snake, caused a rapid decline in its bodily functions. The snake began to coil up, gradually entering hibernation.
Even snakes living in tropical regions will hibernate when the temperature drops below a certain point, as snakes are cold-blooded animals.
A weakness of cold-blooded animals is that when the surrounding temperature drops to a certain level, their body temperature also decreases, causing their bodies to stiffen and become immobile.
This is because the energy required for biological activity needs to be catalyzed by enzymes within the body. However, enzymes have specific temperature requirements. When a snake's body temperature is low, enzyme activity significantly decreases, and the energy produced by their bodies will be insufficient to meet their activity needs, leading to slow movement and stiffening.
As the temperature continued to drop, the giant snake lay motionless, completely entering hibernation.
Ling Tian was not worried that the snake was faking it. He had been closely monitoring the snake's condition with his Heavenly Eye divine ability and could sense that its metabolism had reached an extremely low state, so low that it could not even move its body.
Ling Tian walked forward, extended his hand, formed a hand seal, and chanted incantations. He placed his hand on the giant snake's head. Soon, the giant snake was enveloped in golden light and absorbed into the spiritual realm space.
Thus, Ling Tian did not rest. As soon as Ah Li and the other pets detected large snakes and crocodiles, they would send him information.
Ah Li would directly knock out the crocodiles and drag them ashore. As for the giant snakes, Ling Tian dealt with them in a similar manner, subduing them with low temperatures before slowly taming them.
Ling Tian worked tirelessly for an entire night. By the time dawn broke, he returned to the camp with a still energetic Ah Li.
"Where did you two go?" Ou Ruola was also very curious about Ling Tian's sudden departure. Ling Tian did not hide anything from Ou Ruola and told her his plan.
"So, you subdued ten giant crocodiles and ten giant pythons?"
"Yes, they will be my Tuolong Legion and Python Legion. From now on, anyone who dares to provoke me will be swallowed whole!
Also, with these creatures, it will be much easier to dispose of bodies and cover up evidence." Ling Tian replied with a smile.
Tuolong is the ancient Chinese name for crocodiles. Ling Tian felt that this name was much more imposing than "crocodile."
Just then, someone knocked on the door. Ling Tian opened it to find Feng Xiaoxi.
Feng Xiaoxi handed Ling Tian a tablet computer.
"Mr. Ling Tian, the information you requested about the assassin Guterres has been sent over by the American branch of Misty Rain Pavilion."
"Alright, thank you, Xiaoxi."
Ling Tian took the tablet computer, returned to his room, and began to read it carefully.
He was shocked by what he saw. Guterres and his subordinates, the Beehive Killer organization, had blood on their hands.
A frosty expression appeared on Ling Tian's face. He had no mercy for such people; his only desire was to send them to meet Satan.
The intelligence was detailed, but there was also a regrettable lack of information regarding the location of the Beehive organization's stronghold.
This was because a killer organization was inherently very secretive, making it extremely difficult for Misty Rain Pavilion to infiltrate.