Above the sky, a colossal creature over twenty meters long, with dark red snake scales shimmering with a hard luster, its massive body reaching a diameter of 1.8 meters, slowly coiled and settled on the edge of the sinkhole. The stones on the edge cracked and fell under its weight…
Then, a triangular snake head emerged. Its eyes were enormous, like two crimson lanterns suspended in the darkness, and a long, dark red tongue flicked out…
The great snake’s crimson eyes were fixed on Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue, who stood on the sacrificial altar below the sinkhole. Its eyes exuded a chilling aura of death, as if it had locked onto its prey. It lowered its head first, its massive body writhing to follow…
“What ‘Hong Tila,’ is this another snake you’ve raised?”
Wan Yunting, still bare-chested, watched the giant snake lower its head from the sinkhole. Its crimson eyes were locked onto him, making his heart tighten. He turned to Ji Ruxue beside him and questioned, “You’re not planning to feed me to it, are you?”
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
Ji Ruxue snorted coldly, but her gaze towards Hong Tila seemed unusual, causing her delicate eyebrows to furrow. She said to Wan Yunting, “You should leave quickly.”
“Alright…”
Wan Yunting grabbed his shirt from the ground, leaped off the altar, and quickly walked towards the long ladder leading out of the sinkhole…
As if in response, the giant snake, which had extended its head, followed Wan Yunting’s movement with its crimson gaze. Suddenly, it slithered down rapidly, heading towards Wan Yunting…
“I’ll be damned, it’s really coming for me…”
Seeing this, Wan Yunting was terrified. He shouted and hurried towards the ladder, for he had never seen such a large snake before, and even a snake would be afraid.
Moreover, this great red snake was much larger than the wise snake Wan Yunting had encountered in the Ling Shan cave. This great snake named Hong Tila was a full twenty-six meters long. He wondered how the Divine Serpent tribe managed to raise such a massive snake…
“Hong Tila, stop!”
Ji Ruxue on the altar, seeing that Hong Tila’s target was Wan Yunting, couldn’t help but reprimand it sternly. However, a sense of panic began to rise within her because Ji Ruxue sensed that Hong Tila’s gaze was not right, as if it were being controlled!
Bang!
Suddenly, an explosion occurred above. The long ladder leading to the bottom of the sinkhole was blown apart by explosives, breaking and collapsing. Wan Yunting, who was halfway down, saw this and flipped himself out, landing back on the central altar.
Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue immediately looked up at the sinkhole’s edge. There stood Clan Leader Xiao Yuku, adorned in a magnificent robe, along with Great Elder Tong Pala and Second Elder Shada, and others. They stood above, gazing down at the two on the sinkhole altar with cold, emotionless eyes…
“Clan Leader, what do you mean by this?”
Ji Ruxue, seeing that the Clan Leader had blown up the sinkhole’s ladder, felt her heart sink, guessing his intentions.
But Ji Ruxue couldn’t have guessed that the Clan Leader also intended to sacrifice her to Hong Tila!
“Isn’t it obvious?”
Wan Yunting’s eyes were sharp, and he stared intently at Xiao Yuku and the others standing above the sinkhole. He snorted and said, “They’re going to feed us to the snake!”
The giant great snake had half its body coiled on the sinkhole’s edge. Its raised triangular head, with its pair of crimson eyes fixed on Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue as its prey, flicked its tongue as if it were swallowing…
“Divine Mother, I am doing this for the future of our Divine Serpent tribe!”
Xiao Yuku, standing above the sinkhole, gazed down at Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue on the altar with cold eyes. He said in a very calm tone, “Hong Tila has been meticulously raised by our Divine Serpent tribe over the years, but unfortunately, its spiritual intelligence has not yet awakened.”
“However, this Chinese person possesses the divine serpent’s blood essence. By feeding him to Hong Tila, perhaps it can awaken its spiritual intelligence and become the new divine serpent of our Divine Serpent tribe!”
Wan Yunting’s eyes widened in disbelief as he listened. He was incredibly angry. He had known all along that Xiao Yuku was not a good person, but he never expected him to plot to feed him to a snake.
This infuriated Wan Yunting so much that his face almost turned green. He turned to Ji Ruxue beside him and said coldly, “Did you know all along that this scumbag was going to feed me to the snake?”
Ji Ruxue’s delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she glanced at him with her charming eyes, shaking her head slightly and saying, “If I say I didn’t know, would you believe me?”
“Hmph.”
Wan Yunting, enraged, snorted and said, “If I had known, I shouldn’t have saved you in South Korea. Your wicked ways, from ancient times to the present, have never been good. And now you even want to feed me to a snake…”
Utterly enraged, Wan Yunting glared at Xiao Yuku above the sinkhole and cursed loudly, “I’ll break your mother’s…”
Ji Ruxue’s expression was no better. She had brought Wan Yunting back to the Divine Serpent tribe to meet the Clan Leader. But in the afternoon, she had sensed that Clan Leader Xiao Yuku was already planning to sacrifice Wan Yunting to Hong Tila. That was why she had warned Wan Yunting and planned to arrange for Wan Yunting to leave Snake Island immediately after their dual cultivation.
However, Ji Ruxue never expected that the heartless Clan Leader would not only feed Wan Yunting to Hong Tila but also sacrifice her, the Divine Mother, to Hong Tila.
Xiao Yuku, standing above, watched Wan Yunting point at him and curse without any concern. A slight smile curved his lips. He then said to the great snake, “Eat them!”
The great red snake could understand Xiao Yuku’s words because it had been raised by Xiao Yuku since it was young. Xiao Yuku had controlled this great snake through some means, and even Ji Ruxue could not control Hong Tila.
With its raised head and its crimson, lantern-like eyes exuding a chilling aura of death, and its flickering tongue, it suddenly opened its massive maw and lunged rapidly towards Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue on the altar…
Bang!
With a loud bang, the altar was shattered by Hong Tila’s massive head. Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue leaped onto the altar ahead of time. They exchanged glances in different directions and watched as the great snake’s entire body landed at the bottom of the sinkhole. Its massive body writhed, and its raised head first locked onto Wan Yunting, its primary target…
Hong Tila shook its head and opened its cavernous mouth, tearing towards Wan Yunting. A foul, pungent stench nearly sent Brother Wan Yunting to his demise…
Seeing the great snake coming towards him, Wan Yunting leaped towards Ji Ruxue. However, the great snake suddenly whipped its thick tail, smashing towards Wan Yunting in mid-air…
“Damn…”
Wan Yunting’s eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but curse. In an instant, his body twisted in mid-air, narrowly dodging Hong Tila’s lashing tail.
He landed steadily beside Ji Ruxue on the opposite side and quickly asked, “Are there any other exits here?”
Ji Ruxue’s eyebrows were tightly knitted. Her charming eyes were fixed on Hong Tila’s turning movements, and she shook her head, saying, “No more.”
Wan Yunting became anxious. He saw the great snake’s chilling crimson eyes lock onto him again and said angrily, “Is there really no other way to deal with this beast?”
The next second, Hong Tila lunged again with its cavernous maw. Although its body was massive, its reaction speed was extremely fast. However, Wan Yunting and Ji Ruxue were even faster, and they both dodged separately…
Wan Yunting grabbed a protruding rock on the stone wall with his large hand and clung to the wall. He stared at the great snake that had missed again. The great snake slowly turned its triangular head, its crimson eyes locking onto Wan Yunting, and then it lashed its tail towards him…
Bang!
The stone wall exploded, sending gravel flying, but Wan Yunting leaped over again. This time, he didn’t choose to flee but landed on the great snake’s massive body. Before it could turn its head, Wan Yunting let out a furious roar, slamming his palm forcefully onto the snake’s body. A powerful surge of energy rippled out…
Hiss…!
Hong Tila let out a low hiss from its open maw. Its twenty-meter-long massive body instantly writhed, clearly indicating that Wan Yunting’s palm had caused it damage…
“Not good, this Chinese person’s cultivation seems to have advanced significantly!”
The Great Elder, watching from the sinkhole’s edge, changed his expression. He hadn’t expected Wan Yunting’s attack to damage Hong Tila.
However, Clan Leader Xiao Yuku appeared very calm, a slight smile on his lips. He looked at the great snake and said, “Don’t worry, Hong Tila’s combat power is comparable to the internal strength of the Martial Dao Gang Jin realm. This Wan Yunting, after dual cultivation with the Divine Mother, has only broken through to the external strength of Gang Jin.”
“I must say, this young man is truly a martial prodigy. To have broken through to Gang Jin at such a young age is something I’ve never seen before!”
“Indeed.”
The Second Elder nodded in agreement, looking at Wan Yunting below the sinkhole. That palm strike not only caused a little damage to Hong Tila but also successfully angered Hong Tila.
Currently, Wan Yunting was darting left and right, constantly dodging Hong Tila’s terrifying attacks. The Third Elder sneered, “It’s a shame, this martial prodigy is going to perish…”
Suddenly, a peculiar sound rang out. Ji Ruxue was holding a special flute. This peculiar sound caused the enraged Hong Tila to stop abruptly. It turned its head to look at Ji Ruxue, then opened its cavernous maw and let out a roar at her, fiercely attacking her…
Bang…
The spot where Ji Ruxue had stood was directly gouged into a shallow pit by Hong Tila’s hard head…
Wan Yunting, hiding behind the great snake, had been under Hong Tila’s fierce attack, constantly dodging back and forth. Seeing Ji Ruxue using her peculiar methods to draw the great snake’s attention to attack her, Wan Yunting breathed a sigh of relief. He watched Ji Ruxue continuously evade the great snake’s attacks and shouted, “Is there any way to control this beast?”
Ji Ruxue, who occasionally played the flute, was also running back and forth to dodge Hong Tila’s attacks. Now, the two of them were like trapped in a coliseum, with Xiao Yuku and the others as spectators…
“No, Hong Tila only obeys the Clan Leader’s commands. It cannot be controlled.”
Ji Ruxue shouted back to Wan Yunting. In the next second, Hong Tila whipped its tail towards her. Ji Ruxue couldn’t dodge in time and was struck in the abdomen by the snake’s tail, sending her flying backward…
With a bang, she slammed into the stone wall and then slid down, falling to the ground. Ji Ruxue’s face contorted, and she let out a mouthful of blood with a groan…
Wan Yunting’s eyes widened. Seeing the great snake slithering towards Ji Ruxue, opening its maw as if to devour her…
At the critical moment, Wan Yunting rushed forward fiercely. He used a stone as a fulcrum with his right foot, soaring into the air. He clenched his left fist, circulating his formidable internal energy to his fist, and struck hard at the left side of the great snake’s head…
Having reached the Martial Dao Gang Jin realm, Wan Yunting’s physical strength and internal energy had both advanced a step. With his full-power punch, he directly caved in the great snake’s head, sending it crashing to the ground with a bang, raising a cloud of dust…
Wan Yunting landed on the ground, scooped up the injured Ji Ruxue, and carried her to a corner of the stone wall. He looked at the woman with blood on her lips and asked, “How are you? Are you alright?”
Ji Ruxue felt as if her internal organs were about to rupture. She looked at Wan Yunting in front of her with her charming eyes and gave a bitter smile, saying, “I’m sorry, I dragged you into this…”