Chapter 52 Profound and Immeasurable
At this moment, Li Lin, Li Yun, Han Feiyu, and the others were wishing they could get their hands on Ye Fan and Pang Bo and skin them alive. No matter how they looked at them, their smiling expressions seemed so immoral and annoying that it deserved a beating. Of course, Ye Fan and Pang Bo felt that their smiles were very bright and sincere. With all the pores around their body open, they felt very relaxed.
“Pang Bo, you’re asking for death! I won’t let you off!” cursed Li Lin, her pretty face icy-cold and emitting a frightening baleful aura.
Li Yun was also infuriated. This was a disaster that they had never thought would fall on them. This unfathomable Awakened serpent was now chasing after them. He shouted, “Pang Bo, it’s you that is forcing us! Even if you are an immortal sprout, I won’t rest until you die! As for that trash, just wait! I’ll make sure to personally slaughter him!”
Puu.
The five-colored vapor was like a motley cloud trying to ensnare everyone. Li Lin and Li Yun no longer had time to speak, quickly running away, afraid the snake venom would catch up to them.
“AHH!” Just at this moment, a miserable scream rang out. One of their members failed to avoid it, becoming a wasted corpse. Even his bones had become corroded black and almost disintegrated.
Everyone was now extremely frightened. This demonic snake was too terrifying; just a random breath of poison vapor caused a cultivator to become nothing more than withered bones. Furthermore, the thing that infuriated them the most was that Pang Bo was running away even faster than a hare, throwing them off far in the distance, basically considering them meat shields for him.
And as for the person they felt was trash, Ye Fan, he was actually at the very front, running faster than everyone else. This made them furious. Even a trash could run faster than them? These talented disciples all felt this was difficult to endure, causing them to feel angry and regretful.
Tch.
The old snake was drawing closer and closer. The jade horn on its head released an intense divine ray that streaked through the sky like a bolt of lightning. It shot towards them, and one of their group members was immediately hacked in half. Scarlet blood splashed onto the surrounding people.
“AHHH!” one of the female cultivators screamed in fear as she was covered in blood. The cruel reality in front of them caused them to feel completely insignificant. In front of this powerful demonic snake, these few people who had just begun their immortal paths had no way of enduring even one blow.
Rumble…
The ground shook as the red-eyed Jade Horned Serpent crushed the forest in its way, charging towards them. In front of this terrifying crisis, some of them couldn’t hold back from cursing, hatefully raging, “How can that fucking trash run so fast?! He’s already almost out of sight!”
“That damnable trash can run faster than us?” Their teeth hurt from their rage, and their hearts were in a mess. The person they saw as a trash was practically flying as he leapt onto the grass.
“When I get an opportunity, I’ll definitely cut these two bastards into mincemeat!” Li Lin and Li Yun might be extremely talented, but they had only been in the Spirit Ruins Paradise for three years. Their cultivation bases had improved at an incredible pace, but they still hadn’t reached the point of being able to use divine rainbows to fly. All they could do was continue running on the ground.
Although their cultivation bases were much higher than Ye Fan and Pang Bo’s, their physical bodies were far from being comparable to the two men who had eaten sacred fruits and transformed, shedding their mortal bodies. Their bodies were far from what ordinary cultivators could compare to. Therefore, they left the rest of them in their dust.
Li Lin and Li Yun naturally knew that the Jade Horned Serpent was after Ye Fan and Pang Bo. They had probably provoked it by climbing into its den and stealing its spiritual medicine. They tried to change directions, not wanting to be on the same path as Ye Fan and Pang Bo, and thus avoid the old serpent. However, what caused them to become frantic was that Ye Fan and Pang Bo stuck to them. With their greater speed, whenever they changed directions, Ye Fan and Pang Bo would quickly run in front of them, not allowing them to escape from the old serpent.
Their lungs almost collapsed in rage. Even Li Lin stopped caring about her image as a beautiful woman and started cursing, “You bastards! That Pang bastard and that trash, I’ll definitely remember you!”
The Jade Horned Serpent was chasing them, and their lives were now on the line. Now, with Li Lin and the others cursing them, even a clay figure would become angry. Ye Fan cursed back, “Don’t worry Miss Li, I’ll also remember you! But it’s not because I’m interested, it’s mostly because of those worn out old clothes you wear…”
Pang Bo also added oil to the fire, saying, “Miss Li with the worn out clothing, if you have time, don’t waste it on cursing us. It’d be better for you to deal with that demonic snake behind you.”
“FUCK!” Li Lin’s whole body was trembling with fury, but she couldn’t split her focus too much, needing to do all she could to run from that old serpent.
Li Yun angrily shouted back, “You two scoundrels are too immoral! You’ll definitely end up dying miserable deaths!”
“Who the fuck is lacking morals? You guys wanted to get rid us since the beginning. It’s only right that you guys have such bad luck now.”
Their entire group was angered speechless. These two were like some disease that couldn’t be cured. Now, life and death hung on a thin line.
Other than Li Lin, Li Yun, and Han Feiyu, the others in the group were obviously unable to continue. Some of them pleaded with the two of them in sobbing tones, “Please, you two junior disci-“
“Who is your junior disciple!” Ye Fan and Pang Bo were very dissatisfied with this appellation.
“My bad, I meant two elder brothers…” In that sobbing tone, they continued, “Especially that trash elder brother, since you can run so fast…there’s no need to stay with us, right? Quickly run further away, I’m begging you!”
Ye Fan had been chased for such a long time now with his life on the balance that he no longer had the detached air he normally had. He directly cursed back, “Who the fuck is the trash…”
Pang Bo also looked back and shouted, “Didn’t you guys want to get rid of us? Now you guys can have a taste of what it’s like to have your life be in danger.” He then increased his speed, quickly moving so fast that they were left far behind.
Puchi.
The cultivator in the rear had inhaled a bit of the poison, and his body was not able to handle it so he collapsed onto the ground. The Jade Horned Serpent rushed past, its huge serpentine body directly crushing him into meat paste. Blood splashed, and a dense bloody smell filled the air.
Hisssss…
The huge serpent stuck out its tongue and one of the disciples seemed to have been sucked in by an incorporeal force, becoming directly trapped within the Jade Horned Serpent’s mouth.
“AHHH!!!”
Barely being able to let out a loud and urgent scream, it was quickly cut short, and that person was swallowed into the serpent’s belly. Blood dripped off its dense white teeth. In reality, that person’s body had already quickly dissolved before it was even swallowed. The terrifying scene caused them to tremble, feeling cold from head to toe.
The distance between them was getting ever shorter, and the Jade Horned Serpent no longer spit out poison or shot out divine light from its jade horn. It would simply open its bloody mouth and spit out its tongue, and then some terrifying and incorporeal force would suck people in and they would be swallowed.
Puu.
Blood splattered, and another person was swallowed in. Blood flowed from its sharp teeth. In just a short time, five people lost their lives. Other than Ye Fan and Pang Bo, the only ones remaining were Li Lin, Li Yun, and Han Feiyu.
“Pang Bo, and you trash, just wait! My great uncle will definitely let you guys live a life worse than death, and then desecrate your corpses!” shouted Han Feiyu in fear and alarm. He was now the closest to the serpent, and at any moment he would be targeted.
The old snake’s three-meter long tongue stuck out. A drop of poison dripped from it, corroding the ground where it landed on and causing it to emit white smoke. Its bloody eyes were fixed onto Han Feiyu.
“NO!” Han Feiyu shouted. His whole body was suddenly enveloped by some incorporeal force, lifting him off the ground and sending him flying towards the old serpent’s mouth.
At this crucial moment, Han Feiyu took out the Green Wood Seal. The Seal became dozens of tons in weight, and traces of green mist flowed out of it as it smashed down.
Bang.
The Green Wood Seal solidly landed upon the old serpent’s head, causing it to shake a bit. However, it basically caused no damage at all. Its horn shot out a divine ray that sent the Green Wood Seal flying, whereupon it heavily landed in the distance and smashed a stone hill to dust.
The Green Wood Seal wasn’t destroyed by this; after all, this was the weapon that Han Feiyu’s great uncle had personally prepared for him. The wood seal had many Dao Glyphs within it, possessing a great deal of power, so it was very difficult to actually damage. Han Feiyu’s cultivation base simply wasn’t high enough for him to bring out the precious Seal’s true might. Currently, he didn’t have the power to hurt the Jade Horned Serpent.
“Great uncle…save me!” Being sucked into the air by the demonic serpent, all Han Feiyu could do was desperately shout. But just at this moment, a jade pendant on his chest lit up with a bright light, becoming a light cover that protected him in mid-air, not allowing the old serpent to swallow him.
Han Feiyu suddenly recalled that this jade pendant was something his great uncle had repeatedly told him to keep on him at all times. Now it seemed that it was a life-saving measure he had left for him.
From a distant mountain cliff, a green ray suddenly soared, and a divine rainbow rushed over in the blink of an eye. The old serpent became afraid, and started to retreat, no longer bothering with the mid-air Han Feiyu.
Li Lin and Li Yun immediately revealed a joyful expression, and Han Feiyu was even happier, shouting, “Great uncle, hurry and save me!”
The divine rainbow arrived, a green light flickered, and a stooped old man with disheveled hair appeared from within. He grabbed Han Feiyu and brought him to the ground. Li Lin and Li Yun hastily went up and bowed.
In the distance, Ye Fa and Pang Bo also stopped, both of them exchanging a worried glance. They wanted to immediately run, but they suddenly saw the old man’s gaze sweep past them, causing the two of them to immediately cease any thoughts of running. A strong person who could use a divine rainbow to fly was not someone they could run from. The two of them didn’t move, silently standing there.
This emaciated old man’s body was not tall to begin with, and adding on his stoop, he was only one and a half meters tall. His long messy hair was white and covered his face. His hands were practically skin and bones, appearing like a black bird’s claws.
“Elder Han, it’s fortunate that you managed to arrive in time, otherwise we would have probably all died here…” Li Lin and Li Yun bowed before viciously glaring at Ye Fan and Pang Bo, saying, “This time you guys are doomed!”
Han Feiyu was even more furious, quietly whispering to the old man. From his expression it was obvious he was talking about Ye Fan and Pang Bo, and his face was full of hatred and rage.
The ghost-like withered old man was not looking at the three people in front of him, but nodding at the Jade Horned Serpent in front of him. In a quiet and coarse voice that seemed like it could end at any time, he said, “Excellent, the Awakened serpent’s jade horn is a good material for refining medicine…”
The Jade Horned Serpent had long since sensed a great danger. It quickly retreated, trying to get far from there.
The messy-haired old man was like a ghost or monster as he floated forwards, not letting it leave. The old serpent spit out a poisonous vapor, enveloping him inside, but a green light flickered and a mysterious light appeared outside Elder Han’s body, completely blocking the poison.
Tch.
The old serpent’s jade horn began blazing with divine light, and many divine rays shot out, trying to pierce Elder Han.
Dong, dong, dong…
Elder Han took out a green wooden ferule that scattered all the divine rays. The Jade Horned Serpent sensed an immense danger from this old man, and it quickly tried to leave. But Elder Han didn’t give it any more opportunities. Twelve green rays shot out of his body, and twelve green wooden swords enlarged, sticking into the ground and forming a cage that trapped the Jade Horned Serpent within.
“Willingly give me your jade horn. If you try to destroy it, I’ll cut it off while you still live!” Elder Han’s words were ghastly and sinister as he glared at the Jade Horned Serpent.
The old serpent became extremely angry, and an ominous light began to grow within its eyes. The jade horn became even more resplendent as it wanted to collect all its divine energy to make a final attack.
Obviously, Elder Han would not give it such a chance. The twelve wooden swords blossomed with green light rays. Intertwining lines were carved into them, looking like snakes squirming, and the twelve wooden swords’ green light grew with a murderous air as they all simultaneously stabbed towards the center.
Plop, plop, plop…
Blood squirted out, as the twelve green wooden swords cut the serpent into more than ten parts. The huge serpentine body spurt out a river-like amount of blood. A fishy and bloody smell immediately drifted through the air as poisonous vapors also burst out.
Ye Fan and Pang Bo inhaled a cold breath of air. Han Feiyu’s great uncle was far too frightening. With as much as effort as raising a hand, he managed to kill the Awakened serpent. His profound and mysterious cultivation base terrified them.
After all, the old serpent’s body was extremely tyrannical, easily capable of pulverizing the huge ancient trees and breaking down the huge stone hills. But this diamond and divine iron-like body had no way of blocking those twelve green wooden swords, immediately being killed and splattering the ground with rivers of blood. This stooped messy-haired Elder Han truly caused them to feel a sense of horror.