Chapter 363: ying the Green Serpent


    Qi Shaoqing immediately approached Wang Hong and the dozens of Foundation Building cultivators inside the cave.


    Wang Hong had noticed Qi Shaoqing''s group approaching from a distance, and he had no objections. He didn''t understand why there were so few people with Qi Shaoqing, but more hands meant more strength, as long as they didn''t hinder their progress.


    The group hurriedly ran forward, covering over a mile. The green snake behind them continued its relentless pursuit.


    Suddenly, they heard a furious roar from behind, and a green streak of light shed through the air beforending in front of them.


    When the green streak of light came to a halt, its true form was revealed: a green serpent with a single horn on its head, roughly the thickness of a water bucket. Its pair of triangr eyes emitted a green glow as it stared at Wang Hong and his group, who were approaching it.


    Wang Hong and hispanions, who had been rushing forward, saw this scene and immediately stopped in their tracks, narrowly avoiding colliding with the serpent.


    "Ah! A third-tier green serpent!" Qi Shaoqing and the others, who were approaching Wang Hong, eximed as they saw the creature from a distance.


    "What should we do? Should we regroup or retreat?" someone asked anxiously.


    Qi Shaoqing nced back and said in a low voice, "We''ve already been exposed, and there''s no way back now. Let''s move closer slowly and take it one step at a time."With the earlier roar, the Demonic Beasts from the Peak side had already started chasing them, leaving them with no way to retreat.


    Wang Hong looked at the green serpent blocking their path and guessed that this third-tier green serpent was likelymanding the lower-tier Demonic Beasts.


    With no time for pleasantries, both sidesunched attacks simultaneously.


    The green serpent swung itsrge tail towards Wang Hong''s group.


    At the same time, over a thousand people on Wang Hong''s side, including more than a hundred Foundation Building cultivators, alsounched their attacks on the green serpent. The twenty-plus cultivators wielding shields to defend were knocked to the ground by the sweeping tail.


    Simultaneously, the attacks of over a thousand peoplended on the green serpent''s body, with most of them hitting the same area, the serpent''s vulnerable spot.


    Thebined force of over a thousand people, even though the green serpent was a third-tier Demonic Beast, was overwhelming. The area where they struck the serpent turned into a gruesome mess of flesh and blood.


    At this moment, more than a hundred Spiritual Weapons and over a thousand Magical Weapons were continuously cutting into the green serpent''s body. Despite the serpent''s formidable body, it couldn''t withstand the slow but steady grind of so many weapons.


    In pain, the green serpent wildly thrashed its tail into the crowd, sending groups of cultivators rolling on the ground with broken bones, severed tendons, and even fatalities.


    Qi Shaoqing and his group were getting closer to Wang Hong''s camp and were witnessing the ferocity of the green serpent. They slowed their pace.


    "Beast! Cease your arrogance!" Wang Hong shouted and summoned arge to envelop the green serpent.


    If they allowed the green serpent to attack freely, Wang Hong and his group would likely suffer heavy casualties even if they eventually won the battle. Wang Hong couldn''t let that happen.


    Upon seeing therge descending, the green serpent lowered its body to the ground, creating a gust of wind as it swiftly dodged to the side.


    Wang Hong couldn''t let it escape so easily. His figure blurred, and he executed the Shifting Positions technique, appearing in front of the green serpent. He thrust his spear directly at the serpent''s face.


    The green serpent, finding a mere Foundation Building cultivator daring to block its way, raised the horn on its head and thrust it toward Wang Hong.


    "Boom!" The sh between the spear and the horn sent shockwaves through the surrounding area.


    As their powers collided, Wang Hong was thrown back more than twenty feet, while the green serpent was pushed back over ten feet.


    Qi Shaoqing and hispanions, following closely behind, were all astonished by this sight.


    "Senior Brother Qi, I heard that this Wang Senior Brother is a core Alchemist of the Pill Hall. How can he possess such formidable Body Refining cultivation, already capable of facing a third-tier Demonic Beast head-on? Could it be that Alchemists are more suitable for Body Refining?" a fellow cultivator asked Qi Shaoqing.


    Qi Shaoqing found it difficult to answer this question. He, too, had been an Alchemist, and with the support of a Nascent Soul elder, he hadn''t achieved such a level of Body Refining cultivation.


    Meanwhile, therge had already descended upon the green serpent, and it violently contracted, ensnaring the creature.


    However, as a third-tier Demonic Beast, the green serpent wasn''t going to give in easily. Its long body struggled within therge.


    If it were an ordinary Spiritual Weapon, it would have surely been torn apart by now. However, each vine on Wang Hong''srge was made from a two-thousand-year-old Devilish Vine Refinement, a material that surpassed ordinary magic weapons.


    Unable to break free, the green serpent opened its mouth and sprayed a green liquid towards Wang Hong.


    Wang Hong quickly blocked it with a wooden shield, and the green liquid sizzled upon contact. His high-grade Spiritual Weapon wooden shield soon bore severalrge holes, which rapidly expanded until the entire shield disintegrated.


    At this critical moment, mes suddenly appeared in Wang Hong''s hand. He flicked the mes towards the iing venomous liquid.


    As the mes met the venom in mid-air, they ignited violently. Contrary to expectations, the venomous liquid didn''t extinguish the mes but instead burned fiercely.


    In no time, the venom was incineratedpletely, and the mes continued their path,nding on therge restraining the green serpent.


    The mes rapidly spread across the, covering its entire surface. Though Wang Hong''s had many poisonous thorns, the green serpent''s body was too formidable for them to prate. However, this Spirit Fire was different; it was a potent me,parable to Golden Core True Fire.


    The green serpent was soon reduced to agonized cries, struggling within the. However, this Spirit Fire was not easy to extinguish.


    The serpent''s cries grew weaker, and it became evident that it would sumb to the Spirit Fire eventually.


    Upon witnessing Wang Hong''s use of Spirit Fire, Qi Shaoqing recognized its origin. It was a type of Spirit Fire cultivated specifically after practicing the Sect''s Cultivation Technique called the "Wood-Fire Incineration Technique."


    However, this technique was incredibly challenging to master, and no one within the sect had seeded in recent years. Qi Shaoqing also knew how Wang Hong had managed to seed, and he had just witnessed that Wang Hong''s Spirit Fire was even more powerful than what the sect recorded.


    At this moment, the pursuing Demonic Beast horde had closed the gap to within a couple of hundred feet behind them.


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