"Boom!" A tremendous roar suddenly rang out. In an instant, heaven and earth lit up as a massive bolt of silver lightning shot down from the clouds and crashed into the mass of Green Lotus Core Flame.
The lightning came quickly and vanished even faster. Before the thunderous ringing in Xiao Xie's ears had fully faded, the dark clouds overhead began to rapidly disperse.
Xiao Xie stared intently into the Green Lotus Core Flame. When the lightning had struck from the sky just now, the Amaterasu Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame within his body had appeared simultaneously, enveloping him and protecting him from the lightning.
Xiao Xie withdrew the Green Lotus Core Flame. On the ground lay the enormous snake, its entire body charred black and utterly still. Its cold body was no different from that of a dead snake.
However, Xiao Xie knew that Queen Medusa had successfully evolved. Under his watchful gaze, the scorched outer skin of the stiff, collapsed giant snake carcass slowly began to peel away.
The peeling gradually accelerated. In the end, Xiao Xie could vaguely make out something within the giant snake's corpse, as though it were about to burst free.
"Bang!" The giant snake's corpse on the ground suddenly exploded. Black scales shot in all directions, while a section of the corpse was instantly reduced to powder.
At the very instant the giant snake's corpse turned to dust, a vast and terrifying aura abruptly burst forth, spreading across the entire city at a horrifying speed.
"Her Majesty the Queen succeeded?" Sensing a faintly familiar feeling within that aura, countless snake people throughout the city looked at one another. Then, their faces filled with wild joy, and earth-shaking cheers resounded through the skies.
Xiao Yi Xian, who had been waiting in the palace,