The "living" metal snake became soft and coiled around the blood-glowing jade bracelet.
Three pairs of blood-jade snake eyes flickered, then lit up.
Whoosh!
A Three-headed Snake Blood Soul, six or seven meters long and as thick as a bowl, flew out from within the metal snake. It had broad wings and pounced straight at Li Weiyi.
It was enormous!
Its bloody aura stung the nose, carrying a faint Wind Force that struck terror into the soul.
Yet it was very faint, like mist.
Clearly, Director Yang did not know the true method for activating the Three-headed Snake Bracelet. While fumbling about, he had stumbled upon the blood-sacrifice method and released a weak wisp of snake soul from within.
For an ordinary person, being able to control even a wisp of snake soul was already extraordinary.
"How could there be such a bizarre thing?"
The blood soul was practically a Ghostly Creature—huge and savage. How could Li Weiyi dare touch it? He immediately dodged and fled.
Fortunately, his reactions, movement, and footwork were exceptional, and he was fast enough. After evading the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul's attack, he pulled the Yellow Dragon Sword from the old man's chest.
An image flashed through his mind: the Yellow Dragon Sword cutting through the White Bone Demon's hair, turning it into mist in an instant.
This sword was undoubtedly one of the Divine Weapons and Sharp Tools that restrained demons and sinister aberrations.
Li Weiyi drew upon the scorching current in the sole of his right foot and sent it into the Yellow Dragon Sword.
A faint layer of yellow light appeared along the blade.
As he fled at high speed, it was as though he had eyes in the back of his head. He stopped abruptly and spun around. The sword in his hand swept upward, carving a crescent-shaped arc through the air as it precisely struck the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul diving down behind him.
His judgment was precise to the extreme, as though the blood soul had deliberately rammed itself into his blade.
Where the Yellow Dragon Sword struck the leftmost head of the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul, it began to burn.
In an instant.
The already-faint head could no longer hold its shape and dissolved into wisps of mist.
Having succeeded with one strike, Li Weiyi no longer felt the slightest dread toward the unknown. Battle intent blazed in his eyes as he strode forward, actually chasing after the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul and hacking at it.
For a time, sand and stones flew across the ground.
It had wings, but it could not fly high.
The sight was like an ordinary man hunting down a demon.
No one knew how many people present were stunned by the scene.
A member of Laboratory 705 tried to pick up the Shotgun again, but Gao Huan and several expedition members who had been untied pinned him to the ground together. The pretty female graduate student picked up the Shotgun as though it were a burning coal, hurried to the rail, and threw it into the sea.
By the time Gao Huan saw it and shouted for her to stop, it was too late.
That had been a gun—the last gun on the ship that still had ammunition.
Frightened by Gao Huan's roar, the female student squatted by the rail with her hands over her head, trembling.
No matter what, all the expedition members had clear eyes. They knew perfectly well whom they should trust. When Xie Tianshu, Chen Hong, and Kong Fan had committed their crimes, why had no one from Laboratory 705 come out to stop them?
To maintain the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul, Director Yang lost a great deal of blood. His body continued to shrivel, and he gradually weakened until he knelt on the ground.
But it was useless. The Three-headed Snake Blood Soul was no match for Li Weiyi at all.
Very soon, it was chopped into several pieces and vanished like smoke.
While Li Weiyi battled the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul, the bespectacled middle-aged woman from Laboratory 705 calmly took off her coat, revealing the Scripture Belt tied around her waist.
The belt was bright yellow and two inches wide, densely covered in scripture.
Laboratory 705 had observed the Bronze Ship for many years. After it crashed onto the ship, they had been the first to reach the place where the Bone Humans were located. Thus, they had taken several Immortal Objects.
The middle-aged woman took out a small bottle of Golden Crow Blood and poured it over the Scripture Belt.
The Scripture Belt's blood-sacrifice method differed from that of the Three-headed Snake Bracelet. The blood of dead things would suffice.
Whoosh—
As the Golden Crow Blood soaked in, some of the scripture on the belt immediately emitted a blood glow. Her entire body seemed shrouded in a faint cloud of bloody mist.
The expedition members who rushed forward to restrain her were just about to pounce on her when their vision blurred, and she appeared several steps away.
She was clearly just an ordinary person, yet under the Scripture Belt's enhancement, her movement speed became utterly uncanny.
Li Weiyi had not yet killed the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul when the middle-aged woman had already closed in.
By the time the Three-headed Snake Blood Soul broke into several pieces and dispersed, the middle-aged woman had taken out a Black Iron Seal the size of a fist and slammed it into the ground only six or seven steps from Li Weiyi.
Boom!
Thunder rumbled.
From the bottom of the Black Iron Seal shot a bright, twisting Electric Shuttle, streaking straight toward Li Weiyi.
The Black Iron Seal and the Scripture Belt had both been obtained from the Bone Human whose skeleton had nearly turned to gold and jade. Their quality was extremely high; even without knowing the proper activation methods, they could unleash considerable power.
Li Weiyi's senses were sharp. With no time to turn around, he immediately rolled sideways and narrowly evaded the electric light.
The shoulder of his left sleeve was charred black. The fabric had carbonized, and his skin burned with pain.
If he had been even slightly slower, it would have struck his neck or head.
Though the Black Iron Seal possessed remarkable power, it needed a heavy blow to unleash lightning. Moreover, because the middle-aged woman did not know the true method of control, fine currents surged into her palm when she released the electric light, leaving her arm numb with pain and making it difficult to launch a second attack quickly.
Fortunately, the blood glow released by the Scripture Belt protected her. Otherwise, her arm would have suffered far more than mere numbness and pain.
After dodging the lightning, Li Weiyi moved like a leaping ape and immediately closed in on the middle-aged woman.
Swish!
Her movement was as illusory as sorcery. She evaded Li Weiyi's first sword strike, which only cut off a lock of her hair.
One had to know that Li Weiyi had practiced martial arts since childhood. Empowered by that scorching current, his movements and techniques had become transcendent, carrying the bearing of a martial arts master. Yet she had merely activated the Scripture Belt and could turn decay into wonder. It was truly unbelievable.
The two were wary of each other. Sometimes she fled; sometimes Li Weiyi retreated.
Elsewhere, Gao Huan and the others were eager to untie the expedition members. No one noticed that Xie Tianshu, who had lost an arm and lay in a pool of blood, was undergoing an earth-shaking transformation.
After absorbing the blood flowing from his severed arm, the dragon pattern on the Dragon Pattern Ring around his thumb turned blood-red and flickered with a faint bloody glow.
His heart resonated with the rhythm of the flashing dragon pattern, and his blood flow slowed more and more.
The wound where his arm had been severed stopped bleeding.
Fine, icy scales grew across his skin. His forehead swelled unevenly, forming irregular coral-like ridges.
Li Weiyi soon realized that the middle-aged woman could not keep using the Black Iron Seal.
After only four uses, her entire hand had turned black and would not stop trembling.
The blood glow emitted by the Scripture Belt was also rapidly fading.
"You simply do not know how to use these Immortal Objects. Every time you use them, the damage to your body grows worse." Li Weiyi could tell that if she used it once more, her entire arm would be ruined.
There was no need to fight her head-on. Once the blood glow of the Scripture Belt dispersed, she would naturally cease to be a threat.
Awoo!
A piercing roar, like a wolf, a tiger, and a dragon all at once, echoed throughout the Bronze Ship.
Li Weiyi, the middle-aged woman, and the many expedition members were all shocked as they looked toward Xie Tianshu, who had already climbed to his feet.
Pairs of eyeballs nearly fell to the ground.
Within the faint Nether Mist, Xie Tianshu was still one-armed, but his body had expanded to a height of nearly 2.8 meters. Nearly all his clothes had been burst apart.
His skin had turned into black scales the size of fingernails.
His remaining left hand had transformed into a huge, sharp claw.
His feet had also mutated, and his soles had doubled in width.
The Dragon Pattern Ring remained on his claw, shining even brighter. A blood dragon woven from dragon patterns slithered across the ring as though alive.
Some expedition members screamed, some had their legs go weak, and some ran away.
Xie Tianshu had already frightened them badly before. This Xie Tianshu needed no explanation—he was certainly even more terrifying.
"Did... did he secretly drink Flood Dragon Blood?"
"Scales, claws, his head... it really could be. His body is clearly mutating toward a Black Flood Dragon."
"How could he dare?"
"Li Weiyi, you are the one responsible for my severed arm. Neither Black Flood Dragon Corpse Blood nor the Dragon Pattern Ring can make it grow back."
After his Dragon-like Mutant transformation, Xie Tianshu stomped toward Li Weiyi with heavy steps, accelerating as he charged. His cup-sized eyes were filled with fury.
He arrived in the blink of an eye, swinging his claw at Li Weiyi's head and stirring up a fierce Wind Force.
Li Weiyi stepped back, and the sharp claw sliced past the tip of his nose.
Over the past few days, he had experienced too many strange things beyond explanation. Even though Xie Tianshu had nearly transformed into a demon now, Li Weiyi was able to regard it calmly.
After evading the claw, he stepped forward and struck Xie Tianshu's chest with his sword.
Clang! Clang! Clang...
Countless sparks burst where the blade collided with the black scales on his chest, leaving only a shallow mark.
Xie Tianshu quickly stepped back. Upon realizing he was uninjured, he laughed heartily. "I have Flood Dragon Scales protecting my body. What can you do to me? Don't worry, I won't let you die too easily."
Li Weiyi looked at the Yellow Dragon Sword in his hand.
"Without using the scorching current inside my body to activate it, the Yellow Dragon Sword really is only somewhat sharper than an ordinary blade. It cannot make things collapse at a touch."
Not far away, the middle-aged woman from Laboratory 705 took out another bottle of Golden Crow Blood and prepared to pour it onto the Scripture Belt.
Catching the sight from the corner of his eye, Li Weiyi crossed a zhang with every step and rushed toward her.
"Trying to run?"
Xie Tianshu gave chase in great strides.
His footsteps were so heavy that the ground trembled faintly.
Pfft!
Li Weiyi cut off the middle-aged woman's head with a single sword strike without the slightest hesitation, then seized the Black Iron Seal from her hand. Turning around, he dropped to one knee, looked up at the pursuing Xie Tianshu, and smashed the seal heavily into the ground.
Boom!
Accompanied by a thunderclap.
A bright Electric Shuttle shot from the bottom of the seal and struck Xie Tianshu.
Xie Tianshu was blasted backward, his body turning even blacker...
Somewhat scorched, smoke rose from his entire body.
Li Weiyi did not fare well either. He was struck by the lightning backlash from the seal, and his entire arm was numb with pain, having lost at least half its sensation.
"This seal definitely isn't meant to be used like this. She was just blindly messing around!"
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