Boom!
The instant the two snakes collided, it was as if a ladle of ice water had been poured into a pot of boiling oil, or as if Mars and Earth had undergone a massive collision. A violent aura exploded outward from Jiang Qiao as its center!
Jiang Qiao's vision blurred, and a scene that seemed both real and illusory appeared before him.
He saw the long snake representing life transform into a dark-red, translucent crystal coffin. Gou Chen, reduced to the size of a baby and clutching that bizarre Black Hole, lay quietly inside, motionless.
Inside the Black Hole.
The writhing tree trunk came to a stop, but the old man within it had already vanished.
Some powerful intuition told Jiang Qiao.
The old man had not run away.
On the contrary.
It had already emerged from the Black Hole... It had most likely become Gou Chen, whose body was mostly obscured by the Black Hole.
"Gou Chen..."
"Gou Chen..."
In his daze.
Jiang Qiao heard countless people cheering, rejoicing, and shouting Gou Chen's name.
At the same time.
The black snake representing death began to shatter inside the coffin.
The tiny particles it broke down into resembled minuscule silkworm cocoons. They soon hatched into countless black butterflies. The butterflies filled the crystal coffin, blocking Jiang Qiao's view of Gou Chen.
They beat their wings.
Scattering layer after layer of gray powder.
The moment the powder touched Gou Chen, strange, multicolored mushrooms shaped like human heads sprouted all over its body. The mushrooms quickly crowded against one another, filling the entire coffin.
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
The crystal coffin began to split apart with a fine cracking sound.
"A struggle between life and death."
"This is also a struggle between life and death."
Jiang Qiao fell into thought.
Controlling the