His great sleeve fluttered. A pale hand hidden within it pressed lightly, forming a spiraling, incomparably condensed force of qi that pulverized the head of a lizard-like savage beast, its body covered in steel-like scales and as large as a calf.
The savage beast, weighing more than two hundred jin, crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Xu Tingyun, at the very front of the group, looked somewhat more solemn. Though he had used only half his strength, it would have been enough to kill an Innate Martial Artist. The key was that this lizard-like savage beast had not reached the Innate Realm at all. It was merely an acquired savage beast, except that an invisible aura shielded its body, making it exceptionally difficult to deal with.
On the group's right, Min Tao formed a blade with his fingers and slashed sharply. A dark-golden Qi Blade burst forth, cutting a long snake that had coiled around a tree trunk and lunged at him cleanly in two at the waist.
The snake's species was impossible to identify. Its head was large and its body small, only around three meters long, but its vivid colors clearly marked it as highly venomous. Even an Innate Martial Artist, if bitten once without an antidote pill, would survive only after shedding a layer of skin. And in the incomparably perilous Guardian Forest, that would leave one no more than a step from death.
"Hmm? It's just a venomous snake, not even a savage beast, yet it has such tenacious vitality?"
The venomous snake, severed at the waist and fallen to the ground, continued to writhe and leap. The head in particular even sprang more than two feet into the air, continuing to bite at Min Tao. He swept it away with