"Junior Brother Qin used Fierce Tiger Pouncing!"
"Has he trained Fierce Tiger Fist to the museum master's level?"
Liu Hao watched the figure battling the white python, his eyes filled with deep shock.
Thinking of how he had once instructed Qin Shuang in Fierce Tiger Fist, he felt utterly ashamed.
"Whoosh!"
Qin Shuang's figure flashed, and he instantly raced toward the depths of the Xuan Yin Mountain Range. He planned to lure the White Jade Golden Pattern Python to an uninhabited place, then use Tiger Form Divine Intent to kill it.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss~~~"
The White Jade Golden Pattern Python pursued him relentlessly. Trees toppled and rocks flew wherever it passed!
In the blink of an eye,
Qin Shuang and the White Jade Golden Pattern Python disappeared into the forest.
"It's over. Junior Brother Qin can't beat that white python. It chased him into the mountains."
Liu Hao watched the direction Qin Shuang and the white python had vanished in, worry flickering in his eyes.
After all, Qin Shuang had saved them. If not for him, they would never have escaped today!
"That beast is too strong..." Jin Yang sighed. "I hope Qin Shuang... has heaven's favor and good fortune... We're too weak to help him at all... He did save us, though. Let's follow from a distance and see if there's any way we can help!"
"Mm."
Liu Hao nodded.
He knew perfectly well that all he and Martial Aunt could do was watch from a distance. If Qin Shuang lost, the white python would swallow him whole, leaving not even a trace of his bones.
Qin Shuang used Grass on Flying at full mastery, racing onward.
His toes skimmed the treetops as he glided forward, swift as lightning. Below him, the White Jade Golden Pattern Python's eyes gleamed with a cold light as it pursued him relentlessly, snapping every tree in its path. Its aura was terrifying.
The man and snake raced for nearly twenty li.
"Roar!"
A tiger's roar suddenly rang out ahead!
"There's a tiger up ahead?"
Hearing it, Qin Shuang's eyes lit up. He immediately sped toward the sound.
Before long,
Qin Shuang saw two tigers, each two zhang long, staring at him from beside the entrance to a cave in the forest.
He noticed a tuft of white fur in the middle of one tiger's forehead. It was a White-Browed Tiger with Fiery Eyes!
The instant Qin Shuang landed, the tiger leaped at him!
"You vile beast!"
Qin Shuang instantly unleashed Fierce Tiger Rending. His Qi and Blood surged, and the blood-shadow of a fierce tiger appeared around him as he pounced at the White-Browed Tiger with Fiery Eyes!
Boom!
With a deafening crash, Qin Shuang's Fierce Tiger Rending smashed the tiger's head flat. Its massive corpse flew five zhang away!
[ F i e r c e T i g e r F i s t h a s a d v a n c e d t o T i g e r R o a r D i v i n e F i s t ! ]
The instant Qin Shuang killed the White-Browed Tiger with Fiery Eyes, a notification rang out in his mind.
At the same time,
A vast flood of information poured into his Sea of Consciousness. It was all about the techniques and insights behind Tiger Roar Divine Fist!
At that moment,
Qin Shuang felt as if he had spent twenty or thirty years cultivating this divine tiger fist!
He realized that Tiger Roar Divine Fist condensed a tiger-shaped divine intent from Qi and Blood, turning it into a powerful punch that could slay enemies!
And then,
He also felt an immense surge of Qi and Blood flow into his entire body, bathing all 206 of his bones and strengthening his flesh and skin!
"Roar!"
The other tiger seemed to be female. Seeing Qin Shuang kill the male White-Browed Tiger with Fiery Eyes, she roared in fright, terror in her eyes, and turned to flee!
"Where do you think you're going?"
Qin Shuang used Grass on Flying and caught up in an instant. He leaped onto the tiger's back and punched it on the head!
Splat!
Its head burst open like a watermelon!
At the same time,
The White Jade Golden Pattern Python caught up to within two zhang of Qin Shuang!
Its scarlet tongue flickered as its giant tail lashed toward him, trying to coil around him. But Qin Shuang's fully mastered Grass on Flying was too fast, and he dodged by a hair's breadth.
"Roar!"
The instant Qin Shuang evaded the White Jade Golden Pattern Python's attack, he unleashed Tiger Roar Divine Fist. His Qi and Blood surged, and his whole body transformed into a blood-red tiger. Its roar shook the heavens!
Boom!
The tiger Qin Shuang had become struck the White Jade Golden Pattern Python's head with a punch. Its head snapped backward, carrying its body flying through the air before it landed seven or eight zhang away!
In midair, scarlet blood sprayed from its mouth, and two bloodstained fangs shot into the distance.
"Hiss~~~"
The White Jade Golden Pattern Python hissed. Fear filled its eyes as it looked at Qin Shuang, and it turned to flee!
"I'd like to see where your cave is!"
Qin Shuang watched the White Jade Golden Pattern Python flee and followed at a leisurely distance.
It was an ingredient for refining Dragon Blood Pills. How could he let it escape?
He had held back three-tenths of his strength when he used Tiger Roar Divine Fist just now, only grievously wounding the White Jade Golden Pattern Python.
He knew that the White Jade Golden Pattern Python's evolution meant the place where it lived was extraordinary. Qin Shuang wanted to investigate and see if he could find anything else.
The man and snake raced on. A quarter of an hour later, Qin Shuang followed the white python to the foot of a cliff. Its face was as smooth as a mirror, with a few pines growing on top and vines hanging down.
Weeds and dead leaves covered the ground below the cliff, filling the air with a rotten stench.
The white snake slithered toward a cave over four chi high beneath the rock face!
"Whoosh!"
How could Qin Shuang let it enter the cave?
His figure flashed, and he lunged forward, grabbed the White Jade Golden Pattern Python by the tail, then gave it a fierce shake as he pulled it outward!
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!!"
The White Jade Golden Pattern Python let out a thunderous hiss from within the cave, desperately trying to burrow farther inside.
Although Qin Shuang was still in the Bone Forging Realm, his strength had reached a terrifying level—comparable even to a Qi and Blood Furnace. And as he gripped the python's tail, more than a zhang long, and shook it again and again, he dragged the White Jade Golden Pattern Python inch by inch out of the cave!
The two sides struggled for ten minutes. At last, the White Jade Golden Pattern Python could hold on no longer. It suddenly backed out, opened its gaping maw, and spat a stream of venom at Qin Shuang!
Qin Shuang had expected this. Still holding the white python's tail, he used Swimming Dragon Movement Technique to dodge the venom!
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
The venom hit the ground, and a large patch of grass withered and turned black in an instant!
Tiger-shaped Qi and Blood swirled around Qin Shuang. He gripped the White Jade Golden Pattern Python's tail and shook it violently up and down!
The White Jade Golden Pattern Python hissed again and again, trying to twist around and attack Qin Shuang. But as he shook it harder, its body went limp against the ground, leaving it on its last breath!
"Die!"
Qin Shuang grabbed the White Jade Golden Pattern Python and swung it around!
Bang!
The python's enormous head slammed against the rock face again and again, sending stones flying!
Qin Shuang smashed it against the cliff seven or eight times. The White Jade Golden Pattern Python fell silent, dead as dead could be.
"I'll look inside the cave first!"
Qin Shuang left the White Jade Golden Pattern Python by the entrance and headed into the Snake Cave.
The Snake Cave extended deep into the rock face. It was dim, but Qin Shuang could still see clearly.
He made his way upward. The passage was very smooth, with a layer of fractured rock running through the middle. Qin Shuang climbed more than twenty meters before a glimmer of light appeared ahead.
"What's this..."
At the end of the light, Qin Shuang found a cave divided into two stone chambers, each two zhang across.
Three snakeskins lay on the floor of the chamber on the left.
In the chamber on the right, forty or fifty porcelain bottles were scattered across the floor. Beside the wall sat a skeleton, cross-legged. Its bones gleamed like jade, and a faint golden sheen shone from its spine and the center of its brow. The robe on its body had weathered into dust.
A black, sheathed long saber lay beside the skeleton's knees.
Qin Shuang walked over and examined the porcelain bottles. They were all empty; not a single pill remained.
"No wonder the White Jade Unicorn Python evolved golden markings. Looks like it took the pills in these bottles!"
Looking at the empty porcelain bottles on the ground, Qin Shuang suddenly understood.
It was a pity.
But the white python had absorbed the pills, and if he absorbed the white python, it amounted to the same thing.
In a corner, Qin Shuang also found fragments of some manuals. A few words were still faintly visible on them.
But,
So much time had passed that the fragments had weathered away. They crumbled to powder at the slightest touch.
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