Bitter Battle

The Withered Bone Mountain Range, how vast is it? With Ji Tian's current cultivation, it still can't be known. It could also be said that it doesn't possess the strength to know. Currently in the outermost area, it is still troubled by survival.

After all, there is a being in this region that can be called a king. If it wants to obtain more, it must devour the opponent's soul flame. It wants to obtain more information.

The appearance of the Bone Dragon shocked it for a long time, but it also ignited its fighting spirit. It doesn't want to live a life of being sealed, but if it wants to gain freedom, it must become strong.

However, it doesn't even know the information about the strong beings in this region. It might die without even knowing how it died. That would be a tragic end.

It needs more information. Undoubtedly, the strong beings in this region will provide it with everything it knows.

From the Lizard's memories, Ji Tian knew that this Flying Demonic Tiger was a deserter from the depths of the Withered Bone Mountain Range. It could also be said that it was too stupid and was driven out, becoming a king and overlord in this outer region.

It is said that in the depths of the Withered Bone Mountain Range, there are peculiar resources for Ghost Bodies to cultivate. This is what Ji Tian desires most.

Ji Tian's current strategy is still to defeat them one by one. It doesn't know if it can defeat the Flying Demonic Tiger. After all, the opponent is a Purple Flame expert and possesses the ability of Levitation, making it a troublesome opponent.

But what brings it comfort is that its Core Elixir can provide more spiritual power, allowing it to refine peculiar bones like the bull horns and Lizard claws.

Although the quantity is not large, they are its strongest weapons.

Tailgating, sneak attacking – this is tailor-made for it. The Ghost Body is truly wonderful, able to blend into this black world, black mountains, black malevolence, deathly aura. It is its best disguise.

This is a Bone Snake with a single horn on its head, a black horn. The Skeleton Race is truly a strange creature. It really doesn't know how they control their own skeletal bodies.

Although the Bone Snake is a Blue Flame level, a faint hint of purple has already been mixed into the Blue Flame, meaning it already possesses considerable attack power.

The most obvious difference is that its eye sockets are not empty. It seems there is a transparent bone membrane forming the inner wall of its skull, protecting its soul flame. Outside its body are a thousand legs, which are feet it refined from its ribs. From a distance, it looks like a centipede.

The Bone Snake is very arrogant, its chest bone raised high. The tongue, which was originally meant to extend and retract, has been replaced by its soul flame.

A fire-breathing Bone Snake.

Since the experience of fighting the Lizard, Ji Tian feels that dealing with these skeletons is not that difficult anymore. The skeletons' main weapon is their bones. As long as their bones can be broken, it's enough. The soul fire also has a certain lethality and the characteristic of devouring others, but so far, it hasn't encountered anything that can devour it.

Ji Tian slowly followed behind, looking for an opportunity. It found a lone skeleton. Its foot was caught in a crack in the stone, emitting a whistling sound. A bone needle flew out.

"Crack!" The skull of this Skeleton Race shattered. Ji Tian was very excited. This Bone Snake had actually come to a canyon-like area, which was most conducive to its performance. The mountains were covered with its weapons. If a large rock was accidentally dislodged by it, even heaven would be helping it.

Perhaps it was the spiritual power mixed in the bone needle that made the Bone Snake sense something. It turned its head and spat out a blue tongue, making a hissing sound.

Ji Tian realized this skeleton was not easy to deal with; it had high alertness.

"Crack... Crack..." Ji Tian couldn't wait any longer. It struck first. With a "scattered heavenly flowers" technique, it shot out more than a dozen needles from its body. Each bone needle hit a skeleton, leaving only the Bone Snake and a lucky Green Flame skeleton.

The Bone Snake let out a long hiss, turned its head, and pounced towards Ji Tian.

Ji Tian used the Gravity Technique to hurl nearby stones at the Bone Snake. What depressed Ji Tian was that the roadblocks it set up were easily crushed into pieces by the Bone Snake. The Bone Snake suddenly coiled around a large rock, the size of a person, and tried to smash it at Ji Tian, scaring Ji Tian into hastily retreating backward.

Ji Tian felt it had encountered a fierce opponent that could also attack from a distance. A huge rock whistled towards it. Dodge. After dodging six giant rocks, Ji Tian discovered it was blocked off in a small canyon.

Ji Tian smelled a hint of conspiracy. Could it be that the prey for this hunt was itself? But just this one Bone Snake couldn't turn the world upside down.

The Bone Snake inserted its tail into a rock crevice and coiled its body.

With a series of cracking sounds, its head rose into the air and slammed towards Ji Tian. Although Ji Tian dodged the head, the momentum of the head did not decrease, smashing a patch of mountain rocks.

Ji Tian was greatly alarmed. This Bone Snake's bones could extend and change freely. This was definitely a long-range attacker.

The frequency of the snake head's attacks was very fast, making Ji Tian very flustered in such a narrow space. It didn't know what the consequences would be if its Ghost Body was hit by the opponent, but it knew that if its Ghost Body was scattered, it would be the same as the Skeleton Race's bones being scattered, leaving it at the mercy of others.

Ji Tian could only use its Levitation Technique to dodge, not even having a chance to fire bone arrows.

Seeing that Ji Tian was cornered with no escape, the Bone Snake became very smug. Its blue tongue flickered, and the black horn on its head suddenly lit up. It opened its mouth and spewed out a mouthful of black smoke.

As soon as Ji Tian came into contact with this black mist, its Core Elixir actually stopped rotating for a moment, and a sense of weakness invaded its entire body.

"Not good, it's poisonous! It must have been a venomous snake in its life. I didn't expect it to still spit poison after death."

At this moment, a bird cry came from the sky. A Giant White Bone Bird swooped down towards it.

Ji Tian knew it had truly fallen into someone's trap. It was their prey this time. This was enough to illustrate the terror of that Flying Demonic Tiger. It already knew of its existence and knew that it liked to ambush others in valley terrain.

It didn't know if the Demonic Tiger had arrived yet.

Ji Tian mobilized the drop of liquid spiritual power it had been reluctant to use. A powerful spiritual force erupted instantly, and an arrow shot towards the oncoming snake head and the swooping vulture.

The two bone arrows momentarily held back the two skeletons. The arrow shot at the Bone Snake was shattered by the Bone Snake, but the snake head was also knocked aside by the force of the bone arrow.

One of the vulture's bone wings was hit, and it lost balance in the air, falling to one side.

Clearly, this vulture was much inferior to the Bone Snake in terms of bone strength.

A third bone arrow, imbued with soul power, attacked the vulture again. This time, it directly pierced the opponent's thoracic spine. Its entire body shattered. The head, containing the soul flame, was raised unwillingly, emitting a piercing shriek.

"Flying Dagger!" Two bone knives, as white as jade, whistled and slashed towards the Bone Snake's neck. Ji Tian knew that the Bone Snake's head was mutated and much harder than normal.

"Crack!" The front half of the Bone Snake broke off, but its momentum did not decrease, directly colliding with its Ghost Body.

The Ghost Body, refined from malevolence, instantly dispersed, and a large amount of black mist drifted from its body.

The Core Elixir vibrated, as if it was about to leave its body. Ji Tian forcibly suppressed this impact force. The Core Elixir spun rapidly, and all the condensed liquid spiritual power within its body erupted, stabilizing the dispersing black mist.

Ji Tian roared and controlled the flying knives to spin back, slashing at the snake head again. The white Bone Snake head immediately rolled far away on the ground.

At this moment, Ji Tian felt a heart-pounding sensation. A white figure lunged towards it. Ji Tian channeled its spiritual power, using the wind generated by the opponent's lunge to float forward, narrowly dodging the attack.

"Not bad, quite agile to dodge my sneak attack. Are you willing to follow me? I've really never encountered such a strange Ghost Body as you." A Spiritual Sense echoed in Ji Tian's soul.

Ji Tian was truly a little scared. The opponent could already use Spiritual Sense. The communication between beings with soul flames was generally through soul fluctuations. For Ji Tian, this was an ability that could only be possessed after cultivating a Primordial Spirit.

That white figure was the Flying Demonic Tiger. Its bones emitted a peculiar light, covered by a thin membrane that gave them a strange fleshy appearance. This was a manifestation of spiritual energy solidifying. Could this be the ability of the Purple Flame Skeleton? This was already a late-stage Purple Flame ability; one step further, and its soul flame could evolve to the Black Flame realm.

"Useless, what good are you?" The demonic tiger extended a claw and crushed the head of the vulture still struggling on the ground. It opened its maw and swallowed the blue flame, a look of enjoyment on its face.

Ji Tian paid no mind to the demonic tiger's actions and quickly extracted the soul flame from the Bone Snake, rapidly absorbing and refining it. The other party intended to win him over, so they wouldn't attack him while he was refining the soul flame. There was no need to; they surely believed they had him completely cornered.

Ji Tian lamented inwardly. He hadn't expected the painstakingly achieved outcome to end like this. Truly, there was always someone else.

Should he comply or not? He didn't seem to have any trump cards left. Escape? The opponent could fly.

What brought him some comfort was that his liquid spiritual energy had recovered by one drop. After a great battle, he had lost one drop, only to condense another. It was hardly a worthwhile exchange.

What else could he utilize? It seemed like nothing.

The Flying Demonic Tiger began to urge him again. Ji Tian's reaction annoyed it. If it weren't for the fact that its subordinates had all been killed by this brat, and it lacked capable assistants, it wouldn't bother with this nonsense. The demonic tiger was also a bit puzzled. Why didn't the little brat opposite it have a soul flame? But seeing that purple flame appear when he refined the Bone Snake earlier, was he on the same level as it? Impossible. If that were the case, dealing with a few Blue Flame level opponents shouldn't have been so strenuous.

It couldn't be rash; it still needed to observe.

Ji Tian completely ignored the demonic tiger's urging and unhurriedly refined the Bone Snake's black horn. He felt this fellow was extraordinary and might contain some unexpected properties.

Ji Tian sensed it. It was poison. His guess was correct; this horn contained toxins that could make one feel weak.