Big snake?

Ye Qiu was shocked!

Anyone would be stunned if a real Great Serpent, so enormous, ferocious, and terrifying, suddenly appeared in their consciousness, right?

He started to sweat.

The Great Serpent sighed, "That's how things are, and that's the situation... We are now bound together."

Ye Qiu fell silent and stepped back. "Why... because of the Dragon Pattern Jade Pendant?"

The Great Serpent was thinking of a reason when it heard Ye Qiu's words and quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, yes."

Ye Qiu originally wore a Dragon Pattern Jade Pendant around his neck, left to him by his mother.

A few days ago, he was chased by that Lu Li with a sword, and he accidentally broke the pendant.

He had been quite heartbroken at the time.

After pondering for a long time, he asked, "So, you definitely won't leave now?"

The Great Serpent replied, "I want to leave too, but I don't dare... Besides, I'm extremely weak right now. If I leave you, I'll die!"

Ye Qiu frowned. "I don't understand."

The Great Serpent said, "You don't need to understand. Just know that I'm very weak now and need you to nurture me... And I can also help you become powerful quickly!"

Ye Qiu looked at it and shook his head. "I don't really believe you!"

Whoosh--

The Great Serpent didn't waste any more words. It opened its mouth and spat out a stream of bloody mist, which directly enveloped Ye Qiu.

Instantly, Ye Qiu felt like his body was burning.

He felt like he was going to explode!

No!

He had already exploded!

Ye Qiu's consciousness shattered, but in the outside world, he opened his eyes, his body still feeling as if it were burning.

Soon, his blood began to boil.

Streams of sweat, carrying a foul odor, soaked his entire body.

Even his pores seemed to be cracking at this moment, with wisps of fresh blood emerging.

Ye Qiu was greatly alarmed. He suddenly jumped up and rushed out of the room with extreme speed.

It was already dark outside.

A crescent moon hung high, and stars twinkled.

He ran all the way to the Family's Back Mountain.

Ahead lay a lake.

Ye Qiu plunged headfirst into it.

The lake water was icy cold, lowering his temperature.

But, after just a moment, the lake water around him began to bubble and churn, actually boiling.

Pain!

His whole body ached!

"What should I do?" Ye Qiu cried out in his heart.

The Great Serpent calmly said, "Endure!"

Ye Qiu gritted his teeth. "I'm going to die!"

The Great Serpent was indifferent. "Then die!"

Ye Qiu cursed loudly, then quickly leaped out of the lake. After pondering for a moment, he headed straight for the Family Cultivation Tower.

The pressure within the cultivation tower was immense, which could stimulate absorption.

He could already feel the fiery heat within him, a surging and violent energy.

The problem now was that his body couldn't withstand this energy.

Upon reaching the cultivation tower, the pressure on the first floor descended, but it had no effect whatsoever.

Ye Qiu rushed to the second floor, then the third... He didn't feel any better until he reached the sixth floor.

But that relief only lasted for an hour. He pressed on, ascending to the seventh and eighth floors.

By the next morning, he was standing on the ninth floor.

The Wen Family Cultivation Tower had a total of ten floors.

Only a few people could ascend to the ninth floor.

The pressure here was already terrifying!

Even so, Ye Qiu spent a full day and night stabilizing the energy.

Remember, not disappearing, but stabilizing.

It could be absorbed slowly.

Fortunately, his life was saved!

Ye Qiu got up in disarray, breathing heavily. At this moment, his eyes were filled with bloodshot capillaries.

It was too torturous!

However, He also felt that his strength seemed to have surged tremendously!

Ye Qiu walked to the ninth floor's strength testing stone tablet.

Boom--

He punched down.

Accompanied by a heavy thud, the stone tablet trembled violently, and the entire ninth floor vibrated with a hum.

Crack--

Then, the stone tablet, under Ye Qiu's stunned gaze, exploded directly!

Ye Qiu: "..."

It exploded?

It should be known that this was the ninth floor, and the stone tablets here had an extremely terrifying load-bearing capacity.

Moreover, he hadn't used his cultivation before.

He had only used Qi and Blood!

Cultivation realms, Houtian, Xiantian, Naling, Tongxuan...

Houtian primarily cultivates Qi and Blood.

But even at Houtian Ninth Layer, Qi and Blood would not exceed nine thousand jin. The more powerful ones might reach one to two thousand jin.

And the stone tablets here definitely had more than this load-bearing capacity!

Ye Qiu looked completely stunned. After a long while, he stepped towards the tenth floor.

The tenth floor was already the peak of the cultivation tower.

Only the Clan Leader Wen Zheng, the Great Elder, and other top experts in the clan could ascend here.

The pressure here reached terrifying levels.

But Ye Qiu endured it directly.

He once again came before the strength testing stone tablet.

The strength testing stone tablet here was taller, larger, and harder, with a load-bearing capacity far exceeding the ninth floor.

However, when Ye Qiu punched down, several shallow cracks appeared on the stone tablet.

Moreover, a blood-colored light flashed, revealing a terrifying number.

Ye Qiu's eyeballs instantly widened!

He walked forward and counted carefully.

Then, his eyeballs widened even further!

He could hardly believe it.

Boom--

He raised his fist again and smashed down fiercely, still only using Qi and Blood.

The blood-colored number flashed: Eighty-nine thousand jin!

"Holy crap!"

Ye Qiu couldn't help but curse.

His Qi and Blood were quite good. He had broken a small limit back then, and he had been constantly honing it over the years. As his cultivation reached Profound Connection First Layer, his Qi and Blood had also reached thirty thousand jin!

This was extremely terrifying!

It could even be called a miracle in Nanshan City!