A Brutal Beating

"How is this possible?! You shattered my Yellow Springs Finger with nothing but your physical body! That Dragon Might... could you be some kind of dragon-type magical beast?!"

Watching the Yellow Springs Finger, condensed from all his Dou Qi, shatter into countless motes of light, then seeing the dragon scales gleaming across Xiao Ling's body and the pair of azure-violet dragon wings spread wide as he charged forward with the force of tearing wind, Yao Xiao Tian finally felt bone-deep panic flash through his eyes.

His body flickered rapidly as boundless icy Malevolent Qi surged from within him, nearly freezing this entire stretch of space solid.

At the same time, his body abruptly swelled, the explosive crackling of bones resounding through the surroundings. In an instant, he transformed into a colossal black python a thousand zhang long. Its body was covered in mottled dark-violet patterns, its scales as grim and hard as black iron, while a savage aura soared into the heavens and swept in every direction.

"Sealing technique, Yellow Springs Great Seal!"

Having assumed the true form of a thousand-zhang Nine Nether Netherworld Python, Yao Xiao Tian suddenly threw back his head and let out an enraged roar that split clouds and stone.

The instant the roar shook the land, the black waters of the Nine Nether Yellow Spring below churned madly. A terrifyingly icy force, enough to freeze one's soul, shot into the sky like some colossal beast emerging from hibernation.

Under Yao Xiao Tian's full control, this icy force entwined and fused with the surging Dou Qi within him. Within only a few breaths, it condensed in midair into a massive black seal, majestic and weighty as an ancient divine mountain.

The surface of the great seal was crisscrossed with ravines, countless obscure and bizarre runes slithering