No Fair Play

The Giant Serpent was very confused.

What kind of enemy could make its people so panicked?

They kept jumping and chanting in front of it, constantly pointing at the ground above the cave with their hands.

From their gestures, the Giant Serpent roughly understood. It seemed their crisis had come from some strange-looking creatures among the Blood Food before it.

It had seen Dinosaur People and Primal dinosaurs many times.

After all, these creatures had often been among its meals whenever it awoke.

But before this, it had never seen its people so terrified.

From the looks of it, they even wanted it to help them?

Had these strange-looking creatures really grown so powerful that its people could no longer resist them?

What had these pitiful little things been doing all these years?

They did not seem to have the courage or ability of their ancestors.

Pitiful and foolish little things.

Fine, it would go out and take a look!

The Giant Serpent was somewhat lazy, but in consideration of its people's service over the countless millennia, it decided to move around for once.

If its people truly could not handle the crisis outside, would it not lose this comfortable life where it could obtain vast amounts of food without moving?

Even for its own sake, the Giant Serpent reluctantly began to move.

The underground cave was indeed spacious, but its exit was very narrow.

With the Giant Serpent's enormous body, he simply could not get out through it.

However, it did not care about that. It directly slammed headfirst into the mountain wall at one side of the cave.

Its scales were like blades, densely packed and gleaming with a cold light. When raised, they resembled the pointed tips of countless sharp weapons.

Using those scales to slice through rock and push its body forward, it moved underground as freely as a fish in water.

Sensing the movements aboveground, the Giant Serpent quickly found the source of the strongest vibrations.

Then, following that sensation, it charged up from underground.

Boom!!!

Like a whale leaping from the water, and like the explosion of a high-yield bomb.

The instant the Giant Serpent burst from the ground, the earth within several hundred meters collapsed and exploded, sending up enormous clouds of dust.

Its appearance was so abrupt that countless nearby Serpent People and Dinosaur People were flung into the air.

At that moment, the long-unseen Giant Serpent appeared on the surface.

Yet it was night aboveground. Moonlight streamed down, and as it breathed the dry air—so different from the dampness of the cave—the Giant Serpent felt uncomfortable for a moment.

But the discomfort quickly passed.

As it surveyed everything around it, the Giant Serpent froze briefly.

Ten-meter-tall Dinosaur People, and they were even on fire?

What kind of creatures were these?

The Primal dinosaurs, some nearly fifty meters long, also left the Giant Serpent somewhat stunned.

How were they so different from the Blood Food it had seen in its cave?

No wonder its people had sought its help.

The Giant Serpent understood the reason and was only stunned for a moment.

The Dinosaur People were large, but the Giant Serpent was even larger.

The part of its body exposed aboveground was only one-fifth of its entire body.

Yet even that one-fifth stood nearly a hundred meters tall.

Snakes were not humanoid, so they naturally had an advantage in length.

But in terms of overall thickness, it was merely average.

The Giant Serpent's body was roughly thirty meters in diameter, while its full length had only just exceeded five hundred meters.

Still, such a size made it appear enormous. Swallowing a fifty-meter-long dinosaur in one bite would not be a problem at all, though it might get slightly stuck in its teeth.

The moment the Giant Serpent appeared, all the Serpent People and Serpent monsters present erupted in cheers.

Their hisses and roars, their excited expressions, were beyond description, just like the Dinosaur People when they had first seen Kangqiao.

Their previously dispirited mood surged upward, and they suddenly seemed full of life.

Perhaps infected by the Serpent People's cheers, the Giant Serpent opened its mouth in satisfaction and let out a strange hiss toward the sky.

The hiss carried a low, throbbing tremor that sounded strangely bewitching.

However, just after the Giant Serpent hissed once, it suddenly heard a tremendous rumbling from the far bank of the Great River in the night.

It was the sound of Kangqiao approaching step by step.

Since the Dinosaur People were no longer entangled with the Serpent People and had stopped using their flames, the thick mist of water vapor over the Great River slowly dispersed beneath the night sky.

At the instant Kangqiao approached with his heavy steps.

His figure, like something breaking through clouds and fog to suddenly reveal itself, instantly silenced everything on both banks.

At that moment, time seemed to freeze, and the air became inexplicably still.

The Dinosaur People and Serpent People silently retreated behind their respective gods and continued moving farther away, leaving only the gods of the two Giant Beasts staring at each other across the river.

The Giant Serpent was dumbfounded.

This was the first time he had seen another Giant Beast, and also the first time he had seen a creature as terrifying as Kangqiao.

The Giant Serpent knew even less about this world than Kangqiao did.

Who could blame him for being lazy and never leaving home?

But the Giant Serpent had his own pride. From ancient times until now, he had never encountered a true enemy.

Some Giant Beasts looked terrifyingly large, but most could not withstand his dreadful venomous fangs.

Therefore, when he first saw Kangqiao, although the Giant Serpent's heart inexplicably trembled, a calm and solemn light soon appeared in his eyes.

The bloodthirsty battle memories of ancient times awakened. At that moment, the Giant Serpent no longer looked lazy and began preparing for battle.

At this point, neither side attacked first.

Kangqiao did not attack because he was gathering power.

The crimson glow spreading from his tail made that clear.

The Giant Serpent was doing the same.

Its entire body crawled out from underground, its tail coiling as it raised its head high and fixed its gaze on Kangqiao.

A great deal of poisonous mist had begun pouring from the venom sac in its chest and belly, and black smoke faintly drifted from the Giant Serpent's nostrils.

Kangqiao had also become extremely serious the moment he saw the Giant Serpent.

This was because it was also his first time seeing such a huge spicy strip. Its cobra-like flattened head and ink-black body made it look venomous at a glance.

Fortunately, Kangqiao felt that his Lava Flame body should be highly resistant to poison.

At a time like this, he naturally could not show weakness.

The beast and snake stared at each other, and the air became exceptionally tense in that instant.

"Damn!"

Suddenly, Kangqiao abandoned all sense of fair play. The red glow that had only spread halfway across his back instantly completed its spread, and he opened his mouth to fire a massive crimson beam at the Giant Serpent across the river.

Unfortunately, it was not Atomic Breath.

As he spat out the crimson beam, Kangqiao secretly felt regretful.

Yes, Kangqiao currently could not unleash white-hot light. There was not enough molten Lava Flame or nuclear energy nearby to charge him, so Radiant Heat Ray was not bad either.

But this was enough.

Because at the instant Kangqiao unexpectedly fired the Radiant Heat Ray first, the caught-off-guard Giant Serpent could only hastily spew a pitch-black cylindrical beam of poisonous mist to clash with Kangqiao's attack.

The result was obvious. The instant the poisonous mist touched the Radiant Heat Ray, it was ignited and even scattered. Then the Giant Serpent was immediately blasted in the face by the Radiant Heat Ray.

This was the price of being uneducated!

Blasted in the face by the Radiant Heat Ray, the Giant Serpent's entire strip-like body was knocked onto the ground.

The burning pain across its face and upper body made it let out a piercing shriek.

But it was given no chance to react. Kangqiao, this terrifying Giant Beast, actually started running. With a single step, he crossed the riverbank, clamped one short hand around the Giant Serpent's vital point, and repeatedly hammered its head with the other.

As he hammered the Giant Serpent, Kangqiao muttered to himself.

Was I a little too strong?

Or was this Giant Serpent just too weak?

Heh, you grew so big for nothing! If you shouldn't get beaten, then who should?

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