Strike While He's Down!

Where were the trial-takers?

Where had my two trial-takers gone?

Someone had come to Hell Road again, and it waited there expectantly. The huge commotion up ahead only made it more eager to see what surprises this batch of trial-takers would bring.

They should have been almost here by now. Why couldn't it see them?

The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent couldn't make heads or tails of it. Meanwhile, the two of them had swung straight beneath the narrow path.

They had originally planned to crawl across, but realized their bodies were so large that they would easily be spotted.

So they took another rope out of their Storage Soul Tools and chose to swing underneath instead.

As for spider silk?

This wasn't the time to risk their lives testing it. A rope was the best option.

After checking the distance, they tied one end of the rope, then backed up a little. The two of them leaped forward and, using the rope's tension, swung beneath the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and landed behind it.

They didn't have enough strength to reach the next section of the narrow path, but Bibi Dong's spider silk, shot from her wrist, was more than enough to get them up.

Of course, they could also have climbed up the pillar supporting the narrow path.

The two of them had passed beneath the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and returned to the path. They were safe now, and there was no need to face this trial at all.

Even so, Li Pu fashioned another Bun Bomb and said to Bibi Dong, "Infuse it with the power of death from your Death Spider Emperor."

Bibi Dong didn't ask why. She sent it through her spider claw and into Li Pu's Bun Bomb.

Like combination skills between Spirit Masters or Martial Soul Fusion Skills, the result could be a skill with even greater power.

Li Pu controlled the death Soul Power from the Death Spider Emperor, along with its poison, as he mixed them with the source of destruction and devastation inside the Bun Bomb, until it reached its capacity.

And just like that, the Death Spider Emperor Poison Bun Bomb was made.

Then he made another.

Li Pu still wanted the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core. And just in case, rather than risk it causing them trouble, he would rather kill it outright.

At that moment, the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent seemed to have received some kind of signal. It turned around, slowly raising its tongue from the narrow path. Its golden-red eyes suddenly shone like lanterns, and the nine fleshy growths on its back began to glow golden-red as well. An invisible pressure spread outward.

"Run! We've been spotted!"

Bibi Dong was the first to sense the danger. She grabbed Li Pu and ran, while Li Pu, following behind her, took out the last of the Bun Bombs from his Storage Soul Tools and threw them behind him.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The explosions and shock waves slammed into the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. Its scales were incredibly hard, its defenses difficult to break, but having so many explosives go off on its body one after another couldn't feel good.

Croak!

That only enraged the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and it picked up speed.

In its eyes, all trial-takers were ants. Whenever ants encountered it, all they could do was run. When had one ever managed to hurt it?

Not even the two trial-takers it had encountered before had managed to do that.

And now someone had. How could it not be furious?

Snakes were naturally fast, and the burst of speed they unleashed when attacking was especially dangerous.

It caught up in less than five seconds.

It opened its bloody maw and lunged at Li Pu, looking as though it meant to swallow him whole.

The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent had its mouth wide open. Li Pu waited for the right moment and tossed the two freshly made Bun Bombs into its mouth.

The inside of the mouth was one of the serpent's weaker points, and Li Pu had attacked from close range. The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent had no way to dodge.

It didn't have time to close its mouth before the Death Spider Emperor Poison Bun Bombs went straight down its throat.

Boom! Boom!

Two explosions rang out.

Even with the explosions going off inside its mouth, it was still moving fast enough to bite Li Pu.

Li Pu turned and planted his foot against the serpent's lower jaw, bracing both hands against its upper jaw.

A giant serpent's bite might not be the strongest, but it was still formidable—especially when it belonged to an ancient beast, nothing like an ordinary python.

But Li Pu could still hold it back!

The destructive force of the Bun Bombs and the Death Spider Emperor's lethal poison erupted inside its mouth. It let out a piercing shriek as its enormous body began thrashing violently.

This was far worse than the earlier explosions that had barely bothered it. Combined with poison more terrifying than the serpent itself, the attack had nearly taken half its life!

"Li Pu!"

Seeing Li Pu caught in the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's jaws, Bibi Dong cried out in alarm and worry.

"I'm fine!"

"Use your spider silk to bind it!"

Li Pu didn't leave the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's open maw. Instead, he kept making more Bun Bombs and throwing them into its mouth!

Strike while it's down and finish it off!

Show it no mercy!

"Die! Let's see how you like my firepower!"

Explosion after explosion rang out inside the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's mouth. It thrashed more and more violently, on the verge of falling into the blood pool below.

Bibi Dong quickly shot spider silk around the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's body, binding it to the narrow path. Even the spider legs on her back shot out silk to wrap around it.

A mass of spider silk bound the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent tightly to the path. No matter how violently it struggled or thrashed, it couldn't overcome the silk's incredible strength and resilience—especially as more and more strands appeared.

But the narrow bridge beneath them was now riddled with cracks. It could collapse at any moment.

"This is bad!"

Bibi Dong kept shooting spider silk in front of and behind the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. That way, if the narrow path broke, the serpent wouldn't fall. She could keep it suspended and Li Pu could pull it back up.

Li Pu kept attacking its mouth, sending blast after blast into its throat. Blood mixed with poison gushed out, and Li Pu raised his Soul Power to shield himself.

At last, the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's golden-red eyes showed the terror of approaching death. The nine golden-red growths on its back glowed brighter and brighter.

Just then, Li Pu quickly pulled away from the serpent's gaping maw, but it flung him through the air. Bibi Dong reacted in the blink of an eye, shooting out a strand of spider silk to pull him back.

The nine fleshy growths on the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's back all burst at once. Nine streams of golden-red liquid shot out and merged in midair, contracting into a golden-red orb no bigger than a fist. It began to flicker, releasing terrifying energy, as if it intended to take them all down with it.

"Death Domain!"

At Li Pu's shout, Bibi Dong immediately used the Death Domain on the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.

Now that it was severely weakened, it was even less able to withstand a domain attack.

After releasing its inner core, it had already been on the verge of death. Its life force weakened even further, and the sudden Death Domain severed its connection to the inner core.