"Interesting."
Shen Lian's curiosity was thoroughly piqued. Two consecutive provocations had come to nothing, something that had never happened in his fighting career.
What exactly was this Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent up to?
Shen Lian stopped hesitating. Soul Power surged wildly through his body, and nine Spirit Rings lit up on the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
"Soul Skill—Whale Swallowing Nine-Fold Slash!"
Nine dark-gold blade beams slashed out in succession like nine hungry giant dragons, weaving into an enormous net of blades in midair. Carrying the momentum to devour everything, it descended over the blood pool.
This move covered an immense area and possessed enough power to level a small hill, leaving whatever lurked at the bottom of the pool no chance to evade.
"Boom—!"
The instant the blade net crashed into the blood pool, the entire pool churned violently like boiling water. Dark crimson liquid was hurled dozens of yards into the air, forming a wall of blood that blotted out the sky.
A muffled roar rose from the bottom of the pool. That presence which had been lurking all along finally erupted, scorching energy shooting skyward like a volcanic eruption.
A massive figure burst from the blood pool, the blood it carried condensing into droplets that rained down through the air.
Shen Lian focused his gaze, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
It was a colossal beast over a hundred meters long, its body covered in crimson-gold scales, each one gleaming with a sunlike radiance.
Most astonishing of all were its heads—not one dragon head in the middle surrounded by nine serpent heads as in the original work, but ten identical dragon heads!
Each dragon head bore imposing horns, while blazing flames burned within their golden vertical pupils. Ten enormous mouths opened and closed together, and the breath they exhaled warped