A Human Head with Snakes for Hair

"Crack! Rumble—!!!"

Suddenly, a thunderclap boomed in the sky, silencing the forest that had been filled with birdsong and animal roars.

At this moment, the birds and beasts within a radius of dozens of miles felt as if an invisible hand had gripped their hearts tightly.

At the summit of the solitary peak, Ling Yi raised his head and looked at the clouds, which were originally as white as cotton wool but were now stained with inky black dye.

"Um?!"

Dugu Bo's eyes widened involuntarily as he looked at the pressing dark clouds and exclaimed in surprise, "What's going on? Everything was fine just now, how come it's suddenly going to rain?"

As soon as he finished speaking, as if remembering something, Dugu Bo immediately turned to look at Ling Yi beside him and asked, "Was it those ' Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice ' that you just shot into the clouds?"

"Yes." Ling Yi nodded frankly without denying it.

However, Ling Yi didn't bother to explain in detail. Instead, he asked, "Senior, have you finished dealing with those things I asked you to bury under ' Fog Mountain ' a few days ago?"

Dugu Bo nodded and replied, "It's done. One thousand and eighty metal rods, arranged in the locations you selected, circling the foot of ' Fog Mountain ' once, not one less, not one less!"

Upon hearing this, Ling Yi nodded slightly and said softly, "That's good. Now we just need to wait patiently."

After saying that, he stood atop the solitary peak, nearly a thousand meters high, looking down at the direction of "Fog Mountain," which was more than ten miles away.

At this moment, Ling Yi not only used his eyes to see, but also began to extend his mind to actively communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

This is a little trick he slowly figured out after his mental state broke through to the third stage of "Deep Sleep" and his mind and Sea of Consciousness automatically opened up.

It was thanks to this little trick that Ling Yi was able to predict the layered clouds in the sky today more than ten days ago.

If the weather were left to its own devices, this thunderstorm should have actually arrived around midnight tonight.

Therefore, even if Dugu Bo hadn't suddenly run back to ' Heaven Dou City ' and dragged him to this ' Sunset Forest ', Ling Yi would have come here on his own.

Moreover, using fragments of "Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice" to induce artificial rain in the clouds was also part of Ling Yi's plan.

Midnight is never as convenient as midday. Even though dark clouds loom overhead and the light is dim, the brightness of the world is still much better than at night.

"Boom!" "Crash!"

Another thunderclap boomed, as if signaling something, and the inky black curtain of the sky immediately poured down huge raindrops onto the earth below.

The rain was misty, and at this moment, the world was shrouded in a hazy veil, making everything in front of us unclear.

Fortunately, Ling Yi can not only biomimetic Simulation 'eagle eye' to enhance his vision, but also imitate the sound wave imaging of bats.

In the eyes of Dugu Bo, Yang Shelly, and Ah Yin, the rain-soaked forest, which resembled an ink wash painting, was transformed into a vibrant red in Ling Yi's "eyes."

The most vibrant color, almost dripping with blood, is that of a winding body atop the "Fog Mountain".

Secondly, at the southeast foot of "Fog Mountain," there is a figure hidden behind a towering tree.

In addition, scattered red dots and spots of light, amidst the rain and in the vast forest, each went into hibernation, seeking shelter and resting.

Ling Yi focused his attention on the red dots that circled around the foot of Fog Mountain. He nodded silently to himself, thinking that Dugu Bo was indeed reliable. The location was exactly the same as his plan, without the slightest error.

Soul Guiding Array - Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Attracting Array!!!

Ten minutes later, the dark clouds in the sky surged, as if they had gathered enough power. A golden streak several meters in diameter tore through the clouds, ripped through the sky, and slashed straight down at the mountains and forests below, its target— Fog Mountain!

"Boom—!" "Roar—!"

One after the other, two enormous roars that filled the heavens and the earth exploded in the sky above "Fog Mountain".

Visibly, the originally thick, fluffy white fog now revealed a Datong connecting the inside and outside.

This was also the first time that the part of "Fog Mountain" above the halfway point had come into view of Ling Yi and the others.

"Hiss—!" *3

Such a breathtaking scene, with its dazzling special effects, caused Dugu Bo and his companions to gasp in shock and take two steps back in unison, afraid that if they were too slow, they would be caught in the blast of lightning descending from the sky.

Ling Yi did not comfort Ah Yin and Yang Shelly, even though Ah Yin seemed to recall some particularly terrifying scene, and her whole body began to tremble slightly.

With eyes mimicking the "eagle eye" state and the sound wave imaging ability of a bat, Ling Yi clearly "see" the collision that had just occurred above the "Fog Mountain".

The lightning bolt, several meters in diameter, crashed down, drawn by the "Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Attracting Array" surrounding "Fog Mountain," and struck the mountain directly in the center of the array.

At that moment, the "Demon Dragon Zixi," which had been lurking in the thick fog, sensed the bombardment that came from the sky. Naturally, it was unwilling to sit idly by and wait for its death. It abandoned the suppression of the golden sharpness that was raging from the wound on its abdomen, and focused its purplish-black Soul Power on the horn on its head, emitting a beam of purple lightning that seemed to pierce through space, soaring into the sky.

The clash between heaven and earth lasted only a few breaths before the more condensed purple lightning bolt, at the cost of its own disappearance, shattered the several-foot-thick bolts, which were then scattered at the foot of the mountain by the invisible pulling force surrounding "Fog Mountain".

Ling Yi, who witnessed this process, also sensed that nearly half of the 1,080 metal rods buried at the foot of Fog Mountain had melted away under the residual power of the thunder.

Clearly, this "Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Attracting Array" is already half-useless; it can only be used once more before it becomes completely unusable.

Shaking his head, Ling Yi wasn't too surprised by this, after all, it was just a very ordinary Soul Guidance Array diagram enlarged.

In such thunderstorms, let alone this Soul Guidance Array that can activate the magnetic force, even if you tied those 1,080 metal rods together and placed them on the mountaintop, there would be a high chance that it would draw down the lightning from the sky.

The primary function of the "Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Attracting Array" is simply to allow lightning from the sky to strike the "Fog Mountain" precisely.

In addition, it draws upon the scattered lightning power to further dispel the thick fog above the "Fog Mountain," revealing the form of the "Demon Dragon Zixi."

"Crack! Rumble—!"

Another thunderous explosion rang out, and the dark world was instantly illuminated.

Before "Demon Dragon Zixi" could even mobilize its Soul Power to suppress the golden, sharp aura that had begun to rage in its abdomen, the lightning in the sky followed the trajectory of the previous lightning pillar and struck again.

Helpless, "Demon Dragon Zixi" opened its huge mouth and spat out a purplish-black bead the size of an ostrich egg, which it then controlled to meet the heavenly lightning.

"Sizzle sizzle—!"

Electric sparks Entanglement the purplish-black bead, refining it bit by bit, while wisps of black smoke drifted out, rising and disappearing in an instant.

When the "Demon Dragon Zixi" swallowed the visibly shrunken bead back into its mouth, Ling Yi saw the massive figure tremble involuntarily.

The next second, something unexpected happened to Ling Yi.

A faint light appeared inside the body of the "Demon Dragon Zixi," starting from its throat and moving down to its abdomen.

In just a few breaths, the light reached a long wound on the lower abdomen of the "Demon Dragon Zixi".

The next second, tiny purple-gold sparks of electricity appeared, and as they flickered, the brilliant golden light at the cut of the blade slowly dissipated!

Because of the two consecutive thunderbolts, the thick fog above "Fog Mountain" had largely dissipated, and even the rain in the sky had lessened somewhat.

With the help of a telescope, Dugu Bo, Ah Yin, and Yang Shelly could see the scene more than ten miles away and also saw the wound on the abdomen of the "Demon Dragon Zixi".

"Although I already knew this guy was seriously injured, I didn't know it was like this..."

Dugu Bo held up his binoculars and exclaimed in amazement.

"It shouldn't have been caused by Soul Beast," Ah Yin concluded, observing the appearance of the wound.

Yang Shelly nodded, then said, "It seems to be some kind of sharp blade."

Unlike the three who relied solely on what they saw to make inferences, Ling Yi connected with the outside world through his mind and sensed an extremely sacred aura within the energy emanating from the wound.

Combining the information he had gathered in ' Heaven Dou City ' over the past three months with some information about this world from his previous life, Ling Yi had some guesses in his mind.

More than four years ago, the people of Heaven Dou City suddenly felt a tremendous tremor, as if an earthquake had struck.

To everyone's relief, although the tremors lasted for quite some time, by the time they reached Heaven Dou City, the tremors had weakened considerably. Afterwards, the authorities dispatched personnel to investigate the source of the tremors, following their magnitude. Ultimately, aside from discovering a collapsed mountain peak in the mountainous region with its crisscrossing rocky mountains and deep ravines, they found nothing else.

Through the Ninth Prince Xue Xing, Ling Yi learned that the official assessment of ' Heaven Dou City ' was that it was some kind of natural disaster, probably caused by a meteorite falling from the sky.

Of course, among the common people, many believe that it must be some terrifying Soul Beast waging war, possibly a legendary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

This sparked a heated debate, with some people listing out all the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast they could think of.

But at this moment, Ling Yi was 99% certain that the intense shock was caused by a battle between two Soul Master!

Two, Level 99 Peerless Douluo!

"Clear Sky Douluo" Tang Chen VS "Angel Douluo" Qian Daoliu!!!

First, the location of the source of the tremor, as discovered by the official Heaven Dou team, perfectly matches the description of the location of the Clear Sky Sect after it went into seclusion in the original timeline.

Secondly, while a series of falling meteorites could indeed cause such violent tremors, it would be too bizarre for them to land precisely in that specific mountain range area each time.

To say it's a battle between two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be overestimating the combat power of ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. It's more like a battle Ferocious Beast over 500,000 or 600,000 years old!

Finally, the injury to the abdomen of the "Demon Dragon Zixi" was clearly caused by a high-quality light-elemental energy. Judging from the shape of the wound, it was either sword energy or knife energy.

All of these cases combined are enough to solve the case.

That day was the duel between Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen. The final result should be the same as in the original work, with Qian Daoliu slightly inferior.

Then, probably when Qian Daoliu was passing through the "Sunset Forest", the "Demon Dragon Zixi" suddenly provoked Qian Daoliu for no reason, and was taught a lesson by the displeased Qian Daoliu... a beast.

Looking at the "Demon Dragon Zixi" on the "Fog Mountain" a dozen miles away, Ling Yi's lips twitched slightly, and he murmured silently, "You're really brave—"

Whether "Demon Dragon Zixi" is brave or not is another matter, but as the two bolts of heavenly lightning descended, its aura weakened considerably, which greatly boosted the courage of a certain being who had been lingering at the foot of the mountain for a long time.

Even though they were more than ten miles apart, and separated by the ' Fog Mountain ', Ling Yi still didn't dare to openly scrutinize the other party.

This person was able to lie low in the mountains for so long, which shows that he was extremely vigilant. He might give up the courage he had finally mustered if there was any unusual movement.

'This wisdom and vigilance, even among Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, would be outstanding,' Ling Yi thought to himself.

Sometimes, the mind really does depend on talent. You might read countless books and rack your brains, but it might not be as effective as someone else's sudden flash of insight.

Just then, at the foot of the southeastern side of "Fog Mountain", a graceful figure about ten feet tall silently began to emerge from the dense forest and head towards the mountain.

Because the metal rods that Dugu Bo buried at the foot of the mountain were melted by the lightning, and a little lightning power remained on the ground, the graceful figure did not move in a straight line, but instead coiled around the mountain, avoiding the scattered metal and stone debris along the way, and meandered along the way.

When the figure appeared on the lens of the telescope, Dugu Bo immediately exclaimed, "It's out! It's out! It's out—!"

From a distance, it appeared to be a large, dark green snake standing upright, nearly two zhang long, its lower body slithering on the ground while its upper body stood erect. What was truly terrifying was that the snake's head wasn't a flat snake's head, but rather the head of a beautiful, alluring woman. And that wasn't all; behind that alluring woman's head, instead of ordinary woman's flowing hair, were rows upon rows of Huahua, writhing, venomous snakes!

With such an abstract head as a backdrop, the two pairs of bluish-black arms on the upright upper body don't seem like a particularly bizarre style.

"This is..." Ah Yin, recovering from her fear of the heavenly lightning, looked at the graceful figure and said with a solemn expression, "The Empress of Snakes — Medusa?!"

Although they were both empresses, Ah Yin knew that she, the "Blue Silver Emperor," was inherently a level below the "Empress of Snakes" opposite her.

Even after passing the 100,000-year mark and undergoing a transformation in its origin, making it no weaker than any Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Ah Yin knew that this so-called "no weaker than" was merely a matter of rank.

Surely no one really believes that a 100,000-year-old "Soft Bone Rabbit" could defeat a 100,000-year-old "Titan Giant Ape" in a one-on-one fight?

Does anyone remember the character description when "Titan Giant Ape" appeared?

Even a "Titan Giant Ape" that is only a hundred years old can compete with other Soul Beast that are ten thousand years old.

While this "Medusa" in front of us isn't as ferocious as the "Titan Giant Ape," capable of fighting for thousands of years in a hundred, it can still manage to fight for thousands of years in a thousand.

Of course, "Demon Dragon Zixi" is an existence like "Titan Giant Ape," both being legendary overlords of Soul Beast.

To be continued tomorrow, goodnight everyone~