Sever Its Roots

The Human Way Heavenly Court's attack was too powerful, too swift. As the jade light crashed down, the fourth-order Mystic Python Demon King, locked in battle against the Kunpeng Dharma Aspect, had no time to evade and was blasted to death outright. Mystic Python City was then shattered, and the projection of the Xuanming Demon God that had been on the verge of manifesting and taking form within the city was also obliterated in an instant.

With the fourth-order Mystic Python Demon King slain, the power of the water-element laws it controlled erupted at once, turning violent and surging in all directions as manifestations of Dao dissolution appeared.

From Mystic Python Lake beside the city, vast quantities of lake water surged backward and poured into the city. Powers of frost and death erupted as well, engulfing the already shattered Mystic Python City and turning it into a frozen marshland.

At the same time, ahead of the Flying Boat where Liang Zhaohuang and the others were, the countless Mystic Pythons fighting the group—whether third-order Mystic Pythons or lower-order ones—began to go berserk, twist, and convulse. More than half immediately died as their bloodlines ran out of control, while the remaining minority, though not dead, lost all ability to fight and fell onto the earth, snow, and rivers below.

Liang Zhaohuang watched this scene in considerable surprise. He had not expected the death of the fourth-order Mystic Python Demon King to directly implicate so many of its Mystic Python descendants, causing them to die suddenly as well. He had no idea what kind of connection lay behind it.

Yet for everyone, this was undoubtedly an excellent development.

The great number of Mystic Pythons of every rank had already pushed them to the brink. After the fourth-order Mystic Python Demon King fell, Liang