Battle Against the Giant Snake

Whoosh!

Just then, an icy wind swept over him. A snake's tail coiled around Su Fang and dragged him away.

The owner of that tail was incredibly fast and carried a thick, fishy stench. It looked like a ferocious python.

"What is going on?"

Su Fang was startled.

He had not expected himself to be this unlucky.

"Hiss—"

At that moment, a savage mouth bit down on him.

"Ah..."

Su Fang let out a miserable cry. He was not injured, though, and as he looked at the giant snake, a resolute light appeared in his eyes!

"Damn it!"

Su Fang roared, clenched his fists tightly, and smashed them toward the giant snake!

Bang!

With one punch, he knocked the giant snake back several steps. Su Fang seized the chance to scramble up from the ground, then turned and ran!

"You beast! I'm going to kill you!!!"

Su Fang roared as he charged wildly at the snake!

He knew he could not escape, but he was not the type to sit and wait for death. He chose to resist anything that could kill him, or might kill him, because this world had always been one where the weak were meat and the strong ate it. Relying on the toughness of his body, he was utterly fearless!

Not everyone in this world possessed a heaven-defying cultivation art like the [Nine-Turn Golden Body Art]. With the cultivation art supporting him, he had nothing to fear.

Su Fang ran ahead while the giant snake pursued from behind. Its grotesque jaws opened again and again, revealing a gaping, blood-red maw.

Su Fang was extremely fast. As he sprinted, he kept looking back.

The instant he saw the giant snake's bloody maw, his heart skipped a beat.

The sight filled him with incomparable terror.

Yet no matter how panicked he was, he still refused to give up resisting.

"Ah!"

He threw another punch.

This was Su Fang's final strike, yet the other side still dodged it.

He staggered and fell to the ground.

At that moment, anger surged through Su Fang as well.

He refused to believe that, relying solely on his physical strength, he could not defeat this python.

"Ahhh!!!"

A furious roar burst from Su Fang's mouth. Then his body suddenly sprang up like a cannonball, shooting toward the giant snake.

"Roar!"

Seeing Su Fang actually deliver himself to its doorstep, greed flashed through the giant snake's vicious eyes as it opened its bloody maw.

A fishy stench rushed straight at him.

Su Fang felt as though he were a moth flying into a flame as he charged toward the giant snake.

"Die! Just die for me!"

However, at the instant he was about to crash into the giant snake, his body abruptly vanished.

The next second, he appeared about three meters away from the giant snake.

He grabbed the giant snake by the neck and pulled with all his strength.

The giant snake let out a pained wail.

"Hiss! Hiss!"

It struggled desperately.

But Su Fang's strength was terrifying. Though the snake was powerful, it was simply no match for him.

"Roar..."

Unable to endure any longer, the giant snake bit down on Su Fang's shoulder.

"Ah!"

A heart-rending pain spread through his entire body. Su Fang nearly fainted, but he forcibly endured it, continued gripping the giant snake, and yanked downward with savage force, tearing its head directly into two halves.

The giant snake's enormous corpse crashed to the ground. Blood gushed out, splashing onto the earth, where it was instantly corroded and vanished.

Only then did Su Fang feel his entire body relax, as though he had been drained dry.

After resting where he was for a while, Su Fang finally gathered up the python's corpse.

He obtained a purple-black [Nether Crystal] and put it away directly.

Afterward, he began circulating the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art to heal his injuries while also attempting to further strengthen his body.

After this extremely dangerous battle, Su Fang suddenly felt that the physical strength he had once taken pride in did not seem particularly strong before the monsters of this world.

The monsters here seemed to cultivate only their bodies.

No wonder they were so powerful. Though Su Fang's body was strong, he did not dare claim it could stand on equal footing with that giant snake. Compared to the snake, the strength of his body was separated by a gulf of one hundred and eight thousand miles.

There was no spiritual energy here, so Su Fang planned to strengthen his body to make up for the gap between himself and the giant snake.

Moreover, his strength had to improve quickly. Only by becoming stronger could he protect himself in this dangerous world.

Feeling the changes within his body, Su Fang slowly sat in meditation and adjusted the energy inside him.

Time slowly passed, and the night went by just like that.

Su Fang opened his eyes, his face full of joy.

He could sense that his body had changed. Its toughness had reached a higher realm.

Of course, this was only Su Fang's perception. How much stronger he had truly become would still require practical testing.

He stood up and stretched his limbs.

"Hm?"

In a daze, Su Fang seemed to see that hazy, dim black shadow once more.

Seeing this, Su Fang did not bother with anything else and immediately followed it, wanting to get to the bottom of it.

Yet at that moment, strange sounds seemed to drift through the air.

Su Fang immediately calmed his mind and listened carefully.

At that moment, the air seemed filled with the buzzing of countless insects, the cries of innumerable bugs, and a sensation that made his hair stand on end.

"This is..."

Su Fang's pupils abruptly contracted.

That buzzing sound was actually coming from within the ruins!

These insects also seemed to be searching for something, releasing wave after wave of buzzing sounds.

"Could it be... these ruins are summoning these insects?"

At this thought, a trace of doubt immediately surfaced in Su Fang's heart.

He immediately quickened his pace and headed forward.

The surrounding environment was utterly chaotic, almost so dark that the sun could not be seen. On top of that, there was no spiritual energy here, so there should not have been insects inside at all!

Could there be spiritual energy deep within the ruins?

A stormy sea surged within Su Fang's heart.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility might be true—and very likely true.

He quickened his steps and sped forward. At the same time, he activated his true essence, condensing a thin defensive membrane around his body to prevent these insects from attacking him.

There were all kinds of these insects, and their numbers were enormous. Who knew whether some of them might be highly venomous?

At that moment, he suddenly saw another statue—a lifelike, enormous statue coiled amid the mountain range as though it were a living creature.

The statue was carved with numerous patterns and runes, all lifelike, as though they might leap out at any moment.

"This... this is..."

Su Fang froze and stared at the statue.

An oppressive aura actually emanated from the statue, identical to that of those great demons.

"Could this statue also be some peerless, supremely powerful expert?"

Su Fang was incomparably shocked. But since this was a treasure relic left behind from ancient times, it surely contained many secrets, including the traces of some ancient mighty experts.