At the Jade-Eyed Snake's command, the demon horde went completely mad and immediately lunged at the flying ships and Xu Changqing's group. Battle erupted in an instant.
"Kill!"
"Either they die, or we perish!"
"Everyone, charge together! Give it everything we've got!"
The human cultivators struck one after another. Spells collided with demon power, and thunderous booms shook heaven and earth.
Before long, both the human cultivators and the demons suffered casualties. Screams and sounds of slaughter rang without end.
Seeing this, Xu Changqing instructed Li Lingbi, "Take the others and protect the flying ships. Leave this to me!"
Before his words had even faded, he teleported before the Jade-Eyed Snake. The Return Flow spell surged at full force, and all kinds of qi instantly wrapped around it.
This time, Xu Changqing showed no mercy. The purple qi at his fingertips sometimes reverted the Jade-Eyed Snake's demon power into the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, sometimes reverted its scales into ordinary snake scales, and sometimes used the qi of the five elements to corrode its flesh and meridians, toying with it in the palm of his hand.
"How could this be?"
The Jade-Eyed Snake was horrified. It had never expected the man before it to be so powerful.
At that moment, it finally understood why Kong Ling had willingly become a mount.
It wanted to fight back, but grew weaker and weaker. Its demon power was continuously dismantled, until it finally turned into a pool of blood amid endless pain and unwillingness.
Kong Ling curled his lip in disdain. "You little green bastard, weren't you acting mighty just now? Now what? Get the hell back on your feet!"
After dealing with the Jade-Eyed Snake, Xu Changqing looked at Kong Ling, whose anger had yet to subside, and asked, "Who