Li Ziran's mental power poured out like a torrential downpour. He would not let this chance to curse the man slip away. Amid the strange tremors, the Sealing Spell gradually connected with the hidden Cross on Hubble's tongue.
The array, like rotting skin, rapidly healed as though Revival Potion had been applied to it.
The entire lake hummed and trembled. The phantom of the winding giant serpent swayed continuously, but the more violently it swayed and contracted, the more it seemed about to turn completely back into Blue Lake.
No matter how Hubble tore and struggled, Li Ziran had bitten down on his tongue with deadly force, pinning them together like a rivet.
That was the power of the Sealing Spell—it acted directly on the soul.
Li Ziran chuckled to himself. The risk had been worth it. At this pace, he would be able to fulfill his promise in a quarter of an hour.
Crack!
Just as Li Ziran was feeling most pleased with himself, a strange sound suddenly reached his ears. His two snake eyes stared oddly at his own mouth. He was clamped tightly around a tongue, but at its severed end hung strands of broken nerves.
He froze.
He had torn off Hubble's tongue.
At that moment, Li Ziran immediately felt that his luck had run out.
The entire lake surface collapsed toward its center. The azure blue vanished completely, turning into pure darkness. It was as though he had been cast into a boundless Void Expanse with no destination, his body beginning to break apart as if splashed with some corrosive potion.
He thought of the moment he had been swallowed into Hubble's mouth, but this was fiercer and faster than before.
This was no time to confront it head-on.
He desperately whipped his Tail, but