The Thunder General manifested, splitting the heavens with a single stroke of his axe.
Frost and snow within a hundred yards instantly evaporated, and the earth cracked with a thunderous roar.
Sensing the thunder axe descending upon him, the White-Scaled Giant Snake's pupils abruptly narrowed.
"Such a divine power exists?!"
"Good! Just what I wanted!"
He let out a long, hissing cry, and karmic flame wreathed in mystic light erupted from his enormous maw.
In an instant, it became a crimson torrent, hurtling toward the axe shadow descending from the hundred-yard-tall Thunder General.
Like a meteor flying in reverse, it surged skyward amid towering flames and crashed into the Thunder General's axe shadow.
A cloud of thunder and fire dozens of yards across exploded high in the sky.
The Thunder General's phantom grew insubstantial, seemingly on the verge of collapse.
At that moment, Yan Qing's serpentine body burst fully into flame, every white scale becoming karmic flame that swept toward the heavens.
The people atop the walls had still been reeling from the divine power Chen Mu had unleashed.
Now, seeing karmic flame engulf the sky as the Snake Demon ran rampant, they felt their hearts turn cold.
"This is bad! What a vicious monster!"
"Can senior brother hold him off?"
Chen Mu could no longer speak. Kneeling with his saber as a crutch, he flung out his palm and scattered fresh blood.
"Nine-Nether Profound Thunder, gather!"
Boom!
Lightning erupted around him.
His blood essence gathered in his palm before spraying outward, dispersing into a vast tide of blood baleful intent that bolstered the profound thunder's might.
Drawn by Chen Mu's offering of blood essence, the blood baleful intent across the battlefield surged toward him as well.
The Profound Thunder Cauldron immediately began to hum and tremble, devouring and refining