Xiao Long instantly judged that these arrows formed from Dou Qi could injure even a Da Dou Shi if they landed.
In other words.
They had come to kill him, so he had no reason to hold back!
"Dragon Blast!!"
Without another word, all the Dou Qi in his body erupted, with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame following its flow. The Dragon Talisman and Pig Talisman activated together!
Dragon Blast, max!!
This was his first time using Dragon Blast since obtaining the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and its power was naturally extraordinary. A fire dragon even larger and thicker than before appeared in front of him.
"Roar-!"
There was even a bestial roar. The fire dragon instantly incinerated every incoming arrow, then blasted toward their source without losing any momentum!
"Boom-!"
A figure appeared, wielding a curved saber to block the incoming fire dragon head-on. Purplish-red Dou Qi surged out and collided with it!
The fire dragon exploded instantly. The Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and terrifying flames swept outward, blasting the figure who had rushed out straight back!
Seeing the figure hurled dozens of meters backward, Xiao Long paused only briefly before closing in on her!
In that instant, he got a clear look at her. She was as lovely as a flower, and her gauzy clothes were even more revealing than those worn by the girls he had seen at the Red Romance Club in his previous life!
Her twin peaks were visible, and her lower abdomen was a smooth, level plain, but farther down, his gaze found no mysterious forbidden region.
Instead, there was a thick snake tail, densely covered in pale blue-green scales.
"Snake-People Tribe!"
The name of that race instantly flashed through Xiao Long's mind. He had never expected to encounter the Snake-People Tribe even in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, though it made sense when he thought about it.
The Tagor Desert was not the only place where the Snake-People Tribe lived. Rather, those living there should be considered the tribe's main branch. Otherwise...
How could somewhere like the Tagor Desert possibly sustain the Snake-People Tribe? It had no resources at all.
What he knew was only a fraction of the Dou Qi Continent.
But he stopped dwelling on it. The woman from the Snake-People Tribe was already closing in, her curved saber coated in condensed Dou Qi. If that blade struck him...
Of course, with the Dog Talisman and Horse Talisman, he might not die, but it would definitely hurt. Xiao Long hated pain more than anything!
Lion-Tiger Roar!
Xiao Long had long since mastered this Xuan-tier Dou Technique, and he had discovered that after refining the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, its power had climbed another level.
"Roar-!"
An invisible sound wave burst from Xiao Long's mouth, like ripples stirred up across the surface of water.
Yue Huo's advancing figure was instantly engulfed by the sonic wave. The force carried within that bestial roar, along with the beast cries ringing one after another in her ears...
Left her frozen in place!
The next instant.
Her vision blurred, and she saw that human charge right up to her and slam a fist into one of the peaks on her chest!
Bang!
There was not the slightest tenderness.
A great mass of flames instantly appeared atop that peak, unleashing explosive energy powerful enough to shatter a huge boulder.
The terrifying impact and flames blasted Yue Huo away, sending her flying backward again. As she flew, however, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.
Wasn't this human only a Dou Shi?
How was he so fast?!
Xiao Long: You saw a Dou Shi knock back a Purple Flame Tiger with one punch, and instead of retreating, you charged at me. You're bold!
After all, Yue Huo was a Dou Ling, an existence terrifying enough at this early stage.
Moreover, the Snake-People Tribe fought year-round, so her combat reflexes were quick. She gathered Dou Qi over her peaks to protect them.
Although some of the attack pierced her Dou Qi, she still wore armor. Even though it blasted through part of that armor as well, she still had her flesh!!
The Snake-People Tribe's physique was no joke!
She immediately steadied herself with her snake tail, fixed her eyes on Xiao Long, and said coldly, "Human, we found this prey first!!"
Xiao Long raised an eyebrow. No wonder the Purple Flame Tiger's strength had seemed off. It had already been injured.
Had he stumbled into a classic plot?
Unfortunately, the beast was not a python, and the ones appearing were not the Dragon Duke and Serpent Grandmother, but a flower-like beauty from the Snake-People Tribe.
Still, Xiao Long took the same approach.
"You say it's yours, so it's yours? Have the Purple Flame Tiger speak up and tell us whether it's your prey!"
Purple Flame Tiger: Do I have to talk too?
"You're being unreasonable! If not for us, could a mere Dou Shi like you have driven back a Purple Flame Tiger?"
"You're a Dou Ling, and didn't I knock you back too?"
Xiao Long spoke, exasperated.
It seemed the gap between a Dou Ling and him was not that large. Perhaps it had been before, but now he had obtained the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and a heaven-tier cultivation technique.
The former boosted his strength, while the latter boosted his mana bar.
Add Shendu's nearly omnipotent abilities to that.
Challenging someone two major realms above him was a breeze. Of course, that might also be because they were still below Dou Wang.
In truth, cultivators underwent no absolute qualitative transformation before then. At most, they had a little more Dou Qi, and that Dou Qi was a little denser.
If you could make a brick fly through sheer force, then beating a Dou Ling as a Da Dou Shi was still fairly easy.
In other words.
At this point, Xiao Long could fairly say...
"Below Dou Wang, I'm unbeatable!"
But once someone reached Dou Wang...
Dou Qi began flowing throughout their entire body, and that might no longer hold true.
Whether in speed or strength, they were no longer on the same level.
Besides, he could fly, so if he truly could not win, he could escape. But a Dou Wang could form wings from Dou Qi, so he might not be able to get away.
Yue Huo held her twin sabers and stared at Xiao Long. Just then, dark figures emerged from the forest one after another.
Without exception, they were all members of the Snake-People Tribe!
Xiao Long sensed their auras. Almost all of them were Da Dou Shi; there was not even a Dou Shi among them.
No wonder the Purple Flame Tiger had fled in panic.
"Human, do you intend to offend our Snake-People Tribe?"
Yue Huo spoke coldly, but inwardly she was groaning. She had finally managed to catch a fourth-order magical beast, and a fire-attribute one at that.
If she could bathe in its blood and absorb it, she would surely be able to advance another step.
More importantly, this magical beast had actually condensed the beginnings of a beast flame within its body.
Although the bloodline of their Snake-People Tribe was cold and yin in nature...
The snake soul she had contracted back then belonged to the same category as the queen's, though hers was a slightly weaker Purple Flame Ghost Snake.
That tiny trace of beast flame would actually benefit her.
She had searched for a long time. To ensure nothing went wrong, she had gathered people to surround and kill it, and had even poisoned the bait used to lure the Purple Flame Tiger.
Yet she had never expected the Purple Flame Tiger to be so formidable that it would force its way out of their encirclement.
Fortunately, she had drugged it beforehand and could track it through the drug. But she had never expected to arrive just in time to see Xiao Long knock the Purple Flame Tiger back with one punch, and even prepare to kill it.
That would never do!
So she had immediately ordered her people to attack, only to discover that this human was far more powerful than expected.
She had thought this human had only driven the Purple Flame Tiger back because they had surrounded and attacked it, and because the poison had taken effect.
Its strength had fallen far too much.
But in those two exchanges just now...
That Dou Technique had nearly blown her breast apart.
Even a Dou Ling like her had been forced back. If they kept fighting, she could not guarantee what would happen.
So she planned to use the Snake-People Tribe's name to scare this fellow away.
"So what if you're the Snake-People Tribe? This is human ter... territory!"
"Bring Medusa here!"
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