Li River.
The great river seethed, and the scaled serpent hissed. Black-gray flames blasted its golden scales apart inch by inch, exposing the flesh beneath. Dark azure flames of mutual envy followed, clinging like a curse lodged in its bones.
Ultimate fire exploded with a thunderous roar. The white-maned lion atop the Nine-Fire Pagoda bellowed, while its Yaksha and Rakshasa forms looked utterly savage. Liang Yong activated his Immortal Foundation, becoming a red-haired, ghost-faced giant with fire serpents coiled around his waist, and forcibly pressed down the Hook Snake's house-sized head.
His battle caused the greatest commotion on the battlefield. Flesh and blood flew everywhere as he stood atop the serpent's head, bracing himself on his saber. Mystical patterns of sacred mountains and colorful clouds shifted across his [Flowering Peak] armor, stopping the venomous hook striking at him.
Ultimate fire gushed from the Nine-Fire Pagoda, sweeping across the river and raising a rain of fire mixed with flesh and ashes. Liang Yong flew out through it. Behind him, the Golden Scale Hook Snake had already died, dissolving into a pool of bloody water without leaving anything behind.
"How strange."
Liang Yong snorted coldly and turned to charge into the tide of monsters. Without the Hook Snake blocking him, he all but strode through an empty field, his attacks sending black fire billowing over the Li River and shaking the surrounding hills.
Elsewhere, the Singing Snake's head had already been severed, all six wings stripped away. A pitch-black bloody hole marked its forehead, filled with roiling spectral winds and ceaseless ghostly wails. Empty-Handed was nowhere to be seen; he had vanished without a trace.
Liu Xiaowen had also suppressed the vicious creature facing him. Two streams of spiritual fire pinned down the purple-and-gold-scaled Soaring Serpent. Having served at the Eastern Sea's