Almost the instant Xu Taiping twisted away, the enormous snakehead slammed down onto the slab of lava rock where he had just been standing.
"Bang!"
In an instant, that hard slab of lava rock was smashed to pieces.
But just then, relying on his battle instincts, Xu Taiping lightly tapped the ground with his toes and sprang into the air. Gripping his saber's hilt with both hands, he slashed fiercely down at the giant snake's neck.
"Boom!"
The instant the saber descended, a streak of azure blade gang abruptly formed along its blade.
Though he could not use true essence.
For Xu Taiping, whose Martial Dao cultivation had already reached the Great Sage Realm, even with his qi and blood power restricted to the Great Sage Realm-
His mastery of qi and blood power alone allowed him to condense pure blade gang along his saber, even with only Great Sage Realm qi and blood power.
"Whoosh!"
The instant the blade gang condensed, Xu Taiping's slash struck the giant snake's neck heavily with a shrill shriek of cleaving air.
"Bang!..."
But to Xu Taiping's utter astonishment, this slash, which should have been powerful enough to shear through iron and split stone, failed to cut through even the scales on the giant snake.
Not only that, the recoil from the giant snake's scales nearly knocked the saber from his hands.
And in that instant of mingled surprise and bewilderment, Xu Taiping finally caught sight of the giant snake's full form by the deep, gentle glow of the gemstone in his palm.
Its body was so thick that it would have taken several burly men standing shoulder to shoulder to encircle it, displaying its extraordinary nature; the scales covering it resembled ancient rocks weathered by wind and rain.
In the faint light, those