Golden thunder pulp collided with the dark green pearl in midair with a thunderous crash.
Violent lightning runes spread across the pearl's surface, ravenously eating away at its ghostly green protective poison light.
The Titan Python's Life-Core Inner Pill shook violently, its descent forcibly halted in midair by that monstrous force.
A perfect opening.
Shi Hou's blood surged through his body like a raging sea bursting its banks, and he stamped both feet hard against the boulder.
Propelled by the recoil, he leaped into the air.
The Black Pot on his back flipped over with the motion, its mouth becoming a fathomless black hole aimed squarely at the pearl radiating destructive power.
"Absorb." Shi Hou locked onto it with his mind.
A glimmer of gray light flashed across the Black Pot's inner wall.
A terrifying suction erupted in an instant, locking firmly onto the inner pill.
A ring of ripples burst from the pearl's surface as it was forcibly dragged toward the pot.
The Titan Python's vertical pupils suddenly contracted into thin slits.
That was the dao fruit it had nurtured all this time. Once that lifeline left its body and was stolen, its cultivation would be wiped out on the spot. It panicked.
Its enormous jaws opened to a horrifying extent.
An extreme, foul-smelling suction erupted from deep within its throat.
It gave everything it had to suck the inner pill back into its body.
The two forces of suction tugged wildly against each other in midair.
The surrounding air was sucked dry, forming a distorted storm's eye visible to the naked eye.
Shi Hou steadied himself in midair and glanced down from the corner of his eye.
Shi Hao was right at the edge of the storm's eye, his tiny body buffeted this way and that by the