Badly wounded, Xiu Yuan violently coughed up a mouthful of blood. His head spun, his organs churned, and his ribs cracked.
Before he could feel anything else, the Great Serpent's tail came hurtling toward him again.
Xiu Yuan tore himself free of the wall and dropped.
BOOOOM!!!!!!
A single swipe of the Great Serpent's tail blasted away half the mountaintop.
The pain hadn't been for nothing this time. Xiu Yuan had learned one of his abilities.
Acceleration!
He could accelerate his body to dozens of times its speed in an instant.
Xiu Yuan had been certain he could dodge that last strike. He knew the Great Serpent couldn't possibly have reached him with his tail from that position.
"You're tenacious."
"But..."
"How many times can you dodge?"
Under the Great Serpent's terrifying attacks, the severely wounded Xiu Yuan gradually lost ground.
He could only occasionally unleash a few harmless slashes of blade energy. Though his blade could wound the Great Serpent, he was simply too enormous for even a landed strike to do much.
Meanwhile, the people from Watatsumi Island finally landed on Yashiori Island. They sounded the horn to charge and rushed forward.
Both Xiu Yuan and the Great Serpent noticed.
"You, a mere mortal favored by a Demon God, dare dream of opposing me!?"
"Call your master out instead."
The Great Serpent could clearly sense that Xiu Yuan's strength could no longer match his resolve.
Xiu Yuan gritted his teeth, constantly evading his attacks.
But the Great Serpent's body had already battered the ground into a shattered, uneven mess.
During one dodge, Xiu Yuan put his foot in the wrong place and lost his balance.
The Great Serpent narrowed his eyes. Seizing that instant, he activated his skill, bringing his entire tail crashing down from above at an