Dragon-serpents it was, then. Perhaps he would encounter another opportunity in the future and evolve the Dragon-serpents into a True Dragon.
There was no meaning in stubbornly grinding things out here now.
The aura around High Person Jiuyang was now terrifying even to him.
"Fellow Daoist Jiuyang, Old Shen is unwilling to fight any longer.
"I can compensate you for your losses this time."
Granny Snake Musk felt that giving him a way out should be enough.
Yet High Person Jiuyang's reply far exceeded her expectations.
"Snake Musk, since you wish to fight, why leave?"
"Today, I faced the three of you alone without retreating. Are you afraid?"
High Person Jiuyang's words angered Granny Snake Musk somewhat.
She only heard him say, "Jiuyang, although your strength has improved, if the three of us join forces, we will not be weaker than you."
"If we continue fighting, this forest will be utterly destroyed as well. Is that what you want?"
Granny Snake Musk's words were soft, yet carried several hints of threat.
High Person Jiuyang sneered. "Snake Musk, you truly have the same arrogant nature as that Hades King.
"Do you think that I am still on the same level as you?"
"Killing you would be no more than slaughtering dogs."
"Good. Very good!" A vast aura surged around Granny Snake Musk.
Clearly, High Person Jiuyang's words had completely offended her.
No matter how wretched she might be, she, Snake Musk, was still a renowned powerhouse. If she endured such humiliation without striking back, she would become a laughingstock forever.
At that moment, her body transformed once more.
She had originally been an enormous Dragon-serpents, and amid wave after wave of power fluctuations—
her snake scales began changing, layer by layer, into gold.
That gold carried boundless dragon might, as though