Night had fallen, and a full moon hung high in the sky.
Within the dense forest, it was still dim and dark. In the clearing, the long, massive Mandala Snake continued to writhe and roar in agony.
Seeing that Grandmaster and Tang San were still standing where they were, watching him, Lin Ye frowned and shouted.
"The Mandala Snake isn't dead yet! Get out of the way!"
Startled awake by Lin Ye's shout, Grandmaster and Tang San hurriedly retreated to the side.
As Grandmaster and Tang San dodged away, Lin Ye activated Phoenix Dance Six Illusions and summoned his External Soul Bone: Double Pupils. He moved rapidly across the ground in a zigzag pattern, charging toward the Mandala Snake.
Lin Ye's target was the iron sword embedded in the Mandala Snake's head!
Faced with a Mandala Snake that was nearly four hundred years old and covered in hard, dark-green scales.
It was far too difficult to break through the hard scales and injure the Mandala Snake with bare hands. He had to rely on a sharp weapon! Originally, if he had used the Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul for that full-powered Hundred-Step Flying Sword from afar, the Mandala Snake would have been pierced through the head and utterly dead beneath the Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul's sharp edge.
But his father had told him not to casually reveal the Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul in front of others.
So naturally, Lin Ye would not expose the Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul. Instead, he had thrown the iron sword in his hand and saved Grandmaster.
But this had also created a problem.
Although Lin Ye's arm strength was astonishing, and his full-powered throw had not only pierced the Mandala Snake's hard scales but also punctured its skull.
It had ultimately failed to enter the Mandala Snake's brain. It had only just pierced the skull before becoming stuck.
The sharp iron sword was now half embedded in the Mandala Snake's head, with the other half exposed outside. Lin Ye needed to retrieve it.
Under the vision of his External Soul Bone: Double Pupils, Lin Ye activated Phoenix Dance Six Illusions and darted rapidly across the ground. As his figure flashed about, he quickly evaded the unconscious attacks from the Mandala Snake's body as it writhed in pain.
"So fast!"
At the side, Tang San was utterly shocked by Lin Ye's lightning-fast, phantom-like speed.
The speed Lin Ye displayed now was actually even faster than his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and it was also more flexible and agile.
Moreover, unlike Lin Ye, his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track could not sustain movement for such a long time.
Was this a soul skill, or martial arts like his own?
As he watched Lin Ye, Tang San was deeply puzzled.
Just as Lin Ye rapidly closed in on the Mandala Snake, the snake finally recovered from its pain.
"Hiss!"
Noticing Lin Ye's approach, the Mandala Snake let out a sharp hiss and immediately began moving swiftly. As it moved, it raised its Serpent Body high and violently swept its long tail toward Lin Ye.
But with Phoenix Dance Six Illusions activated, Lin Ye's body was incomparably light.
Just as the Mandala Snake's sweeping tail lashed toward him, Lin Ye suddenly sprang upward, leaping six or seven meters into the air and instantly evading the attack.
Then, as the Mandala Snake lunged to bite him, Lin Ye twisted in midair and dodged its bite once more, flying down from the air onto the Mandala Snake's Serpent Body.
After landing on the Mandala Snake, Lin Ye activated the Phoenix Dance Six Illusions movement technique again and raced across its body like a phantom.
After a few flashes, Lin Ye sprang and descended like a hare rising and a falcon falling, swiftly launching himself into the air and arriving atop the Mandala Snake's head. He then grabbed the iron sword embedded in its head.
Because the iron sword had already pierced through the Mandala Snake's scales and entered its flesh, the moment Lin Ye began trying to pull it out, the Mandala Snake immediately hissed in agony.
But while the Mandala Snake cried out in pain, Lin Ye erupted with all his strength. With an explosive shout, he violently yanked out the iron sword.
"Die!"
Standing atop the Mandala Snake, Lin Ye was practically in the safest possible position. Holding the iron sword, he let out a roar and immediately gripped it in both hands, preparing to thrust it into the Mandala Snake's eye.
This was the only place on the Mandala Snake without the protection of scales.
Once he struck, Lin Ye would only need to exert a little force for the iron sword to pierce straight through the Mandala Snake's brain and kill it! "Lin Ye, wait!"
But just as Lin Ye was about to kill the Mandala Snake, a voice suddenly rang out from the side.
"This Mandala Snake's age is perfectly suited for Little San. Just severely wound it—don't kill it!"
Grandmaster had suddenly realized that this Mandala Snake was a perfect match for Tang San, so he hurriedly stopped Lin Ye.
Hearing Grandmaster's words, Lin Ye frowned slightly. However, he reduced the force behind the sword that pierced into the Mandala Snake's eye, and after puncturing its eye, he quickly pulled it back out.
"Hiss!"
As its eye was pierced, blood immediately gushed from the Mandala Snake's eye. With a pained hiss, the Mandala Snake viciously slammed its head into a nearby tree, trying to force Lin Ye off its head.
But in the face of this attack from the Mandala Snake, Lin Ye activated the Phoenix Dance Six Illusions movement technique and easily leaped away, avoiding it.
After landing atop the Mandala Snake's head once again, Lin Ye let out a low shout. He gripped the sword in his left hand while his right hand erupted with all his strength, delivering a heavy punch to the Mandala Snake's head.
Over three months of training, the force of Lin Ye's full-powered punch had long surpassed two thousand jin.
And with the boost from the Nine Yang True Qi after his breakthrough, the force behind Lin Ye's punch now exceeded three thousand jin.
A heavy punch containing more than three thousand jin of force struck the Mandala Snake's head, instantly leaving its head ringing. Crimson blood sprayed from its pierced eye like a fountain once more, splashing all over the ground.
"Hiss!"
With a pained hiss, the Mandala Snake's massive body immediately toppled over. When it crashed to the ground, dust billowed up everywhere.
But after knocking down the Mandala Snake, Lin Ye still did not let it go. Instead, he continued raining heavy punches down on its head until he beat the Mandala Snake to the brink of death.
"Little San, hurry!"
Seeing that Lin Ye had already beaten the Mandala Snake to the brink of death, Grandmaster quickly took out a dagger and handed it to Tang San.
Tang San nodded. After taking the dagger, he strode quickly toward the Mandala Snake.
"Mm."
After approaching the Mandala Snake, Tang San nodded to Lin Ye. Then, after taking a deep breath, he walked to the Mandala Snake's head and viciously drove the dagger into its eye before slapping it hard.
The sharp dagger passed through the eye and instantly pierced through the Mandala Snake's brain, emerging from its other eye and shooting into a large tree.
"Hiss!"
After one final hiss, the Mandala Snake collapsed limply to the ground.
Although its body twitched faintly, it no longer made any sound.
As Tang San killed the Mandala Snake, countless pale-yellow motes of light began continuously drifting out from its body.
Above the Mandala Snake's corpse, they gathered into the outline of a yellow soul ring.
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