While dodging, He Feixu had to watch the giant python's movements before him while repeatedly diverting his attention toward Xuanyuan-the process of refining the Five-Colored Sparrow's remnant soul did not seem to be going smoothly. Under the pressure of his hand seals, the sparrow's soul had fully awakened and was struggling and charging about, trying to break through Xuanyuan's confinement.
But it was only a remnant soul, after all. Before a natural-born deity like Xuanyuan, the disparity in strength was far too great. No matter how it swooped and rammed, it could not escape the area within twenty feet of the pearl. Even that space was being compressed little by little by Xuanyuan, and it looked ready to give out.
He Feixu was frantic. If they did not stop Xuanyuan before he fully fused with the Five-Colored Sparrow's divinity, the consequences would be unimaginable!
He could only take greater risks, repeatedly flying perilously close to the python's mouth and eye, provoking it by every means possible to draw its attention. At the same time, he kept climbing higher, trying to lure the python into rearing up to pursue him, exposing its chest and belly to Cui Jiuyang and Master Tiger and creating an opening for them to attack.
Cui Jiuyang and Master Tiger coordinated closely on the ground, guarding against a sudden change in the python's attacks that He Feixu might fail to dodge.
Finally, He Feixu seized an opening. The instant the python opened its jaws to bite, he shot a crane feather hard into the corner of its lone eye!
"Hiss!" Pain tore through the python, and it let out a deafening roar, utterly enraged!
Its lone eye glared viciously at He Feixu, bloodshot and crazed. With a violent twist of its body, it lunged at him in