"It worked!"
Gao Feng narrowly dodged the venom attack, his heart bursting with joy. He had actually broken through at this critical moment between life and death, becoming an Intermediate Warlord.
But this was a battlefield. Gao Feng had no time to celebrate.
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake was highly intelligent and exceptionally cunning even among snakes. It had long since realized that Zhang Junbao would not be dealt with quickly, so it wanted to eliminate the weaker Gao Feng first.
The venom aimed at Gao Feng splashed onto the ground, instantly corroding a huge crater over a meter across and half a meter deep. Foul-smelling poisonous gas continued to drift from it.
If venom like that struck a fighter, it could melt a high-level fighter into a pool of blood in just a few seconds.
Gao Feng, whose speed had surged, suddenly felt his movements grow slightly stiff, and his mind began to slow.
Is it a neurotoxin? Damn it, that venom is still extremely dangerous even if it doesn't hit me.
Gao Feng had been dodging, but his footwork suddenly faltered, and his movements began to go awry.
One of the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's heads gave a humanlike sneer and lunged straight at Gao Feng. Zhang Junbao could withstand the snake's crushing strength, but that did not mean Gao Feng could.
Meanwhile, the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's other head had Zhang Junbao tightly pinned down. The cunning snake sprayed venom wildly, scattering it every time. It was not trying to kill Zhang Junbao with it, but gradually forming a domain of poisonous gas around him.
Trapped in the poisonous gas, Zhang Junbao would sooner or later be affected and his movements would slow. When that happened, he would be at its mercy.
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake was indeed cunning. It would first use the poisonous gas to suppress Zhang Junbao temporarily, then concentrate its strength on killing Gao Feng. It could already see itself swallowing both humans whole.
Just as its right head was about to crush Gao Feng into mincemeat, Zhang Junbao appeared beside him from who knew where, grabbed him by the shoulder, and hurled him far away.
Zhang Junbao raised the Dragon Roar Sword again and thrust it at the right head.
"What a coincidence. It's you again!" Zhang Junbao's eyes held a teasing look. This was the very head he had beaten until it spat blood before.
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's right head was bewildered. Hadn't it made the other head keep him occupied? Why was this human here?
What the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake did not know was that while its so-called poisonous gas domain was indeed impossible for ordinary fighters to deal with, Zhang Junbao could envelop his body in Spiritual Force and pass openly through the gas without even its left head noticing.
"Hiss!" The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake let out a furious hiss. In that brief instant, its right head actually dodged!
But that little movement did not escape Zhang Junbao's eyes. The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake suddenly saw a silver-white object shoot out of its blind spot.
Whoosh!
While the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake was spraying venom, Zhang Junbao had used the poisonous gas as cover to quietly send the silver spearhead controlled by his Spiritual Force skimming along the ground to the side of its right head.
Controlled entirely by Spiritual Force, the silver spearhead accelerated to an astonishing speed. The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake only noticed it when it was barely a meter away, and it was heading in precisely the direction the head was dodging.
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake saw only an afterimage and had no time to react. It was as though it had rammed its own head into the silver spearhead.
At several times the speed of sound, a meter took less than a thousandth of a second to cross!
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake had no time to close its mouth before the silver spearhead shot straight inside, turned upward, and shredded its brain.
At the same time, Zhang Junbao's Dragon Roar Sword struck. He drove it into the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's unresponsive mouth, delivering another blow.
To make people think the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake had been killed by his sword, Zhang Junbao stirred it fiercely inside the snake's head, while quietly retrieving and putting away the silver spearhead.
"Hiss-roar!!"
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's other head let out a terrible roar. Its enormous body thrashed wildly, and its tail slammed toward its right head.
It could already feel that its other head was dead. Along with its anger came fear. It wanted to drive Zhang Junbao away and then escape.
"Trying to run? Not so easy!
Gao Feng, throw your hammer at it!"
Zhang Junbao pulled himself free of the snake's mouth and shouted.
Zhang Junbao flitted unpredictably across the battlefield, his movements uncanny. The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's remaining head wanted to attack him, but it could never get a fix on him.
After another fruitless lunge, the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake let out a terrible roar. Its thick tail suddenly struck, sweeping across the ground. Its immense force smashed up all the earth around it, gouging dozens of centimeters into the highway's surface.
"It's trying to escape! Hit it!"
After swallowing several antidote pills, Gao Feng had recovered and had been looking for an opening nearby. Hearing Zhang Junbao's command, he roared, "Die!"
He swung the heavy hammer in his hand with all his strength, sending it hurtling like a cannonball toward the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's left head. The head immediately dodged. Not far away, Zhang Junbao's gaze flashed silver, and he focused all his Spiritual Force on the hammer. Its speed surged in an instant!
Bang!
The Double-Headed Black-Line Snake dodged instantly, but the hammer still struck the vulnerable spot behind its eye with perfect accuracy. It was where the jawbone met the skull, the weakest point on its head.
Gao Feng had already struck it there once, and now it had suffered another heavy blow.
With Gao Feng's full strength supplemented by Zhang Junbao's Spiritual Force, the hammer blow struck with tremendous force. Dazed, the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's left head dropped helplessly to the ground. But when it regained some clarity and tried to lift its head-
A smile appeared on Zhang Junbao's face. His speed surged, and he vanished from sight.
When Zhang Junbao reappeared, he was already beside the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's head. With Spiritual Force supplementing his own strength, the Dragon Roar Sword in his hand was even more powerful than the hammer blow just now.
Puchi!
Zhang Junbao drove his sword into the spot where the hammer had struck, straight through to the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake's brain. Under the devastating blow, its brain had turned to mush, and its life was completely extinguished. Only its enormous body continued to twitch and writhe unconsciously, until at last it gradually became still.
"Hahaha, we finally dealt with that venomous snake!" Zhang Junbao could not help laughing.
"Beautiful." Gao Feng happily picked up his hammer and looked at the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake Zhang Junbao had killed, his heart blooming with joy.
In this battle, he had not only worked in perfect harmony with Zhang Junbao to kill a High-Level Beast General Double-Headed Black-Line Snake, but also broken through the shackles that had bound him for years to become an Intermediate Warlord.
At his age, perhaps he still had hope of striving to become a Wargod in the future.
"Your teamwork was right on point. You really are an experienced fighter. Fire Hammer Squad, well done!"
Zhang Junbao praised him too. Gao Feng's combat sense was sharp. Although it was their first time working together, his timing had been just right. Zhang Junbao, cooperating with someone for the first time, also found it immensely satisfying.
"I'm not very familiar with dissection. How about you help dissect it? We killed this Double-Headed Black-Line Snake together, so let's split it down the middle," Zhang Junbao said.
"Then leave the dissection to me, but there's no need to split it evenly. I only held it back a little; you did most of the work. One venom sac is already more than enough for us."
Gao Feng was not greedy. He knew very well how much he had contributed to the fight. Besides, if Zhang Junbao had not saved his life in time, the Double-Headed Black-Line Snake might already have killed him.
Even taking one venom sac made him feel he was asking too much. But the brothers on his squad had all suffered injuries to varying degrees, and coming away with nothing at all would be hard to justify. Besides, this battle had also helped him break through to Intermediate Warlord.
"Hahaha, everyone else wants a bigger share, but you're being modest. How about this? I happen to want to ask you for a favor. Consider this venom sac my payment."
Zhang Junbao did not stand on ceremony with them either. Saving a little was a good thing. At present, aside from the startup funds Zhuge Tao had given him, he had no other assets.
He did have quite a few monster materials he had acquired during this time in his backpack, but he knew that combat suits, weapons, and cultivation manuals were all expensive. He had far too many things to spend money on.
Although he had a good impression of the Fire Hammer Squad, there was no need to be overly polite.