Upon hearing this, Hu Liena could only nod with a wry smile. In this Slaughter City, her Martial Soul was suppressed, preventing her from using Soul Skill, which greatly reduced her combat power. Facing Soul Beast of the level of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, she was indeed unable to deal with it and could only place her hopes on Yu Tianheng.
Yu Tianheng, dressed in black, was billowing in the heat. He took out the Purple Lightning Spear Purple Lightning Spear from his System Inventory, gripping it tightly. The gun barrel Entanglement eerie blue electricity as he confronted the colossal creature looming before him.
The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent were nearly ten meters long, with ten ferocious heads flicking their forked tongues between the rock walls. Each head was ablaze with Lie Yan of different colors, and the serpent scales reflected the red light of the lava, making them resemble moving volcanoes.
"Hiss--" The snake head in the very center launched the first attack, a pillar of crimson-gold flame shooting straight at Yu Tianheng's face.
Yu Tianheng lightly touched the ground with his toes, his body shooting out to the side like an arrow. At the same time, he flipped his wrist, and the Purple Lightning Spear drew an arc of lightning, the Thunder power gathered at the tip of the spear suddenly erupting.
" Thunder Thrust!"
The purple lightning bolt, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, precisely pierced the weakest gap in the scales of the snake's neck.
The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent were in pain, and their other four heads simultaneously spewed out flames of four colors: blue, orange, yellow, and green, which intertwined to form a fire net that blocked their retreat.
Yu Tianheng's eyes sharpened, and he activated the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture all his might, causing the Purple Lightning Spear to grow several feet longer.
Then the spear tip transformed into a roaring thunder dragon, tearing through the fire net and shattering the two attacking snake heads.
The foul-smelling snake blood splattered onto the rock wall, rising in puffs of white smoke. The remaining eight heads became even more ferocious, their snake tails sweeping across the air with a whooshing sound, shattering rocks in their wake.
Using the momentum, Yu Tianheng flipped backward, his toes touching the snake's tail, and leaped to the middle of the snake's body. He took a deep breath and concentrated his True Qi at the tip of his spear.
"Break!"
The Purple Lightning Spear transformed into a bolt of lightning that pierced through the heavens and earth, stabbing fiercely into the gaps in the snake's scales.
The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent let out deafening hisses, their ten heads thrashing wildly, yet they could not escape the numbing sensation brought on by the spear tip.
Yu Tianheng gripped the gun handle tightly and spun it with force, causing lightning to explode inside the snake's body, shattering its bones inch by inch. Only when the last head drooped limply did he pull out the blood-stained Purple Lightning Spear, the current on the tip gradually subsiding.
Yu Tianheng walked to the snake carcass and cut open its belly.
He took out a fist-sized, reddish-gold bead that radiated a scorching heat.
This is the inner core of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, its core of power, containing extremely violent fire-attribute energy.
It is reddish-gold in color, about the size of a baby's fist, and its surface is covered with flame-like patterns, radiating a scorching heat. Even from a distance, one can feel the heat that seems to burn everything to ashes.
This inner core contains most of the cultivation of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and is its powerful energy source. For Soul Master with fire-attribute Martial Soul, it is an extremely rare and precious treasure. Whether it is used to absorb its energy to enhance Soul Power or to refine Soul Tool and Pills, it has extremely high value.
In the original storyline, after Tang San obtained this inner core, he gave it to Ma Hongjun, enabling Ma Hongjun to successfully break through to level 70 and obtain a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
Besides, the heart of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent is also a valuable item, containing a large amount of Bloodline Power and a portion of cultivation power, so it shouldn't be wasted.
Yu Tianheng then pulled out the still slightly pulsating heart from the body of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.
By this point, Yu Tianheng had taken most of the items from the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. However, because Yu Tianheng cultivated the Blood Demon Skill Technique, the blood of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent was also beneficial to his cultivation.
Yu Tianheng took a deep breath, and the trajectory of his internal True Qi circulation suddenly changed. A cold and domineering aura emanated from his body—it was the Blood Demon Skill.
Yu Tianheng formed hand seals, and strange dark red patterns appeared on his fingertips. As the hand seals changed, the blood in the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's body, which had not yet congealed, seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, gushing out along the wounds and gaps in the scales on its body, and converging in the air to form a crimson river of blood.
"Condense!" Yu Tianheng shouted, and the blood river suddenly contracted, with countless blood beads colliding and merging, emitting a "sizzling" sound.
The violent fire-attribute energy contained in the blood of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent was forcibly suppressed and purified by the Blood Demon Skill. The originally dark red blood gradually turned golden yellow, and finally condensed into a fist-sized ball with a molten lava-like luster flowing on its surface, radiating a heart-palpitating power fluctuation.
The clump of essence blood floated in Yu Tianheng's palm, pulsating slightly, as if it were alive. His eyes flickered, and he took out a specially made black jade bottle, carefully putting the essence blood inside. Even as the bottle cap closed, he could still feel the warmth emanating from it.
Yu Tianheng gripped the jade bottle tightly, feeling the pure energy contained within, a cold smile curving his lips.
The essence of these Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, refined through the Blood Demon Skill, is now an excellent aid to his cultivation, enough to advance his cultivation level further. He glanced towards the direction of the rock crevice; Hu Liena was still circulating her energy and adjusting her breathing, unaware of what was happening here.
Yu Tianheng carefully put the three items into the System Inventory, his eyes sharp as spears as he gazed deeper into the Hell Road.
The crisis on Hell Road has been mostly resolved. Further ahead lies the land where the Divine Slaughter's Domain is inherited. Although he is not interested in the Divine Slaughter's Domain, it is the basic condition for inheriting the Asura Godhood. If he does not want it, it will be a waste for Tang San.
How can this be allowed?
Deep within the crevice, Hu Liena leaned against the rock wall, barely supporting herself. As the roars outside gradually subsided, the huge weight that had been hanging over her heart finally lifted.
When the blood-stained figure appeared at the entrance to the crevice, her pupils contracted slightly— Yu Tianheng's black clothes were soaked in blood, most of them turning dark red, and there were still specks of charred blood on his hair.
"How are you?" Hu Liena struggled to stand up, the movement aggravating the wound on her shoulder, causing her to gasp in pain, but her voice was full of undisguised concern, "Are you injured?"
Yu Tianheng walked in, raised his hand and pressed it on her shoulder to signal her not to move, his movements unusually gentle.
He raised his hand to wipe the blood from his face, revealing a sharply defined jawline, his tone as calm as if he had only just experienced a routine fight. "It's alright, most of it is that beast's blood."
He stepped aside to make way, and the massive corpses of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent were vaguely visible outside the crevice in the rock. All ten heads had fallen, showing no sign of life.
"It's resolved," Yu Tianheng withdrew his gaze, his eyes softening slightly as he looked at Hu Liena. "Have you rested enough? We should continue on our way."
Hu Liena gazed at his blood-stained yet still upright figure, then at the enormous corpse outside. Her tense nerves finally relaxed, and she nodded gently, her voice low and reassuring. "Okay."