Mortal Bones

Almost at the moment when Xu Taiping turned around, the huge snake head slammed heavily on the lava where Xu Taiping had been standing before.

"Bang!"

Instantly, the hard lava was smashed to pieces.

But at this moment, Xu Taiping relied on his fighting instinct, lightly tapped the ground with his toes, and then jumped up, holding the handle of the long sword in his hands with both hands, and slashed at the neck of the giant snake.

"Bang!"

The moment the long sword fell, a green sword aura suddenly appeared on its blade.

Although he could not use his true essence.

But for Xu Taiping, whose martial arts realm was already the Great Saint Realm, even if his blood and qi power was limited to the Great Saint Realm.

But with his use of blood and qi power, even if he only had the blood and qi power of the Great Saint Realm, he could condense a pure sword aura on the blade.

"Shua!"

The moment the sword energy condensed, Xu Taiping chopped the giant snake's neck with a sharp sound.

"Bang!..."

But what surprised Xu Taiping was that his sword, which was originally powerful enough to cut iron and break stone, could not even cut the scales on the giant snake.

Not only that, the recoil force from the giant snake's scales almost shook the long sword in his hand away.

And in this moment of surprise and astonishment, Xu Taiping finally glimpsed the whole picture of the giant snake through the deep and warm light of the gem in his hand.

The body of this snake was so thick that it required several strong men to hug it side by side, showing its extraordinary state; the scales on its body were like ancient rocks eroded by wind and rain.

Those scales, glowing with a cold and deep luster under the weak light, blend in perfectly with the mottled stone walls and stalactites of various shapes in the cave. If you don't look closely, you will almost mistake the giant snake for a part of the cave itself.

Crack, crack...

At this time, a dull and strange sound echoed in the cave, as if an ancient mechanism was slowly activated.

Then, while Xu Taiping was nimbly dodging the giant snake's attack and concentrating on observing every subtle movement of this behemoth, suddenly, the giant snake's rock-hard scales covering its body were incredibly lifted up.

This movement.

Not only did it cause a slight tremor in the air in the cave, but it also made Xu Taiping feel an unprecedented fear in his heart, and the hairs on his body stood up.

This kind of fear that only appears when facing life and death makes Xu Taiping almost instinctively mobilize all the blood and true energy that can be mobilized. While protecting his body with the Qi transformed from the blood and energy, he poured all the true energy into his legs and began to perform the Dou Zhuan Xing Yi Bu.

"Boom!"

Amid the deafening sound of breaking through the air, Xu Taiping, who was surrounded by red Qi, flew out to the back like an arrow from a string.

"Boom boom boom..."

Almost at the moment when Xu Taiping flew out, the giant snake suddenly spewed out fireballs as big as half of Xu Taiping's body from under the rock armor scales that were opened.

When all the fireballs under the rock armor scales were spewed out, the dense fireballs almost covered the entire cave.

"Bang!"

Although Xu Taiping was already sticking to the stone wall of the cave and was far away, he was still hit by a few sporadic fireballs.

"Bang, bang!..."

Although Xu Taiping's protective qi blocked all the fireballs, the flames on the fireballs could still burn the qi.

Even if the fireball fell, it would still burn for a while before it went out.

Feeling the speed at which the qi was burned, Xu Taiping calculated in his mind, and then murmured:

"Although I am not short of blood and energy, under the restriction of the Immortal Burial Ruins, the speed at which I convert blood and energy into qi is far less than the speed at which it is consumed."

"If this goes on, this protective qi will break sooner or later."

Just as he was thinking this, another fireball hit his protective qi with a "bang".

The violent impact force caused Xu Taiping, who was leaning against the stone wall, to shake violently along with the stone wall.

But fortunately, at this time, all the fireballs under the rock armor scales of the demon snake had been shot out, and even the rock armor scales that had been lifted up had all closed again.

Seeing this, Master Xuanzhi, who was standing on the water at the moment, suddenly knocked the dead wood fish in his hand, raised his head and said to Xu Taiping loudly:

"Brother Taiping, let's stop exploring here this time. It won't be too late to subdue this demon snake next time when we are ready!"

Xu Taiping actually had the same intention.

At present, even if the three of them can kill the rock armor demon snake together, it will inevitably be a lose-lose situation.

There will even be casualties among the three of them.

So it is indeed better to avoid its edge for the time being, and it will be better to subdue it after the cultivation is restored in the future.

Roar! ...

However, the rock armor demon snake seemed to see through the intentions of the three people. It suddenly raised its head and roared, and bit off a huge stalactite in the cave.

"Boom!..."

Almost at the moment when the rock armor demon snake swallowed the stalactite, its eyes suddenly brightened, like the sun and the moon.

The red flame light once again burst through the rock armor scales around it.

In an instant, the huge cave was completely illuminated.

And it was at this moment that Xu Taiping, who was about to jump down, saw a huge door covered with copper rust behind the huge body of the giant snake.

At the same time, seven thick copper nails were nailed into the tail of the giant rock armor demon snake.

Roar! ...

As the giant demon snake roared again, a huge fireball began to condense above its huge mouth.

The diameter of this fireball was nearly ten feet wide.

Immediately afterwards, the rock armor demon snake swung its head towards Xu Taiping, and the huge fireball was thrown towards Xu Taiping with a "bang".

Although the speed of this fireball was very slow.

But judging from the fluctuations of breath emanating from its surface, if it exploded, its power would cover every corner of the cave.

Almost at the same time, Dongfang Yuejian, who had been drawing on the water surface below for a long time, suddenly looked up and shouted at Xu Taiping:

"Brother Taiping, jump here!"

As he spoke, Dongfang Yuejian suddenly slapped his hands on the water surface.

In an instant, a huge golden rune with a diameter of more than ten feet suddenly appeared on the water surface.

Without any hesitation, Xu Taiping kicked his feet against the rock wall, and then his body flew straight towards the rune on the water surface like a sharp arrow.

"Boom!..."

But before Xu Taiping landed on the water surface, the fireball that was thrown to the center of the cave suddenly exploded.

In an instant, the sparks from the explosion of the fireball covered the entire cave like fireworks.

But at this critical moment, a huge golden light column suddenly rose from the huge rune pattern under Dongfang Yuecan, covering Xu Taiping completely.