97: Chapter 97 Green Snake's Righteous Flying Kick

Although the two of them fought with great passion...

...in the eyes of outsiders, not much time had actually passed.

That prince had merely been knocked over by the aftershocks of the battle and was dazed for a short while.

When he opened his eyes again, all he could hear was the deafening, agonized screams of his grandfather.

The screams could be described as incessant.

The sound lingered in the air, unceasing for three days.

"Grandfather, Grandfather!"

The prince was frantic; having enjoyed a life of luxury in the palace since birth, when had he ever seen such a scene?

He pissed himself again in fear.

Looking at that green snake, he gnashed his teeth and strained his voice to start shouting.

"Monster, give me back my grandfather!"

Xu Qing felt as if his DNA was screaming out in response.

But at this moment, he couldn't afford to care about that.

This was a Golden Core; he couldn't be careless. He had to deliver the finishing blow, a ruthless finishing blow.

But just then, the miserable screaming within the flames stopped.

Xu Qing thought the old man had been burned to death.

He had still underestimated the life-saving methods of a Golden Core Cultivator.

Furthermore, although the green flood dragon pearl was quite extraordinary, Xu Qing, with only a Foundation Establishment cultivation, clearly couldn't activate its full power.

"Retreat!"

Under this single-word command, the slightly fading flames were actually all pushed aside.

They turned into flowing embers and dissipated.

In the flames, a charred and miserable figure formed a hand Seal and spat out a golden orb.

It was precisely the Cultivator's Golden Core.

The Golden Core spun rapidly, and Golden Core Flames gushed out, tightly wrapping the old man as if it were a robe of infinite golden light.

"Golden Core!"

With a wave of Xu Qing's hand, the Green-Tailed White Sword and the Xiliang Sword let out a crisp sword hum and returned to his hand.

"Snake demon, snake demon!"

"You actually forced me to use up my Natal Core Qi and destroyed my path to the Dao. I want you dead!"

The charred figure shrieked; though his Aura was withered, his momentum seemed to have reached its peak.

He formed a hand Seal, and a crack appeared on the Golden Core.

Golden flames continuously flowed from the crack like golden liquid.

Xu Qing furrowed his brows tightly.

As expected of one of the Upper Four Sects of the Xia Dynasty, the foundation of this Golden Core was several times stronger than the Central Region Golden Core Cultivators he had fought before.

The golden flames flowed and surged in the air, intertwining with each other to transform into an incomparably huge golden flame palm print.

High in the sky, the Golden Core Cultivator continuously spat out obscure incantations.

Blood continued to flow from the charred wounds all over his body, dyeing him into a man of blood.

"Fall!"

He held a strange hand Seal with his right hand and brought it down toward Xu Qing below.

The giant golden flame palm descended along with his hand Seal, emitting explosive sounds as it fell.

Every trace of Demonic Qi in Xu Qing's body seemed to vibrate within him.

He couldn't take it head-on.

He absolutely could not take it head-on!

The moment the palm print formed and fell, Xu Qing realized this.

If he took it head-on, he would undoubtedly die!

Xu Qing opened his mouth and swallowed the Xiliang Sword into his belly.

His eyes stared straight at the falling palm print in the sky, and his pair of black and white heterochromatic pupils underwent a change.

The black pupil rotated and expanded, dyeing the entire iris black.

A faint light lit up within the pupil, turning it snow-white.

Black eye with white pupil, Yin flourishing while Yang declines.

The moment the palm print fell, Xu Qing's figure distorted and vanished.

"Roaming Life and Death!"

It was precisely the exclusive skill of the Lisheng Green Snake.

Roaming Life and Death—the Physical Body enters the boundary between life and death.

In the place where life and death meet, a green snake panted heavily, several parts of its body charred and still burning with golden flames.

“Damn, damn, damn! What kind of ghost Golden Core is this!”

Xu Qing looked at the flames on his body and cursed.

In the future, he absolutely must not fight across ranks. In a real fight, who would be so bored to seek out someone stronger than themselves?

Wasn't that just a brain fart?

Either a masochist or just plain sick.

In a real fight, one should still go bully those of a lower rank.

"Why won't these flames go out!"

Xu Qing looked at the golden flames burning on his body.

Although his body was undergoing rapid Self-Healing, these golden flames used the flesh as fuel; the growing flesh and blood only became more fuel for it.

Yang Ling had used his Golden Core Dao Cultivation as fuel to trigger these Golden Core Flames; naturally, they could not be easily extinguished.

Xu Qing formed a hand Seal and spat out the green flood dragon pearl again.

Following the green flood dragon pearl, he activated the green flood dragon ring to cover the flames burning on his body.

"Seal!"

The power of the Seal within the green flood dragon ring was activated with full force. The golden flames turned into a thin line, bit by bit being pulled away from Xu Qing's body and into the ring.

"It hurts..."

"But compared to the pain of resurrection, this is practically a pleasurable sensation, okay?"

Xu Qing felt that his mind was no longer normal.

Having experienced the pain of resurrection multiple times, this kind of ordinary pain actually brought him a slight sense of pleasure.

And at this time, outside the boundary of death.

Yang Ling's staggering body could no longer maintain Flight.

He landed on the ground, still struggling to open his eyes and look toward where Xu Qing had been.

Under the Golden Core Flames, where was there any sign of the green snake now?

"Has it been burned to ashes?"

"Cough, cough..."

He didn't doubt his Golden Core Flames in the slightest.

That was golden flame triggered by stripping away a portion of his Golden Core fragments at the cost of his own Dao Cultivation and path to the Dao.

Below the Golden Core realm, it was impossible for any life to survive.

Realizing that Xu Qing was already dead, Yang Ling slumped onto the ground as if he had breathed a sigh of relief.

He struggled to sit cross-legged and swallowed the Golden Core floating beside him back into his belly.

Feeling that his originally round and perfect Golden Core was now missing a corner, he wished he could grind that green snake's bones to ashes.

"Bastard, bastard!"

"To think not even a complete corpse was left, otherwise I would have refined you into a Spiritual Artifact for my clan to drive for all eternity!"

Yang Ling's face was full of resentment.

And that prince also tremblingly approached Yang Ling at this time.

Looking at Yang Ling, whose body was covered in terrifying burns and whose face was hideous, the prince actually didn't dare to step forward for a moment.

"Grandfather..."

"Don't call me grandfather, I don't have a grandson like you!"

Looking at the prince who used to be so likable no matter how he looked at him, he now only felt irritated.

If this prince's seniority were strictly calculated, he could be his grandson's grandson.

But he was still a descendant, so Yang Ling had let him call him grandfather.

Yang Ling activated his remaining tiny bit of Dharmic power, took out the Storage Pouch hidden deep in his robes, and pulled out a long-treasured Peerless Grade healing Medicinal Pill.

"Watch my Green Snake Flying Kick!"

Yang Ling, who had just taken out the pill, only heard that voice he hated to the bone.

Then, what entered his vision was a large green tail.

A massive slap-like kick struck his face.

He could hear the sound of his own hip bone fracturing.

"Mine, it's all mine!"

Xu Qing snatched the Storage Pouch away, as well as the pill bottle the old man was clutching tightly.

He sniffed the pills in the bottle and poured them all into his mouth in one go.

He wasn't afraid even if they were poisonous anyway; how many poisons in this world were more toxic than a Silly Snake?

"Snake demon! Snake demon!!!"

Yang Ling roared hysterically.

However, what greeted him was another massive slap.

"Eye of Life!"

Yang Ling's lifespan accurately appeared before Xu Qing's eyes.

194 years / 500 years.

"Fierce Birth!"

A rich Aura of life was extracted by Xu Qing, causing his green scales to shimmer with a beautiful luster.