69: Chapter 69 Complete Form

Yin Ying was both annoyed and amused, then continued to grope his way into the cave.

Deep inside the cave, after Tang Long fed the Snake King some poisonous items, the Snake King's attitude toward him had indeed changed significantly, and it essentially had no hostility left.

The Snake King's intelligence was not very high; it could understand at most thirty percent of what Tang Long said.

But for communication, thirty percent was already enough.

"Brother Snake, how come I sense an intruder again?"

The Snake King tilted its head slightly and let out a rough breath through its nostrils, the meaning being that the intruder was very weak and it didn't take them seriously at all.

Tang Long's expression was very exaggerated, "Very weak? Since when do even the weak dare to invade your territory at will?"

The Snake King opened its massive maw, revealing a ferocious posture, then turned its head to the other side. It was as if it were saying, 'This kind of bug would die with a single breath from me, but I'm not feeling well today, so I don't want to bother with him for now.'

Tang Long continued to stir the pot, "Brother Snake, I'm not questioning you. I just feel that if a bug can come today, a whole nest of rats might come tomorrow. If you can tolerate this, word will get out and everyone will think you've lost your touch."

Upon hearing this, the Snake King's body immediately coiled, its head rose upright, and it opened its massive maw to let out a long hiss, spraying a choking, fishy gust of wind; it was clearly extremely furious.

Tang Long quickly bent his knees and lowered himself, "I know your strength, and I am sincerely respectful of you. But if you tolerate this, people outside will think you're a pushover, and your enemies will definitely come again."

The Snake King's vertical pupils were almost rounded; after staring at Tang Long for a few more seconds, its massive body surged, moving past him like a train.

Tang Long couldn't help but suppress a laugh, feeling that he was truly a genius.

Meanwhile, Yin Ying's hair stood on end. After all, with a behemoth like the Snake King moving, the entire cave was trembling, and it was impossible for him not to feel it. He also realized that his previous judgment was wrong; this big guy might not be as severely injured as he had imagined, and it was likely coming for him.

Yet, he couldn't figure out why Tang Long was fine when he entered the cave, but he attracted an attack the moment he came in?

Fortunately, he had only entered the cave about a hundred meters, so at full speed, he reached the cave entrance in two or three seconds.

It was precisely at this moment that the Snake King caught up, its wide-open maw only forty or fifty centimeters away from Yin Ying.

Yin Ying spread his wings and circled in the air. When he looked back, he saw that the giant snake had already emerged mostly from the cave, coiled atop the bald mountain with its head held high, as if it were making a show of force against him; he couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.

"Damn it, it's actually a Golden-Horned Thorn Snake King."

"This is trouble!"

"The Golden-Horned Thorn Snake King has strength rivaling the Blood Refining Upper Realm, is said to have exceptionally fierce poison, and usually possesses two or three special abilities. Fighting this kind of thing, one mistake and you're dead."

Yin Ying was an extremely confident and proud person, but in front of the Golden-Horned Thorn Snake King, for the first time, he considered retreating.

However, just half a minute later, he changed his mind.

It wasn't just because of pride; he discovered that the Thorn Snake King was indeed covered in wounds. Moreover, that bite that nearly swallowed him just now—if it had sprayed any venom or poisonous mist, he would have already lost his life.

But why didn't it spray?

Could it be that it sprayed it all out during a fierce battle with some behemoth earlier?

The more Yin Ying thought about it, the more he felt this was possible.

Furthermore, it wasn't as if he didn't have a trump card. It was just that the cost was high, and he didn't want to use it lightly.

But now, to kill Tang Long, he had to kill the Snake King first, and to kill the Snake King, he had to use his ultimate move.

"There's no other way."

Thinking of this, Yin Ying's eyes instantly turned pitch black, and he let out a high-pitched shriek.

Feathers rapidly grew on his face, and his features changed drastically; his mouth protruded, turning into an eagle's beak in the blink of an eye, and then his hands and feet grew larger and sprouted sharp claws.

At this moment, he was a large black eagle with two extra front claws.

He flapped his wings and circled again, then began to dive rapidly.

"Beast, let me show you how powerful I am!"

As he dove to within nearly a hundred meters of the Snake King, Yin Ying's four claws began to wave simultaneously, and streaks of black light energy rained down directly toward the snake's head.

On a large tree branch on the side of the mountain, Lv Yang's hands inside his sleeves couldn't help but clench and unclench, forcefully suppressing the urge to slap Yin Ying to death.

The reason the first realm of cultivation was named Qi Manipulation was to directly explain its meaning: to control spiritual energy.

After reaching the Qi Manipulation Upper Realm, a martial artist begins to be able to release spiritual energy in the form of Qi, attacking from a distance.

Battle Qi, Spirit Blade—there are various names for it, but the essence is all the same.

However, this thing is progressive. Generally speaking, the release range for the seventh stage is just over ten meters, the eighth stage is around twenty meters, and the ninth stage to the peak of the ninth stage is thirty to fifty meters.

Battle Qi is highly compressed spiritual energy; usually, a Qi Manipulation martial artist can only release one shot at a time. Those with relatively large spiritual energy reserves might be able to release two shots in a row, but three consecutive shots are basically impossible.

Even reaching the Blood Refining realm, where spiritual energy reserves are much more abundant, firing consecutive shots of Battle Qi is still a very extravagant thing.

Even in life-or-death situations, you would only see such a scene in battles of the Blood Refining Upper Realm.

Yet this Blasphemer is only at the eighth stage of Qi Manipulation, and he is actually able to fire over thirty shots of Battle Qi at a distance of a hundred meters, and the quality of each one is very high. Even the priests carefully trained under his command, at the same realm, would absolutely be unable to withstand it.

"All Blasphemers should be torn apart and fed to the dogs."

After cursing, Lv Yang couldn't help but worry for Tang Long again.

"Kid, do you have any way out of this one?"

Deep in the snake den, Tang Long saw the Snake King being hacked by Yin Ying's Battle Qi, scales flying and blood splattering, and he fell silent for a moment.

In fact, he had long sensed that Yin Ying was not simple; their first encounter at Linshan Market was just a test.

The fight was very short, but in reality, he had basically exhausted all his means, and the result posed no significant threat to Yin Ying.

Afterward, he fled Linshan Market, and Yin Ying was able to catch up very quickly.

Overall, Yin Ying himself was strong, experienced, and quick-witted.

He was not only good at using and neutralizing poisons, but his eyesight was sharp, and he could fly.

There was another thing that made him very different from other Blasphemers: his Blasphemy Power lasted for an exceptionally long time, as if it could be used infinitely.

Now he had displayed this, which should be called a complete transformation form; his four dimensions had improved by about ten percent, his spiritual energy had exploded fivefold, and he was at least one level stronger than before.

He actually had such a terrifying battle skill.

In contrast, looking at himself, his attack methods were truly too lacking; currently, he only had Heavy Strike to hold the fort.

And Heavy Strike also had its flaws, namely the cooldown interval.

Although it wasn't long, once an expert figured out the pattern, he would be in great danger.

The Thorn Snake King probably couldn't be counted on either; this big guy was already showing signs of weakness, and it was very likely it couldn't beat Yin Ying. It seemed he had to strengthen himself, otherwise, there was a possibility this performance would flop.

However, before that, he might as well see what treasure was hidden under Brother Snake's throne.

Tang Long proceeded to take action, starting to dig toward that golden light underground.

Although he had no tools, with his current strength, the process wasn't difficult. Just a few minutes later, he dug out a small box at a depth of over three meters. After opening it, a dazzling golden crystal appeared inside.

[Golden Spirit Source Crystal: A highly condensed metal spiritual energy crystal, an excellent treasure for forging high-level weapons and equipment and tempering the Golden Spirit Body, extremely rare.]

Tang Long frowned deeply.

The item was definitely a good one. If he remembered correctly, this thing didn't drop in the early stages of the game at all; it generally only dropped in 60+ dungeons.

But it was used in conjunction with forging blueprints, and he had nowhere to get those now.

Besides, what was a Golden Spirit Body?

Was it similar to that kind of constitution in the cultivation novels of his past life? How come he didn't remember any information about this in the game?

Forget it, time to train.

He had quite a lot of resources on hand now; in at most three or four more hours, he would be able to push Barbarian Blood to level seven.

The terrain of this snake cave was complex; no matter how the fight outside turned out, as long as he didn't go out, he could definitely stall for time.