Chapter 258 - Python King

Chapter 258 - Python King

The pythons were getting closer, and there was no more room for retreat. If they didn’t fight, they would become food for these pythons.

“Calm down, everyone! Let’s band together and carve out a path for escape!” Zhao Chen roared, urging everyone to unite and leave the place alive.

His words had some effect on uniting everyone into forming a battle formation.

However, some individuals chose to act independently, intending to use their agility to seize an opportunity to escape. Among them was Liu Wuxie. His concern was not the pythons but the demon’s head, which he anticipated would return for revenge.

After all, the demon’s head had finally found an opportunity to revive, so it was unlikely to relinquish this chance easily. Most crucially, the mysterious tree had hinted at the presence of a treasure here. Since it wasn’t in the hall, it must have been concealed within the python’s nest. However, its identity remained a mystery for now.

After going through numerous difficulties, Liu Wuxie had finally reached this point, and he wouldn’t give up without retrieving the treasure.

The slaughter began as several mighty pythons charged over and were as thick as barrels. Only small pythons could enter the underground palace, not the larger ones.

These pythons were cultivated for centuries, each possessing formidable strength. Even though they were not in the True Core Realm, they couldn’t be underestimated.

Blood splattered as several giant pythons were severed into two, dyeing the hall with their blood. The blood splashed on the pants of human cultivators, but that didn’t hinder their fight. They forgot where they were and fought with blood on their faces as well.

Everyone used their full strength without holding back. If they made a slight mistake, the pythons would gobble them up.

In a few breaths’ time, the pythons killed some ten-odd people.

The party continued to push forward, leaving the hall and entering deeper into the python’s nest. The exit was still about fifty meters away.

The worms began to converge on the stone wall once more, with the demon’s head appearing. When demonic aura gushed out, the green eyes of the pythons turned red as the pythons dashed forward fearlessly, and the death toll would rise with each charge.

As the death toll increased, the ground was littered with broken limbs and blood.

Everyone could still maintain their formation and teamwork in the beginning. However, as they approached the exit, those at the front quickly executed their movement technique and charged forward.

“Come back!” Zhao Chen roared. If the formation broke up, the death toll would increase.

However, before Zhao Chen could complete his sentence, a massive head emerged at the exit. The head, as large as a water tank, bared its fangs. Those who had charged forward found themselves plunging straight into the python’s mouth before they could react.

Over two hundred people had managed to survive earlier, but a large portion of them were dead now.

Ten-odd pythons slithered over to Liu Wuxie, but he quickly decapitated them after swinging the Heretic Blade, turning them into headless corpses. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron also devoured the energies in their bodies.

This brutal massacre naturally sparked the fury of the surrounding pythons. They had their intelligence unlocked. They might not have reached adulthood, but weren’t far from it.

The demon’s head on the wall released a torrential demonic aura into the pythons' bodies, causing them to become fearless as hundreds charged toward Liu Wuxie.

“Quick, run!” Seizing the opportunity while all the pythons charged at Liu Wuxie, Zhao Chen’s group quickly ran towards the exit. But ten-odd meters later, a torrential demonic aura swept out as an even more frightening python appeared.

“Break!” Liu Wuxie swung the Heretic Blade down. The demon’s head stopped struggling, and the walls exploded. The wall was meant to seal the demon’s head, and shattering the walls meant the demon’s head would have nowhere to go.

After the demon’s head disappeared, the walls began to crumble as though they were damaged from the root, with rocks flying around, covering the entire hall in rubble.

Zhao Chen and the others were dumbfounded because they couldn’t comprehend what had happened. The demon’s head was dead just like that?

The hall disappeared with over a hundred people standing in the center of the python’s nest.

A series of earth-shattering roars brought everyone back to reality, including Liu Wuxie.

As the three-sided walls collapsed, another python’s nest appeared, housing a massive python. This python had a width reaching three meters, and it could no longer be called a python but a draco-python.

The head was the size of a house, with emerald eyes emitting an eerie glow.

“T-The python king!” Zhao Chen’s lips became dry, and he couldn’t believe a python king resided there. Its massive body filled the underground world. It was so long that the end of its tail was nowhere in sight.

Beneath the python king was something golden that attracted everyone’s attention.

“What’s that?” The other pythons retreated at the appearance of the python king, not daring to get close. But Zhao Chen’s group wasn’t in a hurry to leave as their attention was caught by the golden object.

“That’s Golden Marrow!” An exclamation was heard.

“Golden Marrow?! I’ve heard that it takes five thousand years to cultivate one!” Everyone became ecstatic.

Liu Wuxie didn’t expect the mysterious tree to guide him to a Golden Marrow. This python king had started to refine it but was disrupted by them.

The python king opened its mouth, unleashing a suffocating power that swept toward Liu Wuxie.

“A fifth-grade demonic beast! This is a fifth-grade demonic beast!” Everyone was stumped to discover that this python king was a fifth-grade demonic beast comparable to the True Core Realm for humans.

Liu Wuxie’s face also turned grave as this place was too narrow for him to fight. He might be capable of killing enemies in the True Core Realm, but fighting there wasn’t a wise decision.

Most importantly, python kings usually came in pairs. So where was the other python king? The other python king was mostly slumbering, or it wasn’t there. However, it would be troublesome if the other python king returned, as facing one True Core Realm Python King at a time was Liu Wuxie’s limit.

His gaze fell onto the Golden Marrow. This was a treasure, and this would bring metal-attributes to the world in his dantian if he could refine it. Furthermore, it could bring his cultivation to the eighth-level Marrow Cleansing Realm.

Having come this far, Liu Wuxie was naturally unwilling to leave without securing the treasure. As his cultivation continued progressing, the pace of his breakthroughs would slow down. Therefore, his current task was to continue accumulating. The more he accumulated, the better his chances of achieving a breakthrough.

The python king saw through Liu Wuxie’s intentions and let out a furious roar as a warning, urging Liu Wuxie to leave. Out of the many humans present, only Liu Wuxie posed a threat to him.

The others were of no consequence, as thousands of pythons were outside, and they were sufficient to handle Zhao Chen’s group. When Liu Wuxie swung down the Heretic Blade, everyone was taken aback. They couldn’t believe that Liu Wuxie dared to confront a fifth-grade demonic beast, leading them to question if he had lost his sanity.

Many people coveted the Golden Marrow but didn’t dare to seize it from a fifth-grade demonic beast.