At moments of intense pressure, it is exceedingly difficult to react correctly on the first attempt.

A blank mind, a state of daze and shock – such is the typical response of most individuals facing a crisis.

Cultivators, of course, must overcome this sort of fluster that is inherent to “ordinary people.”

Qing Jiuye, too, possessed a certain capacity for swift reaction.

But for someone like Jiang Wang to directly present Qing Jiuye with a choice was undoubtedly a more accurate prompt, saving Qing Jiuye precious time for deliberation.

In that critical juncture just now,

Had Jiang Wang’s reminder come a breath later, or had Qing Jiuye himself hesitated for but a breath,

He would already have entered the belly of the snake!

This Ni She Snake King, with its colossal size, possessed a truly terrifying hidden ability.

Any archery expert, however, possesses exceptionally sharp eyesight and vision far exceeding that of ordinary folk. They are generally quite difficult to ambush.

Yet, this Ni She Snake King had already slithered so close, and Qing Jiuye had not the slightest awareness.

Had it not been for Jiang Wang, utilizing the Red Makeup Mirror to survey the overall situation and observe the subtle changes in that particular “tree branch,” he too would have been utterly unable to detect this attack.

Qing Jiuye, tumbling through the air, felt his hairs stand on end at the bite of the Ni She Snake King behind him!

A hair’s breadth difference, a line between life and death!

Though his heart was shaken, his hands did not cease.

Though the Holy Clan dwells within the peaceful divine shade of the ages, their warriors are perpetually engaged in battle with wild beasts.

Holy Clan warriors like him possess absolute assurance in their combat prowess.

Mid-tumble, his body moved forward, yet the arrow had already turned back.

The colossal Ni She, having missed its strike, sought to retreat, but Qing Jiuye’s wooden arrow was already upon it.

The snake’s tail whipped back, like the strike of an exceptionally skilled martial expert, precisely aimed at the arrow shaft.

Yet, only the sound of air being rent, a sharp, crisp snap, echoed.

Qing Jiuye’s arrow, evading interception, with a mysterious grace beyond comprehension, pierced into the Ni She Snake King’s eye.

Snakes typically lack eyelids, and the Ni She is no exception.

This hasty and swift arrow did not penetrate deeply, merely lodging an arrowhead within the eye.

Though the Ni She King felt pain, it did not go berserk, still attempting to prioritize its escape.

However, amidst a shower of falling fiery meteors, Jiang Wang leaped out with his sword drawn.

A cold light suddenly flashed.

The Ni She flipped its body.

Long Xiang Si “cut” against a snake tooth, sparks flying, emitting a grating, teeth-aching sound of friction.

A sharp whistle approached, and the Ni She King’s tail arrived once more.

And Jiang Wang had already gripped his long sword, stabbing fiercely from the Ni She King’s snake tooth, sword leading his body away.

While evading this tail whip, he backhandedly crushed a tiny blade of smoky mist grass against the snake’s body.

The tracking Dao technique, Chase Thought!

Given Chase Thought’s grade, it was impossible to perceive the Ni She King’s hidden presence. Jiang Wang simply applied this Dao technique directly onto its body, allowing it to be tainted by Chase Thought’s Dao technique aura. Tracking oneself is far simpler.

The Ni She King’s tail whipped empty. It actually ground its head against a tree trunk, snapping the arrow embedded in its eye horizontally. It coiled its body onto the tree with astonishing speed.

*Dududu!*

Qing Jiuye’s urgent two arrows struck only the tree. Arrows that lost their target ultimately fell empty.

Jiang Wang leaped far and turned back. In front of him, where could he still see the Ni She King? Only a clean, colossal tree remained. It seemed as if nothing had just happened. That giant snake seemed never to have existed.

Fingers of his left hand plucked out the smoky mist grass. Chase Thought led the way!

In the treetops!

His body leaped up, his long sword erupted – tragic and brave, the sword of an old general in his twilight years!

Facing the Ni She King, many Dao techniques proved ineffective. Take Five Qi Bind Tiger as an example. The principle of this Dao technique is to disrupt the five qi within the opponent’s body, binding it from the inside out. However, a beast body like the Ni She King’s inherently possesses imbalanced five qi, with the wood qi branch being dominant. It was fundamentally unshakable.

In contrast, sword techniques were relatively less bound by environmental limitations.

With this sword strike, the Ni She King had no way to hide, no way to resist; it would undoubtedly be dismembered.

It also did not expect to be dragged out, but at this moment, it had no other choice. With a powerful exertion of its giant tail, it actually uprooted the giant tree itself and smashed it head-on towards Jiang Wang.

And Jiang Wang did not dodge, did not evade, his sword momentum unchanged.

An old general in his twilight years, a hero in this life!

Man and sword, in fact, became a single streak of cold light.

Tree roots split open, the tree trunk split open, the tree branches split open.

The giant trees in the Sen Hai Yuan Realm, abnormally tough due to the world’s rules, were less than a moment’s hesitation before Long Xiang Si!

Cleaving everything asunder, Jiang Wang’s sword chopped towards the Ni She King, who was now close at hand.

The vertical pupil of the Ni She King’s intact eye suddenly expanded.

*Hiss hiss hiss!*

Within Jiang Wang’s Tong Tian Palace, countless black small snakes abruptly drilled out of the air!

A soul-level attack, abrupt and difficult to defend against.

At this moment, firelight flashed.

Before the black small snakes could scatter, a circle of flame flowers bloomed, encircling them within.

Soul Flower Sea!

The Soul Flower Sea he had previously researched to shield Jiang Yan’s perception, at this moment, proved its worth, timely sealing the Ni She King’s soul offensive.

And on the battlefield outside the Tong Tian Palace, Jiang Wang’s sword had already struck.

The Ni She King hurriedly twisted and shifted its body.

Above its snake body, a massive wound was still easily inflicted, fresh blood surging madly.

Red blood surged like a fountain, spraying more and more.

Too much!

It shouldn’t be this much.

“Hold your breath!”

Jiang Wang sensed the abnormality and quickly reminded others before immediately holding his own breath.

The scent of this blood was abnormally sweet.

While the Ni She King was locked in battle with Jiang Wang, the Ni She pack also became increasingly frenzied.

Qing Jiuye, who had just continuously shot several arrows to relieve Su Qi’s siege, turned back just in time to be assailed by the intense bloody scent.

Immediately dizzy, he fell from mid-air.

On the ground, a Ni She shot up with speed.

The wind whistled sharply. A spear quickly struck, directly severing this Ni She in mid-air, and then simply “lifted” Qing Jiuye, pinning him straight onto a giant tree.

From Wu Qu Ji’s side, Qing Ba Zhi had already eliminated a small group of Ni She and was free to act. He used a spear to “hang” Qing Jiuye on the tree.

Wu Qu Ji sniffed lightly, then took out a pill and ingested it himself.

“This pill can resolve the blood poison!”

His left hand shook out a handful of pills, “smashing” them towards Qing Ba Zhi.

Qing Ba Zhi, sprinting towards Qing Jiuye, continuously shook green vines in his hand.

*Pa! Pa! Pa!*

The green vines continuously whipped, drawing the pills towards different people, and then the vine tips curled, pulling the last two pills back into his hand.

At this moment, he had already reached the spear’s tip, his foot directly stepping on the head of a Ni She. He swallowed one pill himself and stuffed the other into the mouth of the half-conscious Qing Jiuye.

On the other side of the battlefield, Qing Qi Shu and Su Qi also received and ingested pills.

Assailed by the same rush of bloody scent, the Ni She’s snake eyes immediately turned red, becoming increasingly fierce.

These matters aside,

Jiang Wang, on the other side, did not pay attention to the blood poison-resolving pills that Qing Ba Zhi had drawn over. Instead, he directly held his breath and rushed forward with speed!

The Ni She King sprayed out a large amount of blood from its wound. On the one hand, it was to interfere with the crowd using blood poison. On the other hand, it was to wash off the “Chase Thought” Dao technique aura that had stained its body with its fresh blood.

As early as his first time crossing the Ni She land, during his final escape with the fiery meteors, Jiang Wang had already profoundly understood this point:

The Ni She King truly possessed wisdom comparable to that of the human race!

It absolutely could not be treated as an ordinary wild beast or fierce beast.

The Ni She King’s truly unparalleled advantage lay in “hidden,” not in frontal combat.

Both sides were very clear on this point.

The Ni She King proactively spraying fresh blood to “wash” away the Dao technique aura, and Jiang Wang abandoning the safe strategy of turning back to take the pill, risking a forward rush – all were centered around this point of contention.

A mere blink of an eye was sufficient to determine the victory or defeat of this encounter!

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