"Titan’s Grip!"
Li Xiang made a pressing gesture with both arms. The ground in a hundred-meter area rumbled and swelled, and two forty-meter-tall giant hands of crystalline rock burst from the earth. One from the left and one from the right, accompanied by the roar of the Earth Vein, they viciously clenched around the King of Anacondas’s vital spot.
Its scales, corroded into a honeycomb-like state, scraped against the giant crystalline hands, creating dazzling sparks. A hiss like a steam train emanated from the anaconda’s belly as hundreds of bone spikes erupted from its rotting flesh.
The anaconda struggled violently, but Li Xiang’s Earth Superpower was simply too strong; the King of Anacondas was unable to break free.
Luo Feifei tapped her toes lightly. Twelve Ice Ridges spread along the giant anaconda’s spine, instantly freezing the fluorescent larvae that were about to burst from its body.
Yao Yao’s eyes, bright as stars, shone with excitement. Using the crystalline hand as a springboard, she leaped into the air. Her Mandarin Duck Double-Bladed Sword whirled, creating a Spiral Sword Qi. As the blades sliced into the anaconda’s lower jaw, dark green, venomous blood spurted out, only to evaporate into a foul-smelling mist against her Obsidian Face Armor.
Lei Xiaohui moved with lithe agility. With a flick of the Bronze Spear in her hand, it ignited with crimson-gold flames. The image of her spear transformed into a Fire Dragon Vortex, plunging into the wound that gushed with the anaconda’s venomous blood.
"Have a taste of charcoal-grilled snake!" The Spiritual Taoist Fire shot down the anaconda’s esophagus and into its abdominal cavity, burning it until wisps of smoke rose from between its scales.
Meanwhile, Zhao Xueqing’s Silver Vine Soft Whip coiled around three of the bone spikes. With a sudden yank, she ripped them clean out.
Lei Jiaming’s heavy sniper rifle roared as an armor-piercing round precisely penetrated the anaconda’s left eye. The instant corrosive fluid splattered, he dropped the rifle and made a grasping motion in the air. A three-hundred-kilogram Profound Iron Great Saber materialized in his hands, its blade wreathed in pressure as it sliced through the curtain of rain.
"Breaking Army Seven Slashes!"
The Thunderbolt-like flash of his saber left several deep, ravine-like gashes across the anaconda’s enormous body.
Xu Xuan thrust his palms forward, conjuring a hurricane. Zhang Youyou’s fingers flew through a series of hand seals, weaving wind and fire together into a crimson-gold vortex. "Flaming Dragon Vortex!"
Before the high-temperature vortex could evaporate the slime into a toxic mist, Luo Feifei’s Ice Crystal Storm had already frozen a protective dome one hundred meters in diameter.
"Paya, grant me a war song!" Yaki Toto plunged his Totem Pole into the swamp. The roots of the Strangler Fig suddenly erupted into a cage. Fluorescent vines burrowed into the anaconda’s wounds, and parasitic spores bloomed on its nerve ganglia like bewitching, scarlet blossoms. The anaconda convulsed, spewing a torrent of acid, which crashed against the group’s Obsidian Battle Armor and broke into a boiling green wave.
’The "Anaconda" was stunned. It had assumed that with such a powerful puppet body, even if it couldn’t win outright, it should have at least held the upper hand at the beginning. Who would have thought that the moment it appeared, it would be swarmed by these foolish, backward "natives"? These "little ants" weren’t afraid of it in the slightest—they actually dared to defy it.’
Dozens of miles away, the "Illusion" inside the Monkey King grew furious. It abruptly transmitted another surge of energy. Instantly, the King of Anacondas became even more frenzied and powerful. With a sudden twist and heave, it shattered Li Xiang’s "Titan’s Grip," sending foul-smelling slime and chunks of rock flying like a torrential downpour.
Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, Lei Jiaming, and the others were caught off guard and sent flying, scattering in all directions like cannonballs.
"Looks like I can’t let you live!" Li Xiang’s eyes narrowed, and his body shot forward.
Clad in his Giant Whale Saint Armor and wielding the White Jade Golden Hook Eight Desolations Giant Python Rod, he accelerated to his Extreme Speed of Mach 11. With a single dash—WHOOSH!—he struck with the force of a hypersonic missile, blasting a huge hole straight through the anaconda’s skull and exiting from its tail.
Holy crap. Everyone was stunned by Li Xiang’s utterly brutal move. ’You can fight like that?’
But really, there was no answer to it.
With Li Xiang’s 220,000 jin of Giant Power, his Mach 11 Extreme Speed, his Saint Tier Giant Whale Saint Armor, and his indestructible, 7,200-kilogram White Jade Golden Hook Eight Desolations Giant Python Rod, he had no need for exquisite techniques against a monster as massive as the King of Anacondas. All he had to do was lower his head and charge.
A direct hit meant certain death; even a graze was fatal.
Li Xiang had held back earlier to give his team a chance to hone their skills. But this King of Anacondas was simply too powerful—it had even broken free of his Titan’s Grip. He worried that if the fight dragged on any longer, his team members would get hurt.
At the same time, the rest of the team unleashed their Superpowers. Ice, fire, wind, vines...all converged on the anaconda’s wounds, creating an elemental storm that tore the massive King of Anacondas to shreds.
The team used the rain to wash their Battle Armor, their hearts still pounding with excitement.
"I’m going to get something," Luo Feifei said. Her figure suddenly flashed as she darted toward a fragment of the King of Anacondas scattered in the rainforest.
Everyone followed, curious to see what Luo Feifei was looking for.
A cold glint flashed from the sharp edge of her White Tiger Sword as she sliced open the millstone-sized fragment, revealing a pale golden sphere wrapped in a placenta-like membrane of flesh.
"What is that?" everyone asked, curious.
Luo Feifei whispered, "If I’m not mistaken, this should be the Exotic Beast’s incubation sac. This King of Anacondas was once its body, but now it has been discarded."
"This thing is even more disgusting than the Anglerfish Lantern," Yao Yao commented.
"It may be a bit disgusting, but it’s steeped in the Exotic Beast’s potent aura. With this, I can lock onto the beast’s location with much greater accuracy."
Previously, Luo Feifei’s Divination could only pinpoint a general direction. This "incubation sac," however, would be far more helpful than any other related material for divining the Exotic Beast’s whereabouts.
Blood-stained Copper Coins danced across the surface of the Turtle Shell...
After performing the ritual, Luo Feifei interpreted the hexagram and announced the result.
"Twenty kilometers due west. A gathering place for monkeys."
"Then we won’t rest. We’ll travel through the night," Li Xiang declared, waving his hand and leading the team forward.
After all, with the Exotic Beast watching from the sidelines, it probably wouldn’t let them rest peacefully anyway.
Seeing how important the placenta-like sac was, Yaki Toto volunteered to carry it. He bound it with dry vines and slung it onto his back.
This was a clever move on his part. He could tell that Paya and the other warriors were a bit squeamish, so it was only natural for him to take on the dirty work.
After taking a few steps, Li Xiang suddenly had a bad feeling. ’That thing isn’t going to run again, is it?’
"I’ll go on ahead. Feifei, you bring the others along later." Li Xiang was fast. He took off, covering the twenty kilometers in an instant.
Under the moonlight, reflected in the swamp below, the treetops were densely packed with the corpses of monkeys, their eye sockets gruesomely "blooming."
The Exotic Beast was nowhere to be seen.
The zombie monkeys dropped down and attacked Li Xiang, but none could withstand a single blow from his White Jade Golden Hook Eight Desolations Giant Python Rod.
By the time Luo Feifei and the others arrived, the horde of zombie monkeys had already been crushed to a pulp.
"This Land of Demons is probably covered in the Exotic Beast’s ’eyes’. Feifei, let’s do the Divination underground." Li Xiang beckoned for everyone to gather close. An earthy-yellow light burst from his body, enveloping the group as they sank deep into the earth.
Roughly a kilometer underground, Li Xiang carved out a space. Luo Feifei activated her Insight Superpower and confirmed there were none of the Exotic Beast’s "eyes" present.
The Exotic Beast didn’t have the ability to travel through the earth, so it couldn’t reach them this deep underground.
And so, Luo Feifei began her Divination in peace.
At last, she once again confirmed the Exotic Beast’s location.