r18novel Chapter 79 Mandragora Serpent
Chapter 79 Mandragora Serpent
Chapter 79 Mandragora Serpent
The next morning, the group continued along the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, searching for a suitable third spirit ring for Tang San.
After a busy morning, everyone still hadn't found anything. As noon approached, the weather grew increasingly hot and humid, and the group couldn't help but feel irritable. After all, the Star Dou Great Forest was a tropical rainforest climate, so the heat was to be expected.
"Stop!" Zhao Wuji shouted, and everyone immediately became alert. The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and a rustling sound clearly reached their ears.
There seemed to be a faint fishy smell in the air, but it wasn't strong; it even carried a hint of sweetness and tea aroma.
Tang San sniffed and said confidently, "There's poisonous stuff."
Tang San was a poison expert in his previous life, and his understanding of poison was no less than Yang Wudi's! Yu Tianyun had no doubt about his words.
The rustling sound didn't last long, and soon the poisonous creature appeared before everyone's eyes.
It was a serpentine spirit beast, over ten meters long, entirely dark green, as thick as a bowl, like a python, especially its neck, which was extremely thick, indicating that its weakness was not the usual snake's Achilles' heel. Its triangular head clearly indicated it was a highly venomous snake, and it moved with incredible speed.
Tang San immediately recognized it. He was very familiar with this soul beast because his first soul ring came from this kind of soul beast. It was the Mandragora Snake, an extremely terrifying snake-like soul beast.
Upon recognizing the Mandragora Serpent, Tang San's heart burned with excitement. The Mandragora Serpent was an extremely powerful soul beast, and it was perfectly suited to his Blue Silver Grass martial soul. If the time was right, absorbing its soul ring would definitely bring him a huge boost, and it could also further amplify the paralyzing toxin and resilience added to his first soul ring.
Tang San immediately shouted, "Everyone, don't act rashly! This is a thousand-year-old Mandragora Serpent, an extremely terrifying and venomous snake-type spirit beast. We absolutely mustn't let it get close. Snake-type spirit beasts are usually afraid of fire, and the Mandragora Serpent is no exception. Fatty, use your first spirit skill, Phoenix Fire Line, to suppress it from a distance. I'm not afraid of its venom; I'll kill it. Perhaps it can become my third spirit ring!"
As soon as Tang San finished speaking, he stepped into the Ghost Shadow Step and met the Mandala Serpent. At the same time, his hands turned as white as jade.
Xiao Wu looked at Tang San with great concern, but did not rush forward. Her soul skills were not suitable for dealing with the Mandala Snake in front of her, and she had no resistance to poison.
The rest of the Shrek members did not step forward either, as it would be extremely dangerous to fight the Mandragora Snake without sufficient poison resistance.
When Ma Hongjun heard Tang San say that he didn't need to fight in close combat, he breathed a sigh of relief and obediently released his first soul skill to suppress Tang San from a distance.
Zhao Wuji crossed his arms and stared intently at Tang San, waiting to intervene only when Tang San was in danger. At the same time, he said to Oscar, "Little Oscar, prepare some antidote sausages for me. After all, this is a thousand-year-old Mandragora Snake. If Tang San can't handle it, I'll have to step in personally."
Upon hearing this, Oscar immediately chanted a soul incantation and used his soul power to create a bunch of short, detoxifying sausages, which he then handed over to Zhao Wuji.
After receiving the small sausage, Zhao Wuji saw Tang San rapidly approaching the Mandala Snake. His fair, jade-like hands moved like butterflies, constantly throwing out various hidden weapons, each attack aimed at the Mandala Snake's eyes, mouth, nostrils, and other weak points.
Seeing Tang San unleashing his full power, Zhao Wuji couldn't help but shudder, remembering how Tang San had dealt with him in the same way before. He stopped in his tracks, which had been about to step forward.
The datura snake is not so easy to deal with. Not only is it extremely fast, but its scales are also extremely hard. Ordinary attacks cannot break through its defenses. However, once bitten by it, one will definitely die. Even being exposed to its venomous mist will have a great impact.
Tang San, relying on the Tang Clan's ultimate techniques—Ghost Shadow Tracking, Mysterious Jade Hand, Purple Demon Eye, and Crane Control Dragon Capture—constantly attacked the Mandala Serpent, yet the battle remained evenly matched.
If it were any other Great Soul Master, or even a Soul Venerable like Dai Mubai, even if they managed to kill the Mandragora Serpent, they would most likely be bitten by it and perish together.
Watching Tang San fight, Yu Tianyun couldn't help but secretly admire him. Of course, he wasn't praising Tang San himself, but rather admiring Tang San's unique Tang Sect techniques. He was very envious of Tang San's martial arts.
Putting everything else aside, the value of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Purple Demon Eye far exceeds that of a 100,000-year-old soul bone!
The Mysterious Heaven Technique can even allow people without soul power to cultivate soul power, and the Purple Demon Eye is also an extremely rare method for cultivating spiritual power!
Anyone on the Douluo Continent would want to obtain the ultimate techniques in Tang San's possession.
However, Tang San was also very clever, and he always kept these Tang Clan secrets hidden, never even teaching them to his closest relatives.
Although Yu Tianyun was envious, there was nothing he could do. Tang San was the kind of person who would rather die than pass on the Tang Clan's secret techniques to others unless he was willing to give them to him.
Unless Yu Tianyun can read Tang San's memories, he has absolutely no chance of obtaining the Tang Sect's secret techniques.
At this moment, the battle between the man and the snake in the forest reached its climax.
The Mandragora Serpent was completely enraged. Its scales lit up simultaneously, with a faint purple light covering the dark green scales. Its speed increased dramatically, and in the blink of an eye, it broke free from Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Fire Line and pounced in front of Tang San.
But Tang San showed no panic. A sinister smile appeared on his lips as he flipped his right hand and took out a special crossbow from the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night.
Then, stepping on the Ghostly Shadow Tracking, his body swayed slightly, shifting three feet to the side. Blue light flickered in his fair, jade-like left palm, and with a breath of air, his body shifted position once again under the influence of the Ghostly Shadow Tracking.
The Mandala Snake suddenly felt a suction force coming from the side of its head, and its head turned uncontrollably. At this moment, because it had pounced on Tang San, its mouth was wide open and about to close.
Countless arrows, emitting a faint blue light, appeared out of thin air the instant the mandala serpent turned its head, just before its mouth closed.
"puff!"
All the arrows shot into its mouth; they were fired by the strange crossbow that Tang San had pulled the trigger on.
The ten-meter-long body of the datura snake stiffened almost instantly.
The next moment, the body of the datura snake tumbled and convulsed violently on the ground. In an instant, sand and stones flew everywhere. Wherever its hard body swept, whether it was bushes or small trees, it was as if it had been baptized by a tornado, with branches and leaves breaking and flying in all directions.
As the saying goes, even a centipede dies but does not stiffen. Insects, snakes, lizards, and other such animals will writhe uncontrollably when they die, unless their bodies are broken apart.
It wasn't until much later that the Mandala Serpent finally fell silent. A pale purple soul ring slowly condensed and floated above its body, indicating that it was completely dead!
(End of this chapter)