Python Xiao believed that he was absolutely no match for Leng Mei, but if he faced Ling Xiao, he should still have some chance of winning.
That chance came precisely from the Taotie martial soul he had just obtained.
Their Black Python family possessed a special trait: they could directly swallow a martial soul, digest it, and turn it into their own power.
With that thought, Python Xiao made his decision. He took out the Taotie martial soul and swallowed it in one gulp.
His body began to emit rays of black and white light that intertwined.
A shocking scream came from his mouth.
Behind his back, one could even see the illusory shadows of the black python and the Taotie fighting each other.
All of this lasted for quite some time.
Ling Xiao could have stepped forward to interrupt it, yet he did not do so.
Interrupting would have been too boring.
If the opponent was too weak, he would not enjoy himself.
“The Taotie martial soul! Good heavens, that kid actually forced Young Master Python Xiao to risk swallowing the Taotie martial soul. Even if he loses this fight, he can still hold his head high.”
“Lose? I’m not so sure. He could have stopped it but didn’t. This fellow is a true madman. What he wants is an opponent who can match him blow for blow.”
“If that’s really the case, it’s terrifying.”
Murmurs rose and fell all around, yet they could not affect Python Xiao’s process of absorbing the Taotie martial soul. At this moment, his mind was completely focused, intent only on fully utilising the Taotie martial soul and using this brand-new, powerful strength to determine the victor against Ling Xiao.
He had no other choice. This was his last path.
After a long while, Python Xiao opened his eyes.
His body appeared to have grown a size larger than before, and his aura had become far more sinister and powerful.
A ferocious, contemptuous smile appeared on his face.
“Do you know, Ling Xiao, you just made a colossal mistake.”
“Oh?”
“That mistake was letting me swallow the Taotie martial soul. You should have stopped me earlier. If you had, you might have won.
But now, you can’t. You have no idea how powerful, how terrifying this force is. It will make you despair, complete and utter despair!”
At this moment, Python Xiao had completely shed his previous expression of fear. His arrogance and overbearing manner had returned.
A powerful, domineering aura that looked down upon the world burst from his body.
In his eyes, Ling Xiao was no longer anything at all.
“Just relying on the Taotie martial soul you just obtained?”
Ling Xiao asked with a smile.
“You can still laugh now, but soon you won’t have the chance! You don’t understand how important the Taotie martial soul is to our Black Python family!
Legend says that the black python is a hybrid descendant of the Taotie. Once our Black Python family obtains the Taotie martial soul, we can not only fully master its abilities, we can even use the black python bloodline together with the Taotie martial soul to comprehend a bloodline ultimate technique!
The move I’m about to use is that bloodline ultimate technique. I just gave it a name: Heaven-Devouring Python!
Dying under my bloodline ultimate technique is no shame. In future, when the story spreads, you can still be proud of it.”
As Python Xiao spoke, a strange beastly shadow appeared behind him.
It resembled a black python.
Yet it also resembled a Taotie.
The bizarre giant beast stared fixedly at Ling Xiao, as if proclaiming the end of his life.
Hua Luoying could not help complaining, “See, see? I kept winking at you just now to tell you to finish him off. Now look, it’s too late, isn’t it?”
Many people shared Hua Luoying’s thoughts.
After Python Xiao swallowed the Taotie martial soul, his aura was indeed far stronger than before. Probably even Ling Xiao could not be this fellow’s opponent now.
A bloodline ultimate technique, no less. Only warriors who had mastered both bloodline power and a martial soul could unleash such a thing.
Ling Xiao was human. He had a martial soul, but he probably did not possess a bloodline. Just this single point already put him at a disadvantage compared with Python Xiao.
“A bloodline ultimate technique? I do want to see how powerful it is! Talking so much is meaningless. Show it to me. Since I, Ling Xiao, dared to let you fuse with the Taotie martial soul, I am not afraid of your so-called ultimate technique.”
Ling Xiao smiled faintly. “You should face one reality. The person standing before you is not some mediocre warrior, nor an ordinary little genius, but a true monstrous genius!”
“Monstrous genius? This guy actually calls himself a monstrous genius. How immodest.”
Many people showed expressions of disdain.
They felt Ling Xiao was the type who glowed if given a bit of sunshine, and now that he was called fat, he was truly gasping for breath.
What was a monstrous genius?
Even the Seven Killer Stars of the Black Crow Empire and the Ten Phoenix Sons of the Divine Phoenix Empire would not dare to call themselves monstrous geniuses!
This kid really knew how to brag.
“Monstrous genius? Heh heh. No matter what kind of genius you are, you die today. You brought this on yourself. You can’t blame me!”
Heaven-Devouring Python!
As Python Xiao finished gathering his power, terrifying energy surged from his body and poured completely into the enormous shadow behind him.
That shadow grew more and more solid, more and more horrifying.
The next instant, the beast roared.
The entire Sin City could hear that terrifying roar.
Even the Black Wind Tower trembled under the roar.
The Heaven-Devouring Python truly was powerful.
The technique itself was not particularly strange, but it was filled with destructive power capable of annihilating heaven and earth.
Once it locked onto a target, that target had no way to escape.
From the moment the technique was unleashed, a powerful suction force burst from the mouth of the Heaven-Devouring Python, forcibly dragging the opponent towards its jaws.
That was exactly how Ling Xiao felt right now.
His body involuntarily began moving closer to Python Xiao, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground.
Python Xiao had never used a move like this before, but he knew its terror.
It was ten times stronger than his previous strongest technique!
“It’s over, it’s over. My man is done for!”
Hua Luoying cried out anxiously, hopping from foot to foot.
Among the onlookers, apart from the very few who knew Ling Xiao’s true strength, everyone else believed he was finished.
The power of this move was simply too frightening.
A Black Python family expert who had devoured the Taotie martial soul really was something else.
Ling Xiao’s figure continued to slide towards Python Xiao, towards those bloody jaws, seemingly without the slightest ability to resist.
Python Tian, lying on the ground, suddenly laughed.
It seemed he did not even need to act. Ling Xiao was definitely going to die.
The watching crowd could almost see the scene of Ling Xiao being swallowed whole by the Heaven-Devouring Python.
“You have disappointed me too much!”
However, right in front of those bloody jaws, Ling Xiao’s body suddenly stopped moving forward.
A sigh emerged from his mouth.
He gently raised his hand, and the afterimage of the Ghost Shadow Sword flashed past.
The enormous beastly shadow disintegrated with a wretched scream.
“How is this possible!”
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Faced with Python Xiao’s so-called bloodline ultimate technique, Ling Xiao had broken it without even breaking a sweat.
The process had been so simple, so effortless.
Just a casual swing of his sword?
Was this guy even human?
