The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 37 - 29 The Serpent Grows Horns_1

Chapter 37: Chapter 29 The Serpent Grows Horns_1

Chapter 37 -29 The Serpent Grows Horns_1

Beneath the pool.

Gazing up at the young man riding the snake, Ning Yao’s expression became dreamy, and for a moment, she was utterly bewitched.

It was only when she began to fall that she suddenly snapped back to reality, and hurriedly continued to swim upward in an extremely inelegant manner.

Unlike Pang Jian, who was adept in the water and swam like a fish beneath the surface, Miss Ning of the Ning Family swam doggy-style, her movements stiff and anything but smooth.

As she saw the young man clamp his legs around the python’s neck, his body straight as an arrow, and repeatedly thrust his long spear towards Jin Yang, Ning Yao inwardly regretted not having learned to swim properly.

The young man who excelled in swimming cleverly used the python’s momentum to enhance the strength and force of each spear thrust at Jin Yang.

Even Jin Yang, who required Hong Tai to serve him cautiously, was fleeing in panic, with blood blossoms continuously appearing on his body.

But how could a young hunter have such audacity to strike down a high-ranking member of the Dark Ghost of the Fourth Realm?

Was he not afraid of the Dark Ghost’s crazed retaliation, and the inhuman torture that would follow if he were captured?

Ning Yao thought back and suddenly realized that since entering the Solitude Mountain Range, this seemingly ordinary young man of her age had always seemed to take the initiative in their interactions.

Her esteemed identity as Miss Ning hadn’t seemed to make much difference.

Pang Jian’s gaze was always calm and respectful, never treating her as anything remarkable.

This was entirely different from the worldly youths she had met in Lingshan Town.

“He must have hidden a lot from me!”

She became more convinced of the complexity of Pang Jian’s origins.

Perhaps, after leaving the Solitude Mountain Range, Pang Jian really was a survivor from the Upper Realm, someone from the Blood Moon, Star River Alliance, or Yin Spirit Temple who killed the real Pang Siblings and lay in wait for a search party like hers to arrive.

Ning Yao couldn’t help pondering, “What is he really after?”

…

At the top of the Phoenix Bone, emerging above the water’s surface.

The enchanting silhouette shrouded in the blood mist seemed both tense and excited at this moment, her compelling, bewitching eyes staring straight down.

Below the Phoenix Bone, that cluster of liquid amber, representing the Phoenix Marrow, was slowly rising toward her location.

Luo Hongyan, who had no real flesh and blood, instinctively posed as if taking a deep breath, but then she remembered she didn’t need to breathe at all.

“When the Phoenix Marrow is fully formed, it knows the existence of someone like Ouyang Duanhai, who has a corrupted heart. To avoid being refined by Ouyang Duanhai, it has no choice but to ascend.”

“That boy named Jin Yang, with his cultivation talent being quite decent, hasn’t become the target of its heart-corrosion?”

Luo Hongyan frowned in thought.

She was aware of some characteristics of the Phoenix Marrow.

Legend had it that when a Heaven Phoenix was gravely wounded, its shed feathers and bones would autonomously seek out creatures with strong qi and blood to kill. After amassing a vast quantity of blood and flesh essence energy, they would recondense into a new Phoenix Marrow.

“If the Phoenix Bone is too far from the actual body of the Heaven Phoenix, after the Phoenix Marrow forms, it will select a nearby creature to host it, consuming the host’s soul and flesh to achieve its primary awakening of consciousness.”

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“In every Phoenix Bone, as long as there is Phoenix Marrow that has condensed into form, the Phoenix Marrow possesses independent spiritual intelligence.”

“In the same region, every drop of Phoenix Marrow will select a creature to host it, and each is an independent entity.”

“The Phoenix Marrows also instinctively battle and devour each other, eventually merging to form the strongest ‘Heavenly Phoenix Guard.'”

“The duty and obligation of a ‘Heavenly Phoenix Guard’ is to protect the Heaven Phoenix, and they will ultimately be called back to the side of the Heaven Phoenix.”

“The ‘Heavenly Phoenix Guards’ that have become such through mutual slaughter across various locales, once returned to the side of the Heaven Phoenix, will transform into a new feather bone full of divine power, becoming part of the Phoenix Bone wings anew.”

“The Phoenix Bone that fell into the Solitude Mountain Range, if it killed a fierce being like the ‘Dark Giant Python’ the moment it hit the ground, a drop of Phoenix Marrow will be produced within.”

“Every fallen Phoenix Bone, as long as it contains Phoenix Marrow, will choose nearby beings like Ouyang Duanhai to host it.”

“Every host of the Phoenix Marrow instinctively seeks out other Phoenix Bones and Phoenix Marrows, either to assimilate the Marrow or to devour those afflicted like themselves.”

“This is their mission.”

“Because the Phoenix Marrow forms its own spiritual intelligence in an instant, it also avoids being refined by its own kind and seeks to quickly find a suitable creature to host it.”

“‘I, without a flesh and blood body and merely a spiritual body, will definitely not be its choice.'”

“As Luo Hongyan considered this, she saw the Phoenix Marrow within the bone approaching closer and closer, her heart tortured unceasingly.”

“In her soul spirit form, she’s capable of entering the Phoenix Bone beneath her feet and sinking quickly, confident in intercepting that cluster of Phoenix Marrow and claiming it as her own—vital nourishment for shaping her physical shell.”

“However, the moment she merged with the Phoenix Marrow, she would inevitably come into conflict with the spiritual intelligence born within the Marrow.”

“Before dissolving the Marrow’s own spiritual intelligence, that period would be her most vulnerable moment, and the moment she falls onto the Phoenix Bone, her soul spirit form would have nowhere to hide, surely seen by those with intentions at the bottom of the pool.”

“She always felt that the being who had captured the ‘Dark Giant Python’ from the Fifth Realm and raised it in the Black Water Pool was waiting for greedy souls like her to appear for the Phoenix Marrow.”

“Her inner longing was almost overflowing, yet she still endured, daring not to move.”

“She decided to wait a bit longer.”

“In the half-air around her, ‘Spirit Evils,’ refined by Meridians Channeling Realm cultivators like Roman, floated one after another, all awaiting her command.”

“…”

“Phut!”

“In the water, Pang Jian gripped the Dragon Pattern Spear, using the propulsive force of the ‘Dark Giant Python’ swimming in the water along with the sudden surge of his divine power, he stabbed several bloody holes into Jin Yang.”

“History has an astonishing way of repeating itself.”

“Before falling into the water, it was Jin Yang who controlled the seven ‘Cicada Wing Swords,’ chasing him and striking repeatedly.”

“Now, it was he who gripped the Dragon Pattern Spear, continuously piercing bloody holes into Jin Yang’s body.”

“He didn’t actually want to torture Jin Yang slowly; he didn’t have that leisure time. It was because Jin Yang, having advanced to the Meridians Channeling Realm, could often move positions in the water in an instant when his spear tip penetrated the back of the heart.”

His supposedly lethal spear attack could only leave a bloody hole in the nonfatal parts of Jin Yang’s body.

Pang Jian quickly came to terms with reality, knowing well that Jin Yang was not some minor Qi Refining Realm Dark Ghost cultivator that he could just spear to death.

A cultivator of a higher realm, indeed, even underwater, was capable of avoiding his own vitals.

Fortunately, Jin Yang was not faster than the “Dark Giant Python,” so every time Pang Jian swam past, he was able to adjust direction and attempt another killing strike.

Jin Yang, who kept close to the Phoenix Bone while ascending, had blood holes in his waist, abdomen, legs, and shoulders, but he still did not stray too far from the Phoenix Bone.

The “Dark Giant Python,” controlled by Pang Jian’s mind, also did not get too close to Jin Yang, who was sticking close to the Phoenix Bone, as if wary of the Phoenix Marrow within seizing the chance to fly out.

After a while, Pang Jian and Jin Yang, in a chase and escape, had not yet burst out of the pool’s water.

On the other hand, Ning Yao, with the poorest water skills and most awkward posture, focusing solely on surfacing for air, was actually the first to leap out of the water.

She emerged at the surface, swept the wet hair away from her face, and took deep, desperate breaths.

She suddenly turned her head with a sense of realization.

Only to see towering grey and gloomy figures floating around the Phoenix Bone, among which one was unmistakably the stalwart man loyal to Shangguan Qin.

At the top of the Phoenix Bone, surrounded by several grey figures, stood a mysterious and powerful silhouette shrouded in a bloody fog.

“The Demon Girl in the stone pile!”

Ning Yao screamed, realizing that the surface was not safe after all, and that underwater might be safer.

“Perhaps, she is also a choice.”

“She possesses a fleshly body. Just now, the power I had unlocked was insufficient, so I could not possess her. But now…”

“Whoosh!”

A burst of bloody lightning suddenly shot towards her.

Ning Yao, still hesitating, saw a streak of bloody lightning fly out of the blood fog, and it was too late to shrink back into the pool.

The lightning entered her body with a flash between her eyebrows.

Immediately, the devastatingly beautiful figure of a nation-destroying beauty appeared in her mind, and with a sweet, intoxicating voice, she laughed and said, “Sorry, I need to borrow your body for a while, please bear with it for a few days.”

As soon as these words were spoken, Ning Yao realized she was imprisoned within her own body, yet she could still vaguely see the scenes in front of her through her own eyes.

However, her thoughts and consciousness could no longer control her own body, nor could she speak out loud.

“Don’t worry, you won’t die for the time being.”

Luo Hongyan murmured softly and then, using Ning Yao’s body, suddenly leaped from the water and lightly landed atop the Phoenix Bone.

Once rooted on the Phoenix Bone with Ning Yao’s body, Luo Hongyan thought that now with a fleshly body, the independently intelligent Phoenix Marrow, if it could not find a better choice, would probably venture into it when cornered.

Then, she could give the Phoenix Marrow a big “surprise.”

“Disperse.”

She elegantly waved her fair jade arm, and the hosts of Spirit Evils, like Roman, floated around the edges of the Black Water Pool.

She then crouched down, using the eyes of Ning Yao’s body to look into the water below.

Jin Yang, always ascending upstream, was being intensely pursued by Pang Jian riding the snake; both were now so close to the water’s surface that she could see them clearly.

Upon closer inspection, she noticed that the Dark Ghost youth named Jin Yang had been speared by Pang Jian once more.

Having lost too much blood, Jin Yang suddenly felt dizzy for a moment, and his underwater limbs became incredibly lax.

“Dead.”

She shook her head lightly.

As if sentenced by her, the snake-riding youth’s eyes suddenly brightened, and his long spear aimed for Jin Yang’s fatal weaknesses, stabbing his nape and back heart several times.

After confirming that Jin Yang was truly dead, the youth hurriedly left the snake, reached Jin Yang’s corpse, and tore off a blue-green lotus leaf from his chest.

The youth’s eyes revealed satisfaction as he carefully pressed the large and precious leaf against his own heart.

Only then did the youth turn toward the “Black and White King Python” which seemed reluctant to stray too near the Phoenix Bone, waiting at a distance.

Luo Hongyan, through the eyes of Ning Yao above the Phoenix Bone, looked down into the water, suddenly feeling an intense terror and involuntarily looked toward the “Black and White King Python” in her mind.

The “Black and White King Python,” originally with green snake pupils, now had eyes as black as tar, and the pupils looked like two deep pools of water.

Deep in the unusual eyes of the “Black and White King Python,” she saw tiny black snakes as thin as hairs, silently wriggling about.

Luo Hongyan focused her divine power on Ning Yao’s eyes to take a closer look at the obsidian-like pupils of the “Black and White King Python.”

She instantly saw clear details.

Deep within the inky pool-like snake pupils, those thin snakes all had olive-green scales and tiny black spots on their bodies.

Moreover, a small sharp horn protruded slightly on the forehead of each little snake.

“Pythons grow scales to become serpents, serpents grow horns to transform into jiaolong, and jiaolong that grow claws turn into dragons!”

Luo Hongyan’s face suddenly changed.

“The creatures within the Black and White King Python are actually the beast souls of the Dark Giant Python! The Dark Giant Python that was pierced to death by the Phoenix Bone had faint horns emerging, clearly in the stage of transforming into a jiaolong!”

Upon uncovering the truth, Luo Hongyan panicked.

She finally understood why that “Black and White King Python” was so powerful, capable of consuming her refined Spirit Evils.

She also suddenly realized that the reason why there were no horns visible on the large snake bones of that “Dark Giant Python” was because when the Phoenix Bone descended from the sky, it had aimed for the nascent horns of the “Dark Giant Python.”

The Phoenix Bone first shattered the horns of the “Dark Giant Python” and then pierced through its skull, nailing it to the bottom of the pool!

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