Urban Super Medical Saint-Chapter 790 - 788: The Giant Serpent

Ge Dongxu did not rush into the stone cave to investigate but looked around the underground plaza that was nearly the size of a hundred soccer fields.

What surprised Ge Dongxu was that hardly any creatures could be seen in the underground plaza, which seemed unreasonable given the abundance of snakes, insects, and other creatures on the walls of the Sky Pit.

Just as Ge Dongxu was pondering this peculiarity, all of a sudden, the previously calm and babbling Underground River suddenly became turbulent, and a chilling and sinister aura emanated from the direction of the river's flow.

This chilling aura, different from the cold of the Underground World, was laden with a sense of impending crisis, so much so that even with Ge Dongxu's cultivation, he felt a chill creep into his pores; his True Qi was already circulating at full strength within his body, and the Life and Death Dual Aspects Sword was already wedged between his fingers, with faint black and green Sword Beams flickering in the dark.

"Splash!" came a sound.

All of a sudden, the raging river water split open, and a pitch-black head with two luminous green orbs burst forth from the riverbed.

It was, unmistakably, a snake head the size of a basketball, its eerie green eyes looking down on Ge Dongxu from above, radiating a sense of superiority and greed.

The snake's triangular mouth slightly opened, revealing its sharp, cold fangs, while the smelly drool dripped straight down along the fangs.

Supporting the snake head was a thick body, as big around as a bucket, covered with large, pitch-black scales the size of coins.

The part of the snake's body visible above the water was about six to seven meters high, and with most of it submerged, Ge Dongxu estimated it had to be at least twenty to thirty meters long.

"Hiss!" Even with his profound cultivation, Ge Dongxu couldn't help but gasp at the sight of such a sudden appearance of an enormous creature.

As Ge Dongxu gasped, the giant snake suddenly lunged forward, opening its massive jaws filled with menacing fangs, and bit down toward his head.

"Damn it, I wasn't even ready to kill you, and you're already attacking me!" Seeing the giant snake try to eat him the moment it laid eyes on him, Ge Dongxu couldn't help but curse. The Life and Death Dual Aspects Sword in his hand had already been launched, transforming into a three-foot Qing Feng, and viciously chopping towards the snake's head in the air.

The giant snake, feeling the might of the Flying Sword transformed from the Life and Death Dual Aspects Sword, quickly recoiled.

But the Flying Sword was incredibly fast; although the snake managed to avoid its head being hit, it still took a heavy blow to its body.

"Clang!" The Flying Sword struck the body of the snake, not only producing a sound like metal clashing with iron but also sparking tiny flecks of fire.

The Flying Sword didn't cut the snake in two or even draw blood; instead, it left just a deep white mark on the snake's body.

"Damn it!" Ge Dongxu gasped with shock this time.

In the forest years ago, he had beheaded an iron-armored Zombie with just one stroke of the sword, and his cultivation wasn't even as advanced as it was now.

He hadn't expected the snake's Scale Armor to be so tough that it could survive a strike from his sword unscathed.

"Whoosh, whoosh!" Although the snake wasn't bleeding, the sword strike had caused it great pain. Its body, hidden under the water, started to thrash wildly, stirring the river water to a fury as if floodwaters were unleashing.

Seeing the snake in pain and crazily churning the river, Ge Dongxu naturally wanted to take this opportunity to slay it.

With a thought, his hands swiftly manipulated the Sword technique.

The Life and Death Dual Aspects Sword burst with black and green radiance, and the condensed Sword Light became tangible, then it shot towards the snake's head like lightning, striking again.

"Splash!" The great serpent, having learned its lesson from before, didn't dare to use its body to block again but instead lifted its tail and smacked it forcefully against the river.

The water shot up towards the sky, forming a huge wall of water.

No sooner had the water wall taken shape than it turned into blocks of ice, suspended in midair.

"Bang!" The flying sword struck the ice wall.

The ice wall shattered into fragments that fell into the water, and the flying sword, having exhausted its force, flew back into Ge Dongxu's palm.

As the Life and Death Dual Aspects Sword returned to his hand, Ge Dongxu saw a hint of smugness and cunning in the glowing green eyes of the great serpent behind the broken ice.

A sudden warning flashed through Ge Dongxu's mind, and without a second thought, he leapt into the air.

As expected, just as Ge Dongxu had taken off, a cold and fierce wind howled, and a dark shadow lashed viciously towards where he had just been standing—it was the great serpent's body.

That body, at least thirty meters long, was like a thick iron whip. Ge Dongxu could hardly imagine what would happen to him if he were hit—whether he would turn into a lump of flesh.

After all, his body was far from being so tough that it wouldn't bleed when cut by a flying sword.

The great serpent, too, had not expected its strike to miss. Watching Ge Dongxu hovering in midair, its eyes were filled with frustration and resentment.

Looking down at the great serpent, which seemed to have developed some spiritual intelligence, Ge Dongxu felt a chill in his heart, thinking that if he weren't proficient in the art of Flight with Control of Qi, this battle would have been extremely perilous.

"Thank goodness I know how to fly with Controlling Qi. I've secured an invincible position. Otherwise, I would have really been put in a tough spot by you, beast." Hovering in the air, Ge Dongxu's lips curled into a cold smile as he traced a pattern in the air and shouted sharply, "Bind!"

All of a sudden, a series of Green Vines shot out from the rock wall toward the great serpent, which was about to retreat back into the Underground River.

Although the great serpent was tough-skinned and fleshed and seemed to possess some spiritual intelligence, it was ultimately not as clever as a human, nor could it perform the miraculous Techniques.

Seeing the Green Vines shooting towards it, the great serpent reflexively lashed out with its body.

But since the Green Vines were as supple as ropes, the serpent's hard and powerful body could not exert force on them. Instead, it played right into the trap, getting itself tightly bound by the vines.

Seeing its body bound, the great serpent panicked, trying to slip out from the Green Vines. However, Ge Dongxu would not let it have its way, having already formed a sword technique with his hand, a flying sword emitting a black-green glow had already taken flight, cutting a rainbow arc towards a small patch on the serpent's belly where the scale armor did not cover and slashed fiercely.

"Rip!" A sound akin to silk being torn echoed in the Underground World.

The serpent's belly was cut open, and blood poured out profusely.

Writhing in pain, the great serpent died within moments.

Seeing that the great serpent was dead, Ge Dongxu breathed a sigh of relief, descended to the ground, and used a knife to extract a golden Snake Gallbladder from the gash in its belly.

"It's actually golden-colored!" Ge Dongxu's eyes gleamed as he used his Divine Sense to investigate the Snake Gallbladder, feeling the fluctuations of nature's spiritual energy within.

"Could it be that this serpent has learned to absorb nature's spiritual energy? If so, had it continued absorbing this energy, might it have truly awakened its Spiritual Intelligence and evolved into a demon serpent?" Ge Dongxu held the Snake Gallbladder, a contemplative look in his eyes.