Chapter 519: Chapter 506: Strongest Snake Species’ Technique Showdown (Part 10)
This was Li You’s chance to prove himself. If he won this battle, it would be a crowning achievement, and the Snake Race would be his to rule.
"You may be the Snake King now, but I will prove that *I* am the one who should be the true king of the Snake Race. This is a battle to the death. We are snakes, and a duel between snakes is simple: the loser becomes the winner’s food."
Snake eats snake. This was true in the ordinary food chain, and it remained true even after they became Demon Spirits.
By devouring a noble Snake Species, one could ascend.
Tu Xiao’an was the picture of calm, his expression nonchalant. He completely agreed with what Li You said.
In fact, he had only accepted the challenge with the intention of devouring his opponent.
Come to think of it, ever since his battle with the Mutated Bloodsucker Snake on She Mountain, he hadn’t faced any other powerful Snake Species.
The Snake Demon from the Bai Family didn’t count, as Tu Xiao’an had never truly clashed with it.
This Super Emperor Fierce Sun Snake before him, a species of infinite nobility, was probably the strongest Snake Species Tu Xiao’an had encountered since his rise to power.
’No, that’s not right. My Three-headed Evil Snake is just as impressive,’ he thought. ’But that’s a Snake Species I raised myself, and it already possesses the bloodline of the Ancient Nine-headed Serpent.’
Tu Xiao’an wasn’t getting overconfident. After all, his opponent’s Level was higher than his, his bloodline was extraordinary, and anyone who would so brazenly jump out and issue a challenge must have a trump card up their sleeve.
But Tu Xiao’an was fearless. His confidence in his own strength was overflowing, especially after he had so easily dealt with the three Deep Mountain Great Demons.
He hoped this Emperor Sun Snake was as strong as possible. That way, the benefits he’d receive after devouring it and unlocking his third-stage evolution would be even greater.
Tu Xiao’an glanced at Li You’s Black Gold Armor. A single look was all it took to know that Li You had cultivated his true snake form to its absolute limit. Those Snake Scales were hardly inferior to his own.
As a show of respect, Tu Xiao’an’s entire body began to glow with a brilliant golden light as he activated his Gold Elemental Defense Attribute.
"I’ll let you make the first move." Tu Xiao’an was a king, and a king must have the magnanimity and bearing of a ruler.
Li You snorted. "Don’t regret it."
The words had barely left his mouth before Li You acted. He slapped his Black Gold Armor, and with a sharp clap, streams of black-gold Snake Scales peeled away from his body. He thrust his hands forward, and the scales instantly formed streaks of light. A murderous aura spread out like ripples, like ocean waves, like the glint of a thousand blades. Each scale shone with a dazzling brilliance as they shot toward Tu Xiao’an. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
The air was immediately filled with the sound of countless objects tearing through it.
’Now this is interesting,’ Tu Xiao’an thought.
He never imagined Snake Scales could be used as a weapon like this. ’I’ll have to remember that trick.’
Powerful snakes developed their bodies to the absolute limit. Ordinary snakes only focused on their fangs, as those were their primary weapons for killing prey.
But a Cultivated Snake Species valued every part of its body, especially its Snake Scales, which formed its defensive system.
At a critical moment, they could even save its life.
The streaks of light shot forward, carrying a terrifying power that caused the very space around them to warp.
As the saying goes, it only takes one move to know an expert’s skill. This was clearly a powerful area-of-effect attack.
Tu Xiao’an’s bewitching eyes narrowed. From his system, nine Flying Knives, each as thin as a cicada’s wing, shot out. Under the control of his Consciousness Power, they flew forward to meet the attack.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
High in the air, a cacophony of metallic collisions rang out. Sparks flew as the Flying Knives struck down the black-gold scales one by one, sending them fluttering to the ground.
Seeing this, the corner of Li You’s mouth curled into a smirk, a flash of contempt in his eyes. His Snake Scales were endless. With a flick of his wrist against his chest, a dense, innumerable swarm of light streaks blotted out the sky as they shot toward Tu Xiao’an.
"How many of my scales can your Flying Knives possibly block?!"
"I’ll strike down as many as you can send," Tu Xiao’an replied with ease.
The sky filled with flashes of cold light as a continuous rain of black-gold scales scattered in the wind.
One landed on a Rat Beast below. The powerfully built creature immediately began to foam at the mouth, and with a sickening crunch, it died instantly.
The black-gold scales were coated in a deadly poison. For a Snake Species cultivated to the extreme, it wasn’t just the fangs that were venomous—every single scale was lethally toxic, capable of killing silently and sealing one’s fate upon drawing blood.
Great showers of black-gold scales rained down, wreaking havoc on the Rat Beasts below. If even a single scale landed on one, it would foam at the mouth and die the very next second. After death, its corpse would immediately begin to rot, releasing a putrid stench.
In a way, Li You was indirectly performing a great service for the Snake Race by slaughtering the rats.
"This kind of attack might be fatal to others, but to me, your Lord Snake King, it’s not even worth mentioning. Try something else," Tu Xiao’an said casually, his Consciousness Power effortlessly directing the Flying Knives.
Li You took the opportunity to switch tactics. It was true that all the countless scales he’d fired had been struck down; continuing would be pointless.
The Emperor’s Qi radiating from his body grew more intense. A sinister wind began to howl. He snapped his eyes open, and a sharp light burst forth from them, as dazzling as the full moon in the night sky, making it impossible to look at him directly.
VMMMM...
His muscles quivered, and the sound of a body tearing through the air suddenly erupted. In an instant, Li You closed the distance to Tu Xiao’an and threw a punch.
"Behold my Snake Fist!" Li You roared, his voice carrying the power to shatter mountains and crack the very earth.
As he threw the punch, it transformed in the blink of an eye into a Giant Snake opening its cavernous, bloody maw. A bone-chilling cold spread out, as if one were treading on thin ice, and the air filled with a fetid stench.
It was truly a monstrous, gaping maw.
"Fire Fist."
Tu Xiao’an’s response was simple and direct, with no flashy moves. He met the attack with an incredibly ferocious punch of his own, wreathed in Flame.
BOOM!
The explosion was earth-shattering. The Killing Intent that had condensed in the air became overwhelming.
Suddenly, the two transformed snakes were locked in a clash of fists. Li You’s punch was like a Giant Snake, while Tu Xiao’an’s was a raging inferno. The sky filled with afterimages of their fists, like a volley of arrows, like a torrential downpour—all-pervasive and unstoppable.
The booming was incessant, and their techniques were astounding.
A battle of fists was, in essence, a battle of physical bodies. For Demon Spirits who had undergone Transformation, the stronger their true form, the more powerful their human form.
Both were Peak-level experts. If they were to reveal their true forms, the sight of two monstrous snakes writhing and strangling each other would be quite grotesque.
Why did all beings choose to take on a human form when Crossing the Tribulation?
Because the human form was considered the most handsome and the most agile. Even its ungraceful movements were more acceptable.
High in the sky, the two strongest Snake Species engaged in close-quarters combat. To gauge Li You’s true fighting ability, Tu Xiao’an held back from using his Elemental Attribute Power.
He also wanted to find out the true extent of his own physical strength.
As their earth-shattering, flesh-on-flesh blows continued, massive waves of Qi rolled out like rainbows in every direction. When these shockwaves swept downward, countless Rat Beasts met their doom, along with many of the venomous snakes.
The snakes and rats had become a single writhing mass, locked in a chaotic battle where it was impossible to tell one from the other.
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