Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Battle Ends
And different from the black mist sprayed by the snake turtle, I saw that at this time in mid-air shuttled a liquid that emitted a dark purple halo, and the most unusual thing is that the surface of this dark liquid that is constantly changing color is still flowing with wisps of electricity, and the light purple arc seems to be tightly wrapped around the periphery of the liquid, making a "zizi" sound uninterruptedly, which is quite a strange color is still clearly distinguishable even in the scorching sun at noon. Obviously, the venom that has been brewing in the gland for a long time in this earth salamander is not something that it is born with, and Tian Ji Hongsi can only guess that this is the earth salamander that has mutated after swallowing some alien elixir, so that in addition to the thick earth element accumulated in its body, a new thunder and lightning element has been added, which has caused such a strange change in the ejected venom.
Essentially, two opposing elements, earth and thunder, are rarely seen in the body of the same organism at the same time. There are many people or beasts in the world who practice a variety of elemental attribute spiritual power, but generally speaking, the earth element is heavy on defense, and the thunder element is heavy on attack, the two can be described as natural rejection, and it is difficult to be compatible in the body, like the earth salamander in front of him, it is very rare to be able to grasp the existence of two opposing elements at the same time. Of course, this is mostly because it itself does not have the ability to generate spiritual power in its body, and when this earth salamander transforms into a spirit beast in the future and really starts to cultivate, it will be extremely difficult to absorb these two kinds of repulsive spiritual power at the same time, and at the same time maintain the balance in the body, if it has not been made by then, it will definitely greatly affect the rate of its cultivation.
But then again, since this trick was reserved by the salamander as the last killer weapon, its effect is self-evident. When the purple liquid flashing with thunder accurately covered the body of the snake turtle, which was still a little dizzy not far away, I saw that the beating arc burst out in an instant, causing the snake neck that was exposed to the outside and could not retract into the shell in time, and was instantly paralyzed to the point of losing consciousness. The most important thing is that the barrier generated by the lines on the back of the snake turtle also showed a strange change when it came into contact with the liquid: I saw that the barrier that had taken down the dozens of tail whips of the salamander before and was unharmed did indeed become clear again at this time, blocking all the liquid covering it; But what's really amazing is that the thin barrier that separates the venom doesn't seem to be able to resist the lightning elements that are constantly circulating on the surface of the former. The strange lightning seemed to penetrate the thick tortoise shell without any resistance, hitting the fragile snake body inside, and for a while, I only saw that the snake tortoise's body was suddenly shrouded in countless dark purple arcs, and in the continuous convulsions of its whole body, a fishy smell of burning flesh and skin slowly emanated from the turtle shell.
Tian Jihong didn't understand at this time that all the elemental attributes in heaven and earth had their own unique properties. For example, as I just mentioned, the earth element that focuses on defense is naturally thick and indestructible in nature, and ordinary attacks will be dissolved more than half of them when they are not close to the earth attribute spiritual power; Although the attack-focused thunder element is not as terrifying as the fire element in terms of lethality, the former has an amazing quality: the penetration of spiritual power.
The penetration of the thunder element does not have much effect on physical substances such as shields and armor, but it is extremely deadly for barriers that are cast with spiritual power; Its unique properties allow the Thunder Elemental to be unimpeded in the face of defenses composed of spiritual power, directly hitting the opponent's body. This is also why powerful monks will still choose to equip armor and armor when they have been able to release spiritual power to build a full-body barrier.
For example, the snake turtle in front of him, in the eyes of outsiders, the center of gravity of its defense seems to be the thick turtle shell, but in fact, what really makes its defense indestructible is actually the natal magic array engraved in the innate lines on the turtle shell. Therefore, when dealing with spirit beasts such as snake turtles that focus on defense and are difficult to cause damage with ordinary attacks, the effect of the thunder attribute skills urged by the earth salamander is often better than that of simple fire attribute skills.
Although the arc after breaking through the spiritual barrier was still hindered by the turtle shell, the situation between the two sides at this time was no longer what it used to be. After devouring the spirit grass and condensing the spiritual power, the earth salamander increased the power of its killing moves to the extreme, which was close to the level comparable to the real spirit beast technique; At the same time, the snake turtle in a sluggish state was unable to make effective evasions when it was devoured and fell to the ground, and the defense that he barely built on the turtle shell with only the residual spiritual power in his body was restrained by the thunder element. Therefore, under the light of the lightning around his body, the snake turtle finally collapsed to the ground weakly, and his body emitted wisps of green smoke under the scorching of thunder and lightning, obviously powerless to make any more resistance. At this moment, looking at the opponent's appearance of still moving freely, the snake turtle understood that now he could only choose to flee in a hurry, and it was important to save his life as much as possible; So it dragged its crumbling body slowly towards the stream.
But the salamander wouldn't let go of his sworn foe so easily. At this time, the former's own state was not very good, and nearly half of the scale armor around his body was shattered and the spiritual power that was exhausted when he had just used the lore was exhausted, making him exhausted at the moment; However, after growing a broken tail with the help of natural instinct, and gradually began to digest the medicinal power of the spirit grass in his body, his injuries had recovered a lot; Compared to the opponent whose whole body was scorched by thunder and lightning, the salamander still had the strength to fight at this time. Instinctively driven by this, the salamander mustered up its spirits and ran towards the stream in an attempt to intercept its opponent's path. Today, the other party suffered such a big loss and almost lost his life, if he was released and returned to the mountain, when the snake turtle recovered, he would definitely come back to take revenge.
Of course, the snake turtle also understands that it is difficult to escape in the hands of the other party with his speed at this time. However, at this time, the wisdom of the spirit beast came into play, and I saw that the snake turtle took advantage of the moment when the other party was about to catch up, and swung a tail whip towards the way in front of him, and suddenly shrank his body again, but instead rushed towards the landing point of the tail whip, leaving only the slender snake tail outside the turtle shell. The thick shell of the turtle was not damaged by the venom of the newborn salamander just now, and the snake turtle naturally did not need to worry about being injured by the tail of the newborn salamander that had not yet produced scales at this time. Sure enough, there was no crack at the intersection of the turtle shell and the whip tail, and the snake turtle under the tail whip was only shocked to the depths of the quagmire by the huge force, but there were no more serious injuries, and at this moment, the snake turtle's plan was to use the enemy's strength to get out of the danger zone as soon as possible.
I saw that when the salamander's tail was fruitless and was about to lift it up, the snake turtle curled up in the mud hole suddenly stretched out its neck and bit the giant tail that rose into the air again, and the slender snake tail was also wrapped around it to stabilize its body, so as not to be quickly thrown away by the other party. Of course, at this time, it no longer has enough physical strength to entangle with its opponent, and at this time it is just borrowing strength. When the giant tail rose to the highest point, the snake turtle suddenly let go of its mouth, and immediately rushed straight to the stream in front of it under the action of inertia. only heard the sound of "plopping", and after a splash, the snake turtle that quickly hid to the bottom of the water was nowhere to be seen; However, this was not the end, in order to completely cut off the possibility of Fang Fang persevering in chasing down, the snake turtle used its last bit of strength to release the only remaining poisonous mist in its body into the surrounding water. This time, without the urging of enough spiritual power, although the stream that was impregnated with toxins was not as corrosive as before, it was enough to cover the path of the snake turtle, and at the same time, the latter desperately drilled into the depths of the mud and sand, and kept twisting his body to roll up the sand and gravel at the bottom of the stream in an attempt to stir the stream more turbid.
At this point, the salamander, which had chased it to the shore, really stopped, and without its intelligence, it could not judge the escape route of its opponent by thinking, so it had to dive into the corrosive stream, wandering around like a headless fly, trying to catch the snake turtle out of the murky water. However, in the eyes of Tian Jihong on the side, for the soil salamander, which has poor eyesight and has suppressed its sense of smell and touch in the water, the outcome has long been doomed. Now, the snake turtle would have buried its body deep in the mud and sand at the bottom of the stream and dived downstream, and it would never stay near its own territory and wait for the arrival of its opponent.
As expected, after half an hour, when he saw that the huge body finally reluctantly surfaced and slowly left, Tian Jihong knew that the snake turtle had successfully escaped the pursuit and ran away, which naturally announced that the fierce battle between the two spirit beasts had finally come to an end. Tian Jihong also slowly calmed down at this time, and calmed down from the shock when he saw the fierce confrontation between the two just now. In fact, I was still looking forward to whether I could make a profit, and I would take advantage of the defeat of both sides. After all, even if the value of these two spirit beasts was not considered, just the other fragment left on the snake turtle was enough to make Tianji Hong covet it. You must know that the fierce duel just now, in the end, it was because of the impact of this fragment that the ending was instantly rewritten, and this thing must have a great origin in Tianjihong's opinion. It's just a pity that the cunning snake turtle finally escaped with the help of the stream and sediment, even if he can analyze the general direction of his escape, but as a mortal, his perception under the water is probably not as good as the salamander, and it may be a fool's dream to find the hidden snake turtle in the water.
But even so, Tianjihong is still not very reconciled. Since the snake turtle was seriously injured and fled away from his territory at this time, why didn't he take this opportunity to take the snake turtle's lair directly? The earth salamander in front of him who hastily left obviously did not have the idea of ending the enemy's lair, and in the lair of such a powerful spirit beast, there might be some rare things stored, and if he was lucky, it was not impossible to find one or two such fragments in his hand. Thinking of this, Tian Jihong hurriedly recalled the encounter with the snake turtle just now. Before, he was attacked by snakes and turtles just by walking to the edge of the medicine field, and his nest would not be too far away, most of them were hidden near the stream on the other side of the medicine field, and the probability of finding it by himself should not be low.