Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Lingzhou Chapter 76 Spring Hunting in the Hundred Mountains (16)
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python couldn't scream out due to its own reasons, but it could be clearly seen that it was extremely seriously injured after being hit by Xu Yan's punch. When it fell to the ground, it kept rolling in pain, and the whole huge snake body twisted together, and the scene was very terrifying.
Successfully pushing the Phaseless Breaking Empty Fist to the last round, Xu Yan felt that his cultivation at the moment was finally able to take a look, although he was still not a strong man, but at least he was confident in completing the task in this spring hunt.
Xu Yan, who was in a good mood, looked up at the colorful sky-swallowing python that was struggling on the ground, and walked towards it slowly. This spirit beast that has entered the middle of the fifth level, it is naturally impossible for him to completely lose its combat ability under his punch, although his punch will break away the snake scales it hits and splash blood, but if you want to kill it, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.
Xu Yan kept getting closer to the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python, and after ten breaths, he was only five or six zhang away from the other party.
At this moment, the colorful sky-swallowing python that was rolling all over the ground with a headache, Huo Ran stopped its painful struggle, it pulled its huge head out of its body, and then opened its bloody mouth and bit Xu Yan fiercely.
When Xu Yan saw this sudden scene, there was no surprise on his face, and he immediately controlled the release of his true qi, forming a light shield like a city wall, blocking in front of him.
"Bell!"
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python did not swallow Xu Yan into its belly as it wished, but slammed into this light shield headlong and made a loud noise.
Seeing this, Xu Yan's face was calm, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a hint of a smile. How could he not know that what this Sky Swallowing Python had done before was a deliberate pretense? He shook his head disdainfully, and couldn't help but laugh: "You beast is quite scheming, and you are also a weak learner, but as a fifth-level spirit beast, and you are a snake python, although my punch is very powerful, how can I seriously injure you so much?"
Xu Yan then sneered: "Do you really think that I can't see it, but in fact, when you flew out upside down, you had already unloaded most of the power of my fist intent?"
After the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python cultivated to the fifth level, although its spiritual intelligence was not enough compared to humans, it was obviously able to understand human speech, and it was immediately furious. It originally thought that its acting skills were so realistic enough to make the human in front of him relax his vigilance, so that he could make a fatal blow and swallow it into his stomach, but he never expected that the other party not only blocked this blow, but also saw through his plan a long time ago.
The colorful snake letter of the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python kept spitting out, and in order to vent its anger, it continued to use its head to smash the golden light shield in front of it, but immediately it found that this light shield was several times stronger than when it was at the beginning?
Xu Yan endured the other party's snake head impact again and again, and the qi and blood in his body had already tumbled, just like a hob mountain, and he couldn't help but spurt blood, but he gritted his teeth and held back the blood in his throat to prevent it from being spit out.
A quarter of an hour passed quietly, and the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python hit no less than a hundred times, Xu Yan felt that it was almost exhausted, and then said in a deep voice: "Don't waste your efforts in vain, I know that you will be able to understand my words, but you can't break through my defenses at all, of course, I admit it, I can't kill you now, but if you continue to attack like this, I think you should be able to perceive that my body will only get stronger and stronger." What will happen to you when my strength overtakes you?"
"It's better to stop here, isn't it just for a golden hairpin orchid, I think you should be its guardian, just to wait until it matures, and then devour it, so as to enhance your own strength, although I really can't give you back the whole golden hairpin orchid, but if you stop here, I will return you its entire flower stem, how about it?"
After the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python heard this, the Colorful Snake Letter stopped confiding back and forth, and at the same time stopped attacking, as if it was weighing Xu Yan's suggestion.
Xu Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his words were effective, however, just as he wanted to secretly breathe the already disordered breath in his body, the huge snake head of the Colorful Sky Devouring Python suddenly shook its head very humanely, and then slammed into the light shield that Xu Yan had simulated again.
Xu Yan gritted his teeth to withstand the impact, and suddenly a trace of anger rose, and he shouted coldly: "You greedy bastard, aren't you afraid of being greedy and chewing too much?"
However, the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python ignored his abuse at all and continued to bury its head in attacking him.
Feeling the stubbornness of this beast, Xu Yan didn't have the slightest way, as he himself said, although every impact of the Colorful Devouring Python could cause a tempering of his physique, but if he didn't give him a chance to recuperate, even he couldn't bear it, after all, he was now focusing all his attention on defense, and he couldn't run the recuperation technique in the Long Bible to relieve the huge load on his physique.
As a last resort, Xu Yan scolded in his heart again, "What a brainless beast", he could only grit his teeth, made a further compromise, and said: "Stop me, I can return the remaining three petals to you, but this is my final bottom line, as for that flower-core, I still have a lot of use, I can't give it to you, if you get an inch again, we will not die, I also want to see who can hold on to the end!"
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python felt the toughness in his tone, and the bloody head finally stopped again, but for it, what it fancied was not the flower-core?
You must know that the legendary hundred-year-old golden hairpin orchid, which can directly increase the cultivation level of cultivation, does not come from its petals and stalks, but from the flower-core. And the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python, which itself is known as the 'Medicine Beast', naturally knows this truth, therefore, it is very dissatisfied after learning that it still can't get the flower-core, but only adds three more petals, if it is not for the use of secret arts, it will lose its decades of cultivation, it really can't wait to spew out a mouthful of natal venom and poison the flower thief in front of it.
So, after weighing it for a long time, it finally shook its head slowly.
Seeing it refuse again, Xu Yan immediately smiled bitterly in his heart, but it was absolutely impossible for him to hand over that flower-core, that thing could be said to be the most crucial thing for him to break through the Upper Three Realms in the Sword Dao in the future.
As far as he is concerned, he doesn't have to worry about the cultivation of martial arts at all, but in the completely unfamiliar sword path, he is not sure, and the Pei Yuan Dan that he got from the selection competition before, after he learned about its specific situation, he no longer intends to keep it to himself.
Xu Yan quickly thought in his mind, and while the Colorful Sky Devouring Python had not yet attacked, he hurriedly said: "Have you ever thought that you are only a mid-level cultivator at this time, if you take that flower-core now, how can you ensure that you will definitely be able to break through to the sixth level? You know that you can't preserve the medicinal effect of this flower-core for a long time, so you can only take it immediately, but if you can't reach level six this time, if you want to break through the realm in the future, the difficulty will more than double." You should understand that cultivation is an act of going against the heavens after all, whether it is a human being or you spirit animals, if you always rely on external forces to improve your cultivation, is it really the way to last for a long time?"
Xu Yan saw that it fell into deep thought, so he continued to strike while the iron was hot and said: "The most important thing is that you, as a colorful sky-swallowing python, really want to be like the rumors in the world, after reaching the seventh level, you will accept your fate from now on? Why can't you break through the limitations of the seventh level, reach the eighth level, the ninth level, until you transform into a dragon? or even break away from your essence as a snake python and turn into a dragon?"
After Xu Yan said this in one breath, he didn't say anything more, just looked at it with a serious face.
He knew that this Sky Swallowing Python, which had cultivated to the middle of the fifth level, was enough to understand what he said, but what he didn't know was whether the other party could understand the meaning of his words, and in addition, if it understood, whether it would be willing to make changes for it.
But none of this was beyond his control, as he could no longer find any reason to persuade it.
Xu Yan withdrew his True Qi shield, and in front of the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python, they were close to each other, only a short distance of two zhang. At this distance, if the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python really wanted to suddenly attack in the next moment, it only needed to poke its head forward to completely swallow Xu Yan into its belly.
However, Xu Yan still withdrew his defense, and then he was even more convinced, took out the hundred-year-old golden hairpin stone orchid from the storage bag, and spread it out on the palm of his right hand.
He looked at the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python and said calmly: "I know that you must be full of confusion and uncertainty at the moment, and you are even more uncertain about the unknowns I said, because you will feel that your nature is to break through to the seventh level." Xu Yan seemed to remember something in his mind, and after hesitating for a moment, he suddenly smiled and said: "Actually, I can tell you that no matter what is in the world, there is often a moment, as long as you are willing to change the so-called 'essence' and ' Nature', it is very likely that you will change your destiny from now on, although I can't make a necessary affirmation for you in this matter, after all, in this world, there is no absolute thing in itself, but if you don't take the initiative to try, you will never know if you can change it, can you?"
As he spoke, Xu Yan held the flower stalk and petals of the golden hairpin stone orchid in his hand, and approached the colorful swallowing python again, he raised the heaven and earth spirit treasure in his hand, raised his head and looked at its colorful eyes glowing with streamers, and finally said: " The truth is the truth after all, how to choose, or up to you, I will not force you to let me go, let alone just say a false meaningless nonsense to you, I believe you should distinguish the truth and falsehood, well, now it is up to you to make a choice, if you agree to my previous conditions, then swallow the golden nodice in my hand, as for the flower-core, you don't have to be so reluctant, after all, you don't forget, you yourself are' Medicine Beast', I believe that even in this Hundred Mountains Ancestor, there will not be such a Heaven and Earth Spirit Treasure growing there, right?"
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python stared at this bold flower thief, but there was a hesitation in his consciousness that he had never had since he was born. As a spirit beast, it felt wary and disgusted with the cultivators in the world, which in itself could be said to be a primitive instinct, but the other party threw it a kind of speech that it didn't even dare to think about.
Even in the world of spirit beasts, why don't they want to break through their inherent limitations?
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python looked at Xu Yan hesitantly, without any reaction, neither shaking his head nor swallowing the golden hairpin stone orchid in the latter's hand, and they all seemed to freeze suddenly at this moment.
Xu Yan felt that it was full of doubts and complex contradictions, and just smiled and said: "If you can trust me and promise to become my spirit pet, I can even pass on to you a set of cultivation methods that will help your spirit beasts, although it cannot guarantee that you can successfully walk the dragon and get rid of the essence of the snake python, but if you are willing to cultivate according to the law I gave you, at least it can allow you to reach the transformation stage." ”
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python was still not sure if it could trust the other party's words, but it knew that this was a grotesque encounter it encountered, so in the end, it still chose to swallow the golden hairpin stone orchid in Xu Yan's hand, and did not attack him again.
The golden hairpin stone orchid was inhaled into his mouth by it, Xu Yan only felt a huge suction force flash in front of him, and the golden hairpin stone orchid in his hand had disappeared. Subsequently, just like the effect of his previous consumption of the golden hairpin stone orchid, the wounds on the body of the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python were quickly healed after devouring its flower stalks and petals, and the snake scales that he had knocked off with his fist also regrew in an instant. In addition, Xu Yan could also clearly feel that after taking the flower stalk and three petals of the golden hairpin stone orchid, its strength was also skyrocketing, and it soon reached the late stage of the fifth-level spirit beast from the middle stage, but it could only end there, without that flower-core, it was indeed difficult to make a new breakthrough.
Xu Yan felt its new change, and he only had envy in his heart, compared to people, these heaven and earth spirit treasures actually had a much greater effect on spirit beasts, after all, they were born darlings, and there would not be so many limitations when cultivating.
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python has thoroughly digested the medicinal properties of the Golden Hairpin Stone Orchid, not to mention any joy, it has been staying by this Golden Hairpin Stone Orchid for more than 30 years, according to its original expectations, it had the opportunity to enter the sixth-level spirit beast, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the human in front of it, and the most hateful thing is that after listening to the other party's various temptations, it no longer wants to do anything to him.
But does he really have the magic decision that can allow him to break through the seventh level and reach the transformation stage? The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python couldn't be sure.
Two brilliant five-colored lights flashed from the eyes of the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python, making it look even more mysterious, but then, Xu Yan saw that its huge body began to shrink rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a small snake the size of an index finger, and it was completely impossible to tell that it would be the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python that had cultivated to the fifth level.
Xu Yan saw its statement, did not hesitate, directly picked it up from the ground, held it in the palm of his hand, and said: "Don't worry, as long as you take the initiative to become my spiritual pet, I will naturally keep my promise and pass on your cultivation method, and I can promise you that as long as I wait until the day you become a human, I will give you back your freedom." ”
After hearing this, the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python moved its body and gently bit one of Xu Yan's fingers.
Scarlet blood flowed out of Xu Yan's fingers, Xu Yan didn't care about this, and he was not afraid that the other party would secretly poison him during this period, after all, spirit beasts were much simpler than people, but as long as they were approved, they would hardly go back on their word.
Of course, the transformed spirit beast is a different matter, it is already exactly as cunning as a human.
The blood didn't flow out much, probably just about a drop, and the colorful sky-swallowing python smelled Xu Yan's blood, and for some reason, he suddenly had a feeling of wanting to tremble.
It can produce such a reaction, there is no doubt that it is because of Xu Yan's original drop of source blood, after all, it is the blood of the Martial Ancestor, maybe for humans, it will not feel strange about this, but for the spirit beast that relies purely on the power of the bloodline, this cannot be ignored.
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python trembled a little, but finally completed the bloodline fusion between it and Xu Yan.
A faint red light detached from the body of the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python, and it could be vaguely seen that this red light was very similar to its appearance, or rather, this was actually a shadow of it? Then, this shadow submerged into Xu Yan's eyebrows on its own, and finally stayed in his sea of consciousness.
"You...... You can really pass ...... Pass me ...... The method of transfiguration?"
A crisp and jerky girl-like voice suddenly came into his ears from the snake shadow in his sea, Xu Yan didn't feel too surprised by this, this is the benefit of the spirit beast after recognizing the master, even if it has not yet cultivated to the point where it can use its true body to speak people's mouths, but it can already communicate with each other through consciousness.
Xu Yan couldn't help but think in his heart, "I didn't think it was still a female snake", but then he replied: "Naturally, in fact, in addition to you, in this deep mountain, I once taught this method to a Demon Rock Fierce Tiger, but I don't know what happened to it now." ”
The Colorful Sky Swallowing Python didn't care about the Demon Rock Fierce Tiger, but then asked, "Why...... Why?"
Xu Yan didn't answer it directly, because there was no need, he controlled his mind, opened the long Bible hidden in his Purple Mansion, and directly opened the chapter on the law of the transformation of spirit beasts, and used his mind to give back to the sea of knowledge, and passed it to the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python.
The Colorful Swallowing Python felt this mysterious scripture, and it continued to merge into its sea of knowledge, and was instantly shocked beyond measure, the other party really didn't lie to it, this transformation decision, although it is extremely difficult to cultivate, but it is indeed completely different from it relying on eating heaven and earth spirit treasures to advance, it can be said that it seems to be able to feel now, if it changes its original cultivation method in time, it really has a great chance of breaking through its own limitations and becoming a completely different from the same kind of Colorful Swallowing Python.
After breaking through the seventh level, what kind of beast will it become, the Eight-Colored Swallowing Python or the Nine-Colored Swallowing Python? It doesn't know, but it's looking forward to that day.
So, after receiving the information that Xu Yan sent to it, the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python did not forget to thank the latter, Xu Yan didn't care about this, but just said: "Since you don't have any doubts, I should also leave here, your true body, before I get the Seven Treasures, just hide it in my sleeve for the time being." ”