Chapter 80: Instantly Eliminated Upon Showing Up

Within the Five Elements Formation, Qin Shu condensed the Moon Gold Wheel.

As the Earth Piercing Carapace Lion poked its head out, it was greeted by a streak of silver light. A moment of cool clarity washed over its mind before it crumpled to the ground, utterly bewildered.

The Moon Gold Wheel had pierced through its skull with ease, reducing its brain to mush and snuffing out its spirit in an instant.

This was the art of decapitating the moment an opponent dared to show their face.

The body of the Earth Piercing Carapace Lion quickly rotted away. Its once-glowing carapace rapidly dimmed, soon crumbling to dust. The essence of its being dissolved into its fundamental energy, following the connection between Qin Shu and the God Soul Continent, and was absorbed by the mystical land.

The Moon Gold Wheel was a formidable weapon, capable of instantly dispatching sixth-rank adversaries. However, its power came at a terrifying cost.

In an instant, Qin Shu’s true essence was depleted, forcing him to rely on the Five Elements Formation to restore his energies.

As he slowly replenished his true essence, the blood pact space within his sea of consciousness trembled, alerting him to Xiao Yan’s situation.

Meanwhile, in another part of the Abyss, Xiao Yan was locked in a fierce battle with a Flying Black Python.

A fifth rank warrior facing a sixth rank opponent, and in the python’s home territory to boot.

The Flying Black Python was a formidable adversary, stretching fifty meters long. Its pitch-black body was adorned with massive wings, while its triangular head boasted bone spurs that extended and were covered in flesh, forming a razor-sharp frill along its neck.

By comparison, Xiao Yan’s body was considerably smaller.

Yet, without a hint of hesitation, it vibrated its wings and engaged the Flying Black Python in a swift aerial dance.

With azure flashes, it moved far more quickly than the serpentine creature. Its claws were as sharp as daggers, leaving multiple wounds on the Flying Black Python’s body in no time.

These wounds, imbued with its Life Source Divine Fire - the green flame - drove the Flying Black Python to near madness. However, it could do little against this nimble little adversary.

Desperately, the python resorted to creating gales with its massive wings, hoping to hinder Xiao Yan’s movements, while simultaneously exhaling blasts of corrosive black mist, forming a dark maelstrom.

But Xiao Yan, blessed with the innate ability to weave seamlessly through wind, was undeterred. Bathed in green flame, it became an elemental force that consumed all in its path.

Within the black maelstrom, it thrived, like a fish finding its element in water, the Flying Black Python’s wounds multiplying rapidly.

In truth, the mere wounds were no threat; what sent terror into its very soul was the green flame seeping through those wounds.

This Green Flame was a fire of unparalleled combustion, an invasive force where nothing could escape its ravenous appetite.

The Flying Black Python’s body became a furnace, even the black mist it expelled enveloped in scorching heat.

As time etched its relentless passage, the python’s strength waned, its wings too feeble to keep aloft, and it plummeted from the heavens.

Finally, a brilliant azure fire flared to life, the Green Flame searing through, reducing the mighty creature to nothing more than a memory, a scatter of ashes on the eternal wind.

Xiao Yan flapped its wings, tilted its head skyward, and let out a piercing cry as it soared to the heavens.

Having independently slain a Abyssal monster one rank higher than itself, it was now in an extremely exhilarated state.

Through telepathy, Qin Shu also learned of the battle’s outcome and couldn’t help but cheer in his mind, Incredible!

After fully recovering, he dismantled the Great Array of Five Elements and resumed his search for sixth-rank Abyssal creatures.

Soon, four days had passed. He encountered numerous fifth-rank Abyssal monsters, all of which met their end at the hands of the Qingping Sword Pill.

Yet, not a single sixth-rank specimen appeared.

As the time for the Black Fiend Eel’s labor drew near, Qin Shu had no choice but to summon Xiao Yan through telepathy. Together, they rode towards the Demon Water Lake.

Now, Xiao Yan’s speed far surpassed that of the sword-powered escape, and they swiftly reached their destination.

At the Demon Water Lake, one Black Fiend Eel after another with visibly swollen bellies floated on the surface.

One of them let out a shrill cry, its reproductive opening gaping wide as it ejected black eggs into the water.

Just as these eggs were released towards a sixth-rank Black Fiend Eel, which promptly opened its massive maw and vacuumed them all up.

Qin Shu watched this unfold, momentarily stunned—Who knew such a trick was possible?!

The sixth-rank Black Fiend Eel sensed something amiss, raising its head towards the sky. Its eyes locked onto Qin Shu, immediately eliciting a thunderous roar that echoed across the lake.

Over the past few days, it had consumed many of its own offspring, narrowly avoiding being drained of vitality by the pressure within its abdomen.

Now, upon seeing Qin Shu, how could it not be enraged?

Its body circled the lake surface once, causing the water to surge and form a massive column that hurtled towards Qin Shu and Xiao Yan, intent on forcing them down.

Qin Shu extended his hand, Profound Origin Banner in front, effortlessly absorbing the water column.

Indeed, pregnancy dulls one’s senses for three years. It had only been seven days, and the effect had yet to wear off.

It seemed to have forgotten that aquatic attacks were ineffective against Qin Shu.

“Ao!” The Black Fiend Eel let out a powerful cry, arching its body over the lake surface before launching a fierce leap towards Qin Shu.

“Master, leave this long worm to me.” Xiao Yan’s desire to fight was at its peak.

Qin Shu did not intervene, employing Wind Escape to detach himself from its back.

With several flashes of azure light, the Black Fiend Eel emitted a series of torturous screams. Its slimy body was slashed with numerous gashes, each affixed with Green Flame.

Xiao Yan’s Green Flame burned through the eel’s mucus, drastically reducing its resistance to sharp objects. Over a dozen wounds, each six to seven meters long, became ensnared by the Green Flame.

After all, Xiao Yan was also a monster more than twenty meters tall; even a single grab from it would be excruciating for the Black Fiend Eel.

It crashed heavily onto the lake surface, injuring its fetus.

With the Green Flame entering its body and burning through its flesh, the immature eel eggs in its abdomen absorbed its energy even faster.

Panicking, the Xuansha Eel opened its mouth and devoured nearby ones by the score before diving to the lake bottom, planning to extinguish the Green Flame in its body with the lake’s power.

So it gulped down mouthful after mouthful of lake water.

In the air, Xiao Yan’s attacks didn’t cease.

Wings flapping, Green Flame transformed into a sea of fire, burning the lake surface.

Everything was scalded to death as the lake boiled.

The pregnant or freshly laid eggs were severely weakened.

Most were burned to death.

A small number of stronger ones could only retreat to the lake bottom.

As for counterattacks, they tried.

But their slime dried up before they approached Xiao Yan.

Then Xiao Yan swallowed them whole, one by one, like eating spicy-stick snacks.

“Master, they’ve gone to the lake bottom. What now?”

Unable to discern what was happening beneath the surface, it temporarily halted its offensive.

“Just burn them out.”

As Qin Shu spoke, the five directional flags surrounded him, enveloping Demon Water Lake directly and transforming into a Great Array of Five Elements.

The array began to rotate fire.

“Xiao Yan, burn them mercilessly.”

“Got it!” Xiao Yan opened his beak wide, Green Flame shooting forth as he flew into the Five Elements Great Array.

Under the array’s enhancement, the Green Flame multiplied tenfold, piercing through the lake water.

This time, the flames ignited within the Demon Water Lake itself, causing the entire body of water to boil violently.

Before long, countless corpses of Xuansha Eels floated to the surface, only to be incinerated by the green flames into ashes.

In the deepest recesses of the lake, the sixth-rank Xuansha Eel could bear it no longer. It burrowed through the lakebed, desperate to escape.

Alas, the Five Elements Formation had been completed, and the apricot-yellow flag’s earth-mastery power had completely sealed off the solid ground beneath the lake.

The Xuansha Eel quickly realized it couldn’t get away. Above it, the temperature of the lake water continued to rise.

It was truly a predicament: no escape to the heavens above, nor a refuge in the earth below.

Qin Shu sensed its location and, with a quick thought, manipulated the green flames using the Great Fire Escape technique of the Five Elements Grand Escape, directing them towards the Xuansha Eel.

The green flames burned through the lakebed, drying it out completely. The apricot-yellow flag then coalesced the earth element’s power, transforming the soft soil at the bottom of the lake into stone.

Stone’s excellent thermal conductivity made life unbearable for the Xuansha Eel. Struggling, it burst through the stone, shot out of the lake, and headed straight for Xiao Yan.

However, within a hundred-kilometer radius above the lake, all that could be seen was a sea of green flames—no trace of Xiao Yan.

The moment the eel emerged from the lake, it caught Qin Shu’s full attention.

The green flames condensed, forming a massive hand that grasped the eel. The flames roasted its body, evaporating its protective mucus layer.

It writhed in vain; its struggles were futile as it was literally cooked alive into a giant dried-up eel.

With a gentle squeeze from the palm of green flames, its body disintegrated into dust.