Chapter 59: Azure Scales Python

  On the eighth day, Wu Mu Daoist's voice suddenly came from the stone room: "Little guy, now immediately activate all the power of the Great Array, I'm about to break through the bottleneck! In this one day, everything outside will be left to you!"

  Upon hearing the sound, Shui Sheng, who was meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly jumped up from the couch, stared at the tightly closed stone gate with his shiny black eyes, quickly walked to the array disc embedded in the stone table, took out a storage bag, poured all the large and small spiritual stones onto the stone table, picked up eight spiritual stones and put them into the recesses of the eight sharp corners of the array disc, then pinched his hands together, alternately striking the Taiji diagram engraved on the center of the eight-cornered array disc.

  A faint humming noise, a layer of white light began to emerge from the center of the array disk, suspended three feet above the array disk, and started to transform into a clear Taiji pattern, slowly rotating. As the Taiji diagram rotated faster and faster, the sixteen colorful flags in the four corners of the stone chamber began to hum and rise to a height of one zhang (about 3 meters), like silk fabrics unfolding and fluttering, making a rustling sound. From the walls and floor of the stone cave, countless tiny yellowish-brown light dots, about the size of sesame seeds, burst out continuously and flew into the flags.

  As the Water Birth stopped casting, eight beams of light as thick as fingers flew out from the eight sharp corners of the Octagonal Formation Disk at the same time, striking the eight flagpoles. The eight flagpoles immediately buzzed with a loud humming noise. The next moment, another eight beams of light shot out from the Octagonal Formation Disk and landed on the other eight flagpoles. Before long, sixteen flags began to float up with clusters of yellow mist around them, enveloping the entire surface of the flags within.

  As the brilliance of the sixteen banners surrounding the light grew brighter, the semi-transparent light screen at the entrance became thicker and brighter, like a wall of light, blocking the entrance tightly. Inside the light screen, threads of yellowish-brown light flowed from time to time.

  Seeing the large array of seals fully activated, Shui finally let out a breath and began to walk back and forth inside the stone cave. He would occasionally glance at the light screen at the entrance of the cave, then look again at the stone room where Wu Mu Dao Ren was located, and finally his gaze fell on the array disc. He walked over to a stone table near the array disc, climbed onto the table, sat down cross-legged, and fixed his eyes intently on the array disc.

  Inside the stone chamber, Wu Mu Dao Ren's eyes were tightly closed, his face calm, but the true energy within him was surging in waves.

  The cave above is empty, the originally cloudless blue sky suddenly rises with wind and clouds! A large patch of dark and oppressive black clouds, unknowingly shrouding the desolate mountain, silver lightning, deafening thunder, like a mad snake dancing wildly.

  At the same time, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from all directions began to rotate with a long hum, taking an unknown mountain peak above the stone cave as its center. Under the black cloud, it formed a huge whirlpool with a diameter of several miles, absorbing all the spiritual energy within dozens of miles around into nothingness.

  An hour later, the spiritual vortex seemed to have absorbed enough spiritual energy. After a clear and loud sound, four pillars of spiritual light as thick as human heads burst out from the spiritual vortex and plunged into the mountain below, disappearing instantly into the ground.

  In the stone cave where Shuǐ Shēng was, four holes that were originally used for lighting suddenly burst in with four spiritual energy pillars. After entering the stone cave, the pillars were affected by the large array inside and dispersed with a loud noise, turning into colorful light spots that flew up and down towards the stone room where Wū Mù Dào Rén lived.

  Looking at the colorful, dazzling light spots flying around in the air, Shuǐ Shēng couldn't help but open his mouth wide, his eyes bulging out, feeling the sudden surge of abundant spiritual energy, and involuntarily took a few deep breaths. Although Shuǐ Shēng didn't intentionally absorb these heavenly spiritual energies, many white light spots still flew towards him as if attracted to him, these white light spots being some dense water spiritual energies.

  An hour later, at the three-forked road junction in front of the stone cave, a deep ditch suddenly echoed with loud roars like cattle, and two dark green giant pythons burst out of the water, each with a fist-sized dark red fleshy tumor on their triangular heads, as if they had grown a horn.

  Two giant pythons suddenly rushed out of the deep ditch, four fist-sized blood-red eyeballs instantly gazed at the fork in the road to the left, flew up and took turns crashing into a yellowish-brown prohibition light net at the fork.

  Shui Sheng heard the distant, muffled sounds of collision, but didn't know what was happening. Separated by the light screen, he couldn't use his divine sense to investigate outside, and although he had some worries in his heart, he couldn't do anything about it!

  After hundreds of impacts, the yellowish prohibition light net was finally broken through by two giant pythons. Without hesitation, the two giant pythons rushed towards the stone cave where Shuǐ Shēng was located. When they arrived at the entrance of the stone cave, they were blocked again by a semi-transparent light screen. One of the giant pythons let out an angry bellow, raised its head, and with great force, crashed into the light screen. Unexpectedly, as soon as it landed on the light screen, fine yellowish threads burst out from within, entwining around the python's body. Amidst a hissing sound, the python's hard scales fell off one by one. Letting out a shrill cry, its body retreated backwards.

  Even so, the light curtain still shook violently, and the many flags in the room were buzzing and swaying. Shui Sheng looked through the light curtain and saw two giant pythons outside, his heart racing wildly, he hastily pressed the decisive blow towards the Dharma plate, and the Dharma plate once again ejected a series of finger-thick light pillars that entered the sixteen flagpoles.

  When the flagpole stopped swaying, Shui Sheng let out a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, the two giant pythons outside raised their long tails and slammed them heavily onto the light screen. Upon closer inspection, Shui Sheng saw that the tails of the two giant pythons were actually a bright silver color, with even denser scales that seemed to be even more tenacious. The fine light threads bursting out of the light screen couldn't even peel off the scales on their tails.

  After dozens of consecutive attacks, the light screen still didn't budge much. The sixteen banners inside were still swaying, but they seemed to be fine. Shuǐ Shēng saw that although these two giant pythons were ferocious, they seemed to have no way to deal with this big array. He let out a breath of relief and reloaded new spirit stones into the array disk. Plucking up his courage, he ran to the front of the light screen to carefully observe the appearance of the two giant centipedes. As he observed, he actually took out "Beast Taming Scripture" to look for a way to deal with these two giant centipedes.

  The two giant pythons also saw the aquatic creature, and seeing that this "little guy" was standing on the opposite side of the light screen, waving its arms and legs, they became even more furious, with increasing force.

  "A fourth-level demon beast, the Qinglin snake, has a strong and sturdy body, with scales as hard as steel. The silver scales on its tail are especially good materials for refining armor and shields..." As he read this, Shuǐ's heart skipped a beat, a fourth-level demon beast was equivalent to a mid-Golden Elixir cultivator, and two had appeared at once, how could he possibly resist?

  Shuǐ Shēng picked up the book, quickly pulled out a flute from his body, and waited until it was about two feet long before pinching it and holding it vertically to his lips, blowing it loudly. The piercing sound of the flute instantly echoed through the mountain cave. Two green-scaled pythons heard the flute sound, suddenly stood up on their hind legs, and stared at Shuǐ Shēng with all four eyes, letting out a series of loud roars like an ox.

  Looking at the two giant pythons, their four eyeballs turned redder and redder, staring tightly at themselves, with increasingly ferocious expressions, as if they were about to swallow them whole. Shuǐshēng was taken aback and stopped playing. In fact, Shuǐshēng had never played the flute before, and now he could only make it produce a sound. He saw in "The Beast-Taming Scripture" that there were various methods of controlling monsters with flute sounds, so he took it out and tried it randomly. Unexpectedly, after hearing these few unpleasant flute sounds, the two giant pythons became even more excited!

  With a series of loud, cow-like bellows, the upper halves of the two giant pythons' bodies grew thicker and thicker, and piece after piece of their dark green scales stood on end. Before long, the two giant pythons had each swollen to twice their original size, with their abdomens expanding by more than double in the middle.

  At this moment, the position of the cave entrance seemed narrow, and a giant centipede on the left had to retreat backwards. A giant python on the right, however, charged forward with force, its entire upper body heavily smashing against the light screen.

  The light screen emitted a violent vibration that had never been seen before, creaking and cracking, as if it was about to burst open. Shui was frightened and hastily retreated several steps, turning around to run towards the array disc position. In this short period of time, the eight spirit stones inlaid on the array disc had already consumed seven or eight tenths of their energy, becoming dull and dim, with a great loss of spiritual energy. Shui hastily picked up the eight fire-attribute spirit stones, one by one replacing them, and as soon as the fire-attribute spirit stones were placed into the array disc, the light emitted from the sixteen flagpoles suddenly surged greatly, and bright red light threads began to dance and swirl within the light screen.

  These two instruments, the Qiankun array, are mainly based on the earth attribute method array. Unfortunately, all the earth attribute spirit stones were taken away by Wumuwu Dao people to heal and enhance their magical powers. Among the remaining four kinds of spirit stones, fire can generate earth, so Wumuwu Dao people entrusted that in times of crisis, let Shuisheng put the fire attribute spirit stone into the array disk. Indeed, the fire attribute spirit stone is much more powerful than the other three attribute spirit stones.

  After seeing the two giant pythons collide with each other a dozen times, not only did they fail to break through the seal, but they also shed their scales all over the ground and slowly returned to their original shape. Shuǐshēng let out another sigh of relief and put away his jade flute.

  Two giant pythons saw that they couldn't break through the barrier, so they stopped there and panted. Then one of them suddenly let out a low growl, turned around and walked back in the direction it came from. The other python followed behind, but didn't go far before seeming to remember something, turning its body around again, stopping in front of the barrier's light screen, raising its massive head, swallowing and spitting out long snake letters, staring intently at the aquatic creature inside the cave.

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