At this moment, the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis that was blown away staggered and flew back. Li Yan chuckled and retreated quickly without confronting the Green Shadow head-on. As he retreated violently, the Green Shadow snorted coldly, but did not continue to chase Li Yan.
But the green nails, which were already more than a foot long, suddenly grew longer again, and their speed was even faster than Li Yan's who was retreating explosively. In an instant, they had hit Li Yan in front of them. At this time, the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis had regained consciousness while staggering. After the collision just now, seeing that he was fine, the fear in the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis's eyes was greatly reduced.
The direction in which Li Yan retreated was exactly where it was. Li Yan and the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis crossed paths in an instant. The Flying Sickle Blood Mantis stood in front of Li Yan again, raised its double knives and chopped down.
This time, there were actually flashes of blood-red flames on the two swords of the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis. After getting rid of its fear, there was excitement in the eyes of the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis. It finally exerted its true strength. The next moment, two light "chi" sounds were heard, followed by a painful groan from the Green Shadow. Then the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis flew away again like a catapult, leaving a large gap on each of the Green Shadow's two long nails.
However, this time, the flying sickle blood mantis that bounced to the distance was not as lucky as last time. The thick blood eggplant on its body began to collapse while flying backwards, and it spat out a large mouthful of bloody red juice. Its breath quickly weakened while rolling. Obviously, the gap between the early stage monster and the late stage monster was still too big to resist so hard. Although it was protected by the blood eggplant, it still had a limit after all.
Just as the two sides started fighting, Li Yan shook the Lihuo Xuanhuang fan in his hand, and a flame rushed out from the fan and headed towards the green shadow.
Li Yan had planned this fight in advance. He released the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis only to confuse the enemy and make them think that this was the power of his magic weapon. Moreover, the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis had indeed tried its best. Li Yan took the opportunity to fan out a stream of fire without hesitation.
Although this fire is much weaker than the elixir fire of a Jindan cultivator, it is more than enough to deal with a second-level monster. As for if the green python's real body was here, Li Yan could not be sure of the effect.
Li Yan's attack timing was extremely accurate. It was when Green Shadow had just lost his strength in a fight with the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis, and Green Shadow had been injured. Before he could retract his arms, he saw a ball of fire coming towards him. Although Green Shadow felt it difficult to figure out the timing of Li Yan's attack and was in pain, he still gritted his teeth and made a hand gesture. His hands directly transformed into a half-human-high emerald green air curtain in front of him, and the fire flashed onto it.
Immediately afterwards, another earth-shattering scream rose into the sky, startling the birds in the forest to flap their wings and sing loudly. The green air curtain in front of the green shadow was about a foot thick. It seemed extremely thick, but at this moment, there was a transparent hole the size of a fist on it.
Flames were burning rapidly at the edge of the cave, and the green shadow behind the green air curtain looked even more miserable. The hands that were forming seals in front of his chest had disappeared without a trace. At the critical moment, he had to turn his body sideways quickly, but half of his waist and abdomen was still burned clean.
Although Green Shadow dodged the fatal blow of the Xuanhuang Lihuo, he lost a small part of his waist and abdomen. The flames were spreading rapidly. Green Shadow made continuous painful sounds, with panic in his eyes. After losing both hands, his body quickly retreated backwards, and the green gas on his body became stronger, which had a tendency to suppress and extinguish the Xuanhuang Lihuo.
Although Li Yan was mentally prepared and had experienced the horror of the Xuanhuang Lihuo before, the effect was unexpectedly good when he used it for a sneak attack for the first time, and it directly severely damaged the green shadow clone of the Rhinoceros-Horned Green Python.
After gaining the upper hand, how could Li Yan let it go? He raised his eyebrows and fanned out again. This time, he blasted out most of the remaining flames in the Lihuo Xuanhuang fan.
As the fan was fanned out, despair appeared in the eyes of the retreating Green Shadow as he looked at the flames that were flying towards him rapidly. The reason why he lost so quickly today was all due to the cunningness of his opponent. This person first sacrificed the essence of the monster in the magic weapon, making him mistakenly believe that it was the spirit of the magic weapon. After the second attack, he thought that the most powerful part of the fan was the blood eggplant protection, which was a misjudgment of the power of the magic weapon.
The following attack was swift and sudden, and everything happened within just two or three breaths. While his brain was still stuck in the previous judgment, the release of yellow flames from the fan did not attract too much attention from him. He thought he could take it easily, but it turned out to be the real killer move.
"Cunning human, that flying sickle blood mantis is not the most powerful weapon spirit."
Green Shadow had already been injured, especially in the waist and abdomen, where he had no leverage. This time his retreat was much slower than before, and another ball of fire had suddenly appeared in front of him.
The green shadow could not help but roar, his body shrank violently, and balls of thick green fog rushed out, instantly turning him into a green ball, and the Xuanhuang Lihuo had hit it solidly. The green shadow mobilized all his demonic power to block this fatal blow. When the two sides came into contact, the thick green demonic fog turned into green smoke, and the green ball was shrinking rapidly.
Li Yan narrowed his eyes. In this battle, he did not use his own abilities. He completely relied on the Lihuo Xuanhuang Fan and the opponent's contempt. Even so, Green Shadow still could not be killed directly.
With this thought in mind, how could Li Yan give the opponent such an opportunity? Just after the flames came into contact with the green ball, he lightly slapped out from the air, and a faint golden thread floated out from his palm. This golden thread was one of the fragmented poisonous bodies, and its function was to corrode and penetrate, causing irreparable physical injuries to the opponent.
Li Yan wanted to open a direct channel to the inside of the green ball, so as to take the opportunity to let the Xuanhuang Lihuo burn into the opponent's body and end the battle quickly.
At this moment, Li Yan suddenly retracted his palm and his body flashed dozens of feet away. Then, right where he was standing, a green claw grabbed the air. It was not until the claw fell into the air below that a sharp and piercing sound of breaking through the air was heard. The speed was beyond the sound limit. Then a blurred figure gradually became clear. It was also a green figure. He was holding a person in his hand and staring at Li Yan with a gloomy face. He first raised his left hand, and a majestic demonic power shot out from his hand, turning into a green sea, and the next moment it enveloped the burning green ball.
Then the dark yellow fire on the surface of the green ball disappeared directly, and then only a green ball the size of a head appeared there. It turned into a green light and rose from the ground and flew towards this person. As soon as the green light touched the body, it disappeared without a trace like water returning to the sea.
At this time, the man looked at Li Yan again, and his cold voice seemed to split the space, as if it came from the Netherworld.
"I never thought you had such a valuable treasure. It almost caused my jade pillow to melt and die. Human monk, you must die today!"
This person was none other than the real body of the second-order peak rhinoceros-horn green python - the green-robed monk. At this moment, he was holding the beautiful woman who had already fainted in his right hand. The woman's complexion was enchanting while she was unconscious, and her plump body would tremble occasionally, with a hint of luster passing over the damaged white skin.
After taking a look at the beautiful woman, a flash of fiery color appeared in the rhinoceros-horn green python's eyes. Then he threw the fan lightly, as if by an invisible hand, and sent the unconscious woman to a place beside the pond. After seeing Li Yan's Lihuo Xuanhuang fan, he did not dare to be careless anymore.
The moment Li Yan made his move, he felt a slight fluctuation in the space above his head, which scared him. With his powerful spiritual sense, he was barely able to notice it until someone was right in front of him.
Li Yan stopped the attack without hesitation and floated dozens of feet away. Only then did he barely avoid the attack of the rhinoceros-horned green python. Otherwise, Li Yan would have been ripped open from top to bottom.
Looking at the unconscious woman again, plus the time when the rhinoceros-horn green python came over, it can be known that the beautiful woman was captured at most half an incense stick of time after he left the two of them.
After listening to what the rhinoceros-horn green python said just now, Li Yan was sure that the green shadow just now was really not an incarnation, but some kind of magical power called "Jade Pillow Split Bone". This made him feel a little relieved, but after feeling the strength of the other party's real body, Li Yan was no longer sure that he could leave easily.
Not only was the opponent able to sneak up to him and extinguish the Xuanhuang Lihuo with just a wave of his hand, this was the first time he felt an enemy of the same level who could pose a fatal threat to him after he was promoted to the middle stage of foundation building. He didn't want to say much and looked at the opponent with the same indifference. It would be meaningless to say anything more at this moment.
Feeling Li Yan's cold gaze and the fighting spirit gradually rising in him, the Rhinoceros-Horned Green Python had put aside his contempt. If he had been a step later, the "Jade Pillow Bone Separation" that he had worked hard to refine for more than three hundred years would have been directly destroyed by this man. This time he was careless.
"The Jade Occipital Bone Separation" is the most powerful innate magical power of the Rhinoceros-Horned Green Python, but he has not yet truly cultivated it. This magical power is cultivated by separating the jade occipital bone behind his head.
Green Shadow's current cultivation level is only 60% of his strength. If he wants to achieve great success, he must at least be promoted to a fourth-level demon beast, which is the Nascent Soul stage of humans. This situation is equivalent to saying that the Rhinoceros-Horned Green Python can cultivate an incarnation in advance, and has its own incarnation materials.
Although the Rhinoceros-Horned Green Python has this innate magical power, it does not mean that every Rhinoceros-Horned Green Python can cultivate it successfully. However, the success rate is still much greater than that of human cultivators, and it can be cultivated when it is a first-level monster. This is the scary thing about monsters. They rarely have any skills, but their blood inheritance will give them a strong or weak inheritance.
Another reason why Li Yan was able to succeed easily before was that the green shadow was transformed from the jade occipital bone. His intelligence had not been fully opened, and his reaction was much slower. How could he face an enemy as cunning as Li Yan? If it was the real body of the rhinoceros-horned green python, Li Yan would have used the same method, but the result might have been failure.
The rhinoceros-horned green python was furious. He thought he could accomplish the task easily, but in the end, the "Jade Pillow Bone Separation" that he had practiced for hundreds of years was severely damaged. If he wanted to recover this time, he would need at least thirty-four years of seclusion and hard practice.
Although several decades of seclusion was nothing for a long-lived demon beast, it was still time, especially time wasted for him to enjoy himself. Dragons and pythons were mostly lustful creatures, and it was painful for them to have no external possessions during their seclusion.
Although Li Yan's fighting spirit was rising, his aura remained at the middle stage of foundation building. This made the rhinoceros-horned green python look up to Li Yan, but it also slightly increased his vigilance in his heart. He was sure that the other party's actual realm was the middle stage of foundation building.
Suddenly, the figure of the rhinoceros-horned green python became blurred. However, Li Yan, who was far away, raised the Lihuo Xuanhuang fan in his hand to block his chest without hesitation. With a crisp "pa" sound, a huge fist flashing with green air suddenly appeared in front of Li Yan's chest, and it was just a flat punch on the fan bone.
At this time, on the other side, where the rhinoceros-horned green python had originally stood, his afterimage was still left there.