The blue giant snake looked at Yang Qi vigilantly. In just a few months, Yang Qi's aura was much stronger than before. He could easily kill Yang Qi back then. If it weren't for the puppet's protection, he would have eaten Yang Qi directly. But now, Yang Qi's aura has reached the level of an eight-star martial master, and with the nine-star martial master's puppet, it can completely threaten the blue giant snake.
While being alert, the deep eyes of the blue giant snake were filled with envy. Yes, envy! Although the life span of demon beasts is longer than that of human practitioners, it is difficult to compare them with practitioners in terms of practice speed. In just a few months, Yang Qi's strength has increased so much, while the blue giant snake's strength has hardly changed at all in these few months!
"Humans, get out of here, this is my territory." The giant green snake opened its mouth and a thunder-like sound spread across the lake.
Although the giant green snake was warning Yang Qi, it was not as arrogant as before. After all, although the puppet was strong, it was only an external force and could not even fight for a long time. The giant green snake naturally did not care.
"I came here this time just to test your strength." Yang Qi's mind moved, and a long sword suddenly appeared in his hand, and a powerful aura burst out from him.
"Just you?" The green giant snake sneered, but its eyes quickly swept around, obviously wary of the puppet in Yang Qi's hand.
"Don't worry, I won't use puppets."
When Yang Qi saw the green giant snake in this state, he knew that the other party was worried about the puppet in his hand. Unfortunately, the puppet had been destroyed long ago, and he no longer had the puppet as a trump card.
"I'm not afraid." The giant green snake growled, opened its mouth wide, and a sharp water arrow shot towards Yang Qi.
Facing the oncoming water arrows, Yang Qi could only rely on puppets to resist at first, but now, he shook his hand, and the sword turned into a huge green lotus to meet the oncoming water arrows.
"Bang~"
The water arrow and the green lotus collided with each other and immediately turned into water droplets that fell from the sky.
"Nothing more!"
Yang Qi smiled slightly, and with a flash of his body, he rushed directly towards the giant green snake in the lake.
“Roar~”
The giant green snake roared angrily, and swam rapidly in the lake, launching a series of fierce attacks towards Yang Qi.
“Boom~Boom~”
In the small lake, a man and a snake were fighting frantically. The terrifying power continued to spread, and the entire lake was shaking violently.
"How could he be so strong?"
The more they fought, the more terrified the green giant snake became. Although he had the upper hand, he could not do anything to Yang Qi. Even if it was a life-and-death fight, he would not be able to stop him unless the opponent used puppets and relied on flying martial arts.
"He should be a genius among human practitioners!"
The blue giant snake was not a human cultivator, but it had lived longer than Wu Zun and was familiar with human cultivators. It naturally knew that among human cultivators, some evildoers had extremely terrifying cultivation speeds. And Yang Qi was obviously one of them!
"Bang~Bang~"
A series of low muffled sounds exploded on the surface of the lake.
“Haha, that feels great!”
Yang Qi laughed and stepped into the eight-star martial arts sect. Even without the help of the Tianyuan Sword Formation, he could fight against the nine-star martial arts sect monster in front of him. Although he was at a disadvantage, relying on his strong physical body, the green giant snake could not hurt him at all!
"It's a pity that it's just a monster that has just entered the Nine-Star Martial Sect, otherwise it would be a good opponent to fight with." After a fight, Yang Qi shook his head. The green giant snake in front of him could not threaten him, so the help it would bring was naturally small.
Wow~
Yang Qi's sword shook, and nine sword shadows flowed. In an instant, a terrifying force condensed.
"What?"
Feeling the terrifying power contained in the sword shadow, the pupils of the green giant snake couldn't help but shrink suddenly. In that sword shadow, even he felt a life-and-death crisis.
“Roar~”
The green giant snake roared angrily, and the next moment, the surrounding lake water surged. With the urging of the green giant snake, a huge river rushed towards Yang Qi.
"break!"
The long sword swept across, and the sharp sword light directly hit the huge river.
Poof!
The surging river was directly split into two by the sword light, breaking the hundreds of feet wide river. The power of the sword light was also weakened a lot, and the remaining power fell heavily on the giant green snake.
"Bang~"
With a muffled sound, the body of the blue giant snake was directly blasted away by the sword light, and slammed heavily into the lake water dozens of feet away. A wound the length of an arm appeared on the blue giant snake's body, and blood flowed out.
“Wow~”
The giant green snake glanced at Yang Qi, and the next moment, it flashed and dived directly into the lake.
"You're running away now?"
Looking at the giant green snake leaving, Yang Qi was stunned. Although he injured the giant green snake, such an injury was nothing to the giant green snake. After feeling the threat, the giant green snake actually ran away directly, which was somewhat beyond Yang Qi's expectations.
Yang Qi didn't know that the blue giant snake was a water monster, good at fighting in the water. Although he didn't need to rely on water to survive at the level of Wu Zong, his strength would be weakened if he left the water. Now that he was injured, he naturally wouldn't fight with Yang Qi again.
Although Yang Qi felt a little strange, he didn't care. Although fighting with the giant green snake was helpful to him, once he used the Heavenly Sword Formation, he would completely crush the giant green snake. Continuing the fight would not bring any gains.
“It is better to complete the sect’s mission first, and then go to Hongze to explore.” Yang Qi’s figure flashed and went towards the depths of Hongze.
Hongze is just a barren swamp in Wu County, less than a thousand miles in radius, only a few hundred miles in size, and only slightly larger than the mountain of Tianjianmen.
Although Hongze is not too big, there are many powerful monsters in it, including some at the Martial Master level. The crystal orchid that Yang Qi needs to collect this time is located near the territory of a Martial Master-level monster.
“The Great Chu Empire is located deep inland, not near the sea, so the crystal orchid is relatively rare. It can only be found in some wastelands and swamps. The supply is in short supply, so it is considered a relatively scarce elixir.” Yang Qi’s mind flashed through this sect mission.
Because the crystal orchids in the Great Chu Empire are in short supply, the alchemists have issued such tasks. Although there are thousands of contributions from the sects, in fact, a crystal orchid also costs tens of thousands of crystals, but the contributions from the sects are nearly half more. For tasks like this one to find natural treasures, you have to hand in the natural treasures in order to complete the task. This kind of task is somewhat similar to exchanging spiritual medicine for sect contributions.
Whoosh~
Yang Qi moved quickly through the vast lake and soon arrived at the area where the peak martial arts monsters were lurking.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Yang Qi's face changed, and he looked towards the water plants in the distance, where he felt an extremely hidden breath.
"Are there other practitioners?"
Yang Qi was stunned. Although Hongze also produced natural treasures, their value was not too great. In addition, Hongze was more dangerous, so few practitioners were willing to enter Hongze. (To be continued)