The strange and bizarre scene before him made Pang Jian have endless daydreaming, and his body was so shocked that he stood still like a sculpture.
The giant python had a phoenix bone piercing its head, and its head was pressed against the stone ground at the bottom of the pool. The python was still trying hard to twist its body, like a centipede that was dead but still alive.
I don't know how long it struggled, but it was unable to break free from the restraint of the phoenix bone, and part of its body was devoid of flesh and blood.
Such a mysterious creature seemed so desperate and powerless when facing the stabbing of Tianfeng's dry bones.
"Is this the reason why my father designated the Black Water Pond as a restricted area?"
Staring at the huge python for a long time, Pang Jian's mind was repeatedly shocked. He felt that the door to a whole new world was slowly opening to him.
It was also at this moment that he realized that the quiet mountains where he had hunted for many years might not be as simple as he imagined.
He even began to suspect that in every place designated as a restricted area by his father, there were horrible monsters like giant pythons lurking.
"Father, did you know about the existence of these aliens and deliberately concealed it, or...even he doesn't know?"
Doubts kept arising in Pang Jian's mind.
After a moment, he continued to examine the abnormalities at the bottom of the pool.
With this giant scaly python as the center, he saw countless skeletons scattered around the rocks at the bottom of the pool.
Some of the skeletons looked like wild beasts from the Silent Mountains, while others were clearly humans like him.
I don’t know how many wild animals and humans were swallowed by this python lurking in the black water pool, and then spit out their dry bones.
Thinking back on the past, he couldn't help but feel secretly scared.
During the years when his father disappeared, if he had not listened to his father's advice and rashly entered the black water pool, would he have become a pile of dry bones at the bottom of the pool
As he thought of this, he saw more dry bones scattered all over the bottom of the pool.
He slowly retreated, putting some distance between himself and Fenggu and the giant python.
Soon they discovered that one third of this thick and long giant python, from its tail to its head, had turned into dark white snake bones.
The other part of the python's body connected to the giant python's head still had bones covered with flesh and scales, but when he looked closely, the flesh wrapped around the bones seemed to be slowly disappearing towards the direction of the python's head.
It was as if a strange force was emerging from the head of the giant python, secretly devouring the python's flesh and blood.
As a result, the flesh and blood of the giant python gradually disappeared, starting from its tail and moving towards its head.
“It’s phoenix bone!”
Looking again at the phoenix bone that had pierced the giant python's head and nailed it to the bottom of the pool, Pang Jian suddenly understood.
It was this phoenix bone that fell from the upper realm. It pierced it instantly and was still eating its flesh and blood bit by bit.
The strong prey on the weak and natural selection prevails; these are the eternal truths between heaven and earth.
The giant python in the Black Water Pond devoured wild beasts and hunters in the mountains, and now it has suffered the same fate, suppressed here by a piece of Heavenly Phoenix's dried bones, slowly sucking its flesh and blood.
Suddenly, Pang Jian couldn't help but think of the abnormality of the other phoenix bone.
Along with the roar of the earth, cracks appeared on the ground around the phoenix bone, and many bloodthirsty vines flew out, attacking and eating the first batch of Blood Moons and the second batch of Shangguan family members.
Afterwards, a cluster of liquid amber glow formed in the phoenix bone and began to wander inside the crystal bone.
Could it be...
Pang Jian gradually came to his senses and felt that the second phoenix bone nail killed the giant python and devoured its blood, flesh and energy in order to condense into a new cluster of amber light!
"boom!"
While he was deep in thought, the giant python lashed the earth again, causing another earthquake near the Black Water Pond.
However, compared with the previous earthquakes, this time the shaking was obviously much milder.
The python's momentum of hitting the ground with its snake bones seemed even more pale and powerless this time.
"It's not dead yet."
Pang Jian's eyebrows twitched, but he suddenly realized that even if he was not in the meditative state of "Hutian Yangqi Jue", the skin on his arms and chest was still absorbing the air in the water.
It seems to have evolved into an instinctive habit.
He immediately felt much more at ease, knowing that with this ability, he could stay at the bottom of the pool for a long time and wouldn't have to worry about those dark ghosts in the short term.
"Go look at it head on."
Pang Jian, curious, immediately moved around at the bottom of the pool and soon found the dragon-patterned spear he had thrown earlier.
He swam over quickly, picked up the dragon-patterned spear in his hand, and used the weight of the dragon-patterned spear to land on the ground.
When he held the dragon-patterned spear, he became braver and quickly moved to the front of the giant python's head.
The python's head, which was even bigger than the stone house he lived in, also had olive green scales that overlapped like wrinkles.
The giant python opened its mouth slightly, and one could see the fatal phoenix bone inserted in its mouth behind its sharp fangs.
Thin, inky black lines, like secretions from its mouth, went straight towards the water surface above.
The moment he saw the black line, Pang Jian knew the strangeness of the Black Water Pond. The dark black color of the water came from the black secretions from its mouth.
Later, Pang Jian discovered that the giant python was still alive, with its eyes closed, as if it was in great pain.
The alive but suffering python seemed not to notice his arrival and let him look around and observe everywhere.
Pang Jian watched for a while and knew that after the phoenix bone had devoured its python's body, it would eventually eat its python's head, and that would be the end of its life.
Perhaps at that time, a new cluster of amber light will suddenly reappear in the phoenix bones.
Pang Jian guessed what would happen and wanted to explore the bottom of the pool thoroughly, so he headed towards an area farther away.
Not long after, two balls of deep red blood light suddenly came into his eyes!
If there are any new living creatures that can survive in such an environment, they must be ferocious creatures of the same level as the giant python!
He was secretly worried, thinking that there were dark ghosts lurking on the water surface. If a new horror emerged from the bottom of the pool, he would really be doomed this time.
As he got closer to the blood, he noticed that the farther away he was from the python and the phoenix bones, the dimmer the light at the bottom of the pool became.
finally!
He saw the two balls of blood light and discovered that they were actually emitted by a pair of deep red eyes.
At the bottom of the pool, there was a strange man who was as skinny as a corpse. His eyes emitted blood-red light. He was staring at the phoenix bone without moving, as if he was expecting something.
On the weirdo's chest, there is a lifelike phoenix tattoo, with blood-red feathers, as if it is about to spread its wings and fly.
The phoenix is obviously just a tattoo totem, but it gives people a vivid and lively feeling.
Pang Jian stared at the strange man for a long time, but the strange man seemed unaware of his existence. The strange man and the phoenix tattoo on his chest just stared at the phoenix bone inserted in the giant python's head.
It was as if there was no such person as Pang Jian at the bottom of the pool at all.
Pang Jian, who had hidden underwater early on, had no idea that the strange man in front of him was Ouyang Duanhai, nor did he know that Ouyang Duanhai jumped into the black water pool after him.
Pang Jian felt his scalp tingling when he suddenly encountered a humanoid monster like Ouyang Duanhai at the bottom of the pool where there should be no living creatures.
If he had not been underwater, he would have been sweating with nervousness. He held the dragon-patterned spear in both hands and waited for a while in agony.
He finally confirmed that the humanoid monster in front of him didn't care about him at all and was just staring at Fenggu.
In the depths of the humanoid monster's crimson eyes, Pang Jian could not see any emotion that a human should have. He even suspected that this guy was not a human at all.
"Is he waiting for the mysterious glimmer that will condense in the phoenix bone?"
After observing for a long time, Pang Jian had some feelings.
I guessed that the humanoid monster standing motionless and staring at the phoenix bone was waiting for the phoenix bone to completely eat the python and for the sudden appearance of a cluster of amber light.
Before this, as long as I didn't take the initiative to provoke him, it seemed that I wouldn't attract his attention.
After a stalemate, Pang Jian, holding the dragon-patterned spear, tiptoed back to where the phoenix bone and the giant python were with a nervous heart.
After hesitating for a moment, he deliberately chose an area where he would not be seen by the humanoid monster.
There are monks from the Dark Ghost above his head, there are humanoid monsters of unknown depth at the bottom of the pool, and there are phoenix bones devouring the original owner of the Black Water Pool. Pang Jian, who doesn't know where to go, can only wait passively.
"Forget it, I will continue my practice."
Pang Jian, who had racked his brains but could not think of a way out, simply stopped thinking and swam towards the middle of the phoenix bone with the dragon-patterned spear in hand.
He returned to where he had landed.
He was leaning his back against the phoenix bone, facing the area where the humanoid monster was. The monster could not see him through the phoenix bone.
He used the dragon-patterned spear in his hand to press against the python's body covered with flesh and scales, then used both hands to hold the dragon-patterned spear to steady his body and continued his practice.
“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”
A steady stream of acidic and poisonous energy was absorbed from the black water above and gathered in his blue-black "spiritual pot".
The "cotton wool"-like impurities in his spiritual sea that he could sense were quickly dissolved by the highly poisonous substance secreted from the giant python's mouth.
…
After an unknown amount of time, Pang Jian was startled and looked down, discovering that his dragon-patterned spear, which was resting against the python skin, suddenly sank.
It turned out that this part of the python's flesh and blood had been eaten by the phoenix bone.
After hesitating for a moment, Pang Jian landed at the location of the python's head and once again pressed the dragon-patterned spear against the snake's head, still practicing close to the phoenix bone.
After entering the state this time, he felt that all the filth and dross in his Dantian spiritual sea seemed to have been washed away!
He concentrated his mind and slowly comprehended it, feeling like a blind man, moving freely in an empty room, until he sensed and touched a "membrane"-like existence, and then he realized that he had sensed the end of the spiritual sea.
At this moment, he completely cleared the obstacles in his spiritual sea and truly became a practitioner in the Qi Refining Realm.
"The Qi Refining Realm is divided into nine levels. One needs to guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the spiritual sea and repeatedly temper it."
"For the first stage, you must first fill the Spiritual Sea with spiritual energy, and then refine and cleanse it into spiritual power. For the second stage, you need to take in spiritual energy again, and when it is full, refine it again to transform the energy into power."
Silently reciting the key points of the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm in his mind, he began to absorb the first wave of spiritual energy into his body.
As soon as he thought of it, he realized that in addition to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the water, he also absorbed more of the acidic and toxic energy in the black water!
He was frightened, fearing that after the "cotton wool" filth in his spiritual sea was dissolved, the acidic and toxic powers would corrode his spiritual sea, causing it to collapse and making him lose the possibility of practicing.
However, after the spiritual energy and acidic and toxic abilities at the bottom of the pond were integrated into his spiritual sea, he did not feel any discomfort.
The complex energies in the lake were filling up his spiritual sea, going through the first level of the “filling” process.
Seeing that the Spirit Sea was unobstructed, he decided to ignore the hidden dangers inside and outside for the time being and stayed at the bottom of the pool, using the dark blue "Spirit Pot" he visualized to practice cultivation based on the wonders in the water.
He also took out the cracked gray-white rock and several spirit stones that Ning Yao had given him from the bamboo basket he had been carrying.
Regardless of whether a conflict would occur, he held a piece in each hand, leaned against the Phoenix Bone Wall and concentrated on practicing.
There is a powerful dark ghost above your head, a humanoid monster at the bottom of the pool, a giant python that is not yet dead, and the mysterious phoenix bone.
All Pang Jian could do was to try his best to increase his strength, and he was even willing to take certain risks for it.
He wished he had more strength to protect himself.
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