Deng Chanyu continued to walk deeper into the cave, and the feeling of shivering at the spiritual level became stronger and stronger. She didn't know what kind of pressure was being emitted, but if it was a living creature, she felt that its realm might be similar to Zhenyunzi. What kind of thing is this?
With her Golden Immortal Essence Fruit, she could barely endure it. She had no choice but to enter the Nuhuang DaoTi state. Thanks to her sister Daji's motivation, she can now maintain this state for more than half an hour.
In this state, she possesses the power of the Taiyi Golden Immortal, with a spiritual awareness and mental faculty that can match those of the middle period of the Taiyi level. Her Yuan Shen can briefly reach the level of Daluo. The Five-color Divine Light, the art of transforming into a rainbow, and the eight-nine Xuan Gong—her numerous supernatural abilities have experienced significant upgrades far beyond her current realm.
These are only on the surface.
The most critical point is that in this state, she can slightly borrow the Dao of Nuhuang's endless creation and life. The Dao is too grandiose, with an absolute high perspective that not even a mortal can understand. The Dao also cannot see the difference between her and Nuhuang in this state. Nuhuang doesn't mind if her disciple borrows her Dao strength.
The power of the immortals and sages in the Primordial Era is extremely domineering. The scenes in Western fantasy where deities use human bodies to accomplish certain tasks simply cannot occur here. If a sage's power descends, no matter onto whom it falls, it will be instantly assimilated in an instant.
Although the Nuhuang DaoTi is a somewhat unique approach, the power of sages is too strong and cannot be descended. However, I can actively go over and take advantage of it.
Deng Chanyu's own Dao of Space is still in the stage of planting seeds, followed by imitating Dao marks and cultivating Dao Essence. In contrast, Nuhuang's endless creation and life is a Dao that is completely controlled by the side.
One is still in the womb, at most a five or six-month-old baby, and the other is a master who can control every muscle in their body with internal force. Not to mention the power of law or spiritual cultivation, this is the gap between Deng Chanyu and Nuhuang in terms of their Dao realm.
The endless creation and life Dao can create life, as well as be used to restore oneself. Even if one's head is cut off, there is no need for any spell or incantation. A mere thought can automatically grow a new one. If the body is broken, one can recover to its original state with a thought alone. This is equivalent to a blood-selling equipment.
In non-exaggerated battles, she feels that it's enough for her to maintain the Nuhuang DaoTi state for half an hour.
As she waved her snake tail and controlled the earth tunnel to move through the rocky walls, a terrifying killing intent struck her Yuan Shen. The Nuhuang DaoTi completely defended against the attack, but she still pretended to be in a daze and escaped from the earth tunnel in a panic. Her eyes were extremely lifeless and seemed to still hide a faint struggle in their depths.
In an instant, from the top of the rock wall, a giant snake emerged in a swift strike. Its body was covered with dark brown scales, and its mouth opened to reveal two rows of fine, sharp teeth above and below. These teeth snapped towards Deng Chanyu's neck.
Not a leech!
In the critical moment, Deng Chanyu struck with great ferocity, wielding the Phoenix Staff. The current Phoenix Staff was missing its handle and upper half, making it merely a short stick.
There is an advantage to a short stick, which is that it allows for quick strikes. Moreover, in a dark cave environment, the short stick is more convenient for exerting force.
With a resounding "slap", she crushed the head of a bizarre snake that was covered in scales, had two protrusions under its ribs that resembled both claws and wings, and had a triangular head with a single strike from her staff.
The snake thought that Deng Chanyu was frightened by its killing intent and had become careless, which is why it was killed in a single move.
Deng Chanyu looked at her snake tail and said, "I have such a long snake tail, can't you see it? How can you still attack me?" To her family members, it was a case of moral degradation and twisted snake nature.
She didn't have time to ponder over it. The dying shriek of the bizarre snake aroused the hidden enemy, and countless snakes emerged from all four sides of the cave.
They looked at Deng Chanyu as though she were some delicious delicacy.
"Hm? Want to eat me? A bunch of wet-born eggs, today you'll see who eats who!"
She swings her staff into the snake group
More and more snakes surrounded Deng Chanyu, with the initial ones being relatively ordinary. Later on, there were already snakes with animal faces and snake bodies, and even giant snakes with human faces and snake bodies.
Even though the term "beautiful woman snake" is something that can easily evoke people's imagination in everyday life, seeing ten or more giant snakes with beautiful woman faces emerging from all directions at this moment made Deng Chanyu feel a surge of acid in her stomach. She wasn't afraid of snakes, but this battle made her feel uneasy.
She exposed a weakness she had always been unaware of — she has a phobia of claustrophobia!
Inside the cave, black, white, and yellow snakes were intertwined in a dense mass. Front, back, left, right, up, and down were filled with variously colored giant snakes, forming like a series of gigantic spheres. The hissing sounds of their tongues slithering together were so overwhelming that it made Deng Chanyu extremely irritable.
Deng Chanyu felt that her claustrophobia was getting more and more severe.
She shook her arms and said, "I can't handle you. Farewell!" She unleashed the Nanning Jiuhuo from her Yuan Shen, which burst out of her element and burned to death all the snakes that were on top of her, in her hair, or wrapped around the Phoenix Staff. It then vanished into a beam of iridescent light.
The snakes, losing their target, engaged in a period of mutual consumption and then dispersed one after another.
Deng Chanyu dared not rush in boldly anymore. She transformed into a green snake using the Eight-Nine Xuan Gong and also blended in with the others. Snake-style maneuvers were completely within her capabilities, and after navigating through this barrier guarded by countless snakes, she finally reached the deepest part of the cave.
Yun Xiao's expression was extremely tense as her eyes fixated intently on a massive figure in the shadows.
A giant snake, entirely covered in green scales, and seemingly endless in length, expended its origin essence to continuously spew toxic mist within the cave. Its eyes were filled with madness, and its body bore numerous wounds. Some were sword cuts, while many others were the result of bite marks from sharp fangs.
The toxic mist gathered but did not dissipate, accumulating within this vast area. In order to prevent the toxins from corrupting her Dao body, Yun Xiao had to divert a portion of her spiritual energy to resist the mist.
She occasionally attacked the giant snake twice, preventing it from consuming a large object on the other end of the cave. That object was also a turtle. Although its size was not as large as the mountainside-sized purple turtle outside, this turtle had different vibes. The purple turtle outside was merely huge, while this one inside was mysterious.
The turtle's shell had a large hole, and pus and blood flowed continuously from the wound. The giant turtle lay on the ground, having entered a kind of tortoise-like state of meditation.
The pressure that Deng Chanyu felt outside the cave, comparable to that of the Great Yu Zhen, was emanating from the giant turtle.
The pressure from the giant turtle affected Yun Xiao, who was a near-saint.
At this moment, the giant snake wanted to devour the giant turtle, which had no resistance. Yun Xiao repeatedly obstructed its path, infuriating the giant snake. The snake then dispatched its henchmen to attack from both sides and eliminate Yun Xiao first.
The minions of the giant snake were the leeches hidden in the toxic mist, waiting for an opportunity to launch surprise attacks.
The leeches were originally bestial heads and snake bodies with four wings under their ribs. Now, this creature had clearly experienced some form of mystical encounter. Its length exceeded over a hundred zhang, and three pairs of wings covered with mysterious incantations had appeared under its ribs. It moved freely through the toxic mist, hinting at the ability to command clouds and fog like the Three Clouds.
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