Chapter 6: The Winged Ice Snake

In the jungle of strange rocks, a black ring snake a thousand meters wide suddenly burst forth from the ground, lifting countless boulders and trees into the air. As soon as it appeared, it tore through space, blocking the sky with its dark form, covering Qu Yi’s path ahead.
Roar!
The ten-thousand-meter-long black ring snake opened its maw, spanning two thousand meters, and drew in a powerful breath, attempting to swallow Qu Yi.
“Just a Black Ring Snake at the level of a one-star Heavenly Soul Fiend, and it dares to show itself,” Qu Yi said with a smile.
Just as the snake’s maw reached Qu Yi, he suddenly vanished and reappeared on top of the snake’s head.
Roar!
The black ring snake immediately sensed something was amiss. As a one-star Heavenly Soul Fiend, it had already formed its own internal world. It hadn’t succeeded in swallowing Qu Yi, and Qu Yi’s teleportation hadn’t caused any spatial disturbance at all—this made it clear that Qu Yi’s strength was beyond its capacity to match. Feeling danger, the snake dared not engage Qu Yi further and tried to burrow back into the ground.
“If you’ve come out, there’s no going back,” Qu Yi laughed loudly.
Qu Yi already held the Divine Formula Card in his hand. By channeling chaotic energy, he made the card emit a purple glow, then used it to slash across the snake’s neck.
Rip!
The Divine Formula Card, a divine-grade artifact, easily carved a massive wound in the snake’s body—five hundred meters long and ten meters deep. Thick streams of crimson blood gushed out like fountains. Without blood to sustain it, the snake instantly collapsed, unable even to use its fiendly energy to stop the bleeding.
Qu Yi laughed heartily, standing on the snake’s head and watching the blood flow like a waterfall.
“In the Fiend Realm, I’ve heard that fiends at the level of Heavenly Fiends possess a Fiend Core within them. Good—I’ll search this black ring snake’s body to find its Snake Core,” Qu Yi said calmly after waiting for a while as the snake lost much of its blood.
Then, he used the Divine Formula Card again to channel chaotic energy and activate it.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
The snake’s head separated from its body, and soon a yellow, human-head-sized orb flew out. At that moment, the snake’s Soul Flower tried to carry the Snake Core and escape to reassemble its body.
“Heh, still trying to run away!” Qu Yi laughed.
At that instant, a golden-flowered core emerged from Qu Yi’s head—the very core of the Soul-Grabbing Flower.

While in the demon realm, the Life Core devoured the Soul Flower of the powerful Tianpo demon, and it has now reached the strength of a one-star Tianpo Immortal. Thus, as soon as the Life Core appeared, a hundred golden threads were shot out, instantly enveloping the Snake Pill. “No!” The Soul Flower of the Black-Ringed Snake let out a shrill cry, then once again pleaded, “Don’t kill me!” Qu Yi merely smiled. The Life Core is inherently the nemesis of souls; seeing an exposed Soul Flower, how could it miss such an opportunity? The hundred golden rays quickly drained the Soul Flower of the Black-Ringed Snake, absorbing it entirely. Naturally, the Snake Pill became ownerless. With a gesture of his right hand, Qu Yi caused the Snake Pill to fly toward him, landing directly in his palm. “Not bad. With this Snake Pill, it proves that I’ve killed a Tianpo demon-class serpent. Feng Guan, we’ll meet soon,” Qu Yi said with a smile. Qu Yi’s purpose in coming to Tianjiu Star was to hunt down Tianpo demon-class serpent beasts and then hand over the task to Feng Guan. His ultimate goal was still to meet Feng Guan again. After devouring the Soul Flower of the Black-Ringed Snake, the Life Core immediately returned to Qu Yi’s soul space to protect his own Soul Flower. “Instrument God, there must be more than just one Tianpo demon-class Black-Ringed Snake in this colony,” Qu Yi replied with a smile. After a while, the Instrument God replied lazily, “There are three in total. One is dead; the other two are at the two-star Tianpo demon level.” Hearing this, Qu Yi immediately understood that the area occupied by the Black-Ringed Snake colony was merely the coastal region on the east side of the land, a peripheral area of the entire continent. Thus, the Tianpo demon-class beasts born there were naturally much weaker. “Sigh, it seems that after killing this Black-Ringed Snake, the other two won’t come out to stop me either,” Qu Yi said sadly. Undoubtedly, Qu Yi wanted to venture deeper into the land to hunt more Tianpo demon-class serpent beasts. As soon as he finished speaking, Qu Yi took off, heading deeper into the land. Just as he left, two men with bodies glowing with dark light appeared beside the Black-Ringed Snake without a head—these were the other two leaders of the Black-Ringed Snake colony. “Wu Bo, that beast that killed the third one is truly too powerful,” said the weaker-looking man, still shaken.

“Yes, that beast must be a demon beast with special abilities. It could cast space spells without even the slightest spatial disturbance—truly terrifying,” said the slightly larger man, Wu Bo, trying to stay calm.

Clearly, Qu Yi’s strength just now made those two leaders of the Black Ring Snakes have no desire to seek revenge on him.

“Let’s not chase after that beast. We should immediately inform other snake demon beasts about it, so their groups can go and ambush it,” Wu Bo added.

The other Black Ring Snake leader nodded quickly.

Soon, Wu Bo took out a communication card from the Demon Realm and sent out news about Qu Yi and Wu Yuan.

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Unhindered all the way.

A month later, Qu Yi flew further inland.

Obviously, he had left the territory of the Black Ring Snake group and entered the domain of another group of snake demon beasts.

Qu Yi was in the air when suddenly millions of silver-white wing snakes appeared. The larger ones were a hundred meters long, while the smaller ones were ten meters long. They arranged themselves in the air, forming a white wall that blocked Qu Yi’s path.

The Winged Ice Snakes were part of an extraordinary snake group. Though they were originally water-type demon beasts, they naturally possessed the ability to spit ice. Especially when they spewed ice together, their power was extremely formidable.

Qu Yi laughed heartily and called out to Wu Yuan beside him, “Wu Yuan, I’ll go catch you an ice snake.”

“Woo, Qu Yi, you’re really kind,” Wu Yuan replied happily.

Clearly, facing the blockade of millions of Winged Ice Snakes, Qu Yi and Wu Yuan weren’t worried at all.

“Dare you! Even at the brink of death, you still dare to despise us Winged Ice Snakes!”

After speaking, the largest Winged Ice Snake, over a hundred meters long, transformed into a human form—with ice-like skin and the appearance of an extremely charming woman. Of course, this leader was male.

This leader’s strength had reached the level of a two-star Heavenly Soul Demon.

Qu Yi didn’t even glance at this charming man. He vanished in a flash and reappeared next to a ten-meter-long Winged Ice Snake.

He channeled chaotic energy to form a giant hand, grabbing the Winged Ice Snake.

“Haha, borrowing an ice snake for a while,” Qu Yi laughed as he disappeared.

The Winged Ice Snake leader flew into a rage. His body trembled as he turned into an ice beam and shot straight at Qu Yi.

Just as the ice beam was about to hit Qu Yi, he took out a divine formula card. With a surge of chaotic energy, the card emitted purple light as he swiped at the approaching Winged Ice Snake leader.

Retreat!

It was after receiving Ubo’s message that the leader of the Winged Ice Snakes led a million of them to stop Qu Yi. Naturally, he also knew that Qu Yi was extremely powerful and could not be resisted head-on. Qu Yi didn’t pursue them either and quickly returned to Wu Yuan with a laugh. “Wu Yuan, eat,” Qu Yi said with a smile. “Uwu, life is too good—there’s snake meat to eat again!” Wu Yuan exclaimed excitedly. Soon, Wu Yuan reverted to his beast form, opened his dragon mouth wide, and swallowed the struggling Winged Ice Snakes whole. “Uwu… delicious, uwu… so tasty!” Wu Yuan cried happily, drooling dragon saliva. The leader of the Winged Ice Snakes and the million Winged Ice Snakes watched helplessly as Wu Yuan devoured their kin, all spitting out their fangs in anger, yet not a single Winged Ice Snake dared to stop Wu Yuan. Qu Yi’s presence kept the Winged Ice Snakes from rebelling. The entire Winged Ice Snake was swallowed by Wu Yuan. “Hey, you Winged Ice Snakes—weren’t you all determined to kill me? Why aren’t you attacking now?” Qu Yi said proudly, straightening his body. He truly had the patience to provoke them. The leader of the Winged Ice Snakes, constantly provoked, finally couldn’t bear it any longer. “Frost Domain, prepare!” The leader of the Winged Ice Snakes shouted abruptly, his body shaking. At this moment, he wanted all the Winged Ice Snakes to launch a collective attack, using their innate ability—frost. Hearing this, Qu Yi immediately shouted, “Pet, back to the bag!” Then, Wu Yuan disappeared. To avoid revealing the Dimension Ball, Qu Yi deliberately pretended Wu Yuan was his pet to confuse the Winged Ice Snakes present. Pets could enter a special pet bag. As soon as Wu Yuan disappeared, Qu Yi smiled at the Winged Ice Snakes, waiting for them to cast a collective frost spell. Once the Frost Domain was activated, it could freeze an entire area. Qu Yi didn’t dare slack off either and kept watching their movements closely. The million Winged Ice Snakes formed a huge hemispherical snake wall in the air. Then, each one curled up into a ball, all their heads gurgling as if absorbing demonic energy to create a freezing chill. A white mist-like cold aura had already spread in front of the swarm. Seeing this, Qu Yi laughed heartily but showed no sign of flying away, remaining suspended in the air. “Hurry up and activate the Frost Domain! I’ve been waiting so long,” Qu Yi urged.

Hearing this, the Winged Ice Snake, filled with rage, shouted, “Frostbound Domain, attack!” In an instant, millions of ice particles were spat out from its mouth and flew toward Qu Yi at uniform speed. Wherever those million ice particles passed, that space was frozen solid, just as they were about to reach Qu Yi.