The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 662 - 375: Glimpsing the Leopard from the Pipe (Captain Ou and the He Shi Bi – Additional 2)_2
It’s getting closer, closer and closer.
After traveling through the soil layers for dozens of seconds, she did not know how far she had journeyed into the depths, until finally, she stopped in front of a vast expanse of solid rock walls. The Earth Escape Skill could only travel between rocks and soil, and beyond that was Changtian’s flesh and body, this little Divine Skill was of no use.
"Is... Is this the True Body of Ba Snake?" she asked, biting her lower lip, her voice trembling slightly. Having traveled westward through all manner of hardships to get here, how could she not be excited to finally see the true form of Ba Snake?
"Yes," he responded quietly, understanding her feelings. At this moment, he should be the most excited, yet Changtian’s cultivation contained his emotions much better than hers, his voice was slightly hoarse yet showed no signs of wild happiness.
This man is really haughty, she thought, then reached out an arm, gently caressing the "rock wall" in front of her.
This was just the tip of the iceberg of Ba Snake’s body. Countless times she had dreamed of what Ba Snake’s body would look like and what it would feel like to touch. Now she knew, the answer was— 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
No feeling!
Just like touching a regular rock wall, cold, hard, at most a bit smoother.
How could this be? She pressed her ear against the wall, repeating the classic eavesdropping pose.
"Girl..." he couldn’t help but laugh and cry at her actions.
With her current hearing, she could detect human heartbeats within fifteen meters and hear the sound of blood flowing through vessels within seven meters. Yet, despite pressing so close, her ears captured nothing—no heartbeat, no blood flow, no signs of life. The rock wall seemed just like a real rock wall, maintaining its age-old apathy. Had she not experienced several major earthquakes triggered by Ba Snake tonight, she might have assumed Changtian had led her astray.
"How could this be?" she muttered to herself.
He had no choice but to explain, "My True Body is too vast, with such thick scales between us, it’s normal that you can’t hear anything. Moreover, the main body is currently in deep slumber, both heartbeat and blood flow are at their lowest, how could you hear them?"
She pouted, quite disappointed. But wait, he mentioned "scales"? Ning Xiaoxian carefully felt her way across the smooth rock wall bit by bit, her heart rate speeding up as she did. After walking seven or eight steps, her fingertips finally touched a rougher area, like a narrow seam between two hard substances. She immediately realized what she had touched—the junction between two scales.
Oh my God, the place she had just lain on was merely one of its scales, no wonder it was so smooth, so hard!
From her own step calculations, this scale had a diameter of nearly six meters! If her knowledge from biology class hadn’t faded away, python bodies are covered with "tiny" scales. By that logic, if even a small scale was this huge, how long was Ba Snake?
They say you can glimpse a leopard through a tube and see its spots; she, however, was digging in the soil for snakes, spotting just a scale? Changtian then said, "What you touched is a body scale, which grows on both sides and the back of the body. If you had touched an abdominal scale, it would be even larger."
She couldn’t help but knock on it, the echo lacked the metallic quality but was somewhat crisp like enamelware, sounding eerily quiet in this silent space.
Ning Xiaoxian swallowed and discreetly stepped back, feeling sweat on her back. This is a normal reaction of a person facing a colossal creature.
"Don’t be afraid." Changtian noticed her unease and spoke to reassure her, "Whether it’s an External Body or the main body, I will never pose a threat to you, rest assured."
His deep, familiar voice slowly calmed her frantic heart. That’s right, no matter how frightening, it was still Changtian. He would never harm her.
"So huge, can the God Demon Prison really contain it?" she began to worry. Even though the God Demon Prison was amazing, even the most incredible Magic Artifact had its limits. Ba Snake’s size was massive, could the God Demon Prison hold it?
"I don’t know, I’ve never tried it before," Changtian replied truthfully.
She activated the True One Technique, quickly adjusting her state.
She removed her disordered emotions, and her heartbeat gradually returned to normal.
Only when her mind was as undisturbed as an ancient well, did she slowly extend her hand, pressed it on the snake scale, and channelled her Divine Power into it.
And then?
Then there was silence, nothing happened.
In order to cause several major earthquakes, she had already used up most of her stored Divine Power, and now any further attempt was like pouring a cup of water into the sea, eliciting no response. Thinking about it, after all, how much Divine Power did she have? Against such a massive Ba Snake, her little strength was like an ant biting an elephant, with all her might barely noticeable.
Time for the next plan. She smirked wryly, walked back to the God Demon Prison, and took Changtian’s inner core.
As Changtian’s Divine Power became more abundant, the color of this inner core grew increasingly golden, the small snake coiled on top resembled both shadow and form, with bright eyes and clearly countable scales. As the Golden Core was held, the small snake affectionately flicked its tongue across her sensitive palm, startling her almost to the point of tossing the inner core away.
She took a deep breath, placed the inner core beside the snake scale. A miraculous scene unfolded.
The inner core slowly rose into the air, flying towards the huge scale, then like sinking into water, it silently disappeared into the scale. This hard scale armor could block her from outside, yet it could not stop the inner core.
Changtian’s Demon Core rushed into Ba Snake’s body, and the space they were in immediately turned pitch black again. In their plan, the soulless Ba Snake should have sensed the familiar Divine Power of the inner core, thereby not resisting her subsequent taking actions. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to visit qidian.com to cast your recommendation tickets and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
