CHAPTER 365: CHAPTER 365: SABOTAGING OUR OWN GREAT WALL

The Third Awakening ghost-faced serpent possesses mental poison and is also incredibly fast and adept at hiding in water. Its combat abilities rank among the strongest within the Third Awakening.

Yet under the claws of phoenixes, they have no ability to resist; they are caught and eaten immediately.

The phoenixes even spat out the bones, tearing off the skin and flesh and discarding the bones into the River of Flames, where some bones slowly drifted downstream with the current.

The ghost-faced serpents constantly charged downstream, but in this vast river, they were continuously preyed upon by the phoenixes. Very few managed to escape past the Giant Forest section of the river.

Chen Guan and the others suddenly realized that if the phoenixes hadn’t hunted these ghost-faced serpents, allowing so many of them to reach downstream into the section of the river in the Qilin Mountain Range, the Qilin Corps would be in danger.

"Thankfully... thankfully, we didn’t have the chance to kill the phoenixes..." everyone silently celebrated.

However, even if they wanted to kill the phoenixes, they lacked the strength to do so.

Watching the phoenixes devour one ghost-faced serpent after another like they were snacks, the group was left speechless by the spectacle of this snake-bird battle.

Suddenly, a massive wave surged in from the upstream section, reaching over a dozen meters high, carrying countless ghost-faced serpents with it.

"How can there be so many ghost-faced serpents? Is the upper-stream the den of these ghost-faced serpents?" Zhu Hongzhi’s exclamation was abruptly cut off.

As the wave reached its peak and began to recede, a colossal black figure slowly emerged from the water.

It was a super giant ghost-faced serpent that was no less in size than a Ghost-Eyed Python. Its black scales gleamed like obsidian, and the white human face pattern on its head was as terrifying as the visage of the Evil Ghost King.

It opened its mouth wide, capturing a descending phoenix and swallowing it whole.

The level 30 phoenix had no chance to resist and was devoured alive.

In the next moment, the super giant ghost-faced serpent opened its gaping maw, which seemed like a black hole, creating an enormous suction force and sucking in all the phoenixes within several dozen meters into its mouth, swallowing them down.

"How... how can there be such a gigantic ghost-faced serpent..." Bai Yueguang’s forehead was covered in cold sweat.

It takes a thousand years for a ghost-faced serpent to grow three feet, and another thousand years to grow just an inch more. Who knows how many years this gigantic ghost-faced serpent has lived.

Though it’s still a level 30 Secret Spirit, on account of its long years, it’s likely consumed countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, giving it an immensely profound and powerless Primordial Energy, with a physical strength far superior to any other level 30 World-Defying Secret Spirit.

Coupled with its boundless brute strength and venom, such a Secret Spirit, in the Blessed Land, is virtually an invincible existence.

Even if Chen Guan reaches level 30, his Primordial Energy would undoubtedly be deeper, but in terms of strength, he’d still probably fall far short of it.

This super giant ghost-faced serpent, attacking with mouth and tail, killed countless phoenixes in a short span of time.

The phoenixes originally attacking the ghost-faced serpents were thrown into chaos. Many ghost-faced serpents seized upon the opportunity, rushing past the Giant Forest section towards downstream.

"Don’t let them get through... The lower reaches of the Flame River are connected to the river in the Qilin Mountain Range..." Chen Guan ordered the corps to deploy, intercepting the ghost-faced serpents charging through the river.

These ghost-faced serpents pose a greater threat than the phoenixes.

When phoenixes arrive, their targets are obvious, providing time to evade and counteract.

But ghost-faced serpents are too insidious. If they grow in numbers, it would indeed be a catastrophe; many might not even realize what happened before being controlled by the ghost-faced serpents.

Shi Zhimen commanded the corps to divide into several waves to kill the ghost-faced serpents in the river, primarily relying on pets rather than personal engagement. If one were bitten, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Fortunately, only a few escaped ghost-faced serpents reached the downstream area. Chen Guan and his companions occupied a spot by a shallow stream, using the favorable terrain to kill the majority of them.

However, the super giant ghost-faced serpent continued slaughtering phoenixes, disrupting their attack on other ghost-faced serpents, allowing more ghost-faced serpents to escape downstream. Chen Guan was uncertain how long they could hold out.

He couldn’t personally kill a significant number of these Third Awakening ghost-faced serpents in a short time; after all, an individual’s power is limited, and he was only level 17.

A high-pitched bird cry echoed across the wilderness, causing the super giant ghost-faced serpent to pause, raising its head to look towards the direction from which the sound came, near the giant tree.

Chen Guan and the others felt a surge of joy; long had the super giant ghost-faced serpent existed, and the ghost-faced serpents hadn’t overrun the downstream because it surely had an equal opponent.

As phoenixes are nemeses to ghost-faced serpents, their king should be able to suppress this super giant ghost-faced serpent; otherwise, the downstream would likely be swarming with ghost-faced serpents by now.

Their joy was short-lived, realizing things weren’t as simple as they had thought.

Though the bird cries temporarily daunted the super giant ghost-faced serpent, the Phoenix King’s presence was nowhere to be seen.

After a brief pause, the super giant ghost-faced serpent resumed killing phoenixes.

Angry calls resonated from the giant tree, yet the Phoenix King never appeared.

"This is bad, our earlier assumptions might be partly correct. We may have shot ourselves in the foot," Bai Yueguang’s expression was extremely grim.

Chen Guan understood her implication: something must have happened to the Phoenix King; perhaps it’s nesting and can’t leave, or it might be something else.

Regardless of the reason, the Secret Spirits along the River of Flames previously might have been summoned by the Phoenix King against the ghost-faced serpents rather than to invade the Qilin Mountain Range.

As a result, Chen Guan and the rest drove those Secret Spirits away, and now no more Secret Spirits are returning to help deal with the ghost-faced serpents.

"What is this..." Zhu Hongzhi was equally speechless.

All their efforts only ended up aiding the ghost-faced serpents.

If allowed into the Qilin Mountain Range, the corps and Qilin City would never know peace again.

"Enough talk, let’s first stop the ghost-faced serpents and see if we can hold out until the Phoenix King shows up," Chen Guan calmly said.

War between humans and the Secret Spirits of the Phoenix Forest is inevitable, so this day would come sooner or later; there was no mistake.

For now, addressing the immediate problem of how to block the ghost-faced serpents is what matters.