CHAPTER 582: CHAPTER 559: GRAND LEADER 77

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The Golden Python swayed its head to avoid Yan Shuangshuang’s frontal slash, its thick tail rose high and smashed down fiercely, clashing directly with Yan Shuangshuang’s Scale Armor Knife.

Of course, the Golden Python wasn’t stupid. It could feel the fierce beast aura on Yan Shuangshuang’s Scale Armor Knife, which terrified it, so it used the side of its tail to strike Yan Shuangshuang’s Scale Armor Knife.

That’s right, the Scale Armor Knife Yan Shuangshuang was using was a gift from the Earth King Beast. When the Earth King Beast decided to give Yan Shuangshuang this gift, it forcefully pulled off its newly grown scale armor after it became a fierce beast.

After becoming a fierce beast, the Earth King Beast’s wisdom improved significantly, so it clearly understood how important its scale armor was to the people of the Yanhuang Tribe.

The Earth King Beast knew its scale armor was even harder and more useful after becoming a fierce beast, but its newly grown scale armor hadn’t reached the point of shedding yet, so the Earth King Beast directly and forcefully tore off its scale armor to give it to Yan Shuangshuang as a gift.

This left Yan Shuangshuang deeply distressed. She cradled the Earth King Beast’s big head and scolded it for a long time, sternly telling it that henceforth it was not allowed to forcibly pull off its scale armor and back spike to give to her as gifts; she would refuse even if it did.

Before the Earth King Beast became a fierce beast, its scale armor could effortlessly pierce the defenses of a Sky Wolf Fierce Beast. Now that the Earth King Beast had advanced to a fierce beast, its scale armor was naturally even more formidable.

The force of the Golden Python’s tail was immense, and when it struck the Scale Armor Knife in Yan Shuangshuang’s hands, the impact was so powerful that Yan Shuangshuang was sent flying.

In mid-air, Yan Shuangshuang flipped several times to dissipate the force, then landed on the ground with slightly bent knees.

As she landed, the Golden Python swiftly slithered over after its first strike. Its thick body coiled toward Yan Shuangshuang, employing its most lethal and instinctual method of attack: constriction!

The Golden Python’s gargantuan yet agile body possessed a terrifying strength in its constriction. Once Yan Shuangshuang was ensnared, she would be crushed in an instant!

Although the Golden Python’s constriction was incredibly fast, Yan Shuangshuang’s reactions were quick too. She swung her Scale Armor Knife, delivering a fierce slash at the Golden Python’s encroaching body.

Yan Shuangshuang infused her Scale Armor Knife with Warrior Power, so her slash opened a massive wound on the Golden Python’s body. The creature let out a long hiss of pain and turned its head to bite at Yan Shuangshuang!

Before the Golden Python could bite, Yan Shuangshuang had already leaped onto its coiled body. Without waiting for its head to turn, she jumped off, making the Golden Python’s attack miss once again.

Although Yan Shuangshuang had inflicted a large wound on the Golden Python earlier, its body was so enormous that the wound, while painful, wasn’t enough to cause significant harm.

Currently, despite being injured, the Golden Python remained mobile and continued its attack on Yan Shuangshuang even more viciously.

Yan Shuangshuang gripped her Scale Armor Knife tightly, cautiously dodging the Golden Python’s assaults while considering how to defeat the creature.

Typically, the vulnerability of a serpent lies at its seventh segment, but the Golden Python’s size was so large, and the scales at the seventh segment were evidently larger and harder than elsewhere.

With such size and such hard scales, even if Yan Shuangshuang could break through its defenses and cut the seventh segment, the resultant wound might only be superficial, insufficient to endanger the Golden Python, and possibly provoking it into fiercer aggression.

Yan Shuangshuang pondered while evading; to kill the Golden Python, she needed to target its head for the attack to be effective.

Although the heads of creatures were typically well-protected and hard to hit, Yan Shuangshuang believed attacking the head was effective due to her Warrior Power.

If she attacked the head, Yan Shuangshuang could channel her Warrior Power through the Scale Armor Knife and directly into the Golden Python’s head, disrupting its brain and killing it.

Just like when Yan Shuangshuang first saw her Father Tie and Ben attack a giant ape, where the stone axes of the Hunting Team had no effect on the ape’s body, but the blow with Warrior Power to the ape’s temple was effective.

Now Yan Shuangshuang intended to employ the same tactic. The skull’s bone was hard with strong defense, but the penetrating power of Warrior Power was also immense. If Yan Shuangshuang could find an opportunity to channel Warrior Power into the Golden Python’s head, she was confident she could defeat it.

Conversely, if Warrior Power was applied to non-head areas, it would only cause severe damage because the python’s massive body would mitigate the Warrior Power’s effectiveness.

Yet, the Golden Python was very crafty; its head moved around, never giving Yan Shuangshuang a chance to jump onto its head or strike at it.

While Yan Shuangshuang and the Golden Python remained locked in a stalemate, the Golden Python’s body suddenly halted, and its head stood erect, hissing angrily before swinging around to attack something behind.

Only then did Yan Shuangshuang notice that Hagen had somehow followed along and had been lying in wait nearby. Seeing Yan Shuangshuang locked in a stalemate with the Golden Python, Hagen had sneaked up from behind to attack its back with a stone axe.

Hagen was also a Second-level Warrior. When the stone axe imbued with Second-level Warrior Power struck the Golden Python’s back, it instantly opened a long wound, although shallow but long enough.

This action clearly enraged the Golden Python, which even abandoned attacking Yan Shuangshuang to turn its fury on Hagen, who had ambushed it.

This turn of events gave Yan Shuangshuang the opportunity she had been waiting for. She seized it at once, leaping onto the Golden Python’s back and then sprinting to the top of its head.

Yan Shuangshuang pushed her speed to the limit, completing the entire process in less than a single breath.

As soon as the Golden Python realized Yan Shuangshuang was atop its head, aware of the peril, it planned to roll on the ground to dislodge her.

However, Yan Shuangshuang was not about to let the python throw her off. She immediately channeled most of her Warrior Power into the Scale Armor Knife, this time without restraining the Power of thunder and lightning.