Chapter 69

Zheng Anqi's smug smile suddenly froze on her face. In her sunglasses, a huge shadow was reflected. This shadow was so large that even with just half of its body out of the water, it was over ten meters long.

What does ten meters mean? It's as tall as a three-story building! When a person stands in front of a three-story building, they feel their own insignificance. Now, Zheng Anqi deeply felt her own insignificance, and a deep, bone-chilling fear surged from within her. She wanted to open her mouth to shout and warn Mr. Shi, but this fear gripped her so tightly that she couldn't move a single finger.

Not just her, everyone who saw this scene was rooted to the spot, too terrified to move, as if they had been turned to stone.

"What's going on?"

Mr. Shi was taken aback. Why did everyone look like they had seen a ghost?

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt a chilling coldness behind him. The Yinlong Pond was already surrounded by a chilling aura, so nothing grew within a hundred meters. Now, the cold was even more intense, as if it were winter. Mr. Shi's heart sank, and a sense of foreboding rose in his chest.

He slowly turned around and saw a sight he would never forget. On the surface of the pond, which was dozens of meters wide, stood a large snake, half of its body above water and half below. It was probably twenty to thirty meters long, with a body as thick as a water barrel, and scales as large as palms. On its triangular head, a pair of golden vertical pupils, sinister and terrifying, stared at him intently.

Mr. Shi, after all, was a practitioner of Dao and had deep cultivation and decades of experience. Even in this situation, he quickly reacted. He rolled on the ground and threw a handful of sand. In the instant Mr. Shi rolled, the large snake, like an arrow released from a fully drawn bow, struck the spot where Mr. Shi had been standing with lightning speed.

"Thud!"

Unfortunately, it missed, but its head bent instantly, sweeping past the edge of the pond and biting a bodyguard standing there in half.

"Ah!!!"

Zheng Anqi let out a blood-curdling scream. At this moment, everyone was jolted awake. Her bodyguard leader, Li Yu, pushed Zheng Anqi and shouted, "Miss, quickly hide in a safe place."

"Other bodyguards, take out your weapons and follow me!"

Saying this, Li Yu pulled out a gun from behind his back, took off the safety, and rushed towards the large green snake. The other bodyguards, regaining their senses, trembled as they drew their guns and gritted their teeth, following Li Yu. They were all well-trained elites, and though they were afraid, they knew their duty.

The members of the Yin Ghost Sect were already terrified. Among the people present, only they knew how terrifying this large snake was. The Zheng family thought they could kill the snake with stun batons and guns, but they didn't know that this snake was already a spirit beast, and even their ancestors a hundred years ago couldn't defeat it, let alone now.

Yan Zhengze trembled and said, "This... This Yinlong was supposed to be sleeping, waking up only once every three years. The time hasn't... hasn't come yet, how... how did it appear again?"

It was precisely because they knew the snake wouldn't wake up that they dared to act so boldly in front of the Yinlong Pond. Otherwise, they would have run as far as possible.

"Idiots," Chen Fan shook his head. "The Yin Snake was sleeping because it couldn't withstand the yin energy of the deep pond and had no method to refine it, so it could only gradually convert the yin energy into power through its body. But you all were standing outside the pond, confronting each other and fighting. This is like waving a bunch of fried chicken legs in front of a person who hasn't eaten for days. Naturally, he would choose to eat the chicken legs first before continuing to sleep."

At this moment, Master Wu's face also turned pale, and he said hoarsely, "Master Chen, what should we do? Should we... should we retreat?"

The last time he faced the Yin Snake was when he was young, and his master and fellow disciples challenged the snake, only to be beaten to a pulp. At that time, the Yin Snake was about twenty meters long, and now it was nearly thirty meters, even more terrifying!

Since then, they could only observe it from a distance every few years, not like now, where they were just a few dozen meters away.

Ah Xiu was even more frightened, standing there motionless. She was, after all, just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. No matter how tough she talked or how determined she was, when faced with such a prehistoric monster, her body would betray her mind, controlled by instinct.

Only Chen Fan stood there with his hands behind his back, his face calm, as if he were looking at a thirty-meter-long green snake, not a Husky.

"Retreat? Why should we retreat? We came here for it."

Chen Fan smiled faintly.

"But... but I didn't expect it to be so terrifying," Master Wu said, watching Li Yu and the others shoot at the Yin Snake. The bullets hit the snake's scales, sparking like they were hitting steel. The Yin Snake was completely unharmed!

They thought modern weapons could threaten this beast, but now it seemed that even guns couldn't kill it. Who could?

"Damn, if I had an AK47, I would have turned this big worm into minced meat long ago."

After firing several shots, the bullets were spent, but the Yin Snake remained unharmed. Li Yu angrily threw the gun to the ground, pulled out a sharp dagger from behind his back, and with a powerful step, rushed towards the Yin Snake.

As a bodyguard hired by the Zheng family, especially chosen by the second grandfather for his precious daughter, Li Yu was certainly skilled. He had served in a foreign mercenary group and practiced martial arts for twenty years, achieving a small level of internal strength. In his eyes, this snake was just bigger and harder, not as terrifying as some inconspicuous but deadly snakes in the African rainforest.

He held the dagger in reverse, leaped over the snake's body, and stabbed its belly with all his might.

"Clang!"

The dagger, infused with internal strength, pierced the snake's belly.

"Bad!"

But Li Yu's face changed drastically because the dagger only penetrated three inches before being stopped by the snake's muscles and scales.

"How is this possible? My full-strength strike can pierce through steel, how can it not even penetrate a snake? Is this even a living creature?"

While he was distracted, the snake, in pain, lashed out with its tail. Li Yu quickly reacted and leaped back, but he was still hit by the tail. The snake weighed at least ten tons, equivalent to being hit by a truck. Li Yu's body made a cracking sound, and his internal organs and bones were likely shattered.

He was thrown like a rag doll and landed by the pond, clearly not surviving.

"Eamon!" Zheng Anqi's heart trembled.

Eamon was Li Yu's English name. Li Yu was a Chinese person living abroad and had many common topics with Zheng Anqi, who lived in Britain for a long time. Though they were in a bodyguard-employer relationship, they were actually very good friends.

"Miss, we must leave quickly," a female bodyguard pulled Zheng Anqi anxiously.

In just a few minutes, more than half of the bodyguards had fallen, and the leader was severely injured and unconscious. The other bodyguards were disheartened, especially after realizing that guns were ineffective against the Yin Snake, and they began to retreat.

They were bodyguards, not suicide squads!

Yan Zhengze and the others from the Yin Ghost Sect had already fled to the valley entrance, watching the situation. If the snake showed any sign of leaving the pond, they would run for their lives.

"Yes, yes, Miss... Miss Zheng, we should leave quickly."

A young man from Dongdu City, standing next to Zheng Anqi, was trembling and nearly paralyzed. For these rich young men who had lived comfortably for twenty or thirty years, the shock of Old Mu was already significant, and now seeing a snake as tall as a few-story building, even more terrifying than the one in the "Mad Python Disaster," completely颠覆了他们自出生以来的世界观！

If it weren't for the beauty and the Hong Kong investor, they would have run miles away by now.

At this moment, only Jiang Shao managed to remain calm.

He said solemnly, "Anqi, Brother Li Yu has already sacrificed himself for you. Do you want to sacrifice more people?"

The mixed-race beauty was shaken and looked towards the pond.

At this moment, only Mr. Shi was still standing by the pond.

"Abomination!"

Seeing so many bodyguards die, Mr. Shi was both angry and terrified, his hands shaking with rage.

He bit his tongue, spitting out a stream of essence blood, then formed a seal and shot out a green light. This green light was deep and mysterious, as if composed of countless tiny needles.

The green light hit the Yin Snake, and the snake let out a deafening hiss.

The part of the snake's body that was hit had a face-sized area where the scales and flesh were corroded and fell off.

Everyone's spirits were lifted; this was the first time the snake had been injured.

Mr. Shi, indeed, was not to be underestimated. With one move, he injured the snake, showing that it was not an invincible monster.

"Great! Mr. Shi!"

Anqi's eyes lit up, and she cheered.

Only Mr. Shi secretly smiled bitterly. He had used his lifetime of cultivation and essence blood to corrode a face-sized area. The snake was nearly thirty meters long, and if he were to corrode the entire body, even his entire essence blood wouldn't be enough.

But Mr. Shi could only gather his strength and forcefully spurt out another green light.

However, this time, the snake also opened its mouth and spat out a grayish yin energy.

As soon as this yin energy appeared, the entire scene felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar. Mr. Shi's sense of danger increased, and he used the "Lazy Donkey Roll" technique again. The two injured bodyguards next to him, unable to dodge, were hit by the yin energy, their bodies stiffening and freezing to death.

The scene was deathly silent. The cheers disappeared, and Zheng Anqi stood there, not knowing what to do.

"Quick, Miss Zheng," Jiang Shao pulled her hard, trying to drag her out of the valley. If they didn't leave now, they would die.

Zheng Anqi gave a bitter laugh.

If she left now, wouldn't she be betraying Mr. Shi and the bodyguards who were risking their lives to protect her? How could she face the Zheng family and her own conscience?

Dozens of lives, even the Zheng family couldn't bear the burden!

What could she do now? Li Yu was dead, the bodyguards were heavily casualties, Jiang Shao and the other young men wanted to run faster than rabbits, and the Yin Ghost Sect members were already hiding outside the valley, watching the show. Who could she rely on?

Suddenly, Zheng Anqi saw a clear figure walk past her.

"Chen Fan?"

Zheng Anqi was taken aback and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Kill it," Chen Fan replied calmly as he walked.

"You're crazy!" Jiang Shao shouted before Zheng Anqi could speak. "This isn't the way to die."

The young men, bodyguards, and the Yin Ghost Sect members all looked at him as if he were a fool.

Even Mr. Shi and Li Yu, the extraordinary individuals, and the armed bodyguards couldn't defeat this terrifying beast, and he, a bare-handed teenager, claimed he could kill it? It was absurd!

Chen Fan smiled faintly and said, "I've been waiting for it for a long time."

Saying this, he walked towards the giant snake, undaunted by the overwhelming yin energy.

Behind him, only Zheng Anqi's complex gaze and the incredulous expressions of the others remained.

PS: Thanks to Gaga for the 2500, Dongye Piaoxue for the 1000, and thanks to Dizhan Huang, Liu Yi, Siwen, Bao Youji, Benma Aichiyu, Zhou Yifei, Chunzhi Yuanju, Tianmen Zhanggangzhen, and Dasheng Ye for their support. Here's the third update. If you have votes, please cast them. O(∩_∩)O

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