Zhang Chen sat cross-legged at the highest point of the Great Snake’s body, devouring Ba Snake blood, absorbing the creation of the Ba Snake, without intervening in the events unfolding before him.
As time passed, martial artists began arriving one after another, circling around the Ba Snake. However, facing its scales was like a dog biting a rat; they couldn’t get a hold. No matter how these martial artists used swords, spears, staffs, or fire, they couldn’t do anything to the Ba Snake.
Seeing this scene from high above, Zhang Chen couldn’t help but shake his head secretly, "All these people have shallow fortune, even with a great creation right before them, they have no power to take it, merely letting it pass by."
A single drop of this Ba Snake blood could completely transform a person, yet the martial artists hovered around its body, like headless flies.
Even for those who smelled the blood in the air, they couldn’t climb up its slippery scales.
However, those martial artists who managed to reach here had some fortune after all, as the Essence Qi of the Ba Snake dispersed and nourished their bodies, gradually transforming them unnoticed.
Alternatively, black mist in the air, like spirits in movies, continuously rushed towards the martial artists.
This black mist belonged to Extraordinary Power, invisible to the naked eye of the martial artists, who could only sense their bodies being mysteriously infused with a force, gaining some fortune.
As for those without fortune, they didn’t even have the chance to reach this place and enjoy the nourishment of the Ba Snake’s Essence Qi.
As time passed, more and more people gathered below, with some attempting to climb the Ba Snake’s scales and ascend its body. But how could mere mortals climb the slippery body of this Ba Snake?
Another night passed, and Xie Lingyun arrived before the Ba Snake’s body, donning armor and leading five thousand elite from the Inspection and Supervision Department.
Looking at the towering, massive body, Xie Lingyun’s eyes reflected shock, and then her face reddened with excitement, "What a great creation!"
The next moment, Xie Lingyun drew a long knife from her waist and slashed it against a Ba Snake scale, but the blade broke cleanly. Seeing this, Xie Lingyun was stunned, then turned and ordered the soldiers behind her, "Bring me a chisel!"
"General, don’t waste your effort. We’ve tried every possible method, and this scale remains impervious. The scale is resistant to all weapons and elements. We’ve used every means, but can’t leave even a scratch on it," explained a martial artist hastily, trying to ingratiate himself.
Hearing this, Xie Lingyun furrowed her brows, gazing at the enormous body of the Ba Snake. The next moment, a green light floated out from her sleeve. The leaf was slender, thirty centimeters long and two fingers wide, like a Flying Sword,
Then, Xie Lingyun’s soul dived into it, and the leaf emitted a metallic sword sound, shooting up into the sky and whirling in the air, surveying the entire Ba Snake body. Within thirty breaths, Xie Lingyun spotted the blood pool’s location, the leaf hovering above it, gleefully watching the boiling blood, overjoyed, "What a great creation!"
However, the blood pool was directly above the Ba Snake’s body, and the army below couldn’t climb up. Even with the blood there, how could her army collect it?
After thinking for a bit, Xie Lingyun ordered, "Bring a bucket."
Naturally, when the army marches, they carry their cooking utensils, so it wasn’t long before a soldier brought a wooden bucket. Xie Lingyun went out-of-body with her soul, took the bucket to the blood hole, filled it with blood, and refined a drop with her Yin Spirit, frowning, "Although the blood contains unique energy, it’s too thin, not matching the great Divine Power of such an existence as the Ba Snake."
"Could it be that the energy in the Ba Snake blood dissipated too quickly?" Xie Lingyun pondered, confused.
Fortunately, there was still some energy left, enough for the soldiers below to transform. Xie Lingyun returned with a bucket of blood and ordered the army to consume and refine it.
From afar, Zhang Chen saw Xie Lingyun’s actions and shook his head, "This girl is using second-hand blood, and with the Divine Power continuously dissipating, how much creation can there be?"
Xie Lingyun’s Yin Spirit tirelessly shuttled back and forth with buckets of water, and with the five thousand soldiers consuming it, their aura manifested signs of condensing Martial Dao Qi Blood.
Seeing this, Xie Lingyun dared not delay, directly jumping her Yin Spirit into the blood pit, her soul nourished by the Ba Snake’s aura, rapidly transforming. She kept scooping blood out of the pit with her bucket, pouring it down the Ba Snake’s scales to be caught and consumed by the soldiers below, resulting in their transformation.
Martial artists in the distance watched with envy, their eyes green with jealousy, but they could do nothing, merely watching helplessly, not daring to make a move.
Experts within the martial world are few after all!
Especially when facing the court’s elite five thousand troops, rumored to be capable of slaying dragons, they dared not make a move.
Time passed, and another half-day later, Prince Pingbian’s Mansion, the local landholder, arrived with a grand army of tens of thousands.
Mr. Wuliu saw Xie Lingyun’s actions and imitated her, directly commanding the experts recruited by the Prince’s Mansion to go out-of-body, starting to scoop the Ba Snake’s blood for their use.
By this time, people from various noble families across the land had arrived, each possessing divine superpowers. Naturally, they didn’t need to scoop the blood; they simply jumped into the blood pool to transform.