Chapter 190 - 183: Snake Blood (4/5)
Zhou Heng entered the Nine Mystic Trial Tower the instant the black serpent’s mouth was closing. With the attack speed of a Heaven-Opening Realm Demon Beast, what he did was indeed a huge risk. After all, this wasn’t about dodging an attack by using the Swift Cloud Radiant Step, but intentionally slamming himself towards the serpent’s open mouth.
If his reaction was even slightly slower, he would have been fatally pierced by the serpent’s fangs. This black serpent emitted a peculiarly foul odor, which probably contained potent poison. As its realm increased, the toxin was likely of the Heaven-Opening Realm grade. If Zhou Heng were bitten, his frail body would likely dissolve into putrid liquid!
But he couldn’t enter the pagoda too quickly either. Did he think this black serpent was stupid, that it would absentmindedly swallow a gust of air and shut its mouth too soon?
Zhou Heng plonked down on the pagoda’s floor tiles, feeling a cold sweat all over his body. Just a moment’s delay, even by a hair’s breadth, and the black serpent would have bitten him. Life and death hung in the balance of that instant.
It was too heart-thumping a gamble, something he’d be wise to do less in the future.
"Zhou Heng, are you alright!" Xiao Huoshui and Orchid Concubine hurried over, their faces filled with concern.
Zhou Heng gave Xiao Huoshui a reassuring smile and said, "I’m fine!" As for Orchid Concubine, he pretended he hadn’t seen her—the only thing he was interested in was spanking that woman.
With his Divine Sense reaching out through the treasure pagoda, he slightly enlarged the Nine Mystic Trial Tower, slithering its way along the black serpent’s insides to delve deeper.
He had thought about expanding the Nine Mystic Trial Tower to its limits to burst this black serpent from within, but there were two problems. One was the resultant splattering of snake blood; he wouldn’t be able to collect any of that valuable blood.
The other reason was even more pragmatic—if the tower’s expansion met resistance, it required his own power to enlarge it. In other words, it was a contest of strength between Zhou Heng and the black serpent, and what chances did he have in a brute force match-up between the Land Cleaving Realm and the Heaven-Opening Realm?