Mortal: Refining Weapons for Immortality

Chapter 31 Killing the Serpent

Having trapped the Azure Serpent, Lin Changqing continuously poured his magical power into the Ironwood Sword, causing the sword to grow larger and its azure light to become increasingly dazzling, resembling a sword-shaped pillar of light standing in the air, pointing at the serpent and delivering its final judgment.

"go"

Under Lin Changqing's control, the sword, like a spear, pierced directly through the entire body of the Azure Black Serpent.

Despite suffering fatal wounds, the giant serpent struggled relentlessly, trying to break free of the black net binding it. Unfortunately, all its efforts were in vain, like a trapped beast fighting for its life, until it finally died.

After the Azure Ink Serpent died, Lin Changqing retrieved the Black Cleansing Net and the Ironwood Sword, placing them in his storage bag.

What Lin Changqing didn't expect was that even though the snake's body was pierced and it was already dead, its body was still twitching continuously, which was terrifying.

However, Lin Changqing only glanced at it briefly before turning his attention away from the dead snake. He used his storage bag to collect the vital parts and then turned to look at the four people who had already reunited in the distance.

Huang Sheng and the middle-aged giant were quite strong, and after fighting their way through, they successfully reunited.

Seeing that Li Zhijing was safe, Lin Changqing stopped going and instead looked at the soaring dragon in the distance.

Song Meng, wielding his giant sword, was restraining the serpent. This serpent wasn't as powerful as he had imagined; it couldn't even shake off a Foundation Establishment cultivator like Song Meng, so it probably wasn't some powerful exotic beast.

"Senior Song, I'm here to help you!" Lin Changqing transmitted his voice to Song Meng, let out a soft cry, and flew towards the only threatening monster in the lake.

Song Meng may look young, but he is already in his thirties or forties. Moreover, in the cultivation world, those who have reached a certain level are respected, so it is not wrong for Lin Changqing to call him a senior.

As for the level two demonic beast, the Azure Thread Serpent, although it possesses the strength of the Foundation Establishment stage, it is being restrained by Song Meng. With Lin Changqing's current strength at the Qi Refining Perfection stage, he can step forward to assist and create opportunities.

However, just to be on the safe side, Lin Changqing continued to use talismans to clear a path, taking out all the ice talismans from his storage bag and activating them all, shooting them at the green-lined dragon snake.

Song Meng naturally sensed Lin Changqing and understood the power of so many ice talismans, which were just enough to freeze a large area of ​​the lake surface, reducing the space for the Azure Thread Flood Dragon to move around.

Therefore, while Song Meng restrained the Green Thread Serpent, he also made sure to leave himself room to retreat.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

One after another, ice talismans emitted a blue-white light and were drawn by Lin Changqing towards the direction of the Azure Thread Flood Dragon.

At the same time, Song Meng swung his greatsword, slashing at the tail of the Azure Threaded Flood Dragon to disrupt it and provoke it into wildly whipping its tail, which was even thicker than the serpent itself.

"clang!"

Song Meng used his greatsword to block, and with the force of the impact, he leaped away, escaping the range of the ice talisman's explosion.

"Bang!"

"Zzz! Zzz!!"

The ice runes burst forth with dazzling white light, and under the illumination of the white light, the lake surface instantly froze, blocking the retreat space of the Azure Thread Flood Dragon.

"Roar! Hiss!!"

Caught off guard, the Azure Thread Serpent took damage from seven Frost Talismans, its body covered in ice crystals, even its eyes were obscured by ice, leaving only its mouth emitting a roar that sounded like both a serpent and a dragon.

Meanwhile, the serpent frozen on the lake surface spewed out a huge cloud of dark blue smoke, much stronger than the poisonous mist of a level-one demonic beast serpent, and even larger in range, like a dark cloud that blotted out the sky, rushing towards Song Meng and Lin Changqing.

In addition, the level-two demon beast, the Azure Thread Serpent, not only possessed its innate poisonous mist, but also began to comprehend "water," frantically stirring up the lake water, causing the originally calm surface to suddenly become turbulent.

Fortunately, this blue-lined serpent did not possess any powerful magic; it could only instinctively pull the lake water to continuously wash over the ice surface in an attempt to escape.

Lin Changqing naturally wouldn't let him succeed. He pretended to swallow a pill to forcibly increase his magic power, but it was just an act for Song Meng's benefit. With his magic power, he could directly dispel the poisonous mist of a level-two demon beast even without taking a pill.

"Young Master Lin! There's no need for that."

Song Meng instinctively wanted to stop Lin Changqing. After all, he was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator. He hadn't even unleashed his full power yet, and Lin Changqing was already getting anxious. This was unnecessary! It made Song Meng seem cowardly and afraid of trouble.

What he didn't know was that Lin Changqing was pretending to swallow the medicine to unleash his power so that he wouldn't notice the intensity of his magic.

Lin Changqing currently only has the cultivation level of Qi Refining, making him a low-level cultivator in the cultivation world. Some sect cultivators can come up to him to humiliate him and force him to give in.

Therefore, he could only feign weakness to preserve his strength and prevent others from discovering that he could kill enemies of higher ranks.

He didn't know how long he could hide, but he would hide as long as he could to reduce others' fear and understanding of him, and prevent being targeted.

Ideally, one should remain hidden until one breaks through to the Core Formation stage, or even the Nascent Soul stage, and gains the ability to protect oneself. At that point, it will no longer matter whether others know or not, because one will no longer be a minor Qi Refining cultivator whom everyone can bully.

After taking the pill, Lin Changqing's magical power increased dramatically in Song Meng's eyes. A flash of green light appeared in his hand and burst forth instantly, piercing through the huge poisonous fog and creating a non-poisonous area.

Afterwards, in order to control the Azure Thread Flood Dragon's movements and prevent it from escaping easily, Lin Changqing tapped his storage bag, and a top-tier magic artifact, the Black Cleansing Net, appeared in his hand, much to Song Meng's surprise.

Lin Changqing poured his remaining magic power into the Black Cleansing Net, making it stronger and more resilient, strong enough to trap a level three demon beast.

In addition, Lin Changqing's magical power was profound, close to perfection, and almost liquid. He was still able to fully exert the trapping function of the Black Cleansing Net artifact for a period of time, completely trapping the Azure Thread Flood Dragon on the ice.

"call out!"

Lin Changqing tossed the Black Cleansing Net lightly, and it descended from the sky, transforming into a giant net that lunged at the Azure Thread Flood Dragon.

The Azure Flood Dragon was already trapped on the ice and unable to move. Now, it was completely surrounded by the Black Net and could not escape. It could not even control the lake water. It could only struggle in the Black Net and try to break through it, but it was tightly surrounded by Lin Changqing.

"Senior Song, I have already taken control of the Azure Thread Serpent. Kill it quickly, I can't hold out much longer."

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Song Meng saw Lin Changqing using all his magic power to trap the Azure Thread Flood Dragon with a top-tier magic weapon. He naturally seized this opportunity and quickly transferred his magic power into the blue giant sword.

The greatsword instantly gathered sword energy from bottom to top, extending from the blade's outline to its tip, eventually covering the entire blade and bursting forth with dazzling light, resembling a sacred greatsword, judging demons.

At this moment, under Song Meng's control, the giant sword began to grow larger, and the sword energy caused vibrations in the air, like ripples in water. When the ripples grew larger and larger, and Song Meng could hardly control it, he swung it at the Azure Thread Serpent.

"cut!!!"

Song Meng gripped the greatsword in his hand and slashed down with a sword technique. The heavy sword had no edge, so he was fighting with all his might and aiming for a fatal blow.

The Azure Thread Serpent was unable to move and naturally could not dodge this sword strike.

However, the green-threaded serpent in the black net still tried to struggle, spitting out poisonous mist to try to corrode the sword energy, but it could not be shaken in the slightest. It was forcibly broken through by the sword energy and slashed at its body.

At the moment the sword energy struck, Lin Changqing withdrew the Black Cleansing Net, took some pills, adjusted his breathing, and recovered the remaining 30% of his mana.

The Azure Flood Dragon was struck by Song Meng, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and its body was completely severed, splitting into two.

At this moment, although the Azure Thread Serpent could still move, it was extremely weak and had no strength to fight back. It could not even unleash its poisonous mist.

Finally, it closed its eyes completely after being annihilated by Song Meng.