Silver Frost Python Demon

The moment the spirit stones were tossed in, the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array firmly locked the giant python right in its center!

Trapped, the giant python immediately began to struggle. Its thick, long body thrashed about, kicking up a storm of dust, sand, and flying rocks within the array.

Lin Xiao didn't even blink. He immediately manipulated the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array into action.

He swiftly pulled back all nine Gates of Life and threw open the ninety-nine Gates of Death. In the blink of an eye, the thick layer of black slime covering the python was shredded to pieces!

For a moment, dust, gravel, and black slime flew wildly throughout the entire array.

The giant python was instantly stripped down to its pitch-black flesh and blood! It roared in pain, swinging its head to smash against the heavy barriers of the array.

However, its attack seemed completely useless against the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array; the barriers didn't budge an inch.

Lin Xiao immediately focused thirty-six of the Gates of Death into a single point, launching a strike straight at the python's vital spot! Meanwhile, the remaining Gates of Death unleashed their full might, attacking it from all different directions!

The python was already injured. Subjected to such a ferocious assault from the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array, it couldn't hold on any longer and crashed heavily to the ground.

But the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array did not spare the dying beast. The ninety-nine Gates of Death charged up another lethal strike, delivering a heavy blow to the prostrate python. Suddenly, nine flashes of light streaked through the array—they were nine streams of sword qi erupting from the Gates of Death!

These nine streams of sword qi viciously slashed across the python's body. Without even a chance to hiss, the giant python was sliced into ten pieces.

Looking at the python cut into ten segments, Lin Xiao still didn't feel at ease. He activated the final strike of the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array.

Soul Annihilation!

This was the strongest move of the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array.

The moment it was activated, radiant light bloomed within the array, locking onto the python's corpse on the ground. Then, all the light began to contract bit by bit, centering on the carcass.

The light tightened until it completely enveloped the python's divine soul, shrinking into the shape of a massive python.

The giant python clearly hadn't expected its soul to be discovered and captured! It began to struggle frantically.

"Hiss—"

Eleven years ago, it had barely managed to escape with its life and flee here to heal! It couldn't just die like this! It was not resigned to this fate!

However, no matter how much it struggled, the light wrapping its soul showed no gaps or flaws. Its resistance was utterly futile.

Suddenly, while it was still fighting tooth and nail to break free from its shackles, the light abruptly constricted!

In the next instant, the giant python's divine soul was directly crushed by the suddenly shrinking light!

The shattered soul was like falling stars, scattering into tiny fragments in all directions.

Finally, it dissipated into nothingness within the air of the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array.

On the ground, the soulless python corpse turned into a pile of gray-black rotting flesh in the blink of an eye. A putrid, decaying stench billowed from the remains.

Having thoroughly eradicated its target, the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array had perfectly completed its mission. When Lin Xiao deactivated the array, the array disc spat out five spirit stones.

Looking at the five spirit stones on the array disc, Lin Xiao thought to himself that this array was quite interesting—it even refunded the unused spirit stones.

This was his last thought before losing consciousness.

The next moment, his mind went blank, his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed to the side.

When Lin Xiao woke up again, he opened his eyes to see the familiar ceiling of his own room.

The crack in the roof leaked all year round. His father had patched it many times to no avail; whenever it rained heavily, it would crack open again.

He had only completely repaired it with a spell a short while ago.

Lin Xiao felt incredibly heavy. His bones ached terribly, as if he had been run over.

He immediately used his own spiritual energy to soothe his entire body.

Only after circulating spiritual energy through his whole body did he feel much more relaxed.

Turning his head, he saw Lin Dayou slumped by the bed, fast asleep.

Next to Lin Dayou lay a piece of black wood. Who else could it be but Liao Pantu, who ran around hugging the Soul-Nourishing Wood?

As if sensing he had woken up, Liao Pantu's upper body emerged from the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

He glanced at the sleeping Lin Dayou and chose to communicate with Lin Xiao via telepathy:

"You're finally awake."

Experiencing telepathy for the first time, Lin Xiao was taken aback and looked at Liao Pantu in confusion.

Seeing his expression, Liao Pantu sent another telepathic message in disbelief:

"You don't know the Sound Transmission spell?"

Lin Xiao honestly shook his head.

When he was creating spells earlier, he had completely forgotten about this one.

So, Liao Pantu had no choice but to teach him step-by-step, via telepathy, this essential Sound Transmission spell for cultivators in the cultivation world.

Fortunately, the spell wasn't difficult, and Lin Xiao learned it in no time.

Finally, the two could communicate normally.

Lin Xiao quickly voiced his doubts:

"Wasn't I poisoned? How... how did I get back?"

Hearing his question, Liao Pantu stroked his beard and said:

"After you left that day, I returned to the sect and happened to run into Sun Yigao and Lin Yun coming back. When they heard you went alone to find that python demon, they were worried about you and rushed over, and I followed along."

"When we arrived in the vicinity, we heard a massive commotion. We guessed it was probably you and followed the noise. But halfway there, the noise stopped. We searched for a long time before we found you by a tree hollow, along with your array disc and the five spirit stones."

At this point, he quickly added:

"Your array disc and spirit stones are all sitting on the table outside."

Lin Xiao asked again:

"I was poisoned before. Why do I feel perfectly fine now, aside from some pain and exhaustion? Could it be that you saved me, Senior?"

Liao Pantu replied with a look of disdain:

"Where we found you, we also discovered the python corpse nearby. I examined it. That thing was a python demon that failed to transform into a flood dragon. Perhaps because its physical body was destroyed during a failed tribulation, it actually possessed the body of a Spirit-Devouring Beast. Demons really are stupid. Doesn't possessing a Spirit-Devouring Beast just restrict its own racial talents?"

Feeling he was getting sidetracked, Liao Pantu shifted the topic:

"That python demon was a Silver Frost Python, and its poison gas wasn't exceptionally potent. Although I didn't have any antidote pills on me, I saw that you had Spring Mist Grass in your spirit fields, which is the main ingredient for refining the antidote. Plus, the cauldron in the alchemy room was of top-tier quality. So, these old bones of mine had to reluctantly lend a hand and guide Sun Yigao to refine a batch of antidote pills for you.

"You were also lucky that Sun Yigao has quite a high talent for alchemy. Even though he is only at the seventh level of Qi Condensation, he managed to produce a mid-grade pill in just two batches. You should know, if it were a low-grade antidote pill, taking it would only alleviate the poison, but it wouldn't cure you completely."

He would never tell Lin Xiao that the real reason he didn't refine the pill himself, and instead instructed Sun Yigao to do it, was entirely because he had never successfully refined a mid-grade pill in his life!

Even though he was already in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.