Invincible Snake Emperor

Chapter 511: Chapter 498: The Rat Tide’s Astonishing Methods (2)

’Hmph... So you’ve come to deliver a Lifebound Golden Core to me, have you?’

Tu Xiao’an immediately snatched the Golden Core and popped it into his mouth, swallowing it whole.

His power was severely depleted. This Grade Three Lifebound Golden Core contained a powerful, pure Energy, perfect for replenishing Tu Xiao’an’s reserves.

"Snake Demon, don’t celebrate too soon!"

Tu Xiao’an had just swallowed the Golden Core when the sky above him suddenly darkened as a terrifying rat’s mouth descended to devour him.

"Ding... Rat Race Rank 3 Demon Spirit, mutated Heaven Devouring Rat, Level 33."

A system notification chimed. Before he could defend himself, Tu Xiao’an was swallowed by the enormous mouth.

"Haha... I, the Heaven Devouring Rat, have swallowed the Snake Demon! I’ve performed a great service!"

Immediately, an even larger, monstrous rat roared ferociously, as if it had won the lottery, announcing its triumph to the world.

The words had barely faded when the sky above the giant rat also darkened. The Cyan Dragon, coiled above and radiating the aura of a Divine Beast, spoke with majestic authority: "You think you can swallow my master? Spit him out for this Divine Dragon, now!"

The Cyan Dragon’s majestic aura enveloped it, and the mutated Heaven Devouring Rat was inexplicably struck with terror. Compared to the Cyan Dragon, it suddenly felt utterly base and insignificant.

"A magnificent Divine Beast Azure Dragon like you actually serves a Snake? You’re no better than..."

The mutated Heaven Devouring Rat had wanted to say, ’You’re no better than me, a rat! What’s there to be so arrogant about?’

But before it could finish its sentence, its expression twisted in terror. Its giant form swelled even larger before it let out a pained shriek and, finally, exploded uncontrollably.

After the explosion, a slender figure materialized, holding a brand-new Golden Core. "You were courting death. You dare to swallow the Snake King? Go to your Reincarnation."

"Master, are you alright?"

the Cyan Dragon asked hastily.

"I’m fine, just felt a bit disgusted." Tu Xiao’an had been a little careless and gotten swallowed by a rat. But once he burst out from its body, the Level 33 mutated Heaven Devouring Rat was sent to the afterlife.

Immediately, Tu Xiao’an’s expression grew grim. With this interruption, the rat tide was sure to resume its advance, swarming toward them.

But in the next second, he was dumbfounded. The vanguard of the rat tide assembled like a Transformer, forming a gigantic fist that bizarrely smashed toward the airborne Tu Xiao’an.

Space distorted in an instant as a series of violent explosions echoed one after another.

’Holy shit, they can do that?’

Damn it, the Gray Demon King must be hiding somewhere, controlling the rat tide as unpredictably as his own limbs.

"Master, you rest. Let me handle this."

The Cyan Dragon’s Divine Beast aura surged. It executed a Divine Dragon Tail Swing, lashing out at the giant fist formed by the rat tide.

BOOM!

Countless Rat Beast corpses rained down, but the Cyan Dragon was knocked back five or six kilometers, shocked. ’What immense power!’

The Cyan Dragon, a Pseudo Demon King, had been sent flying by that single punch. The force behind it was tremendous.

Although the impact killed many Rat Beasts, their numbers were endless—impossible to kill, impossible to exhaust.

It might look like just one fist, but it was formed from hundreds of thousands of Rat Beasts. The concentrated power of their attack was no joke.

The rat tide’s true target was Tu Xiao’an all along. Now that he was foolishly trying to block it himself, he was playing right into the enemy’s hands.

A hand several dozen zhang large materialized and swatted down. It was like a sudden Thunder Shock, its roar unending as it descended from the sky, blotting out everything as it came for Tu Xiao’an.

’Damn, isn’t this a bit too much?’

Tu Xiao’an felt like he was in a fantasy novel. A hand dozens of zhang large—how many Rat Beasts did that contain? The air was filled with countless sharp, squeaking cries that made his skin crawl.

"Fire Fist!"

Shocked as he was, Tu Xiao’an’s hands moved quickly. Wreathed in Flame, he threw a punch, unleashing a torrent of fire that flooded the sky.

The hand, dozens of zhang large, was blasted apart. Rats rained from the sky like a torrential downpour.

The great rat tide seemed to awaken, forming a dozen more identical giant hands. They whistled menacingly as they swatted at Tu Xiao’an, each composed of hundreds of thousands of Rat Beasts, coming at him with the force of a landslide.

A wry smile touched Tu Xiao’an’s lips. One after another, the giant hands, each dozens of zhang large, slammed toward him, causing space to constantly distort and roar.

He shattered one with a punch, only for another to immediately take its place.

All of Monkey Mountain had become a terrifying sight. A slender figure weaved between a dozen giant hands as the sky filled with the piercing shrieks of Rat Beasts.

"Heaven Swaying Sword!"

CLANG!

A three-foot Azure Blade materialized in Tu Xiao’an’s hand. In the next moment, a stunning beam of Sword Qi appeared out of thin air, cleaving one of the giant hands in two. Countless Rat Beasts rained down, torn to shreds and reduced to bloody pulp.

Immediately after, he swept his sword across the sky. A Sword Aura dozens of zhang long, like a river of stars flowing in reverse, slashed down with unparalleled ferocity. In that instant, the vast Sword Qi blotted out the sky, dimming countless stars.

"Bring it on! I’ll fucking kill as many as you send!"

Tu Xiao’an’s eyes were red from killing. The air was thick with the smell of blood. He finally understood why the Gray Demon King had unleashed the rat tide.

A rat tide, though terrifying, wasn’t a major threat to a Demon Spirit who could fly through the air, unless they were surrounded before they could react.

However, now that the rat tide could form attacks capable of plucking the moon from the sky with bare hands, it was a different story entirely.

Tu Xiao’an single-handedly held them off in this slaughter for a full twenty minutes.

Tu Xiao’an had wanted to see what other tricks the rat tide had up its sleeve, but suddenly, it underwent a shocking change. It fell into a chaotic frenzy, no longer forming terrifying attacks to strike at him.

This was because a powerful aura of the Snake Race had enveloped Monkey Mountain, causing the temperature to plummet.

The corners of Tu Xiao’an’s mouth turned up. An ocean of snakes swept in from the outskirts, performing a wide pincer movement to envelop the rat tide.

The snake tide—Tu Xiao’an’s own Snake Race army had arrived.

A magnificent Giant Snake, a full hundred zhang long, led the charge, plowing directly into the rat tide and carving a bloody path for the snake tide swarming in behind it.

’Whoa, that’s one big snake.’

Poised in the air, Tu Xiao’an was stunned by the hundred-zhang-long Giant Snake in the midst of the snake tide.

It was enormous. Even his Divine Beast, the Cyan Dragon, would be dwarfed by this snake.

’I can’t believe a snake could grow this large.’ A sense of pride swelled in Tu Xiao’an. No matter how heaven-defying this snake was, it was still one of his subjects, summoned by him.

The colossal, sky-shaking Giant Snake was even more terrifying than Tu Xiao’an as it charged into the rat tide. It opened its cavernous maw and, like a whale swallowing fish, devoured countless Rat Beasts in a single gulp.

Just then, a dozen or so powerful snakes suddenly flew over. Each one was unique and blessed with a strange and remarkable appearance.

Without a doubt, any that could fly through the air were at the Rank Three Demon Spirit Level. This dozen or so were the elite of the Snake Race.