Chapter 247 - Plundering Inner Cores (1/2)
Lian Xin's mortal body was too huge, the bisected snake body slammed onto the ground and shook the earth. At the back of her snake's tail, a man was standing with blood all over his body, dripping down like streams of water.
"Small," Zhong Yue said as he was coughing out blood.
The huge three thousand foot sword shrank down to only three feet long, and he placed it in the light wheels behind him. All of a sudden, the halved giant python's tail suddenly lashed out and slammed onto his body, Zhong Yue spouted a mouthful of blood and was sent flying for dozens of miles, falling onto the ground where he couldn't get up anymore.
The lotus python was cut in half and was convulsing on the ground continually, wrecking a thousand miles of land around. After a long time, the giant python finally stopped moving, all of the blood finished trickling out from its body, and every single strand of its muscles and nerves had died away.
Snakes have an incredibly strong and vibrant life force, more than any other monsters. They would still live for a few moments even after their heads were cut off, and would only truly die when they lost all of their blood, and all of their muscles and nerves had died.
In the Great Wilderness, it wasn't rare at all for severed snake's heads to leap up and bite humans despite being exposed to the sun for hours.
The joy that had glutted him when he had killed Lian Xin sent him through the roof with joy… which made him forget about her death spasms and ended with him taking a full blow in the face.
All of the bones in his body were nearly crushed, he was on the ground in a very peculiar posture, parts of the crushed bones even extruded from his wounds, embellishing his body that was covered in red blood with specks of white.
Not only that, but there was also a huge bloody hole on his chest, created when Lian Xin pierced through his chest with her snake spear.
Although Zhong Yue was in the form of the giant Xiang Dragon, Lian Xin had launched the strike aiming for his heart. However, the position of the heart was different in the Xiang Dragon and human forms and using Zhong Yue's attainment in the ways of Martial Masters, he had momentarily shifted his heart away to evade that deadly blow. Even so, that last lash on him by the python's tail nearly crushed his heart anyway.
None of his skins and bones were in good condition, his muscles were crushed into mashed meat, his internal organs were grievously damaged, and there was even a huge indent on his skull!
If it was other Qi Practitioners, they would have died in such a grievous condition, and yet, Zhong Yue was still breathing.
His chest was like a broken bellow, and he sounded like one when he breathed. As time passed his breath grew weaker, and his chest was moving slower. His vision blurred as his life force slipped away from his body.
Lian Xin was after all, a Heavenly Dharma expert. Even a single strike from her dead body was not something he could withstand; that strike didn't only heavily wounded his mortal body, but it had also inflicted damage to his Yuan Shen, causing a huge impact on his soul!
The wounds were deadly, and his five Yuan Shen secret realms were on the verge of crumbling with their powers slowly ebbing away. Even his spirit was slowly disintegrating, it would disappear anytime now.
The psyche in his psyche ocean was depleted, and his consciousness was fading away.
If my consciousness fades away, then I won't be able to come back to life anymore….
Zhong Yue was muddleheaded, his vision was darkening and in no time, he would plunge into the dark abyss of death with no return. Exerting himself, he forcibly mustered a slight strand of psyche, piercing it at the beast god inner core in his psyche ocean. Immediately, the beast god essence erupted out and filled every corner of his body. His body started to change from the human form to a hundred foot long Xiang Dragon!
The beast god essence gushed out waves after waves of essence, stimulating dragon scales to grow on his body, covering the broken skin beneath. The beast god essence flowed into his heart that was dried of blood, replenishing his life force, and the nourished heart started to pump blood again.
The beast god essence flowed through his wounds, stimulating them and opening up the wounds once again so that they could be regenerated. The meat of his flesh started to regrow, his tendons grew back, and the broken muscles, nerves, and tendons started connecting back together.
After a long time, Zhong Yue's overcast eyes started to regain a glimpse of life. But, he still couldn't move at all, not even to lift a single finger! He could only arduously control his internal body structures and put them in place so that they could recover faster.
The night had fallen and the moon rose, moonlight shone down on the wrecked battlefield along with the mist in the air. Little by little, the moonlight was absorbed into his forehead and nourished his Yuan Shen that was on the verge of crumbling.
By the middle of the night, Zhong Yue's Yuan Shen had finally stabilized, his life force stopped leaking away from him, and his five Yuan Shen secret realms had also stopped losing power.
A miniature bright moon emerged from his forehead and revolved around him.
He changed back from the Xiang Dragon to human form, he was now able to move his right hand. A series of bone-racking sounds could be heard as he held onto his left hand's bones and pushed them back in place, cold sweat dripped down his forehead like a water pipe let loose, the overwhelming pain nearly tossed him into a swoon.
Zhong Yue grit his teeth and continued doing the same for his other body parts. When the first light of sun shone down onto the ground, he had finally finished reconnecting all of his broken bones.
Time passed and it was already midday, the sun dangled high in the sky, showering its sunlight like fire. Zhong Yue was sprawled out on his back while bathing himself in the sunlight that gathered together around him, it was condensed into fire and slowly entering his forehead!
For a dozen miles in radius, there was no other sunlight at all other than the beam of sunfire centering around him!
After a long time, a miniature scorching sun leaped out from his forehead, the sun and moon both revolving around him, nourishing and healing his mortal body.
Almost …I nearly died…
Zhong Yue sat up, he was coughing up clotted blood and every breath of air felt like as if he was breathing fire in his chest, while his lungs felt scratchy and abrasive. It felt like he might just die due to coughing.
All of the clotted blood was accumulated in his body when his internal organs were grievously wounded and were now cast out by the [Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art], coughing them out from his body.
There were also dried black scabs all over his body, this was the dead blood extracted out through the pores by the [Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art] .
Not only that, but his Yuan Shen was also getting nourished. The five Yuan Shen secret realms, although still in a broken state, were much better than before. His arcane energy was also replenishing, and the depleted psyche in his psyche ocean was also recovering. Everything was stabilizing.