Chapter 56: Coil of Snakes (1/2)

When there were only a hundred metres left between the earthen-yellow viper and Chen Feng, it abruptly sped up, becoming like a whizzing arrow. However, the shocking aspect of its action did not come from its extremely fast speed. Rather, it was the fact that its actions did not give rise to any sound at all. It was as though all the surrounding sound waves have been absorbed by the viper.

When the distance between the two was reduced to only 20 metres, the movement speed of the viper increased sharply once more as it moved to clamp its jaws upon Chen Feng’s neck. Given its momentum, it could inflict a fatal wound on Chen Feng’s neck without the need for its poison.

As the viper was about to bite a hole on Chen Feng’s neck, Chen Feng suddenly made his move. With a swift turn of his body, he left an afterimage behind before his palm grasped forward. With a powerful grip, he caught the viper. No matter how hard the viper struggled, it could not escape his grip.

Si! Si! Si!

After getting caught by Chen Feng, the small-looking, two-chi long viper wriggled about frantically without respite. Chen Feng felt as though he was actually holding onto a twisting steel. The force exuded from it was comparable to that of a big buffalo (1 chi = 0.333 m).

“What a powerful guy! This little snake has quite the strength. If I were to let my guard down and let it successfully ambush me, I would end up having a hole on my body,” exclaimed Chen Feng.

As Chen Feng was ruminating, he suddenly felt a numb sensation on his palm. Only then did he realize that the viper’s body was exuding a wave of poisonous energy, which penetrated through the layer of astral energy that Chen Feng had used to wrap around his arm and was now moving into his flesh.

As strands of the poisonous energy invaded his body, Chen Feng felt his blood suffering from destructive attacks, clotting up as a result. At the same time, a feeling of paralysis began spreading through his body from the inside.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The viper opened up its mouth and two air-piercing soundwaves shot towards Chen Feng’s face. Chen Feng jerked his head away and the large tree behind him was pierced through by that unknown power. Two finger-sized, see-through holes could be seen on the surface of the tree.

“What a dangerous viper!” Chen Feng thought to himself. Then, he exerted force through his palm. A clear snapping sound rang out as the viper’s body was snapped to pieces. After having done that, Chen Feng tossed the viper’s corpse down the ground.

By then, Chen Feng could sense that the blood flow within his body had slowed down by half and he was starting to feel dizzy.

Knowing that those were the symptoms of poisoning, Chen Feng quickly mobilized the primary energy within him to force the poison out. Blood energy charged through his blood vessels vigorously to break open the clotted blood.

Soon enough, several drops of poison were forced out from Chen Feng’s fingertip. They were extremely foul-smelling and nauseating.

“What kind of poisonous viper is that? Although it is only at the wild animal stage, with its powerful and lethal poison, it is very close to that of a yao beast,” said Chen Feng softly.

Honestly, Chen Feng would rather get into a fight with the big, block-headed yao beasts than face these sinister and poisonous creatures.

As Chen Feng was about to leave, his eyelids suddenly twitched and the muscles on his body pulsed as a palpitating sensation of fear rushed into his heart.

Sou! Sou! Sou!

Raising his head, Chen Feng saw tens of vipers shooting towards him like arrows. The vipers did not bother making their way around the trees blocking their trajectory. Instead, they simply pierced their way through the trees, leaving see-through holes on the trees.

In that instant, wood chips flew and branches were broken. The power displayed had surpassed even that of mighty bows and crossbows.

“Not good!” Chen Feng was unable to stop himself from calling out as a chill ran through his heart.

Left with no time to consider anything else, Chen Feng immediately pulled out the Overwhelming Astral Sword. A circular sword beam shone as rays of sword energy spread outwards. The first wave of vipers, numbering around eight, were instantly cut into pieces. Blood scattered across the area and the surrounding trees, grasses and flowers rapidly withered as a result. Knowing the poisonous attribute of his foes, Chen Feng had long since formed a layer of astral energy over his body to block off the poisonous energy.

Pa! Pa! Pa!

With another swing of the sword, Chen Feng formed a sword trail barrier before him. The vipers slammed onto the barrier and were instantly reduced to pieces, like water slamming onto a piece of iron plate.

Sou! Sou! Sou!

Every one of the vipers seemingly possessed intellect. Seeing that their actions were of no threat to Chen Feng, they quickly moved to position themselves at Chen Feng’s back, left and right. A moment’s carelessness by Chen Feng allowed one of the vipers to slam onto his back, easily piercing through the layer of astral energy covering his back. If it were not for the protective armour that Chen Feng was wearing, he would have suffered from a grievous wound. In fact, it was wholly possible for the viper to pierce through his body right there and then.

That incident shocked Chen Feng and cold sweat trickled down his body. He responded by urging the sword in his hand, causing the light from the sword to swell upwards as he cut several more of the surrounding vipers into pieces. However, even more vipers emerged from his surrounding, besieging him. In but the blink of an eye, Chen Feng found that he had been surrounded.

“This is bad! This is really bad! I entered a viper’s nest! Furthermore, they are no ordinary snakes but creatures at the stage of wild beasts.” Chen Feng was feeling somewhat fearful.

“This is not a good place to be. I should hurry up and leave.” Having made up his mind, Chen Feng swung the Overwhelming Astral Sword in a circular arc, cutting the surrounding vipers down.

Next, Chen Feng flapped the energy wings sprouting off his back to swiftly rise up into the sky. When he was high up in the sky, he saw that the ground was packed with black vipers. There were even 10-metre long pythons amongst them. There were also small vipers, not even one chi in length. All of them were charging towards Chen Feng while spitting out their forking tongues. Burst after burst of poisonous energy drifted upwards to form a black-coloured, poisonous fog, threatening to block off the sun.