Oh no! My little sister is crying!

Murong Yue patted her ample chest, let out a long sigh, and her pretty face still carried fear. She turned her head, saw Lin Yuan's extremely ugly expression, and asked with some confusion: "Brother, what's wrong with you? Isn't it just a small snake? Why can't we kill it?"

Lin Yuan looked at the cold, dead golden little snake on the ground and felt his scalp tingle.

He scanned the surroundings and said in a deep voice: "A Thunder Python of this size is just a cub. If its parents are nearby... we are finished."

"However... it seems, they are not here!" Lin Yuan let out a sigh of relief. When he came last time, he stayed in this bamboo forest for a while and didn't discover this Thunder Python.

But just as he relaxed, the entire ground suddenly shook violently without warning!

"Rumble...!"

The earth shook and the mountains swayed, as if thousands of troops were galloping underground.

The ground surged, and then a terrifying, suffocating pressure emerged from beneath the bamboo forest!

The color instantly drained from Murong Yue's face, her legs went soft, and she could barely stand. She finally realized that she seemed to have caused a massive catastrophe.

"Roar—!!!"

A roar filled with endless anger and grief resounded from the depths of the bamboo forest. The sound was like a thunderclap, causing one's eardrums to ache and the Divine Soul to feel as if it were splitting.

A snake head, larger than a water vat, covered in golden scales the size of buckets, with each scale flashing with blinding lightning, appeared. On top of its head, a single, formidable horn—already showing the rudiments of a Dragon horn—was wreathed in destructive purple divine lightning. A pair of giant vertical pupils, comparable to lanterns, were now dyed blood-red by endless rage and murderous intent, locking firmly onto the corpse of the young python on the ground and Murong Yue, who stood beside the corpse.

A Grade 9 Yao Beast, a Gilded Thunder Python comparable to the Middle Nascent Soul Stage!

Murong Yue was completely terrified.

Looking at that mountain-like body and feeling the terrifying murderous intent that felt as if it could crush her Soul, her mind went blank, and her body froze in place.

"Boom!"

It opened its bloody maw, and without hesitation, a destructive pillar of lightning as thick as an arm erupted from its mouth, carrying the terrifying power to incinerate all things, shooting straight toward the stunned Murong Yue!

This strike was enough to raze a mountain peak to the ground!

Seeing that Murong Yue was about to be swallowed by the lightning pillar and perish,

at this critical moment, a figure as fast as lightning appeared instantly in front of her.

"I have to clean up the mess you made."

Lin Yuan sighed helplessly in his heart, grabbed the terrified Murong Yue by the waist, pulled her into his arms, and tapped his toes hard against the ground. His figure avoided that fatal lightning pillar at an unbelievable angle, by the narrowest of margins.

"Rumble—!"

The lightning pillar brushed past them and slammed heavily into the distant mountain wall, leaving behind a terrifying, bottomless hole with glazed edges.

Lin Yuan, holding the warm, fragrant body in his arms, landed steadily. He looked at the giant beast in front of him that had completely descended into a frenzy, his brows furrowed tightly.

This beast had thick skin and flesh, was skilled in lightning-type attacks, and was extremely fast. In this environment rich in lightning Spiritual Qi, it was even more like a fish in water. A direct confrontation was definitely not a wise Move.

He had to use strategy!

The body in his arms was trembling slightly due to extreme fear. Murong Yue buried her face deeply in Lin Yuan's chest, not daring to look at the terrifying giant python.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Lin Yuan's deep and powerful voice rang in her ears like a shot of adrenaline, causing her chaotic mind to stabilize slightly.

He gently patted her back and said softly: "You can't hide from this. If you want to survive, you must pick up your weapon. Listen to me, use your strongest Move and attack its eyes."

"I... I don't dare..." Murong Yue's voice carried a sob.

"If you don't dare, you will die!" Lin Yuan's tone suddenly became stern. "The two of us are now grasshoppers tied to the same rope. I need you to buy me some time. Just three breaths. After three breaths, I will make it vanish into ashes!"

His words were filled with unquestionable confidence and dominance.

Murong Yue looked up and saw Lin Yuan's deep, calm eyes. There was no fear in them, only the composure of someone in control. For some reason, her heart actually settled down.

"Okay... I'll listen to you, Brother!" She bit her silver teeth and nodded heavily.

Lin Yuan released her, his figure flickered, and he took the initiative to greet the giant python, his thunder slaying saber drawing strange arcs to attract the giant python's attention.

"Vile beast, your opponent is me!"

"Roar!"

Seeing his provocation, the Gilded Thunder Python's rage grew even greater. Its giant snake tail, like a steel whip, carried the force of ten thousand jun as it swept over, creating sonic booms, its power terrifying.

Lin Yuan did not clash with it head-on. His figure flickered, his feet moving in mysterious patterns, dodging the giant python's storm-like attacks within a small space.

Just at this moment, Murong Yue seized the opportunity!

She suppressed the fear in her heart, mobilized all the limited magic power in her body, formed hand seals, and shouted: "Mystic Ice Thorn!"

Dozens of ice thorns, condensed from pure magic power and flashing with cold light, appeared out of thin air. Like arrows released from a bowstring, they all shot toward the Gilded Thunder Python's giant eyes, which were comparable to lanterns!

"Puff! Puff!"

Although most of the ice thorns were deflected by the tough scales on the giant python's eyelids, a few still successfully pierced into the weak points of its eyeballs.

"Roar—!!!"

The Gilded Thunder Python let out a roar of extreme pain, its huge body twisting crazily, knocking the surrounding thunder bamboo askew.

Opportunity!

This was the moment Lin Yuan had been waiting for!

A flash of brilliance appeared in his eyes. He pressed his hands together in front of his chest and muttered incantations, his speed dazzlingly fast.

"With my blood, as the guide for the Formation! With my Soul, as the foundation for the Formation! Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, form!"

As the words fell, Formation Flags and Formation Plates flew out from his body, falling into the ground and disappearing.

In an instant, with Lin Yuan as the base of the Formation and magic power as the Formation patterns, he had forcefully laid down the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array within this violent energy field!

Hum—!

A profound and majestic aura rushed into the sky.

Centered on Lin Yuan, within a radius of a hundred zhang, the space changed suddenly. The ground disappeared, the bamboo forest disappeared, and in their place was a deep, boundless starry sky! Three hundred and sixty-five brilliant stars revolved slowly according to some mysterious trajectory, casting endless starlight and firmly trapping the crazy Gilded Thunder Python in the center of the Formation.

Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array!

Once this Formation was released, it formed its own world, capable of drawing upon the power of the stars in the heavens to grind and kill all things!

"This... what is this Formation?" Murong Yue, outside the Formation, was completely stunned.

Although she had lost her memories, her instinct as a Formation Grandmaster remained. She could feel that the profoundness and terror of the Formation before her far exceeded her scope of cognition.

She looked at the man suspended in the center of the starry sky, his robes fluttering, looking like a god. In her beautiful eyes, for the first time, little stars known as "admiration" lit up.