Invincible Snake Emperor-Chapter 178 - 175: The Tyrannical Vampire Snake

The two giant snakes collided and tore at each other, finally locking themselves in a tangled knot. It was a simple, brutal struggle. For two mighty Snake Spirits, their final method of combat was no different from that of common vipers.

It was like watching two shrews brawl in the street, utterly devoid of dignity.

Whichever one managed to bite the other to death first would claim its foe as food.

The sight of the two giant snakes locked in their struggle was shocking. Their massive bodies were coiled tightly together, swelling and contracting as their muscles strained. The grating sound of their scales scraping against each other was terrifyingly shrill, enough to make anyone's skin crawl.

Flesh and blood blossomed in the air like vibrant flowers. Both the gold-and-silver scales and the fiery-red scales were battered and torn, with fresh blood gushing out in a frenzy.

Their Snake Blood contained pure Energy; it could cure all manner of illnesses and neutralize any poison.

Now, it flowed all over the ground, where it would not dry up or evaporate for months.

Such Snake Blood was priceless and nearly impossible to obtain.

Though Tu Xiao'an was at a disadvantage in size, his physical strength and defense were in no way inferior to the Vampire Snake's.

Biting, tearing at each other for dear life. A bloody, vicious battle like this was not a matter of chance, but an inevitability.

Tu Xiao'an was on the verge of losing his mind, but he understood deep down that this couldn't continue. He was gaining no advantage; it was a battle where injuring the enemy by a thousand would cost him eight hundred.

It was a fifty-fifty toss-up, at best.

Being bigger, after all, had its benefits.

At that moment, even as he continued to grapple and tear at the Vampire Snake, Tu Xiao'an secretly summoned the system.

'System, is there any treasure in the shop that can make my strength skyrocket?'

'The fight has reached this stage not because I'm too weak, but because the Vampire Snake has evolved to a whole new level.' he thought.

'An eight-Level difference… It's finally starting to show. The fact that I can fight the Vampire Snake to a standstill is already unimaginable.'

'If we were the same Level, what would I have to fear? I could kill it in an instant.'

He had to win. He had to win and swallow this Evil Snake whole.

"Ding… Strength Potion: Can double the host's size and strength. Duration: three hours. Cost: 500,000 Faith Points."

An image of the item instantly appeared in Tu Xiao'an's mind.

His snake eyes lit up. 'So there really is something! Damned system, couldn't you have mentioned this sooner?'

'Can't you see I was about to die along with the Vampire Snake?'

'Five hundred thousand Faith Points for a three-hour effect.'

'That's a bit expensive—an astronomical price, really. And it's a one-time-use item. The Transformation Technique I want is only a million Faith Points.'

But his battle with the Vampire Snake had already reached a fever pitch. Tu Xiao'an was confident he could take the Vampire Snake down with him, but he lacked the confidence to actually defeat it.

His only choice was to find another path—to "cheat."

"Does the host wish to purchase?"

'Buy it.'

Tu Xiao'an's resolve was firm. 'What's there to hesitate about? Faith Points can be earned again. The Vampire Snake must die.'

"Ding… Purchase successful. Does the host wish to use it immediately?"

'Yes.'

In that instant, as the two giant snakes were tangled together, an incomparable, majestic power erupted from the Gold and Silver Snake. In a flash, it sent the thirty-meter Vampire Snake flying, smashing it high up against a cliff face.

BOOM...

The mountains seemed to crumble and the earth to split as the ground began to tremble violently.

'How is this possible?'

In the next moment, the Vampire Snake burst out from a crevice in the cliff, its aura terrifyingly malevolent. It had been thrown? Thrown through the air?

They had fought fiercely for so long, and had been evenly matched. But even being evenly matched was enough to make the Vampire Snake feel humiliated and furious.

'I have a majestic, thirty-meter-long body, yet I can't even handle a little twenty-meter snake?'

Of course, only a creature of its size had the audacity to call a twenty-meter serpent a "little snake."

'That was a fluke. A complete fluke,' the Vampire Snake decided, its eyes gleaming with a bloodthirsty light as it prepared to press the attack and regain its lost ground.

But in the next instant, the Vampire Snake's majestic body froze. A terror, like that of prey being hunted, filled its ferocious, bell-like eyes.

What did it see?

The twenty-meter snake was gone. In its place, a colossal, forty-meter-long giant snake had appeared in Snake Valley. An immensely powerful and majestic aura radiated from its body.

ROAR...

The forty-meter giant snake tilted its head back and roared. The sound was sonorous and powerful, its presence spanning the sky with an aura mighty enough to swallow mountains and rivers.

The Vampire Snake was completely dumbfounded. 'What is going on?'

'A twenty-meter Gold and Silver Snake suddenly became forty meters long?'

'Now *I'm* the little snake?'

Faintly, the Vampire Snake felt a tremor of fear course through it, brought on by the aura its opponent was emitting.

The moment it felt that sensation, the Vampire Snake became extremely agitated.

'I am destined to become the Snake King! How can there be a Snake Species that makes me feel dread and fear?' In just a short moment, the tide of battle had completely turned.

Tu Xiao'an felt absolutely incredible. It was as if he'd been instantly revived, his body brimming with an inexhaustible, majestic power.

For a moment, he felt invincible.

"Vampire Snake, your doom has come."

Tu Xiao'an looked down on the Vampire Snake with a disdainful and contemptuous gaze. So, thirty meters was nothing special after all.

Just a little snake.

"I will tear you to shreds!"

How could the proud and arrogant Vampire Snake allow itself to be looked down upon? Its majestic body erupted with a terrifying aura as it transformed into a Flood Dragon and lunged.

The sight was enough to scare the soul right out of a person's body.

"Hmph. Courting death."

A flicker of amusement passed through Tu Xiao'an's bewitching eyes. Without any perceptible movement, his massive tail had already whipped out and sent the Vampire Snake flying.

It was too fast. The tail was a complete blur; one moment it was there, the next the Vampire Snake was hurtling backward.

The Vampire Snake howled in pain, spewing mouthfuls of blood as it flew through the air.

It continued to fly backward, its majestic, massive body hurtling a full kilometer away in one go.

This just went to show how terrifyingly powerful Tu Xiao'an had become.

'Yes! This feeling of utter domination is finally here.'

The Strength Potion had directly doubled every Attribute of Tu Xiao'an's giant snake body.

He had been evenly matched with the Vampire Snake before, but now that his power had doubled, he could completely crush it.

BOOM...

The Vampire Snake's landing shook the entire Snake Valley, and fissures spread out in all directions.

"Impossible! This is impossible!"

The Vampire Snake roared endlessly, unable to accept the situation. How could the Gold and Silver Snake have suddenly become so strong?

'Could it be that it was holding back its true strength this whole time, just toying with me?'

Even for the Vampire Snake, whose intelligence was as great as a Demon's, it couldn't make any sense of it. That last strike had looked like a simple tail whip, but it had nearly shattered its steel-like body.

"Vampire Snake, how about you take another lashing?"

A cold, mocking voice suddenly rang out. The Vampire Snake's vision went dark as a massive tail, carrying an astonishing amount of power, whistled down from above like a sudden peal of thunder.

In the next instant, the world went dark.

BOOM...

Snake Valley could find no peace; it was as if a Level 8 earthquake had struck.

Looking at the ground, a massive crater had appeared, along with countless fissures stretching out for an unknown distance.

The thirty-meter Vampire Snake had been brutally slammed into the ground by that single whip of the tail.

'A Strength Potion, effective for three hours?'

Tu Xiao'an's mouth curled into a faint smile. 'I figure three minutes will be more than enough to torture the Vampire Snake to death.'

He was so powerful now that he could hardly believe it himself.