The strange and strange scene in front of him made Pang Jian wander into endless reveries, and his body was so shocked that he became as motionless as a sculpture.
The giant python had a phoenix bone pierced through its head. The python's head was pressed against the stone ground at the bottom of the pool. The python's body was still twisting with all its strength, like a centipede insect that was dead but not stiff.
I don't know how long it struggled hard, but it couldn't get rid of the check and balance of the phoenix bone, and part of the python's body was no longer flesh and blood.
A mysterious alien like it seemed so hopeless and helpless in the face of Tianfeng's assassination with a withered bone.
"Is it the reason why my father classified Blackwater Pond as a restricted area?"
After staring at the huge python body for a long time, Pang Jian's soul was repeatedly shocked, and he felt that a door to a whole new world had slowly opened to him.
It was also at this moment that he realized that the silent mountain range where he hunted all year round might not be as simple as he imagined.
He even began to suspect that in every place that was classified as a restricted area by his father, there were terrifying foreign objects like giant pythons lurking.
"Father, does he know about the existence of these aliens and has been deliberately hiding it, or...even he doesn't know?"
Doubts kept emerging in Pang Jian's heart.
After a while, he continued to examine the abnormalities at the bottom of the pool.
Centered on this giant python with scales, countless bones were scattered around the rocky ground at the bottom of the pool that he saw.
Some of the skeletons looked like beasts from the Silent Mountains, while others were clearly people like him.
Countless wild beasts and people were swallowed by this python dormant in the black water pool, and then spit out their withered bones.
Looking back on the past, he couldn't help but be secretly afraid.
In the years since his father disappeared, if he had not listened to his father's instructions and entered the Blackwater Pool rashly, would he have become a withered skeleton at the bottom of the pool?
Thinking like this, he saw more dead bones scattered in all directions at the bottom of the pond.
He slowly stepped back, putting some distance between himself and the phoenix bone and the giant python.
Immediately, they discovered that this giant, thick and long python had one-third of its body turned into white snake bones from its tail to its head.
The other body of the python connected to the python's head had flesh and scales wrapped around the bones. However, when he observed carefully, the flesh and blood wrapped around the bones seemed to be slowly disappearing in the direction of the python's head.
If there is a strange force, starting from the head of this giant python, it secretly continues to swallow the flesh and blood of the python.
As a result, the flesh and blood of this giant python started from its tail and gradually disappeared towards its head.
"It's phoenix bone!"
Looking again at the phoenix bone that had penetrated the python's head and pinned it to the bottom of the pond, Pang Jian suddenly understood.
It was this phoenix bone that fell from the upper world. After piercing it instantly, it was still eating its flesh and blood bit by bit.
The weak eat the strong, and natural selection is the eternal truth in heaven and earth.
The giant python in Blackwater Pond devoured wild beasts and hunters in the mountains. Now it has met the same fate. It was suppressed here by a piece of the withered bones of the Sky Phoenix, slowly sucking its flesh and blood.
Suddenly, Pang Jian couldn't help but remember the abnormality of the other phoenix bone.
Along with the roar of the earth, gaps opened in the ground around the phoenix bone, and many bloodthirsty vines flew out, attacking and eating the first batch of Blood Moon and the second batch of Shangguan family members.
After that, a cluster of liquid amber shimmer formed in the phoenix bone and began to wander inside the crystal bone.
Could it be...
Pang Jian gradually came to his senses and felt that the second phoenix bone nail killed this giant python and ate away its flesh and energy in order to condense it into a new cluster of amber light!
"boom!"
While he was deep in thought, the giant python was lashing the ground again, causing another earthquake near the Blackwater Pond.
However, compared to the previous earthquakes, this time's shaking was obviously much lighter.
The giant python slapped the ground with its snake bones, and this time it looked even paler and weaker.
"It's not dead yet."
Pang Jian's eyebrows moved, but he suddenly realized that even if he was not in the meditative state of the "Hutian Qi Nourishing Technique", the skin of his arms and chest were still absorbing the air in the water.
It seems to have become an instinctive habit.
He suddenly felt much more at ease, knowing that with this ability, he could stay at the bottom of the pool for a long time, and he wouldn't have to worry about the Dark Ghost people for a short time.
“Go look at it head-on.”
Pang Jian, who was curious, immediately started moving at the bottom of the pool, and soon discovered the dragon pattern spear he had thrown earlier.
He quickly swam over and held the dragon-marked spear in his hand, using the weight of the dragon-marked spear to keep his feet firmly on the ground.
When he held the dragon pattern spear, he became more courageous and quickly moved to the front of the giant python's head.
The python head, which was larger than the stone house he lived in, also had olive-green scales, and those scales overlapped like wrinkles.
The giant python opened its mouth slightly, and you could see the fatal phoenix bone inserted into the mouth behind its sharp fangs.
Thin black lines like ink, like secretions from its mouth, went straight to the water above.
The moment he saw the black line, Pang Jian knew the strangeness of the black water pool. The thick black color in the water came from the black secretions in its mouth.
Then Pang Jian discovered that the python was still alive, with its eyes tightly closed, as if it was suffering great pain.
The giant python, which was alive but suffering, seemed not to notice his arrival and allowed him to look around and observe.
After watching it for a long time, Pang Jian knew that after the phoenix bones had eaten away at the python, it would eventually eat the python head, and then it would be the time for its death.
Perhaps at that time, a new gleam of amber will suddenly reappear in the phoenix bones.
Pang Jian, who guessed what was going to happen, wanted to thoroughly explore the bottom of the pool, so he headed towards an area farther away.
Not long after, two groups of crimson blood suddenly came into his eyes!
Attracted by the blood light, he tightened his grip on the dragon pattern spear and approached the target. Could it be that there were other living creatures besides the giant python at the bottom of the pool?
If there are any new living creatures that can survive in such an environment, they must be beasts of the same level as the giant python!
He was secretly worried, thinking that there was a dark ghost watching the water, and if there were new horrors emerging from the bottom of the pool, he would really be doomed this time.
As he got closer to Xueguang, he noticed that the further away from the python and phoenix bones, the dimmer and dimmer the light at the bottom of the pool became.
finally!
He saw the two masses of blood and discovered that they were actually the light emitted by a pair of crimson eyes.
At the bottom of the pool, there was a strange man who was as skinny as a corpse, his eyes glowing with blood-red light, and he was staring at the phoenix bones for an instant, as if he was waiting for something.
There is a lifelike tattoo of a phoenix bird on the weirdo's chest, and its feathers are blood red, as if it is about to spread its wings and take off.
The phoenix bird is obviously just a tattoo totem, but it gives people a lively and agile feeling.
Pang Jian stared at the weirdo for a long time, but the weirdo seemed unaware of his existence. The weirdo and the phoenix bird tattoo on his chest were just staring at the phoenix bone inserted into the python's head.
It was as if there was no such person as Pang Jian at the bottom of the pond.
Pang Jian, who had been hiding underwater for a long time, did not know that the strange man in front of him was Ouyang Duanhai, or that Ouyang Duanhai jumped into the black pool behind him.
At the bottom of the pool where there should be no living creatures, Pang Jian suddenly encountered a humanoid monster like Ouyang Duanhai, and Pang Jian felt his scalp numb.
If he hadn't been underwater, he would have been sweating nervously at this moment. He held the dragon pattern spear in both hands and waited for a while in agony.
He finally confirmed that the humanoid monster in front of him didn't pay attention to him at all, it just stared at the phoenix bone.
In the deep red eyes of the humanoid monster, Pang Jian could not see any emotion that humans should have. He even suspected that this guy was not a human at all.
"Is he waiting for that cluster of mysterious light that will condense in the phoenix bones?"
After observing for a long time, Pang Jian felt something in his heart.
He guessed that the motionless humanoid monster in front of him, staring at the phoenix bone, was waiting for the phoenix bone to completely eat the python, and for the sudden appearance of the cluster of amber light.
Before that, as long as he didn't take the initiative to provoke, it didn't seem to attract his attention.
After a stalemate for a while, Pang Jian, who was holding the dragon pattern spear, tiptoed back to where the Phoenix Bones and Giant Python were.
After hesitating for a moment, he deliberately chose an area where the humanoid monster would not be seen.
There is a monk from the dark ghost above him, there is an unknown humanoid monster at the bottom of the pool, and there are phoenix bones eating away at the original owner of the black water pool. Pang Jian, who doesn't know where to go, can only wait passively.
"Forget it, I will continue my practice."
Pang Jian, who racked his brains and couldn't think of a way out, simply stopped thinking and swam toward the middle of the phoenix bone with his dragon-patterned spear.
He returned to his landing place again.
The phoenix bone he was leaning on with his back was facing the area where the humanoid monster was, and the monster could not see him through the phoenix bone.
He pressed the dragon-marked spear in his hand against the python's scaly body, then held the dragon-marked spear in both hands to steady his body, and began to continue his practice.
"Hoo! Hoo!"
A steady stream of acidic and poisonous powers were absorbed from the black water above and gathered in his blue-black "spiritual pot".
In his spiritual sea, the "cotton wool"-like impurities that he could sense were quickly dissolved by the highly toxic substance secreted from the mouth of the giant python.
…
After an unknown amount of time, Pang Jian, who was startled, looked down and found that his dragon-patterned spear, which was pressed against the python skin, suddenly sank.
It turned out that this part of the python's body had been eaten by the phoenix bone.
After pondering for a while, Pang Jian landed on the position of the snake's head, and again pressed the dragon-patterned spear against the snake's head, still practicing against the phoenix bone.
After entering the state this time, he felt that all the dirty residue in his Dantian spiritual sea seemed to have been washed away!
He concentrated and slowly understood, feeling like a blind man, moving freely in an empty room. It was not until he sensed and touched the "membrane"-like existence that he realized that he had sensed the end of the spiritual sea.
At this moment, he completely cleared away the obstacles in the spiritual sea and truly became a practitioner in the Qi Refining Realm.
"The Qi Refining Realm is divided into nine levels. It is necessary to guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the spiritual sea and refine it repeatedly."
"The first level is to fill the spiritual sea with spiritual energy, and then refine and wash it into spiritual power. The second level is to re-incorporate the spiritual energy, and then refine it when it is full to turn the energy into power."
Silently reciting in his mind the key to the ninth level of Qi Refining Realm, he began to absorb the first wave of spiritual energy into his body.
As soon as he thought about it, he realized that in addition to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the water, what he inhaled more was the acidic and poisonous power in the black water!
He was frightened, fearing that after the "cotton wool" pollution of the spiritual sea was dissolved, those acidic and poisonous powers would corrode his spiritual sea, causing his spiritual sea to collapse and making him lose the possibility of practicing.
However, after the aura and acid power at the bottom of the pool were integrated into his spiritual sea, he did not feel any discomfort.
The complex energy in the pool is filling his spiritual sea, undergoing the first "full" process.
Seeing that the spiritual sea was unimpeded, he decided to ignore the hidden dangers inside and outside for the time being, and stayed at the bottom of the pool, using the green and black "spiritual pot" he visualized to practice with the strange things in the water.
He also took out the cracked gray-white rock from the bamboo basket he had been carrying, as well as several pieces of spiritual stones given to him by Ning Yao.
Regardless of whether there would be a conflict, he held a piece in one hand and leaned against the phoenix bone wall to practice attentively.
There is a strong dark ghost above the head, a humanoid monster at the bottom of the pool, a giant python that is still alive, and the mysterious phoenix bone.
All Pang Jian can do is to work hard to increase his strength, and he is even willing to take certain risks for this.
He wishes he had more strength to protect himself.
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