Chapter 10: The Eye of Annihilation

  With caution, Tang Yan soon found a huge cave, as if it was cut out with sharp blades, inside was smooth and flat, a large number of crystal stones were shining brightly in the cave, reflecting the colorful patterns inside, threads of energy slowly rose from between the crystal stones, as if being drawn together to gather at the central depression of the cave.

  Tang Yan was immediately drawn in, his eyes fixed on the snake eggs! There were actually five crystal-clear snake eggs there, about the size of a washbasin, emitting a faint glow.

  The demon snake has laid eggs!

  Tang Yan was first astonished, then suddenly overjoyed. The demon snake probably just laid its eggs not long ago and should have been guarding them here, but because it consumed too much energy and needed to replenish its strength, so... it really went hunting!

  "Heaven, you're not treating me unfairly." Tang Yan excitedly rubbed his hands together and without hesitation, swung his palm at a snake egg. Clang! A sound like the collision of metal and stone echoed back and forth, the light within the egg seemed to intensify, its shell unscathed. Tang Yan didn't care about that, he continued to strike with his palm, clang clang clang, over ten consecutive impacts, until finally, a crisp cracking sound was heard, and a fine crack appeared on the surface of the jade-like eggshell.

  Suddenly, a dense life force burst out, accompanied by an almost imperceptible roar.

  Tang Yan was shocked to discover that inside the snake egg, there was a curled up snake shadow, struggling and roaring, with a thumping sound like life jumping into Tang Yan's ears.

  This is absolutely not ordinary!

  Tang Yan originally only wanted to eat a snake egg to alleviate his hungry stomach, but the scene in front of him made him change his mind abruptly. Without hesitation, he quickly absorbed a small part of the deep yellow egg white, just a tiny bit, to avoid any accidents. But as soon as the egg white entered his chest and abdomen, a terrifying energy like a tsunami suddenly erupted, stirring up a stormy sea inside his body, with intense shockwaves rampaging wildly.

  Tang Yan didn't know that this was a fifth-level peak demon beast, the Four-Winged Scale Python's egg, containing unimaginable powerful life energy within. After all, it would eventually evolve into an existence comparable to a peak Martial Emperor, becoming the overlord of this mystical forest.

  Tang Yan felt his body was about to shatter, and even his soul was burning fiercely. The surging life energy inside him was crashing about, as if it wanted to break free from this physical shell and return to its eggshell once more.

  "Behave yourself! I'll give you a good place to settle down!!" Tang Yan growled in a low voice, focusing his mind and quietly circulating the Undying Heavenly Sutra to refine himself, while trying to guide these out-of-control energies towards his dantian.

  BOOM!! Like the Yangtze River bursting its banks, the surging energy seemed to be drawn in, as if it had finally found an outlet for release, and frantically rushed towards the Dan Tian position. Due to the enormous amount of energy, a devastating radiance exploded from the Dan Tian position, accompanied by a swelling sensation that felt like it was about to burst.

  Tang Yan made an effort to stabilize his mind and guide the surging energy towards his Dantian.

  In an instant, a furious wave surged up to the sky, rolling and roaring, as if an evil dragon was stirring up the sea!

  Hahaha!!! In a daze, a tender laugh suddenly appeared and disappeared in the depths of the air sea, a terrifying tearing force burst out, and the surging life force quickly rushed towards a certain place in the air sea. Like a whale swallowing, it swallowed everything clean in an instant.

  Tang Yan was trying to calm his mind, but this sudden change left him unprepared, just like a turbulent river suddenly becoming calm. The unreal laughter in his dantian made his hair stand on end.

  But now is a critical moment, Tang Yan can't help but constantly absorb the egg yolk into his chest and abdomen, nourishing the calm sea of qi until it's fully saturated, before flowing back to the meridians, nourishing those dense acupoints and meridians.

  Finally, according to the practice of the Eye of Annihilation, gather the still surging spiritual energy and strike it into the right eye, refining the seven major acupoints of the eye: 'Four Hundred', 'Cheng Lian', 'Qing Ming', 'Tong Zi Jiao', 'Si Zhu Kong', 'Yu Yao' and 'Cuan Zhu', as well as the pupil of the right eye!

  As life energy continues to surge in, the acupuncture points of the right eye begin to diffuse with sparkling essence, the vortex begins to shrink, but the rotation speed suddenly increases dramatically.

  Finally, all seven major acupoints were refined and transformed, guarding the four directions and protecting the eyes.

  A struggling phantom faintly appeared in the eye's meridian, screaming and roaring as it struggled, emitting a thick and intense killing aura. However, soon wisps of blood energy surged out from the 'Four Hundred' acupoint, rapidly entwining the phantom and violently pulling it deep into the acupoint.

  Refine! Merge!

  "Extinction"! The first stage of the Undying Heaven's Technique, a subsidiary martial skill! Tang Yan's heart slightly stirred, his right eye pupil contracted, the spiritual energy in his meridians rapidly surged, the seven major acupoints' qi whirlpools frantically rotated, and in an instant, a faint, ghostly wail seemed to echo before his eyes, then...

  A faint, eerie voice echoed in his ears, and a wicked aura emanated from his eyes. A sharp, gleaming light burst forth, shooting out like an arrow to strike the stone wall in front of him, instantly creating a hole as thick as a thumb that extended at least half a meter!

  Tang Yan's spirit was shaken, and he quickly checked his physical condition. The energy of the snake egg had not increased his strength, and he was still a second-class martial artist. However, his cloudy qi sea had expanded significantly, and the right eye acupoint had been refined. The acupoints and meridians throughout his body had also shown significant improvement.

  Although no breakthrough was made, it was a complete tempering for this weak body of mine.

  Tang Yan didn't dare to linger and picked up the snake egg again. Taking advantage of the demon snake's absence, he quickly rushed out of the cave.

  Not far from leaving, a dull roar and strong bloody smell came from the dense forest.

  Tang Yan turned back to see that the demon snake had returned, its ferocious head biting a giant striped tiger, with thick blood flowing down from the wound. All the way back, it left behind a trail of crimson blood.

  Tang Yan shouted loudly and held the snake egg tightly, rushing quickly towards the depths of the dense forest.

  This demon snake returned faster than expected, if he found out that his treasure had been destroyed and one of them was stolen, who knows what kind of terrifying storm would be stirred up.

  Tang Yan secretly felt a thrill of excitement, but also some tension, gritting his teeth and sprinting at full speed, hoping to find a place to hide before the demon snake discovered him.

  Before long, the dense forest behind let out a thunderous roar, like a tiger's howl and a dragon's chant, with a terrifying power that could pierce through gold and shatter rocks, and one could clearly feel the anger and ferocity within.

  Rumbling, a fierce gale sweeps across, lightning slashes down, tearing through ancient trees and whipping up waves of dust that fill the sky.

  Four-winged scale python enraged!

  In the midst of furious venting, the demon snake destroyed the vast dense forest near the cave with unmatched power, and after a period of shrill howling, its four wings shook violently, and its massive body suddenly shot up into the sky, emitting a terrifying aura, rolling up thick air waves and shooting towards Tang Yan's direction.

  Trees fell in rows, the ground was violently shaking, the mountains and forests were shaken with leaves flying everywhere, birds cried out in alarm and flew away, beasts fled in panic, and the quiet forest was suddenly thrown into chaos.

  Tang Yan was shocked and frightened. Was this demon snake tracking him? Could it sense the life fluctuations of the snake egg? Or had it caught onto the residual energy on his body?

  Tang Yan rushed forward with his head down, constantly changing locations in the dense forest area. His hands were still tightly clutching the snake egg, and he really didn't want to abandon this treasure until the very end. This was a guarantee for condensing the aura of good fortune in the future.

  ROAR!!!!! The furious roar shook the sky, thunder and lightning flashed across the sky, the fierce wind howled and rolled, the violently angry demon snake was terrifying beyond compare, it swiftly flew through the air as if nothing could block its path!

  Tang Yan occasionally turned his head to look back, and each time he felt a chill run down his spine. The sky behind him had darkened, as if the end of the world was approaching, with an eerie atmosphere. The three sharp cones on top of the snake's head were even unleashing terrifying lightning powers.

  The quiet forest was in a state of great disorder, the weak and timid monsters were trembling with fear, some were fleeing in panic. Tang Yan was constantly changing direction to escape, during which he saw many terrifying monsters, such as wolves with silver fur shining all over their bodies, black spiders with bodies like grinding discs, golden centipedes seven or eight meters long, and many other ferocious and frightening creatures.

  Most of them have discovered Tang Yan, but they are busy with their own affairs and don't have the mind to care about this 'small matter'.

  ROAR!!! A violent and furious roar suddenly exploded in the forest, Tang Yan turned his head to look around, it was a 7-8 meter tall all-black gorilla, its body surging with brutal and murderous energy, its sharp teeth seemed capable of devouring everything in the world.

  It was as if the four-winged snake had invaded its territory, and yet it seemed dissatisfied with the arrogance of the four-winged snake. The black ape burst into a frenzy, thundering and rushing forward to meet the demon snake, causing even the earth to tremble.

  Tang Yan secretly called out in surprise, really hadn't expected that there would be so many terrifying demonic beasts inside the dense forest. If he had encountered them unintentionally before, what kind of fate would have awaited him?

  Fierce roars and howls echoed from the rear, accompanied by intense rumbling and collisions, apparently a black gorilla was fighting with a four-winged scaled python. Not long after, another beastly roar pierced through the air like a golden stone, its ferocity was in no way weaker than that of the demon snake and the gorilla.

  It was a golden giant bird with shining feathers that flew in, as if it wanted to join the battle.

  Tang Yan was shocked to the core, but didn't dare to linger, continuing to sprint forward with added caution, trying his best to avoid areas that seemed dangerous, and gradually, the roar of voices faded away from his ears, leaving the riot area far behind.

  Ran forward for another two hours, came to a clear stream, first cautiously checked around for any danger, then quickly rushed over, plunged into the river water gurgling and splashing, and then hastily retreated into the dense forest, found a secluded place to hide.

  Giant snake! Gorilla! Huge bird! This must be the kind of existence that rules the mystical forest, it's really terrifying! Even thinking about it now, I still feel a chill down my spine and a lingering fear.

  Tang Yan took a deep breath, sat cross-legged in stillness, and quietly circulated his spiritual energy to alleviate his fatigue.

  But... flap flap...

  Distant shouts and killings echoed, startling countless birds in the forest, also waking up Tang Yan.

  How could there be people fighting here? Could it be... students from the Giant Elephant Academy? Tang Yan slightly furrowed his brow, continued to adjust his breath for a moment, feeling his body recover as before. He carried the snake egg and leaped between the tree branches, but didn't get too close. When he could vaguely see the scene over there, he quietly stopped moving.

  "That's... Erynda? Tang Ying?" Tang Yan was slightly startled. Erynda, the instructor, was a first-class martial artist who had awakened her spiritual vein and possessed exceptional strength, but now she was surrounded by two white-robed men, looking disheveled and on the verge of falling into a desperate situation. His younger sister Tang Ying hadn't suffered too much injury, but was being controlled by a slender white-robed woman, anxious and despairing, unable to break free.

  Being able to suppress Erlinda means these white-robed men are absolutely strong masters at the Wu Zong level.

  Wuzong!! His strength is more than two levels higher than Tang Yan's.

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