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Chapter 713: The Father of Ten Thousand Snakes, the Ouroboros Statue
Chapter 713: The Father of Ten Thousand Snakes, the Ouroboros Statue
"Hisss~ A new supreme deity, was it my offspring who offended you?" The Father of Snakes wriggled down from the mass of snake-person flesh, looking at Qin Muye with an equal gaze.
"I wouldn't say that. I just came to ask you some questions," Qin Muye said, not paying much attention to the title of supreme deity. To him, the name of one's power was never a big deal.
"Are you asking about the Three-Element, Three-Rank, Three-Officials Great Emperor of this world?" the Father of Snakes said slowly.
"???" Qin Muye was flabbergasted. Wasn't this a bit off? A snake-person from a fantasy world was actually mentioning the name of a great emperor.
And what was this Three-Element, Three-Rank, Three-Officials Great Emperor? Even the three 'threes' were included.
"Blessing, Forgiveness, Deliverance. He, or rather, It, is a deity, the supreme existence of this world," the Father of Snakes explained.
Qin Muye furrowed his brow. The Three-Officials Great Emperor, he seemed to have a vague memory. The Heavenly Official grants blessings, the Earthly Official forgives sins, and the Water Official delivers from calamities.
He hadn't noticed it before, but after the Father of Snakes spoke, he remembered. Yes, it was the three officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water, also known as the Three Elements, not Heaven, Earth, and Man.
However, he remembered that these were three separate deities. How did they become one person here? It felt like they were arbitrarily mashed together.
"How did you get killed by Him back then?" Qin Muye asked curiously.
"I don't know," the Father of Snakes gave a straightforward answer.
"I really don't know. That part of my memory is missing. It could have been Him who did it, and I don't even know what He looks like," the Father of Snakes didn't hide it.
After thinking for a moment, he added, "I only know that He is one of the governing principles of this world. He is everywhere, He can be the sky, the earth, or even the water flowing through the world."
"Alright, seems like asking you is pointless. What do you plan to do next?" Qin Muye was preparing to make his move.
"Do you want to kill me?" The Father of Snakes quickly caught on. Although he couldn't sense Qin Muye's malice, he could tell something was off.
"You noticed? Is my acting that bad?" Qin Muye touched his face, feeling it shouldn't be the case. This was the first time his smile-with-a-hidden-knife ambush had failed.
"Is it hard to guess? You sealed my remains," the Father of Snakes said bluntly.
"Ah, so that's the loophole. I'll be more careful next time, and you should too," Qin Muye said, preparing to ambush.
"There won't be a next time. Do you think that seal can hold me?" The Father of Snakes started confidently but grew increasingly uncertain, even adding a hint of doubt.
However, his doubt wasn't about Qin Muye's confidence but about the fact that he truly couldn't break free.
"Maybe. If it couldn't hold you, you would have escaped already," Qin Muye said. He retracted the Xuanjun's shell, revealing his terrifying form of the Endless Abyss.
His demonic claws extended, blocking the sky and splitting the earth as they tore through the Father of Snakes' remains. A wave of demonic tide surged forth, launching a sudden attack.
The Father of Snakes was prepared, his body swelling to match the size of the Endless Abyss, the two titans intertwining.
The ground instantly rose, and the entire world was torn apart by the clash of two 9th-rank beings. Natural disasters and seismic upheavals ensued.
Fortunately, the three major force fields held, preventing a catastrophic impact on the world. Only the Great Qian might face some issues, but Qin Muye believed that Huangfu Xing could handle it.
She Xi, however, did not die. Seeing the colossal Endless Abyss and the half-snake, half-human being clash, he felt his worldview shattering.
"Is the Qian Emperor the Lord of the Endless Abyss???" In that moment, She Xi felt a force within him that was identical to the one he sensed from the Endless Abyss, making it almost unbearable. So, he had truly become a clown.
He had been writing letters to the Qian Emperor, urging him to purge the Endless Abyss, all the while pretending not to know. Was he just playing with him?
Fortunately, these thoughts flashed by quickly, and he endured the discomfort, rolling and crawling away. With two terrifying beings in combat, even the aftershocks could be deadly, let alone direct confrontation. Staying would mean certain death.
As for obtaining the Father of Snakes' essence, that would have to wait. In the current situation, even if the Father of Snakes were dead, he might not stand a chance.
Qin Muye had no time to pay attention to the insignificant She Xi. Although the Father of Snakes had just returned from death and was weak, he was still stronger than the cosmic will of the shining universe, at least a 9th-rank being. Therefore, Qin Muye had to focus entirely on suppressing him.
Although the other party was continuously taking hits, unable to retaliate, and would truly be beaten to death if it continued, Qin Muye could not be complacent. With each attack, he tore apart the other's origin, gaining various 9th-rank subtleties.
The Father of Snakes continuously defended, but could not effectively stop Qin Muye's plunder.
Run? If they had the chance before revealing their true forms, now it was clearly too late.
"Sir Snake Father, do you have any more trump cards? If not, I'll send you on your way. This time, you won't have the chance to return from death to reality." The twisted, chaotic voice erupted like corruption.
Even She Xi, who was standing nearby, though he didn't hear it, was slightly affected by the after-effects. The scales on his skin began to wriggle, and countless flesh buds sprouted, making him look like a monstrous creature.
"You win, unknown supreme deity!" The Father of Snakes said, his body beginning to disintegrate.
He was forcibly swallowed by Qin Muye, his entire being becoming Qin Muye's nourishment.
However, he had not completely died and could still clearly sense everything.
"So that's how it is, you are the world. No wonder." The Father of Snakes felt the true terror of the Endless Abyss within Qin Muye's body, a complete world. From the beginning, Qin Muye had been invincible.
He had nothing, while the other had the support of a powerful world. Who could he not lose to?
But to fail like this, he was very unwilling.
Suddenly, his head exploded, but Qin Muye was prepared, enveloping it with his magic and capturing it.
"Ha, you can't run. Wait, you didn't run? Interesting." Qin Muye watched as a gray-brown light broke through his blockade.
It was not the Father of Snakes' origin, nor his power, but a qualification, a 9th-rank qualification.
"I'll bring you back." Qin Muye was thorough in his actions; how could he let this qualification escape, even if it was useless and non-threatening to him?
But it could not be left behind.
The demonic claws in the abyss probed through layers of space and grabbed the gray-brown qualification. He didn't know where this qualification was going, but once he had it, there was no need to worry about what happened next.
"If the Father of Snakes could still escape, it would just be a remnant, not worthy." Qin Muye was puzzled; anyone could see this was futile, so why did he do it?
Holding the 9th-rank qualification in his hand, if given to someone, they would have the chance to become a replica of the Father of Snakes. Yes, just a chance, not a certainty.
"The Ouroboros Statue, truly devious, and it even carries the power of time. Was I tricked?"
After realizing this, Qin Muye saw that She Xi had somehow escaped. The qualification was left for Qin Muye, while the Father of Snakes' true intention was to let She Xi leave.
As for why, he didn't know, but Qin Muye was certain he probably wouldn't find She Xi again. The Father of Snakes was dead, completely dead, using himself to protect She Xi's escape and leaving something behind as a cover and legacy.
"Ha, if he ran, let him."
Of course, between the qualification and the legacy, the qualification was definitely more valuable. The legacy might not be fully usable or trainable, but the qualification would grant someone a protagonist-like aura, a chosen one's ability, to assist them on the path to 9th-rank.
But ultimately, it still depended on the individual.
Essentially, the 9th-rank qualification left by the Ouroboros Statue was the Father of Snakes' way of buying his life. It wasn't enough to buy his own life, but it was enough to buy She Xi's.
"I won't kill him, but whether he can survive is his own problem." Qin Muye sneered. She Xi was completely crippled, probably not even as strong as a 1st-rank, and it would take him at least tens of thousands of years to recover to 8th-rank.
In tens of thousands of years, the martial arts system of the Great Qian would have advanced to an unknown level, and it might even reach a modern high-martial condition.
Of course, this was left to Huangfu Xing. A crippled snake person didn't deserve his personal intervention; that would be beneath him.
(End of Chapter)
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