The snake demon tried to heal the wound on her back but found there was a curse in her body that weakened her, and the wound not only failed to heal but also gradually opened. She glared at Zhao Shengyu and gritted her teeth, saying, “How dare you lie to me.”

“It was your own sin that was so serious and it could not be tolerated by God,” Zhao Shengyu said with a solemn face.

“Do you think he can do anything to me?” Sensing the cultivator’s power was lower than hers, the snake demon smiled coldly. A black demonic energy turned into arrows and shot at the two of them.

The cultivator took out a copper bell, and all the arrows were swallowed up by the copper bell. However, the snake demon did not give up and wanted to fight back against the two of them.

Naturally, Li Tianyan would not give her another chance. He activated the Five Elements Bagua Formation prepared in advance under the hot spring pool. The entire hot spring pool instantly emitted a brown light, and the earth spiritual power trapped the snake demon like a solid cage.

No matter how the snake demon attacked the formation, it was all in vain. Then the formation emitted another dazzling golden light. It turned out that Li Tianyan had added a killing formation in the Five Elements Bagua Formation. The sword shadow flashed in the hot spring pool, and it instantly turned into a giant killing weapon.

The snake demon’s body dodged nimbly in the trapped formation, but her body was still cut with countless sword wounds, and the pool of water gradually dyed red with her blood. Zhao Shengyu, who was standing aside, couldn’t help showing a hint of surprise when he saw this. Although he had known that Li Tianyan was an extraordinary person, when he actually saw it, his heart was still filled with excitement.

The trapped snake demon would not be so helpless. A pair of light brown eyes slowly turned into the pupils of a beast. She stared at the two people coldly with hatred in her eyes. Then her whole body turned into a giant snake. In an instant, the hot spring pool was filled a huge gray-brown python. Seeing the ferocious power of the snake demon, Zhao Shengyu couldn’t help but take a few steps back.

Li Tianyan noticed that a row of fleshy wings had grown on the back of the python, and there were two long beards around the mouth. The scales on the ventral side had fallen off, almost preparing to grow legs, as if the python had already become half a dragon.

After the snake demon transformed into her true form, the sword intent in the killing formation could not break through the thick skin, and those wounds turned out to be inconspicuous on the huge python. The snake demon then used the power of her powerful body to attack the trap. The killing formation had no effect on the snake demon and she could not break free from the trap, Li Tianyan and the snake demon were deadlocked for a while.

The snake demon found that although the cultivator’s cultivation level was not as good as hers, his methods should not be underestimated. She looked at him with eyes full of hatred, as if she intended to swallow the cultivator in one gulp.

Li Tianyan noticed the power of the snake demon in the pool was gradually rising, and the demonic energy surrounding them was getting denser and denser. She actually wanted to use up the force around them to force an advance. He immediately placed the Demon-Conquering Bell in his hand on top of the snake demon’s head.

The phantom of Tao Wu squatted on the Demon-Conquering Bell, looking at the trapped snake demon below with a greedy smile on his face. He stretched out his tongue and licked his sharp claws, then opened his mouth and sucked in the thick demonic energy formed by the snake demon, making a small torrent submerge into the copper bell.

The snake demon soon noticed something was wrong. She opened a pair of beastly eyes and looked at the copper bell above her head. When she sensed the familiar aura of the ferocious beast on the copper bell, the snake demon said in a slightly frightened voice, “You are the ferocious beast trapped in the tower?”

“I never expected that you would fall into the hands of the cultivator in front of me,” the snake demon said. Seeing the demonic energy for her advancement was still draining away, the snake demon couldn’t help but say, “I was the one who freed you. If it weren’t for me, you would still be trapped in that tower. If you let me go this time, we would be even.”

“What you said seems to make sense…” Tao Wu scratched his chin and said as if he agreed.

“Then you agree with me,” the snake demon said eagerly. But the next moment, the demonic energy in her body was lost even more seriously. The anger of being deceived suddenly surged out. The giant python raised its head and roared at the ferocious beast.

Tao Wu grinned with a set of fangs and said with a sinister smile, “Have you ever seen a reasonable ferocious beast?”

The snake demon was furious when she heard this but could do nothing, so she could only speed up devouring the demonic energy that enveloped her. Unfortunately, she failed to advance due to the lack of power. She could only struggle furiously and helplessly in the pool, and the wounds on her body gradually expanded under the influence of the evil curse.

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Li Tianyan saw the opportunity and activated the Seizing Formation in the Bagua Formation. The wood spiritual power passed through the wounds on the snake demon’s body, slowly extracting her vitality.

When the snake demon’s power gradually weakened and the demonic energy on her body was almost exhausted, Li Tianyan took out a spiritual sword and prepared to kill the snake demon. But then he heard the snake demon suddenly say, “Your wife is still in my hand. If I die, he will die too. If you want your wife and children to die by your own hands, go on and kill me.”

“What do you mean?” Li Tianyan felt something was wrong and slightly lowered the spiritual sword in his hand.

“They are trapped in my snake belly magical space. If I die, they will disappear with me. Come on, do it,” the python said. After a moment, the smile on her face darkened. “You’d better untie the trap immediately and let me go, otherwise, I will kill myself and let them be buried together with me.”

Zhao Shengyu couldn’t help but frown solemnly when he heard the snake demon’s threat. Allowing the snake demon to escape would be truly dangerous. This snake demon was truly hateful.

“I won’t give you too much time. If you don’t let me go after in ten counts, I will die in front of you.” The snake demon’s vertical pupils flashed with dark light, and after speaking, she began to count.

“Ten, nine, eight… four, three…”

Listening to the snake demon counting down, Li Tianyan clenched the hilt of the sword with anger, but his hand was shaking slightly uncontrollably. If the snake demon ran away, he could catch her again, but he couldn’t afford to make any mistakes with Cheng Qi as hostage.

Thinking about this, Li Tianyan gritted his teeth and was about to release the snake demon when he suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance, and then Cheng Qi’s voice came through the air, “Young master, we can’t let her go.”