Xiang Gongzi crawled and ran for dozens of miles before finally succumbing to his injuries and falling to the ground, gasping for breath.

After a moment, the beautiful woman Shi San Niang limped over, coughing up blood.

The two masters looked at each other, both feeling embarrassed.

"I didn't expect this person's cultivation to be so unfathomable. We've been defeated," Xiang Gongzi gasped, sitting up.

Shi San Niang sat down and said, "I couldn't even tell the depth of his cultivation. He just sat there and made a few moves, and we were severely injured. Could he be a Qi Cultivator from the ancient times, pretending to be a young man?"

She was quite ashamed that Xu Ying defeated them both without even lifting a hand. They didn't even see how he made his move!

Xiang Gongzi shook his head. "We've been searching for ancient Qi Cultivators for so many years, and we finally found one in the stone mountain. But where did this ancient Qi Cultivator come from?"

Shi San Niang was also puzzled.

On the river, the wind stopped and the moon was bright. Even the lonely ghosts and wild spirits in the usually lively river were quiet, except for Xu Ying. After defeating two masters, his gaze became somewhat deep and distant, as if he had become a great master himself.

After a moment, the young man came to his senses and thought to himself, "If I become arrogant, I might be killed for no reason. Just like many snake catchers who thought they were skilled, but accidentally got bitten by a snake and died."

However, the bronze basin was truly amazing. It disguised him, a small Qi Cultivator, as a peerless master, causing Xiang Gongzi and Shi San Niang to flee in a sorry state. Xu Ying couldn't help but love the bronze basin more.

"The girl in the coffin gave me the bronze basin, but she didn't say I had to return it. So, I won't return it," Xu Ying thought to himself.

"The bronze basin may be her token of love for me. Even if she's a female ghost, I'll reluctantly keep it for her."

The maple leaf boat traveled thousands of miles eastward overnight and finally arrived near Wu Wang Mountain. Suddenly, the sky brightened and the morning sun shone down. Xu Ying immediately hugged the bronze basin, sensing danger.

The maple leaf boat disappeared, and the entire Nai River vanished without a trace. The maple leaf boat turned into a falling leaf, drifting and falling from the sky.

Although Xu Ying didn't get hurt from the fall, the basin was cracked, and water leaked out from the crack. He was filled with sorrow and quickly ran while holding the basin, shouting loudly, "Hu family, Hu family! Lend me a large silver ingot! Gold is even better!"

The fox demons lived in a small town at the foot of Wu Wang Mountain. It was just dawn, and many fox demons had not yet woken up when Xu Ying barged into the town with the bronze basin.

The head of the Hu family came out and asked anxiously, "What brings you here, King Xu Ying?"The water in the copper basin was about to run out. Xu Ying didn't have time to say more. He saw a gold ring on Da Zhong's finger and quickly grabbed it and threw it into the basin.

The water in the basin had already dried up, and the gold ring made a clattering sound as it fell into the water.

Xu Ying looked up in a hurry, and suddenly saw the sky split open. A huge gold ring fell from the sky, with a diameter of about three or four miles, and crashed towards Wuwang Mountain with a loud boom, breaking through the atmosphere and carrying a blazing flame. The monsters in the mountain cried and fled in all directions.

Xu Ying was terrified and looked up in anticipation, but he saw the gold ring getting smaller and smaller. It was several miles wide before, but soon shrank to about a hundred feet. When it reached Wuwang Mountain, it was only five or six feet wide.

The gold ring spun and crashed into the cliff.

Xu Ying ran over and pulled the gold ring out of the cliff. It was only four feet wide, but much larger than the gold ring, and weighed at least a thousand catties!

"I don't have to work hard in this lifetime..." Xu Ying's voice trembled.

He looked at the broken copper basin. The water in the basin had run out, and the girl's magical power in the coffin had disappeared with the water.

Xu Ying threw a small stone into the basin, but it only made a dull sound. No stone mountain fell from the sky.

"What a pity. This treasure is much more powerful than the legendary treasure basin, but it's too fragile." Xu Ying was quite regretful, but with a large gold ring, he didn't have to worry about food and drink for the rest of his life, and the dowry was no longer a problem.

Da Zhong floated quietly behind him, thinking to himself, "The brat thought the copper basin was a treasure, but it was just the girl's spatial magical power. However, those who can cultivate such magical power are usually immortals or gods. It's not easy for a demon girl to refine such a method. Her escape this time can be said to be a narrow escape."

It suddenly occurred to Da Zhong that the demon girl, who could dissolve the invasion of the plague god, was not a demon at all. Wouldn't it be a sin to suppress her?

"Am I a bad clock?"

It couldn't help but feel lost and muttered, "Am I and my master the bad guys? No, my master is upright, wise, and brave. How could he be a bad guy? Most likely, the demon girl is hypocritical and deliberately deceiving us!"

Xu Ying returned the gold ring to the Hu family elder, and carried the large gold ring back to the Qin Yan Cave, but saw a large snake coiled at the entrance of the cave.

The snake's head was more than ten feet wide, with horns growing on top, and two horns branching out like deer antlers. They were furry, one black and one white, and blood vessels could be seen.

The giant snake was about ten feet long and coiled in front of the cave. Its scales were like mirrors, reflecting the golden-red light of the spring sun.

The snake lifted its head, about three or four feet high, and breathed in and out, practicing the guiding technique. When it inhaled, its huge body expanded, and its scales rubbed against each other, making a crisp sound like metal striking metal.Countless particles of light swarmed in the sunlight, forming a vortex and falling into the mouth of the giant snake.

Inside the snake's body, a large sun wheel could be seen wandering around, and its radiance even shone through the scales, revealing the internal organs.

In just a short moment, the sun wheel moved from the throat to the tail, causing the body to swell up and become thicker than a water tank.

When the giant snake exhaled, sand and stones flew, and the poisonous gas in its mouth formed a cloud of smoke, which was illuminated by the sunlight and rose up.

Xu Ying had encountered many demon kings and gods, but none of them had the same intensity of aura and demonic energy as this giant snake.

"You are...Yuan Qi?" Xu Ying approached and asked tentatively.

The giant snake looked at him with deep eyes but didn't speak.

"You are the seventh most poisonous in the world, Yuan Qi?" Xu Ying asked again.

The giant snake opened its mouth, and a childlike voice came out, sounding like a three or four-year-old boy, "Before my transformation, I was the fifth in the world. After the transformation, how could I become the seventh? I am now at least in the top three in the world!"

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Xu Ying was puzzled and asked, "Yuan Qi, weren't you supposed to transform into a human? How did you end up like this?"

The giant snake closed its mouth and didn't speak.

After staring at it for a while, the giant snake had to speak again, and its childlike voice rang out, "I thought I would transform into a human. The power of transformation was growing inside me, and I thought it was a sign of transformation. But after I closed up, the power of transformation gathered in the back of my head, and then two horns grew out."

Xu Ying also noticed that when the giant snake didn't speak, it was fine, but once it spoke, its voice was clear and childlike. He thought to himself, "No wonder he never speaks."

Yuan Qi had achieved great success in his cultivation during this closed-door transformation. Not only did he cultivate the Elephant King Demon Fist to the seventh level and become a demon king, but he also succeeded in internal cultivation, cultivated his divine sense, entered the realm of hope, and regulated his five elements.

His achievements in these few days of cultivation were truly remarkable!

Xu Ying walked up and said, "Yuan Qi, let me see how much you've progressed in the past few days!"

He stirred his blood and qi, and the Elephant King God Body appeared behind him. He punched out, and the wind and thunder roared!

In the past few days, Xu Ying had defeated Zhou Yang and the Plague God, and his situation was extraordinary. Although this punch was the essence of the Elephant King Demon Fist, it was already very different.

His punch had already departed from the madness of the Elephant King, and instead had a few traces of the sharpness and extension of swordsmanship.

Yuan Qi also stirred his blood and qi, and the Elephant King God Body appeared behind him, but compared to his huge body, the Elephant King God Body looked very small.

He struck out with his tail, using it as a fist to meet Xu Ying's punch.

His tail flickered slightly like a large weight, and the punch was no less powerful than Xu Ying's, even surpassing it!

"Boom!"

The fists collided, and the force exploded, with waves of qi surging and Xu Ying's clothes fluttering. Yuan Qi's long mane also fluttered behind him, like a string of feather-like flags.

It was only then that Xu Ying noticed that there was a row of fluttering manes behind Yuan Qi's head, which looked like feathers or horse manes and appeared soft."Could it be because he drank those few drops of dragon blood that he couldn't transform into a human?" Xu Ying thought to himself.

He remembered that Yuan Tiangang had once said that Yuan Qi's greed for a few drops of dragon blood had hindered his ability to transform into a human. It seemed that this was what Yuan Tiangang had been referring to.

Yuan Qi attacked again with his tail as a fist. Xu Ying faced him with his fists and feet. Blood and qi clashed between man and snake, causing sand and stones to fly outside of Qin Yan Cave.

Suddenly, Yuan Qi used the move White Elephant Swinging Nose, and the tip of his tail broke through the air, emitting a thunderous sound. Xu Ying quickly dodged and didn't try to resist.

Yuan Qi's strongest move was this one, with the tip of his tail surpassing the sound barrier and containing too much power. Xu Ying didn't dare to resist it easily, lest he get injured.

"Little Seven, the Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist is no longer suitable for you," Xu Ying looked at the small elephant-headed deity behind the giant snake and said.

Yuan Qi nodded. He also felt that the Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist was not compatible with him. The Elephant King Divine Body condensed by this martial art couldn't accommodate all of his blood and qi, but instead limited his strength.

"A-Ying, where is Da Zhong?" Yuan Qi asked.

Xu Ying gestured towards the mountain below and said, "I don't know why he's moping around there. He may have something on his mind. Go talk to him."

Yuan Qi swam towards the mountain, his body stretching over ten feet long, crushing thorns and bushes and causing trees in the forest to bend and animals and demons to cower.

Yuan Qi silently passed through the animals and demons and came to Da Zhong's side. He looked down at the big bell for a moment before saying, "Why are you so down on yourself, Zhong Ye?"

Da Zhong's spiritual sense fluctuated, and he said, "I don't know if I'm good or evil. I'm having a hard time controlling my emotions... Huh, it's you! Why does your voice sound like that of a child?"

Yuan Qi was embarrassed and angry, "A-Ying said you were upset, so I came to talk to you. But you're insulting me! What's bothering you?"

Da Zhong explained his worries, but Yuan Qi, who had read many books, said, "Since you suspect that you're a bad person, why don't you ask the female ghost in the coffin? If you explain the situation to her, you'll understand everything. Why bother sulking here?"

Da Zhong refused to bow down to the girl in the coffin, sneering, "I was ordered by my master to suppress her. She's the bad guy, and my master is never wrong. Besides, I'm seriously injured now. If I go see her and she kills me, wouldn't that be unjust?"

Yuan Qi said, "You're just scared."

Da Zhong was furious and slammed his head against the ground, shouting, "Am I scared? I'm just injured! If I were fine, would I be afraid of her? When I'm better, I'll personally suppress her and put her back in the ancient well in the stone mountain!"Although Yuan Qi had more than ten blood blisters on his head from being hit, he still refused to accept it and shouted, "When you weren't injured, weren't you still beaten into serious injuries and fled in embarrassment? Even if you heal your injuries and seek revenge, you'll only be beaten even harder!"

Da Zhong was furious, "You snake, today I, Lao Zhong, will send you to the underworld by the Nai River!"

"We're already in the underworld, no need for you to send us!"

"You stinky snake, I'll kill you!"

"Lord Zhong, spare me!"

Xu Ying was breathing and practicing Taiyi Guiding Qi in front of Qin Yan's cave. He heard the commotion below the mountain and looked down to see Da Zhong and Yuan Qi playing around. One moment, Da Zhong was pressing Yuan Qi's head to the ground, and the next moment, Yuan Qi was trying to strangle Da Zhong. They seemed to have a good relationship.

"The spring sunshine is just right." Xu Ying smiled, feeling peaceful inside. The sunlight gathered above his head and gradually formed a half-acre field of light. The warm weather made everything stretch out.

Zhou Yihang was walking towards Wumang Mountain with a gloomy expression. This old man was covered in injuries and had crossed forty miles of the underworld in the past two days, encountering various dangers and inexplicable phenomena. He finally arrived at Wumang Mountain alive.

"Yang'er, today, your father will cut off Xu Ying's head and place it on your altar as the first sacrifice for you to enjoy after you become a god!"