In order to kill, he had only prepared things that would ensure mutual destruction, not anything to save his own life. As a result, he didn't have time to dodge and was hit head-on.

He carefully recalled the shape of that thing, and suddenly his eyes widened.

"Right, the surface of that tower seemed to have some scales..."

Xuan Yangzi thought of the Black Dragon Pagoda's surface, covered in black-gold dragon scales, which were very similar to the scales of the snake he had seen.