Its massive body was so large that its head seemed to touch the clouds!

This was the scene that greeted the members of the Song Family. They felt as if they could sense a pair of enormous, icy eyes staring down at them indifferently from beneath the clouds.

"SHUUUCK!"

The Yin Nether Serpent suddenly opened its massive maw and inhaled deeply, targeting the people on the ground!

"This is bad! It’s a Yin Nether Serpent, a Netherworld Hell Envoy! It opens its mouth to devour Divine Souls! We have to fall back, now! If we don’t, our Divine Souls will be sucked right out of us!"

A Late-stage Foundation Establishment Realm Spirit Cultivator shouted, then retreated at his fastest possible speed.

Young Master Song, Song Hao, and Song Ning managed to retreat in time, but five other Spirit Cultivators from the Song Family were too slow. Even though they were experts above the Grandmaster Realm, they didn’t even have time to utter a sound before turning into cold, pale corpses. Wisps of Ghost Soul Power drifted from the tops of their heads, all of which were then sucked into the Yin Nether Serpent’s mouth.

Excluding the one Jiang Jichen had run over and killed, the Song Family had originally been left with eleven members. Now, five of them were dead in an instant, unable to put up even a sliver of resistance. The Yin Nether Serpent was truly terrifying to the extreme.

At this moment, how could the six remaining Song Family members dare to linger for even a second? They fled for their lives at top speed, all of their initial arrogance gone.

Among the six, aside from Young Master Song Hao and Song Ning, who were at the Grandmaster Realm, there were three at the Foundation Establishment Middle Realm and one at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

At this very moment, they were scared out of their wits. Before the Yin Nether Serpent, what was the difference between even a Late-stage Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator and an ant?

However, they were decisive enough. Once they decided to flee, they fled, even activating Secret Techniques and Secret Artifacts to get far away.

However, with the Yin Soul Flower it guarded now stolen, the Yin Nether Serpent was utterly enraged. Its icy gaze fell upon Jiang Jichen, who had gotten the farthest away. It twisted its enormous body and slithered forward, instantly carving a deep trench in the marshland.

Despite its massive body, the serpent’s speed was not slow in the slightest, and it quickly caught up to the three Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivators from the Song Family.

In the Yin Nether Serpent’s eyes, these people were part of the same group as Jiang Jichen, the one who had taken the Yin Soul Flower. So, with a single opening of its maw, it devoured the Divine Souls of the three Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

As for Song Ning, he had chosen to flee in the opposite direction of Jiang Jichen from the very beginning. The Yin Nether Serpent saw him but had no intention of pursuing him, which ironically allowed Song Ning to escape with his life.

The three Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivators were not so lucky!

However, the speed-enhancing Secret Artifact activated by Young Master Song, Song Hao, and the Late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator was astonishing. In an instant, they were miles away, having escaped the disaster and left Jiang Jichen far behind.

The situation had now naturally become one of the Yin Nether Serpent chasing after Jiang Jichen.

Feeling the tide of Nether Qi surging behind him, Jiang Jichen knew that even at his current speed, the Yin Nether Serpent would eventually catch him. When that happened, his death would be certain.

However, Jiang Jichen suddenly stopped, watching from a distance as the Yin Nether Serpent closed in to kill him.

Wherever the Yin Nether Serpent passed, waves of Nether Qi billowed forth, creating a terrifying sight.

Jiang Jichen’s expression was calm. He knew that it was hopeless to keep running; he might as well take a gamble.

In one hand, he held a bead so vividly green it seemed about to drip, and in the other, one corner of the Azure Heaven Killing Array.

He channeled his Spiritual Power, pouring it into the two Great Killing Artifacts. Instantly, a wisp of faint green, poisonous gas drifted out, coiling unceasingly before him.

Another wave of killing intent also emerged, hidden in the void, utterly unpredictable.

The Yin Nether Serpent had been charging at full speed, about to open its mouth and devour Jiang Jichen’s Divine Soul, but it abruptly halted its massive body just ten meters away.

Its enormous, cold eyes had naturally spotted the green bead in Jiang Jichen’s palm, as well as that piece of beast hide.

The green poisonous gas and the invisible killing intent made it extremely wary, and a sense of dread welled up within it.

But that was one thing; what truly made it tremble with fear was the piece of beast hide.

A wisp of aura emanating from the hide almost made it kneel down involuntarily.

This was a suppression that came from the soul, from the very bloodline.

’The aura of a Celestial Desolate Beast, one of the Ancient Ten Most Ferocious Beasts!’

Even knowing it was just a fragment of hide, the Yin Nether Serpent still didn’t dare to take a single step forward.

The Ancient Ten Most Ferocious Beasts were supreme existences of legend. Even a mere wisp of their aura was something the Yin Nether Serpent could never hope to defy.

Watching the Yin Nether Serpent lying prostrate on the ground, not daring to move, Jiang Jichen finally breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that his gamble had paid off.

But his back was already drenched in cold sweat. After all, being stared down menacingly by a behemoth like the Yin Nether Serpent from just ten meters away still made his heart pound with fear.

In truth, both the Poison-Devouring Pearl Fragment and the Azure Heaven Killing Array were things the Yin Nether Beast feared immensely.

And that was not to mention the piece of Celestial Desolate Beast Hide!

Jiang Jichen discovered that as it absorbed more and more Essence Qi, the Celestial Desolate Beast Hide was growing more lustrous and faintly beginning to exude a primal, ferocious aura.

Of course, Jiang Jichen didn’t linger and quickly retreated.

And so, even though Jiang Jichen had taken the Yin Soul Flower, the Yin Nether Serpent dared not give chase.

The lingering wisp of the Celestial Desolate Beast’s aura would take it a long time to process; it would likely need half a day to recover fully.

Thus, after a close call, Jiang Jichen escaped the marshland.

Outside the marshland was a small plain!

As soon as Jiang Jichen emerged, he spotted two figures in the distance.

It was Young Master Song, Song Hao, and the Late-stage Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator. They seemed to have been waiting for quite some time and were stunned to see Jiang Jichen appear.

"I can’t believe it! That trash Junior Cultivator actually managed to escape?"

The two of them cried out in disbelief.

But their shock was quickly replaced by immense fury.

"It’s all because of this brat! He drew out the Yin Nether Serpent and nearly got all of my Song Family members wiped out! He deserves to die!"

Young Master Song roared in fury.

"Young Master, calm yourself. This brat has the Yin Soul Flower. Let’s get the flower from him first, then we can torture him slowly!"

Being older, the Song Family’s Late-stage Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator quickly composed himself and advised Song Hao.

Listening from the side, Jiang Jichen couldn’t help but laugh in fury.

’I almost died here, and it was all because these Song Family people suddenly barged in. Otherwise, I’m confident I could have taken the Yin Soul Flower without a sound. It never needed to be this dangerous.’

’Not only that, but they’ve always treated me like an ant they could crush whenever they felt like it.’

’They want to kill my friends and family... Heh... This is truly an irreconcilable blood feud.’

"So, you’re from the Song Family? To think that after I killed one Song Zian, a whole new pack of Song Family fools would show up. You want to kill my friends and family? Fine. From now on, I’ll kill every member of the Song Family I see. My friends and family will only be safe once every last one of you is dead!"