Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Steel of the Heart

Tu Lizard Secret Realm

Before anyone knew it, the sky had become covered with dark clouds, and with lightning flashing, heavy rain began to fall from the sky.

Raindrops fall on the earth, turning this space into a world of rain.

Below the rainwater, the river churned, its turbid waves surging into the sky, the roar of the waves crashing against the rocks never ceasing.

But amidst this scene where heaven and earth intertwine, and rain and rivers merge into one, there is a region that stands out from the rest.

The great battle between Xiang Bei and Tu Xi continued, and the commotion from their fighting practically plowed up all the surrounding terrain. As for the rain pouring down from the sky, it couldn't even get into either of them; it was already pulverized by the shockwaves of their battle before it even hit the ground.

"Cough cough, they're really troublesome!"

After dodging the claws of the one-eyed lizard and sweeping away the black-scaled lizard, Xiang Bei was then struck by the tail of the red-haired lizard. He was sent flying like a cannonball, smashing a rock on the riverbank to pieces before finally coming to a stop.

"Eee!" "Eee!" "Eee!"

The three lizards roared and charged at Xiang Bei as soon as he stood up again, as if they would fight to the death if they didn't devour him alive.

However, upon seeing this scene, Xiang Bei instead wore a slight smile.

He seemed to ignore the attacks from the three lizards, including their claws, tails, and rabbit legs. Instead of dodging them, he stood still on the water's edge.

His gaze was fixed on the one-eyed lizard at the very front, which was at least a level four star.

With both hands gripping the halberd tightly, wisps of water vapor rapidly condensed on the halberd. At this moment, countless rushing river waters changed course, turning from flowing downstream to quickly condensing on Xiang Bei's halberd.

In an instant, the river stopped flowing, and a ten-thousand-foot-long water python soared into the air, glaring angrily at the three-headed lizard below!

"die!"

With a roar, Xiang Bei summoned the water python formed by the river and smashed it directly at the three lizards that were rushing towards him. At the same time, Xiang Bei's own figure gradually became transparent, as if he were a real stream of water merging into the water python.

However, it was the talent that Xiang Bei comprehended when he became a planetary-level martial artist: Water Without Form.

By transforming itself into a stream of water, it can temporarily avoid damage while also merging into the water.

Xiang Bei incorporated this move into the Great River Python, making the python even more agile and its power three times greater.

The moment the serpent collided with the three-headed lizard, the serpent, formed from the water of the great river, seemed to come alive. Its body, thousands of feet long, stretched out and flowed with water, yet not a single drop of water leaked out.

The three-headed star-level lizard's attack collided with the water python, instantly shattering the python's massive head, but its body showed no sign of stopping.

With a single swing of its massive body, it completely enveloped and coiled the three-headed lizard within the body of the river python, seemingly intent on strangling it to death.

The anaconda's head, which had been shattered by the three-headed lizard, quickly reformed as if it had never been attacked.

"Boom!"

The roar of the massive water flow completely submerged the three-headed lizards. The massive, serpentine bodies of the lizards converged, and the immense pressure of the water caused bursts of blood mist to erupt from their bodies, which then merged into the river water, becoming part of their attack.

Inside the anaconda, the three-headed lizards, of course, had no intention of passively waiting to die. They frantically attacked the anaconda that was coiling around and squeezing them.

However, water has no fixed shape. No matter how powerful the attack is, it can only disperse the water of this long river. In a short while, the water python will return to its original state.

No matter how they attacked, they could not break free from the water python's grasp, and were tightly wrapped and squeezed in the endless current of water by the terrifying flow.

At this moment, the ten-thousand-foot-long water python coiled and enveloped the three-headed lizard, forming a colossal object in the air that blotted out the sun and imprisoned it in the very center.

The anaconda then began to shrink, and the three-headed lizard at the very center began to emit more and more blood mist, its injuries becoming increasingly severe.

The red-haired lizard, which had been targeted by Xiang Bei and suffered repeated blows, was showing signs of weakening under the pressure of the water python. Its resistance was becoming increasingly chaotic and weak.

At this moment, the water python's contraction and compression seemed to have reached its limit, and a terrifying power gathered at the center of the water python.

Just then, the cooling of Heart Steel finally ended perfectly.

"Boom boom boom"

A terrifying explosion that shook the heavens and the earth rang out.

In an instant, the enormous water python that blotted out the sky in mid-air cut off the river's flow, and the massive water mass, weighing an unknown number of tons, exploded with a deafening roar.

The terrifying torrents of water shot out like bolts of lightning, like a barrage of arrows, in all directions.

At this moment, trees, weeds, rocks, the ground, and even the numerous lizards watching from afar all suffered.

The water flow shattered everything within tens of thousands of meters around, as if cutting through tofu. Those lizards that couldn't dodge in time were pierced through by the water swords and even cut and torn into pieces.

The entire group of lizards suffered heavy casualties in a short time, with only those lizards that were further away escaping unscathed.

When the mist dissipated, the river was still nowhere to be seen, leaving behind only a huge crater thousands of meters long.

As for the three lizards at the very center of the explosion that bore the brunt of the attack, two of them were reduced to fragments, clearly pulverized by the massive blast.

Only the strongest one-eyed lizard lay alone in the very center of the giant pit.

However, at this moment, the lizard's body was completely mangled, with exposed white bones and blood everywhere, and its limbs had long since been blown off.

Now, this once fierce and powerful one-eyed lizard lies dying at the bottom of the pit, clearly unconscious and completely incapacitated.

On the other side of the deep pit, Xiang Bei was also half-lying at the bottom, his whole body already soaked by the water. His handsome face, which had been pale for a while, quickly regained its rosy color.

That move was an extraordinary performance on the spot, which was a huge burden for Xiang Bei in his current state, and the cost was not light either. After that move, Xiang Bei was almost completely drained by the terrifying consumption of that move, which was a situation where he killed 10,000 enemies but lost 8,000 of his own.

Fortunately, the Heart Steel cooled down at the last moment. Although it was unknown which lizard it killed to feed him, the massive life replenishment indicated that it was one of the two dead star-level lizards. The powerful life boost allowed Xiang Bei's energy and injuries to recover almost completely in an instant.