Chapter 26: Devouring

  Just as she clearly felt the destructive aura of that blow, which was about to shatter her into pieces, she suddenly felt a tightness around her waist and was lifted into mid-air by an enormous force.

  "Run for it!"

  She fell heavily to the ground, opened her eyes and found herself more than 20 meters away. She lowered her head and found that she had been rescued from the snake's mouth by someone using a rattan rope to bind her.

  "Lin Hang! It's Lin Hang, he's made his move!" Wanwan's eyes widened and stared intently at the familiar figure not far away. Without a doubt, she was able to escape from death thanks to Lin Hang's rescue.

  Lin Heng had long since stopped paying attention to her, and the demon crown saw that he had actually rescued someone from his own hands. Enraged, it opened its bloody mouth wide and bit at him. Lin Heng still had another vine rope in his hand, and with a burst of arm strength, "whoosh" the person flew through the air, flying towards the side.

  The Crowned Scaled Python struck again, its massive jaws wide open. Lin Heng swiftly threw out the "Hunting Bullet" that he had hidden in his sleeve, hitting the python's open mouth with precision. The Hunting Bullet was a common method used by warriors to hunt large demonic beasts, due to its powerful explosive force. Once used, it was often not for hunting the beast, but for self-protection. Because once the bullet was thrown out, the beast would be blown up, and its value would greatly decrease.

  In other words, this bullet is used when facing a monster that poses an extremely great threat to one's life.

  "Boom!" The blood basin-like mouth of the Crowned Scaled Python had already been blasted once by Han Xuan's Heaven Ring, and now it was blown to a bloody pulp again. Earlier, the warriors at Qili Gou had also used many hunting bullets, but the Crowned Scaled Python had its tough scales, which were not damaged at all. This time, Lin Hang threw something into its mouth, triggering an attack, which was greatly different from attacking its exterior.

  The lower jaw of the demonic crown python was blown out with a big mouth, and it couldn't be closed tightly again. If not for the thick flesh in its mouth, it might have been blasted through.

  The crown scales python felt unprecedented insult, angry and hateful to the point of smoke from seven orifices. It let out a long hiss, its massive body coiling and lashing about in confusion, and in the blink of an eye it caught up with Lin Huarong. Lowering its snake head, its bloody great maw open wide in fury, it struck straight at Lin Huarong.

  Lin Heng naturally wanted to escape, but he felt as if there was a whirlwind of air that tightly locked him in place, slowly and involuntarily drawing him towards the giant maw of the Crowned Scale Python. What's going on? Could this be some kind of special divine ability of the Crowned Scale Python? He didn't have time to think much, he only saw himself using all his might to stimulate the potential system within his body, but still unable to move an inch.

  Your sister is in trouble this time!

  He never expected that with all his might, he would still be unable to break free from this binding force.

  He had no idea that even a third-class warrior would find it difficult to escape the "Shadow Bite" attack, a natural divine ability of the Crowned Scale Python. The only thing was that when this divine ability was used, impurities would be produced in the body of the Crowned Scale Python, affecting its cultivation. Now, it was actually being blown back by this weak human, and the Crowned Scale Python was furious. Seeing the terrifying blood basin-like mouth of the Crowned Scale Python about to reach him, Lin Heyan even smelled the strong fishy smell from the snake's mouth, extremely anxious.

  He gritted his teeth and went all out, flying towards the giant mouth of the Crowned Queen Snake under the influence of the magnetic attraction. If you don't enter a tiger's lair, how can you get its cubs? Under the influence of "Shadow Bite" and with his full acceleration, his figure was as swift as a flying arrow.

  "Universal Crushing Fist!" Lin Heng's blow was made with the intention of staking his life, two strong men meeting, either you die or I die!

  His maximum limit was to throw six punches, but he flew too fast and the distance from the scaled python was too short. Although he spat out his fist in extreme speed, he could only manage to throw three overlapping punches.

  He only felt a darkness in front of his eyes, and the whole person straightly entered the giant python's mouth, and then his fist heavily fell on the wet and thick **.

  The internal structure of the Crowned Scale Serpent, without the thick scaly armor to protect it, could be one of its greatest weaknesses. Adding that the Crowned Scale Serpent had been blasted by the Heavenly Ring and had consumed nearly half of its energy, Lin's strike was like a drill bit, "Peng" actually drilling out a large chunk of flesh and blood, almost piercing through the snake's cheek. The Crowned Scale Serpent felt a sharp pain, its massive body rolling around uncontrollably, nearby houses flying away with a whooshing sound. It gave up on its plan to devour humans at this point and no longer dared to stay, turning its head towards Mount Mao Hu and escaping!

  After Lin's strike, he only felt a strong suction force pulling him down, his body was squeezed into a ball and shrunk downwards.

  He was actually swallowed alive by the demon king's scales python into his belly.

  "Lin Hang was eaten by a big monster..."

  "The big evil thing has run away, we are saved..."

  "That trash was swallowed by the big evil thing, hahaha... After that, we didn't have any more trash in our village, and we no longer worried about losing face..."

  Before the young man's words had fallen, Wanwan's fork handle fell heavily on his head and scolded: "What a disaster, hurry up to rescue people..."

  The reason why the Crowned Scaled Python escaped was because of Lin Hang's heavy blow in its mouth, but nobody saw it and thought that the Crowned Scaled Python couldn't withstand the siege and fled in fright. So when Lin Hang was bitten by the python, not only did he receive no sympathy, but people even felt a sense of pleasure. The only one who clearly saw what happened was Wanwan, and if Lin Hang hadn't stood up at the critical moment, she would have been the one to end up in the snake's belly. Therefore, she was filled with admiration and gratitude towards Lin Hang.

  She hastily left a few people to rescue the wounded and led nearly a hundred young men to chase after them from afar.

  In just a short while, due to the difference in speed between humans and demonic beasts, under the dense and dark cover of the mountains and forests, she lost sight of the Demon Crowned Python's trail.

  ………

  "What... Lin Heng... Lin Heng was eaten by the Great Evil..." Upon hearing this, Lin Heng's mother immediately fainted.

  Zhou Ze hastily laid her down on the bed and urgently called for the village doctor to come and treat her.

  Wan Wan was filled with guilt. If it wasn't for saving her, Lin Yang wouldn't have had to take action and would have avoided this disaster. If it wasn't for Lin Yang's nearly fatal blows to the Crowned Scaled Python, the python wouldn't have escaped, allowing Qili Gou to avoid the catastrophe that occurs every 50 years. According to village statistics, this invasion by the scaled python destroyed 62 houses, causing 320 warriors to be seriously or lightly injured, and 42 deaths, including Lin Yang who was swallowed alive by the Crowned Scaled Python.

  Judging from the data, the loss is undoubtedly severe, but compared with the past, this is the lightest one in hundreds of years on record.

  Everyone was unaware, but Wanwan's heart was clear as a mirror. The entire turning point was Lin Heng's dying blow. He used his humble life to reverse the fate of Qili Gou!

  She was desperately trying to prove it, but the villagers had seen Lin Heng's true nature too deeply, and no one believed her. They all thought she was just trying to protect her loved one's reputation by giving Lin Heng, a useless ghost, a glorious hat of "martyr". Things had come to this point, and no one cared about it anymore. For the martyr who sacrificed for the clan, the family would receive 70 pieces of bear skin and 1,000 taels of gold from the clan's consolation fund, which was the rule of the Qi Li Gou clan. But now that person was dead, and in the future, Qi Li Gou would no longer be dragged down by this useless thing, so this 1,000 taels of gold was worth it.

  So Yuwen mentioned this matter, and no one said anything. The clan leader, Huo Tianzhao, even took the initiative to grant Lin Heng the title of "martyr", and his family enjoyed the care of a martyr's family.

  The honor was given, but people's tone and attitude didn't take it seriously at all. At a glance, it can be seen that it is purely perfunctory, with the purpose of getting rid of trouble.

  Lin Heng's father also returned home at this time, because they had sensed the footprints of the demon crown python in the mountains ahead of time, so they hid in the mountain cave for a whole month before returning late. Unexpectedly, when he returned home, he heard this terrible news, and although he didn't faint like his wife, he was dazed and two lines of old tears flowed down.

  As for Lin Huan's sister and brother-in-law Zhou Ze, they were also heartbroken and depressed. The Lin family was thus plunged into a deep sorrowful silence.