9 THRONES

CHAPTER 48: SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE

"This person is really lucky, if they are still alive then they must end up even worse off" said Vann who was staring at the corpse of a man on the ground coldly.

The body belonged to none other than Tude's partner. Vann had already been strolling in the Soul Forest for 40 minutes, he found many corpses of other disciples along the way. Perhaps out of all the disciples who had set out for the forest, half had died.

Among the corpses that Vann saw, 2 of them were Tude's comrades who made Vann no longer bother to kill them. 2 of them died from illusions, as a result of illusions, while Tude with 2 other people are still unknown.

After making sure no one survived, Vann continued to step forward again in the forest.

But moving for a while, Vann immediately stopped his steps in shock then jumped onto the bushes beside him.

In front of Vann's eyes, there was a 10-meter-long snake moving in an open field in the forest.

The snake stood in front of a cave that was most likely his residence, while on the other side Vann found the snake's stomach was already very large, it seems that there were many humans that he ate whether they died from illusions or tried to resist but were defeated by the snake.

Sensing the power of the snake, Vann's face changed "What's really going on here? Didn't the organizers say all the monsters here have the power of Qi Gathering? But this was still in the early part of the forest and I found the level 1 Qi Fondation snake monster, the further it moved towards the forest then the monsters it encountered should become even stronger. If at the front of the monsters were as strong as a level 1 Qi Fondation, then how strong were the monsters in the forest core?".

Vann is not a fool, even he is very intelligent compared to most people. Therefore, Vann realized there was an oddity to these tests as if someone was trying to use them as a sacrifice.

After all they were only the weakest cultivator figures in the academy, losing 1000 of them was not very fatal to any great power.

When Vann decides to leave, however, Van's current strength is not yet the snake monster's opponent. Something startling suddenly happened, the snake whose stomach had been enormous due to a lot of eating fell weakly to the ground.

Although his eyes were still wide open, Vann knew that the snake monster had fallen asleep. Snakes cannot close their eyes at all, so they sleep with their eyes open.

An idea popped into Vann's head, this was an opportunity.

Although the snake monster was much stronger than Vann, it seemed that he ate too much to fall asleep and had trouble moving. As long as Vann took advantage of this time, he might be able to kill the snake.

After thinking about the possibility of winning, Vann stepped forward to approach the snake.

Vann's idea may be risky, but he must have the courage to be strong as quickly as possible.

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Unbeknownst to Vann, there was a figure of a man covered in shadows behind the cave on the back of the snake.

The man finds Vann trying to get close to the snake, a smile appearing on his face "This boy is very brave, who thinks he is trying to fight an enemy stronger than him. Then let's see if this kid only has courage or there is strength! However, the courage to take risks in order to gain an advantage without having enough strength is just a stupid act".

The whole Soul Forest, even in Talper Province would definitely never think that the snake figure guarding the front of the cave where the suspicious man was located was not a monster entirely but rather the man's unique strength.

The monster in front of the cave is always changing shape and its strength increases according to the opponent who comes, the stronger the opponent then the snake also becomes stronger.

As long as his opponent was still at the early intermediate level cultivator, more precisely below the Saint stage, the strength of this snake would always increase to the point of frightening his opponent.

As for those above Saint, the suspicious man was sure the power above Saint had no time to spend on a small forest like this.

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Vann who was standing right in front of the snake was preparing to draw his sword, Vann's movements were very careful not to attract the snake's attention or make him wake up.

Vann immediately felt the crisis of life and death under the snake's gaze, although Vann did not know what would happen but he believed in his bad premonition.

Therefore, Vann leapt back a few meters without hesitation.

Just as Vann was jumping, the snake opened its mouth and fired a poisonous liquid.

Fortunately Vann dodged in time, if he was a little late, he must have been exposed to the poisonous liquid.

"Satv!".

A hissing sound rang out, Vann gazed towards the trees that were exposed to the poison to find them starting to melt.

This snake poison was extremely frightening, the enormous tree was immediately gone with less than an hour of poison.

Van who finished taking his sword again rushed forward towards the snake because he found something, the snake still did not move.

Seeing the snake remain still in place, Vann knew what he was thinking was right.

The snake ate too much until it could not move again until it finished removing some of the food in its stomach, so the snake monster could only fire the poison liquid from its mouth.

Under Vann's observation ability, he avoided all the poison without any problems and appeared in front of the snake's head.

He had to kill the snake as quickly as possible, before it moved again.

"Stabs!".

Vann stabbed his sword into the snake's eyes, the rest of the snake's body covered by sharp scales that made it difficult for Vann to deliver fatal wounds.

Therefore, the eye part had the weakest defense and easily gave a fatal wound that made Vann target the eyes of the snake monster.

"Satv!".

The snake hissed in pain, moving from left to right like it was crashing its head into the ground so Vann could get out of his head.

Feeling the pain of the snake's head crashing into the ground, Vann did not release his sword but instead shouted "Strade Technique 5 Element stage 1, Water Wave"

Suddenly the head of the snake continued to grow, even his body became bigger than when he had just finished eating just now.

Water fell from the snake's body, but its body was still being enlarged by the water until the sound of a huge explosion was heard.

"Booooom!".

The snake monster body exploded violently, there were a lot of parts of his body like blood and flesh that spread throughout the area around, Vann's body was also red.

Although he was covered in blood, Vann did not care and just laughed out loud, he actually won against a monster that was much stronger than him that was a level 1 Qi Foundation stage. Anyone who heard this story of Vann's victory, they must have been hard to believe because the difference in Vann's strength was very far from the snake monster just now.