Upon seeing the white wolf puppets restrained, Han Li formed hand seals without the slightest hesitation and directly detonated both puppets with his spiritual sense.
The three-headed giant serpent's body was incredibly tough, but its mouths did not possess the same freakish defensive ability. These two white wolf puppets had been forged from many rare and unidentifiable materials, so the power of their self-destruction was far from trivial. After the explosions rang out, both serpent heads let out shrill, agonized screams, their expressions twisted in unbearable pain.
The middle head, however, was completely unaffected — it only grew even more furious.
It swept its body, and its massive tail lashed forward. A black shadow flashed, and the green serpent puppet that had just lunged was sent flying, hurtling back over ten zhang before crashing to the ground, where it lay motionless.
At the same time, the serpent head darted forward and bit down hard, crushing one of the red ox puppets to smithereens before Han Li even had a chance to self-destruct it.
Marquis Nanlong and the elder surnamed Lu, having finally gained enough time thanks to Han Li's puppet beasts, launched their attacks through their terror.
First, the dozens of blazing white fireballs hovering before the elder shot across the sky at his single command of "Go!"
Marquis Nanlong raised his hand and cast a spell seal onto the emerald ring. The ring trembled, then split — one into two, two into four, four into eight — in a single breath, it conjured over a hundred identical phantoms. The true ring was hidden among them, and the whole mass of green-tinged light shot forward.
Han Li, with calm composure, flipped his palm and sacrificed a dark object into the air.
It swelled in the wind, transforming in a flash of black light into a mountain peak over ten zhang tall, and under the continued driving of his spell seals, it kept growing without stop.
It was precisely that ancient treasure — the Thousand Layer Peak.
Against a monster as massive and thick-skinned as this giant serpent, no treasure could be more fitting.
It was just that this serpent was by no means slow — he would need to find a way to restrain it first.
As Han Li was pondering, the left and right heads of the three-headed serpent seemed to have recovered from the recent self-destructions. Two gaping maws opened wide, and two thick, grayish beams of light shot from their throats.
The white fireballs collided with the beams of light first, and tremendous explosions erupted. The fireballs instantly transformed into waves of white flame that intertwined with the gray light, resulting in a standoff.
The emerald rings, meanwhile, bypassed the clash of gray light and white flames entirely, shooting straight toward the three serpent heads.
Han Li's massive black peak followed unhurriedly behind the green light, drifting leisurely forward.
The giant serpent saw the fierce advance of the green light and seemed to sense some kind of threat. The main head let out a low roar, spiritual light flickered, and a cyan radiance enveloped its entire body. Then, opening its massive, blood-red maw, it lunged forward.
The illusions conjured by the emerald rings dissipated like smoke the instant they made contact with the serpent's ferocious lunge.
Only one ring, lurking behind the others, wavered gently before vanishing from its spot and appearing directly above the serpent's head.
Then, blazing with brilliant light, the ring transformed into a streak of green energy and descended with lightning speed.
An enormous jade-green ring, magnified countless times, materialized at the vital point of the serpent's neck. It contracted violently, clamping down with desperate force and sinking deep into the serpent's flesh.
Even a serpent of the giant serpent's immense size could not endure the agony once its vital point was seized.
It immediately writhed in agony, its main head slamming wildly against the ground, while the green light at its vital point flickered ceaselessly, as if desperately trying to break free of the jade ring's restraint.
The two smaller heads also showed expressions of pain in response.
As a result, the gray beams of light that had been locked in a stalemate with the white fire waves abruptly ceased.
Lu Weiying's eyes brightened upon seeing this. Seizing the opportunity, the white flames surged forward under the driving of his spell seals, raising fire waves over ten zhang high that crashed toward the serpent.
The sea of fire engulfed the giant serpent in an instant.
However, the cyan radiance covering the serpent's body was extraordinarily powerful. Though the white flames surrounded it completely, for a time only the flickering of cyan light could be seen. Even though the serpent writhed across the ground with the green ring clamped on its vital point, its body showed no signs of damage whatsoever.
Suddenly, black light flickered above the serpent, and a black mountain peak several tens of zhang tall materialized out of thin air.
The peak spun round and round in the air, and massive swaths of black radiance shot from its base, instantly enveloping the serpent below.
The serpent's movements turned sluggish in the black light, as if every action carried the weight of a thousand jin.
The black mountain peak seized this opportunity and plummeted straight down.
The three-headed serpent sensed that things had gone terribly wrong. One after another, the three heads strained to raise themselves and spewed several balls of light into the sky, attempting to halt the descending peak.
But as soon as these light balls entered the black radiance, before they could even reach the peak, they gradually disintegrated and dissipated on the way.
Seeing this, the serpent still refused to submit to death.
With every ounce of its strength, it slammed its massive tail against the ground and shot through the radiance. But at that moment, the surrounding white flames suddenly transformed into over a dozen thick chains of fire that lashed around the serpent's body. It managed to fly barely over ten zhang before crashing heavily to the ground once more.