Qin Shilei was about to reach out to take it when a sudden inspiration struck him. He asked, "Are there any poisons or蛊虫s (gu worms) or other miscellaneous things on this secret manual?"
Xu Feng replied without concealment, "There are three kinds of potent poisons and two very tiny蛊虫s."
"..."
Qin Shilei suppressed the urge to beat him up and commanded again, "Clean off anything on the secret manual that is harmful to people."
Xu Feng waved his hand, removed the蛊虫s, and then poured three kinds of medicinal liquids onto the manual. "There, now this secret manual is completely harmless."
Qin Shilei thought for a moment, put on a plastic glove, took the manual, and put it directly into his Qiankun Ring.
As he was about to ask the other party again, he suddenly felt a chill rise from the base of his spine to the back of his head.
Qin Shilei looked up and found a pair of lantern-sized eyes staring at him coldly.
A snake's head as large as a car was emerging from the light portal that had just appeared.
A snake's tongue nearly two meters long was constantly flickering in and out.
Name: Twin-headed Rooster-crested Serpent.
Description: It grew a second head after surviving for three thousand years. It was once at the Golden Nine-Star cultivation level, but its strength was greatly reduced due to being trapped in the Frost Secret Realm. It is now Golden One-Star. It excels at fire-elemental attacks, and its weakness is the rooster crest on its heads.
It was actually a giant snake of the Golden realm that had lived for three thousand years.
Before Qin Shilei could react, the rooster crest on the serpent's head suddenly erupted with white flames, which shot towards him with a whoosh.
While attacking, the rooster-crested serpent continued to emerge from the secret realm.
Qin Shilei instantly teleported in front of the serpent and thrust his sword towards the rooster crest on its head.
The rooster-crested serpent never expected Qin Shilei to teleport, nor that anyone would know its weakness.
Caught off guard, it was immediately struck in its basin-sized rooster crest by Qin Shilei's sword.
The ferocious lightning-attribute sword energy exploded within the crest.
Bang!
The bright red rooster crest burst open like a watermelon.
Golden blood splattered everywhere.
The rooster-crested serpent's entire body stiffened and became immobile, trembling uncontrollably from the intense pain.
It had been trapped for over a thousand years and had finally been released.
The rooster-crested serpent was about to have a snack to fill its shriveled stomach.
And the little opponent in front of it had struck its greatest weakness with the first move.
The rooster crest on its head was both where it stored fire-elemental energy and its greatest weakness.
If it were in its normal state, even if Qin Shilei could pierce its rooster crest, he would never have been able to blow it up.
However, it had been trapped for too long, and the fire energy on its rooster crest was almost depleted, thus greatly reducing its defense.
Qin Shilei pressed his advantage and quickly thrust his sword over ten more times, instantly piercing the two lantern-sized eyeballs of the serpent.
However, its head was too hard, and Qin Shilei, fearing its other head, did not activate his One-Punch Man state, so he couldn't pierce the serpent's head and mash its brains.
Two seconds passed quickly, and the rooster-crested serpent recovered from its rigidity.
It retreated instead of advancing, shrinking back into the secret realm in the blink of an eye.
"The outside world is too dangerous, I'd rather go back to hibernation."
This was the serpent's only thought.
Its body hadn't even fully exited the secret realm before its rooster crest and eyes were crippled. Eighty percent of its strength had been crippled from this head alone.
Facing such a powerful opponent, the rooster-crested serpent had no courage.
Qin Shilei looked at the serpent that had retreated into the secret realm, unsure whether to chase after it.
Obtaining the Gu Worm Scripture was the purpose of this trip, and it had now been achieved.
He knew nothing about the secret realm, and entering it would bring unforeseen consequences.
"Strike while the iron is hot."
Qin Shilei quickly made up his mind to pursue it into the secret realm and slay the giant serpent.
But before entering, he needed to deal with the situation here.
Looking back, Xu Feng was still standing there blankly.
Qin Shilei commanded, "How did you control those snakes outside? Make them retreat now."
Xu Feng took out a green sphere the size of an egg. "I simply controlled those snakes with this sphere."
He then injected a stream of Yuan Qi into the sphere.
The sphere immediately emitted a circle of green light.
The poisonous snakes that had been surging in outside immediately turned and fled towards the outside of the canyon.
Qin Shilei took the sphere and threw it to Kong Qingshu. "Qingshu, you watch these people here. If anything goes wrong, inject Yuan Qi into the sphere and then run out of the canyon. I'm going into the secret realm inside to take a look."
Without waiting for Kong Qingshu's reply, he dived into the light portal.
Of course, before he left, he didn't forget to kill Xu Feng with a sword.
As soon as he entered the secret realm, Qin Shilei felt a bone-chilling cold that made him shiver involuntarily.
He quickly circulated his Yuan Qi, and the cold receded slightly.
Qin Shilei looked around.
What met his eyes was a world of ice and snow.
Besides ice mountains, snow, and cold winds, he saw no plants and no animals for the moment.
Qin Shilei didn't know how large this secret realm was, so he followed the tracks left by the giant serpent forward.
After walking for half an hour, a simple ice house, about ten square meters in size, suddenly appeared ahead.
The stone door in front of the ice house was tightly closed, and he didn't know if anyone was inside.
From the tracks on the ground, it could be seen that the rooster-crested serpent had escaped from beside the ice house and fled towards the canyon between the two ice mountains behind it.
Qin Shilei glanced at the ice house and continued to chase the rooster-crested serpent from its side.
He soon arrived at the canyon and saw that the rooster-crested serpent had coiled up inside the canyon.
The giant coiled serpent resembled a small mountain.
At this moment, its other head was raised high, flickering its snake tongue, and its eyes stared at Qin Shilei with infinite hatred.
"Brother Snake, we meet again!"
Qin Shilei waved his hand and greeted the rooster-crested serpent.
His greeting was met with a fireball.
Qin Shilei dodged the fireball with a flash and continued to approach the serpent.
Countless fireballs rained down from the sky, as if it were raining flames.
Facing the serpent's Meteor Fire Rain attack, Qin Shilei could only temporarily retreat, teleporting away from the area and appearing outside the canyon.
The fire rain fell on the snow, generating a large amount of mist that enveloped the entire canyon and obscured the serpent's figure.
Piercing Eye!
Qin Shilei's eyes emitted purple light, and he saw the serpent's location through the dense fog.
As soon as the serpent stopped its fire rain attack, he teleported next to it twice.
The fully alert rooster-crested serpent suddenly spotted Qin Shilei teleporting to its side. It flicked its body and whipped it fiercely towards him.
Qin Shilei swung his sword towards the serpent and retreated rapidly.
At the same time, he summoned his phantom.
As soon as the phantom appeared, it activated its One-Punch Man attribute and teleported towards the serpent's head.
"Stop!"
Qin Shilei shouted to cover for his phantom.