Chapter 147: Spare Your Life
At the same time, Tang Rao abruptly stood up, whooshing as he yanked the chains wound around the jiaolong's body.
In the blink of an eye, the chains were thrown out, looping around the jiaolong's horn on its forehead.
"Ha!" Tang Rao let out a fierce shout as his left arm suddenly exerted force.
Veins popping, they looked as though they were about to burst at any moment.
The powerful pulling force made the jiaolong's head jerk upright.
"Awoo!" The jiaolong, in pain, kept howling. Its massive maw was like an abyss.
As for Tang Rao, using this pulling force, he leaped up, charging towards the head of the jiaolong.
Mid-air, Tang Rao's body soared, gripping the chains with his left hand while his right hand held a dagger, thrusting fiercely towards the jiaolong's eyes.
"Bang!" The jiaolong's body finally crashed into the rock wall. Tang Rao, suspended in the air, was struck by the flying rocks, covered in wounds, with fresh blood instantly staining his clothes red.
"You beast!" At this point, Tang Rao could only grit his teeth and continue onward.
He couldn't even throw the dagger for a long-range attack.
Because at that time, the jiaolong would definitely close its eyes, and its tough scales are far from something this dagger could pierce through.
He could only charge forward for a close-range attack.
"Roar!" Perhaps sensing Tang Rao's intentions, the jiaolong became even more violent, its body wildly twisting, trying to shake Tang Rao off.
Inside Tang Rao, the spiritual essence was fully activated, bursting forth.
"I'll take your life!" Tang Rao's face smeared with blood, and through the rising dust, only his body was seen speeding towards the jiaolong's head.
And the jiaolong's head also swayed, crashing towards Tang Rao.
Snap!
In a flash, Tang Rao's left hand grabbed the jiaolong's horn.
Without any pause, he used the jiaolong's swinging force to whirl his body in a semicircle by holding on to its horn.
As he swung, Tang Rao's right hand thrust upwards, with great force.
The jiaolong instinctively closed its eyes.
It was a pity, Tang Rao's experience in hunting jiaolongs was too rich, he knew exactly where the weak point was.
The sharp dagger, at a strange angle, viciously picked at the seam between the upper and lower eyelids of the jiaolong.
The tightly shut eyelids of the jiaolong were pried open by force, and Tang Rao's hand plunged deep inside.
Splurt!
"Aw!" The jiaolong, having its eyeball pierced, suddenly leaped, its enormous head recklessly smashing against the rock wall.
Tang Rao didn't linger, swiftly flinging himself away.
As for the dagger, he pulled hard on the chain and it returned to his hand once more.
After landing, Tang Rao didn't hesitate and immediately sprinted down the slope.
The first phase of his goal was successfully completed; although he was also injured, compared to the jiaolong, he was far better off.
As for the second phase, it was attrition.
Inside the cave, Tang Rao had laid down Poison Liquid; outside the cave, the ground was almost covered with toxins; even his dagger had been tempered with Poison Liquid.
The jiaolong's large size meant the poison needed some time to take effect.
What Tang Rao needed to do was continually exhaust the jiaolong's strength to spread the poison faster.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!" The jiaolong, sensing Tang Rao's departure, its lone eye glowing red, swung its massive body and leaped down.
Boom boom boom!
Surrounding trees were rapidly knocked down, clearly, the jiaolong had completely gone berserk.
Fighting it at this time was not a wise choice.
Tang Rao wasn't moving fast, much slower than the jiaolong. But now, he wasn't trying to flee; he was striving to drain the jiaolong's energy.
In the dense forest, Tang Rao flitted like a ghost, endlessly weaving through.
What the Jiao snake did was to chase after Tang Rao, twisting and turning, destroying everything in its path.
In less than ten minutes, within a radius of three hundred meters, all the trees had been knocked down by the Jiao snake. Some were uprooted, while others were smashed in half at the trunk.
As Tang Rao said, a massive body is an advantage, but it is also a disadvantage.
Ever wonder why the Dragon Clan seldom fights in their true form? It's because the true form is too huge. The larger the body, the more weaknesses it has.
"Beast, what's wrong? Can't run anymore?" Tang Rao looked at the Jiao snake not far away, his blood-red face filled with mockery.
The Jiao snake, being intelligent, saw the mockery in Tang Rao's eyes and roared in fury.
However, it only roared twice and did not charge again.
It wasn't that the Jiao snake didn't want to charge, but it already felt something was wrong with its body.
Its strength was draining too quickly, and it was feeling intense pain and numbness throughout its body. Everything in front of it seemed somewhat illusory and doubled.
"It seems you're about done." Tang Rao looked at the Jiao snake panting heavily, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.
The poison he administered was taking effect.
But truth be told, this creature's vitality was indeed fierce. The amount of poison that had little effect on it could kill hundreds if not thousands of people.
But for the Jiao snake, it took ten minutes of mad charging before the poison spread.
Tang Rao stepped towards the Jiao snake.
The Jiao snake's lone eye was also fixed on Tang Rao.
Fifteen meters in front of the Jiao snake, Tang Rao stopped. This distance allowed him to attack or defend.
"To be honest, I don't necessarily want to kill you," Tang Rao said to the Jiao snake.
A creature like this, able to come this far, must possess basic intelligence. Surely, it could understand his words.
"Leave now, and I will spare your life." Tang Rao continued to speak to the Jiao snake, his arms always crossed in front of his chest, with his palms hidden under his armpits.
"Roar..." The Jiao snake let out a low growl.
Then, it turned its massive head away, and its body began to turn as well, seemingly ready to heed Tang Rao's advice and leave the place.
As for Tang Rao, he watched the Jiao snake coldly, a hint of a sneer flashing at the corner of his eye.
I know your kind too well, Tang Rao thought.
"Whoosh!" Suddenly, the Jiao snake's slowly turning body accelerated.
Its thick tail lashed out violently behind it, in a desperate, all-out effort.
Dust on the ground rose into the air, and wood chips and leaves burst and exploded.
Boom!
Eventually, the Jiao snake's tail made a fanning motion, shattering a protruding boulder on the edge.
At the same time, the Jiao snake's head turned around, its bloody fangs exposed as if celebrating its victory.
A figure, tiny compared to the Jiao snake, suddenly appeared right in front of it.
Before the Jiao snake could react, Tang Rao reached out his hand.
There was no dagger in his hand, but a pitch-black handgun.
"Bang!" The gunshot suddenly rang out.
The violent gunfire accompanied by the smell of gunpowder, as the bullet slid out of the chamber at an astonishing speed, and penetrated the Jiao snake's eye before it could close them.
Its eyeball instantly burst, and the bullet went deep into the snake's brain.
"Roar!" The Jiao snake let out an extremely mournful scream, a scream that also held a plea.
After landing, Tang Rao looked at the Jiao snake struggling feebly in front of him, shrugged helplessly: "I really did want to spare you, but it's a pity you didn't treasure the opportunity."
Having said that, Tang Rao took a few steps forward, prying open the python's eyelid with his gun's muzzle.
Bang bang bang bang!
He fired continuously, without any mercy.