Upon reaching the 70th floor of the Tower, Bai Qiu was greeted by towering stone pillars rising straight into the sky, with a bottomless dark current flowing below.
As usual, after confirming that the enemy wasn’t in the air, he immediately took off on the spot and landed atop one of the ancient pillars, scanning his surroundings.
The pillars were yellowish-brown.
Several finger-wide cracks beneath his feet seemed to tell the story of the long years they had endured.
Each pillar stood over 300 meters tall, with a diameter of about 10 meters—and there were thirty of them in total…
Below the pillars lay a dark green pool.
This wasn’t the green of reflected scenery, but rather the result of countless filamentous algae growing densely within it.
The bases of the pillars were covered in moss.
Some moss, unable to survive the lack of moisture, had died at heights of over a hundred meters, turning a dark brown.
Bai Qiu frowned.
He couldn’t sense any movement.
It seemed likely that the monster was hiding beneath the stagnant pool—but he couldn’t detect even the slightest trace of its aura.
More strangely, the surface of the pool was completely still—not even a ripple.
Even with his Sevenfold Arcane Crystallized Eyes, he couldn’t find any clues.
Raising an eyebrow, Bai Qiu kicked the pillar beneath him, striking one of its cracked sections with force and knocking loose a chunk of rock weighing several hundred pounds, sending it plummeting down.
“Splash!” The rock crashed into the water, sending up waves and ripples.
Bai Qiu keenly noticed that something below seemed to move.
He immediately took out the Fallen Dragon’s Bow, firing arrows downward like rain!
He wasn’t trying to hit the creature underwater—he just wanted to see what it was.
When the creature beneath the surface raised its head, Bai Qiu froze.
A Hydra?
That’s right—the head that emerged from the water looked exactly like a Hydra serpent, only much larger.
Bai Qiu cast a detection skill and instantly understood—those three snake heads rising from the water all belonged to the same creature…
Three-Headed Hydra (Level 50, Monarch-tier Boss)
Strength: B
Magic: B
Endurance: B+
Agility: C+
Skills: ???
Due to the large level gap, he could only see its base attributes.
But for a creature like a Hydra, Bai Qiu could more or less guess what its first few abilities were.
Taking out the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear, he activated the Wind-Gathering trait.
As usual, he didn’t throw it immediately—he waited for the trait to fully charge before making his move.
Of the Hydra’s three green heads emerging from the water, one began to extend further upward.
Bai Qiu could clearly see its color subtly shift.
Then—
“ROAR—!”
The Hydra opened its massive jaws and let out a thunderous roar.
Toxic gas poured from its mouth, carried upward by the wind, rushing toward Bai Qiu.
Gripping his spear, Bai Qiu made a light downward slash.
Instantly, a powerful gale formed, dispersing the poisonous gas.
Another of the Hydra’s heads grew fin-like bony protrusions and roared.
At the same time, a third head rapidly turned crimson, opened its jaws, and spat out a fireball infused with transcendent power.
The outer armor Bai Qiu had woven from wind control and magic emission shattered under the soundwave.
He was dazed for just a brief moment— And in that instant, the fireball had already reached him, about to strike…
Fortunately, Bai Qiu managed to dodge in time.
The fireball slammed into the top of the stone pillar and exploded instantly!
Just the residual flames that brushed against him caused his skin to erupt into swollen blisters.
When they burst, foul-smelling green pus oozed out from his body…
Bai Qiu had no idea when he’d been poisoned.
With his wind-control ability and the support of the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear, the toxic wind shouldn’t have been able to touch him at all…
Could it be that the fireball also carried poison?
Or perhaps the soundwave from that roar earlier?
It was likely one of the two—but that wasn’t what concerned him most.
Since the beginning, the Three-Headed Hydra had used three different abilities—none of which belonged to the regular Hydra.
In other words, its skill set had likely been completely replaced.
Or perhaps each of its three heads possessed a unique ability, while the original four skills remained unchanged.
Either way, the fact that it could easily break through Bai Qiu’s aerial advantage and injure him proved one thing—this was far beyond anything an ordinary Hydra could compare to.
Not to be outdone, Bai Qiu hurled the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear downward with full force.
Before the Hydra could react, the spear struck like lightning, blowing apart more than half of one of its heads.
With a flick of his hand, he recalled the spear.
But when he looked down again, the Hydra’s head—just moments ago half-destroyed—had already fully regenerated…
Its defense and regeneration far exceeded that of a normal Hydra.
Bai Qiu frowned.
At that moment, the enraged Three-Headed Hydra could no longer hold back.
It rose from the water, revealing its true form!
Even Bai Qiu—who was used to seeing massive creatures—felt a sense of overwhelm at the sight of its nearly thousand-meter-long body.
The Hydra extended all three of its heads at once, each enhancing its body in a different way, before leaping out of the water and lunging toward Bai Qiu!
Bai Qiu immediately charged and leapt upward, then continuously used wind control to gain altitude.
A 300-meter-tall pillar was nothing but a joke to a creature nearly a kilometer long!
Though massive, the Hydra wasn’t as fast as Bai Qiu.
At its closest, it was still over a hundred meters away from him.
When Bai Qiu ascended to an altitude of 2,000 meters, even the Hydra was left powerless.
Its massive body, having leapt out of the water, was dragged back down by gravity—crashing into the stagnant pool and sending waves surging violently.
Even the stone pillars trembled under the impact.
Fortunately, the pillars were sturdy.
Only some weathered, fragile fragments broke off—none of them collapsed.
Bai Qiu’s gaze sharpened.
From high in the sky, he hurled the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear wrapped in the Wind of Stellar Breath, carving massive wounds into the Hydra’s body again and again.
This went on for about ten minutes.
Like the regular Hydra, the Three-Headed Hydra eventually activated an external energy scale armor to protect itself.
As usual, Bai Qiu kept throwing the spear at full force—recalling it after each hit, repeatedly smashing against its shield.
After several rounds of relentless assault, the shield finally shattered!
Drip… drip…
Drops of tainted blood fell from Bai Qiu’s body.
The poison within him was growing stronger.
It couldn’t be expelled with detox fruits or magic, so he had no intention of wasting any more time.
He decided to use a long-range Noble Phantasm attack on this floor—combining the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear with Converging Mana Thrust!
— The end of the Chapter–
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