A figure was abruptly blasted out from the stagnant water and heavily fell to the ground, rolling several times.

Duan Gujin focused his eyes and immediately knew that the figure tumbling on the ground was the crocodile.

"Roar!"

After letting out a furious roar, the crocodile's body flipped over violently.

The crocodile was thoroughly enraged by Duan Gujin, releasing a powerful Killing Aura from its body.

Under the stimulation of the Killing Aura, its pupils immediately shot out two extremely terrifying red lights.

Those red lights looked particularly horrifying in the gray night sky.

Duan Gujin surveyed the nearby area with his Divine Sense and found that most of the castle's buildings had been completely reduced to ashes.

Only some buildings made of stone remained intact.

Although those buildings were still in place, they were not destroyed by the shockwave.

But in reality, those buildings were already very fragile; they would be destroyed if they encountered a slightly stronger shockwave.

Duan Gujin's eyes were fixed on the crocodile in front, and after a moment, he sensed a faint power of the Netherworld appearing in the nearby void.

The Netherworld power continuously emerged from the ground and directly entered the body of the crocodile in front.

"So it has Netherworld power inside its body!"

Seeing this, Duan Gujin guessed that the crocodile's body contained Netherworld power.

If the crocodile didn't have Netherworld power within, once it used up the remaining power inside, it would be finished completely.

But if its body could absorb the Netherworld power from the nearby void, it often meant that it could slowly heal itself.

"Unexpectedly, this crocodile is related to the Netherworld!"

His eyes twinkling, he quickly understood what was going on with the crocodile in front.

"So the reason this crocodile has been able to move around here for so long is because its body can gradually heal itself! No wonder, I was previously wondering why the crocodile could remain active here in the form of a dead object for so long."

After understanding the reasoning, Duan Gujin immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Because he knew that Netherworld power had a very fatal weakness: it could not withstand flames.

The crocodile's body was suspended in mid-air, with bursts of red light shooting out from its pupils.

Sensing that the Netherworld power under its body was continuously flowing into it, Duan Gujin sneered and, with a flash, turned into a streak of light, rapidly rushing towards the crocodile.

When he was less than twenty meters from the crocodile, he immediately took out several buckets of kerosene from his storage ring and scattered them under the crocodile's body.

When the kerosene came into contact with the Netherworld power, it immediately burst into flames.

These burning flames followed the Netherworld power and instantly set the crocodile's body aflame.

"Now is the moment!"

Duan Gujin took a deep breath, very clear in his mind that now was the best opportunity to attack.

His body charged forward violently, his palms gathering the power of Soul Fire, intending to use the power of Soul Fire to burn the crocodile in front.

He had already pinpointed the crocodile's weakness: it feared fire.

"Roar!"

Feeling its body enveloped by the blazing fire, the crocodile's movements immediately became extremely slow under the burning flames.

It was angered and wanted to extinguish the flames on its body.

But Duan Gujin had already closed in, continuously unleashing flames towards its body.

Seeing those flames, for some reason, the crocodile felt an immense fear.

It wanted to launch a fierce attack on Duan Gujin, but it found its body completely unresponsive.

Duan Gujin saw that the crocodile was hardly moving at all and knew that its body was experiencing problems.

It was quite obvious!

After all, what stood before him now was an inanimate object, not a truly conscious living creature.

If a truly conscious living creature stood before him now, even if he burned the crocodile with fire, it would have found a way to escape the flames he had released.

But since the crocodile was inanimate, having no consciousness, the fire that Duan Gujin had just released lacked the Netherworld power that would have allowed the crocodile to act on instinct.

The crocodile was completely suppressed by Duan Gujin, its body continuously burning.

Seeing the condition of the crocodile at this moment, Duan Gujin breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had defeated the crocodile.

"Do you know who you have offended? I tell you, I am the Holy Mother from Xuankong Mountain! Why did you destroy the guards I had set up here?"

Suddenly, a deep female voice erupted from the mouth of the crocodile.

Duan Gujin gasped in shock, his eyes widening as he released his Divine Sense, searching for the source of the voice.

After a moment, he realized that the deep voice was coming from the crocodile's heart; he sensed that there was a Crystal Stone within it.

Duan Gujin immediately understood what was going on with the crocodile.

"So it turns out this crocodile was turned into a Puppet by the Suspended Holy Mother, stationed here to guard the Ancient Sacred Mountain! Could this crocodile be the Heartless Demon Saint? Zhan Luan had mentioned that only one crocodile Demon Saint had appeared here at Hundred Saints Mountain!"

He released his Divine Sense, continuing to search for clues on the crocodile's body.

After a while, he confirmed that the crocodile must have been a Demon Saint-level master before its death.

"So it turns out that some Domain Power was lurking within the crocodile's body!"

Using the clue of the lurking Domain Power, Duan Gujin concluded that the crocodile he saw must have been the Heartless Demon Saint.

Thinking of the Recording Array he had read before, he refrained from killing the crocodile.

He had entered the Ancient Sacred Mountain merely wanting to undertake a Training, to seek some valuable Treasures; he knew little about the Heartless Demon Saint before entering.

His eyes flickered, and he decided to withdraw his Soul Fire; he did not want to completely annihilate the crocodile before him.

"What if by eliminating this crocodile, I end up drawing the attention of the Holy Mother from Xuankong Mountain, indeed I am no match for the Suspended Holy Mother!"

Duan Gujin thought again and decided not to destroy the severely injured crocodile before him.

The crocodile escaped death; its body lay on the ground, unable to move.

Knowing that the crocodile needed some Netherworld power to recover, Duan Gujin did not stop the Netherworld power from the nearby Void from flowing towards the crocodile.

The crocodile just lay motionless on the ground, its body unable to hold up any longer.

Suddenly, Duan Gujin received a Divine Thought from the crocodile that was in front of him.

"Save me! Save me!"

He gasped, his gaze somewhat unsettled as he looked at the crocodile before him, instantly realizing that the one who had sent the Divine Thought was indeed the crocodile in front of him.

His mind raced, thinking for a moment, and he soon understood what was going on.

"I finally understand what's going on now! So that's it, the crocodile's head still harbored some residual consciousness, which allowed it to send me a plea for help through Divine Thought! And to control the crocodile, making it her Puppet and slave, the Suspended Holy Mother had exerted some influence on its heart! As soon as any living creature approaches the crocodile, it immediately launches a ferocious attack on that creature!"

He pieced together everything, and finally sketched out this conjecture.

What the truth is, perhaps only the Suspended Holy Mother knows it.

Duan Gujin took a deep breath, then continued to stare wide-eyed at how the crocodile would act.

After the crocodile regained some strength, it burst out with a roar, and immediately, its body emitted a dense fog that enveloped its entire body.

Its eyes suddenly burst out with a blood-red color that made Duan Gujin feel somewhat eerie, as if it could pierce through his Divine Soul, leaving him soullessly vulnerable.

"What intense Killing Aura!"

Duan Gujin inhaled deeply, his mind racing as he pondered how he should deal with the crocodile next.

After a while, his eyes suddenly brightened.

"Yes, perhaps I could do this to force it to stop its attack!"

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