A few people exchanged glances and quickly entered the courtyard.

Han Yingting immediately instructed Cheng Cheng and Xiang Xi to separate, each entering a room and closing the doors, guarding the villagers in the village to prevent the snakes from entering the east and west caves, where the villagers were, and harming them.

Han Yingting and Ren Shi stood at the entrance, ready to fight off the attacks from the large snake and the snake swarm, together with Nan Muran and the other two.

Once the snake swarm entered the courtyard, they could clearly see the appearance of the largest snake.

The large snake was twice as long as the previous one, and its body was as thick as an adult’s waist. Just one glance at its enormous size was enough to send a chill down anyone’s spine.

Without hesitation, its giant body slammed into the door of the veteran’s house, creating a loud crash. Dust filled the air, and the door was instantly reduced to rubble.

Villagers who saw the situation through the windows of the caves began to panic uncontrollably.

It wasn’t that they didn’t trust the six people standing in the courtyard without retreating an inch, but their bodies instinctively feared the giant snake.

Qi Jin watched through the window, his eyes lighting up as he saw Nan Muran and Si Ye standing in front, unmoving and seemingly fearless.

The giant snake, having entered the courtyard, first targeted Nan Muran, shooting a sharp wind blade at her.

Suddenly, a small white creature leaped from her left wrist and blocked the wind blade.

Upon sensing the familiar aura on the little white creature, the giant snake grew even more furious.

The little white had already reached the late stage of level five, and its rapid advancement in strength was due to the level five crystal core of the three-headed snake.

The giant snake, seeing the little white return to Nan Muran’s wrist, became even more enraged. These humans and her plant must all die here.

At the same time, sensing the snake’s madness, Nan Muran and Si Ye moved, quickly approaching the giant snake from opposite sides.

The snake didn’t hesitate and attacked the two, but suddenly it felt a sharp pain in its head, which prevented it from reacting.

At that moment of pain, the ice blade and the sharp edge struck directly at its head.

However, the two sharp spikes didn’t penetrate the snake’s scales. Instead, they only made small cuts before falling to the ground.

“It’s scales have mutated. They can’t be pierced,” Jia Wu quickly said, getting closer.

After shaking off the pain in its head, the giant snake didn’t hesitate to use its massive body to crush Nan Muran and Si Ye, who were charging toward it again.

“Don’t…” A villager in the cave cried out nervously, and some even closed their eyes, too scared to look further.

As the giant snake’s massive body was about to come crashing down, it was clear that if it hit, Nan Muran and Si Ye’s bodies would be crushed into a bloody mess.

But just then, Xiao Liu and Xiao Bai leaped from Nan Muran’s wrist, quickly pulling the two away from the danger.

The giant snake’s colossal body left a deep pit in the ground, with stone tiles flying in all directions, raising thick clouds of dust.

At the same time, a thick black snake, about the width of a bowl, slithered into the courtyard through the gap made by the giant snake’s impact. Dozens of smaller snakes followed closely behind.

In an instant, the entire courtyard was filled with snakes, crawling over the firewood stacks, walls, and flowerbeds. Just looking at them made one’s hair stand on end.

“Eagle, block that thicker one. Han Yingting, Ren Shi, deal with the small snakes.

Wu Ge, cooperate with Si Ye’s sharp edge,” Nan Muran’s eyes grew colder as she watched the giant snake. If it could break free from the control of a level-four late-stage mental power user, it definitely wasn’t the power of a level-five mutated beast.

In such a short time, it had actually leveled up. How did it do that?

Seeing only a snake the size of a bowl entering the courtyard, Nan Muran understood, “You actually ate your own kind to level up.”

The giant snake glared at Nan Muran, Si Ye, and Jia Wu with rage. These annoying humans had killed its mate and taken its crystal core.

The moment it moved, the three of them attacked.

Si Ye launched ten or more sharp blades, but the giant snake was dismissive of such an attack.

However, when the sharp blades sliced through its scales, Jia Wu injected electric power into them, and the combination of sharp blades and lightning caused the snake to convulse in pain, shaking uncontrollably.

Even the attack it had launched was momentarily halted.

As Si Ye and Jia Wu kept attacking the giant snake, Nan Muran activated her vitality.

The wild Cassia and Four-sided Vines at the corners of the courtyard grew at a terrifying speed. They crawled across the courtyard, coiling around the giant snake’s body.

As it felt the plants it despised wrapping around it and growing tighter, the giant snake became even more enraged.

At the same time, it realized that these wild Cassia and Four-sided Vines were draining its life force to grow stronger.

Its instincts were correct.

Nan Muran was indeed using her vitality to transfer the giant snake’s life force to the plants growing around it. The tiny bloodstained wounds on the snake’s body were the points from which the life force was being drawn.

It was her first time using this technique to transfer the life force of an animal to plants.

For the giant snake, this was a process of depletion and growth, with the plants treating its body as soil and absorbing its energy to grow.

It had to get rid of them.

The giant snake lowered its head and launched countless sharp blades from its body, severing the Cassia and Four-sided Vines that were wrapping around it, and they fell to the ground, losing their strength.

But Nan Muran had no intention of letting the giant snake go. She once again released her vitality, and her body suddenly glowed with a ghostly green light, mingled with white.

Her long hair, which had been braided, now scattered down her shoulders, and the roots of her hair turned into tiny vines, making her look otherworldly, like a creature from the mountains.

Meanwhile, the wild Cassia and Four-sided Vines that had been cut off by the wind blades began to grow new branches and vines at an alarming rate, wrapping around the giant snake’s body once more.

Taking advantage of the giant snake’s struggle, Si Ye and Jia Wu continued their coordinated attacks on the snake, with their target remaining the same: the snake’s seven-inch weak spot.

“Is that girl… a monster?” A middle-aged woman standing by the window in the cave stammered.

Cheng Cheng gave her a cold look, feeling a sudden sense of disappointment. Her tone was icy, “If you don’t want to die, shut up.”

Miss Nan and the others were outside fighting desperately to protect these people, and this woman actually said something like that. It was truly disheartening.

Several other people in the cave also shot cold glances at the middle-aged woman, although some agreed with her.

The old soldier gave them a chilling look, “People should have a heart, but they must also know what’s right and wrong.

If you think you don’t need the protection of those outside, you can go out now. No one will stop you.”