At that time the night is very deep, the vision is dim. The three of them chased out, only to see the red light on Hong Luan flash and flying towards the north. There is a large lake, because the local people hear that there is a god in the lake, so there are very few people around there usually . They are outsiders, and can not trespass casually, now seeing Hong Luan flying towards there, the people only hesitated a moment, and one after another followed with their swords.
Just after chasing to the lake, they saw Hong Luan’s feathers horribly puffed, constantly circling the lake, a morbid cry issued from its throat. Even more bizarre is that the lake’s usually calm waters actually has ripples spreading, as if what is hidden underneath is immediately about to head out.
As soon as Téngshé landed on the ground, immediately let out a “huh”, sniffing around, said: “It is very strange here.”
Xiao Yinhua shrank in Yu Sifeng’s sleeve. No matter how he calmed it, it was useless. He wondered, “Is there really a god in the lake?”
Téngshé snorted, “What kind of god would stay in this damn place! This thing seems to have just come …… Well, let’s see …… it was sent here with the spell of water reclamation. It’s a big one, and it feels very stupid ……”
The words have not yet fallen, they heard Hong Luan let out a sharp cry, like a needle piercing the ear. It suddenly flew high with some fear, did not dare to fly to the center of the lake again, only anxiously crying near the shore, keep circling around. The ripples on the surface of the lake became bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a violent tumbling white foam, followed by a roaring sound, a huge thing came out of the water, the lake water fell like rain, with a fishy smell. That thing out of the water, abruptly rose more than a hundred feet high, swayed twice, immediately found the glowing Hong Luan at the edge of the lake, turned its head towards it and lunged.
Fortunately, its body is huge, although the action is fast, but not agile, Hong Luan dodged its pounce and pecked crazily at its body, but the difference between the size is too large. Like tickling, this attack is not able to cause any damage to the other. That thing turned around and bit towards it again, Hong Luan flapped its wings, issued a fearful cry and quickly rose up, not daring to fight with it again.
Xuanji sees that thing looks like a huge snake, but under the abdomen there were countless legs, slowly moving and creepy, like a centipede, but centipedes do not have such a dark and smooth skin. She and Yu Sifeng have traveled extensively over the past year and have seen many monsters and demons, but never seen such an ugly one, just one look and you will have nightmares. Even as bold as she was, she couldn’t help but shiver and take several steps back, not daring to look closely.
“Is it a snake demon?” Yu Sifeng drew out his sword, and as soon as it pounced towards them, he would make a move.
Téngshé was holding its arms, looking like it was watching a good show, and laughed, “Sort of, the most stupid low-level demon. You have heard of the story of the snake swallowing the elephant, right? The great wilderness will give birth to a giant snake that can swallow an elephant in one bite. If it has legs, it should be quite old, and in a few hundred years it can become a human.”
“Become human?!” Xuanji nearly lost her voice, turned her face and dared to look at it a few more times, the more she looks at it, the more disgusted she feels. She can’t imagine what it would be like for such a thing to become a human being.
Téngshé shrugged his shoulders with a relaxed look and even yawned. He walked to the edge of the tress, and sat down as if to take a nap comfortably, saying, “This kind of this is not my turn to take action and its degrading to fight it. You solve it yourselves.”
“Hey!” Xuanji exclaimed angrily, she had never seen a more uncooperative spirit beast than him!
The snake seemed to notice that there were others on the shore, and without a sound, it lunged backwards towards this place. Xuanji pulled out Beng Yu and slashed towards its smooth and firm skin. Unexpectedly, it ws flexible and tough. Beng Yu only pierced in a little bit and bounced back. The snake did not notice, rustling from the water to the shore, its densely packed thin legs crawling, from the bottom of the belly to the back as high as a dozen people, this sight is disgusting.
Yu Sifeng took out the short sword from his sleeve and thrust it into the body of the snake, using the strength of a jump, and landed lightly on its back. The new sword was used for the first time today, he used all his strength and ruthlessly struck into its spine, black fishy blood immediately surged like a spring, splashing his body in front of the stars.
The black foul-smelling blood spattered in front of his body. However, the snake was so big and slow to react that it didn’t even realize it was there, just shaking its head and chasing after Xuanji. Fortunately, its body was not flexible, otherwise it would have slowed ten Xuanjis by now.
Yu Sifeng suddenly felt a strange itch on his wrist, and when he looked down, he saw that many small blisters had quickly appeared where the black blood of the snake had splashed, and the blisters broke open and yellow water flowed out, and the skin actually corroded. He was so shocked that he hastily tore his clothes and wrapped them around his wrist. He heard Téngshé laughing behind him, “Its blood is very poisonous. Be careful.”
Xuanji cursed, “Don’t talk nonsense! You’re a bad guy who only talks but doesn’t do anything!” She suddenly turned around and went around the body of the snake, grabbed the dagger that Yu Sifeng had inserted into the body, and also turned over and jumped on it, stabbing it with her Beng Yu, piercing its body one by one with bloody holes.
The snake felt some pain at this time, fighting and tumbling like sifting chaff on the ground. The two people on its back would be thrown here and there, dizzy and turned around, if not for a firm grip on the hilt of the sword, the sword was deeply inserted into its body, they would have been thrown off. Who knows that it is infinitely powerful, wildly shaking for a long time, its force actually gradually intensified, the two finally can not hold on and one after another let go, jumping off its back. The two of them were shocked to see such a huge thing twisting and bending on the shore, flattening a large area of trees behind them.
“Eyes, eyes! Stab its eyes!” Téngshé was behind then, looking like a master and instructing them to fight the snake.
Xuanji was about to quarrel with him. Suddenly, she turned her head and looked at the snake. She saw the two eyes on the round head of the snake shone like a green glass, and they were really defenseless. Yu Sifeng tugged at the corner of her clothes from behind. She immediately understood his heart, gritted her teeth and flew her sword and slammed into its big head.
The snake was struggling with the pain of the wound on its back when it suddenly smelled the breath of a living person at its mouth, so it was overjoyed and bit down. Yu Sifeng flashed between its sharp fangs, him and Xuanji went left and right, aiming at its large, dull eyes and piercing fiercely.
With a whoosh, the two of them felt like they had pierced a ball, and a large amount of black liquid gushed out from the wound. They knew its power and did not dare to face it, dodged and let go, drew the sword and stabbed again. Don’t know how many swords they stabbed in its poor eyes. The snake’s body was shaking with pain, and its legs were kicking and stomping around, and it smelled the breath of living people. However, they were more flexible than rabbits and it couldn’t catch them with its mouth. In the end, it had to give up and roll on the ground, not knowing how to get rid of the sharp pain.
Xuanji held Benh Yu in her hand and slowly flicked her fingers across the sword, and dazzling fire burst from it.. She seems to be able to call out some Sanmei fire in a small amount now, though not much, but it is better than before when it was not working at all.
The snake felt the sudden heat beside it and subconsciously dodged it, but it was too late. Xuanji’s sword flew up to its back and pierced the burning Beng Yu into its middle like chopping a gourd, cutting it from beginning to end. The Sanmei is such a powerful heavenly fire, and Beng Yu is an extremely powerful divine weapon, this instantly split the snake in half. It only had time to flutter for a moment before it fell to the ground with a crash and died at once.
Xuanji slowly landed on the ground, feeling sweaty in her palms and breathing heavily, not quite believing that the two of them could kill such a big monster. The two of them were still in a daze when they heard the Téngshé behind them clapping his hands and saying, “Not bad, it took a little longer than I thought, but you were still able to kill it. That’s good.”
“I …… I say you!” Xuanji recovered and immediately turned to scold him, “How come there is such a useless spirit beast! The master is fighting demons in front of you, and you are just squatting there watching the show?”
Téngshé hummed, “If you can’t even deal with a snake, how can you be my master?”
Xuanji was so angry that she wanted to go crazy and poke a few holes in his face with her Beng Yu. Yu Sifeng came over and patted her arm, saying softly, “Forget it, in fact, he makes sense. The spirit beast is only a helper to the master, when it comes to the real battle we still rely on ourselves. The fact that we were able to kill the snake just proves that we are making progress.”
Xuanji fiercely threw Téngshé a glance, about to speak, when she suddenly heard Hong Luan near the shore begin to cry shrilly. The people are shocked, thinking that there were more monsters about to get out of the water. Just now, killing the snake was already a lot of effort. If again there is something as powerful, they can really only wait to die.
Hong Luan beat wings and rose up, constantly circling the lake, seemingly hesitant to dive into the water. They only heard a few faint wind sounds, small things popped out of the water, hitting Hong Luan right in the abdomen. It screamed, fell on the shore and couldn’t move.
Xuanji rushed forward to help, only to hear someone in the center of the lake laughing softly, a very familiar voice, followed by a splash of the water, someone jumped out of the water, the sword flew high in mid-air, looking down at them from above. Both of them are wearing black clothes, with white iron rings hanging from their waists.
Xuanji saw the faces of the two people, she was immediately struck by lightning and could not move a finger.
Ruo’Yu! Zhong Minyan!
The two of them looked down for a while, but Ruo’Yu suddenly laughed and said, “I haven’t seen you for half a year, Xuanji has become much more powerful. The snake is the spirit beast of the Deputy Hall Master. It was meant to scare you, but it was not guarded properly and you killed it.”
Xuanji couldn’t say a word, she just stared at Zhong Minyan in a daze. He hung his head, looking at no one, the hazy moonlight reflected on his face, it was an unprecedented cold expression, as if covered with a layer of frost.
Yu Sifeng said in surprise, “Why are you here? Minyan! Ruo’Yu!”
Zhong Minyan turned his head away and did not say a word. Ruo’Yu chuckled and said again, “I’m sorry, hurt your Hong Luan. It is too impolite, I had to make a pre-emptive strike. Sifeng, how is your injury? You are really lucky, that sword actually did not kill you.”
Yu Sifen gfrowned and did not speak.
Xuanji moved her lips and finally said, “Six … Sixth Brother, come back!”
Zhong Minyan seemed indifferent. Ruo’Yu sad, “Once is enough to say such stupid things. We came to say hello, and by the way, bring a message by the Deputy Hall Master, he asked you, did Linglong wake up? He seems to have made a mistake with the bottle last time and given the wrong soul. If Linglong is not yet saved, he welcomes you and Sifeng to go to Buzhou Mountain again.”
This is an absolute provocation. Xuanji squeezed her fist tightly, her nails embedded into her palm, and she didn’t seem to feel the pain anymore. What should we do this time? Questions and petitions are invalid, and hitting a friend would be more painful than hitting one’s self.
Silence, she can only stay silent.
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[1]:三昧 (sānmèi) literally ‘three dark/obscure’, is another name for the Buddhist term Samadhi. In Buddhism, it is the last of the eight elements of the Noble Eightfold Path.
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