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Translator: Tamon
“Run! It’s a Flood Dragon fledgling!” Mu Yun shouted as he fled.
The sheer speed the two Swift Talisman gave him made a whirlwind behind as he raced to leave Valley of Serpents.
“Flood Dragon fledgling?” The two were stumped.
That was a creature of legend, a rarity. Even if it did show up, it’d be at the Nascent Demon Stage at the least!
And he said there was a fledgling here, in the Valley of Serpents?
If that was the case, their lives were finished.
Skeptical as they were, they made the sensible decision to stick talismans on their feet and flee. Given their Head Senior Brother’s frantic attempt to escape, a true monster had to be lurking beneath, at the very least.
Boom!
Xu Hei burst out of the ground and chased after Mu Yun.
He was the only one to see his appearance and had to die!
Mu Yun was sure to send more and stronger snake catchers after him, leaving no room to breathe. Xu Hei couldn’t allow it!
[He mustn’t escape!]
Mu Yun flew to the entrance of the Valley of Serpents, where a large black snake body remained.
The Old Snake King.
It was so big, it had to be butchered before being put away in the storage bags. All that remained of it was the head, given its size.
Mu Yun didn’t spare it a glance, going right over it.
It was then the Old Snake King’s head opened its large mouth and spat venom.
It struck Mu Yun’s face, who was too close and unhinged to react.
“Agh!” Mu Yun clutched his face and wailed in agony as it swelled.
“Curses! How could I make such a basic mistake?”
A poisonous snake still had venom even after its head was cut. In fact, the head could even jump to bite someone. Everyone knew that.
He was in such a rush and panic to escape that it didn’t even register as he got to the valley’s entrance occupied by the snakehead. It was the only way out.
At least he was professional, always having an antidote. As he ate the pill, the damage abated.
This pause proved enough for Xu Hei to catch up, just thirty meters away.
Mu Yun panicked once more, exploding with speed. At least he used the top-grade Swift Talisman. Keeping his distance meant keeping his life.
“Just you wait! I’ll tell Master and he’ll be sure to get the whole sect to act against such a weird demon!” Mu Yun gnashed his teeth.
A voice appeared in Xu Hei’s mind.
“Child, live on, live…”
It was the Old Snake King.
Xu Hei didn’t know why he heard that or why would he care about that head, but his bloodlust spiked.
“Today you die!” Xu Hei’s savagery exploded, his mind made up.
He lifted his tail, the dark golden scales pointing out and flickering coldly.
Mu Yun was focused on his pursuer and felt his skin crawl.
Xu Hei broke off the ten scales, bringing with it a searing pain, but Xu Hei didn’t even flinch, mad with bloodlust.
“Die!” Xu Hei threw the ten scales, exploding with tremendous speed at Mu Yun.
“No~!” Mu Yun shrieked.
He took out a jade pendant, a saving treasure Master gave him that could take the brunt of a peak Qi Refining Stage attack.
Too little, too late.
He proved to be too slow to activate it.
Whoosh~
The scales smashed the pendant, storing incredible energy, and ran through his body, leg, face, and head.
Splat!
Mu Yun had extra breathing holes everywhere, gurgling with blood.
His eyes glazed and dropped from a meter in the air; the Swift Talismans released strong winds but were incapable of keeping him afloat.
Mu Yun hit the ground, dead.
“Agh! That hurt!”
Xu Hei felt pain all over from pulling his scales off, beyond anything he imagined. He fought through it and approached Mu Yun’s body to be double sure.
Xu Hei then went to collect his ten scales.
He had no hope of reattaching them and had to grow new ones.
Xu Hei paused then ended up swallowing them, hoping this way he’d get to regrow them.
Xu Hei crawled over to Mu Yun and swallowed him as well, leaving his storage bag to hang in his mouth.
Xu Hei removed the mark on it with a flex of his Divine Sense and made sure to replace it with his.
He took the two nearly exhausted Swift Talismans and put them in the storage bag along with the Beast Trapping Ring he spat out.
He’d sort out his spoils later.
Now Xu Hei turned to the dead snakehead.
The Old Snake King’s eyes were open, its venom gland empty, and just staring back at him.
Xu Hei felt woozy out of the blue and, in that instant, he recalled a memory from three years ago.
When the Snake Fruit was ripe, the two fruits’ intoxicating aroma drew all manner of snakes.
Xu Hei had yet to be aware, driven by instinct to eat them.
However, there were too many snakes, half of the entire valley, yet only two would get lucky.
The fight that followed would be cruel and brutal.
But a deafening hiss calmed them all.
The Old Snake King appeared, his pressure halting all the snakes from tearing each other apart.
Xu Hei was too scared to move.
The Old Snake gazed at him, just another black snake identical to it that he’d seen many times before. His eyes softened.
The pressure on Xu Hei vanished, and he rushed over to swallow a Snake Fruit.
Under Old Snake King’s protection, none drew closer.
It stayed even as he finished, waiting for Xu Hei to become a demon and only then leave.
A memory from three years ago was hazy and vague, yet now, of all times, did it appear.
Like a human recalling brief and random memories from when they were a baby, out of the blue and totally random.
“Old Snake King, why do you care so much about me?”
All he knew about snakes was that they were cold-blooded and pitiless, even to their kin.
Why then was Old Snake King different?
Xu Hei sank in thought, unable to understand.
A trace of sadness came to his mind. The heavy feeling built up and turned into overflowing hatred.
“Humans, Snake Catcher, I shall end you all!”
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