Huo Fei stood silently on the riverbank. The river breeze blew, dispersing the last traces of his presence. He frowned slightly, then transformed and flew into the sky, continuing his flight along the river.

He planned to follow the river to find Silver Ring and then bring her back to Penang.

Huo Fei was very fast. The river from Fuding Mountain to Penang is several hundred kilometers long, but he could make a round trip in two hours.

Two hours passed, and the eagle circling in the sky was disappointed. It had not found Silver Ring in the river.

He stared straight at the ground, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Strange, where did that little snake go?

Why wasn't she found in the river?

According to Bai Mao, when he and Yin Huan returned to Penang, they traveled by water. Logically, if Xiao She were to return to Penang again, she would also only choose the water route.

After all, waterways are safe and it's not easy to get lost.

Roads are everywhere, and with so many branches, it's easy to get lost. Given the little snake's clever and agile nature, it would never choose to travel by land.

...Well, after several meetings, Yin Huan left Huo Fei with the impression that she was clever. But whether she was truly clever, only God knows.

Huo Fei was still a little worried, so he flew along the river twice more.

On both trips, he slowed down, his sharp eyes fixed on the bottom of the river, afraid of missing Silver Ring's figure.

But after two trips, Huo Fei was disappointed once again.

Looking at the sun gradually setting in the west, Huo Fei pecked at the feathers under his wings, pondered for a while, and finally had no choice but to return to the prison.

There's still a saga of things waiting for him at the demon prison. These demons are getting restless; he's been away from the prison for a day, so he needs to go back and intimidate them. Oh well, he'll continue his search tonight.

That little snake was, after all, a demon, and ordinary people and animals could not harm her. As long as she did not encounter demons or cultivators, she would be safe.

In this world, there are mostly ordinary people.

Although Huo Fei was worried, he did not believe that Yin Huan would be unlucky enough to encounter someone who could deal with her in such a short time.

However... he was too complacent.

Yin Huan did not encounter any other demons or demon-hunting Taoist priests, but she did encounter people.

And what's more, he encountered a snake breeder who also enjoyed fishing.

Logically speaking, the snake breeder who fishes has nothing to do with Yin Huan; he fishes his own fish, and Yin Huan swims his own waters—they are completely unrelated.

But life is unpredictable.

This is rather strange. The blue monkey was traveling with the silver ring, so the silver ring no longer needed to travel with the current. However, the snake and the monkey were not well prepared when they set out. They only cared about the silver ring's food and forgot that the little blue monkey also needed to eat.

Sure enough, after walking for a while, the blue monkey got hungry.

As the guardian of the blue monkey, Silver Ring certainly couldn't let it travel on an empty stomach. So, she let it go into the forest to find food on its own, while she took the opportunity to go down to the river to play in the water.

After all, the sun was getting hotter, and as a snake that didn't like sunlight, the intense sunlight would make her feel particularly irritable. She decided to cool herself down first before continuing her journey.

Silver Ring was having a great time playing in the water when suddenly something was thrown onto the surface.

At that moment, she was turning over in the water, and after turning over a few times, she suddenly felt something was wrong.

It seemed like something was entangled with her.

Damn it, she's the most persistent woman ever. What dares to cling to her like that?

The silver ring rolled around a few more times, untangling what was wrapped around its body. Then it looked back and saw that it was a thin silk thread.

At the end of that thread, there was a small earth dragon.

Silver Ring found it strange; when did earth dragons start spitting silk?

The thought of spitting silk reminded Silver Ring of the spider demon who wanted to eat her.

She had no liking for anything with threads. Instead of looking at anything unusual, she opened her mouth, intending to scare the thread-spitting earthworm away.

But to everyone's surprise, as soon as she opened her mouth, a river mudfish smaller than her tail appeared out of nowhere...

As soon as the river loach appeared, it rushed towards the earth dragon.

Silver Ring was completely bewildered...

She swore that she opened her mouth to scare the earth dragon, not to eat the loach.

It was that loach, barely bigger than her thumb, that rushed into her mouth on its own; it had nothing to do with her.

She doesn't kill any living creature, not even a loach.

The problem isn't whether she should kill or not; the mudskipper had charged at her with such force that it had already gone into her stomach...

Damn it, hurry up and spit this loach out, we can't let her die in our stomach.

She remembered that when she was just born, she was so hungry that she tried to find earth frogs in the forest, just like her kind. As a result, she suffered a great deal of pain as soon as she killed the earth frogs, before she could even eat them.

The snake's entire body ached, as if it were being skinned alive and slowly tortured. It took three whole days for it to recover. Once, twice, every time she ended a life, she would suffer an unforgettable torment.

After doing it many times, she realized... she couldn't kill.

Snakes have incredibly powerful digestive systems; regurgitating the food they swallow is an innate skill for every snake.

Yin Huan wanted to spit out the loach that had crawled into her stomach, but the loach, like her, was the kind of creature that would crawl along holes.

The river loach ate the angler's earthworm, but at the same time, its mouth was also hooked by the hook on the earthworm.

The pain spurred the loach to desperately try to escape.

At this moment, Silver Ring's stomach and intestines had clearly become its escape route.

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