No, we must become strong, we absolutely must become strong.

Silver Ring frowned slightly and snorted twice: "You annoying demon hunters, just wait! When I'm strong enough, I'll use you all as walking tonics. I'll rob you of all your possessions, and then, together with Big Brother and Green Python, we'll buy houses and cars in the city..."

The group continued on their way, leaving the canyon. However, the further they went, the more doubts filled their hearts.

Zhou Yifei: "Senior Min, I think those demons are very suspicious." People who can embark on the path of cultivation, and yet so easily deceived, soon after leaving, the group realized that something was wrong.

There are too many coincidences.

Min heard this and said, "Yes, but we are no match for them. We can't fight them head-on. Let's leave Fuding Mountain first, and contact headquarters immediately after we get down the mountain to ask them to send more men."

The Teng Snake once appeared in Fuding Mountain, as did the Green Python. There are also three other great demons in the mountain... He wouldn't believe there's nothing strange about this place.

However, there are four demons guarding the formation on the mountain. Even if he and his few juniors discover something, they cannot act rashly. Therefore, it would be better to retreat first and wait for reinforcements to arrive before turning back to investigate.

They were outmatched, and if they stayed and angered the four great demons, the consequences would be unimaginable. Moreover... those three great demons from before seemed somewhat familiar; it was as if they had seen them somewhere before.

However, they did not reveal their true forms, and for the time being, he could not recall where he had seen them before.

What puzzled him most was that the other three demons were completely clean, without a trace of blood, as if they were newborn demons... This situation was extremely strange. Even if they were law-abiding demons, they couldn't have never hunted or killed, could they? Why didn't they have even a trace of the blood of other living beings on them?

Don't they need to eat or drink?

Min Wenzhi was an old man in the Daoist world, and his eyesight was more sophisticated than Song Tianshan's, who had dealt with Yin Huan and the others. In a short time, he had figured out the situation of the group.

Of the four demons, only the Green Python still carried a trace of the blood taint of other beings. After all, he had only spent a little over half a month with Silver Ring, and although Silver Ring's merits could eliminate karmic taint, it would only take a day or two. Moreover, Su Yi and the other two demons had been baptized by Huo Fei's Buddhist scriptures every day for the past ten or twenty years, so the blood taint left on their bodies was not very strong to begin with.

Min Wenzhi led several juniors down the mountain, while Yin Huan led Qing Mang and the others to the other side, and the forest returned to tranquility for a time.

Meanwhile, under the dim moonlight, at a snake breeding base not far from Fushan Town, a middle-aged man stood quietly on the blue bricks of the roof, riding the night breeze. He frowned and gazed at the dark mountains in front of him.

As the Daoist energy and demonic energy that erupted in the mountains weakened simultaneously, the snake keeper's brow relaxed slightly. In his gently closed eyelids, a glint of light flickered. After a long while, he jumped off the roof with a cold expression.

He lingered in the courtyard for a while, his thoughts racing, before striding back into the house. The snake keeper pulled an old wicker trunk from a vintage wardrobe, then turned, locked the door, and strode towards the dark, towering mountains ahead.

His steps seemed unhurried, yet carried a strange sense of elusiveness; each step covered ten zhang, and in an instant, he disappeared into the end of the night.

The snake keeper ran as fast as he could, thinking to himself: "Nü Hui, Nü Hui, what happened to you? Why is your aura so weak? Where is Teng She? Why isn't Teng She by your side? Nü Hui... Teng She exhausted himself, fighting against the Heavenly Dao. He planned your reincarnation for a thousand years. With such a servant, in your next reincarnation, please don't let his painstaking efforts go to waste again."

A thousand-year bond has bound us together. Now that you are in trouble, I can stand idly by. I hope that what you left with me back then can lend you a helping hand.

Author's Note: ...Once the plot moves away, the story inexplicably becomes serious. I need to think of a way to bring my little silver ring back.