In the fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign, the world was at peace, and the people enjoyed a long period of tranquility.
Thunder rumbled in the sky, followed by a flash of silver lightning that ripped across the horizon. Large raindrops pelted down, scattering vendors and pedestrians on the street.
A short, middle-aged man hurriedly packed up his things and ran away, stumbling along.
Stepping into a puddle, the short man cursed with a "tui":
"Damn it, the road is full of potholes! Those damn officials only know how to collect money, they don't even bother to fix it!"
He cursed smugly, but he didn't see the tiny white snake, coiled in the shadows of the eaves, peeking out and watching him with ill intent.
The system breathed a sigh of relief when it saw the short man run far away.
That was close! If I hadn't stepped into the puddle, I would have stepped on the host... which would have given someone an opportunity.
Ling Xiao lowered the snake's head, muttering curses under his breath:
"He's never been destined for wealth and fortune; he's lived a life without a wife or children, and always impoverished. He might as well lend me a hand."
No wonder she's so irritable; she's not even a human being in this world!
This world has just been seized by the Supreme God; in Ling Xiao's words:
The newlywed concubine, half-heartedly throwing a tantrum, had to be appeased by the main deity.
Therefore, Ling Xiao could only be reborn as a newly hatched white snake.
The system's earnest and persuasive advice:
"Eating people is a dead end, and eating people doesn't necessarily make you a demon..."
Good heavens! Whose first thought after their host is turned into an animal is not to cultivate into an immortal, but to try eating a person to see if they can become a demon? That's a bit too ruthless.
He added:
"And it's only a temporary measure; your human form will return, and your strength will gradually recover."
Ling Xiao sneered, flicking her tail to soak the system's light orb: "Oh, twenty years or fifty years?"
The system didn't even dare to shake a drop of water, feeling extremely guilty, since it was the one who had chosen this terrible world.
The little ball of light stammered, its eyes darting around:
"Well, it's hard to say. Our mission this time is to change the original world line. We can do whatever we want; changing the world line even slightly will speed things up a lot."
He carefully observed and read people's expressions:
"Does thinking about it this way make you feel much better?"
"You big idiot! This time there wasn't even a cheat code; we had to rely entirely on ourselves. What a piece of garbage quest!"
Ling Xiao glared fiercely at the system, outwardly angry but inwardly calm, understanding that this was actually what the main god desired.
Her injuries have healed considerably, making this the perfect time to erase any trace of her previous relationship.
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In a small village a hundred miles from the capital, a little girl dressed in tattered clothes ran out of a house, wiping away tears, followed by a loud female voice:
"Er Ya, you bastard, you dare to run away? Don't come back, or I'll beat you to death..."
The little girl ran away in terror, the insults behind her seeping into her heart like poison, causing her heart, liver, and internal organs to ache.
She dared not stop; if she stopped, she would die!
In the middle of the night, I heard the words: "She's just a little girl. If you let her go, she's worth a whole six taels of silver. That's her fate."
The eldest grandson of a wealthy family in the village had just passed away. The Taoist priest they hired said that since he had no one to marry, his soul would not find peace in the afterlife...
I ran until my skinny legs felt like they were about to break. When I looked up, I realized I had reached the edge of the mountain. It was pitch black all around, and there was a small earth god temple in front of me.
A howl echoed from the distant mountains, startling Er Ya, who ran into the temple.
Don't expect these small rural temples to be clean or luxurious; they're just tiny little rooms.
The statue of the local earth god enshrined above was crudely made, and at midnight it did not look kind and benevolent, but rather somewhat ferocious.
Several cakes were placed on the offering table. Er Ya, cowering under the table, grabbed the cakes and ate them without any hesitation.
The biscuit was very hard and had some mold spots. As I ate it, a few tears fell onto my calves, which were not covered by my pants, and felt cool.
A gust of night wind swept by, and a thick, long black shadow enveloped Er Ya.
Looking up, she saw a white snake, thicker than her entire body, coiling its body in circles. The part of it that was standing upright reached all the way to the top of the temple, and its scales were as white as jade.
Fear overwhelmed Er Ya; she couldn't even scream. Then, a languid and alluring female voice came from the snake's mouth:
"Little one, it was you who ate my cakes!"
The snake, the snake can talk!
Er Ya was terrified. The village elders' stories of monsters flashed through her mind, and she turned pale with fright, screaming with her eyes closed:
"Great Snake Immortal, please spare me! I'm just a girl, I don't have any yang energy to absorb, and my flesh doesn't taste good. What I love to eat most is shit!"
This development initially stunned everyone involved, and Ling Xiao almost burst out laughing, while the system laughed so hard it was practically running around on the floor.
"Hahahaha, where did this extraordinary creature come from?"
After the host recovered somewhat, he found a temple and decided to wait for the rabbit to run into the tree stump, taking a different approach. Since he couldn't transform into a human for the time being, he captured a human pet to do his bidding.
Who would have thought that the first human pet I met would have such a unique way of thinking?
Er Ya felt she was very clever. Seeing that there was no movement around her, she breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that what she said had worked.
The local earth god might have been eaten by this monster, which is why the monster said these were its cakes.
Since the monster was so powerful and he couldn't defeat it, he had no choice but to give up the idea of it eating him.
Female monsters all absorb yang energy, thankfully I'm not male, I'm just afraid they'll eat meat, so I'll just say I eat shit...
"If you don't open your eyes, I'm really going to eat you up!"
The alluring female voice, tinged with the chilling coldness of a snake, startled Er Ya into immediately demonstrating what it meant to have bright, piercing eyes.
The white snake extended its bright red tongue, hissed, and stared at the eight or nine-year-old girl before it with its cold, serpentine eyes, slowly speaking:
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