Chapter 456 Healing
The sun sets and gradually disappears into the clouds. The remaining light spreads from the end of the sea of clouds, burning like fire, and gradually sinks into the night.
The rare and exotic animals in the surrounding forests gradually quieted down and returned to their nests to rest. The gurgling sound of the nearby spring became clearer and clearer. The sound of the clear spring flowing over the stone slabs... made Snake Queen vaguely recall some yellowed memories.
She remembered a small village, a few hilltops, a group of ignorant country villagers, their snacks and fermented rice wine served on stones, the children picking fruits in the mountains, and the springs flowing through the mountains.
The snacks are delicious, the spring water is delicious, and the children... I haven't seen them for many, many years.
She wasn't even sure how many of those memories were real, how many were hallucinations caused by eating the poisonous fruit, and how many were memories beautified time and again in nightmares and hallucinations during the years of being locked up in the Demon-Suppressing Tower without sleep.
The big snake lowered his head and saw a large plate of fruits placed on the table in the middle of the pavilion. Yuan He pushed the plate forward. The hateful old man had a hateful smile on his face and looked up at this side.
"This is the fruit you love to eat. I gave you a new medicine with special properties these two days, so I cut your meals in half and made you hungry. Today's deadline has passed, so feel free to eat it."
Several heads of the snake queen were circling around the plate of fruits, examining them as if they suspected they were poisoned.
Seeing this, Master Yuan He laughed and said, "Don't worry, there is no new medicine this time, and you don't need any new medicine. In fact, this fruit was prepared for you at noon today, but I didn't expect you to be so hungry that you ran into someone else's room to steal food. As a result, I looked for you for a long time... I should have let you out earlier."
"You old thief Yuan He," Snake Princess raised her head and stared at Master Yuan He, "What exactly are you planning? Don't think I'm easy to fool - you're not that kind! Tell me, are you going to trick me into going down the mountain, and then once I get out you'll say I escaped from prison, and then bring me back and chop me up to make snake soup..."
"Believe it or not," Yuan He Zhenren laughed cheerfully. After a few seconds, he flicked his whisk under the increasingly questioning gaze of Snake Princess and leaned lazily against the pillar of the pavilion. "You should have felt it yourself - is your mind clearer? Is that violent energy gone? Do you still have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations? Do you still occasionally feel that you are an earthworm, centipede, scorpion, or stick insect?"
The snake princess was stunned for a moment after he said that. After being stunned for several seconds, the big snake finally put away the doubt and anger on its face, and hung its head with a guilty look: "I, I found out. But I can't believe it! How come it suddenly..."
Yuan He Zhenren stroked his beard, raised his eyelids and glanced at the big snake monster: "It was struck by lightning."
Snake Princess: “……?!”
"I have been treating you for many years. Logically, the 'devil' in you should have been eliminated long ago. But after so many years, you still haven't recovered completely. In fact, you just lacked that 'final blow'. This blow was the lightning strike you suffered. The accumulation of years of training your mind and body was finally recast into a ray of wisdom and spiritual light by the lightning in the Demon Suppression Tower."
Snake Princess tilted her head, as if she still didn't understand.
Seeing her dumbfounded reaction, Yuan He was so angry that he started laughing. He raised his hand and used his whisk to hit She Ji's head lightly: "Silly girl, you have passed the tribulation successfully - you are not a monster anymore, you are a demon fairy."
Snake Princess thought about it, then lowered her head and started eating the fruit.
After eating for a while, she suddenly raised her head: "Why didn't you chop me earlier?!"
"...That's the tribulation! The tribulation! It's all about chance and destiny! When it's your turn to cross the tribulation, it's useless even if you hide at the bottom of the Netherworld. When it's not your turn to cross the tribulation, you tie yourself to a lightning rod and you'll only die in vain. Besides, I don't know when you'll reach the 'right time', so how can I help you in advance?"
The human head of the snake princess said "Oh", while the other heads were still busy eating, especially the dog head, which almost ate the whole plate. After several seconds, she reacted again: "Ah, can I really leave now?"
Master Yuan He nodded: "I just said, it's up to you to go or stay."
Snake Queen said "Oh" again, and several heads lowered their heads to eat a few bites of the remaining fruit on the plate, then turned around and crawled down the mountain: "Okay, I'm leaving now."
The silhouette of the big snake was like a gust of wind. It disappeared in the winding and deep mountain path almost in the blink of an eye, blending into the gradually darkening sky.
Yuan He Zhenren held the whisk and stared at the direction where Snake Ji left for a few seconds. He hesitated and opened his mouth: "Really, she's gone."
Then after a few seconds, looking at the empty mountain path, he subconsciously took two steps outside the pavilion: "Girl, you're not coming back?"
There was no echo from the mountain path.
Master Yuan He finally sighed softly, shook his head, turned around and returned to the pavilion.
There was still an orange left on the plate on the stone table, it was shriveled.
Yuan He sat down, picked up the orange, and slowly peeled its shriveled skin.
A black and white dog's head popped out from the darkness beside him and ate the orange in his hand in one bite.
Yuan He raised his head suddenly and looked at the big snake that was crawling in between the pillars of the pavilion: "Didn't you leave?"
"Yuan He, old thief!" She Ji raised her head with an arrogant look on her face, "I don't have any money!"
Master Yuan He: “?”
Snake Princess continued confidently: "I heard that you need to buy a ticket to ride the Immortal Boat - give me the money!"
Master Yuan He stared at the arrogant snake for a long time, and finally slapped his thigh in annoyance: "I knew that this trouble of yours would not be so easy to get rid of - put aside the money first, I have to teach you a few tricks of transformation first, at least you should learn to transform into a human form, or half human and half snake is fine, at least you can be more restrained in your body shape."
"Why?" Snake Princess frowned, "Do you think I'll scare people if I go out? Didn't you say I'm no longer a monster? And it's not like people in the world haven't seen monsters before. They're scared because they don't have the courage..."
"Because you are in such a state that you will have to take up seven seats on the Immortal Boat!" Master Yuan He blew his beard and glared, "I have to pay for the medicine garden of Second Senior Brother every now and then for those bad disciples. How can I have so much money to give you a seat on the Immortal Boat!"
When Snake Lady heard this, she immediately became furious: "I now have seven heads because of you, old thief! If you hadn't imposed a dog head on me, I would have only had six heads!"
"You take up seven seats not because you have seven heads - it's because of your seven or eight meter long tail! Can you see if you can fit into the chairs after you roll yourself up?"
Snake Princess was stunned.
Then she obediently pulled her head back and curled herself up in the pavilion.
"Teach me, what's the first step?"
…
Night had fallen. When Yu Sheng returned to No. 66 Wutong Road, fairy lanterns had already been lit near Guanyuntai. One by one, the lanterns with simple and elegant shapes rose from the clouds, illuminating the mountain paths and peaks.
Although the night view of the fairy mountain and sea of clouds was intoxicating, the lights of the house and the simple and familiar living room that greeted him after opening the door were what really made him feel at ease.
As soon as Yu Sheng entered the door, he saw Luna cleaning the living room. An Irene with a picture frame on her back was sitting on the sofa watching TV. Two Ires were chattering behind Luna and making trouble. Another Irene was sitting on the coffee table, fiddling with the "Omen Wandering Star" in her hand, looking very focused.
Hu Li was flying in the air, holding a small bucket in one hand and a scraper in the other, and was carefully repairing the dent in the ceiling that was made by the ominous planet.
Hearing the door opening, Hu Li immediately jumped down from mid-air and happily greeted the door: "My benefactor, you are back!"
Her face was covered with putty, and even her big furry ears were covered with dust from the roof, but her smile was still as bright as usual.
Behind her, Irene, who was sitting on the coffee table, just waved without looking up, while Luna came over, saluted like a knight (although she was holding a broom), and stammered, "Welcome back."
Yu Sheng greeted Luna with a smile, then his eyes passed over the fox girl's head and looked at the ceiling of the living room. He saw that the dent had been filled up. Although the repair technique was not very good, it was obviously very careful. He didn't know how long the girl had been working on it.
"Where did you find the putty?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
"I asked Engineer Sun for it! I went to the valley and happened to see Engineer Sun and his men renovating the plumbing and electricity for a few new houses in the fairytale town, so I asked him for some quick-drying putty. After the putty is dry, I have to sand it and then paint it... I also asked him for latex paint!"
Hu Li said this happily, with a look of seeking credit on his face, and shook the small bucket in his hand towards the students.
"I didn't know how to use it at first, so I learned it from the workers."
Yu Sheng listened to Hu Li in surprise, then looked at the roof that she had worked so hard to repair, and suddenly laughed. He raised his hand and rubbed the fur behind the fox's ears.
The fox girl narrowed her eyes with joy.
Yu Sheng shook a large basket in his hand.
"I brought back some delicious food from the Xianzhuan Hall, and also got some chicken drumstick rice from the Secret Service canteen..."
Just when he was halfway through his words, he felt a flash before his eyes, and the basket in his hands and the fox girl in front of him disappeared, leaving only a shadow rushing towards the restaurant.
"Go wash your hands first! Wash your face too!" Yu Sheng shouted from behind, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Leave another portion for me - I'm not hungry right now, I'll eat it later."
"Oh, good benefactor! Got it!"
Yu Sheng smiled helplessly and shook his head, then walked to the coffee table and looked at Irene who was sitting cross-legged and fiddling with the Omen Star.
"What's wrong with the ball?" he asked casually.
"It seems to be okay." Irene said, and casually placed the Ominous Star next to her head. The latter swayed in the air, and then began to "orbit" around the little doll's head in circles as before.
Yu Sheng was amazed at the scene, and noticed the other three Irenes in the living room: "...How did you solve the 'chaos' problem of this thing? With four of you here at the same time, why doesn't it collapse to the sky?"
Irene raised a finger.
A faint black thread fluttered at her fingertips.
"Simple, I whip it and it spins like a top..."
(End of this chapter)
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