Chapter 184 Jinjiang Debut
The flesh walls around her wrapped tightly, and the fishy smell became stronger and stronger. Bai Mian was about to suffocate. Before she suffocated, she used up her last breath, clenched the long sword in her hand, and fiercely pierced the flesh wall in front of her.
The Soul-Slaying Sword is an immortal sword, and its power is far beyond the reach of ordinary monsters. This sword pierced through the snake monster's stomach. A ray of light appeared in front of Bai Mian, and she took the opportunity to swing the second sword. The tip of the sword pierced directly through the snake monster's scales. She slashed up and down with force, cutting a hole in the snake monster's belly.
The snake demon felt pain and turned over on the spot, trying to make Bai Mian fall, but Bai Mian stood still. In the chaos, he opened the wound and took the opportunity to escape from the snake demon's belly.
After Bai Mian escaped, the snake demon revealed its true form. Bai Mian looked back and saw a huge creature rolling in the dark night. The snake's body was very thick, as big as a train. Fortunately, Bai Mian was the only one present at the time. If an outsider saw it, he would probably be scared to death.
Bai Mian walked closer to take a look. The snake demon did not attack her again and seemed to have given up struggling. A large amount of blood gushed out from her abdomen. The scales on her body were green, and each scale was as big as a bowl. At first glance, she looked like a little dragon.
There was a human head on the snake's neck. Just as the legend said, this snake demon had a human face and a snake body. It was the face of a pretty girl, and a normal-sized head on top of this huge body, which looked weird and funny in the night.
The woman looked in agony and begged Bai Mian, "Please... just kill me with one knife, and let me have a quick death!"
Blood was still gushing out. It seemed that this snake demon had no self-healing ability. There was such a big cut on her abdomen. Even if Bai Mian didn't kill her, she wouldn't live long.
So simple? Bai Mian was a little skeptical and afraid that the snake demon was cheating, but when he thought that this was just an intermediate task after all, Bai Mian let down his guard and boldly walked up to the snake demon.
Before killing her, there are some things I need to clarify.
"Is everything here an illusion created by you?" Bai Mian asked the woman, lifting her face with his sword. At this moment, the surroundings were empty. The big mountain just now disappeared, and only this big snake was left on the land.
The woman nodded painfully: "Fuzhu Mountain does not exist. Everything... is created by me using the illusion technique. Every blade of grass and every tree here are just my scales."
Bai Mian thought to himself, no wonder the Demon-Finding Plate never changed. It turned out that it was because he had been hovering on the snake's body. Only when he got near the snake's stomach did the needle begin to shake.
"Why did it become like this?" Bai Mian asked again.
The woman was somewhat helpless: "In order to hunt humans... I transformed into a beautiful mountain to attract tourists to challenge me so that I could get food... I am a demon, and it is my nature. I can only survive this way."
"So, I am also your prey?" Bai Mian pointed his sword at the pile of bones on the ground. "You deliberately placed their backpacks and bones in the cave to lure me into the cave and then take the opportunity to swallow me."
The woman nodded again: "Yes, I felt it from the moment you entered the mountain. You are an immortal, and you are here to conquer me... For cultivators like you, I can't swallow you in the usual way. I can only attract you to walk into my stomach and then digest you... Of course, I knew I was no match for you, I just tried to save my life..."
"Then how do you capture ordinary people?" Bai Mian still looked at the pile of bones on the ground, "For example, how did they die?"
The woman said with difficulty: "It's the land. When I want to swallow them, I will turn the land under their feet into a swamp. Then people will fall into it and be swallowed directly into my stomach. They will have no chance to escape... It was the same with this group of people. When you passed by them, the land under their feet turned into a swamp as soon as you left. They didn't even have time to cry for help..."
"...These people are all idiots. They know that my Fuzhu Mountain is famous, but they still want to challenge me. They are clearly seeking death. If I don't eat them, I will be sorry for myself!"
"What about this young couple?" Bai Mian still felt a little reluctant, "These two people have clearly planned to withdraw, but you still won't let them go?"
A trace of viciousness flashed in the woman's eyes: "Quit? It's too late. From the moment they stepped into Fuzhu Mountain, their fate was already determined... Stupid, all of them are idiots..."
"Why?" Bai Mian asked again.
The woman looked pale and said weakly, "Because I hate humans. I just hate them! I hate them so much. I really hope that all humans will die. Die..."
Seeing the woman's extreme thoughts, Bai Mian was silent for a moment. The woman urged her fiercely: "Have you asked enough? If you have, just do it quickly. I don't like such long-windedness. Anyway, you are an immortal and I am a demon. You and I are opposites. I have already admitted that I lost to you... I only ask you not to torture me and give me a quick death!"
Bai Mian calmed himself down, swung his sword and cut the snake demon in half. The woman let out a sharp wail, but soon she stopped. Her pupils froze and turned gray.
Blood, endless blood flowed out from the snake's severed end, dyeing the ground red. The snake demon was dead.
However, Bai Mian did not hear the system's broadcast sound.
Bai Mian waited quietly for a few minutes, and saw wisps of white smoke coming out of the snake demon's body, and the snake's body began to gradually become transparent.
"No - it's resentment!"
Bai Mian thought to himself that something was not right and hurriedly took off the golden talisman from his ear and threw it away. The golden talisman became extremely huge as it flew in the air, like a net that firmly trapped the resentment that was about to fly away.
After collecting all the resentment, Bai Mian took back the golden talisman. The golden talisman wrapped the resentment inside like a package. Bai Mian talked to the snake demon through the golden talisman:
"Why do you have such strong resentment?"
The woman's voice came slowly from the package, still repeating the same words: "I hate it so much, I hate everyone..."
Bai Mian slowed down his tone and asked gently, "Why do you hate me so much?"
This time, the woman's voice was no longer vicious, and even contained a hint of grievance: "They killed me, they peeled off my skin, broke my bones, and boiled my premature baby in the pot..."
Bai Mian frowned immediately: "Who is it? Tell me clearly."
The woman began to tell the story. It turned out that she was not born a snake demon. Five hundred years ago, she was just a girl from an ordinary farmer's family. Her name was Qingqing. Her parents were farmers and weavers, and they lived a relatively harmonious life. After Qingqing grew up, her parents married her to a young man from the next village. Although the two had never met, they fell in love with each other at first sight when they lifted their veils. Their married life was very sweet, and Qingqing soon became pregnant.
After she became pregnant, Qingqing became the baby of the whole family. Her parents-in-law treated her like their own daughter. Her husband pondered every day and came up with many names for the unborn child in advance.
In that year, the weather was extremely dry and many crops died. The emperor also increased taxes and levies, and the farmers could not make ends meet. They had to abandon their land and leave. As a result, no one cultivated the land, food production decreased, and famine broke out among the people.
At first, people still maintained their last bit of sanity. They ate the grain used as seeds, and then ate wild vegetables and tree bark. When there was nothing left to eat, some people began to eat humans.
Qingqing had delicate skin and tender flesh, and was weak as a kitten. Ever since incidents of cannibalism began to occur among the people, every time she went out, passers-by would look at her like knives, sizing her up and down, as if they had stripped her naked with their eyes.
Qingqing was frightened and dared not go out from then on, and her husband also told her not to go out.
"Just hide under the cellar at home and don't go out no matter what noise you hear. I will bring you food these days. Just hide here and wait until the baby is born." said the husband.
Qingqing was about to agree, but she was still worried about her parents. She suggested going home to visit them. The world was so chaotic and she was worried about their safety.
The husband didn't agree at first, but he couldn't stand Qingqing's crying, making a fuss and threatening to hang herself, so he had to reluctantly take her back to her parents' home.
Seeing Qingqing come back, parents were very happy, but times were different now and there was nothing good to serve guests at home. Mother cooked a pot of soup with grass roots, and everyone drank it quickly and went to bed.
After nightfall, Qingqing's stomach was still growling with hunger and she couldn't fall asleep. In a trance, she seemed to hear the sound of her mother sharpening a knife in the kitchen. Qingqing found it very strange. There was no food at home, so why was her mother sharpening the knife?
After a while, Dad walked in quietly, put his hands on Qingqing's husband's neck, and tried to strangle him. But Qingqing's husband was not asleep either. He was younger after all, so he jumped up and wrestled with Qingqing's Dad. After a while, Dad was knocked unconscious.
Qingqing and her husband exchanged glances, and neither of them spoke. They put on their clothes and hurried out the door. Their mother, who was sharpening a knife in the kitchen, heard the noise and chased after them, but did not catch up with them. So she thought about it, turned back, and pointed the knife at her father who was lying on the ground.
After getting rid of her mother, Qingqing and her husband gasped for breath. After some discussion, they finally returned to her husband's village. The village was more chaotic than before. There had been cases of home break-ins and murders. It seemed that it was no use for Qingqing to hide.
The husband woke up his parents-in-law, and after some discussion they decided to escape at night. So they hurriedly packed some clothes and set off. Qingqing was exhausted, but she still followed her husband and the others until they reached a deserted forest, where her husband stopped.
"Huh, it's okay now. No one will chase us anymore." Qingqing said, panting.
The husband smiled and said, "Yes, no one will come to snatch you from me anymore."
"You...what do you mean by this?" Qingqing felt a chill on her back. Before she could think about it, her parents-in-law surrounded her from behind and hit her on the back of the head with a stone.
Qingqing fell to the ground, feeling a sharp pain in her abdomen. Because of the series of stimulations she had just experienced, her baby was going to be born prematurely.
Qingqing touched her wet thighs and begged for mercy: "Husband, I am about to give birth. This is our child, and it is also your child! How can you bear to kill your own child?"
The husband did not hesitate at all and hit her on the head with a stone. Although it hurt, Qingqing did not lose consciousness. She struggled and said, "Husband, even if you want to eat me, please let me give birth to this child. If you kill me now, the child will die!"
The husband was unmoved: "It's just a piece of meat. It's destined to be eaten even if it's born. What difference does it make whether it's born or not?"
Qingqing had given up hope. The blood on her forehead was flowing slowly. She began to fall into a coma. Seeing that Qingqing had no movement, everyone thought she was dead and started to discuss how to cook her. The mother-in-law was a little annoyed: "It's all your fault. You insisted on bringing her to this wild place to eat. I didn't even bring any cooking utensils from home. What should I do?"
The father-in-law smiled innocently: "How can we not bring her here? Those people in the village are like hungry wolves. If we do it in the village, they will definitely snatch her away and eat her! This is our daughter-in-law, we should eat her ourselves. My son is smart and came up with this idea to lure her into the wild!"
The husband wrinkled his nose, as if he was annoyed by their nagging: "Enough, stop wasting time. If those guys smell the scent, they will probably follow it. Hurry up and carry her away first!"
So the three of them worked together to lift up the unconscious Qingqing. Since there were no cooking utensils in the wild, they carried her to a nearby deserted village. All the villagers here had fled, and every house was empty. The mother-in-law happened to find a big pot in a house, and they decided to use the pot to cook a pot of soup.
The husband put Qingqing on the chopping board. The unconscious Qingqing woke up at this time. She felt a sharp pain in her heart and said with her last voice: "Husband, look... the child, the child is born..."
The husband lowered his head and saw a baby's head squeezed out of Qingqing's vagina, but he still impatiently wielded the kitchen knife and chopped off Qingqing's head.
The delivery was interrupted, the baby's face turned purple, and he died soon after.
At this time, the mother-in-law who was boiling water was startled. It turned out that a green snake slowly crawled out of the house and was looking at them. Since people fled, the green snake moved into the village house, which was warm and sheltered from the wind, and was a good place for hibernation.
The green snake looked outside to see who had disturbed its hibernation. Without thinking, the husband grabbed the green snake, chopped it into several pieces with a knife, and threw it into the pot together with Qingqing's head.
The mother-in-law smiled happily: "There is a snack. I have never eaten snake before."
The father-in-law smacked his lips and said, "I'm so greedy. I haven't eaten meat for several months."
"You came at the perfect time. There's not even any salt in this damn place. I heard snake meat is delicious and it'll enhance the flavor." The husband said as he covered the pot.
Under the lid of the pot, Qingqing's head, with its eyes open, was writhing in the boiling water. The snake, which had been chopped into several pieces, wrapped around her head, and the two merged together, cooking into a pot of extremely delicious broth.
They didn't know that this green snake had been practicing in the mortal world for ninety-nine years and would be promoted to a minor fairy in one year. Now that it was killed by them, the green snake was full of resentment. Its resentment combined with Qingqing's resentment, the resentment in the pot was overwhelming. Coupled with the green snake's own practice, a beautiful snake demon with a human face and a snake body was created.
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