Chapter 184: Jinjiang First Launch

The flesh walls around her tightly wrapped around her, the fishy smell became stronger and stronger, Bai Mian was about to suffocate. Before she suffocated, she used up her last breath, tightly grasped the long sword in her hand, and fiercely pierced the flesh wall in front of her.

The Soul-Severing 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 moved it up and down with force, and cut 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 tumbling 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 fighting. A large amount of blood gushed out from her abdomen. The scales all over her body were green, and each scale was as big as a bowl. At first glance, she looked like a small 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 such a huge body 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 die quickly!"

Blood was still gushing out. It seemed that this snake demon had no ability to heal itself. 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, fearing that the snake demon was cheating, but thinking that this was only an intermediate mission after all, Bai Mian let down his guard and walked boldly in front of 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, lifting the woman's face with his sword. At this moment, the surroundings were empty. The mountains 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 is just my scales."

Bai Mian thought to himself, no wonder the Demon-Finding Plate never changed. It turned out to be because he had been hovering on the giant snake. Only when he got near the snake's stomach did the pointer start 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 and 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 near the cave to lure me into the cave and then take the opportunity to swallow me."

The woman nodded again: "Yes, from the moment you entered the mountain, I felt that you were an immortal, and you came to conquer me... For people like you who practice Taoism, 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..."

"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, and then they will fall into it and be swallowed directly into my stomach. There is no chance of escape... It's 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, and 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 doing myself a disservice!"

"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's face was pale, and she 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, then hurry up and do it. I don't like such long-winded talk. Anyway, you are an immortal and I am a demon. You and I are originally 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 wound, 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 more 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 wrong 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 absorbing 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 a strong grudge?"

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 softly, "Why do you hate me so much?"

This time, the woman's voice was no longer vicious, and even had 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 her 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 worked in the fields and wove, 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 before, they fell in love with each other at first sight when the veil was lifted. 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 as 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. The farmers could not make ends meet and 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 food 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 was delicate and weak, but ever since the cannibalism incidents 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 so frightened that she dared not go out from then on, and her husband also told her not to go out.

"Just hide in the cellar at home and don't go out no matter what noise you hear. I will bring you meals during 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, so 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 threats of crying, making a fuss and even hanging 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 at home to entertain guests. 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 could not 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. After all, he was younger, 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 said a word. They put on their clothes and hurried out the door. Their mother, who was sharpening a knife in the kitchen, heard the noise and ran out, but did not catch up with them. So she thought for a moment, turned around and walked back, pointing 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 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 already exhausted, but she still followed her husband and the others until they reached a deserted forest, and then 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?" 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 and felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. Because of the series of stimulations she had just experienced, her baby was about to be born prematurely.

Qingqing touched her wet thighs and begged for mercy: "Husband, I'm about to give birth. This is our child, and this is also your child! How can you bear to kill your own child?"

The husband did not hesitate at all. He picked up a stone and hit her on the head. Although it hurt, Qingqing still 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. Blood began to trickle from her forehead. She began to fall into a coma. Seeing that Qingqing had stopped moving, everyone thought she was dead and started to discuss how to cook her. The mother-in-law was a little upset: "It's all your fault. You insisted on bringing her to this wilderness to eat. I didn't even bring any cooking utensils from home. What should we 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. It's my son who is smart. He 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 something, they will probably follow the scent and come over, 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, so they decided to use it to cook a pot of soup.

The husband put Qingqing on the chopping board. Qingqing, who had been unconscious, 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 mouth, but he still impatiently swung the kitchen knife and chopped off Qingqing's head.

The birth was interrupted, the baby's face turned purple, and he died soon after.

At this time, the grandmother 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 has lived in the village house. It is warm and sheltered from the wind, and it is a good place for hibernation.

The green snake looked outside to see who had disturbed its hibernation. Without hesitation, 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: "It's a snack. I've never eaten snake before."

The father-in-law smacked his lips and said, "I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten meat for several months."

"I came at the perfect time. There's not even any salt in this damn place. I heard snake meat is delicious, so let's add some flavor to it." The husband said as he covered the pot.

Under the pot lid, Qingqing's head with its eyes open was tumbling in the boiling water. The snake, which had been chopped into several pieces, was entangled with her head, and the two merged together and cooked into a pot of extremely delicious meat soup.

They didn't know that this green snake had been cultivating 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 cultivation, a beautiful snake demon with a human face and a snake body was created.