Little Peach Blossom grumbled, "Have you refined the Heart-Corroding Poisonous Insect?"
"No, isn't this thing harmful?" Zhu Yi asked, looking puzzled.
With a look of disdain, Little Peach Blossom said, "I've already said it. It changes according to its master's temperament. That Xing Shen has a bad heart, so of course the insects she refines are harmful!"
"Then what should I do?" Zhu Yi asked.
"You'd better figure out a way to reform it yourself!"
Saying nothing was pointless. Zhu Yi ignored Xiao Taohua and turned around to pour all the zombie tooth powder she had left over from refining pills into the small jade bottle containing the Heart-Eating Poisonous Insects. She gave the hungry little insects a wicked smile: "I don't care how your previous master refined you. Now that you're here, if you don't want me to use you as firewood or chop you up to feed the chickens, you have to listen to me!"
Perhaps it was Zhu Yi's particularly eerie smile that made the little bug tremble. Poisoned by the zombie tooth powder, it retreated repeatedly, unable to find a suitable place to hide inside the jade bottle. The little bug bared its teeth, looking extremely fierce.
Zhu Yi retreated repeatedly: "This bug has too much staying power!"
Su Linyuan was a little curious, "Why did you suddenly take out the little Gu worm?"
"I just don't know how to tame it. Little Peach Blossom told me to think of a way quickly."
"Hmm, it's not actually that difficult." Su Linyuan made a hand seal, condensed a drop of jet-black spirit snake's heart blood, and fed it to the Heart-Eating Poisonous Insect.
The tiny insects, like fish entering the sea, frantically devoured this hard-won drop of serpent blood.
With a couple of flashes of light, its jet-black color faded slightly, turning into a bluish-gray. Zhu Yi twitched her lips, her face full of disdain, and spat out, "Playing favorites!"
"You deserve to starve!"
Su Linyuan smiled; "The blood of our Spirit Serpent Clan is more attractive to Gu worms."
"Oh, I'll try too!" Zhu Yi also dripped a drop of blood onto the little bug.
Perhaps it was the magnetic field that was wrong; the little bug itself was somewhat hostile towards Zhu Yi, and obediently turned towards Su Linyuan, no longer glancing at Zhu Yi.
Little Peach Blossom waved her hand: "There's nothing I can do about that. Anyway, this thing is very snobbish. You just have to tame it like an ordinary person taming a hawk!"
"Brother Jiang Lin, am I amazing?" Little Peach Blossom said to Su Linyuan, trying to be cute.
Zhu Yi pretended not to see it with a dark face. Hmph, little brat, he deserves a beating.
In the end, Little Peach Blossom received a thick book of talisman texts, along with some seemingly unrelated words of encouragement from Zhu Yi: "Keep it up, study hard and become a learned talisman peach!"
The dim-witted Peach Blossom wanted to retort, "But I clearly came out to have fun!"
After the antidote for snake venom was distributed, the young people all went home, expressing their gratitude profusely as they parted. Zhu Yi felt a surge of satisfaction.
However, this small sense of relief vanished when that woman, born in an unlucky year, month, and hour, turned on her.
Well, she still hasn't cultivated enough.
"Waaah, my love, they must be lying to me!" The girl's belly was round; as soon as she was no longer being absorbed and refined by the demonic snake, the monstrous thing inside her belly visibly grew much larger.
"Let's be honest, can you face reality? Even if this child is born, it will be a half-human, half-snake vampire. Your own blood won't even be enough for it to drink for two days."
"It's neither human nor snake, are you sure you want to insist on giving birth to it?" Zhu Yi was genuinely puzzled and angry; it was truly impossible to reason with this damned devil!
Su Linyuan keenly sensed Zhu Yi's unhappiness and said gently, "There are ways to ensure your child is born safely, but the process will be extremely difficult. Are you willing to do that?"
Zhu Yi suddenly realized how stupid she had been! Su Linyuan was half-human and half-snake in this life, how could she say to his face that the union of a demon snake and a human was a sin?
"Brother Lin Yuan, I..." The little girl looked full of guilt.
Su Linyuan immediately understood, "I know that's not what you meant, you're right."
Zhu Yi felt even more guilty, and lowered her head, not daring to look at Su Linyuan.
"If you want your child to be born safely, you need half of your husband's heart's blood. One drop every day should be incorporated into your bones and blood. This method sounds simple, but it is very painful."
“Every day, a drop of your heart’s blood, imbued with the serpent’s talent and cultivation, is an excruciating pain. As a mortal, you are receiving the serpent’s blood, which is no different from being in a raging fire, suffering day after day. Only when you are ten months pregnant will you be able to successfully give birth to a serpent egg.”
Zhu Yi was stunned. So this is how Su Linyuan came to be!
She had initially been wondering if his father had abducted a woman, but now, after hearing what he said, she realized how complicated it had been for them to have a child together!
She no longer dared to doubt the pure love in others!
Su Linyuan smiled and explained to Zhu Yi, "Only in this way can we give the child the talent of the snake race, so that the child will have a human form from birth and will no longer be a monster that is neither human nor demon."
Under Zhu Yi's astonished gaze, the boy's long hair, flowing in the wind, was particularly stunning. He said, "The creation of heaven is the way of nature. If you really want your child, you can find your serpent lover tomorrow and ask him."
Zhu Yi felt guilty: "But her demonic snake husband has already been sent to the Pure Land by me!"
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