Gu Daozi spoke, and the clamor of condemnation abruptly ceased. Everyone turned to look at him with varying expressions.
He turned and looked around at everyone, then said in a deep voice, "Do you all agree?"
“We cultivators should not indiscriminately kill the innocent. If that demon is truly not imprisoned as Protector Huo said, then it is inappropriate for us to participate at this moment.” Someone in the crowd spoke up first, echoing Gu Daozi.
The cultivators who rushed to help as soon as the incident occurred in the prison were almost all righteous people. Although they had prejudices against demons, they would not kill demons on sight.
With someone taking the lead, everyone put aside their prejudices and waited to see what would happen.
Seeing that the crowd had calmed down, Huo Fei raised his eyes and looked down at the mountaintop, a hint of worry flashing in his sharp eyes.
One of those two screams must have come from Silver Ring.
How could that little girl be so reckless?
A few days ago, he guessed that Luo Mang might be undergoing a tribulation, so he told her in advance about some taboos regarding the tribulation of the demon race. But when the time came, she completely forgot his words and recklessly rushed into the lightning tribulation.
Fortunately, Luo Mang successfully survived his tribulation, and the afterglow of the calamity appeared extremely quickly. Bathed in the afterglow, as long as the girl still had a breath left, she wouldn't lose her life.
However, this time, she's likely to suffer a great deal of punishment.
Time ticked by, and on the quiet hilltop, the dazzling sunset gradually faded. Everyone held their breath, knowing that the final moment had arrived.
Meanwhile, on a high cliff further away from the hill, a gloomy man stared resentfully at the distant sunset, his eyes filled with gloom.
Damn it, I never expected him to be so lucky, actually managing to withstand the final lightning tribulation.
The man's face was dark and gloomy, his heart heavy with worry.
He triggered the lightning tribulation, making it extremely powerful, reaching the level of Purple Wave Lightning. With Luo Mang's strength, he had no chance of escaping this calamity.
Strange, when did his strength become so great?
Unable to grasp the key point, the man glanced down at the group of cultivators at the foot of the mountain, snorted coldly, withdrew his demonic aura, and left the spot unwillingly.
There are too many righteous people below; he has already missed his chance. If he makes another move, it will only attract the attention of those Taoists. This matter can only be considered in the long run.
Just as everyone was watching intently, a sudden gust of wind arose atop the calm hilltop, followed by a deep, resounding dragon's roar that echoed through the sky.
Amidst the surging winds and clouds, a ferocious, enormous dragon head burst forth from the mountains, stretching towards the horizon.
"roar--"
With a roar, a colossal creature with a dragon's head and a snake's body suddenly shot straight into the sky.
When its true form was fully revealed, the crowd watching from below the mountain was immediately astonished. Because the creature soaring into the air was not the "dragon" they knew.
Because... he didn't have the dragon claws that a dragon should have, and on his back, he had a pair of wings that were no less powerful than Huo Fei's.
"What is that?"
"A winged dragon?"
"This thing looks somewhat familiar..."
"Tengshe." Just as everyone was puzzled, Gu Daozi and the first Taoist elder to step forward said in unison the identity of the flying creature in the sky.
"What? Tengshe?" The crowd was stunned and shocked.
"Isn't that the legendary spirit pet of the goddess Nuwa? Could it be that the Teng Snake really exists in the world?"
Upon recalling the legendary image of the Teng Snake, the group's minds went blank.
Leaving aside everyone's shock, high in the sky, the legless dragon soared freely, its low roar filled with undisguised ecstasy.
He succeeded; he finally survived the tribulation.
Hahaha—Heaven has not failed me, Luo Mang.
Luo Mang was very happy and subconsciously flapped its wings, wanting to take another flight.
As soon as the wings flapped, Luo Mang's mind raced, and he felt as if something was amiss.
He twisted his massive body, turning slightly backward. When he saw the extra pair of wings on his back, he suddenly stopped and plummeted from the sky.
With a loud bang, smoke and dust billowed up from the hillside.
"roar--"
Luo Mang rolled over on the ground, barely managing to steady himself.
He raised his head, his eyes filled with astonishment.
I clearly passed the tribulation of transforming into a dragon, so why did I transform into a snake with wings instead of a dragon?
Could it be a mutation? Pshaw, pshaw, pshaw... He's a snake. No matter how much it mutates, it can't become a bird-snake.
He focused his mind, preparing to examine his body internally.
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he let out a sharp roar and leaped up the mountaintop.
"Silver Ring, Silver Ring..." Luo Mang called out as he ran, his mind tense.
The mutated form, upon recalling the silver ring, was immediately forgotten by him.
Luo Mang was no longer concerned about himself at this moment. He rushed towards the spot where he had been airborne.
Thinking of how Yin Huan had shared the final tribulation with him, Luo Mang was both moved and worried, fearing that something might happen to her.
“Ugh—Big Brother!” A dejected voice came from behind a large rock.
Upon hearing the familiar voice, Luo Mang trembled, his pace quickened abruptly, and he rushed toward the source of the sound.
Beneath the large rock, a little girl with a human body and a snake's tail stared in horror at her extra, thin, white hand.
She raised her thin arms, held her two little hands in front of her eyes, and waved them back and forth. Then she lowered her head, staring in disbelief at the excessively short and strangely shaped little tail below her waist.
Ignoring her lower body, the little girl looked only twelve or thirteen years old. She was fair-skinned and had a pair of emerald green eyes that looked somewhat eerie, but they didn't look out of place on her round face. Instead, they made her look quite cute.
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