Chapter 176: 170. Slaying the Python Demon (1/2)

170. Slaying the Python Demon (1/2)

Before long, the wives and concubines all returned to the hall from the rooms.

Everything that needed to be packed had been packed.

There were no omissions.

They could depart for the Heaven and Earth Sect at any time.

Before departing, Wen Zhiyun looked at Chen An with some worry and asked:

"Husband, Ying and Jiuji are both of the demon race. Will there be any trouble if we go to the Heaven and Earth Sect?"

Regarding this point, Chen An had already considered it.

He looked at Wen Zhiyun and smiled:

"Rest assured, Ying only has a awakened Bloodline and an extra Demon Core in her body, but the aura she emits is still that of a human."

"Below the Nascent Soul realm, no one can discern Ying's identity; even a great Nascent Soul cultivator would have to deliberately investigate to discover any clues."

"As for Jiuji, there is even less need to worry. As a member of the Fox Demon Clan, she possesses an innate, exclusive racial Breath Concealment Technique. As long as she does not expose herself, even a Spirit Severing great cultivator would not be able to see through her."

After hearing these words from Chen An, Wen Zhiyun felt a little more at ease.

However, her worry did not disappear; it merely shifted.

Furthermore, it shifted to Chen An.

Looking at his five wives and concubines, who were as beautiful as celestial beings, Chen An could not help but think of the phrase "a beautiful woman is a curse."

He worried that the beauty of his wives and concubines would bring him trouble at the Heaven and Earth Sect.

After all, an innocent man may be guilty of a crime simply because of the treasure he carries.

After arriving at the Heaven and Earth Sect, it was very likely that he would be that innocent man, and his five wives and concubines would be the jade he carried.

Based on this.

In the half-hour before departure.

Chen An had his wives and concubines disguise each other, trying their best to make their appearances look plain and ordinary, so they would not look so beautiful.

At the same time, he paid attention to their clothing, having them change into garments that covered them thoroughly to hide their graceful figures, so as not to tempt others to commit crimes.

As for his two young daughters, it did not matter.

Although his daughters were exquisite and pretty, they were still so young that they would not be coveted by others.

At most, someone might take a fancy to them and want to arrange a childhood betrothal.

Once everything was ready.

With a thought, Chen An took a small Flying Boat from his Storage Ring and carried his wives and daughters toward the Heaven and Earth Sect.

He had bought this Flying Boat from the Lu Clan Firm half a month ago.

It cost a full 100 High-grade Spirit Stones.

It was very expensive.

It pained his heart.

But thinking that it was to carry his wives and daughters, it could be considered worth the price.

One thousand meters in the air.

On the Flying Boat.

Chen An stood at the helm, Proficiently maneuvering the Flying Boat to fly at high speed and steadily.

Behind him, his wives and daughters gathered together, chatting and laughing.

Song Huaying was the most talkative; most of the time, she was the one finding topics.

Wen Zhiyun was second.

Jiuji was third.

Shen Qingyi was fourth.

Gu Xinyue rarely spoke; most of the time, she was smiling and listening.

After nearly a month of getting along, Wen Zhiyun was no longer as hostile toward Jiuji as she had been at the beginning, and occasionally she could have a few words with her.

That this change in their relationship could occur was thanks to Song Huaying acting as a lubricant, which had narrowed the distance between them quite a bit.

Chen An felt very gratified by this, and he loved this capable little wife of his even more.

"Husband, among us sisters, whose lips do you think are the softest?"

Song Huaying looked at Chen An and asked.

She had just been discussing this topic with her sisters, and she was very curious about the answer to this question.

As soon as she said this, the other four wives and concubines also looked at Chen An, their eyes filled with anticipation.

This was a trap question.

No matter whose lips he answered were the softest, he would inevitably offend the other four.

Chen An knew this, so he answered somewhat perfunctorily:

"Your lips are all very soft, all equally soft, and I like them all."

"Husband, you are so perfunctory; it is impossible for them to be equally soft. Tell us who is the softest!"

Song Huaying was not satisfied with Chen An's answer and acted like a spoiled child, demanding he tell the truth.

Chen An initially wanted to avoid answering, but his little wife was too persistent, and after a few moments, he could not stand it anymore, so he had to say:

"If you are all so curious, why don't you just taste each other's lips?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the air suddenly went quiet.

The wives and concubines looked at one another, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Just then, Chen An, who was steering the boat, suddenly frowned.

He did not look back, saying to his wives and concubines with his back to them: "Quickly find something to hold onto and steady yourselves; a Demon Beast with a spirit pressure as high as the Golden Core Ninth Layer is flying toward us, and I must maneuver the Spirit Boat into a sharp turn to avoid it."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the wives and daughters behind him changed instantly.

Song Huaying and Wen Zhiyun both reacted quickly, immediately raising their hands to grab the wooden pillars beside them to steady themselves, while simultaneously pulling their respective daughters tightly into their arms.

The other three wives and concubines also quickly found other wooden pillars to hold onto and steady themselves.

Wen Zhiyun knew that the Spirit Power within Jiuji had been drained dry by the Sea Tower Stone, and fearing that she would not be able to steady herself alone, she simply pulled her into her own arms to protect her.

Regarding this action of Wen Zhiyun, Jiuji felt surprised, then felt a warmth in her heart, and thanked her in a soft voice: "Thank you, Sister Wen."

For once, Wen Zhiyun did not act haughty and said: "You're welcome, we are all the husband's wives and concubines."

Seeing that his wives and daughters had all steadied themselves, Chen An immediately moved his thoughts, quickly turning the direction of the Flying Boat to shift to the left, so as to avoid colliding with the unknown Demon Beast flying toward them at high speed.

Because the Flying Boat made such a large-scale turn in a very short time, the wives and daughters on the boat inevitably suffered from tremendous inertial displacement.

Among them, Song Huaying, whose cultivation base was not high to begin with and who still had to protect her daughter, was instantly thrown off by this huge inertia.

Fortunately, Shen Qingyi, who was nearby, was quick-witted and fast-handed, reaching out in time to grab Song Huaying's arm, which prevented the mother and daughter from being thrown off the Flying Boat.

By this time, the Flying Boat had successfully changed direction, and the hull of the boat was able to stabilize.

However, Chen An's brows were furrowed even more tightly.

Because he discovered that the Demon Beast not far ahead was coming specifically for his family.

As soon as he changed his flight direction, the other party also followed suit, changing direction to pursue them, and significantly increased its speed.

It was merely a blink of an eye.

That Demon Beast with a cultivation base as high as the Golden Core Ninth Layer had closed the distance to the Flying Boat by more than ten miles.

Its flight speed was terrifying, more than ten times faster than the Flying Boat, and it was already approaching the speed at which Chen An could fly alone via Sword Flight.

At this rate of approach, it would not take long before it caught up to the Flying Boat.

"Jiuji, do you know how to pilot the Flying Boat?"

Chen An asked Jiuji behind him.

He wanted to leave the Flying Boat and take the initiative to fly toward that Demon Beast via Sword Flight to engage in one-on-one combat, so as to avoid involving his wives and daughters on the Flying Boat.

"Husband, I do not know how to pilot the Flying Boat." Jiuji shook her head, and after finishing, she added with a hint of resentment: "Besides, even if I did, I wouldn't be able to pilot it; the Spirit Power in my body has been drained dry by the Sea Tower Stone on me."

Hearing this answer, Chen An's heart could not help but sink.

He had long known that Shen Qingyi and the others did not know how to pilot the Flying Boat.

And now, Jiuji also said she did not know.

That was it; they could not escape.

They could only pilot the Flying Boat and face that terrifying Demon Beast flying toward them at high speed with his wives and daughters behind him.

As the Demon Beast continued to close in, Chen An's Divine Sense finally perceived the full appearance of the opponent.

It was that python demon!

That python demon that had been holed up in the marshes of the Qianye Forest and had successfully shed its skin to become a dragon!

Had this python demon actually learned how to ride the clouds and mist?

The pressure in Chen An's heart increased manifold.

He did not know if his current strength could allow him to cross realms and kill this terrifying python demon to ensure the safety of the wives and daughters behind him.

"It's here, everyone hold steady!"

Following this exclamation from Chen An, a terrifying air current immediately surged within the clouds ahead.

The wives and daughters on the boat could not help but tense their nerves, their heartbeats accelerating wildly from nervousness.

Chen An was relatively calm; he raised his hand, extended a finger, and pointed it at the python demon flying toward them at high speed, releasing a Golden Light Projection at it from a distance of over twenty miles.

"Hum!"

Only a deafening air explosion was heard, and a blinding Gold Light shot out from Chen An's fingertip, aimed directly at the python demon twenty miles ahead.

In just the blink of an eye, the Gold Light shot over twenty miles away, accurately striking the head of the python demon and ruthlessly piercing its entire snake body from head to tail.

Afterward, the python demon died on the spot, its body and soul destroyed as it plummeted from the high sky.

What the hell?

It died?

Such a large python demon, just like that, shot to death by a single Golden Light Projection from me?

I only wanted to try a Golden Light Projection to test the python demon's strength...

At this very moment, Chen An's face was filled with astonishment and disbelief.

He discovered that he seemed to have underestimated his own strength.

Although his cultivation base was only at the Golden Core Sixth Layer, under the enhancement of various highly Proficient Dharma Spells, his strength had already far exceeded his own realm.

Shen Qingyi noticed Chen An's abnormality and could not help but ask: "Husband, what is the situation now?"

Chen An replied: "You might not believe it if I tell you, but that Demon Beast with a cultivation base as high as the Golden Core Ninth Layer was headshot by a single Golden Light Projection from me from over twenty miles away, and it died on the spot."

The wives and concubines truly did not believe him.

Killing a Golden Core Ninth Layer Demon Beast in one strike from over twenty miles away—who would believe that?

Actually, it could not be entirely blamed on the wives and concubines for not trusting their husband.

One should blame Chen An for not being serious in his daily life, often joking and speaking unreliably, which caused him to lose a certain amount of credibility in the hearts of his wives and concubines.

Unless they encountered some major event, the wives and concubines would be half-believing and half-doubting regarding individual, overly outrageous minor matters.

And now, the wives and concubines could not even see a shadow of the python demon; under these circumstances, it was truly difficult to believe their husband's words.

Chen An did not explain much more to his wives and concubines.

Instead, he moved his thoughts and piloted the Flying Boat to fly toward the location where the python demon had fallen.

A distance of over twenty miles was very far for mortals, but for a great Golden Core cultivator, it was nothing more than a distance that could be reached in the blink of an eye.

Soon, the Flying Boat arrived at the location where the python Demon Beast's corpse had fallen.

It was an endless plain.

There was nothing but grass.

Miraculously, not a single tree could be seen.

Being in the midst of it, the view was incredibly vast.

Precisely because of this, when the corpse of a python demon over a hundred meters long and nearly three meters wide landed there, it appeared so conspicuous and shocking.

"Tsk tsk, it really was killed instantly by my Golden Light Projection."

Chen An looked at the massive corpse before him, his gaze quickly falling upon the blood hole that had pierced through its entire head, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion in his heart.

Afterwards, with a thought, he took out the Youlong Sword from his Storage Ring and began to cut into the snake body before him.

He stuffed his Storage Ring and Storage Bag as full as possible.

He would take as much as he could.

Behind him, his wives and concubines looked at the mountain-like corpse of the python demon, realizing that their husband had not lied to them.

Their husband had truly killed a Golden Core Ninth Layer Demon Beast in an instant from a distance of over twenty miles away.

For a moment, their hearts were filled with an indescribable sense of shock.

Especially Jiuji; she and the python before them both came from the Mountain and Sea Demon Realm, so she had some understanding of this python demon.

This python demon had been stuck at the Golden Core Ninth Layer for a long time, and in order to successfully break through to the Nascent Soul realm, it had specifically followed the Green Bird clan to the Red Cedar Forest over a year ago to see if it could achieve Nascent Soul by devouring human cultivators.

Yet, such a python demon with such a high cultivation level had been killed in a single blow by her cheap husband from twenty miles away; this was simply absurd.

Could it be that this cheap husband of mine has been hiding his strength all along?

Is he actually a great Nascent Soul cultivator?

Thinking of this, the look Jiuji gave Chen An was filled with affection; the fox demon's innate nature of admiring the strong prompted her to fall for Chen An.

【You displayed extremely powerful strength in front of your wife Jiuji, making her increasingly convinced that the fact she "was first imprisoned and tortured by you, then brought home and thoroughly ravished" was a blessing in disguise. Marital affection +1+3+1+4+5+2+0...】

【Name: Jiuji】

【Cultivation: Golden Core Fourth Layer】

【Attributes: Weak physical body, powerful spirit】

【Affection: 1 Star · 69%】

Hmm?

Is this little fox spirit a masochist?

Can her affection skyrocket even from this?

Forget it, spending a month licking this little fox spirit in the tunnel wasn't as useful as just showing off a bit of strength in front of her.

This is quite frustrating.

Looking at the several notification messages that suddenly popped up, Chen An was speechless for a moment.

In the time that followed.

Chen An extracted the high-value parts of the python demon, such as the Demon Core, head horns, eyes, venomous fangs, and snake gallbladder.

As his wives and concubines watched him take out these valuable items one after another, their eyes couldn't help but sparkle.

Song Huaying loved jewelry and took a fancy to the python demon's pair of exquisite, dazzling eyes that looked like gemstones.

Gu Xinyue was obsessed with culinary arts and took a fancy to the python demon's succulent meat.

Wen Zhiyun liked refining poisons and took a fancy to the pair of fangs that stored venom.

Shen Qingyi had always wanted a lightweight secondary Wuji and took a fancy to the python demon's pair of head horns, which were as hard as refined steel.

Jiuji was a Water Spirit Root cultivator and took a fancy to the python demon's water-attribute Demon Core.

Chen An saw the gleam in his wives' and concubines' eyes and said to them with a smile: "Don't worry, these things are all for you. Once we move to the Heaven and Earth Sect and get settled, I will take them out and distribute them to you one by one."

Hearing him say this, the wives and concubines immediately spoke up to claim their items.

Song Huaying: "Husband, I want this python demon's eyes to polish into jewelry to wear."

Gu Xinyue: "Husband, I want to take the entire corpse of this python demon back to cook."

Wen Zhiyun: "Husband, I want those snake fangs to refine Poison Pills."

Shen Qingyi: "Husband, I want those head horns to craft a Wuji."

Jiuji wanted the Demon Core, but because she hadn't fully gained her husband's trust and was still considered half an outsider in his heart, she was too embarrassed to ask for it.

Chen An saw what she was thinking and said to her with a faint smile: "Jiuji, you are a Water Spirit Root cultivator, so I will save this python demon's Demon Core for you. When the day comes that I can remove the Sea Tower Stone for you, I will give you this Demon Core."

"Thank you, Husband!"

Jiuji replied with a face full of joy.

At this moment, she had long since taken the inhuman treatment of being collared, handcuffed, and shackled as a matter of course.

Regarding this, she no longer resented or blamed Chen An, but instead felt that she deserved it for failing to earn his trust, which was why she was restricted by his Dharma Artifact.

She was completely unaware that she had been domesticated by Chen An without even realizing it.

"Daddy, I also want the python demon's pair of eyes."

Chen Yuejian tugged on her father's hem, her face written with desire.

Like her mother Song Huaying, she had a natural love for jewelry and such, so she could only compete with her mother now.

Seeing her daughter competing with her for the items, Song Huaying was so angry that she pouted her rosy cherry lips and looked at her daughter with dissatisfaction, saying: "Chen Yuejian, I am your mother, how can you compete with me for things!"

"Mom, I am not just your daughter, I am also a young child. As an adult, can't you let me have them!" Chen Yuejian replied in a tea-sipping, manipulative tone.

Watching this scene of maternal kindness and filial piety, Chen An felt a mix of amusement and frustration.

Afterwards, he advised the mother and daughter: "Alright, alright, there are two eyes from this python demon, not just one. Can't you two just take one each?"

"Daddy, I want to eat snake meat!!!"

At this moment, the silly second daughter Chen Yike tugged hard on her father's trouser leg, drooling as she looked at the python demon's corpse, and let out an Evil Dragon Roar at the top of her lungs.

Before Chen An could respond, Wen Zhiyun at his side gave the silly daughter's hand a "slap," glared at her with a fierce expression, and scolded, "You silly child, what are you shouting so loudly for!"

Chen Yike pursed her little lips in grievance.

Seeing this, Gu Xinyue nearby immediately spoke up to comfort her, "Little Yike, after we go to the Heaven and Earth Sect, how about Mother Gu makes you a full snake feast to eat?"

"Mm-mm-mm!"

Chen Yike timidly dodged her biological mother's death stare and nodded frantically at Mother Gu.

At the same time, she thought to herself, if only I were Mother Gu's daughter, then I wouldn't have to be scolded every day.

PS: Setting out my bowl, begging for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!