Chapter 423

Lin Bai frowned; he saw the snake flick its tongue twice, then Lin Bai tossed it to the ground.

"Go, follow him."

Lin Bai stood up and followed that black snake out of the inn.

"Senior brother, why are there so many snakes?"

He saw that the snake-people who had been moving freely during the day had completely vanished.

Instead, the streets were crawling with snakes everywhere, making onlookers shudder with fear.

Those snakes, upon seeing Lin Bai and the others, all began flicking their tongues; if not for the small snake leading the way ahead, they would surely have already lunged forward.

"Senior brother, look at them; they seem quite afraid of this snake."

Wang Yuping, seeing that those snakes dared not approach, instantly straightened his posture.

No matter what, at least for now they were safe.

"This snake must belong to the Thousand-Year Snake Charm; by human ranks, the owner must hold some official position."

Following this small snake, Lin Bai and the others turned left and right until they finally stopped before a place resembling an ancient castle.

Yet when they stopped before the castle, Lin Bai furrowed his brows, feeling inexplicably two very familiar auras.

"Senior brother, what's wrong?"

Seeing Lin Bai stop, Wang Yuping felt puzzled, even looking at Lin Bai with some worry.

"Do you feel two very familiar auras right nearby?"

Lin Bai reminded him softly.

After hearing Lin Bai's words, Wang Yuping indeed wore the same expression as Lin Bai.

"It must be the auras of Wei Xiang and the others."

Unlike Lin Bai, Wang Yuping had spent a longer time with Wei Xiang and the others, so he knew very clearly where this familiar aura came from.

"Are you sure?"

Lin Bai looked at the other.

"Very sure. Could it be they have already succeeded?"

Wang Yuping's face was full of worry.

If the other side had succeeded, wouldn't his senior brother have to leave the Place of No Beginning? He did not want that.

Instantly, his gaze toward Lin Bai held a bit more reluctance to part.

"You're overthinking it. If they had succeeded, the two of us wouldn't be standing here now."

Lin Bai simply thought the other's imagination was far too wild.

Lin Bai also clearly felt those two auras growing weaker and weaker, as if they might vanish at any moment.

That Wei Xiang snake walked straight into the castle; as the other drew near, the castle's tightly shut main gate instantly swung open.

Seeing Lin Bai had not followed, the other even stood at the entrance and waited for a while.

Only after confirming Lin Bai and the others had approached did it continue forward.

Once Lin Bai and the others had both feet fully inside the castle, the gate instantly closed.

At the same time, a chilling aura rushed toward them; compared to the temperature outside,

Wang Yuping felt this place was even colder; if not for his cultivation base protecting him, he would long since have been shivering uncontrollably from the cold.

Upon entering the palace, Lin Bai found the inner passageway composed of multiple arches, the patterns on the arches mostly depicting bamboo.

The deeper they went, the more white bones lay along the path; when Lin Bai and the others stepped on them, the sound of white bones cracking rang out.

Combined with the flickering candle flames on both sides of the arches, Wang Yuping clung desperately to the magic treasure in his hand, following behind Lin Bai.

Soon the small snake brought Lin Bai and the others to a tightly shut palace door.

The small snake vanished from the spot the very next second.

The entire atmosphere grew even more terrifying.

"Ah, Senior brother, save me!"

The next second, Wang Yuping's cry for help came; Lin Bai turned around, and Wang Yuping was already no longer by his side.

Who would have thought the mighty Green Snake would resort to sneaky tricks from behind. Truly contemptible. Lin Bai shouted loudly.

"Saving your companion is not impossible. As long as you are willing to offer yourself as a sacrifice to me, I might consider letting him go." At the same time, a woman's voice rang out, filled with seduction; the next second, the other's figure gradually appeared before Lin Bai. He saw the previously tightly shut palace door slowly open,

and on the throne at the very center of the great hall sat a very enchanting woman.

Human torso and snake tail, looking extremely eerie; yet that face was such that once seen, one could never forget it.

"Well? Do you agree to the requirements I stated?"

After speaking, the other snapped her fingers with a 2.0 sound, and three figures gradually emerged on both sides of the throne.

One was Wang Yuping, just captured by the other; he was now in a state of unconsciousness, though there was no immediate life-threatening danger, perhaps from excessive fright just now, or from bumping his head when the other took him away.

On the other side were Lin Yunzhong and Wei Xiang, figures Lin Bai knew very well.

Lin Bai was not too surprised; he guessed that the auras of the two he had felt outside just now were deliberately projected by the other.

However, looking at the two of them, they seemed to have been tortured terribly; at this moment they were drawing their last breaths, with life slipping away at any moment.

When the two saw Lin Bai, their eyes instantly brightened, as if they had seen hope.

Even Wei Xiang had lost his arrogance, only hoping Lin Bai would overlook past grievances and save him.

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