Chapter 80: Totem Serpent

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Hangzhou.

To apologize for being out of touch for several months, Lv Cheng used his status as a teacher to help Mu Nujiao and the other young women request a short leave from the academy, bringing them out under the guise of an off-campus field trip.

Although Dean was somewhat uneasy about Ding Yumian's situation, after learning that Lv Cheng's Spiritual Power had already reached the Sixth Realm, he did not meddle further.

By the side of West Lake, Ai Tutu and the others were playing and frolicking, while Lv Cheng and Tang Yue sat on the bank like parents who had brought their children out to play, watching the scenery.

"Your skin is really getting thicker and thicker." Tang Yue was somewhat speechless.

It's one thing for you to start a harem, but don't do it right in my face!

What is the meaning of bringing everyone right in front of me?

Originally, when she first heard that Lv Cheng was coming to Hangzhou to see her, she was quite happy, but when she went to the station to pick him up, good heavens! He had brought his whole entourage!

"If my skin weren't thick, how could I have gotten involved with you?" Lv Cheng leaned against Tang Yue's thigh, looking like a dead pig that wasn't afraid of boiling water.

"You..." Tang Yue gave Lv Cheng a resentful glare.

"When a student gores the teacher, and then the teacher gores the student, you really know how to play."

"Who did you hear that from?" Lv Cheng looked puzzled.

"I haven't gored anyone yet."

Tang Yue was taken aback, feeling somewhat suspicious, "Really?"

She had heard from that big rabbit Ai Tutu yesterday that these girls had been living together for a long time.

Could Lv Cheng really resist not touching a single one?

"It's still early for that." Lv Cheng buried his head in Tang Yue's bosom.

"I am not a man who can be obtained so easily."

Ye Xinxia wasn't ready to accept so many people so easily, and Mu Nujiao was even less so; although the incident with Lu Nian had made her harbor resentment toward the Mu family, it wasn't enough yet, and he still had to continue.

That silly rabbit Ai Tutu might be okay, and Ding Yumian was about the same, but it wasn't the right time yet.

"……"

Tang Yue's expression was strange; she wanted to complain, but found she had no way to complain about this point.

Lv Cheng was indeed a flirt, but he truly wouldn't act recklessly; otherwise, back in Bo City, he wouldn't have kept himself chaste for so long.

"Then what about me?" Tang Yue asked.

"You?" Lv Cheng moved his head out.

"I can let you use me."

"……"

"Go to hell!" Tang Yue almost couldn't resist throwing this shameless person into the lake.

And let her use him?

Use what?

"Back in Bo City, if Old Man Pang hadn't interrupted, you would have used me already," Lv Cheng said with a straight face.

The corner of Tang Yue's eye twitched; she reached out her right hand and probed downward, intending to do something, when the lake surface in front of her suddenly became restless. Within a few breaths, a massive figure that blotted out the sky appeared out of thin air in the middle of the lake.

"……"

"Snake! A snake!!!!"

"Help!!!!!"

The lively lakeside was instantly plunged into a chaotic mix of crying and screaming.

Tang Yue's expression froze.

Why would the Totem Serpent run out at a time like this?

"A-Cheng..."

Before Tang Yue could finish her sentence, Lv Cheng erupted with a powerful spiritual fluctuation. His Mind Magic, which instantly spread across several kilometers, quickly pacified the panicked crowd.

Forced calm!

Seemingly sensing the powerful spiritual fluctuation erupting from Lv Cheng, the Totem Serpent, flicking its massive tongue, slowly lowered its posture until its head was close to the ground, its gaze fixed on Lv Cheng.

"Brother A-Cheng?"

Ye Xinxia and the other young women, who hadn't been scared unconscious yet, looked nervously at Lv Cheng, who was being stared at by the giant snake.

Whether it was an illusion or not, they seemed to see... confusion... in the giant snake's massive eyes?

"Big guy, don't be nervous." Tang Yue stood up, slowly walked to the Totem Serpent's side, and reached out to gently stroke its head.

"This isn't a place you should be; go back quickly."

The Totem Serpent didn't move; its massive eyes didn't flicker in the slightest, remaining fixed on Lv Cheng.

"What kind of thing are you?"

The Totem Serpent's confused voice appeared in Lv Cheng's mind.

A Mind Element Mage can sense the thoughts of magical beasts, and naturally, they can also sense the thoughts of Totem creatures like the Totem Serpent.

The Totem Serpent could also recognize the powerful spiritual fluctuation Lv Cheng had just erupted; it was Mind Magic.

Therefore, this strange thing should be able to understand its meaning.

"What kind of thing I am can be saved for another time, but it would be better if you didn't stay here right now," Lv Cheng pointed to the stunned crowd around them.

The Totem Serpent was a Monarch-level creature; even if it had restrained its own aura, the immense pressure brought by such a behemoth could cause ordinary people with weaker nerves to collapse directly.

The Mind Magic he was currently releasing was a forced calm, but the existence of the Totem Serpent was making those ordinary people extremely tense. With the push and pull, if they stayed in a stalemate for much longer, he didn't know what would happen. After all, he had never tested this situation before; perhaps someone would become an idiot.

The Totem Serpent nodded, its massive body slowly sinking into the lake. Within just a few breaths, it disappeared completely. The lake surface returned to calm, as if nothing had ever happened.

"Phew!" Lv Cheng let out a sigh of relief.

This was the first time he had unleashed such a large-scale, indiscriminate Mind Magic covering a radius of several kilometers; his Spiritual Power had been consumed too quickly.

Under normal circumstances, his consumption per minute is only one hundred, while the mana recovery brought by the dog and horse is two hundred, so he can squander it at will; he is a true perpetual motion machine.

But in that overloaded state just now, the consumption reached five hundred per minute; recovery could not keep up with consumption, and if it lasted long, he would also run out of mana.

"Brother Lv Cheng!"

"Ah! Lv Cheng! You scared me to death!"

Before Tang Yue could ask anything more, Ai Tutu beat Ye Xinxia to it, lunging at Lv Cheng and weeping bitterly.

"What a huge snake!"

Lv Cheng had black lines on his face, "If you get snot on me again, I'll throw you into the lake to feed the snake!"

"Ugh!" Ai Tutu hurriedly covered her mouth and nose, looking at Lv Cheng with a grievance-filled face.

Lv Cheng looked helpless and set Ai Tutu down on the ground, "Alright, don't be afraid, it won't hurt people."

"Really?" Ai Tutu's legs were still trembling.

It was too big!

Even its nostrils were bigger than her!

"If it wanted to hurt people, do you think you could still be standing here crying?" Lv Cheng said.

"Do you think your little frame could withstand a single tail swipe from it?"

Ai Tutu was stunned, "Seems... like it..."

It wouldn't even need a tail swipe; she felt that if that thing just blew a breath, she would be finished!

……

"I have a new idea that can allow everyone to have a more stable status in the human world."

The chaos caused by the Black Snake ended quickly. As one of the witnesses, Tang Yue needed to cooperate with the Judgment Court's investigation, while Lv Cheng took the overly frightened Ye Xinxia and the other girls back to the hotel.

Lv Cheng stood in front of a huge mirror; the world in the mirror was not a reflection, but a phantom of Hell, along with Zhou Lan, who was on the Moon constructing his palace.

"What idea?" Zhou Lan asked curiously.

Lv Cheng had completely accepted the fact that he was a Demon; even in his normal state, if he didn't completely suppress his Righteous Qi, he leaned more toward being a Demon.

Moreover, Lv Cheng realized that his side of Righteous Qi would not tolerate Demonic Qi in the slightest. In order to avoid being cast into Hell by his other side in the future, Lv Cheng now stood on the same side as them.

"Totem," Lv Cheng said.

Shendu looked strange, "You want to make Demons into faith totems?"

"What do you mean?" The other Demons didn't understand.

After Shendu completed the new Contract with Lv Cheng, his wisdom was recovering rapidly. In a sense, Lv Cheng had gained Shendu's power, while Shendu had gained Lv Cheng's wisdom.

Moreover, Yin and Yang are originally one, and Yin power and Yang power are the same; these two special positions meant these two people had already reached a certain level of mutual understanding.

True biological brothers!

"The power of faith can transcend dimensions. Back then, Daolong bypassed the seal of Hell and forcibly brought me back to the human world by relying on the Magic Spell of faith," Shendu said.

"If the human world has enough Faith Power for Demons, then Hell will no longer be able to bind us. Even if we are beaten back to Hell by that damned Saint Warrior in the future, we can rely on human faith to descend into the human world again!"

"……"

"Really?!"

All the Demons were shocked.

There's such a trick?

"Why didn't you say so before?" Zhou Lan looked at Shendu.

Shendu had the most research into Magic Spells; the rest of the Demons mainly only manipulated their own Original Demonic Qi abilities, and they hadn't really delved into other Magic.

Plus, having stayed in that hellish place for too long, they didn't remember anything.

"I forgot," Shendu said righteously.

"Besides, even if I remembered, it would be useless. For creatures like humans, there is no such thing as firm faith. Don't forget, when humans were still in the primitive era, when they were still savages, it was the Demons who gave them the qualifications to survive. But after they became powerful, those crawling insects on the ground all thought about relying on the Magic learned from Demons to fight against Demons, and even thought about seizing our power!"

"Don't forget how the ancient Demon era started the war!"

"Human faith is fragile, untrustworthy, and unreliable!"

Before the Eight Demons ruled the human world, there were thousands of Demon Wizards in the human world. At that time, many Demons maintained goodwill toward weak humans, thinking they were cute little animals, just like how humans look at cats and dogs. Moreover, the distorted worship that weak humans held for powerful Demon Wizards generated a special kind of energy.

Faith Power!

The Demon Wizards discovered that power; although it wasn't strong, it had many uses. In order to study more functions of Faith Power, many Demon Wizards chose to become protectors of humans, and many Demon Wizards taught humans Magic, granting them the power to protect themselves.

However, not long after, those humans, having gained power and learned Magic, all thought about seizing more power, and even turned around to attack the Demons who protected them!

The Eight Demons at that time were not that powerful either. Although they were born based on the rules of the world, they were also very weak when they were first born. But the betrayal of humans triggered conflicts between Demon Wizards, and the Demon War broke out.

Under the baptism of war, they grew rapidly, but because of that war, the Demon era ended completely!

The Eight Demons remaining in the human world started a new era!

And the war taught them a lesson: humans are not cute cats or dogs; they can only exist as the lowliest Servants!

Perhaps the other Demons have forgotten that history, but he would never forget. Humans taught him that instead of waiting to be betrayed by others, it is better to strike first!

As long as I backstab fast enough, no one can backstab me!

(End of chapter)