Chapter 916

"The awakening of the Ancestral Memory means I can no longer treat you as an ordinary child, that's the situation, right? 'Evolution' really does come with all sorts of drawbacks."

However, in that brief instant, Orochimaru had already relied on the knowledge she possessed to deduce the most reliable answer—if that was the case, she had absolutely no need to come into conflict with Lin Cheng.

Just what kind of plot had this Orochimaru imagined? Kaguya-hime was completely dumbfounded by such a line from Orochimaru, especially since the other's tone could hardly be called respectful.

"Because of the confusion of memories, there was even a moment when one didn't know who exactly one was, and even if one finally found oneself again, lingering aftereffects would remain. For instance, completing the greatest obsession from that segment of memory that doesn't belong to oneself, or something like that." Seeing Lin Cheng suddenly freeze up, Orochimaru grew even more certain of her own deduction.

One must know that during this period, in order to completely resolve Kimimaro's predicament of not living long because of the Bloodline Disease, she had specifically focused on conducting a great deal of scientific research projects similar to soul transfer. She still wasn't entirely clear on how two different consciousnesses would actually tear each other apart, but after memories engraved in one's own genes were activated, causing a certain degree of drastic personality change was nothing unusual.

"This one must see the White Snake immediately." Kaguya-hime no longer planned to consider how Orochimaru had been filling in the blanks—as long as she could meet the White Snake Immortal face to face, her objective would be considered achieved.

Just from the eager, excited trembling her Kusanagi Sword gave off, Orochimaru could guess that the Ancestor awakened within Lin Cheng at this moment had some connection with the White Snake Immortal—after all, the Kusanagi Sword had been quietly thrust upside-down into the ground of the Wet Bone Forest for nearly a thousand years.

"Reverse Summoning Jutsu!"

After slightly altering the sequence of hand seals for the Summoning Jutsu, the next instant Orochimaru swept Lin Cheng into her arms, and the two vanished in a puff of white smoke.

Wet Bone Forest, Ryūchi Cave.

Orochimaru had brought Lin Cheng and directly Summoned them to Ryūchi Cave. Groups of small snakes on the ground were so frightened they scattered in all directions, and before the two had even steadied themselves, they had all slithered into shadowy corners like grass thickets and cracks in the earth to secretly observe.

"Ryūchi Cave, hmph, quite comfortable for yourself, aren't you." Kaguya-hime sensed the dense spiritual energy all around, and felt a jealousy toward the living conditions of that little white snake from back then—a jealousy she herself hadn't even noticed. Ignoring the Orochimaru beside her, she headed straight toward the location where the White Snake Immortal resided.

Orochimaru tilted her head as she watched Lin Cheng striding quickly ahead. The moment she thought of those little rascals at the orphanage who usually clung to her side, who would run off without a trace the instant they saw her pull out a single snake, the contrast with Lin Cheng's complete indifference right now became especially stark.

Indeed, an overly strong Ancestral consciousness would affect one's personality—such a young girl actually being completely unafraid of snakes, how interesting!

A certain terrifying existence had already come knocking, but what was the White Snake Immortal, still deep within the cavern, doing at this moment?

"Mmm, mhm, yes, right there, squeeze a little more."

"Ssss!"

"Although you lot have no hands and no feet, you're far more reliable than that ungrateful daughter of mine I got for nothing. Mhm, it's been so long and she still doesn't know to come visit me. Put some strength into it—haven't I told you before? Use three times the force you use to constrict prey!" The White Snake Immortal maintained her human form, her voluptuous figure soft as if she had no bones at all, while several snakes flicked their tongues and fawningly coiled around her limbs, tightening every now and then.

"Ssss, sssss! Sssss!" Just as the White Snake Immortal was enjoying the ultimate in comfort, a small snake slithered in frantically from outside the cave, its trembling appearance looking as if some natural enemy were in hot pursuit behind it.

"Mhm, you're saying that ungrateful daughter of mine has come back? Aiya, you really can't talk about snakes, or else the next moment they just might show up." Without any visible movement from the White Snake Immortal, all the snakes coiled around her limbs gave a single shudder and obediently released her, retreating to one side. The White Snake Immortal reached out and patted their heads as if giving a reward.

"Ssss, sssss!" The small snake stared in panic at the cave entrance behind it, then turned back and urgently reported to the White Snake Immortal.

Having heard the report, the White Snake Immortal furrowed her brows—Orochimaru had brought an outsider to Ryūchi Cave, that really was rare.

"This one has come visiting so abruptly, I wonder if it has disturbed your peaceful life? Xiao Yu." The voice arrived before the person.

And the moment the White Snake heard the other party utter the name "Xiao Yu," her entire person—no, her entire snake—froze on the spot.

The other's voice was somewhat youthful and unfamiliar, but anyone who knew this name...

In an instant, the White Snake Immortal felt as if her consciousness had been yanked, in a daze, back to that brief moment a thousand years ago. Back then, she had still been only a little white snake who couldn't even speak, and apart from quietly prostrating in that person's palm and greedily absorbing the wisp upon wisp of power that person bestowed upon her...

Impossible!