Chapter 117: Could He Be a Python-Hero?

Xu Jia saw him fall silent, so he knew it was negotiable, and opened his mouth to say: "Have you heard that for snakes and vipers to undergo Transformation into a Flood Dragon, there is another path that can avoid the calamity?"

The Snake Spirit's pupils shook: "What path?"

Xu Jia said: "Find a man who possesses the Five Blessings, one who must have excellent innate roots, be a pure-yang virgin, possess noble aura, have Merit, and be single-mindedly devoted to learning Daoism, someone destined to become an Immortal in this life. Seek a 'Righteous Consecration' from him. If he says you are a dragon, you are a dragon. If he says you are a snake, you will destroy a hundred years of cultivation, and for this lifetime, you will remain a snake demon, never able to transform into a dragon again."

The Snake Spirit felt a bit angry upon hearing this: "Where am I to find such a person? Even if there were such a seed of a Daoist God Immortal, would he consecrate me?"

Xu Jia took the Wind Fan from Hu Jinhua's hand, turned his back, fanned himself, and put on an act: "Then you truly have eyes but fail to recognize jade, failing to see that I am exactly such a person who possesses the Five Blessings and is a pure-yang seeker of Immortality?"

The Snake Spirit was about to roll its eyes; this fellow! He must be a swindler! Xu Jia then called out: "Qiu Jinsha, you also practice the Dragon Path, why not exchange some words with this one!"

Qiu Jinsha silently revealed his form from the Daoist temple's Well, carrying a sense of resentment. He only had two hundred years of cultivation, and besides, a loach with two hundred years of cultivation might not necessarily be able to beat an adult king cobra. Aside from covering him in slime, he didn't know what else he could do...

However, he was slightly better than the king cobra in that he held a divine office, even if it was only as a Creek God. The king cobra was merely a snake held in the Mountain God's hand.

As the saying goes, when there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkey is king. Now that the Mountain God has turned to an Evil Sect and is useless, if it takes on the Cause and Effect of the Mountain God, how is that any different from a true Mountain God? Those who lose virtue step down; those with virtue advance.

Even when Xu Jia wrote novels in the past, it was "Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures," which belong to those with virtue. Of course, this is still the philosophy now. There is a level of morality, but it must be one I am willing to follow. If I don't want to follow it, then it must be that your moral logic is flawed, not that there is a problem with me, Master Xu.

The Snake Spirit looked at Qiu Jinsha and only felt he was very weak, but Qiu Jinsha had "merged with the Water Vein" from the beginning, and then relied on the Water Vein to walk the path of Transformation into a Flood Dragon. Xu Jia even called him a "Dragon Immortal" and entered him into the Lineage. Therefore, he did indeed possess a strand of Dragon Qi.

And this strand of Dragon Qi was exactly what the king cobra lacked. He had practiced first and then sought to merge with the Earth Vein, but they could still be considered to mutually verify each other.

One snake and one loach began to communicate; only, this communication existed within the Dharma Realm, a "communication" of thoughts, also known as "spiritual communion."

A moment later, the Snake Spirit revealed an expression of relief, though it was unknown what Qiu Jinsha had said. His gaze softened: "So you have formed ties with us strange beings. These foxes, weasels, and even this old loach have all received your benefits. In that case, you are much more trustworthy."

"Only, what do you need me to do? Can you give me the Righteous Consecration?"

"As long as you perform a great act of Merit, you can naturally be consecrated as a god and receive Righteous Consecration; it has been so since ancient times. This great act of Merit comes from the great earthquake you have been looking forward to all this time."

"If that great earthquake comes, I can also undergo Transformation into a Flood Dragon without begging you. How do I know if you aren't lying to me, causing me to miss this opportunity?"

Xu Jia said: "This is a choice. Currently, the Yushan Mountain God has lost his virtue and needs a new Mountain God to take his place. It just depends on whether you have the guts to gamble and fight for a future."

The king cobra thought for a while: "Fine, wait for my true body to come and speak with you!"

Immediately, Xiaopangdun shivered, and the Snake Spirit had already left. Xiaopangdun collapsed on the ground: "It wasn't this tiring when the Fox Immortal possessed me before!"

It was because a lot of his Vitality and spirit had been consumed, and he couldn't hold on. The Snake Spirit felt this and voluntarily retreated, which showed it still had some "root nature."

After the Snake Spirit retreated, the Scripture Master of Shanju Guan exclaimed in shock: "Are we really going to establish him as a god?"

"Not only that, we must abolish the original sacrifice to the Yushan Mountain God. Do you have any connections? Have the County Magistrate write a decree of deposition, and then push over this Mountain God's statue!" Xu Jia had already confirmed that this Mountain God had turned evil; it was only because the old Daoist had sacrificed himself earlier that the Mountain God's evil energy was suppressed from invading his mind.

"But! Doing this will only accelerate the Mountain God's corruption! Furthermore... what fault does the Mountain God himself have? It is the disaster of the Evil Sect. To abolish him like this... wouldn't that mean we, the Daoists of Shanju Guan, are actively abandoning him?" An old Daoist was reluctant; after all, this deity had been worshipped in the temple for over two hundred years. How could he bear to destroy it himself?

Xu Jia said: "Since he has already fallen into evil, he is no longer the original Mountain God. He is a devil about to trigger an earthquake and release the plague-Qi of the Earth Vein. Did you not see the appearance of that centipede-dragon? If we continue to dawdle and wait for the tens of thousands of people in Yushan to suffer the calamity before we go to eliminate the demon, who knows what kind of state this devil will have grown into!" The Scripture Master sighed: "If the Abbot had sacrificed himself a few days later, it would have been better. Listen to this fellow Daoist! You all stop arguing."

Xu Jia nodded and said: "That is for the best. Actually, establishing a new Mountain God is fine, but why don't you set up Incense Fire for your Ancestor? Why not promote him to be the Mountain God?"

"The Ancestor's Daoism is profound and he has already ascended to the Heavenly Realm. How could he become an Earthly Deity? Wouldn't that be lowering his status?" The Scripture Master said: "If only the Temple Master could become a god. He sacrificed himself to feed the demon..."

"Now that we have made a promise to that poisonous python, the poisonous python has not associated with us for over a hundred years."

Xu Jia understood their intentions: "There is no perfect solution. He is the only one who can easily strip the Quanshen from the Mountain God's hands. Once he falls from the Altar, we can then move to subdue him."

As Xu Jia spoke, a fishy wind blew, damp mist spread, and then there was the sound of roof tiles being shifted.

Looking up, three king cobras had already "swum" over.

They did not come from the ground, but had climbed up trees, rode the wind, used the treetops as "leverage," and leaped all the way to the roof of Shanju Guan.

The three large snakes, the biggest one was a full seven or eight zhang long, and the two smaller ones, one was five or six zhang, and the other was three or four zhang.

Their iconic king cobra "spectacles" were truly terrifying.

If there were a snake three or four meters long, people would describe it as seven or eight meters; if it were seven or eight meters, people would say it was over ten meters and several hundred jin.

Not to mention this large snake that had become a demon and was about to undergo Transformation into a Flood Dragon. Seven or eight zhang—even if it were only seven zhang, that was over twenty meters.

The thick snake body was comparable to the pillars of the great hall, and the shiny black snake scales looked like obsidian. From high above, the pressure it exerted made several Daoists' legs go soft, unable to walk.

When the Scripture Master saw this large snake, almost one of them occupied an entire roof, and he was shocked: How could it be even bigger than the snake skin they had found! He didn't realize the snake skin was just a layer of skin found many years ago, a light, thin sheet; how could it compare to the intensity of the original body's pressure?

The leading one of the three large snakes slithered down from the roof as if it were just stepping down a stair. It circled the great hall, flicking its tongue, just like the protagonist of "Anaconda," making people fear it would choose someone to devour.

When it circled around to where Xu Jia was, it stopped and said: "Now I have come. Give me the Righteous Consecration, otherwise, no matter what kind of man with the Five Blessings you are, once eaten, you are just meat."

Xu Jia did not fear it; instead, he was somewhat happy. If a snake could grow this big, what if it were a dragon? Although Xu Jia had helped a large snake undergo Transformation into a Flood Dragon in his past life, that snake had not been this terrifying, and only its Primordial Spirit had successfully transformed; its physical body had not.

Xu Jia just said: "You have no Merit, how can I give you Righteous Consecration? You didn't listen to the lesson properly just now, did you? Were you slacking off?"

He added: "If you eat me, you will surely regret it. First, you won't encounter a pure-yang man who seeks Immortality and possesses the Five Blessings like me even in five hundred years. Second, if you eat me, I will just use your mouth to undergo a second Corpse Severance, and you will be able to unlock my second form."

The large snake:? What second form? However, the scent on Xu Jia really had no fear at all; he even smelled a trace of "pleasure."

"Could he be a snake-lover? A python-hero?"

The large snake's body tightened, not daring to speak any more nonsense.

(End of chapter)