Chapter 208: The Zhongli Clan is a Clan of Dragons

"In the way."

The snake woman's entire body was a white snake about seven meters long; this was much, much smaller than what had been seen in the Secret Realm before, so it appeared to be just a small avatar.

"I, I'm fine."

Just as Jiang Xun prepared to act, Si Yuyan grabbed Jiang Xun's wrist, supporting herself as she sat up from the ground: "She transmitted the method for using the third level of Heavenly Light Freedom into my brain through the meridians."

"Huh?" Jiang Xun was stunned upon hearing this.

"Through this method, you can immediately master all the techniques she has learned that she wants you to learn."

Si Yuyan saw that Jiang Xun had calmed down and let go of his wrist.

"Big sister, tell me in advance next time you want to do this; it's weirdly terrifying," Jiang Xun said, looking at the snake woman speechlessly.

"Too many words."

As the snake woman spoke, she stretched out her neck again and bit down on Jiang Xun's neck; this time, neither Jiang Xun nor Si Yuyan resisted.

After the snake woman withdrew her mouth, Jiang Xun also felt a sharp pain in his neck, so painful that he rolled on the ground, covered in sweat, and began to howl out loud.

"What's wrong, what's wrong with you? It can't be that painful, right?" Si Yuyan was stunned at the sight, then hurriedly gripped Jiang Xun's fists tightly with both hands and asked with a worried face.

The snake woman's toxin would slowly enter Jiang Xun's entire brain through the meridians, bringing a feeling of brain death, just like having actually died once.

And Si Yuyan had died more than twenty times while frozen before, so she was already used to that kind of pain and did not have as big a reaction as Jiang Xun, while Jiang Xun had never experienced the feeling of death.

So now, he was in such agony that he wished he were dead, and his sweat had soaked through his clothes.

The snake woman couldn't be bothered to explain.

"Jiang Xun, Jiang Xun, look at me, are you okay?" Si Yuyan, not understanding the situation, pulled Jiang Xun up from the ground, reached out to cup his face, and asked with a pained expression.

She had never seen Jiang Xun in such pain before; even when he was almost struck to death during his last Heavenly Tribulation, it hadn't been like this.

She didn't even realize she was so worried about Jiang Xun.

"Pain... it hurts..."

Jiang Xun felt the sharp pain in his head and reached out to clench his fists and beat his own head, wanting to alleviate it that way.

Seeing this, Si Yuyan hurriedly grabbed Jiang Xun's hands to stop him from hurting himself, and seeing that Jiang Xun was still struggling to pull his hands away, she simply hugged him tightly: "Endure it, just endure it."

She had also figured it out just now; the snake woman shouldn't be harming Jiang Xun, after all, it was useless for her to kill Jiang Xun here, and she had seen that Jiang Xun had a Soul Returning Pill, so killing him had no meaning.

Perhaps it really was just that Jiang Xun couldn't endure this pain.

Under Si Yuyan's tight embrace, after about a quarter of an hour, the pain in Jiang Xun's head gradually eased, and his body stopped shaking.

Sure enough, there were some extra things in his brain; he had fully understood the third level of Heavenly Light Freedom, and at the same time, he knew the snake woman's identity.

Her name was Sikong Yuhuan, and she was a branch under the Zhongli Demon Race of the Northern Wasteland.

And the Zhongli Clan was of the Dragon Race, originally the most powerful Demon Race in the Northern Wasteland, but because the Dragon Race had extreme difficulty reproducing, they had only been able to give birth to female dragons since seven thousand years ago.

The strength of a female dragon was vastly different compared to a male dragon, and the Zhongli Clan gradually began to decline; later, the male dragons of the Zhongli Clan went completely extinct, and the female dragons could only seek out the Snake Clan to give birth to dragons.

But the result was that all those born were of the Snake Clan, which gave other Demon Races that had long coveted the Zhongli Clan ideas, and they began to besiege the Zhongli Clan.

Later, the pregnant Dragon Emperor of the Zhongli Clan escaped the Northern Wasteland under the cover of the Sikong Clan and other Snake Clans, and there were no traces of them afterward.

The Snake Clan, having lost the protection of the Dragon Race, also became targets of covetousness for other races, who launched a massive slaughter against the Snake Clan.

No one knew how many years had passed; Sikong Yuhuan was also forced into the area of the Dark Moon Secret Realm during that slaughter, and it just so happened that a large area of the Dark Moon Secret Realm was sealed by Tianwai Island at that time, and Sikong Yuhuan was among them, so she had been trapped ever since.

And the snake egg that was taken away by Jiang Xun in this cave was one she had naturally conceived, which is to say, a "Water Egg" born without mating.

So-called Water Eggs are snake eggs that are almost entirely dead infants because there was no intake from a male snake.

Over these thousands of years, she had laid batch after batch, and only this snake egg had lived from two thousand years ago until now; it wouldn't hatch, nor would it die, and it was even absorbing the Spirit Power and nutrients of other snake eggs.

Therefore, she believed that there must be something extraordinary inside this snake egg.

Jiang Xun told Si Yuyan everything he had seen while in her embrace.

"No wonder you were in pain longer than I was." Si Yuyan nodded upon hearing this, her hand unconsciously stroking Jiang Xun's back to soothe him: "That Wangyue Pavilion was established five thousand years ago, and the timing matches; it seems Zhongli Lingyu is the child born to that Dragon Emperor who escaped back then."

"Dragon Emperor? Child?"

Sikong Yuhuan turned back into human form upon hearing this and looked at the two with an anxious face.

"Alive?"

"Alive." Jiang Xun nodded: "After leaving here, I plan to go there again, and you will be able to see Zhongli Lingyu then."

"Fortunate."

Sikong Yuhuan nodded, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly.

"It really felt like dying once just now; it was too unbearable."

Jiang Xun caught his breath and said with lingering fear.

"Normal." Sikong Yuhuan nodded and looked at Si Yuyan: "You are, very, strong, death, not afraid."

"You mean I'm not afraid of death, right? I'm someone who has died more than twenty times." Since she had been praised by the other party, Si Yuyan naturally wouldn't give her a cold shoulder, especially since she was also helping Jiang Xun.

"Are you still not coming out?" Si Yuyan then looked at Jiang Xun in her arms and said.

"It's too comfortable, and smells nice," Jiang Xun said, rubbing against Si Yuyan's chest.

Feeling the heartbeat against her chest, Si Yuyan grabbed Jiang Xun by the ear and pulled him out: "That's enough!"

"Hehe, darling Yuyan is so good, caring about me so much." Jiang Xun looked at Si Yuyan and chuckled.

"Go, go, go, stop being so mushy." Si Yuyan let go of Jiang Xun's ear and pushed his face aside in disgust.

"I won't tease you anymore, let me try."

Jiang Xun said, and began to use the third level of Heavenly Light Freedom.

Because he was within the Consciousness Space, Jiang Xun could clearly feel, and see with his own eyes, that his consciousness was splitting in two.

Sikong Yuhuan also tactfully returned to the other side of the consciousness.

When she walked into that dividing line which was invisible to the naked eye, her entire figure disappeared from before Jiang Xun and Si Yuyan.

This meant it was a success.

"That's great, finally I don't have to see her anymore." Seeing this, Si Yuyan also breathed a sigh of relief.

"I don't know if we can hear each other speak; I'll go over there, and you try shouting a couple of times," Jiang Xun said as he stood up.

"Okay," Si Yuyan nodded.

Afterwards, Jiang Xun walked past that dividing line, and upon turning around, he could no longer see Si Yuyan; Sikong Yuhuan was sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed in front of him, and Si Yuyan also shouted twice, but ten seconds later, Jiang Xun confirmed there was no sound and returned to Si Yuyan's side.