Chapter 731: Who Wouldn't Want to Be a Hero of the Wild?

A small boat drifted down the river; there was no one steering at the helm, yet it moved as if riding the wind and cleaving the waves.

Mist swirled upon the boat, and Yu Liancheng was warming wine; the rich fragrance of the wine lingered, making one feel intoxicated just by the scent.

At the other end of the boat sat a woman in white, staring blankly at the deck, her hands hugging her knees, her beautiful eyes dazed and filled with confusion.

"What? Still thinking about your origins?"

Yu Liancheng swept a calm gaze toward the woman in white.

The woman's features were exquisitely peerless, her figure superb—full breasts, a waist slender enough to be encircled by one's hands, and long, straight legs that shimmered with a lustrous, jade-like glow under the sunlight. Her jade-like feet, in particular, were crystalline.

Seeming to notice Yu Liancheng's gaze, the woman in white subconsciously shrank back and stammered, "Who, who am I exactly? Why do I have no memories?"

"Life is like a dream; one pours a cup to the river moon. It is merely a few memories, why care so much?" Yu Liancheng smiled faintly.

This woman in white was someone he had picked up by the water, but due to certain reasons, she had lost her memory.

"The one who lost their memory is me, not you; of course you're relaxed."

The woman in white glared at Yu Liancheng, her eyes shifting with a unique, bewitching charm.

Yu Liancheng coughed twice and said with a straight face, "Actually, your surname is Bai, given name Suzhen. You are a snake demon and my mount. A few days ago, you were greedy for drink and consumed the realgar wine I brewed; the heat in your belly was unbearable and scorched your brain, which is why you lost your memory."

"Don't lie to me. I am not a snake demon, much less your mount," the woman in white said.

"Haha, drink a cup of wine first. This 'Peach Blossom' of mine might just be very helpful for your memory." Yu Liancheng laughed heartily and poured a cup of the warmed wine for the woman in white.

The woman in white took the wine cup, sniffed the fragrance, and looked at the slightly greenish liquid. Finally, she made up her mind, brought the cup to her cherry lips, and took a shallow sip.

"Take it, go kill the National Master."

"Tiny snake demon, how dare you be so presumptuous!"

Shortly after drinking the wine, broken fragments of images suddenly emerged in the woman in white's mind.

"How is it? Did you remember that you are my mount?" Yu Liancheng laughed.

"Absolutely not." The woman in white shot a sideways glance at Yu Liancheng. Her memories were not coherent and still missing much, yet she had a vague suspicion about her own identity.

"Then your recollection must be wrong. I am proficient in the Great Memory Recovery Technique; let me help you recover." Yu Liancheng cracked his knuckles, making a crunching sound.

"Don't come over." Bai Suzhen performed a backflip, landing at the other end of the small boat. She pressed one hand against the deck and held the other in a defensive posture, looking very vigilant.

"Just a joke, don't take it seriously," Yu Liancheng laughed.

Bai Suzhen's pretty face was solemn: "Who knows if you are really joking? My memory tells me that humans are all bad; they shout and kill us demons, especially those cultivators who claim to be of the righteous path."

Yu Liancheng said, "I only shout and kill demons, but you are a spirit; at most, I would only use a Head-On Stick Shout to make you repent and return to the right path."

Bai Suzhen was slightly stunned: "What is the difference between a demon and a spirit?"

"One is ugly, the other is beautiful."

"Do humans care so much about their skin?"

"I do."

"..."

"By the way, do you remember how you lost your memory?" Yu Liancheng asked.

Bai Suzhen's delicate brows furrowed slightly, and she clutched her head in pain: "It seems I was assassinating a big shot, failed, and was wounded by them. It seems... it seems it was some National Master..."

"The National Master?"

Yu Liancheng nodded slightly, thinking to himself that it was just as expected.

Xiaobai came from "White Snake: Origins". In the original story, during the late Tang Dynasty, the National Master, for the sake of his own cultivation and to gain the Emperor's trust, had the common people capture snakes on a massive scale. Xiaobai was acting under the orders of Shemu, carrying that Jade Hairpin with its peculiar abilities, to assassinate the National Master.

The result was naturally that she failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice instead, ending up with amnesia.

"If you really did assassinate the National Master, then I fear the whole world is searching for you, the assassin."

Yu Liancheng rubbed his chin, suddenly looked toward another part of the riverbank, raised an eyebrow, and laughed: "Sure enough, it won't be boring now."

The river in the distance was covered with dense, fast-moving boats, sealing off the entire river surface. At a rough glance, there were over a hundred of them, each carrying seven or eight soldiers. The most eye-catching was a tower ship thirty zhang high, sitting deep in the water; moored there from afar, it looked like a giant beast.

As the small boat carrying Yu Liancheng and Bai Suzhen drew closer, government soldiers gradually discovered the anomaly of this boat. Two fast boats sped over, flanking the small boat from left and right. An officer on a fast boat brandished his blade and shouted sternly: "Stop the boat."

"What should we do?"

Bai Suzhen looked at Yu Liancheng.

Yu Liancheng smiled faintly.

Vast True Qi poured into the hull through his legs. Suddenly, the river water splashed loudly, and the small boat accelerated violently, waves rolling and surging. Before the two fast boats could force them to stop, the small boat was already ten zhang away.

"Quickly stop those two! That woman is the assassin the National Master has offered a heavy reward to capture."

Although the two left very quickly, some soldiers still caught sight of Bai Suzhen's appearance.

Amidst the loud shouts, one fast boat after another blocked the way, completely unaware that an assassin who could escape from the National Master was definitely not someone these small fries could handle.

Watching the soldiers brandishing long blades with ferocious faces, a surge of anger rose in Bai Suzhen's heart for no reason. Below her waist, she suddenly transformed into a white-scaled snake tail, three zhang long. With a casual swing, it immediately whipped up a gale. The violent force caused the entire river surface to surge with waves, and the fast boats opposite seemed to be caught in a landslide or tsunami, in constant danger of capsizing.

"A demon!"

"It's a snake demon!"

"

The officers on the fast boats turned pale, terrified, and jumped into the water one by one. The fast boat that took the hit from the snake tail exploded into countless fragments, scattering across the sky. This casual sweep likely carried tens of thousands of jun of force; even a top-tier Grandmaster would not dare to take it head-on, or they would be whipped to pieces.

"So I... really am a snake..." Although Bai Suzhen had recovered many fragmented memories, she still fell into inexplicable panic when looking at the changes in her lower body.

Yu Liancheng also examined Bai Suzhen.

At this moment, Bai Suzhen's black hair had turned entirely white, snow-white crystalline scales appeared on her brows, and her rosy lips shimmered with an eerie purple. The previous purity and gentleness had vanished, replaced by a beauty full of bewitching, demonic charm.

Who wouldn't want to be a hero of the wild after seeing this!?

PS: If I don't use up my three days of vacation every month, I'll slack off on writing; it's a tragedy. By the way, about the female lead issue: in the future, I will try to control the number of female leads to one to three per arc.