Chapter 735: Xiaobai

The waning moon is like a hook.

Four horses, pitch-black from head to tail with blood-red eyes and radiating a violent aura, galloped through the air, pulling a carriage engraved with intricate patterns behind them. Standing on the carriage was a figure—it was none other than Qiye Saint Monarch, followed by the Demon Palace Four Sages, Jing Wuyuan, and other experts.

"Such powerful demonic energy; it's the experts from the Yinyue Dynasty!" Yan Hongye became vigilant in an instant.

Meiji, dressed in bright red robes with a snow-white face still bearing traces of terror, bowed and said in a trembling voice, "Meiji pays respects to the Saint Monarch. Many thanks to the Saint Monarch for the grace of saving my life."

"You dared to leave the Demon Realm; do you know your mistake?" Qiye Saint Monarch stepped down from the carriage, his gaze sweeping coldly over Meiji.

Meiji shuddered all over, nearly collapsing to the ground. Ignoring the wound where her arm had been severed, she kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy, saying, "Saint Monarch, Meiji knows her mistake. I beg you, for the sake of my old friendship with the Empress Dowager, spare my lowly life. I will never dare to do it again." It turned out she had also once been a member of the Yinyue Dynasty.

Back during the battle to seize the Seven Generations of Resentful Couples, the Saint Monarch Liudao was killed in action, and the entire Yinyue Dynasty was severely crippled, forcing them to seal off the Demon Realm to prevent the righteous path from taking advantage of the situation. But Meiji, fond of consuming the essence of men, had snuck out and committed a grave error.

"Since you know your mistake, then go die." Qiye swung the Yixi Sword in his hand, and a scarlet, violent streak of Sword Qi slashed out.

Meiji had previously been nearly killed by Yu Liancheng and was saved by Qiye, so although she was terrified, she did not worry that Qiye would kill her.

At this moment, as this Sword Qi slashed toward her, she was caught off guard and could not even dodge in time.

"Saint... Monarch... why..."

Meiji's face turned pale as she looked at Qiye in disbelief.

As the sword slashed through, her body appeared with many red cracks like a rag doll, but what flowed from the cracks was not flesh and blood, but violent Sword Qi.

"I said, people of the Yinyue Dynasty are not for outsiders to kill!" Qiye said coldly.

Not for outsiders to kill.

So he did it himself.

Meiji let out a miserable shriek, her body suddenly swelling and exploding, and the Sword Qi within her dissipated in all directions.

After slaying Meiji, Qiye returned his sword to its sheath, yet he remained in the posture of drawing his sword, pouring all his demonic energy into the longsword, his eyes fixed coldly on Yu Liancheng.

"Qiye, you must have come for Nie Xiaoqian, the female half of the Seven Generations of Resentful Couples."

Yu Liancheng rubbed his chin and smiled, "I originally thought that since the Yinyue Empress Dowager had been subjected to Possession by the Yue Mo, your Yinyue Dynasty would be in internal chaos, discussing how to handle this matter, and shouldn't have arrived so quickly. This is somewhat unexpected."

"What, Nie Xiaoqian is the Seven Generations of Resentful Couples!?"

"The Empress Dowager has been subjected to Possession by the Yue Mo?!"

When Yu Liancheng said this, the entire scene was shocked.

Yan Hongye was shocked that Nie Xiaoqian was actually the female half of the Seven Generations of Resentful Couples.

And the Demon Palace Four Sages and the others were shocked by the news that the Empress Dowager had been subjected to Possession by the Yue Mo.

"It seems they didn't know the news of the Yue Mo Possession; I was wondering why you all came so fast." Yu Liancheng swept a glance at the Demon Palace Four Sages and the others.

The Yue Mo was a peerless demon that had once nearly destroyed the entire Yinyue Dynasty. In the original timeline, the Empress Dowager was subjected to Possession by the Yue Mo, and all the demons urged Qiye to kill the Empress Dowager, eventually forcing Qiye to abandon his status as Saint Monarch and return to the human world.

"Shut up!

" Qiye's face was cold, as if covered in frost. With a cold shout and a 'clang', he performed a Heaven-Slaying sword draw, and a scarlet sword light rushed toward him.

"Young man, don't be so hot-headed!" Seeing this sword strike, Yu Liancheng also swung his sword backhanded. The sword light rolled out like ten-thousand-foot waves stirred up by a tsunami, intending to wash away and drown everything before him. It also resembled a crimson dragon, a cloud dragon probing its claws, Shattering the Void, as it collided and merged with the scarlet Sword Qi.

The scarlet Sword Qi met this crimson dragon, and after a brief stagnation, it disintegrated in an instant. The surging Sword Qi headed toward Qiye and the Demon Palace Four Sages behind him. They blocked and retreated at the same time, yet they were still sent flying by the powerful energy, which felt like waves crashing against the shore, and each of them spat out blood.

The already fragmented ground looked even more like a piece of paper that had been ravaged and torn to shreds.

"How is it possible? How is it possible!? His Heaven-Slaying Sword Technique is actually a cut above mine..."

Qiye's face was pale, his eyes still filled with disbelief.

"Only following the ancient methods of predecessors will never allow one to surpass them. Goodbye, everyone." Yu Liancheng shook his head, the Ten Thousand Ways Boundless hanging from his waist as a jade pendant, a smile curling the corner of his mouth as he suddenly turned into a streak of black light and fled.

However, after he fled, a voice rang out beside Qiye's ear.

"Nie Xiaoqian is the female half of the Seven Generations of Resentful Couples. Do you want to know where the male half is? You might as well go to the Demon Palace's Huanbo Chi and see, haha..."

After the last word was spoken, the voice faded away, but the black light had already escaped to a very distant place.

"What does he mean?" Qiye frowned, remaining silent.

On the other side, Yu Liancheng had arrived in a forest. Under the moonlight, a behemoth was sleeping—it was a giant snow-white python.

Yu Liancheng did not disturb Xiaobai, but sat cross-legged beside the white python, closed his eyes, and a faint smile spilled from the corner of his mouth, his spirit wandering beyond the physical world, waiting for dawn.

Xiaobai, with sleepy eyes, blinked, and seeing it was Yu Liancheng, closed her eyelids again.

The next day.

"Yu Liancheng, how can I turn back into a human?" Xiaobai shook her head, swallowed a roast suckling pig Yu Liancheng had prepared, and spat out the bones.

Yu Liancheng shook his head and said, "The magic power in your body is too surging and vast, which is why your giant python true form awakened prematurely. If you want to restore your half-human, half-snake form or your human form, you must refine the magic power into your own demonic power, or completely vent this energy out."

Xiaobai immediately lowered her head, looking wilted and dejected, "Is that so? Then it will take me at least three months to refine this magic power."

"I do have a way to let you quickly restore your human form."

"What way?" Xiaobai's huge snake head stood up, a pair of snake eyes rolling as she looked at Yu Liancheng.

"There is a way, but you must agree to be my mount, to be ridden whenever I want." Yu Liancheng smiled.

"I won't do it." Xiaobai tilted her snake head and huffed.

"Since that's the case, then you can just keep your snake body." Yu Liancheng stretched, "I checked the map; it will take at most five more days to reach Chang'an. When the time comes, you stay in the forest ten miles outside of Chang'an. Remember to hide well, otherwise, if you are seen by monks or Daoists with profound magic power, they will beat you to death and stew you into snake soup."

Speaking of this, Yu Liancheng looked up and down at Bai Suzhen's snake body again, clicking his tongue in praise, "The snake is so big, one pot can't hold it; it will need several barbecue grills. Remember to tell me when you die, so I can go beg for two bites of snake meat."

"Yu Liancheng, you are so annoying." Xiaobai's shamed and angry voice rang out. First came a roar, then she suddenly lunged with her snake head, biting toward Yu Liancheng in one gulp. This giant python state was truly astonishing; the sound of the roar actually produced a booming sonic boom, and a violent blast of air was spat out from the snake's mouth like a shockwave, causing the ground to crack in response.

Yu Liancheng chuckled, his figure fading. As Bai Suzhen closed her mouth, with a 'bang', she only bit into a mass of afterimage air.

Xiaobai felt a weight on her head and knew that guy was on her head again. She immediately swept her snake tail, dragging out an afterimage as she swept toward her head, but she still swept at nothing.

Boom—!

"Yu Liancheng, you are a bad guy, a big bad guy! Turning me into this, and not turning me back, you're so annoying."

The violent, baleful energy deeply hidden within Bai Suzhen was triggered. For the next quarter of an hour, her huge snake body danced violently in the forest. Wherever she passed, ancient trees that required an embrace to circle were snapped, giant rocks were sent flying, and even the mountain cliffs were knocked into collapse, rumbling loudly.

This was the true Anaconda disaster.

However, after this vent, Xiaobai finally calmed down. Looking at this guy standing to the left with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face, she said dejectedly: "I'll agree to you then. From now on, if you want to ride, you can ride; anyway, I can't beat you."

"Haha, that's a good girl." Yu Liancheng laughed, flipped his palm, and a jade-green Jade Hairpin appeared in it.

Following the activation of the Art of Absorbing Power, he began to draw magic power from Bai Suzhen.

Since the magic power in her body could not be controlled.

Then absorbing it back was the right thing to do.

As the magic power was continuously drawn out, Bai Suzhen's massive python form shrank rapidly. Before long, she transformed back into her half-human, half-snake appearance, and subsequently completely turned into a gentle and virtuous human figure in a white dress.

Looking at the beauty in fluttering white clothes, who resembled a fairy from the Moon Palace, Yu Liancheng sighed in disappointment and muttered: "The snake body clearly had no clothes, so how did she have them when she turned into a human? It's simply unscientific."

Bai Suzhen blushed and glared at Yu Liancheng: "These are my scales. You are also a practitioner of the Dao, yet you would think of such filthy things."

Yu Liancheng retorted: "How can you call yourself a filthy thing?"

Bai Suzhen wrinkled her delicate nose and stamped her feet. Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly frowned: "I don't know why, but I feel a familiar aura approaching us. Although it is a hundred miles away, it is very fast."

"You can sense things from a hundred miles away?" Yu Liancheng raised an eyebrow.

"I cannot perceive it for others, but for some reason, I can perceive this aura. Perhaps it is one of my own kind." Xiaobai revealed a slight look of excitement.

"I'll go take a look." With a thought from Yu Liancheng, his spiritual consciousness seemed to sprout wings and soared out. The surrounding space retreated rapidly, and his soul transformed between reality and void, sometimes in the real world, sometimes in the void. His speed was incredibly fast, crossing mountains and ridges, and after a moment, he had already arrived a hundred miles away.

And then.

Yu Liancheng saw a graceful figure.

This figure was extremely swift, as fast as a bolt of green lightning.

Of course, no matter how fast the speed was, with Yu Liancheng's eyesight, he could easily see her appearance clearly.

This was a young girl with a graceful figure, who carried a hint of enchantment within her charm.

She wore a ponytail that drifted in the air, her appearance was extremely pretty, her eyes were sharp, and the corners of her mouth were slightly curled, looking cold and sinister. She wore a green tight-fitting outfit, with scale armor hanging on her legs and shoulders, her slender feet were in long boots, and snake-shaped chains were wrapped around her arms. With a slight tap of her toes, she covered a distance of several feet, her movements agile.

The girl carried a faint demonic aura, and combined with this attire, she was undoubtedly the Green Snake.

"Who?"

Yu Liancheng's Primordial Spirit did not deliberately hide, and Xiaoqing discovered him instantly.

"This one is Yu Liancheng. Greetings, Miss Qing." Yu Liancheng smiled slightly.

"Where did this freak come from? Take this!"

Xiaoqing's temper was clearly much more irritable than Xiaobai's. Without another word, she flicked her right hand, and the snake-shaped chain lashed out in the air, biting toward Yu Liancheng like a green snake.

The chain passed directly through the Primordial Spirit.

Yu Liancheng's Primordial Spirit appeared in front of Xiaoqing and smiled slightly: "Miss Qing, your temper is truly irritable. If a girl is too irritable, she won't be able to find a husband. Hmm, the same goes for a female demon."

"Less nonsense." Xiaoqing's eyes were sharp and cold. Below her waist, she instantly turned into a green-scaled snake tail, and fine green jade-like scales grew on her brow and forehead. The girl, who already appeared headstrong, was now full of demonic aura, giving off a strong sense of danger. The snake tail swept out violently, its power several times stronger than the previous snake-shaped chain, sweeping up a gale and sending sand and stones flying.

Yu Liancheng's Primordial Spirit was swept by the snake tail and began to dissipate.

He smiled slightly: "Miss Qing, we will meet again very soon." As the words fell, the entire Primordial Spirit scattered into wisps of green smoke.

"Who is this guy?" Xiaoqing frowned, clearly knowing that the other party had not been injured at all. After thinking for a moment with no clue, she shook her head, her pretty face showing a look of anticipation: "Sister's aura is getting closer and closer. I will be able to see Sister soon."

On the other side, Yu Liancheng's Primordial Spirit returned to his body, and he opened his eyes.

"How is it? Who did you see?" Xiaobai asked.

Yu Liancheng smiled slightly: "You will know soon. Don't worry, it is someone you really want to see."

The two waited right there. A distance of a hundred miles is not considered close for a snake demon with cultivated power, but it is definitely not far either.

Half an hour later.

A rustling sound arose in the forest.

Under Bai Suzhen's expectant gaze, Xiaoqing walked out of the forest with a charming and graceful gait.

When Xiaoqing saw Bai Suzhen, her cold, pretty face instantly bloomed with a smile. She ran over quickly, hugged Bai Suzhen, pressed her cheek against hers, rubbed hard against Bai Suzhen's fair and tender face, nuzzled her, and said joyfully in a sweet voice: "Sister, I finally found you."

Bai Suzhen was startled at first, then a glimmer of light flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she said in surprise: "Xiaoqing, you are Xiaoqing."

"Of course I am Xiaoqing." Xiaoqing leaned in front of Bai Suzhen, their breaths audible: "Sister, Master told you to assassinate the National Master, but you disappeared, which made me so worried. I had to use the Ten Thousand Streams Returning to Origin to find your aura."

Bai Suzhen said: "I failed the assassination and lost my memory, and was luckily saved by someone."

"Saved by someone? By whom?"

When Bai Suzhen pointed her finger at Yu Liancheng, Xiaoqing realized that besides her sister, there was also a stinky man here.

Wait.

Why does this stinky man look so familiar?

The stinky man Yu Liancheng waved his hand with a smile and greeted her: "Miss Qing, I said we would meet again soon, didn't I?"

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