Chapter 2538 - 2517: Reunion with the Snake Beauty
Chapter 2517: Meeting the Beauty Snake Again
"No problem, just follow me closely."
Lin Feng heard the three speak and said calmly. Tao Tao and the others never imagined that they had already encountered many crises but were all scared away by Lin Feng’s presence. They couldn’t withstand Lin Feng’s pressure; otherwise, they might have long been overwhelmed by the swarm of insects.
Nothing happened along the way, and Lin Feng’s Eternal Divine Flame was quite domineering, making the toxic haze here completely ineffective. It also didn’t slow down their progress. In the blink of an eye, they had already entered several hundreds of miles into the Swamp of Myriad Poisons and still hadn’t encountered anything.
"Several hundred miles in, and we haven’t encountered anything?"
Tao Tao looked at Lin Feng and asked curiously. This was too unusual. Even though this was supposed to be the center of the toxins, they should have seen those poisonous insects Hu Yong mentioned. Yet now it looked like this, a situation only a demon beast could find strange.
"Boss, are we lost?"
"Yeah, Boss Lin, we don’t want to die!"
Tangyuan and Ma Biaohu chimed in. They also felt uneasy, thinking the Swamp of Myriad Poisons was too eerie.
Seeing their reactions, Lin Feng couldn’t help but laugh as he said to them, "We’re not lost at all. As for what you said, you have no idea. We’ve already encountered three waves of demon beasts living here and five rather frightening waves of poisonous insects. But for everyone’s sake, I drove them all away."
Hearing Lin Feng’s words, Tao Tao and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it’s good to have Lin Feng around. It saves them from a lot of hassle. Since that’s the case, they no longer fixated on these things. Wherever Lin Feng went, they would follow.
They walked nearly another hundred miles when suddenly the view opened up. Amidst the layers of green toxic mist, a small area appeared, revealing a place seeming much like a temple. However, the temple before them was incredibly dilapidated, yet extraordinarily, the green toxic haze couldn’t come near it. It formed a sealed space surrounding the temple with haze.
"There’s such a place!"
Ma Biaohu was stunned at this scene. Who would have thought that amid the dense toxic mist, there could be such a place? It was truly miraculous!
Though Tao Tao and Tangyuan didn’t speak, their eyes were evaluating the dilapidated temple. The temple, built long ago during an unknown era, wasn’t impressive, mainly consisting of stones. Over countless years, the stones appeared weathered, perhaps due to the moisture in the haze, causing green moss to grow all over the temple’s structure.
However, Lin Feng felt a strange familiarity with this scene. The more he looked, the more he thought he’d seen it before. Suddenly, Lin Feng recalled that this scene resembled something Fang Yan experienced. Fang Yan had gone through a similar situation before!
Thinking of this, Lin Feng seemed to understand Geomancer Qianjue’s intention. Perhaps it was originally meant for Fang Yan, but he was here now. If that were true, then Lin Feng guessed who was involved here—possibly the beauty snake from Fang Yan’s memories!
"You two wait here; I’ll go take a look."
Glancing at Tao Tao and the others, Lin Feng said, if it was indeed that beauty snake, her fully nude state wouldn’t be appropriate for others to see. So he planned to enter the temple alone to investigate, which could also avoid danger. Still, to be safe, Lin Feng handed the Detoxification Pill to Tao Tao and reminded them to seek his help immediately if things went awry.
Moreover, Lin Feng set up several layers of formations around Tao Tao and the others. With these formations’ protection, they wouldn’t be in trouble even if danger approached shortly.
After arranging things for Tao Tao and the others, Lin Feng ascended the temple steps, walking toward the temple one step at a time.
Though the temple was dilapidated, entering inside gave quite a different impression. It was very clean. Even though there was moisture in the air, it was all kept outside the temple. In the temple’s corridor, the walls hosted lamps of unknown materials that remained lit, and a not-so-long passageway seemed to lead directly into a hall.
After entering the hall, Lin Feng immediately noticed a statue in the middle of the hall; it was the beauty serpent Fang Yan had encountered before. But this time, he was even more surprised to discover that behind the statue was a crystal coffin, and inside it was the beauty serpent’s true form, which suddenly stunned Lin Feng. He never expected such a result.
Dead?
Lin Feng suddenly realized this and quickly flashed over to the side of the crystal coffin. Looking at the beauty serpent inside, her complexion was rosy, like a sleeping baby. Even her immaculately white chest was rising and falling, clearly indicating that the beauty serpent wasn’t dead!
However, letting him just watch the naked beauty serpent sleep seemed unreliable to him, because even in her sleep, she exuded an allure, especially the perfect shape of her chest, with a hint of pink at the peak, making Lin Feng feel it was best not to look too much.
After hesitating slightly, Lin Feng reached out his finger to knock on the crystal coffin.
"Knock, knock, knock..."
The sound wasn’t loud, like knocking on a door, but in such a quiet environment, the sound was quite loud for the beauty serpent. It directly startled her from a deep sleep. When the beauty serpent opened her eyes and saw Lin Feng, her eyes became extremely bright, and a charming smile appeared on her face.
"You finally came..."
Her voice was alluring and enchanting. After speaking, she used both hands to push the lid of the crystal coffin aside, climbed out, and came in front of Lin Feng, instantly starting to cry like pear blossoms in the rain, leaving Lin Feng bewildered.
"I don’t think I’ve done anything to you, have I?" Lin Feng asked as he watched the beauty serpent cry, opening his mouth. He was indeed still in a confused state, not understanding why she would cry upon seeing him.
Upon hearing Lin Feng speak this way, the beauty serpent steadied her emotions before continuing to look at Lin Feng and said: "I didn’t expect you to come only now; I’ve waited thousands of years just to meet you. Is it easy for me?"
"Hold on, can we clarify things here?" Lin Feng quickly spoke up at this moment. He didn’t want anything beyond friendship to happen between them, so after speaking, he took out a robe and personally dressed the beauty serpent, as a means to cover her shame. But that long serpent tail was still coiled on the ground, and the robe’s front revealed two little buds, which made Lin Feng slightly speechless.
While Lin Feng was pondering how to communicate normally with the beauty serpent, she took the initiative to speak again: "Dear, waiting for you has been really difficult. You don’t know how bad it has been for me here—staying in that broken coffin to sleep every day, and daring not go out. Those human cultivators outside go crazy when they see me..."
After speaking, she slithered towards Lin Feng, seeming to want to lean her naked upper body against him. This left Lin Feng speechless, and with a quick move, he dodged her, thinking how glad he was that Tao Tao and the others weren’t here; otherwise, it would be hard to explain.
"I know you ascended from the Eternal Joy Immortal Realm, and you know what I am, so stop pretending, okay? Can we just talk like normal people?" Lin Feng said to the beauty serpent with a bit of anger, wondering why they were still playing games at this moment.
Upon hearing Lin Feng say this, the beauty serpent stopped, then her expression turned extremely sorrowful, adopting a more serious attitude as she spoke to Lin Feng: "Back then, when I was about to ascend, I felt a special vision, so I left a relic in the Eternal Joy Immortal Realm, hoping you and the other would come find me in the Myriad Heavens Divine Realm. But I never expected that life would be so bitter after ascending..."
Looking at Lin Feng, the beauty serpent recounted her experiences as an Ascender, but by this time, she could no longer remain calm. From the start of her ascension, those hateful people had desperately tried to capture her and use her as an object for venting. If she weren’t skilled at using poison and quick on her feet, she feared she would have fallen into a plight comparable to that of a prostitute. Thinking of those terrifying days made her tremble all over.
Lin Feng nodded as he listened, then suddenly thought of a question and asked: "I’m curious about one thing. Are you now human or a demon beast, and where exactly did you ascend from? If you ascended from the Ascension Hall in the Holy City, I doubt even if you deployed other means you could have come here."
"Of course I’m human. It’s just that after reaching the Heavenly Immortal Realm, I awakened a trace of the Nuwa Bloodline, which caused me to look like this. And when I ascended, it was from the Ascension Hall. An ordinary person with lustful eyes tried to assault me, but I used my tail to swat him away, then grabbed a book from his hand and fled..."
Saying this, seeing Lin Feng’s skeptical look, the beauty serpent continued: "With the awakening of the Nuwa Bloodline, I gained a talent to burrow. As long as it’s within the Five Elements, I can use it, but at the time, the Holy City was too big, and there was a formation beneath it reinforcing the ground, making it impossible to burrow through earth. To avoid pursuit, I summoned seven doppelgangers to confuse them, all of which were slaughtered, while I successfully escaped the Holy City."
"After escaping the Holy City, I researched that book on transforming Yuan Gang, but what frustrated me was how low its transformation efficiency was. I had no way to access cultivation resources within the Holy City. Out of options, I traveled underground, hoping to find some unique place to create an invisible retreat to cultivate. Perhaps due to heaven’s favor, I truly found such a place underground outside the Holy City. It was a closed underground cavern with a mysterious plant. The cave was rich in Yuan Energy, and I stayed in that cave for several hundred years..."