Marrying a White Snake Wife is Super Cool

The Da Xingzi thought for a long time before finally saying, "The Five Barbarian Tribes’ Turmoil in China!"

Lu Yuan heard this. ’The Five Barbarian Tribes’ Turmoil in China? If we go by the historical timeline of Ancient China, that happened around the year 300. Wouldn’t that make it a thousand years old?’

’Damn, a Da Xingzi with a thousand years of power. No wonder it wasn’t particularly fazed on the Training Ground, even with the Emperor right there.’

Lu Yuan could see the Da Xingzi was disoriented and slurring its words, as if it were under the effect of some Talisman.

’The priority now is to purify the Da Xingzi’s soul and help it regain its full consciousness. It could be a powerful ally for me in the future.’

Fearing his Inner Strength wouldn’t be enough, Lu Yuan thought of his wife. He sent a telepathic message: "Liyan, come to our room, quick. I need your help."

Su Liyan was chatting and eating melon seeds with her mother. When she heard Lu Yuan’s telepathic message, she excused herself and went to find him.

Su Liyan pushed open the door and saw the Da Xingzi standing inside the room, its hair unbound, its feet hovering half a foot off the floor.

Seeing this, Su Liyan’s own hostile aura flared. The doors and windows of the room began to shake violently, as if buffeted by a frigid gale.

The Da Xingzi flinched, then pushed aside its flowing hair to reveal half of its face in a faint, ambiguous smile.

’Was that its way of showing submission?’

’A Da Xingzi with a thousand years of power has no reason to fear a young woman in her early twenties. It must be showing deference to Lu Yuan.’

Lu Yuan quickly said, "Hey, you’d better cover your face. You look really creepy."

The Da Xingzi darted to one side.

Lu Yuan stepped in front of Su Liyan. "Liyan, this is a Xingzi I’ve subdued. It won’t hurt us."

Su Liyan said with concern, "Lu Yuan, don’t you know? Celestial Masters and Xingzi are fundamentally opposed. They influence and hinder one another; it will affect your fortune."

When a Celestial Master is influenced by a Xingzi’s Evil Qi, a mild case results in bad luck and misfortune in all endeavors. A severe case means falling into the demonic path, never to be redeemed.

The consequences were far more severe than for an ordinary person.

Lu Yuan smiled. "It’s fine. I have my Holy Body for protection. No Evil Qi can touch me."

Lu Yuan’s Holy Body was not to be underestimated. Its primary use was to repel all malevolent spirits and Evil Qi. Only after that came its ability to strengthen his body and the Treasure Technique that let him battle legions of women.

"That’s true," Su Liyan conceded, retracting her aura. The rattling doors and windows fell silent. "So, why did you call me here?"

Lu Yuan got straight to the point. "I want to purify it, but I’m afraid I don’t have enough Inner Strength to last through the entire Daoist Skill. I need your help."

Su Liyan pointed at the Da Xingzi in disbelief, then at herself. "You... you want me to help you purify *it*?"

Lu Yuan nodded.

"Absolutely not!" Su Liyan refused. "Lu Yuan, it’s too risky. This Da Xingzi has nearly a thousand years of power. It will take many hours to purify its Evil Qi."

Su Liyan wasn’t worried about the Daoist Skill failing and the Da Xingzi’s soul dissipating. She was worried that Lu Yuan would suffer a backlash, causing his power to drop dramatically.

Lu Yuan hadn’t mentioned the risk of a backlash to the Da Xingzi.

However, Lu Yuan insisted, and Su Liyan had no choice but to agree.

That day, Lu Yuan set up a table in the center of the room, covering it with an array of Dharma Artifacts.

Small Dao Banners were set up along the four walls. Against one wall, a row of shelves was arranged, covered with lit candles.

Once the altar was prepared, Lu Yuan sat cross-legged, forming hand seals and chanting an incantation.

Su Liyan stood to one side, watching him in silence.

A few minutes later, Lu Yuan was levitating in mid-air. A blue light began to glow from within him, with slivers of light coursing through his body before shooting out from his fingertips.

The blue light entered the Da Xingzi’s body like a warm current.

The Da Xingzi’s face contorted in pain. Its spiritual form became unstable as the Evil Qi within it fought against the purification.

Despite the pain, the Da Xingzi remained completely silent.

Lu Yuan did his best to control the pace of the purification to ease its suffering.

An hour later, beads of sweat appeared on Lu Yuan’s forehead. He was beginning to feel his strength wane.

’That’s a sign his Inner Strength is about to run out,’ Su Liyan knew.

Su Liyan didn’t sit cross-legged. Instead, she found a stool and sat down behind Lu Yuan.

She pointed a slender palm at Lu Yuan’s back, and the center of it began to glow with a jade-white light.

Su Liyan’s Inner Strength flowed into Lu Yuan. He then used his Daoist Skill to convert her power before channeling it into the Da Xingzi.

The tension in Lu Yuan’s furrowed brow slowly eased, and the strain on his body lessened considerably.

A quarter of the Da Xingzi’s Evil Qi had been purged. He estimated it would take another three hours.

Bored and alone in her room, Gu Ziye was fiddling with the Bamboo Bone Mahjong tiles, setting them up in a long domino chain only to knock them down again, over and over.

’I wonder what Yuan and Sister Liyan are doing,’ Gu Ziye mused. ’It seems important, but there’s nothing I can do to help. It would be nice if I had a useful skill of my own.’

Two more hours passed. By now, even Su Liyan was feeling fatigued. The purification was only three-quarters complete.

Though fatigued, Su Liyan did not withdraw her Inner Strength, continuing to provide a steady stream of power to Lu Yuan.

Su Liyan warned, "Lu Yuan, there’s still a quarter of the Evil Qi left. We’re approaching the final, most critical stage. I’m not sure we can handle what’s coming."

The moment Su Liyan finished speaking, the Da Xingzi shrieked. With a loud BANG, every door and window in the room was blown open.

The massive explosion could be heard by everyone on Prince’s Mansion’s Mansion Street.

A powerful backlash erupted. Su Liyan reacted in a flash, instantly reverting to her ancestral form. A thick, powerful white snake tail coiled in front of Lu Yuan to shield him.

A cloud of black mist shot out from the Da Xingzi, trying to flee the room.

Lu Yuan grabbed his Top Grade Spirit Capturing Device and pulled the Da Xingzi inside. "Liyan," he shouted, "Don’t let that thing get away!"

In her ancestral form, Su Liyan whipped her tail. Its tip glowed with an intense white light, firmly sticking the cloud of black mist to it.

Lu Yuan praised her, "Hey, Liyan, your tail is sticky! If you used that to catch cicadas in the summer, you’d never miss."

While holding the mist in place, Su Liyan herself was immobilized. "Lu Yuan, stop joking around!" she urged. "Hurry and capture it!"

’If that explosion attracted the maids and guards from the mansion, my current appearance would scare them half to death.’

Su Liyan’s mother was the first to arrive at their room. The place was a wreck. The doors and windows were gone, leaving only the room’s frame, and the interior was in shambles.

Her daughter had transformed into a Snake Woman, her tail ensnaring a wispy black mist.

Su Liyan’s mother understood the situation at a glance. She performed a technique with her hands, helping her daughter secure the black mist.

Lu Yuan, his own power completely depleted, took out two Nine-Turn Pills. "Liyan, open up!"

Su Liyan flicked her slightly forked tongue, opened her small mouth, and caught the Elixir Lu Yuan tossed to her, swallowing it without a second thought.

Lu Yuan then swallowed the other pill.

The effects of the Human Level Superior Elixir kicked in. A potent, warm current spread through his body, nourishing his meridians.

Not only did Lu Yuan’s Inner Strength return to its peak, but it was now even more profound than before.

Lu Yuan tossed out the Eight Trigrams Mirror, trapping the black mist beneath it. "Mother," he said, "please move all the maids and guards in the mansion to the Mansion Gate. A lot of dignitaries will probably be trying to get inside."

Especially Gu Gaoxu. He’d never miss a commotion like this, and he was still in the Capital City, not having returned to Yandu yet.

Su Liyan’s mother agreed. Her daughter could not be seen in her current state.

"Be careful, you two," Su Liyan’s mother said before leaving.

The explosion from within the Prince’s Mansion drew a crowd of onlookers.

Su Liyan’s mother led a group of maids and guards to block the main gate, refusing entry to anyone.

Hearing the explosion, Gu Ziye rushed over as well, only to be confronted by the sight of a massive, gleaming white snake tail.

Gu Ziye cried out in alarm, "A snake! A snake tail! There’s a huge snake!"