42: Chapter 42 Green Snake and Thunder

[Race] Unnamed

[Dao Cultivation] 119 Years

[Realm] Early Stage Foundation Establishment

[Skills] Ice Magic lv4, Flight lv2, Divine Sense lv3, Swordsmanship lv3, Sword Kinesis lv2, Body Cultivator lv1, Self-Healing lv1, Alchemy lv3, Ice Skin lv3, Concealment lv2

"..."

"The language barrier is a problem."

"Maybe I should just kill her and be done with it."

Xu Qing frowned; communicating with someone without the Beast Language skill was a real hassle.

It would be much more satisfying to just kill her for Dao Cultivation and evolution points.

"Wait a moment, Senior Brother Qing! Let me talk to her. I'll make sure she hands over everything, even her undergarments."

Xu Linger spoke up hurriedly.

He was already being called a Human Demon lately; she couldn't let him kill innocent people no matter what.

Her reputation absolutely could not get any worse.

Xu Qing nodded, and Xu Linger slowly descended from the sky, standing before the unflinching Lin Donglan.

"Hey girl, hand over your under—I mean, your Storage Pouch!"

"This Demon might just let you go."

Xu Linger stepped forward and used her finger to tilt Lin Donglan's chin up.

Ever since she started wearing a mask, Xu Linger had been letting herself go more and more.

And she specifically picked out beautiful female Cultivators to tease...

"Acceptable."

Lin Donglan's expression remained unchanged as she took off her Storage Pouch and handed it to Xu Linger.

"Ahhh, this female Cultivator is actually into this!"

"Has the charm of this Genius beautiful girl Cultivator reached a point where even women can't resist?!"

"Oh Heavens, take me, this sinful woman!"

At this moment, her inner thoughts were not nearly as calm as her icy exterior suggested.

"You're quite obedient. Tell your fellow disciples to hand over their Storage Pouches as well."

Xu Linger turned her gaze toward the shivering disciples behind Lin Donglan.

"Do it quickly."

Lin Donglan looked back and dropped those two words.

Boom!

A bolt of thunder from a clear sky.

A massive silver lightning bolt materialized out of thin air, striking straight down from the heavens.

Up in the sky, Xu Qing was startled and quickly looked back.

The lightning bolt, as if sensing Xu Qing's gaze, struck directly toward him.

"Holy crap!"

Xu Qing rarely used foul language.

Unless he couldn't help it.

Not just Xu Qing, but everyone present was stunned.

Even Lin Donglan's frost-like face showed a rare expression of shock.

Her outstretched hand hung suspended in mid-air.

Opposite her, Xu Linger was also motionless, her mouth agape under her veil, completely stunned.

Beside Xu Qing, the Silly Snake had always been dazed, so its lack of reaction now didn't seem out of place.

Time around them seemed to freeze at this moment.

On the ground, an inconspicuous little sapling condensed a half-meter-tall phantom of a Female Child above it.

She also had her mouth wide open, completely stunned.

"My Lightning Tribulation... you struck the wrong one!"

What should I do if the Lightning Tribulation strikes the wrong target during my first tribulation? Waiting for answers online, urgent.

In this small area, the various expressions of all living beings for a moment looked like a tiny theater stage.

Zzzzt!

The lightning swept through his entire body; Xu Qing was instantly struck into convulsions, his scales charred black.

He fell straight out of the sky.

"Evil-doers bring about their own destruction?"

Someone whispered softly.

For a moment, no one even refuted it.

"Retreat!"

Lin Donglan clapped her hands together, her black hair swaying in the cold wind, her face like frost, her aura like a Winter Dragon.

Ice flowers fluttered as a row of ice spikes thrust out from the frozen ground, interlocking to form a barrier between the two parties.

She turned, activated her Escape Light, used her magic power to scoop up her fellow disciples, and prepared to fly away.

"That almost killed me."

Xu Qing recovered for a long while; the terrifying recovery ability of the Resurrection Green Snake finally allowed him to pull himself together.

His scales would likely remain black for quite some time.

He wobbled as he flew back up, shaking his dizzy head and looking at the sky.

He didn't understand it.

He really didn't understand why a bolt of lightning had come out of nowhere to strike him.

It didn't look like some powerful cultivation expert was launching a sneak attack on him either.

"I'm completely at a loss."

Xu Qing decided to ignore it for now; his wallets were about to run away.

He would snatch back the fleeing wallets first, then worry about why he got struck by lightning.

"Ice woman, don't you dare leave!"

Green light radiated intensely from Xu Qing, shining through his charred scales.

He lunged forward, swinging his large tail directly at Lin Donglan.

Lin Donglan lightly bit her pearly teeth and spat out an obscure incantation.

In an instant, her skin became as clear as ice; she raised her hands, and layer upon layer of Ice Shields stacked in front of her.

"Fire, come!"

Xu Qing opened his mouth, and black fire spewed out to meet the Ice Shields.

Wait a minute, why is it black fire? Where did my huge ball of Green Fire go?!

Xu Qing was uncertain and alarmed, but there was no time for much thought in the heat of battle.

As the two collided, the black flames surged, melting the Ice Shields layer by layer.

Xu Qing's heart settled.

The power of the black fire hadn't weakened; it was as if the Green Fire had simply changed color.

A skill's rebellious phase? Dyeing its hair is understandable?

"It's actually a fire-attribute spiritual snake!"

Lin Donglan's heart sank.

The Ice Magic she specialized in was perfectly countered by this Demonic Fire; it seemed it would be very difficult to escape today.

Thinking of this, Lin Donglan raised her hands, stopped her Spell, and signaled her surrender.

Xu Qing wasn't polite either; he wrapped his tail around the woman, intending to leave this place of trouble immediately.

This was definitely not normal!

There was something 'dirty' about this place!

Thunder out of thin air, charring his whole body and even turning his natal Green Fire black.

Eerie.

Too eerie.

Xu Qing had been afraid of that kind of stuff since he was a child; his resistance was zero.

"The wind is tight, let's scram!"

Xu Qing looked back and shouted at the Silly Snake and Xu Linger.

The two snakes and one person fled without stopping, flying dozens of miles before finally stopping at a mountain stream.

Xu Qing quickly tossed Lin Donglan aside from his tail and jumped into the water.

And then...

He couldn't wash it off!

The charred scales couldn't be washed clean at all.

He really had encountered something 'dirty'!

During this period of acting without restraint, he had captured a total of four Foundation Establishment Cultivators and one Foundation Establishment Yao Beast.

His Dao Cultivation was halfway accumulated, his evolution points had reached two hundred, and he had gained a large amount of resources.

Was he finally facing retribution?

"These rough black scales are so ugly, give me back my green scales!"

Xu Qing looked at his reflection in the water.

The more he looked, the worse he felt; if this continued, his divine green snake looks would be ruined.

"Hey, you little Snake Snake, give me back my Lightning Tribulation!"

"You even steal Lightning Tribulations, how shameless!"

While Xu Qing was still immersed in his grief, a child's voice suddenly rang in his ear.

He was startled and quickly raised his head to look around.

He finally found a Female Child on the opposite stone wall.

The child had black hair tied in twin tails and wore a small green dress, with chubby little feet peeking out from under the skirt.

She had her hands on her hips, her chubby cheeks puffed out, and her large emerald-green eyes were blinking. She was incredibly cute.

But she was floating in the air, and her semi-transparent body even allowed him to see what was behind her.

"Ahhh, a ghost!"

Xu Qing's tail stood straight up, and the entire snake bounded off the ground like a startled cat.

He retreated rapidly.

Legends back home said ghosts were afraid of a virgin's blood; he only hoped that girl Xu Linger's blood was still useful.

If not, he would use the blood of the ice woman he just kidnapped.

That one looked like she had social anxiety; her blood would definitely be useful.

"What ghost?!"

"I am the Spiritual Form of the Green-Leaf Glazed Fruit Tree, a heaven and earth spiritual root."

"You snake, I was Undergoing Tribulation just now, and you flew so high that the tribulation struck you instead!"

"As a result, my Dao Cultivation is now imperfect, and I cannot become a true heaven and earth spiritual root!"

The Female Child stomped her feet in the Void Realm, looking at Xu Qing with her hands on her hips in a huff.