Chapter 124 - Murderous Heart

Yang Junshan used his body as bait, luring the Snake Demon to the point that it had lost its guard against Zhang Yueming. Then, he used his immature magnetic force to dodge the Snake Demon’s continuous attacks, which finally allowed Zhang Yueming to see the opportunity and cut the Snake Demon in half.

But the serpent demon’s vitality was strong, even though it was cut into two, it did not die. Instead, it crazily danced about, hitting the Senior Brother Zheng who was caught off guard and breaking his shoulder.

Another Tan Xi Sect disciple tried to rescue him from the top and bottom, but Yang Junshan hurriedly shouted in an attempt to stop him. However, it was already too late, the snake demon suddenly shot out a cold poison from its mouth.

However, he did not have Yang Junshan’s tyrannical body, nor did he have Yang Junshan’s vigorous spirit energy, and furthermore, did not have Yang Junshan’s physical body’s tyrannical resistance to the poison. A moment later, his entire body turned a green purple color as the cold poison seeped into his body, and his internal organs froze and cracked, as he slowly lost all of his vitality.

The dying snake demon opened its huge mouth and hissed, and the mud snakes in the swamp exploded. Countless snake heads poked out from the swamp, and there seemed to be a long snake hissing in reply from afar. The world was filled with the sound of mud snakes spitting out their tongues.

“This is bad!”

Yang Junshan rushed forward, and used his iron fist to strike the upper half of the Snake Demon’s body, at the instant the fist smashed into the Snake Demon’s body, he exploded its internal organs into a meat paste. The originally struggling Snake Demon immediately fell to the ground, lifeless.

“Run! The snake tide is coming!”

Yang Junshan greeted everyone, and was about to rush out and break out of the encirclement.

Unexpectedly, not a single person from the group followed after him. Firstly, they were skeptical of Yang Junshan’s words, and secondly, they truly did not have the strength to attack the group of snakes again.

“Fellow daoist, there is no need to panic!”

Zhang Yueming slowly jumped down from the hill. At this time, his entire being’s temperament had changed, even though the aura around him was still fluctuating, but the pressure of his martial arts realm cultivation was real enough to show in front of everyone.

When the people of Tan Xi Sect saw Zhang Yueming, they immediately regretted not listening to his words and broke out of the encirclement. Now that the snake swarm crisis seemed to have been resolved, the death enmity between the Heaven-Shaken Sect and the Tan Xi Sect seemed to have been decided, but previously, the Tan Xi Sect still held the upper hand. Now that Zhang Yueming had levelled up his martial arts realm and obtained a middle tier magical equipment, killing them could only be done with a flip of his hand.

Yang Junshan had already rushed down the slope and slashed horizontally with his blade, consecutively sweeping away a piece of land to stand on, and upon hearing that, he looked in Zhang Yueming’s direction, only to see Zhang Yueming looking at him.

The few people from the Tan Xi Sect did not even look at him, and only looked at Yang Junshan: “Fellow, please do not worry, I am now with my spiritual sense spread out, although there are many mud snakes within a hundred meter radius of the gentle slope, but they are just some ordinary snakes, even if there is a Snake King, I can casually send them away, I will recover the spiritual energy in my body first before attempting to break out of the encirclement!”

“Moreover, the Snake Barbarian Beast ireasure, so it is very likely that it contains high quality celestial spirits. If it wasn’t for fellow cultivator risking your life to control it, it wouldn’t have been easy for me to kill it. If it was a high quality celestial spirit, it would be yours!”

Yang Junshan did not care about how sincere Zhang Yueming’s words were, and only said: “I advise everyone to leave this place first, when the Spirit Serpent Beast is dying, it seems to be summoning its companion, I believe that there will be a serpent wave soon, if we cannot even preserve our lives, then how can we talk about treasures!”

Zhang Yueming’s expression changed, and said: “Brother, you must be joking, right? The Snake Barbarian Beast was just killed by us, without the Snake Barbarian Beast’s leader, how could the serpent tide be able to stand up? Could it be that there’s another Snake Barbarian Beast in the swamp?”

At this time, Fang Xuansheng and a few other cultivators from the Tan Xi Sect also stood up, and they heard Fang Xuansheng laugh awkwardly, and said: “It seems like what this junior said is true, if the snake tide were to descend, it would be extremely difficult for us to withstand it. Fellow Zhang has increased your martial arts realm greatly, and I believe that you do not need to fear the snake tide, so I do not need the treasures on this Snake Barbaric Beast.

Just as Fang Xuansheng was speaking, the three from Tan Xi Sect had already moved more than thirty meters away.

“Hold on!” Zhang Yueming bellowed, and said: “Are all of you going to leave just like that? What should be said about the lives of my Heaven-Shaken Sect? ”

The expressions of the three Tan Xi Sect s changed, Yan Qinxi said with a cold face: “What, could it be that Fellow Zhang wants to take revenge so quickly? Don’t forget, my Tan Xi Sect has lost more than 20 lives in the swamp, and when it comes to revenge, my Tan Xi Sect’s hatred is even greater!”

Just as the two parties were at odds with each other, Yang Junshan had already dashed forward several tens of meters into the swamp. Even though the mud snakes in the swamp were concentrated, they had fallen into chaos due to the death of the Snake Demon, yet he did not meet any obstructions from a group of snakes that was too strong in his advance.

Zhang Yueming looked in Yang Junshan’s direction. Yang Junshan’s current position was almost out of his control, so he wanted to take care of the two remaining people from Tan Xi Sect as soon as possible, and sneered: “Don’t forget, everyone started with this matter first. You all have the heart to kill my Heaven-Shaken Sect’s disciples, then you all should have the urge to be killed by us!”

Fang Xuansheng and the others were not willing to die just like Yang Junshan, when Yan Qinxi also looked at the distant Yang Junshan, he saw him continue to rampage within the group of snakes without even turning his head, and could only gnash his teeth and say: “Today we are unlucky, but we actually encountered Fellow Zhang’s martial arts realm increase, but Fellow Zhang, you better not come out after killing me today, otherwise we will follow in the footsteps of the rest of us!”

Zhang Yueming pointed his long blade at the three of them and laughed coldly: “Killing the three of you can be considered as removing the three great enemies in the future for Heaven-Shaken Sect …”

Zhang Yueming’s heart skipped a beat. When he turned around, he saw that in the depths of the swamp, there was a black wave line that was slowly moving too high and towards the direction of the gentle slope.

“Snake tide! It’s a snake tide! Run!”

Fang Xuansheng shouted and rushed down the slope towards the swamps where the group of snakes were gathered. Yan Qinxi clenched her teeth, but she was still holding onto the heavily injured Senior Brother Zheng with one hand and staggered forward, but she did not follow behind Fang Xuansheng. Instead, she followed the direction Yang Junshan left in.

The three of them had long since escaped the range of Zhang Yueming’s Imperial Censor, and the snake tide that was gradually approaching made even Zhang Yueming himself feel fear. He glared fiercely at Fang Xuansheng and the others who were fleeing into the distance, and with a single step, Zhang Yueming arrived in front of the head of the Snake Barbarian Beast, only to see that the two dagger like poisonous teeth in his mouth had already disappeared.

Zhang Yueming snorted. Without much time to think, he used the Splitting Mountain Saber to break open the snake belly, escaping from within was a fist-sized snake gall. His face finally revealed a hint of joy, and he said: “It really iigh quality immortal spirit!”

Looking at Xu Jing who was trembling with fear and trepidation behind him, she said: “Let’s go!”

Xu Jing immediately followed, and the two walked in a different direction.

Just as the two left, a figure gradually appeared in front of the gigantic Snake Demon’s corpse. Looking at the direction the two left in, Bao Yuer weighed the two dagger-like poisonous teeth in his hand and snorted complacently.

However, when he saw the huge corpse of the Devil Snake lying on the ground, his face couldn’t help but fall: “Snake-skeleton, snake tendons, why is it so difficult to obtain these things? This person is too despicable, I must think of a way to steal back my soul orb!”

At this time, Yang Junshan had already broke out of the encirclement of snakes, and arrived at the side of the shrubbery a few miles away from the Pride Cave. He looked in the direction of the gentle slope, and saw that it was completely engulfed by the snake tide, leaving behind a black mass that was moving up and down. It could be that the snake swarm was fighting over the snake demon’s corpse, but he didn’t know whether Bao Yuer the little girl would be able to bring back the thing she wanted.

It was at this time that Yang Junshan saw from afar that two people had just broken out of the encirclement of snakes, but in the end, because they were exhausted, they were surrounded by a group of snakes. At this time, the distance between the two of them to successfully break out of the encirclement was less than thirty meters, but to the two of them, these thirty meters were like a chasm.

Originally, one of the two would have been able to break out, but because of the other’s burden, they were eventually besieged due to exhaustion.

Yang Junshan watched the two from afar as they stood with their backs against each other, doing their best to resist the onslaught of snakes. The spirit energy in their bodies had long been exhausted, and they could only rely on the strength of their flesh to kill the endless swarm of mud snakes. He could not help but sigh, remove the iron bow from his back, and place the last three iron feather talismans on the bowstring.

“Junior sister, leave quickly, don’t worry about me, we’re both going to die here. Ai, you shouldn’t have cared about me from the start. If you were like Shixiong Fang, you would have escaped long ago!”

Yan Qinxi laughed helplessly. “It’s too late to say anything now. However, my conscience isn’t quite right, wanting me to leave Senior Brother here alone and escape by myself!”

Senior Brother Zheng’s face revealed a look of guilt, and said: “I was the one who implicated you!”

Yan Qinxi laughed bitterly, then heard Senior Brother Zheng said: “Junior sister, you knew that you would not be able to bring me out of the encirclement, so you decided to follow behind that clay figure, do you want to borrow that person’s strength?”

Yan Qinxi nodded, and said: “I had originally wanted to bet on that person’s luck, but his strength is too strong, when he broke through the encirclement he left too fast, and now we don’t even know where he is anymore.”

“Sigh, this is all fate!”

Senior Brother Zheng exhausted all his strength to finish this sentence, but he was already prepared to wait to be killed.

However, at this moment, the sound of something piercing through the air suddenly rang out. Three balls of flame suddenly exploded in the group of snakes surrounding the two of them. A voice came from afar, “Who wants to bet on my luck?”

Yan Qinxi and Senior Brother Zheng had come back from death’s door, and Yan Qinxi began to giggle towards the sky, saying, “Actually, I wanted to ask you a question!”

Yang Junshan’s voice was getting closer and closer as he said, “If you want to know the origin of my name, it would be better to keep it a secret!”

Yan Qinxi stroked the hair that hung down her cheeks, and laughed: “Actually I wanted to ask you, when did I ever save your life?”