Feeling a sharp sting on my face, I opened my eyes.
A familiar large tail, no longer forked at the tip, shimmered with a pearlescent sheen, yet it still poked painfully.
The boy was alive, propping his face up with his hand and watching me from a short distance, poking me repeatedly with his tail.
If he was alive, then my time was up.
"Awake?" His voice sounded excited; he must be hungry.
"Could you knock me out before you eat me?" I asked, not seeking dignity, only a painless end.
"Can you freeze ice?"
"A little," I admitted, but not much.
"Then freeze these for me." He pulled out seven or eight Spirit Fruit for me to turn into ice bricks.
"I'm out of spiritual energy." My Spirit Abode felt empty, and the enemy was right beside me.
"Isn't it the Supreme Water Spiritual Root? Why so weak?"
Indeed, why was I so weak? If I weren't, he should have already become a Tamed Serpent.
He huffed in disdain and coiled his tail around me, forcing me into a sitting position to meditate.
I: …
Being confined like this wasn't a solution, and he didn't seem like the kind of evil creature that would eat people. I decided to negotiate with him.
"If you don’t eat me, can you let me go?"
"No!"
"Don't humans like to raise spirit beasts? I could keep a human cultivator as a pet."
Just as I finished speaking, a light orb flew toward my neck.
A small jade tag with a pearlescent glow appeared around my neck, inscribed with the words "Lan Xu."
I looked at him in confusion.
"Take care of your little Dog Tag and remember your master's name."
He rested his chin on the edge of the hot spring, his entire body transforming into a serpent submerged in the water.
Beautiful yet eerie.
"Did you not want to kill me that day?"
The tail whipped the water with a loud "splash," startling me. I thought he hadn't noticed my little movement given his state at the time.
"However... regardless of intentions, that little act of yours was quite helpful. Now, I’ll go and eat that pretty boy who abandoned you; consider it revenge for you."
"Don't!" I blurted out in refusal.
"He's already run off and you're still reluctant? It seems your cultivation isn't the only thing lacking; your brain isn't functioning well either. Let me tell you, when he snatched my Spirit Flame Fruit, he had the less skilled junior disciples taking the brunt of it..."
"I'll take care of my own revenge!"
"What will you use to take revenge? Even freezing a Spirit Fruit is a struggle."
I really wanted to tie him to a Stalactite and make a tight knot.
"Bang!"
A loud noise came from outside the cave, causing stones to fall from the ceiling.
Lan Xu flew out of the pool and quickly grabbed me, darting out of the cave.
Just as we steadied ourselves on the giant python's head, we faced a row of Wu Yuan Sect members.
The leader was an old man with white hair and a youthful face, his eyes dark and brooding. Gu Chen stood behind him with his head lowered.
Upon seeing us, the disciples from Feizhou stepped forward to identify us. "Zhen Ren, it's him!"
"You beast! Hurry up and return that person to me, Wu Yuan Sect!" The old man's voice was not loud, but it shook the stones and made my eardrums ache.
Lan Xu held me atop the giant python's head, mocking him: "You old shameless one come to reclaim what that little shameless one sent me as a gift; it seems shamelessness runs in your blood!"
The three consecutive "shameless" remarks flushed his face red with anger, and he bellowed: "A mere Fiendish Creature dares to steal from my Wu Yuan Sect!"
"Haha! Take a good look at your old and ugly face; see who resembles a Fiendish Creature more."
The giant python beneath us seemed to hiss in agreement.
When it came to personal attacks, nothing could beat that. Sure enough, the white-haired old man was so enraged that he directly summoned his magical treasure and charged at us.
Lan Xu leaped forward and engaged him in a fierce battle.
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