Wandering Snake Becomes a Flood Dragon, Calamity Comes of Its Own Accord

Wandering Snake Becomes a Flood Dragon, Calamity Comes of Its Own Accord

Fine, dense sounds echoed from deep within the cave dwelling.

Black Huan's enormous, heavy body moved unhurriedly through this ancient cave dwelling left behind by a former occupant.

The ancient cave dwelling had a world of its own within it—front courtyard, rear garden, fragrant pavilions, winding corridors, everything one could want.

Though no one knew how long its owner had been gone, the formations maintained everything in pristine condition, without a speck of dust.

Compared to this ancient cave dwelling, Black Huan felt that both his former residence and the carefully arranged cave dwelling of those two fox spirits had been nothing more than shabby mountain caves.

Black Huan had already made up his mind. Once he refined the Jade-Green Lotus, this cave dwelling would become his!

The few Qi Refinement cultivators following beside Black Huan gazed at him eagerly.

"Great King, can we leave now?"

Hearing this, Black Huan turned his massive head to look at these weak human livestock, his vertical pupils filled with cruelty. "Leave? Where to?"

"Why not come into my belly and reunite with your companions?"

With that, Black Huan opened his jaws and bit down on one of them. After two chews, he swallowed the man whole.

The remaining Qi Refinement cultivators panicked. One after another, they frantically activated their spells, hoping to fend off Black Huan's attack.

Yet their petty spells could only scatter sparks when they struck Black Huan's snake scales. They could not even knock off a single scale.

As screams, wails, and pleas for mercy gradually faded within the cave dwelling, only the sounds of chewing and swallowing remained.

His forked tongue swept across the corner of his mouth as Black Huan turned contentedly and headed deeper into the cave dwelling.

He was a demon, after all. How could he allow these Qi Refinement human livestock to escape?

What if they went and brought the Zhao Clan of Sea Commandery to harm him?

After swallowing so many people, Black Huan felt rather full, and his expression grew languid.

He slithered along at a leisurely pace, his vertical pupils casually surveying the surroundings. Only when he reached the lotus pond in the rear garden did he see the Jade-Green Lotus, the most distinctive amid the jade leaves and crimson blossoms, translucent as flawless jade.

"Jade-Green Lotus."

Black Huan's eyes burned with fervor. This was his chance to attain the Dao!

The Jade-Green Lotus had not yet fully bloomed. Black Huan slowly coiled his entire body up, staring without blinking at the Jade-Green Lotus as he waited for the moment it fully ripened and blossomed.

At the same time, amidst the rolling mountain ranges of Qingping Mountain, Jiang Sheng was moving swiftly with two green foxes and one white fox.

Although Jiang Sheng had not revealed his aura, the auras of Bai Shang and the other two Foundation Establishment demon beasts were on full display, terrifying the weaker creatures along the way into scattering in all directions.

They hurried all the way to the cave dwelling of Bai Shang and Qing Yun. Seeing the wreckage outside, Bai Shang grew somewhat angry.

This was the cave dwelling he shared with his wife. The two of them had tended it with great care for a long time, yet now that Black Fire Snake had casually ravaged it.

Jiang Sheng inspected the area before saying, "There are traces of fighting here, and they are recent."

"Another creature must have discovered this place and fought that Black Fire Snake."

Bai Shang was startled. "That Black Fire Snake is at late Foundation Establishment. Who could fight it?"

"Not necessarily. Perhaps that Black Fire Snake deliberately lured people here?" Jiang Sheng said with a smile.

Bai Shang immediately understood Jiang Sheng's meaning. "Daoist Jiang, you mean that the Black Fire Snake deliberately lured cultivators here, then made them test the dangers for it?"

Jiang Sheng nodded. "Putting oneself in its position, isn't that perfectly reasonable?"

With that, Jiang Sheng made a grasping motion with his right hand, and the Azure Duckweed Sword appeared in his palm. "The three of you, do not hesitate any longer. Go in quickly. I fear that the Black Fire Snake may have already entered the cave dwelling."

Bai Shang and the others hesitated no further and quickly entered the cave dwelling, while Jiang Sheng followed behind with his aura concealed.

Before long, the group arrived before the ancient cave dwelling deep within.

There, Jiang Sheng and the others discovered many torn garments and skeletons.

Seeing that the formation before the ancient dwelling had already been broken, Bai Shang's expression darkened. "That Black Fire Snake has indeed gone inside. Let's go!"

Black Huan, who was coiled before the lotus pond awaiting the Jade-Green Lotus's maturity, suddenly caught several scents.

Two of those auras were especially familiar.

In an instant, Black Huan's vertical pupils filled with killing intent.

"Those two damned foxes really did bring helpers!"

"They dare come back? They even want to steal my opportunity? They're courting death!"

His body, over two hundred feet long, stretched out as Black Huan turned without hesitation and charged toward the front courtyard of the ancient dwelling.

The Jade-Green Lotus concerned whether he could open his Purple Mansion and even form a demon core. He would never permit anyone to seize his opportunity!

Bai Shang, Qing Yun, and Qingman advanced through the ancient dwelling in great leaps.

Suddenly, a pillar of fire shot toward them from ahead, grazing past the three and striking a small building within the ancient dwelling, blasting it to pieces.

"Watch out!"

The three foxes swiftly scattered.

Bai Shang opened his mouth toward the direction from which the fire pillar had come and spat out a mass of ice and snow.

The ice and snow seemed to be made of countless blade fragments. Whirling and dancing, they swept forward, carving fine, dense marks into every building along their path.

A burst of clanging metal rang out.

Black Huan forced his way through Bai Shang's attack and slithered out of the storm of ice and snow.

Over a third of his body rose upright, massive as a small mountain.

Even the shadow he cast covered nearly half the front courtyard.

The ice and snow sliced at Black Huan's body, but could only send sparks scattering from his scales. They could not injure him at all.

Then two clusters of wind blades struck from both sides.

Countless azure wind blades howled in, once more enveloping Black Huan's body.

A series of pinging sounds rang out as sparks flew everywhere.

Yet Black Huan remained completely unscathed.

Bai Shang and the others' attacks could not even break Black Huan's scales!

Seeing that there were only three foxes at early Foundation Establishment, Black Huan relaxed slightly.

"I already spared your lives. Why have you come back to throw them away?"

Bai Shang clearly had not expected the attacks of all three of them to be utterly ineffective, but he was not the least bit flustered.

"Black Huan! You seized my wife's and my cave dwelling, occupied our treasures, and now you won't even let us take them back?!"

Black Huan could not help bursting into laughter. His hoarse voice sent chills down the spine. "Hahaha!"

"Your cave dwelling, your treasures!"

"What a joke!"

"In these mountains, only the strong deserve good things. And I am stronger than you, so these things are naturally mine!"

As he spoke, Black Huan's eyes brimmed with excitement.

Facing three weak foxes, Black Huan felt only mockery and cruelty. He slowly displayed his massive body, his steel-like scales, and his terrifying demonic power.

"Bai Shang, do you know that I will soon break through to the Purple Mansion Realm?"

"Then I will be the king of Qingping Mountain!"

"The entirety of Qingping Mountain will be mine!"

Bai Shang gave a cold snort and was just about to speak when Jiang Sheng slowly revealed himself.

"The king of Qingping Mountain? This humble Daoist seems to have heard that title over a year ago as well."

"The one who called himself that back then was a tiger demon."

"This humble Daoist recalls that it was called Yellow Mountain Lord?"

The suddenly appearing Daoist gave Black Huan a fright.

If the Daoist had not revealed himself, Black Huan would never have known that such a formidable person was hiding here!

A late Foundation Establishment human cultivator!

Black Huan warily examined the newcomer. "You cultivator, are you also a helper Bai Shang invited?"

Jiang Sheng slightly inclined his head. "Naturally."

"Courting death!"

Black Huan abruptly spat out a fireball.

He sensed that Jiang Sheng was not easy to deal with. Somewhere in the unseen, an omen warned Black Huan that this Daoist had also come for the Jade-Green Lotus!

Thus, Black Huan decisively launched a sneak attack!

"Daoist, be careful!" Seeing Black Huan suddenly attack, Bai Shang hurriedly warned him.

Jiang Sheng was not surprised in the slightest. The Azure Duckweed Sword in his hand slashed straight out, and a streak of azure sword qi swept forth. It expanded with the wind, reaching thirty feet in the blink of an eye.

The sword qi cleaved the fireball apart and flew directly at Black Huan beneath his astonished gaze.

The biting chill of that razor-sharp edge gave Black Huan a sense of danger for the first time. He hurriedly twisted his body to evade, but the sword qi still grazed his body.

Sparks burst forth as a large patch of Black Huan's snake scales was scraped directly off by the sword qi, as though a butcher were scraping fish scales with a bone-scraping knife. The pain made Black Huan hiss without end.

His demon body, over two hundred feet long, twisted and rolled continuously. The piercing agony writhing through his body awakened the cruelty buried in Black Huan's bones.

On his enormous snake head, vertical pupils larger than a person stared fixedly at Jiang Sheng. Black Huan's hoarse voice carried savage killing intent. "Human cultivator, I want you dead!"

Holding his azure blade, Jiang Sheng strolled forward. "For now, withdraw outside the cave dwelling. Do not let any other creatures come disturb this humble Daoist."

Without hesitation, Bai Shang led Qing Yun and Qingman out of the cave dwelling.

"I thought you would have them help you." Black Huan concealed the injured part of his body and watched Jiang Sheng warily.

Jiang Sheng gave a soft laugh. "No need. This humble Daoist is more at ease acting alone."

"You came for the Jade-Green Lotus too." Black Huan coiled himself tighter and tighter, his head gradually drawing back.

Jiang Sheng nodded. "Correct. This humble Daoist came precisely for it."

"Fellow Daoist, if this humble Daoist's guess is correct, this humble Daoist should be your calamity."

Calamities arose from heaven and earth themselves.

All things and all living beings under heaven had their own calamities.

Take Yellow Mountain Lord, the tiger demon that had once ruled Qingping Mountain, for example.

It was immensely powerful and commanded dozens of Chang Ghosts. It was the strongest demon beast in all of Qingping Mountain, even possessing several traces of having replaced the mountain god.

Yellow Mountain Lord occupied a spirit vein and proclaimed itself the mountain god. Had it continued developing, once it occupied half of Qingping Mountain, it could have opened its Purple Mansion, completely replaced the mountain god, and roamed free and carefree.

Jiang Sheng's sudden arrival could be called Yellow Mountain Lord's calamity.

Since its birth, Black Huan's path had been smooth sailing. It had even found the rare spiritual treasure, the Fire Spirit Fruit, and relied on it to grow all the way to late Foundation Establishment. It ran rampant across the eastern side of Qingping Mountain and was even on the verge of opening its Purple Mansion.

Once Black Huan swallowed the Jade-Green Lotus, it would naturally open its Purple Mansion and might even transform into a flood dragon in a single leap.

When creatures like this gradually returned to their ancestral bloodline and their cultivation reached a bottleneck, they would all face a calamity.

Whether it would open its Purple Mansion and transform from a wandering snake into a flood dragon, or perish with body and Dao both extinguished, depended on whether Black Huan could overcome Jiang Sheng, this calamity.

Having understood its present predicament, the brutality in Black Huan's eyes intensified.

"Calamity?"

"Die!"

First update of the day~

There was a reason there was no update at midnight today.

Lin Yuan fell asleep. Hehe.

(End of chapter)