Outside the town, on the riverbank.
Several hundred people clung to the struggling White Snake like ants, tearing at her flesh and drinking her blood...
Bai Yujun, too badly injured to transform, twisted and struggled without cease, hoping these people would stop. But they had gone mad. Their eyes gleamed with greed, their faces crazed. To drink the legendary dragon blood, they actually sprawled over her wounds and gnawed at the bleeding flesh. Bai Yujun finally understood what it meant for different species to see one another as food.
"Hiss..."
She hissed at a burly man. Startled and humiliated in front of the women watching, the man flew into a rage and swung his wooden club hard into Bai Yujun's cheek. The Snake Scales blocked the blow, leaving little damage—but it was a blow to her pride!
The townsfolk wielding kitchen knives and sickles chose her wounds as their point of attack, hacking off chunks of flesh piece by piece...
A snake body nearly at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm, tempered countless times by Earth Vein Dragon Qi, was not so easily dealt with. With Bai Yujun constantly twisting and struggling to interfere, those people managed to cut off only a little flesh.
The entire town had turned out as if for a festival, and the riverbank had become a slaughterhouse...
Her twenty-meter-long body was pinned down beneath ropes, stones, and timber. Men hacked down with all their strength, then caught her blood in porcelain bowls. Carrying a bowl with utmost care, they ran to their wives and children and handed the blood reeking of iron to the youngsters.
"My son, drink quickly. This is dragon blood. Drink it, and you'll grow strong and sturdy. In the future, you'll become a high official and live a good life."