Feng Hua San Shi (Seventy)

The blade, glinting with cold light, slashed directly across the woman's left shoulder. Crying out in pain, she released her bite and quickly recoiled. At the same time, the others finally reacted. Wang Da Ge led several men over at once. One Bald Man shielded his injured companion behind him, while Wang Da Ge and the others raised their weapons and approached the tree root behind which the woman was hiding.

They rounded the thick tree root, and the scene before them was utterly shocking. The woman was indeed still behind the root. She was covering the wound on her shoulder with her right hand, but the blood flowing from it was not red. Instead, it was a dark blue that shimmered with an eerie fluorescent glow. Most unbelievable of all, although the woman's upper body was human, below her abdomen there were no legs—instead, she had a snake's tail.

Half-human, half-snake? This image was quite common in the legends of ancient Huaxia. Nuwa, who was said to have created humanity, supposedly had this appearance, and so did Fuxi. Water God Gonggong and Fire God Zhurong were the same. It could be said that since ancient times, the human body with a snake's tail had been the form of the ancient gods. But those were only myths! There was actually such a creature in reality. Could it be that the legends were all true?

Just as everyone was staring blankly at the Female Snake Person before them, she suddenly bared her teeth and screeched at them. Her bloody maw was filled with sharp fangs, and it nearly split her head in half. Her tongue was forked like a snake's as well. Her cry was shrill and piercing, like a knife and fork scraping across a plate.

When they heard the