Delivering Himself Again

PS: I heard Qidian's smart recommendations had been revamped again. Sigh, why did Loli always feel so anxious whenever she published a book? This was too hard. After the smart recommendation revamp, would there still be any place for Loli?

As the Evil Remains were dropped in.

The sealing barrier above Snake Abyss flickered, and a gap was unexpectedly torn open in the hazy mist.

Then, a person emerged from the pile of Evil Remains.

What was rather strange was that this person emanated the aura of Spiritual Serpents—the sort of serpent-like aura only Monks of Dragon-Raising Temple possessed after cultivating for many years.

Because their auras shared the same origin, he encountered no obstruction along the way. No Spiritual Serpents stopped him as he approached the area where the Dragon Bone lay.

"The entrance to the second level of Snake Abyss should be here."

"So many Spiritual Pythons... If I swallowed all this flesh and blood..."

The figure muttered to himself, greed flashing through his heart. But business came first, and he did not want to stir up trouble just yet.

He took a special talisman from his robes. The Spiritual Pythons cultivating nearby were suddenly seized by an inexplicable terror and scattered in every direction.

The path to the Dragon Bone was instantly cleared.

"As expected, talismans inscribed with scales from the second-level Spiritual Pythons work. That guy really didn't lie to me."

"But the Evil Qi here is so dense. If I could absorb it all... Forget it. Business first. I need to find Si Snake."

The figure was none other than the man in black who had punched Yuanming, the abbot of East Temple. This fellow appeared to be connected to Hundred-Eyed Devil.

After the man in black fled, he had carefully thought things over afterward, and the more he considered it, the more something felt wrong.

If Yuanming had wanted to frame him, he had had countless opportunities before. He would never have chosen to strike at this particular moment.

But if Yuanming had not been dealing with him, then Si Snake in Snake Abyss had indeed lost contact and vanished.

That could not be faked.

After turning it over in his mind for a long time, the man in black concluded that Yuanming had not framed him. Something had truly happened to Si Snake.

This Si Snake had been painstakingly cultivated by Hundred-Eyed Devil within Snake Abyss. It resembled a Spiritual Serpent, yet it also possessed Hundred-Eyed Devil's Evil Qi.

Not only could it cultivate with the aid of the Dragon Bone, it could also descend step by step into the deeper levels of Snake Abyss without being jointly suppressed by the Dragon Bone and Dragon-Raising Temple's seals.

Si Snake concerned Hundred-Eyed Devil's decades-long scheme. Nothing could be allowed to go wrong.

Thus, after learning from the pain, the man in black had no choice but to seek out Yuanming again. After much explanation, the two realized that everything before had been a misunderstanding, and on the surface, they reconciled.

However, it was certain that something had happened to Si Snake. Even Yuanming did not know what the problem was.

After all, Snake Abyss was treacherous and unfathomable. Only the first level was somewhat safe. Even Dragon-Raising Temple did not know what the other levels were like.

Therefore, Yuanming guessed that Si Snake had likely grown beyond ten meters and entered the second level of Snake Abyss. That was why it had suddenly lost contact with the man in black.

Although this contradicted their task of having Si Snake kill all the Spiritual Pythons on the first level, no one could accurately grasp the thoughts of Evil creatures, those monsters of chaotic minds.

Perhaps Si Snake was going through a restless adolescence?

That was impossible to say.

However, no matter what, Si Snake's condition had to be confirmed. Yet personally entering Snake Abyss to ascertain its situation was no easy matter.

Without East and West Temple working together, Yuanming alone could not open the seal and send a living person inside.

So after some maneuvering by the two, Dragon-Raising Temple decided to open the first-level seal in the coming days and send a batch of newcomers into the first level of Snake Abyss to cultivate.

Over the past few days, Dragon-Raising Temple had repeatedly adjusted the entrance seal. Today, while the Evil Remains were being dropped in, Yuanming secretly weakened the seal, allowing the man in black to slip inside.

Because of the previous adjustments, Yuanhui had not noticed anything.

"Only one hour. I must enter the second level as soon as possible and find traces of Si Snake."

With that thought, the man in black quickened his pace. He passed through clumps of dense Evil Qi in an instant and approached the Dragon Bone.

At that moment, three snakes were coiled around the Dragon Bone: one gray, one white, and one black.

"Three Great Spiritual Pythons on the verge of breaking through ten meters. What a pity. Even with Si Snake absent, they still don't dare truly enter the Dragon Bone. It seems they've been scared out of their wits. Whether they can truly break past ten meters and enter another world from here on out remains uncertain."

"Three foolish boas indeed. They didn't even react when they saw me."

The man in black saw Da Sha, Er Sha, and San Sha, shaking his head as he passed judgment.

Then, without a care in the world, he strode straight into the Dragon Bone and fell toward the entrance to the second level below, where Evil Qi billowed.

Da Sha hissed, meaning, "Is this guy stupid?"

His gray tail swayed twice, and his large head looked as though a question mark might pop out of it at any moment.

Er Sha hissed as well. "Humans have a saying—what was it? A sheep walking into a tiger's mouth? How tired is he of living?"

His snow-white body trembled involuntarily. Remembering how their boss had violently beaten him, sorrow welled up from his heart.

San Sha: "Was he calling us stupid just now? No, could he be trying to steal my food too? I need to go take a look."

After hissing, San Sha looked left and right. Once he confirmed no snake was following him, he hurriedly left the Dragon Bone Region.

Da Sha and Er Sha looked at each other, their two pairs of Serpent Eyes meeting.

Da Sha: "You hungry?"

Er Sha: "Getting beaten every day makes me digest food too fast."

Da Sha: "Then how about..."

The two snakes looked in the direction San Sha had left. Then they let out sinister hisses and left the Dragon Bone Region as well.

When the upper beam was crooked, the lower beams followed suit!

The two snakes had also been led astray by Su Qingqiu.

The man in black descended through the enormous hollow Dragon Bone.

Passing through layer after layer of mist.

A moment later, he approached the entrance to the second level.

"There's actually a Spiritual Serpent here?"

"Perfect. If I take over this Spiritual Serpent's body, it'll be safer to enter the second level directly."

The man in black instantly closed in on Su Qingqiu, transforming into a cloud of black mist and burrowing toward his snake head.

Su Qingqiu's Spiritual Patterns opened automatically, and hazy golden Spiritual Light covered his entire body.

"I am a split soul of Hundred-Eyed Devil. How could a mere Spiritual Python with a hundred strands of Spiritual Light possibly contend with me..."

The man in black grinned viciously, but before he could finish speaking, a fierce rushing wind sounded beside his ear.

What was that?

The man in black was startled, but he had no time to react before a huge snake tail lashed directly at him.

Boom!

The entire Dragon Bone trembled.

The man in black was completely dumbfounded. His body of Evil Qi collapsed entirely, revealing the eyeball-like core within.

"Y-you-you... What exactly are you? A Spiritual Python? Impossible! How could there be such a powerful Spiritual Python?"

The eyeball was filled with wariness. A casual strike from the Spiritual Python before him had scattered all the Evil Qi around his body. It was simply unimaginable.

The pressure this Spiritual Serpent gave him was practically comparable to Hundred-Eyed Devil's main body.

Could someone tell him what was going on?

But what answered him was the sudden eruption of Spiritual Light.

At that moment, all five thousand strands of Spiritual Light within Su Qingqiu burst forth, directly enveloping the eyeball.

At that moment, the eyeball felt that it had truly gone blind! In Snake Abyss, it had seen the sun.

"How could there be... such powerful Spiritual Light? Did I encounter a dragon?!!! Damn Yuanming, you must have been plotting against me! Hundred-Eyed Devil will never let you go!"

The man in black let out one final wail before Su Qingqiu swallowed him whole.

Su Qingqiu: "..."

"Food delivered to my door really was the most delicious."

[Exorcism and Blessing in progress...]