Bluffing (2/3)

At Bing Xinzhu's words, Zhou Heng knew that this giant python was the father of the Golden-Crowned Snake. That little loach had indeed mentioned some Thousand-Python Immortal Lord before.

After Zhou Heng slaughtered the Golden-Crowned Snake that day, the Thousand-Python Immortal Lord immediately sensed it. Enraged, it came out at once to seek its son's killer, while Bing Xinzhu had the miserable luck of running straight into it.

Other than the natives, the only outsiders who could enter this place were those who possessed a Scripture. And in this region, the Thousand-Python Immortal Lord was the overlord among overlords—who would dare touch even a single hair on its offspring?

Thus, the instant it saw Bing Xinzhu, the Thousand-Python Immortal Lord decided that this outsider had killed its son, and without another word, launched its pursuit.

The Thousand-Python Immortal Lord was a Four-Forms Creation Emperor. If not for Huotian's restriction here, killing Bing Xinzhu would have taken no more than a thought. But now, its cultivation had been forcibly suppressed to the peak Ascension Emperor realm. It could overpower Bing Xinzhu, but it could not kill this human.

—Bing Xinzhu possessed the Red Lotus Scripture. How could she be so easily killed?

Outmatched, she began to flee. To her, this fight had come entirely out of nowhere, but the Thousand-Python Immortal Lord refused to let things rest and pursued her all the way. That was the scene Zhou Heng had witnessed.

Speaking of which, Bing Xinzhu was truly unlucky, appearing in the wrong place at the wrong time!

Zhou Heng felt a flicker of sympathy, but he had no intention whatsoever of telling her that he was the true culprit. Wasn't that just asking to be cursed at?

Since she had already taken the blame, she probably would not mind carrying