Capturing the Beauty Serpent Alive
With a roar, a Void Demon burst out of a cave halfway up the mountain.
This Void Demon resembles a human, with a human head and body, but below the waist are nine smooth, purplish-black tentacles covered with suckers. At the ends of the tentacles grow deformed claws resembling human hands, sharp and long like hooks, making it a member of the Void Demon Beauty Serpent race.
"Yu Qing, didn't you just leave? Why are you back?"
The Void Demon suddenly spoke in human language, its gaze sweeping over Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue.
"These two are the Evil Spirit Cultivator you recently recruited, but why didn't I sense the Blood Servant Contract on them?"
"Reporting to Lord Formless, these two wish to pay their respects." Yu Qing the surface, showing no sign that he was being coerced by Song Wen and the other man.
"Oh? What business do you two Human Race have with me?"
The Void Demon Beauty Serpent's tone was laced with undisguised arrogance, clearly unaware of any danger. It was unclear whether it considered itself to have a geographical advantage within the Source-Qi Death Domain, thus disregarding the two mere Human Race, or whether it was simply accustomed to its arrogance towards Human Race and didn't believe Human Race would dare harm it.
"Naturally, I've come to take your life!"
As Song Wen spoke, his right hand suddenly burst forth with golden lightning.
With a flick of his wrist, a ball of golden Lightning Sphere shot out and headed straight for the Beauty Serpent.
The Beauty Serpent was immediately filled with shock and rage.
"Yu Qing, how dare you betray me! Die!"
Yu Qing and her men immediately let out painful screams and collapsed onto the deck, clutching their heads and wailing.
In contrast, consider the Beauty Serpent.
It merely triggered the blood servant restriction on Yu Qing and the others' souls, without distracting them too much.
Its body instantly retreated rapidly, while the surrounding Origin Qi quickly converged towards it. In the blink of an eye, it condensed into a pitch-black shield, blocking its path.
"Boom!"
The golden Lightning Sphere struck the Origin Qi shield.
The shield shattered instantly.
The power of the Lightning Sphere has also been greatly weakened, shrinking by more than half, but its momentum remains undiminished.
The Beauty Serpent swung its nine purplish-black tentacles simultaneously, striking the incoming golden Lightning Sphere.
The Lightning Sphere shattered instantly, bursting forth with countless tiny sparks of electricity that coiled and danced around the nine purplish-black tentacles.
"Aww--"
The Beauty Serpent let out a painful roar, filled with intense resentment.
The nine purplish-black tentacles trembled incessantly, emitting a piercing buzzing sound.
The buzzing sound converged into visible sound waves, heading straight for Song Wen's face.
However, before the sound wave could reach Song Wen, a Jade-White Longsword approached the Beauty Serpent; it was Jiang Wanyue's natal flying sword.
The Beauty Serpent had no choice but to wave its nine tentacles to block the sharp sword.
"Puff puff puff!"
A series of sounds of flesh being torn apart exploded.
The Void Demon Clan is not known for its physical strength. Even with all nine tentacles extended, they could not stop the sharp sword and were instead severed one by one.
Several Taiyin Cold Qi surged from the Jade-White Flying Sword, taking advantage of the Beauty Serpent's severe injury to press closer and continuously coil around her.
Azure ice crystals rapidly condensed around the Beauty Serpent, growing thicker and thicker, encasing it within.
"Gu Huang, are you alright?"
Having dealt with the Beauty Serpent, Jiang Wanyue spoke with concern.
Just now, the sonic wave that the Beauty Serpent released, targeting the soul, pierced Song Wen's head solidly. Without Immortal Soul-Defense Artifact, most of the Lingxu Dao Immortal in the world would have been severely injured.
Despite being struck, Song Wen stood motionless, showing no sign of pain whatsoever.
"It's alright," Song Wen replied calmly. "I've already said that I'm quite confident in dealing with those beasts of the Void Demon Race."
After hearing this, Jiang Wanyue didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she pointed to the Beauty Serpent not far away and asked.
"What do you plan to do with this beast?"
Although Jiang Wanyue didn't know why Song Wen was willing to venture deep into the Source-Qi Death Domain for this Void Demon, she understood that the Beauty Serpent must be of great use to Song Wen. Therefore, Jiang Wanyue deliberately held back, only freezing her in ice without taking her life.
"Thank you for your trouble. Leave the rest to me."
Song Wen spoke, he took out a black spirit beast pouch and put away the Beauty Serpent along with its nine severed tentacles.
"Madam Jiang, let's go, it's time for us to head back."
"Going back already?" Jiang Wanyue was somewhat surprised. "Aren't you going to interrogate that Void Demon again? Perhaps you can trace the lairs of other illusory Void Demon in the Lingxu Dao Immortal Realm, and capture a few more alive."
"No need, this beast is enough," Song Wen said.
Song Wen naturally wanted to capture more Void Demon from the Lingxu Dao Immortal Realm, but even if he managed to extract some information from the Beauty Serpent, Song Wen wouldn't dare to believe it—what if the Beauty Serpent secretly tricked him into going to the lair of the Void Demon from the Jade Firmament Profound Immortal Realm? That would be troublesome.
Better safe than sorry; it's always best to know when to stop while you're ahead.
"What about Yu Qing and the others?" Jiang Wanyue pointed to the people lying on the nail bed.
Because the Beauty Serpent triggered the Blood Servant Contract, all of them collapsed and remained motionless on the deck.
Perhaps because the Beauty Serpent was facing an attack from Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue, she had no time to pay much attention to these people, resulting in only five people dying from the dissipation of their souls. Yu Qing and the two Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators only suffered severe damage to their souls, temporarily losing consciousness and fainting.
"Let's take it with us for now," Song Wen said.
Jiang Wanyue nodded, summoned her own spaceship, and transferred Yu Qing and the others onto it.
As for Yu Qing's spaceship, since she was unconscious, no one could control it for the time being. However, Song Wen did not abandon it, but put it into his storage ring, hoping to sell it for some Spirit Stone.
The spaceship sped back in the direction it had come from.
As the spaceship broke out of the Source-Qi Death Domain, the sun appeared high in the sky, and the world became clear. Yu Qing also woke up at this moment.
Her spirit was severely injured and she was still very weak.
But when she realized she was outside the Source-Qi Death Domain, the pain in her eyes receded like a tide, replaced by a deep hope.
"What about that Void Demon? Has it been captured by the two of you?"
Yu Qing struggled to his feet, he asked the question.
"Yes," Song Wen replied.
"Hahaha..."
Yu Qing laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.
"That beast has finally been slain! I am now free, no longer needing to obey the Void Race, no longer needing to be a universally despised Evil Spirit Cultivator."