Taken advantage of by Yue Mei

In his sleep, Luo Yang vaguely heard the twittering voices of women, and even felt something brush against his precious cock. He merely thought he was having a sweet spring dream.

That touch made a sound of pleasure rise from Luo Yang's throat.

"Who's there?!"

Yue Mei, who had been splashing about with her female Snake-People subordinates, suddenly noticed that faint sound and shouted.

Since this was familiar territory that she visited often, she had not used Dou Qi to probe the area earlier.

Seeing Commander Yue Mei react like this, the other female Snake-People also went on alert.

Splash!

Luo Yang emerged from the water, wiped the water off his face, and looked at the figures before him.

"Holy shit..."

It was the first time the hopeless Luo Yang had ever seen such a tantalizing sight, and his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

He also came within a hair of failing to hold back a nosebleed.

Several fair-skinned beauties with serpentine bodies, full breasts, and shapely backsides stood before him. Any man with normal preferences would have struggled to control himself, let alone a young virgin like Luo Yang.

"Oh? So it's a handsome little human~ But lying in ambush here to peep at me bathing isn't something a good boy should do..."

Yue Mei probed Luo Yang's condition. Upon discovering that he was merely a lowly Five-Star Dou Master, she relaxed and even found the leisure to tease him.

Just a little bug that wandered into the oasis...

She did not care in the slightest that a male had seen her naked body. He would be a corpse soon enough anyway.

"You're being a little unreasonable. I was clearly here first. If anyone was peeping, you were the ones who suddenly barged in to peep at me bathing."

Luo Yang took a deep breath, gradually moving his gaze from the snake tail beneath the water to Yue Mei's face as he struggled to restrain that pent-up urge.

He had also guessed roughly who she was.

He could not help marveling inwardly. If even a mere Yue Mei could be so soul-stealingly seductive, just how devastating a beauty must the legendary Queen Medusa be...

"Giggle~ Then do you need me to take responsibility for you...?" Yue Mei's spring-water eyes stayed fixed on Luo Yang, looking him up and down. A moment later, she covered her red lips with a delicate hand.

The instant her words fell, her submerged snake tail shot toward Luo Yang.

The thought that her most sensitive snake tail had touched that thing of a male's sent a wave of revulsion through Yue Mei. She swore she would have her female Snake-People subordinates chop this fellow into mincemeat in a moment.

Luo Yang had kept his nerves taut the entire time. Although he did not detect Yue Mei's movement immediately, he was not too late.

Just as Yue Mei's snake tail was about to seize his submerged calf, he sprang out of the water, letting the female Snake-People opposite him see his naked body in full.

"Hmph, once I capture you, I'll make you kneel beneath me and sing 'Conquest'..."

Flipping once in midair, Luo Yang landed steadily on the grass by the shore and faced the five snake beauties before him.

One Dou Wang and four Da Dou Shi.

This is a little tricky...

He was currently only a lowly Seven-Star Dou Shi. Without using the Sparklence, he would have to give everything he had just to deal with one Da Dou Shi.

A mere Dou Shi was not enough to interest Yue Mei in taking action personally, so she shot a meaningful glance at one of the personal guards beside her.

"Yes!"

Having served under Commander Yue Mei for years, the female Snake-Person instantly understood what that look had meant.

She condensed a spear of Dou Qi in her hand, sprang out of the lake, and rapidly whipped her snake tail as she charged at Luo Yang.

"Just what I wanted..."

Seeing only one Da Dou Shi attack suited Luo Yang perfectly.

He reached out and grasped, and the Qinggang Sword appeared in his hand.

If only one came at him, Luo Yang would simply treat it as practice. But if all four Da Dou Shi attacked together, or Yue Mei acted personally, then Luo Yang could only whip out the Sparklence.

Clang, clang!!!

The Qinggang Sword collided with the Dou Qi spear, sending fierce sparks flying.

Although Luo Yang's cultivation was only at the Dou Shi level, he did not fall behind at all in his brief exchange with this female Snake-Person Da Dou Shi.

This earned him another look from Yue Mei.

She knew that female Snake-Person guard's strength very well. Naturally, none who could join her personal guard were useless.

That human youth could actually fight a Da Dou Shi with his Dou Shi cultivation. He truly was a heaven-gifted genius.

Yue Mei changed her mind. She would not kill that human anymore. She planned to capture him and take him back for a thorough disciplining under severe torture...

"Thunder Strikes and Lightning Flashes..."

After dozens of exchanges, Luo Yang was panting slightly. His fingers brushed across the Qinggang Sword's blade, and lightning Dou Qi clung to it, increasing its power further.

"Command Thunder and Summon Lightning!!!"

He slashed, and countless flashes of lightning surged forth. Caught unprepared, the female Snake-Person took a direct hit and suffered the full force of the attack.

"Aah-"

Lightning coursed through her body. The female Snake-Person cried out in agony, her entire body contorting into a very strange shape.

Although she was a full major rank above him, lightning this powerful still inflicted considerable damage on her, a Da Dou Shi.

This was a move Luo Yang had developed himself. It was neither taught by Tushan Rongrong nor any Dou Technique method found on the Dou Qi Continent.

The female Snake-Person fell straight down. A layer of char covered the skin of her upper body and the snake scales of her lower half, with even wisps of black smoke drifting upward.

On the other side, Luo Yang was not much better off. He supported himself with the Qinggang Sword, his Dou Qi completely depleted. At this point, even some random Dou Zhe could knock him flat.

Ultimately, there was still a full major realm between them. The gap between a Seven-Star Dou Shi and an Eight-Star Great Dou Master was like a heavenly chasm.

Had Luo Yang not unleashed his ultimate lightning-attribute move while that female Snake-Person was unprepared at the end, he would probably have been the one to lose.

"Go. Capture him for me."

A trace of interest appeared in Yue Mei's gaze as she looked at Luo Yang, and she sent another female Snake-Person to capture him alive.

In her view, even if Luo Yang possessed a Dou Technique that let him fight above his rank, his oil had run dry and his lamp had burned out. Anyone who knew how to use Dou Qi could take him down.

One of the remaining female Snake-People went to seize Luo Yang, while the other two went to check on the female Snake-Person from before.

"I've been underestimated..."

Seeing Yue Mei still look down on him, refusing to act personally and sending another subordinate instead, Luo Yang could not help laughing.

That had only been training. Now, he would unleash his full strength...

"It's time to return the light I lent you all those years ago!"

Luo Yang recited the line with chuunibyou flair. The Sparklence slowly appeared in his hand, its mechanism unfolding and releasing brilliant golden light and lightning that illuminated half the pitch-black oasis.

Atop a large rock somewhere in the oasis, Hai Bodong sat cross-legged, cultivating with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, he sensed a powerful presence emerging nearby. His eyes snapped open, and he looked up. Half the sky above the oasis had already been illuminated by light.

Hai Bodong recognized that presence. It was exactly the same as the one he had sensed from Luo Yang last week.

"This is bad..."