Chapter 20: The Snake King Appears

I tried to resist this force, but I found that it was like a giant hand holding my soul. The force I actually felt was a tremendous force of soul power, mixed with spiritual power to destroy the human will.

Without thinking too much, I knew that it was the Liu Sheng King who had made the move.

This is his real killing move, isn’t it? It’s unexpected, directly pulling a person’s soul… it’s completely unpredictable, and unlike the impact of the roar on a person’s soul, Liu Shengwang’s is directly aimed at the soul of a powerful cultivator, and it’s a move that kills, because the soul is pulled out, which is equivalent to directly “killing” a person. I think he is qualified to be Wu Tian’s “top ten personal attendants,” and the biggest reason for this is this killing move, right?

“Chengyi, what’s wrong with you?” Seeing that I was in a bad state, my master stopped and turned to look at me worriedly.

I couldn’t see my own face at the moment, but the pain of this struggle made me feel the sweat dripping from my face in streams… Sweat that exaggerated to this extent, it can be seen what kind of pain I was suffering?

Master naturally noticed this as well, and anxiously said to me, “Chengyi, use your will to hold onto your soul.”

After saying this, the master suddenly turned around and ran in the direction of Liu Shengwang.

At this moment, my master, like me, was locked up in his own power. He was nothing but a strong old man, and he was completely defenseless. How could he have made such a risky move?

I was in a panic, but my soul was being pulled, and I couldn’t move at all. I knew that behind him, in addition to the King of the Undead, there were several abnormal zombies. How could Master be a match for them?

In this second, I felt that I had reached the worst limit of my life. While I was desperately resisting, I clearly sensed that in the depths of my soul, that thin membrane was constantly surging.

Dao Tongzi, I can’t tell what this “me” is thinking, but I know that if the membrane breaks again in this real world, Chen Chengyi will really cease to exist. This result may be even more terrible than my death… Everything was going smoothly, but because the snake population suddenly decreased, it turned out like this. Could this be fate?

Or, as the master said, is it our bad luck that there are so few snakes in this dense forest?

The narrative is long, but all these changes happened in just a second. While I was in extreme pain, the sound of a bamboo flute rang out in the dense forest, at times indistinct, at times exceptionally clear.

Was it a bamboo flute? It didn’t sound like a tune… and the sound was so strange, even a little harsh, that it made me feel dizzy.

Because it was intermittent, I suspected that it was my hallucination… But at this moment, I saw my master running back to me, looking relieved, and he even pulled me to run back quickly.

Master was holding me, so naturally we weren’t going very fast, but compared to the people who were being attacked by so many snakes, we were going pretty fast.

Because I was being pulled, my body changed direction, and I saw Liu Shengwang reaching out with a serious expression, as if he were pulling something. Next to him were two of his subordinates, desperately fending off the snake pack for him… and he was so focused that it seemed as if the only thing in his eyes was my soul.

“Ugh.” I couldn’t help but moan in pain, my teeth clenched tightly, resisting the pull with my own will, but because my master was desperately dragging me back, it was even more painful. I don’t know if it was psychological or because my body was moving away from Liu Shengwang, and my soul was being pulled back and forth between my body and him, which only increased my pain.

I really wanted to tell my master to stop moving me and run away first… but I couldn’t speak, and I also knew my master, so I knew that he would never leave me behind.

Except for Liu Shengwang, who stayed put, and the two subordinates who were his “protectors,” the rest of the people were chasing after me and Master. Although they couldn’t move very fast because of the snakes, they were slowly approaching at any cost.

Given this situation, I could not afford to distract Master at this time. I could only grit my teeth and endure the pain.

Feeling my pain, Master did not stop, but whispered in my ear, “Chengyi, hold on a little longer. It will be over soon. We won the bet. All we have to do now is to keep ourselves alive until then.”

My consciousness had become somewhat blurred due to the pain. I felt as if my soul had been pulled into a tight rubber band, and the membrane of soul power had also been pulled to a very tense state.

I felt that its resilience was even stronger than my soul, and I wondered if my soul would break before it was pulled apart.

I was breathing heavily, like a person who is about to die and desperately trying to breathe in more oxygen to maintain their life. Despite the situation, I could still distinguish the surrounding movements. The sound of the snakes approaching had become inaudible, and the large number of snakes that had previously swarmed out had become a few scattered snakes.

In this situation, why did the master say that we had won the bet? Could it be…

At this moment, the bamboo flute sound I heard before was even clearer. Apart from this strange phenomenon, I couldn’t think of any other reason why we had won the bet!

Time seemed to have stopped for a few seconds, and then… I suddenly heard a loud noise coming from the mountains. It was like a bulldozer mercilessly crushing the mountains!

In my somewhat blurred eyes, I even saw large patches of weeds falling… In the midst of this, a streak of lightning was moving rapidly, rushing toward this place with great force!

This… this… my mind couldn’t process it because this was far from the climax. After the “colored lightning,” it seemed that there were several more enormous bolts of lightning rushing toward me. I swear, although it was only a fleeting glimpse, and my vision was blurred, I thought it was the biggest snake I had ever seen!

It was even bigger than the snake spirits I saw when I was a child, and even bigger than the ‘jiao’ I’ve seen before! Are they the kings of the forest? At that moment, I thought that the anaconda was nothing compared to the biggest snake. These deep mountains and forests are where the unknown of mankind is hidden!

They appeared for only a few seconds, and before I could even think, I felt a sudden gust of wind in the area where we were standing. Then, behind one of the zombie men closest to us, a huge snake head suddenly appeared… It was a colorful snake head, and the head alone was as big as an iron pot.

Its appearance caused the zombies to panic for a moment, and they suddenly stopped in their tracks. But before they could react, the snake suddenly flipped over and rolled up the zombie in front of it!

“Fuck!” The sudden change caused the zombie man to let out a cry of terror. In this situation, it was obvious that swearing was the only choice… But he wasn’t completely without a response. In that instant, he tightly embraced the snake’s body and desperately tried to find the seven-inch position.

Before the other zombies could react, several more huge snakes appeared and began to attack them without any hesitation… In the same way, the human and snake began to fight in this space. At this time, Liu Shengwang’s subordinates were also affected, and there was no way to protect Liu Shengwang.

However, Liu Shengwang seemed completely unaffected. Instead, he suddenly squeezed the hand that was pulling me, making an unusually strenuous backward movement. This movement directly reflected on my soul. I felt a greater force pulling at my soul, and I couldn’t help but cry out in pain, but I couldn’t find a solution.

The zombies were stronger than I had imagined, and they were actually fighting the giant snakes in a tug-of-war. Their strength was unimaginable… Could this be the result of Yang Sheng’s ‘transformation’?

I was about to faint, but I heard a strange noise… At this time, an inconspicuous snake appeared in front of Liu Shengwang.

It was inconspicuous only because of its appearance. It was black and at first glance, it looked like an ordinary black-tailed snake, but in fact it was different. Underneath the inconspicuous snake skin, it seemed as if it was wrapped in a layer of flame.

If this is not enough to cause people to be surprised and make everyone notice it, then the way it appeared is the best explanation.

It appeared out of thin air!