Chương 4: Cai Ni

Xiao Yao looked at the girl again; although he was angry, he was not panicked.

"Should we give up?"

"As expected of Queen Medusa's bloodline, even her angry expression is so beautiful..."

On the platform, Elder Jin had already prepared all the materials, without even glancing at the girl.

He even examined it carefully, and then picked up a jade bottle.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yao smelled a fragrance of elixir.

"This! It's at least a fifth-grade or higher elixir!"

Elder Jin poured out a pill and swallowed it in one gulp, then swallowed a golden stone, and quickly picked up a jade spoon, which was also a strainer.

"What is he going to do? Is the Ten Thousand Bone Poison Ice that big flower? Why is he holding a spoon?" Xiao Yao observed his movements with suspicion.

Elder Jin walked straight to the large flower in front of him, the entire flower head was almost the size of a vegetable basin, and then he dipped his spoon into it.

Because the flower was growing quite tall, and Xiao Yao was currently floating on the water, he couldn't see the specific situation for the time being.

But he heard a sound.

The sound kept going, "Pat-pat-pat..."

Then he saw a small black snake, like a little loach, appear in the jade strainer.

"There are snakes among the flowers! Is this the Ten Thousand Bone Poison Ice?"

Before Xiao Yao could even react with surprise, Elder Jin actually swallowed the snake whole!

"He swallowed it, damn it, what a waste!" Xiao Yao witnessed all of this, but was powerless to do anything about it.

But when he caught a glimpse of the snake-woman girl out of the corner of his eye, she appeared remarkably calm.

"Is something wrong?"

Just then!

"ah!!!!"

"How could this happen?"

"I've been tricked... this poison..."

Elder Jin roared with all his might, staggering backward, his hands gripping his throat tightly, then rapidly pressing his fingers to seal all his major acupoints.

He stopped about a meter away from the pool and immediately began to meditate and regulate his breathing.

His face began to turn black rapidly, becoming as black as charcoal in just a few breaths.

Elder Jin's body trembled uncontrollably. He flipped his hand, and a pill appeared in his palm. He then swallowed it in one gulp.

"I didn't expect you to have even prepared the Nirvana Pill?" Upon seeing the pill, the girl's calm face finally showed a look of panic.

Elder Jin's complexion did indeed lighten, no longer as dark as before.

"Phew... thank goodness I didn't completely believe your mother. That damn bitch tricked me."

"You little bastard, you're disappointed, aren't you? Hahaha!"

Elder Jin's voice was noticeably weaker, and even his laughter sounded faint; he must have been very weak at that moment.

"You're really bold. When the Nirvana Pill is used to detoxify, even if you're a peak Dou Huang expert, you'll become a helpless wooden puppet. Aren't you afraid someone will sneak up on you?" the girl said hatefully.

"Hahaha! These are all my people, what am I afraid of? As for you, just wait to die. You'll be the hero of the snake people's chaos."

"You! Won't! Die! Well!" Tears welled in the girl's eyes, which were filled with helplessness and despair.

"Mother, I have failed to fulfill your last wish and inherit your throne. I am a sinner to the entire Serpent People..." The girl closed her eyes in anguish, letting two streams of hot tears slide down her cheeks.

She was completely sealed up and unable to move at all.

"Hmm? Nirvana Pill? Peak Dou Huang level? Antidote? Incapable of even killing a chicken? A wooden puppet?"

"This... it seems I can kill him! A peak Dou Huang expert!"

"Things are getting a bit abstract... but... we can't let this opportunity slip by!"

Xiao Yao made a decision in an instant: to launch a sneak attack on Elder Jin.

He subtly controlled his internal fighting spirit, allowing himself to slowly sink until he finally disappeared into the water.

The pool was full of corpses, and it wasn't strange that a corpse would occasionally sink or float up.

So neither of the two people on the shore noticed, because they were too busy admiring the scenery to notice.

One was in utter despair and had closed his eyes, waiting to die.

One was deeply poisoned and busy trying to detoxify.

Who has time to care about him?

When Xiao Yao dived to the bottom of the pool, he discovered that the water was quite deep, reaching five or six meters.

But a strange thing happened: the pool of water actually separated into layers.

The upper layer was dark and murky water, while the lower layer, about a meter below, was crystal clear.

Not only that, he also discovered the reason why the entire town was murdered.

Because he could clearly see milky white lines converging towards the pool, where there were countless white bones, some human and some magical beasts. Among these bones, there were white bones that looked like roots extending towards the center of the pool.

And those roots and stems burrow into piles of bones, extracting energy from these corpses little by little.

"How many people must have been killed?! You beast!"

After a brief pause, he swam vigorously toward the shore where Elder Jin was.

He controlled his body, repeating the same method, controlling the fighting spirit within his body, and slowly floated to the surface.

This time, he only showed half of his head and slightly his nose, took a breath, and then hid it again.

He moved subtly, deliberately mixing the noise he made with the sounds of the surrounding corpses colliding and swaying.

"This old guy might recover at any time. Let's take him down now!" Xiao Yao circulated his battle qi, preparing to unleash his power.

But just then, by sheer coincidence, the girl trapped in the water vat opened her eyes and saw a head floating on the surface of the water with its eyes open.

"ah..."

Her eyes suddenly widened in shock.

But he soon realized he had messed up and quickly shut up.

But this sound puzzled Elder Jin.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong! Can't I even make a sound?"

"Hmph, I think you're deliberately bothering me so I can get into some kind of trouble, aren't you?"

"Whatever you say goes. We're all going to die anyway, so it doesn't matter."

"Hmph, you better behave yourself, or you'll regret it. I haven't even had my hands on the Snake-People Queen yet. Haha."

After uttering a few threatening words, Elder Jin closed his eyes again and remained motionless.

After things were settled here, the girl looked at Xiao Yao, who only had his head showing, and gave him a wink.

Xiao Yao understood immediately and blinked as a response.

"Oh dear, I'm so miserable," the girl suddenly said.

"And what's your name again?" Elder Jin was getting angry. This was a crucial moment for detoxification, and there was no room for error.

"Elder Jin, Cai Ni has been with you day and night for almost twenty years, right? You've taken care of me since I was a child."

"Don't you want to see my delicate body and experience the taste of virginity?"

"It's a pity I'm going to die before I've even experienced the pleasure of sexual intercourse."

"Let me be your woman and stay by your side. You know that our royal family values loyalty the most. Once a woman loses her virginity, she will be loyal to that man until death."

As the girl spoke, she put on an endearing expression, coupled with her beautiful face and tender eyes. How many men could resist that?

After hearing this, even putting aside Elder Jin, Xiao Yao was already finding it hard to cope.

"Her name is Cai Ni, what a beautiful name, but what kind of lewd words are these? This is too... insane." He couldn't help but criticize in his heart, while waiting for an opportunity to act.

Taking advantage of the pause in their conversation, Xiao Yao quietly crept onto the shore, with most of his body above water and his feet already on the rocks.

Sure enough, Elder Jin trembled as the girl teased him, and even his breathing became rapid.