"Hmm, only the ancient eras had the Demon race."
Yu Longting stopped before a gloomy swamp, "After they were destroyed, only a few demon creatures started appearing, all cultivated later on."
The swamp was shrouded in darkness, with many luminescent white plants growing all over it."
Apart from the odd color, the plants were actually just ordinary reeds."
The water was pitch-black, completely devoid of any clarity."
Not far away, a drifting white mist could be seen enveloping the area."
"The magic snake that took Dumpling, was it a latter-day cultivated demon?" I looked at the swamp before me, my memories suddenly overlapping with the Illusion Realm I encountered when I met the young Lin Huan, "Yu Longting, I... I might have been to this place before and even fell into the mire."
"This place... other than demon creatures, only an old-timer like me would have visited. Zhang Zidao is merely three hundred years old; he can't possible know of this place, right?"
Yu Longting embraced me and directly waded into the swamp's sludge.
The foul stench in the mud was unbearable, but he seemed hardly bothered by it.
However, he did lift up his sleeve to cover my nose.
All along, as I followed Zhang Zidao with my severe illness, Yu Longting subconsciously felt that it was Zhang Zidao who led the way wherever I went."
My nose was filled with the refreshing fragrance from his sleeve cuff, "It wasn't my master who brought me here; it was my consciousness... it suddenly traversed, coming here."
"Consciousness traversal? Was it before the Snake Devouring Stele was smashed? Then it must have been the Snake Devouring Stele that brought you here." Yu Longting instantly understood what I meant as he led me through the thick fog, "Ten Thousand Poison Hall activated the Snake Devouring Stele, and since it wanted to kill you, it chose... to bring you to this location."
"That's right, that's right, Yu Longting, you're so smart; talking to you is so effortless." I'd barely finished speaking the first half, and he would already know the second half."
In this eerie and chilling swamp, Yu Longting strolled as if he were at leisure, unfazed by the surroundings."
Had it been just me alone, I would have surely been extremely nervous and scared."
At first, I thought it strange that the swamp, while it looked shallow,
Should still vary in depth, yet it always seemed to reach up to his waist."
When we finally reached the shore, I saw that a certain snake had used its white tail to slither ashore."
So it turned out that in the water, he wasn't walking on his feet at all but was swimming with his tail."
In this moment, his wet scales under the dimly lit underground still reflected an inorganic silver glow."
"Call me 'mama,' hurry, my patience is limited." A woman's cold, impatient voice emanated from behind the Withered Wood Forest."
I tugged at Yu Longting's sleeve and whispered, "There's someone talking, right?"
"Could there be anyone else here? There aren't even fish heads in the water, but indeed, there's a voice." Yu Longting was naturally suited for slithering; he moved forward both swiftly and gracefully."
I found myself quite accustomed to watching him, even feeling the urge to touch him, but my concern for Dumpling weighed more heavily on my mind, so I refrained from any frivolous gestures, "Maybe it's the demon snake talking? If she's the one I met in the Illusion Realm, she's a girl, and like me, she's pregnant, carrying a baby."
"Aside from human interaction, do you think snakes have the chance to speak human language??" Yu Longting asked me, half-squinting his eyes."
I scratched my head, "Doesn't your brother do just that?"
"He's just the snake version of Erha." Yu Longting commented."
At that moment, we were about to leave the Withered Wood Forest."
Following the irregular dry branches, one could easily see the dilapidated house emerging in the blood mist."
The house was surprisingly styled like a Republican-era villa, with the old Baroque columns still clung to by withered ivy."
On the gray and decaying garden path, a rusted Dodge car was also parked." This update is available on NoveI~Fire.net
A thousand-year-old Demon Cave had given rise to modern-day items."
This terrifying sense of disharmony...
"Yu Longting, hide behind the withered trees for a moment, I think I just saw our Dumpling!!"