41: Chapter 41 The Green Snake's Rise to Fame
In the Monster Beast Mountain Range, a group of young men and women walked through the mountain forest.
There were four men and three women, all with elegant appearances and extraordinary clothing.
Of course, in this dangerous Monster Beast Mountain Range, these people were naturally not the youths they appeared to be on the surface.
They were all Disciple Cultivators from the Jade Condensation Sect of the Middle Region.
Among the seven, the most eye-catching was naturally the young woman at the center, vaguely surrounded like the moon by stars.
The young woman had skin like ice and bones like jade; her beautiful face was as cold as frost, making her look like a heartless Cultivator focused solely on the Great Dao.
"Quiet."
The young woman opened her mouth and spoke in a cold tone.
All her fellow Disciples around her, who seemed to be of the same age, stopped, no longer making a single sound.
In the quiet air, there was only the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves.
With a flick of her finger, the young woman shot a silver needle carrying a bone-chilling cold into the nearby dense forest.
"Boom!"
The sound of a massive object falling to the ground rang out, and a corpse tumbled out from the dense forest.
It was a giant Yao Beast lizard with an aura of a full century of Dao Cultivation; surprisingly, no one had noticed it before.
If Xu Qing were here, he would definitely exclaim, "Concealment LV4! So envious!"
"As expected of Junior Martial Uncle Lin!"
"Who doesn't know Fairy Lin Donglan, the Junior Martial Uncle of the Jade Condensation Sect!"
"If not for Junior Martial Uncle Lin, we might have suffered a setback today!"
The people around her began to flatter this Junior Martial Uncle Lin.
"Focus your minds and do not speak recklessly."
Lin Donglan frowned slightly, her words as precious as gold; her icy aura seemed to freeze her surroundings.
"Yes, Junior Martial Uncle!"
Knowing her "keep away" and "few words" icy personality, the people around her quickly shut their mouths.
"That was close, so close! I almost didn't notice that damn lizard; my Foundation Establishment reputation would have been ruined."
Lin Donglan tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear, revealing her beautiful yet cold profile.
"Just as they say, I am a peerless beauty."
"A Genius beauty who achieved a century of Dao Cultivation and broke through to Foundation Establishment at only sixteen years and one hundred and twenty months old."
"Even in the entire Sect, I am one of the top Foundation Establishment geniuses."
Lin Donglan quietly walked over to the lizard and put the corpse into her Storage Pouch.
That's right, she wasn't an iceberg at all.
It was just that she didn't know how to express herself and wasn't good at socializing, so she was misunderstood.
After being misunderstood as an iceberg, it became even harder for her to speak freely.
It would break her image as an icy young beauty.
When everyone thinks you're an iceberg, a fake iceberg becomes a real one.
As Lu Xun said.
"Is this the so-called burden of being a beautiful girl?!"
Lin Donglan remained silent, looking at the admiring gazes of those around her while sighing deeply in her heart.
She looked up toward the depths of the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
It was said that a heaven and earth spiritual root had appeared in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, so various Sects had dispatched Cultivators to investigate.
Their Jade Condensation Sect had dispatched a total of four Foundation Establishment Cultivators, each leading a team to investigate.
Among them...
"Why are the other three all at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage, while I'm the only one at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage!"
"Is it because I rejected that old Golden Core geezer's hints?!"
"This kind of harassment makes me so angry!"
Thinking of this, Lin Donglan wanted to stomp her feet in anger, but to maintain her icy image, she could only keep a face as cold as frost.
"I must slack off; the Yao Beasts have been getting more and more irritable lately."
"I heard there's a green snake, a patterned snake, and a masked female Sword Cultivator who spare neither humans nor Yao; they kill every person and slaughter every Yao Beast they see."
"They are simply evil Cultivators."
"The Monster Beast Mountain Range is so large, surely I won't run into them."
Lin Donglan sneered inwardly, thinking she was being too sensitive.
How could such a low-probability event happen?
"Ju-Ju-Junior Martial Uncle Lin!"
"In the sky, there's a snake!"
"It's that murderous Demon Snake, a demonic Cultivator!"
Looking at her shivering fellow Disciples, Lin Donglan's heart skipped a beat.
She turned her head and looked up at the sky.
One snake: a green snake nearly ten meters long, with scales like jade, moist and smooth, and a beautiful emerald ring on its tail.
Second snake: four meters long with red, green, and orange colors, its large eyes emitting a pink light—it was indeed the Three-Colored Venomous Snake.
One person: in a purple dress with an ancient sword, face veiled, with a graceful figure.
It was indeed the Three Demons who had been rampant in the Monster Beast Mountain Range recently.
Among them were the Green Demon, an unknown green snake; the Poison Demon, the Three-Colored Venomous Snake; and the Human Demon, an unknown female Sword Cultivator.
"What did I do to deserve this?!"
Lin Donglan's heart felt bitter, and she wished she could turn around and run immediately.
However, her inner pride absolutely would not allow her to abandon her fellow Disciples and flee alone.
...
"What? Calling me a murderous Demon Snake that doesn't blink!"
"We snakes can't blink at all!"
Xu Qing looked at the group of people below, feeling a bit angry, thinking this was racial discrimination.
He didn't know when, but the name "Three Demons" had been bestowed upon them in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
Xu Qing was quite angry; it was simply slander and defamation.
"What have I done? I'm a Disciple of the Xuanji Sect, yet I'm being called the Human Demon."
"Human Demon..."
Xu Linger was still muttering to herself.
She had been like this for the past three days; it seemed she had taken quite a blow.
Of course, the trouble the Three Demons title brought Xu Qing wasn't just this.
Thanks to this, hunting had become difficult.
Lone Foundation Establishment Cultivators would run as soon as they saw them, giving no chance to hunt.
[Ding! Proficiency requirement met.]
[Skill learned: Vicious Beast LV1]
[Vicious Beast LV1] A title skill for a Beast of Calamity; increases combat power and physical attributes.
"I actually obtained the Vicious Beast skill!"
Xu Qing turned to look at Silly Snake and found that Silly Snake had also obtained this skill.
Looking at Xu Linger, there was no change on her panel.
"Is the requirement for obtaining this skill to make people feel fear?"
Xu Qing vaguely remembered that in the Crimson-Tailed Burning Flame Crane's skill bar, there were Vicious Beast LV5 and Auspicious Beast LV1.
Auspicious Beast should be the opposite skill of Vicious Beast; the condition to obtain it isn't hard to guess—it should be being loved by people.
Judging from the skill levels, the Crimson-Tailed Burning Flame Crane doesn't do anything decent at all—a real chaos-bringing loli Devil King.
"Senior Brother Qing, this female Cultivator's Evil Qi isn't heavy; she shouldn't be an utterly wicked person."
"Besides, she's good-looking; it would be a pity to kill her."
As a member of the Xuanji Sect, Xu Linger naturally had her principles, which she would not violate even as an enforcer.
Xu Qing didn't make excessive demands on her; the human and snake were merely in a cooperative relationship, and they just needed to respect each other.
"Oh, then just rob her of her Storage Pouch."
Xu Qing was a Yao Beast and didn't care if she was good or bad.
Humans don't distinguish between good and bad Yao Beasts when killing them; if there are useful Materials and they can win the fight, they kill.
"Senior Brother Qing doesn't know the first thing about being tender to the fairer sex; such a stunning icy beauty, and he just wants to rob her."
"I'm just a snake."
"..."
Xu Qing took a few careful looks at the frost-faced woman below, sizing her up.
Maybe she really is good-looking?
His last remaining bit of human aesthetics was already hanging by a thread.