Snake Immortal: The Tale of a Snake’s Cultivation to Immortality

Snake Immortal: The Tale of a Snake’s Cultivation to Immortality – Chapter 51, The Snake’s Wrathful Counter

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Translator: Tamon

 

The creepy voice had Xu Hei’s blood run cold, wanting to flee on instinct.  Fortunately, it was only for a moment, letting himself cool down and not budge an inch.

 

He was 800 meters down under. No pursuer was dumb enough to shout away when he found him, attacking at the first chance.

 

Xu Hei waited as nothing happened.

 

“What a seedy old man, trying to play me.” Xu Hei gnashed his teeth.

 

[The guy must’ve sent his voice across somehow.]

 

Xu Hei didn’t fall for it, nor send his Divine Sense to scout, opting to sit and wait, recovering in the meantime.

 

The high pressure at this depth had long since been overcome, offering no danger.

 

 

Ye Haichuan blended with a rock in the ground, seven hundred meters above the snake, watching and scanning for the slightest shift in the earth.

 

“I have your demon friends. Come out now or I’ll skin them alive.”

 

Ye Haichuan threatened as he observed the ground.

 

He was dead certain the snake was somewhere deep underground, most definitely beyond five hundred meters due to its high skill in Earthen Motion as it went through rocks.

 

He felt a headache coming.

 

While he could delve that deep too, he was reluctant due to the possibility of a trap.

 

The severe pressure at that depth slowed him down enough that it could lead to his doom.

 

“Damn worm, you have an incense stick of time to show yourself or I’ll leave to carve your friends. I’ll have all the sects hunt you down to the ends of the world!”

 

Ye Haichuan’s barking traveled deep and far.

 

He made up his mind to give up after this, but he wouldn’t leave empty-handed, looking for the other two demons.

 

Seconds trickled by with no reply.

 

Ye Haichuan took his time, patiently waiting for the demon to take the bait or slip up. His ears twitched at a sudden sound and his eyes flashed as he charged further down.

 

“Humph, you finally showed yourself!” Ye Haichuan’s gaze was icy as he sped towards his target.

 

He drew nearer and nearer, reaching eight hundred meters…

 

“Stone Press!”

 

Clenching a fist, the rocks’ pressure multiplied, squeezing hard on his target.

 

Crack~

 

Scarlet flashed and a black snake was revealed, crammed behind the bone-breaking rocks.

 

Xu Hei was unmoving yet Ye Haichuan huffed, making a spike jutting out of the rocks to run its neck through and spraying more blood around.

 

A wail came from the corpse as Xu Hei struggled while bleeding out.

 

“Take this!”

 

Ye Haichuan kept at it, sending three more spikes, each rending flesh and spraying blood until the big black snake was still as the rocks around it.

 

Ye Haichuan smirked. “You sure are something, hiding eight hundred meters underground. You even had me hesitating.”

 

Ye Haichuan raised his True Qi shield up and crossed the rocks towards Xu Hei.

 

The body was warped and in pieces, the cultivator finding it a waste. He wanted it alive, not just to remove this disaster waiting to happen, but to pry its secrets from its still thrumming flesh.

 

Ye Haichuan’s heart tensed, a foreboding feeling creeping in.

 

“Wait, this was too easy!”

 

Ye Haichuan was used to killing Awareness Stage demon snakes like this, if not easier, but he found this particular situation far too easy.

 

He couldn’t put his finger on it as to why, chalking it all up as a century of experience as a cultivator. The feeling made him break out in sweats, his eyes wide as saucers and his heart threatening to jump out of his chest.

 

Why the exaggerated reaction? His Divine Sense told him of the dark gold scales splitting rocks as they came at him from behind.

 

[It’s too damn close, just fifteen meters! It’s where he’s hiding!]

 

“What’s this?”

 

Only now did Ye Haichuan see the big, black, and bloody snake with ruined skin coming at him with its tail following the thrown scales, its strongest blow.

 

It looked exactly like the snake he just killed.

 

“Earth Shield! Earth Armor! Earth Wall!”

 

Ye Haichuan boosted his defenses with three magical arts on the spot and even activated the inner armor under his clothes. But it all happened so fast, and the attack came out of nowhere that just as a faint yellow glow appeared around him, the scales were on him.

 

Pa~!

 

Blood spurted from the many puncture wounds as Ye Haichuan’s body was run clean through, his shields offering no resistance from ruining his organs.

 

His supreme effort to dodge was marginally successful at this depth, encased in granite. He barely got his heart out of the way.

 

He knew he had been royally screwed over.

 

The snake he just killed wasn’t the demon, but a puppet that looked just like it.

 

The real shock came from discovering blood coming out of it as he destroyed it.

 

Looking at Xu Hei, he now knew why.

 

The blood, flesh, skin, and organs were because Xu Hei took them from himself and planted them on the puppet.

 

[What a deceitful snake! What a cunning tactic!]

 

[It went as far as carving himself to make me fall for it!]

 

[Just what kind of demon am I dealing with?]

 

“I have to escape! I must!”

 

Ye Haichuan held a talisman. A surge of energy came from its back, propelling Ye Haichuan through the ground and toward the surface.

 

Pa!

 

Xu Hei’s tail slammed into his belly turning Ye Haichuan’s legs to paste and making him drop the storage bag.

 

The talisman carried Ye Haichuan’s upper half through the ground and bedrock, leaving a vertical tunnel in the ground.

 

“This is my limit.” Xu Hei looked at the fleeing target, unable to chase.

 

Hei Huang told him that fighting above one’s level was incredibly hard, but there were geniuses out there who could pull it off. As for jumping stages, that was a non-zero chance.

 

It was so hard it might just as well be impossible!

 

Xu Hei had given his all and still couldn’t kill him, coming short right at the end.

 

He had never risked his life as he did now.

 

All because the other said he would hunt down his friends to the ends of the world.

 

Xu Hei knew then and there that retreating was out. Some things he had to do regardless of the risks.

 

He was so close to finishing this. If only that talisman wasn’t around, Ye Haichuan would’ve been dead by now.

 

Xu Hei wasn’t in denial, aware that everyone had a couple of aces in their sleeves. He took solace in grabbing the storage bag and nearly killing him.

 

 

Ye Haichuan’s heart was racing as pain assaulted his mind from every remaining pore. As weakness set in, he felt his mind slipping. He ate a Blood Pill to suppress his wounds.

 

Never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined that an Awareness Stage demon snake would bring him so low. It went so deep that it traumatized him.

 

It was all thanks to this Heaven Fleeing Talisman that he got away.

 

It was also thanks to the Blood Pill he wouldn’t die from his wounds.

 

They were the results of trading his century-long savings with a Golden Core cultivator.

 

“What kind of scales were those? Why didn’t my spiritual treasure work? How could they just pierce it?”

 

Ye Haichuan was in shock, trying to find an explanation to everything that went wrong. Fear was next.

 

It dawned on him that he was in a very real danger back there and vowed to never do that ever again.

 

“I have to tell the sect! The demon must be removed, for all our sakes!” Ye Haichuan gnashed his teeth.

 

The talisman pierced the earth and he was in the air.

 

But the sun that appeared was soon blocked by a rather strange black dog.

 

It had glossy fur and looked strong, a bald tail and sinister eyes.

 

It looked over at him with a creepy grin.

 

Ye Haichuan widened, his jaw falling to scream, but slammed into a tree in his moment of distraction.

 

Boom!

 

The tree snapped and Ye Haichuan coughed blood as he skidded on the ground. He didn’t get the chance to breathe as his eyes went black and his body limp.

 



 

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