The man, cold and handsome, walked in as if entering an uninhabited place.
In an instant, the noisy hall fell into a strange silence.
He raised his hand, and the talisman paper stuck to my abdomen flew up and ignited without a flame, instantly turning into ashes. The heavy pressure on me seemed to peel away, as if unraveling like silk.
The deathly pain in my lower abdomen disappeared.
I suddenly sat up, my back wet with sweat, as if I had been pulled out of a water tank. "It's… it's you… you're not…?"
Thrown away?
It was too strange. I saw him locked in a locust wood chest with my own eyes, then thrown off the side of a bottomless mountain. How could he still… be here?
My mother, even more shocked than I was, staggered back a step.
Her eyes rolled back, nearly fainting.
"You bold snake demon, how dare you show yourself! Watch me carry out divine justice and punish you!"
The old Taoist nun shouted fiercely, throwing a bright red cinnabar talisman at him. "Heavenly circle, earthly square, nine divine decrees. I write now, and all demons shall be sealed!"
The man casually waved his sleeve, and the talisman once again ignited without a flame.
Moreover, the fire on the paper spread to his Taoist robe.
The fire raged fiercely, scaring the old Taoist nun into rolling on the ground before finally putting it out.
She failed to subdue him and instead ended up with her Taoist robe scorched. She crawled up in terror and disarray, her face pale, "You… what kind of… demon are you???"
The man's eyes were hollow, carrying a wicked, half-smiling, half-sneering expression. "Demon? Which sect are you from? You have such little knowledge? Didn't your master teach you to kneel before me when you see me?"
This guy had a very strange temper, speaking like this.
The old Taoist nun finally recognized him and, trembling, knelt down in apology. "You… you are… Lord Snake King, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you… my mistake…"
Before she could even finish her apology.
Suddenly, blood poured out of the old Taoist nun's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
The color drained from her skin, turning as white as a wall of plaster, frighteningly pale.
She knelt in place like a zombie. Three seconds later—
Bang!
With a loud crash, the old Taoist nun's thin, withered body fell stiffly to the ground.
"Since you're so ignorant, then die."
The man disappeared in the blink of an eye.
I was stunned, frozen in place.
This guy's temper is so unpredictable…
After a long time, my uncle gathered his courage and approached, pushing the old Taoist nun's stiff body, "M-Master? Are you okay? Master… wake up… we're counting on you, Avril…"
"Her uncle… it seems… Master doesn't have any breath left?" My aunt walked over, checked her pulse, and her whole arm began to tremble. In the hall, the sound of people gasping in shock echoed.
That ghost snake was truly brutal and powerful, even a skilled Taoist master had died at its hands.
In the blink of an eye,
A small, colorful snake crawled out of the old Taoist nun's nose.
The snake was no bigger than an earthworm, but its dark green eyes were deep and sinister. It opened its mouth, filled with sharp fangs, and viciously lunged at my aunt's fingers. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and pulled her hand back.
But my aunt was still scared out of her wits.
She screamed and fell to the ground.
My uncle glared, grabbed a chair, and smashed it on the snake.
The snake was crushed to a bloody pulp, no longer recognizable.
"Mom, it's fine now, the snake is dead," her son said, pulling her up and guiding her away from the old Taoist nun's corpse.
My mom also came over to pull me aside, feeling my forehead for my temperature, "Avril, that… that ghost snake didn't do anything to you, right?"