Chapter 21 The Farmer and the Snake
The next day, dawn.
Last night's heavy rain has dissipated , the air is filled with the fragrance of dust and grass, the red sun is rising, and the morning light is pleasant.
The scholar and the girl spent the night in Wutong Temple and were now ready to leave this haunted place.
He glanced at the white fox in his cousin's arms, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his eyes.
Last night, the white fox leaned on his cousin's arms and refused to leave, making it inconvenient for him to do anything.
Walking out of Wutong Temple, he saw the guards drinking water.
The head of the guards handed a clean water bag to the scholar and said respectfully, "Master, have a drink of water. We still have to travel soon."
The scholar nodded, took it and drank a few sips, but frowned slightly and said, "Why does this water taste a bit strange?"
He always felt that the taste was not right.
The head of the guards apologized with a smile, saying, "It may be due to the heavy rain last night, and rain water may have accidentally seeped in."
The scholar snorted coldly, but did not reprimand him. He just threw the water bag to him and said calmly, "Let's go."
At this moment, he had already lost the interest he had before entering the mountain, and just wanted to go back quickly and have a good rest.
The only thing that comforted him was probably the ancient sword Yuchang around his waist.
At this moment, with a loud bang, the door of the ancient temple suddenly closed , and my cousin's terrified screams were heard from inside.
The scholar was startled and quickly ran to push the door, but found that the door did not move at all.
This surprised him very much, because he had paid special attention to it last night and found that the door was a bit shabby and could not be locked from the inside.
He looked inside through the crack in the door, but saw a touch of snow-white skin and long, messy black hair.
Piece of dress was torn to shreds, accompanied by my cousin's heart-wrenching screams.
The scholar's eyes were about to burst, and he said to the guards: "Quick, blow open this door for me!"
The guards rushed forward and rammed the door. They were carefully selected experts, but even though they tried their best, they couldn't move the door at all.
The cousin's screams in the temple were even more miserable.
The scholar was extremely anxious and shouted angrily: "Draw your sword and chop down the door for me!"
…
I don’t know how long it took, but the cries in the temple gradually became quieter, and my cousin’s throat, which was originally as clear as an oriole, had now become extremely hoarse.
The temple gate had been chopped down, and the scholar was the first to rush in. The scene he saw made him furious.
I saw a petite beauty lying on the dirty ground, her body covered with bruises and the white dress under her was stained red with blood.
A handsome young man in fancy clothes was adjusting his sleeves with a wicked smile on his face.
"Your cousin is fine."
When the scholar saw his cousin dying, he drew out the Yuchang sword from his waist with a clang, and stabbed at the handsome young man with a roar.
Ding!
The sword fell to the ground. The snake demon grabbed his wrist and squeezed it gently. With a crisp sound, the scholar's wrist bones were broken and hung at a terrifying angle.
"Hurry up and save the young master!"
The guards rushed up and hacked at the fair-faced young man.
The next moment, the skin of the fair-faced young man suddenly swelled up and broke like cloth. A huge snake about ten feet long came out and swallowed a guard with its mouth open.
"monster!"
"Snake demon, it's really a snake demon!"
“Hurry, run!”
In less than three breaths, several guards had been swallowed up, and the swords in their hands could not leave even a trace except sparks when they chopped on the opponents.
For a moment, the guards were in a panic and scrambled to escape.
But the snake demon had no intention of letting them go. It leapt forward at an extremely fast speed and ate all the scattered guards one by one, not sparing any one!
Then he slowly crawled to the scholar with a terrified face and opened his bloody mouth.
The scholar trembled all over, cried bitterly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. At this moment, beauty and dignity were not as important as life!
He came from a prominent family and was on the verge of passing the imperial examination and rising to a high position in society. How could he be willing to die in Shekou?
"Don't kill me, don't kill me, please!"
"You like your cousin, I, I, I...I'll give her to you, you can do whatever you want, just don't kill me!"
The dying girl was so angry when she heard her lover speak like this that she spat a mouthful of blood on the scholar's face and then died completely.
The snake demon spoke in human language and said calmly: "Speaking of which, I should really be grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I might have died in the hands of that Taoist priest. What a pity..."
His snake eyes were bloodshot, and he angrily asked, "How dare you knock over my incense burner?"
At this moment, the scholar's heart was full of regret. He only hated himself for not listening to the Taoist priest. He was blinded by greed and only wanted to swallow the Yuchang sword, which led to this fate.
With a hissing sound, the snake demon swallowed the scholar whole. He took another look at the tragically dead girl, and without hesitation, he swallowed her in one gulp!
After eating more than a dozen people in a row, his body was a little bloated. He sat in front of the statue, ready to take a nap.
But at this moment, a voice sounded.
“Are you full?”
The snake demon suddenly woke up and looked outside the temple.
Li Daoxuan was still wearing the same green Taoist robe, and his long hair that was messy last night had been combed back into a Taoist bun. He held a talisman in his hand and said calmly, "You're full, so I'll just send you off."
"Damn Taoist priest, he's really haunting us!"
The snake demon's eyes were filled with anger. It jumped out of the ancient temple with its head raised high. Its huge body stood up to more than ten meters tall!
Its tail makes an ear-piercing sound.
"Damn Taoist priest, I haven't even come to settle accounts with you yet, and you actually dare to come to me on your own initiative. You are really courting death!"
The snake demon was not panicking at all at this moment. The effect of the realgar wine he drank last night had worn off, and the wound caused by the Yuchang sword had almost healed. In addition, he had just eaten many people, so his magic power had basically recovered.
Although this little Taoist priest has some skills, they are not very advanced. It is a good opportunity for him to avenge last night!
Who would have thought that in the face of the snake demon's threat, Li Daoxuan was calm and composed, and said with a smile: "Snake demon, I want to see if anyone will come to save you. Are you lucky? Haha, you evil monster, I will definitely kill you today!"
The snake demon became furious and opened its big mouth to bite Li Daoxuan, but Li Daoxuan simply used his magical power to shrink the earth, his body moved erratically, dodging here and there and avoiding the snake demon's attacks repeatedly.
For a moment, the entire rocky mountain was shaking slightly, the grass and trees collapsed, and there were traces of giant snakes crawling everywhere.
"Haha, you only know how to talk big? You're going to kill me, so why are you just hiding like a rat?"
Li Daoxuan remained unmoved, just smiled faintly, as if he had everything planned out.
After a moment, the irritable snake demon suddenly paused and froze there, with a look of pain in his eyes.
Then, it began to roll on the ground, in excruciating pain, and its breath suddenly became much weaker.
"This lord... What's wrong with this lord?"
Li Daoxuan stepped on the branch, looked down at it, and said lightly: "It's nothing, I just fed you some realgar wine."
"Impossible...Absolutely impossible!"
"Haha, there is a folk method of dealing with poisonous snakes, which is to inject poison into a dead mouse and then tempt the snake to eat it. This method is actually not bad for dealing with snake demons."
Hearing Li Daoxuan's words, the snake demon widened his eyes and suddenly realized.
"You...you secretly put realgar wine in those people's water!"
Li Daoxuan snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Smart, but it's too late. At this moment, those people are being digested by you, and the realgar wine in their bodies will naturally be transferred to your body."
A sorrowful roar was heard from the rocky mountain.
"Damn Taoist priest, you are despicable!"
