“I thought he was good, so I went with him.”
“He brought me here.” Chi Yao said, smiling as she looked at the statues of gods, but Jiang Wen could vaguely hear a trace of hatred in her words.
“He threw me into the snake pit, saying that the Taicang royal family had the blood of the true dragon and would surely obtain the inheritance from these ten thousand snakes. But it hurt, oh, the taste of being bitten by countless snakes, the feeling of snakes burrowing into my body. Tsk tsk, it really makes me feel pitiful just remembering it.”
Chi Yao smiled and suddenly slapped the statue in front of her, shattering it into countless pieces.
“Later, I heard Hong's voice. It told me that as long as I merged with it, I could get rid of this torment and pain. So I agreed to it, and then I became like that. It said it was the ancestral god of Taicang, an ancient Teng Snake. It's a pity, ah, this Taicang ancestral god is nothing more than this, easily subdued by you. Hehehe.” Chi Yao laughed and slowly walked towards the group again. Seeing their vigilant movements, she pouted and pretended to be childish.
“Why does this old woman act so ugly?” Li Yunshang retorted with disgust.
Jiang Wen remained silent, only looking at the god's throne in the center. He always felt that there was something fishy about this. Chi Yao came out so generously and chatted with them, she probably didn't have good intentions.
He asked Ziyun in his heart, and Ziyun responded: “There seems to be something under the temple.”
“Okay.” Jiang Wen understood and took a deep breath.
He looked at the ground and suddenly threw a punch.
“Overlapping Waves!!”
One punch was like hitting a mountain, causing the mountain to shake and the ground to tremble.
Before everyone could understand, he punched the ground again. Each punch overlapped like endless waves, and each punch was even stronger than the last.
Chi Yao's expression suddenly changed, and she looked at Jiang Wen angrily: “How dare you…”
Before she could finish speaking, the entire temple floor collapsed instantly. Everyone fell unexpectedly.
“It's actually here!” Li Yunshang exclaimed. She stabilized her body and used the scattered falling stones around her to leap lightly downwards.
The others also showed no weakness, each displaying their abilities to land steadily on the ground.
When the dust settled, they saw an altar all around. This altar was several thousand meters below the temple and was hidden by the black cloud mountain rock layer. It was no wonder that they couldn't detect the situation below.
Looking at the altar again, divine beasts sat on all four sides. In the center of the altar was a huge cauldron, from which a bloody mist continuously rose.
“What is this?” A Meng asked in surprise.
“It doesn't look like an ordinary altar. There's even a Su City map on this cauldron.” Lu Shiming carefully examined the cauldron and analyzed it to the others.
“I'm afraid it's not a simple thing.” Jiang Wen looked up. He saw Chi Yao gracefully landing, her eyes glaring at him fiercely.
“Chi Yao, your plot has been seen through by us, what else do you have to say?” Jiang Wen pointed at the cauldron and slashed with his sword. Wuming turned into a black line and struck the cauldron.
“I won't let you ruin my good deed!” Chi Yao gritted her teeth and threw out a magic weapon to intercept him. Then, she transformed into a giant white snake and pounced on the group.
The white snake spewed clouds and mist, which froze upon contact with anything. Jiang Wen showed no weakness and spewed out Samadhi True Fire. The fire burned along the mist, annihilating the white mist in an instant.
Seeing that her magic was ineffective, Chi Yao summoned countless white snakes. However, these snakes were much weaker than the giant snake of the demon Hong. Not only were they not immortal, but even their speed and attack power were inferior to Hong's.
The group joined forces to kill all the snakes, and then attacked Chi Yao again.
Swallowing clouds and spitting mist, burrowing through mountains and entering the earth. There were also flying sand and falling rocks, turning into countless sharp thorns. Chi Yao's various spells were now stretched thin in the face of the group. Her previously invincible supernatural powers could not break through their defenses, and even the powerful physical body that a demon should have became a disadvantage.
In less than half an hour, Chi Yao was covered in blood, with only a few white scales left on her body, and even half of her tail was cut off.
Jiang Wen and the others were naturally not much better. Although Chi Yao had weakened, she was still a demon king after all. Even with Ziyun's help, they couldn't subdue her for a while.
The hard scales all over her body made it difficult to cause damage even with Li Yunshang's secret technique, Myriad Sword Technique. In the end, it was only with the Wuming sword in Jiang Wen's hand that they were able to break through Chi Yao's defense.
The group didn't stop, knowing the essence of striking while the iron is hot. They didn't hesitate to consume pills and then sacrificed their magic weapons to attack Chi Yao again.
Chi Yao was indeed not as good as before, and was finally captured by the group. She transformed into a human and sat on the ground, glaring at them angrily: “Why, why do you have to ruin my good deed?!”
“You demon, what good deeds can you do?!” A Meng looked at her and said unhappily.
“Hehe, what do you understand? You understand nothing.” Chi Yao sneered. She looked at the shattered cauldron, her expression quite painful. “Just a little bit, just a little bit more and I could have completed this secret technique.”
“What secret technique?” Jiang Wen frowned and asked.
“Naturally, it's a secret technique to exterminate monsters, don't you understand?” Chi Yao sneered. “As long as this secret technique is completed, the entire Su City can be sacrificed, and then the demons will suffer the Three Disasters! I did such a great thing, but it failed because of you.”
“You are a demon, why would you do this?” Jiang Wen asked her.
“What do you understand? I am a demon? I never wanted to become such an inhuman and demonic appearance. It's all because of them, they turned me into this! You probably have never heard of why the Taicang Dynasty was besieged by many immortal sects.” Chi Yao said coldly, looking at the crowd with disdain.
“Ordinary people call themselves monsters, how can they know that if the world's creatures are intelligent, they are called spirits. If they are demons, why must they eat people? Naturally, they are mountain spirits, why must they kill innocently? The former Taicang Dynasty was established by the mandate of heaven, and its national fortune was long. Who doesn't know that it lasted for hundreds of thousands of years? But it was besieged by immortal sects in one dynasty, and rebels from all sides rose up. It turned into dust in just a hundred years?”
“What exactly do you want to say?” Lu Shiming asked her again.
“The reason why the former Taicang Dynasty was overthrown was because the Taicang royal family wanted to transform into demons and become immortal.” Chi Yao's words stunned everyone. They had never thought that the demise of the former dynasty would have such inside information.
“How can emperors sit for a long time? Isn't that different from the Heavenly Venerate? All emperors, although they can cultivate, find it difficult to live long. Countless emperors throughout history have been unwilling and wanted to become eternal divine emperors. The Taicang emperors were naturally the same. In order to achieve longevity, they studied various paths. In the end, they discovered that if they merged with demons, they could have thousands of lifespans like spirits.”
“Therefore, the former dynasty researched this evil technique like crazy and persecuted the common people on a large scale. The demise of Taicang lies in this.”
“Those demons who mingle in the world and specialize in eating human flesh, how can they know that they were the royal family of Taicang ten thousand years ago! Truly, heaven's sins can be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins cannot be lived!”
Chi Yao sneered, telling everyone a piece of history that no one had ever known.
