Chapter 545 - 298: Eastern Expedition to Suppress the Pirates, Make It Back Alive
Chapter 545: Chapter 298: Eastern Expedition to Suppress the Pirates, Make It Back Alive
Lu Yuan couldn’t bear to let his precious girls join some Taoist sect and cultivate Daoist Skills.
Su Liyan, Zhao Qiao’Er, Song Meiqin, and Gu Ziye were the mortal bonds Lu Yuan could never cast aside.
While Lu Yuan performed his ritual, Zhao Qiao’er, Song Meiqin, and Gu Ziye, who were watching from under the corridor eaves, could no longer withstand the sinister wind. Song Meiqin’s constitution was especially frail.
The three of them returned to a room under the protection of several Celestial Masters.
Just then, Su Changliang, who had been chaotically thrashing about, suddenly erupted. His eyes turned pitch-black, irises and pupils vanished, and a bizarre cry escaped his lips.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan bellowed, "You damn thing! Get out of him, now!"
As he spoke, he slapped a High Level Talisman onto his Celestial Master Sword and thrust it at Su Changliang.
Xiaoqian cried out, "Brother-in-law, please don’t hurt my husband!"
Alerted by Xiaoqian’s cry, Lu Yuan held back his strength, touching only the tip of the Celestial Master Sword to Su Changliang’s forehead.
The Celestial Master Sword sank a millimeter into Su Changliang’s forehead, and a trickle of blackish-green blood oozed out.
Su Changliang’s body trembled uncontrollably, as if he were locked in a fierce struggle with the Striped Snake inside him.
Lu Yuan chanted another Celestial Master Spell and tossed a Talisman into the air.
The Talisman exploded instantly. Su Changliang let out a piercing scream before collapsing to the ground, motionless.
A wisp of black smoke shot out of Su Changliang’s mouth and fled into the distance.
An Invisible Air Wall slammed down on the black smoke. The space constricted, pinning the smoke to the ground.
As everyone looked closer, they saw it was a Striped Snake with seven hundred years of cultivation—a Void Body Practitioner.
Su Changliang had yet to regain consciousness.
Su Liyan sighed to herself. ’My poor little brother, possessed by a snake of all things.’
Su Liyan was about to step forward and grab the Striped Snake.
But a black shadow suddenly shot forward, opened its jaws wide, and chomped down.
A sharp metallic CLANG rang out. Xiaotian had bitten down on the Invisible Air Wall Lu Yuan had cast.
Having bitten something so hard, the roots of its teeth ached terribly.
Xiaotian sat on the ground, pawing at its mouth with its front paws, and whined, "Big Bro, that hurts! I think my front teeth are gonna fall out!"
Lu Yuan teased, "You gluttonous little guy. So impatient."
Covering its mouth, Xiaotian said, "Big Bro, give it to me! It’s been so long since I’ve had spicy strips!"
Lu Yuan reminded him, "This is a Void Body Practitioner with several hundred years of cultivation. Are you sure you can handle it?"
This black Striped Snake was already a soul without a physical body, yet Xiaotian was still this greedy.
There wasn’t even any meat to chew on.
Xiaotian straightened up, now standing over half a meter tall, and said proudly, "Don’t worry, Big Bro! Just leave capturing it to me!"
Lu Yuan dispelled the air wall.
Even if Xiaotian couldn’t handle the Striped Snake, Lu Yuan was confident he could give it a five-second head start and still recapture it.
Freed from the wall’s restraint, the Striped Snake coiled and launched itself, shooting toward the mansion exit.
Xiaotian’s hind paws dug into the ground, and with a powerful push, it shot after the snake like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Xiaotian’s front paws snapped shut, somehow managing to grip the Striped Snake’s soul form. It immediately bit down.
Xiaotian shook its head, tossed the Striped Snake into the air, and swallowed it in one go.
Xiaotian patted its belly and even let out a burp.
Lu Yuan and Su Liyan stared at Xiaotian, both stunned.
To think this little guy could actually catch a Void Body Practitioner! And they’d just thought he was a talking honey badger.
They had truly underestimated him.
This was no time to praise him, however. Everyone rushed over to the unconscious Su Changliang.
Lu Yuan took Su Changliang’s pulse and said, "Everyone relax. He’ll wake up in a little while. He’s going to be fine."
Her face filled with gratitude, Xiaoqian said, "Thank you, Brother-in-law... Thank you, Sister..."
"We’re family. There’s no need for thanks," Lu Yuan responded.
Lu Yuan stood and said to a few of his trusted men, "Here, give us a hand. Let’s get our little brother-in-law somewhere he can rest."
The men rushed forward, lifted the unconscious Su Changliang, and helped him back to a room.
Back in the courtyard, the tuft of white fur on Xiaotian’s head began to glow, and his body rapidly swelled.
The sight left Lu Yuan and the others amazed.
A few minutes later, Xiaotian returned to his normal size. He ran up to Lu Yuan and boasted:
"Big Bro, I’ve got a few hundred years of cultivation now, too!"
Lu Yuan stroked the coarse fur on Xiaotian’s head. "And here I thought you were going to transform, but you look exactly the same."
Xiaotian swatted Lu Yuan’s hand away with a front paw, puffed out his chest, and declared, "Big Bro, don’t you underestimate me! Dealing with Void Body Practitioners is my specialty. I’m their natural counter!"
Xiaotian could increase its cultivation by eating snakes. That explained his obsession with "spicy strips."
"He’s awake! He’s awake!" a Maid called out excitedly as she ran over.
"Let’s all go see," Lu Yuan said to the others in the courtyard.
Su Changliang opened his eyes. He took in his surroundings, his gaze falling on Xiaoqian, who was by his bedside, holding his hand.
Xiaoqian’s eyes were full of love as she said, "Husband, you’re awake!"
"Mm... How did I get here? I feel like I was having a very long dream. I dreamed that..."
Su Changliang trailed off as he tried to remember, then something suddenly clicked.
He quickly turned to Xiaoqian. "Are you alright?"
Su Liyan’s mother rolled her eyes and cut in, "You? You were in a frenzy, flailing wildly at poor Xiaoqian."
Xiaoqian quickly stopped her. "Mother, please don’t scare him. Nothing happened. I’m perfectly fine."
...
After this incident, Su Changliang began to immerse himself in the study of Techniques. Whenever he encountered one that was too obscure or difficult to understand, he would run to the Lu Mansion to ask his older sister for guidance.
Su Changliang believed such a dangerous situation had only occurred because he had been lax in his cultivation. As a man, he felt he had a duty to protect his wife.