Chapter 21: Search

  Xuanying Mountain Qingling Gate is one of the six major sects of Zhengdao, and it's also a relatively special one, because it's mainly composed of female practitioners.

  Just don't think that just because the other party is a female cultivator, it means looking down on them. This sect, which inherited the ancient Qi Refining Dao lineage, has a history that is in no way shorter than the Luofu Sect, and its inner strength is absolutely not weaker than any sect in the world.

  All the big and small sects that once underestimated Qinglingmen and became its enemies basically ended up with a miserable outcome.

  But what's most peculiar is that in the cultivation world, the greatest wish of all unclean six-rooted cultivators is to find a Qingling Gate disciple to pair up with, yet over thousands of years, the number of cultivators who have achieved this wish wouldn't exceed the number of fingers on one hand. In nearly a thousand years, only one cultivator has accomplished this feat, but of course, these are just idle words.

  At least for now, Kong Yan's mind is still very pure, except for showing a little bit of primitive beastly desire towards the woman's figure, there are no other thoughts.

  Arriving at the scene of the fierce battle between the woman and the white python, as expected, the woman had fainted from exhaustion. The long sword that shone with dazzling blue light was still quivering in a huge stone beside her, occasionally emitting a soft hum, which sounded to Kong Zhao's ears like an urgent warning.

  It seemed that the sword was afraid of harming its master, so when Kong Yan approached, it emitted a faint blue light, protecting the unconscious woman within.

  Kong Zhan stopped in his tracks, a bitter smile appearing on his face. From a distance, he could feel the sharp aura emanating from the sword's edge, and faintly, there was even a hint of a beast spirit lingering around it. It seemed that this sword also sealed within it a powerful beast spirit.

  Kong Zhan had no interest in touching the hilt of the sword, so he stood on a nearby rock, about ten feet away from the tip of the sword, and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Hey, stupid woman, wake up, wake up!"

  His energy was full, and his voice was naturally loud and clear. To be precise, it was a bit too loud, that woman had only lost her strength, and after inhaling some of the poisonous gas from the white python, she fainted. Now being shouted at by Kong Zhong's loud voice, her body trembled slightly, and she gradually woke up.

  However, the three words "foolish woman" kept echoing in her ears. She opened her eyes to find a chubby boy, resembling a pig's head, standing about a foot away from her sword tip, shouting at the top of his lungs.

  "Who are you?!"

  "I'm your lifesaver!" Kong Zhuang himself wouldn't be polite, raised his right hand, stretched out his index finger, pointing to the tip of his own nose and said, "Can't you see that? If it weren't for me, you'd have been swallowed by that white python by now!"

  At this time, the woman seemed to wake up, looked at Kong Zhuo for a moment, stood up from the ground, raised her hand, and in the flash of the sword's light, it returned to its scabbard.

  Qingling Gate's Fang Yue'er, thank you, senior brother, for saving me!

  "Qingling Gate!" Kong Zhuo burst out laughing and returned a courtesy, "Luo Fu, Kong Zhuo!"

  "Rufu?!" Fang Yue'er's eyes flashed with a hint of doubt, looking at Kong Zhuo's extraordinary physique, then at the snake demon beside him, whose brain had been smashed and was no longer showing any signs of life. A surprised look flickered in her eyes, this fatty indeed had some strength, but it was impossible for him to surpass her. How did he manage to kill the snake demon? Looking at the snake demon's shattered skull, she seemed to have understood something. Apparently, this fatty had relied on a powerful attack-type artifact to launch a sneak attack.

  There, Miss Moon's eyebrows slightly raised, and a hint of understanding flashed in her starry eyes. Kong Zhuo didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, and walked casually to stand not far from her, chuckling as he said, his smile like that of a cat who had just stolen fish, "How are you feeling now, Miss? Your face is deathly pale, it seems like you've been poisoned! I have some top-grade antidote pills here, would you like to try one?"

  By this time, the sly cat had turned into a street vendor selling dog skin plasters.

  It was very strange, a kind of weird feeling surged into this Miss Moon's heart, for a moment, she really couldn't tell whether Kong Zuo was a cultivator or a businessman.

  However, Kong Zhuang's behavior didn't give her a good impression, but it also didn't make her feel bad about him. At least he had just saved her.

  So she forced a smile and said, "Thank you, senior brother, for your concern. Before I left the mountain, my master also gave me some medicine to counteract the poison!"

  "That's great!" Kong Zhan, with a smile on his face, suddenly showed a relieved expression. "This way I can save a lot of medicine, not bad, not bad!" He said, and without paying attention to Fang Yue'er anymore, he walked by himself to the front of the giant white python's corpse and carefully examined it.

  Fang Yue'er's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly before relaxing, and she even smiled. This little belly actually looked quite amusing.

  She took out a small porcelain bottle from her bosom, poured out two green pellets of medicine, and swallowed them. The true energy inside her body circulated once, forcing out the remaining toxic gas that had accidentally entered her body earlier. When she looked at Kong Zhuo again, she couldn't help but smile slyly once more.

  The little guy took his short sword and started skinning the white-scaled python.

  This white-scaled giant python was obviously a product of at least several thousand years of cultivation. The white scales had just been tried by myself, and even the absolute sword in my hand, one of the three great immortal swords of the Qingling Gate, couldn't leave any marks on it, which showed how solid its scales were.

  This giant python is over ten zhang long and as thick as several water buckets, its scales can be made into quite a few pieces of soft armor.

  The benefit of this is that she was also deeply moved, you know, such opportunities are rare.

  She was too embarrassed to step forward, Kong Zhuan had saved her life and he was the one who killed the snake, according to the unwritten rules of the cultivation world, everything on the snake's body belonged to him.

  "Hey, sister, come over and help me out!"

  Just as she was getting a bit annoyed, Kong Zhuo in the next room started shouting without any embarrassment.

  At this time, Kong Zhuang had already completed his first step.

  The softest part of a snake is its abdomen, and this large python, although it has become a weathered veteran, still has a body covered in scales as white as snow, with only a thin line left exposed on its abdomen.

  Kong Zhuo's sword followed the thin line and cut open his belly, a belly full of internal organs and polluted blood flowed out, extremely smelly.

  In response, Kong Zhuang was not in the least bit concerned, but instead enthusiastically stripped off its skin and threw it to one side. Then, with a victorious stance, he stepped on top of it and said to Yue'er, "Sister-in-law, do you want to go first or last?"

  "What?!" Fang Yu'er was stunned for a moment, and she didn't understand what Kong Zhan meant.

  "I'm asking you, do you want the front half or the back half? Those two corners, one for each of us!"

  "Why?" Fang Yue'er blurted out involuntarily.

  "Hey, no way, junior sister! Those who see it have a share in it. You wouldn't want to monopolize it all by yourself, would you?"

  Fang Yue'er couldn't help but smile wryly at these words, yet she didn't know what else to say.

  It can't be said like this, why should I share half with you, isn't it better for one person to swallow it all?

  She walked up to Kong Zhuo, bypassing the giant python's corpse with blood flowing all over it, took a look and said, "You killed it, you decide!"

  "Me?!" Kong Zuo nodded, without being polite or declining, the short sword in his hand flashed twice, and he walked to the middle part of the snakeskin and pointed, "Divide it into two halves from here, you take the front and I'll take the back, how about that?"

  Fang Yue'er nodded, "But how can we separate them? This snake skin is too tough!"

  Kong Zhan smiled, slowly walking to the front of the snake skin, tapping the short sword in his hand against the two coral-like strange horns, "Heaven creates all things, interdependent and mutually restrictive. Since these horns can grow out from under this white scale, they must also be able to restrain this white scaled python's skin!" As he spoke, he raised the sword in his hand and struck down.

  It's a knock, rather than a chop.

  After knocking for a while, both snake horns were knocked out. Kong Zhuo took one and threw the other to Fang Yue'er.

  Fang Yue'er reached out to catch it, seemingly understanding Kong Zhuo's intention, and smiled slightly. She picked up the horn and slowly walked to the middle of the snake skin, where both of them held one end of the horn each, placing the other end on the snake skin at the same time, and simultaneously activated their true strength.

  The two horns in their hands lit up almost simultaneously, Kong Zhuo's horn flashed with a bright purple light, while Fang Yue'er's horn appeared with a faint cyan glow. After a while, the light on both horns went out at the same time, and Kong Zhuo raised his sword to slash at the snake skin where the horn was pointing.

  Silently and swiftly, like a sharp blade cutting through tofu, the python skin was severed in two with one slash.

  "Done!" Kong Zhuo laughed, the fat on his face shaking as he rolled up the remaining half of the snake skin. Seeing Fang Yue still standing there motionless, he couldn't help but feel a little strange. "Junior sister, aren't you going to take action? Do you want to stay here and smell the stench?"

  That Miss Moon let out an "ah" and pointed at the giant python's skinless corpse, saying "What is that?"

  This week's recommendation has reached 800, it seems like today can reach 1000, once it reaches 1000, I'll add two more chapters.