I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 67 The Truth
The fight just now had already torn the cliff above Jiaolongtan all the way to Sanqing Temple.

Of course, now only ruins remain, with a few broken ancient walls, but the patterns and textures still reveal the temple's former glory and splendor.

"Click"

Xiao Qi chopped off almost all of the thick scales covering the black snake's head, and her powerful energy penetrated deep into the snake's bones, causing the black snake excruciating pain.

It now finally understands why its daughter, Xiaoqing, died at the hands of this brat.

It's this knife!

The black snake was completely puzzled. This was a treasured sword from the cultivation world that had developed a spirit, so why was it here?

For ten years, it lurked in Jiaolongtan, repeatedly recalling and deducing the reasons and basis for their inexplicable appearance here.

At that time, the Demon King's subordinates notified those below the Golden Core cultivation level to gather at Wansheng Valley, saying that they were going to re-divide their areas.

The demon race reproduces quickly, but their territory is insufficient. It is common for various races to fight each year for territory. However, they dare not take over human territory because the borders are guarded by Nascent Soul cultivators. Even if a demon king takes action, he cannot gain any advantage.

There was no other way but to fight amongst themselves.

The black snake was injured because its territory was invaded. It was ambushed by a centipede demon, which cracked its demon core and caused its cultivation level to drop directly from the Golden Core stage to the peak of Qi Refining, making it difficult to even transform into human form.

It was only thanks to the intervention of its lover, the Seventh Prince of the Dragon Clan, that it was saved and its snake clan's territory was barely preserved. However, because its cultivation level had declined, the Seventh Prince was not very happy, and the promise he had made to take it to the Dragon Clan was dropped. He only said that it would be proper to go there after it gave birth to a dragon.

Afterwards, it was forced to gather in Wansheng Valley with those Qi Refining stage demons, but after waiting for a day, instead of the Demon King redividing the area, it was met with a loud rumbling sound, followed by a flash of white light, and it and those demons appeared in the Sanqing Mountain of this world.

The black snake understood that these low-level demons had most likely been abandoned by the Demon King, who used some kind of teleportation array to send them to this world devoid of spiritual energy, where even the energy of heaven and earth was so turbid that cultivation was impossible.

It brought two eggs with it, one snake egg and one dragon egg.

In the demon realm, it trusted no one, so it always took its children with it when it went out. It just didn't expect that it still couldn't protect them.

My daughter is dead, but I have a son.
The black snake's breath grew weaker and weaker, its head covered in blood, and its single eye blurred. It turned its head with difficulty towards the direction of the Flood Dragon Pool, where the wind was still blowing and the clouds had not yet dispersed. It seemed to hear a faint sound of an eggshell cracking.

It's the last time, it must be the last time, its son is about to come out.

Even among the Seventh Prince's dragon clan, few children cause such an anomaly at birth. If this child were in the demon realm, he would surely dominate a region in the future, possessing his own unique power and territory.

But now.
The black snake, using its last bit of strength, crawled several meters toward the Dragon Pool before collapsing from exhaustion and lying still.

"died?"

The brat holding the precious sword wanted to come over to check, but was stopped by her father when she was about five meters away from the snake's head.

Knowing its end was near, the black snake slightly opened its single, bloodshot eye, its mouth parted slightly, and uttered a human-like voice, "Child."

Meng Qi's eyes widened in shock, as did Lin Qingquan, Zhang Jinwu, and the others, who were even more shocked than she was.

This was the first time they had ever seen a talking demon.

No, this wasn't the first time for Meng Qi and Lin Qingquan. The fox demons they had seen before could not only talk, but also transform into humans.

"Child, I'm giving you my demon core. Can you grant me one request?"

What do you mean by giving me your demon core?
Meng Qi was furious when she heard this. "What nonsense are you spouting? I clearly killed you with my own strength and dug out your demon core. How did it become a gift from you? You cunning snake, trying to distort the truth."

blacksnake:.
It roared angrily, "I'm not dead yet! Besides, I can self-destruct. If I don't want to give it to you, I can just self-destruct. Don't you understand self-destruction, you brat?"

Self-destruct?

Meng Qi was completely bewildered. She asked earnestly, "Does it mean I explode on my own? Is that even possible?" "Yes, it is. If I don't want to give you the demon core, I can self-destruct, and I can even take you down with me."

Upon hearing the words "mutual destruction," Lin Qingquan, who had snapped out of his reverie about the self-destruction mentioned by the black snake, quickly pulled Xiao Qi back more than ten meters. Zhang Jinwu, Xiao Wanghai, Ji Yu, and Xiao Yinuo also retreated to a safe area.

Xiao Qi put her hands on her hips and said to the black snake, "Alright, go ahead and explode it. Let me see what happens."

blacksnake:.
puff.
Enraged, it spat out a mouthful of blood, finally succumbing to its weakness and returning to Mount Sanqing.

A thin, almost invisible black thread was pulled from the black snake's brain and flew towards the Dragon Pool with a whoosh.

At the same time, a white light shot out from between Xiao Qi's eyebrows, capturing the black line even faster, instantly swallowing it, and then returning to her brow in a flash.

Xiao Qi felt as if her consciousness went blank for a second, and then quickly returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

She shook her head, not taking the strange thing that had just happened seriously.

He stared intently at the black snake for a while, and when it finished spitting blood, it stopped moving, as if it were dead.

"Didn't it say it was going to self-destruct? Why didn't it explode?" he asked in surprise.

Lin Qingquan looked at his daughter speechlessly, "It must have been angered to death by you."

The scene fell silent for a moment. Recalling what had just happened, Ji Yu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The tense and exciting life-or-death battle with the snake demon unexpectedly ended in such a comical and hilarious way.

The ninth-tier giant serpent demon was not killed by fighting, but by being enraged to death.

At this time, apart from their own people, everyone else on the mountain who had been watching the spectacle ran away after witnessing the black snake sweep Lin Qingquan and Zhang Jinwu away with a single tail strike, leaving only a few who wanted to help rescue them.

Lin Qingquan knew almost all of them, and stepped forward to plead, "Brother Wang, Brother Ma, please keep today's events a secret. My daughter is young, and it's not convenient for her abilities to be revealed to outsiders for the time being."

Zhang Jinwu also said, "This is a promising young talent that our special department has reserved. We don't want the outside world to know about her before she grows up."

In other words, Lin Qingquan's daughter was reserved by the state.

Even if someone from Shanhaitang comes, we can't take it.

Lin Qingquan knew that Zhang Jinwu said this to protect Xiao Qi and not want her to be targeted by outsiders.

Therefore, not denying it is tantamount to admitting it.

"Don't worry, Brother Lin, we're not gossipy. Even if you don't mention it, we won't tell outsiders."

"That's right, that's right. But Brother Lin has a successor, which is truly enviable. Unlike my younger generation, none of them can live up to the family's reputation."

"My family is the same. If my son had half the talent of Brother Lin's daughter, I could die in peace."

What they said was truly from the heart: why are there fewer and fewer traditions being passed down now, and why have some even been lost?

Because few descendants can inherit their skills, their cultivation circle is now a mixed bag, with fewer and fewer people.

Although Lin Qingquan is the only one left in the Lin family, he is incredibly capable; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he could take on a hundred men single-handedly.

Their daughter is clearly more talented and capable than him. They'd be too busy trying to befriend someone like that, so why would they do anything to upset him?
Good afternoon!

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