Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 247 Winning Hearts (Part 1)

Gu Jingnian was in a daze, and only two things remained in his hazy consciousness.

First, he hadn't yet rescued Gu Caiwei and her daughter; second, Shen Jichi had taught him that to succeed, he had to keep getting stronger until he became the strongest.

He used to be very resistant to becoming someone like Shen Jichi, and he still is. He doesn't admire people who become powerful through constant exploitation; he only feels disgust.

Now, he can become someone he despises.

With this determination, he opened his eyes.

Before him floated the serpent's heart, which he desired and was determined to obtain. The serpent's heart was also very close to him, as if he could pluck it off as soon as he got up and pounced on it.

But he heard the commotion of the battle behind him and knew that if he made the slightest move, those people would kill him immediately.

We need to wait for the right opportunity, until they both suffer heavy losses.

But no matter who wins in the end, they'll probably be better than him, so we'll have to think of another way.

Gu Jingnian did not get up, lying there pretending to still be unconscious. In his line of sight, the tentacles stretched out towards him and then retracted... as if waving a gesture at him.

This was a strange thought that suddenly came to Gu Jingnian after staring at the tentacles for a while.

He felt that Hui Xin was like a person who couldn't speak the language, trying to express himself with gestures. The movements of the tentacles seemed chaotic, but upon closer inspection, they were quite regular.

Sometimes it undulates like waves, sometimes it stretches straight, sometimes it contracts and expands. After repeating these movements, it would hook back a few times, as if asking Gu Jingnian to suck its blood.

On the surface, it appears to be trying to suck Gu Jingnian's blood, but in reality, it's expressing that it wants to suck blood.

Suddenly, the giant snake let out another painful hiss.

From its body, a great deal of water vapor rose up, condensing into countless ice cones in the air, shooting towards Old Womin and Shougu.

Old Womin and Shougu each did their best to resist, and roots quickly grew from the wooden staff, wrapping around them and protecting them.

Liu Yuchuan then drove more and more water vapor forward, locking them inside a giant ice ball. Finally, the roots that had grown from the wooden staff could no longer grow and were forcibly imprisoned.

This wasn't a matter of mutual generation and restraint; using water to attack wood wouldn't have given them the upper hand in the first place. It was entirely due to Liu Yuchuan's cultivation level.

But the next moment, two trees grew rapidly on the ground not far away, with green leaves sprouting from the branches, making it look like spring. Then, the two trees blossomed and bore fruit.

The fruit grew larger and larger, and soon took the form of the old woman and the maiden.

Over there, Liu Yuchuan was still putting all his effort into the hockey puck, while the old hockey puck was almost fully grown and ready to hit the ground.

"over there!"

Shen Jichi raised his hand and pointed.

Liu Yuchuan then turned around and frowned.

The two Womin had fully grown into human form, with only their heads still encased in fruit stalks.

“Young man, you have truly exceeded my expectations,” Old Womin exclaimed. “At your age, to possess such cultivation, one must either be a prodigy or utterly wicked.”

Liu Yuchuan said, "Senior, you praised me too early. You don't know my true strength yet."

Old Womin said, "No need to be arrogant. I have lived for so long, how could I be easily defeated by you?"

"The outcome is still uncertain," Liu Yuchuan sneered, then asked, "Didn't you notice something was wrong?"

"what?"

Old Womin asked a question, then quickly sensed something was wrong and turned to look at the tree trunk behind him.

His gaze fell upon the tree bark, which first turned a grayish color, and then an insect crawled out from it.

Once you see one insect, you can see more and more insects moving around on the bark, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Suddenly, a large piece of bark fell off, and a spider crawled out.

Looking through the bark, you can see that the tree hole is teeming with termites, which have completely devoured the trunk.

A spider crawled out of another tree and approached Old Man Womin and Shougu respectively, wrapping them in its silk.

Gu Jingnian remembered that Liu Yuchuan had said he didn't have the Red Spider's special ability when he went to the alchemy furnace to collect the blood beads. It turned out that what he said was false. He had been cultivating the ability to control insects all along, just to deal with Old Womin.

Old Womin and Shougu tried to struggle, but they were not fully grown yet. Hanging on the branch, they raised their hands to use their powers, but they could not force the spider away.

“It’s no use,” Liu Yubo said. “I know you are formidable and cannot be easily subdued, so I came up with a special plan to paralyze you with spider venom. The spider eggs were laid in your tree seeds, and you were poisoned as soon as you grew out.”

Once entangled in the spider silk, Shougu cried out in fright, "Grandpa!"

“What’s the use of calling him Grandpa? He’s not fully grown yet,” Liu Yuchuan said. “When I first came to your door, I politely asked you to let me into your realm, but you drove me out. Do you regret it now?”

Old Womin said, "I am the weakest in the world. It's easy for you to bully me, but aren't you afraid of the others?"

"Of course I'm afraid," Liu Yuchuan said without hesitation. "That's why I didn't take action last time, but you sent them away for the sake of this serpent heart that only grows once every eight hundred years, didn't you?"

Old Womin remained silent upon hearing this, first glancing at the giant snake, then at Shougu. Liu Yuchuan said, "You want to eat the snake's heart, but little do you know, I want to eat you all even more."

Shougu was still shouting.

"Grandpa, save me!"

"go!"

Old Womin suddenly pulled hard, tearing himself off the branch, his scalp covered in blood.

He fell to the ground, and with a wave of his hand, severed the tree branch above Shougu's head.

A small wooden door, barely visible, appeared before them.

"Want to go?"

Liu Yuchuan unfurled his long sleeves, which spread out to cover the sky and block out all the light.

The wooden door that had just appeared in the light and shadow quickly disappeared.

Several more spiders crawled out of the tree hole and circled around Old Womin and Shougu...

This is the time.

As Gu Jingnian watched their fierce battle reach its most intense moment, he suddenly leaped up, pounced on the snake's heart, and bit down.

Several tentacles shot out instantly, piercing Gu Jingnian's throat. This time, they weren't trying to suck his blood, but rather out of defensiveness, they wanted to lift Gu Jingnian up and throw him away.

Gu Jingnian knew the opportunity would be fleeting, and despite his serious injuries, he still bit down desperately.

Finally, he took a bite out of the snake's heart.

The taste is terrible.

The snake's heart was very tough, and it couldn't bite through it.

At the same time, it also grew many small tentacles, which fiercely pierced Gu Jingnian's mouth.

If one were not a healer, one would die before even tasting the snake's heart after taking a bite.

Gu Jingnian was not dead yet. He was clenching his teeth tightly on Hui Xin. Finally, just as he felt his teeth were about to fall out, warm blood flowed into his mouth.

He finally managed to bite through the snake's heart, but couldn't even get a small piece off, so he simply sucked the blood from inside the snake's heart.

The giant serpent roared.

"Gu Jingnian!"

At the same time, roars of anger rang out from behind Shen Jichi and Liu Yuchuan.

Gu Jingnian was pulled backward by a powerful force, about to be pulled out of the giant snake's body.

But he didn't want to leave at this moment.

After all, Shen Jichi had shown him by example that when an opportunity comes, you must seize it.

He reached out and grabbed one of the tentacles, holding on tightly.

The snake's heart was pulled and swayed incessantly, and the giant snake began to struggle painfully, the shackles clanging.

Liu Yuchuan had already turned around, and seeing that he couldn't pull Gu Jingnian back with one hand, he had no choice but to raise his other hand.

Finally, Gu Jingnian's hand, which was holding the tentacle, slipped, and he was pulled in front of Liu Yuchuan.

The sleeves floating in the air became thinner, and light shone through them.

Seeing this opportunity, Lao Womin quickly teleported a wooden door and leaped out with Shou Gu.

Before leaving, he gave one last instruction to all the servants.

"Hold him back; do not let him take the heart."

Upon seeing this, Liu Yuchuan frowned. He wanted to chase after Womin, but he was unwilling to give up Huixin. So he struck Gu Jingnian away with a palm.

At this moment, the servants of the old Womin, having received their orders, attacked him.

They were each responsible for different tasks, such as smelting, archery, and brewing medicine, including the two giants who were responsible for opening the giant serpent's heart chambers. Today, in capturing the giant serpent, they each performed their duties, a task they had practiced countless times.

Liu Yuchuan showed no mercy, killing more than a dozen people to establish his authority. Afterwards, seeing that the two giants did not continue to tear open the giant snake's heart chamber, no one shot poison spears at the giant snake anymore.

He then shouted, "If you follow that Womin, you'll be refined into pills sooner or later. Why don't you help me get the snake's heart, and I'll get my share of the profits!"

It is best to take the heart of a snake while it is still alive, but it also has tentacles to guard against others getting close. So, if you want to take its heart, you can't just act blindly.

Liu Yuchuan knew that Womin had made preparations for taking the heart this time, and now he had done so for him.

(End of this chapter)