He started by brutally defeating the demon lady, and the passersby were terrified!

Seeing this, Meng Yan felt a slight pang of emotion. He had to admit that the other party did indeed have a tragic past, so pitiful that it was touching. However, that was in the past. Once a person becomes a ghost whose soul cannot be extinguished and has consumed blood, no matter how pitiful he was before, it is no excuse for harming the innocent.

After all, wasn't Wei Jing, who was disemboweled by a wooden comb in the bathtub, innocent too?

The dream continues; it seems it hasn't stopped yet.

"The master has passed away peacefully."

In the early hours of that night, a panicked cry shook the entire Shen residence. The red silk was instantly replaced with white cloth, and the lanterns in front of the gate turned deathly pale.

The servants who retrieved the body worked even harder because the Shen family had ordered that it be retrieved before it decomposed, as Master Shen had said before his death that he wanted his third wife to share his life and death with him.

But for some unknown reason, the servants were unable to retrieve the body, and in the end, they could only bury Shen Changming alone. On the day of the burial... a body dressed in a wedding gown slowly rose from the well. Her face was swollen, and there were still traces of nuptial wine on her lips...

As for Shen Changming after his burial, lying in the coffin, fine snake scale patterns appeared under his eyes, and within a few days, a small black snake actually crawled out of his eyes.

And that snake face actually looked somewhat human.

"A serpent with a human face!"

Meng Yan recognized it; this was the human-faced snake he had killed today!

But why did Shen Changming turn into a snake, and why did this human-faced evil snake crawl out of Shen Changming's eyes?

To be honest, he had previously thought that the human-faced evil snake had entered the coffin later, but he never expected it to crawl out from Shen Changming's eyes.

Could it be that Shen Changming was already a snake during the wedding ceremony?

Could it be that this snake intended for Liu Xiaoyu to be buried with it?

Hiss—this snake has this kind of quirk?

That shouldn't be happening!

Could it be that he's using her as sustenance?

Combining the curse of the Day of the Dead with the snake's attack on him, Meng Yan felt that the possibility was quite high.

According to them, the human-faced evil serpent is undergoing a metamorphosis, and after this series of attacks, Liu Xiaoyu will surely be filled with resentment. A hundred years later, she will transform into a vengeful ghost that can be consumed to enhance her cultivation and accelerate her metamorphosis.

Or perhaps, during the transformation, a boost is needed.

Therefore, it orchestrated the affair involving Liu Xiaoyu.

However, because Liu Xiaoyu jumped into the dry well and was sealed in the bronze coffin, this help disappeared.

Its serpent form is on par with the evil spirit Liu Xiaoyu in the dry well. It dares not act rashly in the other's home turf, so this helper is right in front of it but cannot be eaten.

He ambushed him because he figured that after fighting the evil spirits in the well, the man would be weakened upon surfacing, making him a perfect prey for his clone to replenish his own strength!

He ended up killing himself with a single stab!

They've been severely weakened and are now resorting to threats!

It's working!

The more Meng Yan thought about it, the more it dawned on him!

At the same time, his brows were furrowed.

He felt as if some unknown force was helping him replicate the events that occurred in Shenjia Village and organize the logic.

The dream continues.

He seemed to be attaining enlightenment like the female protagonist in Lucy.

I witnessed the passage of time.

Shenjia Village.

Time flies after the burial.

In the following years, many strange things happened here.

First, many people died inexplicably, their mouths agape as their blood was drained, and some even had empty minds. Then, they simply disappeared and could not be found anywhere.

The villagers began to panic, as rumors spread that it was Liu Xiaoyu's ghost seeking revenge.

They then invited a Taoist priest to seal the well with rivets soaked in dog's blood, and it became a dry well.

But the strange occurrences didn't end there. People continued to die one after another in the village. Fifty years later, the once prosperous Shenjia Village became a cursed and desolate village, uninhabited by anyone.

Meng Yan's last gaze lingered on the three graves he had dug up.

Inside the grave, the human-faced snake grew larger and larger.

He was also wondering why the human-faced snake had appeared on Shen Changming.

At that very moment, another line of text appeared on the Demon Suppression Tower.

The Human-Faced Serpent is a strange serpent. Its head resembles a human face, and its nature is extremely vicious and evil. It enjoys eating human brains and devouring corpses, committing countless atrocities. It is especially vengeful and harbors deep resentment. Any demon-slaying warrior who opposes it, even if injured, will secretly lurk to seek revenge on its family and descendants.

For over a thousand years, the Demon Slayer Bureau has launched eight major campaigns to eradicate the snake menace. However, the snakes are treacherous and difficult to completely eliminate. Nearly ten thousand demon slayers, along with their relatives and family members, perished in the snakes' mouths.

A later account states: This snake does not have one life, but rather two lives, one yin and one yang. When the sword falls, the yang snake dies, but the yin snake escapes. It then attaches itself to another person within ten miles, lying dormant and recuperating, awaiting rebirth. Therefore, the snake infestation has persisted for thousands of years and remains unresolved to this day.

Just as he was interpreting the meaning of each sentence.

These characters twisted eerily, then slowly faded, miraculously transforming into a scene from history where the Demon Slayer Bureau besieged the Human-Faced Snake.

Ancient architecture, outside the city walls, in a forest.

"That wretched creature is here!!"

A powerful warrior from the Demon Slayer Division, wielding a long sword and dressed like a member of the Imperial Guard, sped along.

A black snake was desperately trying to escape.

In a sudden shift in the scene, the snake's head surprisingly bears a resemblance to a human.

"This monstrous creature has eaten at least 30,000 people!"

"Hurry up! Fourth brother, fifth brother!"

The longsword was drawn.

A team of five men surrounded and attacked the human-faced evil serpent.

"call out--"

A flash of light appeared, and the human-faced evil snake was severed into several pieces.

"Finish!!"

"Fifth brother! Light a fire and burn it!"

The scene shows five demon slayers killing a snake.

A demon slayer named Lao Wu set fire to the body, burning it on the spot.

However, a few days after they left, an unsuspecting passerby walked by and suddenly felt a bloody snake burrow into his eye.

It's possessed!!

The scene changes.

"Wan'er!!"

"My daughter!!!"

"Ah! You human-faced evil serpent! I will never let you go!!!"

It's the fifth one!

One rainy night, the mansion was attacked, and his wife, children, and elderly parents all perished in the attack.

Torrential rain is coming!

The man held his limp wife and young daughter in one arm, crying his heart out.

yard.

The more than one hundred members of the Demon Slayer Division, dressed in uniforms resembling those of the Imperial Guards and the Embroidered Uniform Guards, had icy gazes.

The leader was a man wearing a black mask. The desolate wind and the raging rain beat down on his face. He clenched his fists, and his aura was turbulent!

"All Demon Slayers, heed my command! The Human-Faced Evil Serpent! Top warrant issued!!"

"kill--"

The shouts were deafening!

They all put on black masks!

Nationwide search!!

The human-faced evil serpent bore the brunt of the fury!

The Demon Slayer Bureau also paid a heavy price, with countless demon slayers witnessing their wives, daughters, children, and grandchildren die in the mouths of snakes, weeping their hearts out!

Time flows on.

Unbeknownst to them, eight raids had already been launched against this human-faced evil serpent.

But it seems to be impossible to kill or extinguish. Even if it is completely destroyed, it will reappear every hundred years or so, and even continue to evolve.

"It's already taken on eight-tenths of a human form!"

"This monstrous creature has never died! It has been here since the Tang Dynasty! If it transforms into a nine-tenths human form, it may become a catastrophe that destroys the world!!!"

……

The final scene shows the Demon Slayer Division surrounding and attacking the enemy, along with Old Master Shen traveling by carriage.

The next moment, Meng Yan suddenly opened his eyes and sprang to his feet!

pass!

Completely understood!!

The Demon-Suppressing Tower wanted to tell him!

The snake problem hasn't been eradicated!

……