After disappearing for ten years, the junior sister made the entire sect kneel down to welcome her.

This is a Xuanlin Demon Python at the Nascent Soul stage, the big guy that Luo Huanzhen has been looking for.

Just now, when Su Mingyue appeared, the hot spring started bubbling.

Unfortunately, Su Mingyue did not notice the abnormality of the hot spring. Instead, she used her spiritual power to stay above the hot spring and mocked and suppressed Luo Huanzhen.

Now, she was facing the full force of the Xuanlin Python's rage, which had been disturbed from its rest.

"roar!!"

A gaping maw lunged at Su Mingyue.

Su Mingyue screamed repeatedly and turned to run away.

The hot spring was bubbling and boiling when a thick python tail lashed out from it, striking her fiercely.

*Smack!*

Su Mingyue was hit squarely and struggled to keep herself from falling.

She was only at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

She has no combat experience yet, how can she suddenly face such a terrifying monster!

She activated the Wind Control Technique, trying to escape the area as quickly as possible. However, the Xuanlin Python slapped its long tail, and the hot spring instantly rose up, turning into four walls of water that trapped her.

A strange black liquid was flowing in the water wall, clearly the venom released by the Xuanlin Python.

The poison from Nascent Soul stage demonic beasts... cannot be cured by antidotes made by physicians below the Nascent Soul stage.

Fortunately, she was prepared.

Su Mingyue took out the antidote pill that her third senior brother Zhao Qing had refined for her from her bosom, poured one out and put it in her mouth, then rushed out of the water curtain despite the poison.

While the Xuanlin Python was enraged, Luo Huanzhen had already quickly moved more than a hundred meters away.

At this moment, her face was full of amusement, and she even couldn't help but clap and cheer.

Su Mingyue was soaking wet, with blood at the corner of her mouth, looking extremely disheveled.

She screamed in rage, "You little bitch! You're doing this on purpose to hurt me, aren't you?!"

Having said that, he charged toward Luo Huanzhen with his spirit sword in hand.

She's going to kill her.

Kill her immediately!

Kill her right now!!

Luo Huanzhen paused in his clapping, tilted his head to avoid the sword's edge, then spun around, raised his foot, and delivered a powerful kick to the attacker's abdomen.

call out!

"ah--!!!"

Su Mingyue, who had finally escaped from the python's venomous water curtain, was kicked back in.

Luo Zhenhuan stopped his attack and savored the distance he had kicked the person away.

I think I'm doing very well.

My strength has improved since I started training!

With the intruder who had disturbed her gone, the Xuanlin Python looked bewildered in her water curtain. Just as she was about to return to the spirit pool to sleep, she flew back the next moment.

Enraged, the black-scaled python slapped her away with its tail.

Luo Huanzhen launched another flying kick, sending Su Mingyue flying back—

"Aaaaaaah!!!!!"

After a while, the Xuanlin Python's anger subsided, and it even felt a strange kind of pleasure.

Although this human was sickly, weak, and constantly vomiting blood, it was like an unkillable cockroach, even immune to its innate python venom.

The Xuanlin Python simply removed the water curtain, coiled up in the hot spring, and happily played a game of hitting a ball—oh no, hitting a person—with Luo Huanzhen using its tail.

But the cockroach that seems unkillable isn't truly invincible.

Su Mingyue lay motionless on the swamp.

Luo Zhenhuan and the giant python head came over together. Luo Zhenhuan scratched his head and said with an annoyed look, "It's your fault."

Master has said that we must not kill our fellow disciples.

The Black-Scaled Python lowered its head in shame, sobbing, "Waaah..."

Luo Huanzhen: "But don't rush, we have a backup plan."

After saying that, Luo Zhenhuan lowered his head and rummaged through his small Qiankun bag, then pulled out a large pill!

She reached out and pinched Su Mingyue's mouth shut, then stuffed it in.

The pill melted instantly upon entering her mouth, and Su Mingyue recovered her vitality despite coughing.

When she opened her eyes and saw Luo Huanzhen and the Xuanlin Python, she screamed and backed away as if she had seen some terrifying monster.

Luo Huanzhen put one hand on his hip and extended the other hand, giving a thumbs-up.

Master's Life-Extending Pill really works!

Just then, a deep, urgent voice rang out from afar:

"Mingyue, is that you calling me? Mingyue!!!"

Immediately afterwards, a figure appeared at the entrance to the spirit pool in the distance. Night enveloped him, but his enormous size and familiar voice were still visible.

Su Mingyue immediately recognized Lei Ziyue's voice.

"Second Senior Brother, it's me. Second Senior Brother! Come and save me..." Su Mingyue cried out as she scrambled and crawled toward the edge of the swamp.

Lei Ziyue disregarded everything else and struggled to get closer to Su Mingyue by stepping on the edge of the swamp.

When Lei Ziyue saw Su Mingyue's miserable state, he was horrified: "Mingyue, what happened to you! Why did you disappear? And what has happened now?!"

Su Mingyue threw herself into Lei Ziyue's arms, crying, "Second Senior Brother, Luo Zhenhuan kidnapped me! He even tried to capture me to feed to the demon beasts! I can't find you anywhere, Second Senior Brother. Second Senior Brother, it hurts so much, it really hurts!!!"

The truth must not be told to Lei Ziyue, so Su Mingyue decided to directly throw dirty water on Luo Huanzhen.

After all, with only the two of them present, Lei Ziyue would believe whatever he said.

Sure enough, after hearing Su Mingyue's explanation, Lei Ziyue's sadness and resentment at being abandoned by Su Mingyue vanished.

He hugged Su Mingyue tightly, looked up at Luo Huanzhen not far away and the giant python head lying next to him, his eyes red and his teeth clenched.

"Luo Huanzhen!! You, you demon child, you are utterly wicked!!!"

Luo Huanzhen clasped his hands together, sincerely repenting: "I'm sorry. Killing is not torturing life, it was my fault."

The black-scaled python beside it also let out two guilty whimpers.

"But then again..."

Luo Huanzhen's eyes darted around, then he lowered his hand and said matter-of-factly, "She's not dead, is she? If she's not dead, then it doesn't count as killing. I did nothing wrong!"

Upon hearing this, Su Mingyue was furious. She wanted to say something, but when she opened her mouth, she spat out a mouthful of blood and was too weak to speak.

Luo was not surprised at all by this.

The life-extending pill was just keeping her hanging on by a thread.

The fact that Su Mingyue could do so many things after opening her eyes is already considered an extraordinary performance.

Now that her feigned weakness has finally become genuine, Luo really finds her much more agreeable.

After feeding Su Mingyue most of a bottle of healing pills, and seeing that she still hadn't improved, Lei Ziyue said anxiously, "Mingyue, don't be afraid, I'll take you out of the secret realm to heal you!"

Su Mingyue, who was previously on the verge of death, suddenly regained her strength and cried out: "No!"

She won't go out.

This was her first time in the secret realm, and she couldn't leave empty-handed.

Isn't this just a tacit admission that he's inferior to Luo Huanzhen?