Chapter 74: A Clash of Serpent Bloodlines

Chapter 74: Chapter 74: A Clash of Serpent Bloodlines

Do you know anything about that, Qingyu?

[Jade Snow Python... is an enemy of my clan!]

What?

Right after hearing that, a wisp of qi orb appeared in front of Wan’er, startling her.

Ye Xuan saw it happen and knew what was coming. He leaped back hard and put some distance between them.

"What’s going on?" Yi Xin asked.

The wisp of qi orb changed shape into a transformed serpent with ice-blue scales and two horns of ice jutting from its forehead. Ye Xuan saw it, and his eyes activated the Myriad Eye.

He saw that the spiritual qi aura radiating from the snake was stronger than Qingyu’s. From that, Ye Xuan immediately drew a conclusion.

Wan’er’s snake had a cultivation stage in the Profound-Beast realm.

"What are you doing, Cai Yun?!" Wan’er shouted.

But the snake didn’t listen to its master. The snow serpent opened its mouth and released a bone-piercing blast of cold wind at Ye Xuan.

[You’re courting death!]

Without any command from Ye Xuan, Ling Qingyu came out of the domain ring and transformed into her full serpent form.

She stood in front of Ye Xuan, opened her mouth wide, and released a powerful bolt of lightning forward.

"What?!" Wan’er gasped.

Crimson lightning and cold snow wind collided in that spot, causing a massive clash of energy that affected the whole area around them.

Ye Xuan and Wan’er reacted quickly, shielding themselves from the impact of the spirit beasts’ clashing power.

Yi Xin saw the situation and acted fast. She stretched out her hand and released a demonic palm from her magic rune, meeting their power with her own.

BLAST!

A huge explosion tore a hollow into the ground. Part of the pond froze over, and several trees caught fire from the lightning strikes.

Neither Ye Xuan nor Wan’er could withstand the surge from the three attacks. Their qi defenses shattered, and their bodies were thrown far back.

Wan’er was thrown into the pond with a splash, while Ye Xuan was driven back until his body slammed into the trees and knocked them down.

"Ugh!" Ye Xuan groaned, coughing up blood.

The man looked up and saw that the qi aura around Qingyu’s body was surging unstably.

He was sure the huge gap in strength between a Spirit-Beast and a Profound-Beast was the reason her energy was in turmoil.

"Come back... Qingyu!"

Qingyu listened to Ye Xuan, turned herself into a red qi orb, and shot into the domain ring.

Elsewhere, Wan’er leaped out of the pond and landed on the ground, one hand clutching her tight chest.

"You too, Cai Yun!"

The blue-scaled snake obeyed, turned its body into a qi orb, and shot back to Wan’er’s forehead. Yi Xin walked over to them with her arms crossed and an angry look on her face.

"What on earth was that? Why were your spirit beasts fighting each other without orders?!" Yi Xin complained.

Ye Xuan stood up and wiped the blood from the corner of his lips. He walked forward steadily, keeping his sharp gaze on Wan’er.

"This place is rich in spiritual energy, but it isn’t suitable for me to break through," Ye Xuan said.

Yi Xin turned to look at Ye Xuan. "Do you know something we don’t?"

The man was silent for a moment, looking at Yi Xin and then at Wan’er.

He didn’t know whether Yi Xin already knew and was only pretending, or whether she truly didn’t know, but this had to be told to her.

"The Jade Snow Python Clan is an enemy of the Thunder Crimson Python Clan!" Ye Xuan said.

"Thunder Crimson Python? So your snake is—"

"How do you know the two clans are enemies?" Yi Xin asked.

"Because Qingyu told me," Ye Xuan answered.

Wan’er narrowed her eyes when Ye Xuan said he knew it from his snake.

It felt strange to her, because she had never once spoken with Cai Yun, not even when the two of them formed their beast contract.

Because of that, Wan’er took what Ye Xuan said to be nothing but a lie.

"I’ve never been able to talk to Cai Yun, even though he’s my spirit beast."

Yi Xin nodded and added that she, too, couldn’t talk to her spirit beast the way she talked to a person. Now both women’s attention was fixed on Ye Xuan.

"I hope you’re not talking nonsense about this," Yi Xin said.

"The reason I can talk with her is the Blood Oath," Ye Xuan replied, looking at them in turn. "It merges two blood essences into one."

"That way, you can connect to a spirit beast through soul blood, including what they’re thinking."

Wan’er turned to Yi Xin. Ye Xuan’s expression as he said this looked so convincing, as if he were hiding nothing from them.

The blue-haired woman stepped forward to stand close to Ye Xuan. "I don’t know whether the Blood Oath really exists. But if your snake and mine really are enemies, then I can’t let him break through here."

"That would be very dangerous for me and for him," Wan’er continued, looking at Yi Xin.

Yi Xin realized this, and after seeing the impact of the fight between the two snakes, she understood that destruction would happen again if she let Ye Xuan cultivate in this place.

On the other hand, she couldn’t drive Wan’er away either, given her status as the Hall’s core disciple, the best among them all. This incident clearly put her in a dilemma.

"Is there no way for your snakes to make peace with each other? At least just for now."

[I don’t mind. But I won’t break through if that snake is here.]

Ye Xuan listened to what Qingyu said, then passed it on to Yi Xin. The woman nodded in agreement, then turned to look at Wan’er.

Wan’er looked awkward when Ye Xuan and Yi Xin turned their eyes on her. Unlike Ye Xuan, she had no ability to talk with her spirit beast.

So she couldn’t tell whether Cai Yun would object to Yi Xin’s proposal or not.

"I don’t know what his attitude is about this," Wan’er said.

"True," Yi Xin said. "The fight also started because of Cai Yun’s aggression, and then Qingyu retaliated."

"It’s fine. I can take him to the Old Tree courtyard north of the hall."

Wan’er was surprised to hear that. "But isn’t the spiritual energy there... thin?"

"It is, but I have no choice. The Hall Master already promised we’d help him break through," Yi Xin said.

"He can take my place for the time being. Besides, I’m not currently—"

"No, Senior Wan’er."

Ye Xuan cut Wan’er off, and she and Yi Xin both turned to him. Ye Xuan told them that all he needed was a place safe from danger.

That was the reason he had left the Outer Disciple Hall: it couldn’t give him a sense of safety.

"All right," Wan’er said.

"As for the spiritual energy," Ye Xuan said, looking at Yi Xin, "I have my own way of dealing with that."