Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 96: Try to Capture?

"The kid has some tricks, but not many." Bai Yunqi didn’t want to harm a promising seedling, so he immediately used Snake Coagulation.

A gigantic white snake’s shadow extended from He Yaozu’s body, almost reaching the clouds, its thickness immeasurable. The white snake lowered its head, flicking its tongue, staring at the tiny Jiang Yuan.

Behind him, in the Hidden Dragon Lake, the water rippled with countless shadows of white snakes intertwined, emerging in clusters as if to fill the whole world. A pair of cold, crimson vertical pupils unleashed a spiritual attack, nearly flicking its tongue onto Jiang Yuan’s face, carrying the terrifying aura unique to snakes.

[Encountered Snake Coagulation skill’s spiritual shock, Life Energy -5]

[Encountered Snake Coagulation skill’s spiritual shock, Life Energy -8]

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The system kept popping up prompts, and Jiang Yuan saw his health bar drop drastically.

But he wasn’t flustered at all, directing paper cranes, golden eagles, large porcupines, and swimming fish to attack from three directions: sea, land, and air. He also lined up paper men in front of his disciple to avoid accidental injury.

With a thought, the golden eagle he was riding soared high, trying to distance himself while he took out a hot, fragrant braised pork knuckle from his Storage Bag and took a few bites.

It’s just fighting monsters and taking medicine, right? The braised pork knuckle is delicious and can restore both mana and health. Although it can’t compare to professional Elixirs, the recovery speed is pretty good.

"Hiss~"

Bai Yunqi originally planned to use the spiritual attack to intimidate the boy. As long as a brief spiritual disturbance occurred, he could take the opportunity to imprint a slave mark. Unless one cultivated to a level higher than his main body’s cultivation, it would be impossible to erase, and the person would have to submit.

However, what he didn’t expect was that the other party was completely unaffected.

Not only could he still command the paper army to attack, but he also flew even higher to eat meat!

The scent of the braised pork knuckle wafted through the air, making Bai Yunqi, whose stomach had long been growling from hunger after years of sleep, swallow his saliva. In the past, when he roamed the Eight Desolates, he had tasted all kinds of delicacies.

Having been hungry for so many years and wanting to restore his strength, he had no choice but to endure the disgust and swallow a person to activate his Devouring Evil Technique. As a result, he didn’t get to eat tender young maidens but had to fight on an empty stomach and was even humiliated with food.

With a resentful hiss, Bai Yunqi quickly shrank the giant shadow to over three meters in height, revealing his true appearance — a pure white snake body reflecting iridescent light under the sunlight. The gigantic head had crimson vertical pupils, and symmetrically on either side of the eyes, there were clusters of vivid red horn spines, with a vibrant red cloud crown on top of the head.

"Oh? So you’re a chicken-crowned snake?" Jiang Yuan said with his mouth stuffed with delicious meat, seeing this, he glanced at his fully restored health and flew further away, taunting the opponent with trash talk to provoke skills, "Couldn’t tell, huh? Are you venomous? Wouldn’t you accidentally poison yourself to death if you bit yourself?"

The snake shadow behind continually disrupted the paper army’s attacks, and soon the lake surface was littered with many paper scraps.

But Jiang Yuan could rip one and replace it with two. After diligently crafting a paper army for days, he had plenty in his Storage Bag and could even make more on-site, ensuring the paper army entangled the White Snake Demon, preventing any advance.

The system analyzed that the opponent’s skills had no long-range attacks, meaning as long as he could trap it, he could safely grind down its health from a distance.

"I’m a dragon! This is a dragon crest!" Bai Yunqi raged immediately, setting out into the world, some merely foundation-establishing tiny demon cultivators dared to pose as Daluo Golden Immortals, so what’s wrong with him, close to transforming into a Flood Dragon, claiming to be a dragon?

Darn it, do you have to insist on calling me a snake?!

Although angry, he still admired the opponent’s paper creation skills and thought that only such a talented young man was worthy of serving by his side.

Yet, with aerial eagles and swimming fish behind and large porcupines attacking on either side, he found it a bit hard to handle.

Everything was manageable except for the porcupines, which were a real nuisance.

Powerful Magic couldn’t be cast without sufficient Spiritual Power, and the innate attack methods were limited to biting, spitting venom, or coiling to crush. Porcupines, being small, could be flipped to expose their bellies for biting, but the opponent’s paper creations were massive, and ultimately made of paper, so snake venom was utterly useless!

Their sharp quills were also exceptionally pointed and hard, and when curling up motionless during attacks, he couldn’t find a spot to bite. If ignored, they’d rush over and specifically target the snake’s vulnerable spots, driving it mad.

Bai Yunqi could only continuously lift lake water to smash the paper creations, only to face more paper armies surrounding him in a war of attrition.

Riding the golden eagle, Jiang Yuan refused to get within the attack range, occasionally suffering spiritual attacks, forcing him to take bites of pork knuckle to replenish his health. Meanwhile, Wan Mingchuan seized the chance to focus on Cultivation.

The villagers, too terrified to run, watched helplessly as the Immortals battled.

[White Snake Demon Bai Yunqi has one-third of his health remaining; Favorability 20. You may try to capture it as a contract pet. Attempt to capture?] frёewebηovel.cѳm

What?

Testing the combat power of his paper army and feeling quite pleased, Jiang Yuan saw the prompt that popped up and his eyes lit up—of course, he’d choose yes!

With a thought, choosing to try capturing, Jiang Yuan suddenly emitted a halo that shot out, encircling Bai Yunqi caught in a stalemate. The capture progress bar wavered back and forth, seemingly hard to fill successfully.

"Pause, let’s stop and talk for a bit?" He thought to steady the opponent, especially considering that increasing Favorability might make capturing the pet easier.

Jiang Yuan stayed true to his word, and the paper army, which had been attacking recklessly, immediately paused.

Bai Yunqi was a bit disheveled, but he didn’t feel the situation warranted fleeing just yet. After all, his human form could still unleash a hidden trump card, only needing the right opportunity to turn the tables.

Being naturally valiant and belligerent, Bai Yunqi’s competitive spirit was piqued by a worthy opponent, desiring more than ever to recruit the little blind fool to his side.

Seeing the other party suddenly want to talk, Bai Yunqi was secretly delighted, ready to feign negotiation to lure the opponent close and unleash a big move that could explode his body. As long as even a trace of blood touched the opponent, he could seize the momentary spiritual disturbance to imprint a slave mark!

"Oh? Talk about what?" He narrowed his eyes slightly, retracting the snake shadow back into He Yaozu’s body to make the other party lower their guard.

On the surface, he appeared amicable and harmless, yet in Jiang Yuan’s vision, the system’s alerts indicated his threat level rising dramatically.

He knew Bai Yunqi had a hidden big move up his sleeve, but its attack range was very short. After all, making an occupied corpse explode, no matter how fierce, how far could blood imbued with Curse power really splatter? So, he kept chatting without approaching.

"Your true body isn’t here, and a broken avatar is no match for me." Jiang Yuan threw out another paper creation for him to see, "If this continues, your only avatar will really be finished. Why not, let’s negotiate, you’re probably in need of healing too, right? I can supply you with the needed Energy, and you help me guard my house, how about it?"

Bai Yunqi immediately raised an eyebrow.

Oh? I wanted to enslave you for my bidding, and you actually dare suggest I guard your house?

He was about to retort scornfully but reconsidered, thinking to verbally agree first to trick the little fool closer. Treachery was fair game; once the slave mark was imprinted, wouldn’t the boy have to obey his orders?