My Demon Husband Is a Snake-Chapter 1037: Only Fit to Be a Burden

Yuan Hong bit his lip and chose the middle path to continue forward.

The passage seemed like an endless maze; Yuan Hong must have come here often, adeptly navigating through it.

If not for him leading the way, Qing Li and I might never have successfully emerged from the passage even after exhausting our legs.

"Ahead is the forbidden area, full of Forbidden Techniques, even I don’t fully understand them. I’ll take you to this point." Suddenly, Yuan Hong halted his steps at the passage’s exit.

The cave entrance was extremely narrow, and with Yuan Hong’s massive body blocking it, I still couldn’t clearly see the situation outside. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Put me down." After Qing Li asked me to let her down, she playfully flicked the thread controlling Yuan Hong, pulling it tighter.

Yuan Hong groaned and fell to the ground, a spider pattern appearing on his forehead.

The veins all over his body bulged out, and thick green poisonous blood dripped from his mouth as he rolled on the ground in agony. "Ah... ah... big sister, what’s your... meaning... Stop... Did I offend you?"

Qing Li just crossed her arms, watching Yuan Hong being tormented beyond human endurance. "This is the first time I’ve seen someone under my Forbidden Woman Witchcraft dare to talk so much nonsense."

"I’ll continue leading the way... spare me... spare me... Rather than leaving me in a fate worse than death, you’d better kill me!!" Yuan Hong strangled his own neck so fiercely, he nearly broke his thick neck.

Qing Li ignored his plight and contemptuously dismissed it, grabbing my wrist and walking out of the passage. "Wanwan, the aura of the Demonic Cave is near, I can feel it."

Outside the passage was vast, and the ground was covered in mushrooms of various colors.

No, these strange mushrooms didn’t grow from the ground.

They grew from the mouths of fish; there were half-decayed black fish on the ground.

They have endured thousands of years and by reason should have rotted away to bones.

Yet their bodies were still quite intact, the most decay was only a hole rotting in the belly, with some spots growing on them.

Encountering the scattered Demonic Qi from King Yu’s Tomb, the mushrooms were not corroded.

Instead, they grew more vibrant and colorful, emitting a sweet fragrance.

I didn’t know if they were poisonous, covering my mouth and nose with my hand. "Grandma, this fragrance is toxic gas, right?"

"It merely induces Illusions, ensnaring people here to die," Qing Li gave me an Elixir. "Swallow it, and you’ll be fine."

I immediately stuffed it into my mouth, swallowing hard. "Hey, this fragrance, why has it turned to a foul smell?"

"Because you’ve emerged from the Illusion, the Illusion tricked you into thinking the foul odor was exceptionally fragrant, entrapping you in self-destructive hallucinations," Qing Li glanced at Yuan Hong, "just like him, believing he was in a beautiful dream, yet unconsciously harming himself."

Well then, Yuan Hong had just freed himself from the Forbidden Woman Witchcraft.

Only to fall into an Illusion, displaying an intoxicated expression.

Yet he used his black, sharp nails to gouge out his left eyeball.

Qing Li flicked the pill over, perfectly aiming it into Yuan Hong’s large nostril.

Soon, Yuan Hong absorbed the antidote and became alert.

Clutching his gouged-out left eye, he screamed in despair, "My eye~"

"Grandma, he... is a Tomb Guardian, how could he fall into an Illusion? Hasn’t he lived in the tomb for years and knows the mechanisms inside by heart?" I followed Qing Li, my ears filled with Yuan Hong’s cries, curious.

Qing Li raised her index finger to her lips, gesturing for me to be silent.

Yuan Hong’s ceaseless cries rendered our silence useless.

Suddenly, small blue lights twinkled from above.

This was the Everlasting Lamps I saw as I fell down the mountain.

At that time, I fell too quickly to see clearly what material the Everlasting Lamps were made of.

Now, I could see it completely; they were human-shaped lamps constructed from peculiar Fish People.

The Fish People stood in hollows carved into the belly of the mountain, with wick-like structures protruding from their wide-open mouths.

The wicks emitted a blue glow, likely ignited by the oils within the Fish People’s bodies.

Yet after thousands of years, by reason, the oils should have been burned up.

Yuan Hong’s cries illuminated not only the Everlasting Lamps.

The Fish People, whose mouths emitted flames, began to open their eyes one after another.

As if suddenly awakened from a long slumber~

"Anyway, now that they’ve all been disturbed, being silent won’t help us," Qing Li said indifferently. "The mushrooms on the ground are just ordinary Corpse Cap Mushrooms, which emit hallucinogenic scents, actually to deceive the Fish People into intoxicating dreams, sustaining their duty of being Everlasting Lamps here. However, these mushrooms have absorbed the Demonic Qi, seemingly... making their hallucinogenic ability stronger..."