Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 591 Battle Against the Snake Horde (3)

"Master, how are you?" Zhu Si rushed back and helped his master up from the ground, asking with concern.

Xie Wenbin shook his head, seemingly hearing a very familiar sound, clutching his disciple’s hand, "They’re coming, they’re coming, I can hear them summoning me."

Zhu Si was frightened by his master’s terrifying appearance but still nodded in agreement, "Yes, they’re coming."

"Hahahaha, my son, your father has finally avenged you today." Letting go of Zhu Si’s hand and spreading his arms, he laughed heartily, looking at the sky that was already turning the color of fish bellies.

Dugu Chen and Feng Xuxu dared not be careless; since Xie Wenbin said the snakes were coming, it was a possibility. Playing with snakes all his life, even in madness, would not change his sensitivity.

"My dear, we cannot give them a chance to escape. I will go kill Xie Wenbin."

"No, he is single-mindedly fixated on your death, it’s no joke if he self-destructs," Dugu Chen decisively rejected his wife’s suggestion.

Feng Xuxu snorted coldly, "It’d be great if he does self-destruct. It saves us the trouble of doing it ourselves."

"It’s not that simple. There’s a snake chalice within his body, grown with him since childhood. Whatever he’s feeling, the mother chalice inside him can sense it. If he self-destructs, the mother chalice inside him could very likely affect you," Dugu Chen said. He had some knowledge of the Snake Clan but not much, only these bits, as they were not secrets anymore.

Shocked, Feng Xuxu huddled close to Dugu Chen, "Are you saying that whatever he thinks, the mother chalice in his body knows it too?"

"Yes, even if he can’t kill you, the mother chalice in his body will instantly fly out upon his self-destruction, seeking the closest person to find a new host. It will continuously torture the host’s body until death."

Feng Xuxu hadn’t expected the mother chalice to be capable of that; it seemed her understanding of chalices was severely lacking. She had thought that if the host of a mother chalice died, the mother chalice would die too. She hadn’t realized how vastly different the reality was from her expectations.

Just as Xie Wenbin had said, in no time at all, without even trying, one could hear the ’hissing’ sound. It was the unique noise snakes make when they flick their tongues, and by the sounds of it, there seemed to be quite a number of them.

"Everyone, be careful," Feng Xuxu warned, darting glances around her.

"My lady, don’t worry. If one comes, kill one. If a pair comes, kill the pair," Huang Yi, having held his breath for quite some time, was ready to avenge his brothers.

The others were all brimming with eagerness to kill the person in front of them. If looks could kill, these two would have died ten thousand times over.

"They’re coming." Feng Xuxu’s eyes caught sight of a lush, vibrant-looking little snake hanging from a tree. It looked beautiful in a glance but was also the most venomous.

Huang Yi cut the green snake with a sword stroke, watching it writhe on the ground for a few turns before it lay still on the grass, motionless.

More snakes, one after another, were appearing on the ground and coiling on the trees, making their way through every possible opening; especially those at their feet were hard to notice in the grass. Finally, Dugu Chen struck the ground forcefully with his palm, peeling off a large chunk of turf to reveal the muddy soil underneath. Now that everyone was standing on solid ground, it became easier to distinguish the snakes on the ground.

Snakes from all around kept swarming towards them; their swords continuously danced in their hands, leaving piles of dead snakes on the ground. The remaining ones, as if blind to the bodies of their brethren, still poured in crazily.

Xiaobai had finished off the spiders outside and ran over frantically, seeing snakes swarming frenetically towards one spot. Following their trail led him to his sister.

Watching his sister and the others fiercely fighting the snakes, Xiaobai suddenly transformed, changing from a small cat-like creature into a large beast, his massive paws smashing several snakes at a time.