Chapter 401 "Snake Clan's Ancestor (2)"
Before her last words could even come to an end, Bai Yan's longsword had already slashed down from above, splitting a good chunk of the snake's flesh in that split second.
"AHHHH!" Crying out an excruciating scream, Qing Luan's voice nearly cracked from how high pitched it was.
H-How can this be?
Although my powers were partially sealed from the barrier segmenting the Mortal Realm, but I am the Lady of the Snake Clan! A puny human's weapon shouldn't have been able to hurt me!
Unwilling to accept reality, the snake immediately retaliates by shooting her massive body at the perpetrator. Unfortunately for Qing Luan, there's no way her target would just wait and take the attack head on.
Sure enough, Bai Yan's next course of action completely met that expectation when she jumped into the air and mounted the snake's body. Piece by piece, she began dismantling the scales and ripped it from the skin using her bare hands.
"AHHHHH!"
Shaking violently from the tremendous pain, the snake rolls around in the ground feverously as she tried to knock the hateful woman off. Sadly, it's useless and only caused her even more pain following each ripping action.
"No! Get off of me this instant. If you dare do this to me then my father will never let you go for this!!!"
All members of the Demon race are naturally born with the ability to take human form, but that's under the pretense of their energy reserve being adequate to maintain that form. Now that Qing Luan's all bruised up, there's no way she could do that to release herself, hence the reason why she would only rampage around in her beastial form on this cliff.
......
Meanwhile on the side, Wang Xiaopeng (chubby) was all gawking and flabbergasted at this hand scaling show of a giant snake, "I really have to hand it to this snake, if she's this weak then don't come out to shame herself! And here I was under the assumption that she's all powerful back there, scaring my poor little heart back and forth."
In response to his friend's comment, Bai Xiachen had proudly knocked his chin up like a gloating child: "Of course. As long as my mother's around then all evil in this world can forget about hiding from us."
"Bai Yan, the Snake Clan will never let you go for this!" Dreadfully weak in her voice, Qing Luan's state was terrible right now as her blood stained the earthly soil.
Even when facing death, this snake demoness never once asked for mercy. The reasoning wasn't anything elaborate, it's due to her own belief that once she's dead then the entire clan would take notice. By then, it would just be a matter of time before retribution befalls her killer.
"Nothing but a little clan of snakes and still wants to harm their master? Are you that daft or are you that daft?" Just when Qing Luan thought her revenge would be secured, this soft and cynical voice had dropped down like a bomb from above.
The one speaking here was a girl in a pinkish dress of peach blossom color with a particularly similar feature to Di Cang's very own face. That's right, this was none other than Di Xiao Wan, the demon princess!
"How come you are here too Xiao Wan?" Turning around, Bai Yan was rather confused by the girl's sudden appearance.
"I originally wanted to come help you, but..." Sweeping her sight over to the scaled snake there, Di Xiao Wan actually showed a flash of sympathy in her eyes.
Of all the people this Qing Luan could've provoked she just had to pick Sister-in-law. In particular was her idiotic move of touching Xiachen, that's suicidal!
Chapter 402 "Snake Clan's Ancestor (3)"
"Pr-Princess," Qing Luan's voice was shaking feverously. Due to her own fear of facing the girl, that serpanty head of hers never once dared to look up, "I am the Lady of the Snake Clan, I beg you to save me...."
"Impudent wench!" Darkening in her face, Di Xiao Wan lashes out at the snake: "Bai Yan is my sister-in-law. How dare you ask me to save you when you committed treason? If my brother learns of this it won't just be something as simple as scaling you."
"No, no, that can't be. I didn't hurt the little prince, there's no way His Majesty would kill me over a simple mortal woman."
Don't assume Qing Luan would know everything about Bai Yan, she doesn't. All of her information was from hearsay and inquiry because she had never worked up the courage to confront the woman in person whenever Di Cang was around.
Besides...
Wouldn't it be a joke for a cruel and heartless man to be true to a woman?
As if a single mortal would be more important than the entire Snake Clan?
"Princess," seeing how there's further comment, Qing Luan assumed she must be right and softened that voice up, "What they say are all just rumors from the Demon Realm. Princess you mustn't be foolish enough to believe them. I'm willing to bet it's just the State Teacher that bastard trying to overthrow His Majesty's rule by deliberately forging some lies to deceive us all."
Popping her eyes, Di Xiao Wan was shocked by the snake's foolish remark, This damn Qing Luan actually dare to slander my State Teacher?
"Sister-in-law," her beautiful face seething with anger, "leave this snake with me for now. I will make her understand what it means to slander the State Teacher in front of me!"
Even when she's saying this, Di Xiao Wan's slender foot had already stomped down hard at the snake's wounded body as punishment.
Since the scales on Qing Luan's whole body had already been mostly peeled off by Bai Yan's scaling claws, one can only imagine the excruciating pain the she must be enduring right there at the extra stomp.
"You kidnapped my nephew, bullied my nephew, and yelled at my State Teacher! Don't you know State Teacher can only be yelled at by me? Who do you think you are to defile his name?" As if the scolding and cursing wasn't enough, Di Xiao Wan suddenly made a grab for Bai Yan's sword and stabbed down hard to get her point through: "Nothing but a puny snake, you really think you are all that? When my brother comes back I will have him destroy the entire Snake Clan!"
Not to be outdone as per his lineage, Bai Xiachen also chimes in to add the oil to the fire: "Auntie, this snake just forced me to ingest her venom and wanted me to deny my relationship with my mother to admit Bai Ruo instead. If I refused, she threatened to kill me."
Now that's just outrageous. Wanting to puke blood, Qing Luan cried foul inside, It's true I fed him my venom, but when did I threaten to kill him? How come I didn't know about it?
"Bitch, how dare you try to harm my nephew as a servant to my brother? What, do you intend to replace my nephew also when the time's right, or do you take my brother for a fool instead?"
Enraged once again, Di Xiao Wan slashes down twice again with the sword, causing the snake to lose even her last ounce of strength to scream. Even so, the resentment and unwillingness to accept fate had never once left Qing luan's serpenty eyes.
Then without indication, a resounding chuckle suddenly seeps out of the snake's vocal cord like an eerie cry of madness.
"I, Qing Luan..." Her voice may be rasp and hoarse like a whimper, but its clarity cannot be denied, "At the cost of my soul, I call upon the ancestor of thy snakes."
If I must die then I won't let any of you off either!
"Sister-in-law," even Di Xiao Wan's complexion was growing green over this, "it is a secret art of our Demon Realm. This idiot is calling upon the snake's ancestor to us!"
Though this mystical art of summoning could ignore everything from dimensional seals and all, but the price was also extremely high to the user!
Chapter 403 "Snake Clan's Ancestor (4)"
For such an amazing spell to work, the price would be the caster's very own soul!
And......
Once called upon, the incantation cannot be interrupted from the outside.
"Snake ancestor?" Bai Yan's expression grew dark, "Little Rice, leave now with my son and his friend."
"Mother," crying out in protest, Bai Xiachen tugs at his mother's sleeve using his usual pitiful face, "I don't want to leave."
"Go!" Her voice getting stern and fierce, proof of how urgent the situation was becoming.
Likely falling into the same camp as the baby boy, Little Rice also chimes in to protest: "Mistress, I want to stay too. In this world there are no other who is more prestigious than the little master's bloodline. We can help!"
"No," it was Di Xiao Wan who was oddly the most level-headed here, "Xiachen's bloodline is indeed the most prestigious, but that's only under the premise that the one coming is the person's own flesh and blood. Qing Luan called upon the snake's ancestor using the secret craft of us Demons, meaning the one to arrive will only be a part of the one's soul, it won't have any effect."
Since it's called the power of the bloodline, it's only natural that the one being suppressed must have a physical body. Otherwise, what's there to suppress?
"But," raising her dainty face, Di Xiao Wan doesn't seem afraid, "I am the princess of the Demon Realm, that snake ancestor wouldn't dare do anything to us."
Just as soon as her words came to an end, an ethereal figure visually reveals itself from the void.
"Who is the one daring enough to harm a member of my Snake Clan?" His voice was old and majestic. Suddenly, the old man that appeared finally caught sight of the young girl, causing him to stammer in his following words, "Pr-Princess?"
"Ancestor!" Qing Luan breaks out her faint voice, "Kill them. If you don't then the entire clan will be annihilated."
The serpenty old man was obviously startled based on the expression he made following that remark, Can it be the one who harmed Qing Luan is Her Highness? But, me killing the princess is.....
"Ancestor!" Using her last dying breath, Qing Luan apparently wouldn't go down unless she achieves her final goal, "Just now the princess said she will destroy our entire clan. If you don't kill them now then it will be the doom of everyone in our family. His Majesty wouldn't learn of this so long as none of them lives, HURRY!"
Shooting a cold hard glare at the dying snake, Di Xiao Wan then shifts her gaze over to the ethereal old man, "I am the princess, and these two are my nephew and sister-in-law. You really think my brother the king wouldn't be alarmed if anything happens to them?"
The snake ancestor didn't reply right away, only eyeing the group with his slithering eyes. As result of this, Wang Xiaopeng was exceptionally frightened due to that pressuring gaze, evident by how hard he was trying to hide behind the white tiger for safety.
"No Ancestor, no one will know if you kill them. So long as there's no evidence or witness then His Majesty can't do anything to our clan. On the contrary, if words leak then nothing can save our family! Look at me, that human woman ruthlessly peeled off my scales and torn my skin as a result. If such a cruel hearted person becomes the queen then it will be the doom of us all!" Anxiousness was quickly filling Qing Luan's eye because she knew time wasn't on her side.
"Princess, is what Qing Luan said true?" Raising his head from contemplation, the snake ancestor became insidious in his eyes while speaking, "Princess, are you really intent on destroying the entire Snake Clan?"
Turning sharp in her eyes as well, "Qing Luan kidnapped my nephew and bullied my sister-in-law. By law she should be punished. Since that has been done I can forgive the past and allow your clan off the hook. You can leave first."
Forgive the entire snake clan? Of course not! If it weren't for the help of these snakes then there's no way such a puny green snake like Qing Luan would be able to break out of the seal and leave the Demon Realm.
"Princess, I can't move against you. However, that human woman must die for harming Qing Luan!" Shifting his attention over to Bai Yan, an obvious intent to kill was radiating out of that ethereal body.
"She is my sister-in-law, are you trying to commit treason?" Enraged by the disobedience, the girl roars out.