"These islanders are too pitiful! How about you help them?"
Li Yunmu almost spat on the ground. When did Miss An's temperament change? Was she not the female devil of the Underworld Serpent who didn't hesitate to use any means to accomplish her goals regardless of how vicious it was? When did she turn into such a good-natured woman?
"Haven't you always been a villain? How come you suddenly want to help others?"
"I cannot erase my past actions, but can't I turn over a new leaf?" Miss An snorted then added, "They all consider this Miss a god, so for this title, this Miss has to do something, doesn't she? Otherwise won't everyone feel that our title as gods isn't as reputed as it appears?"
Li Yunmu nodded and said, "Your words have reason! With that being the case, we will assist these islanders in getting rid of the snake."
When they reached the Yamata river, they saw pitch black water and found it quite strange.
All the villages in the vicinity stayed away, no one wanting to have any contact with the snake.
After a while, there was movement in the river. Turbulent winds caused great waves on the surface of the river.
"It has arrived!" Li Yunmu said gloomily.
Peng!
A stream of water from the Yamata river charged into the sky, and an enormous snake with eight heads appeared in front of Li Yunmu and Miss An.
The instant Miss An saw the eight-headed snake, she was frightened out of her wits. The snake was so vicious that she could instantly tell that it was an ancient devil beast. The battle between her and the Kun had been extremely strenuous, so when faced with the eight-headed snake, she knew that she wasn't its opponent.
Miss An patted Li Yunmu's shoulder and said in deadly earnestness, "I will hand it over to you! You are the only hope of the islanders!"
"You don't intend to fight it?" Li Yunmu rolled his eyes. "The villagers have such high expectations for you and you surprisingly intend to run away from the fight?"
"Who-who-who intends to flee? This is just a strategic retreat, you understand?"
When Miss An spoke, she felt a little bit guilty. After seeing Li Yunmu cast a disdainful gaze toward her, she instantly put on a brave front.
"You-you go first. I will follow behind you."
While the two people were chatting, the eight-headed snake opened its mouth and began to talk. "You two are the offerings for this great snake today?"
She took a sniff, then suddenly frowned. "Which village's offering are you? Why aren't you a virgin male?"
When the eight-headed great snake looked at Li Yunmu, its eyes were filled with hostility. Clearly, the snake took great offense to the matter of Li Yunmu not being a virgin, which would influence the taste of its meal.
When its gaze fell on Miss An, it suddenly opened its bloody mouth wide and said, "But this virgin woman should be a delicacy!"
When the eight-headed great snake attacked Miss An with its mouth wide-open, Li Yunmu immediately chopped off one of its heads with his divine cyan blade.
Yet the next moment, the head regrew and attained its original size in the blink of an eye.
Miss An was quite shocked by the eight-headed great snake's attack, but fortunately she was saved in time by Li Yunmu.
"You snake surprisingly dare to eat this Miss! This Miss will stake her all against you!"
Miss An lifted her long sword and rushed toward the eight-headed great snake. Since it wanted to eat her, she had to fight back.
"You even dare to eat this Miss, I see that you don't want to live, snake."
Li Yunmu and Miss An joined hands to deal with eight-headed great snake. They fought it in the air while the islanders underneath could see them clearly.
When the eight-headed great snake was suppressed by the two gods who descended from heaven, the people of Fusang tribe began to celebrate and applaud.
Hearing the cheers of villagers, Miss An and Li Yunmu's moves became even more nimble and their speed increased greatly. Soon, the eight-headed great snake became unable to resist their attacks.
The villagers constantly cheered for them, because Miss An and Li Yunmu were their only hope to get rid of the calamity.
"Best of luck, gods!"
Li Yunmu suddenly passed the netherworld sword to Miss An and shouted, "Use this sword to chop off its head!"
Miss An took the netherworld sword, and for some reason, her strength began to merge with the weapon.
Could she have been approved by the netherworld sword? It had been obtained from the Dragon Silk Palace, and because of it, she had lost consciousness, which created a connection between her and the weapon.
Miss An brandished the netherworld sword!
One of the heads of the eight-headed great snake were instantly chopped off, and the snake groaned. "You aren't this island's people? Why are you assisting them? Even if you chop off my heads, they will regrow!"
Just when the eight-headed great snake began to feel complacent, its chopped off head was unable to regrow. The snake was startled, finding it impossible.
It had an inherent regenerative power, so how could it suddenly become unable to regrow its heads?
The divine cyan blade in Li Yunmu's hand turned into a green snake and tightly locked the body of the eight-headed great snake.
Underneath, the islanders were looking at him and Miss An with astonished gazes, cheering them with all their hearts.
"Heavenly gods have succeeded! They subdued the eight-headed great snake!"
"The two heavenly gods are extremely ferocious! From now on, we will worship them as our Fusang tribe's protector gods!"
"Long live Fusang! Long live heavenly gods!"
While the islanders got extremely excited, the eight-headed great snake suddenly said, "Do you think that chopping off my heads would exterminate me? Ha ha ha… too naive! I am undead! Undead!"
Upon hearing the words of the eight-headed great snake, Li Yunmu indifferently said, "Since you are unable to die, then we will seal you for eternity."
At some point in time, a mirror had appeared in Li Yunmu's hand. t It was given to him by the system, and its function was to seal all demonic beings in the world.
The eight-headed large snake who had been destroying people's lives for years could finally be dealth with.
Li Yunmu caught the reflection of the eight-headed great snake in the mirror, and the snake instantly turned into a ball of black air. It was sucked into the mirror with a miserable shout, and the great snake could be seen on its surface.
Li Yunmu pulled back the mirror and coldly snorted. "There are many methods to deal with you without needing to kill you."


By coincidence, Li Yunmu found a super machine from humanity’s age of darkness. From that point onwards, his ordinary life would never be the same! Aptitude? Innate talent? What are these? Could they be eaten? 
I have neither aptitude nor innate skill, but my shadow can level up using hacks.Experience, Ability points, battle prowess…….all of them could be hacked. Even while he is asleep or tired, he could still increase his skills.
[Ding, your shadow has killed an ant, you have gained experience points and ability points.]
[Ding, your shadow has successfully killed a dragonfly, it dropped a dimensional box.]
Crap, even killing insects can also increase his experience and get him rewards. What else!

　While Fang Yun was madly running in order to appease his heart, a piece of rather surprising news boarded the headlines of the local county forum.
　　Causing a lot of discussions among the local people. 
　　As a native of the poor Jiang County, Meng Ning often browsed the news of her hometown. This evening, after taking a shower, she went to her bed, as usual, picked up her phone and casually browsed through her hometown news.
　　Suddenly, a piece of news caught her attention.
　　Today, four adult men in our county went into the mountains. One of them was unfortunately bitten by a venomous snake and died at five o'clock in the afternoon.
　　Reading this article, Meng Ning was rather surprised, quickly browsing the details, interested in understanding the whole matter.
　　After completely browsing through the article, she finally understood the cause of this incident.
　　"A snake that is at least 3 or 4 meters long, which venomous snake is so long?"
　　While Meng Ning felt sympathy for the person bitten by the venomous snake, she couldn't help but wonder what snake could be so long. According to what she learned. King cobra is the only venomous snake that is that big.
　　But in the news, it was also said that the companion of the unlucky man gave him a king cobra's serum, but it didn't have the slightest effect.
　　"Haha, Xiao Ning, did you have a shower?"
　　The bedroom door was opened and a beautiful figure came in. It was Chen Meng, looking at Meng Ning in a bathrobe, she knew that she had just taken a shower, sitting next to her, she hugged her and sniffed deeply on her body.
　　"Ahh, fragrant."
　　After saying something that only a perverted man would say, ignoring Meng Ning judging eyes. Chen Meng glanced at the phone in Meng Ning's hand.
　　"Looking at the news of your hometown again, are you homesick?"
　　Chen Meng put her head on Meng Ning's shoulder, her big eyes staring straight at the screen of the mobile phone. After seeing the news that her bestie was reading, she got very surprised.
　　"Wulong Mountain, isn't that the mountain we went to last time?"
 
　　After Chen Meng snapped out of her surprise, she immediately remembered the snake they met in Wulong mountain previously.
      "Do poisonous snakes really exist there? right, now that I think about it, the snake we met previously shouldn't be poisonous, isn't it?"
　　A trace of fear couldn't help but rise in her heart;
　　Now that she thinks about it, the snake they met in their previous trip could have been poisonous, but because they were shocked by a snake and a squirrel living in the same nest, the fear in their heart mostly disappeared, all that was left is curiosity and wonder.
　　But now that she saw the news that someone was killed by a venomous snake, her fear of snakes came back. Now that she thinks about it, they were really courageous back then.
　　"The place where they went to is the deepest parts of the Wulong mountain range, the plants there are very lush, and they certainly did not bring snake powder, otherwise, they would not be so easily bitten by snakes."
　　Meng Ning gave Chen Meng her analysis.
　　In the mountains, as long as you don't actively crawl in the grass, it's hard to get bitten by snakes. Mostly because snakes flee after discovering people's presence, especially with snake powder, as snakes are very disgusted with its smell.
　　Meng Ning continued scrolling down, but when she read the comments below, she immediately became shocked, anger rising in her heart.
　　Originally, she was particularly sympathetic for this unlucky guy, feeling pity for him, but when she read the comments these emotions immediately dissipated.
　　Because the local people commented that these people did not go to Wulong mountain to enjoy the beauty of the wild, but likely went to hunt the animals there.
　　Some people commented that they know them and had seen them go multiple times to the mountains to hunt.
　　A guy even said that when these guys entered the hospital, he saw bloodstains on two companions of the bitten man. Seeing as no one was injured, he guessed that it's likely to be an animal's blood.
　　The more she read, the angrier Meng Ning felt. She couldn't help but feel that she was deceived, wasting her feelings of sympathy.
　　Chen Meng, who was sitting beside her, was also feeling angry. She is very disgusted with this kind of arbitrary hunting in the wild, This kind of behavior is not only dangerous to the animals in the mountain but also to the hunter himself.
　　She read in the news, some years ago, about two illegal hunters who had mistaken a young child, that was playing in the mountains as a rabbit, shooting and killing him. His parents that were not far from him were devastated. They didn't think that just a picnic in the mountains could end in such a tragedy.
　　In addition, arbitrarily killing animals without a care in the world is very disgusting.
　　The earth is the home of all of us, ecological protection depends on everyone.
　　Protecting the ecological environment means protecting ourselves.
　　While the two women were angrily reading the comments in their bedroom, in a remote house in southwest china, a young man wearing sunglasses and a black T-shirt walked out of the door.
　　Outside the door, his partner was waiting for him.
　　His partner was holding a mobile phone in his hand, turning the camera in the young man's direction.
　　Looking at the mobile phone screen, it's clearly a live broadcast.
 
　　Obviously, this young man is a streamer.
　　"Guys, I told you previously that I will go into the mountains to give you a science program about how to deal with King Cobras, but unfortunately, we didn't find any King Cobra in our previous trips;"
　　"This time we came to Jiang County to try our luck. I hear from a friend that he saw a King Cobra previously in this mountain."
　　"This time, I'm planning to stay in the mountains for a few days to see if I can meet with the King Cobra."
　　"Ah yes, I read the news yesterday, the local news. It said that four men went to the mountains, one of them was bitten by a venomous snake, and died. According to the description of the deceased companion, the snake that bit the man may be a King Cobra."
　　"We are going to the mountain where the man was bitten. If we meet a King Cobra, I will teach you how to deal with it, so that If you meet with that type of snake later, you wouldn't be a loss."
　　The young man in sunglasses talked to the camera. He is a well known outdoor streamer in the Tsukitake live broadcast platform. Unlike Chen Meng, a pseudo-outdoor streamer, he is a genuine outdoor streamer.
　　Most of his live broadcasts are carried in the wild.
　　And because he was born in a family that often dealt with snakes, he is very familiar with them so his live content is all about snakes, mostly venomous snakes, and pythons.
　　After Liu Wei finished his speech, on the screen of the mobile phone, various comments started to appear.
　　"I read the news that Wei brother said. A guy named Shao Qi was illegally hunting in the mountains when he was bitten by a venomous snake. I can only say that the heavens are clear, and karma clearly exists."
　　"Wei brother, you must prepare the serum, you must be careful or the cobra might complete its double kill."
　　"Hah, do you think Wei brother is that stupid illegal hunter? See how our Wei brother will play that King Cobra."
　　"Cobra King: please let me go Wei brother ~~~"
　　"Wei brother won't even need the serum, the King Cobra is nothing but a trifle."
　　The live room was very lively, everyone was in a heated discussion, with most people saying that the King Cobra is the one that is going to suffer. 
       Because Liu Wei went to several mountains but didn't find the Cobra King, they were very disappointed.
　　This time he is preparing to enter Wulong mountain, and it seems that there is a Cobra King in that mountain, so everyone is very excited and nervous.
 
　　Liu Wei looked at the comments on the mobile phone screen and couldn't help but smile.
　　Although most of his fans are joking, he knows that these funny fans are actually worried about his safety. For example, the last time he was scratched by the fangs of a cobra, most of his fans sent him a message asking about his condition, some even calling the authorities.
　　After saying goodbye to his fans, Liu Wei companion closed the live broadcast, then after making sure they didn't forget anything. they began marching toward Wulong Mountain, beginning their journey to find the Cobra King.

Fang Yun has become a snake and got a system, the system requires him to brush up to 10 million reputation values, or face eternal death. So Fang Yun began to crazily upgrade!

A beautiful outdoor streamer in the mountains, facing the camera and the live friends sending gifts but was caught by a one-meter-long python.

3,000 meters above the sea surface, Lake Logar is suspected of the appearance of water monsters, causing a large number of tourists to explore.

On the calm sea, a luxurious cruise ship is slowly moving forward. Visitors stood on the deck as the sea breeze blow. Suddenly, someone found that under the water behind their cruise ship, a black shadow hundred of meters long is following closely.

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This is not my story. I so not claim it as such and will thus not be turning on any sort of restrictions or locked chapters. 

I have tried to find the original author and translator, however I am unsure if I’ve found the right one. If they are wrong please do write it and I will change it. 

I have not found the original story and every site have different amounts of chapters so I will link the site on novel updates where you can find what I hope are the original author and translators.

Please do enjoy as this only meant to spread the story on to this platform.

Original author: 香蕉气吁吁
Translator: Banana Panting

Site where I found the book and pertaining information: https://www.mtlnovel.com/all-realms-start-with-python/

 A day later.
    The extraordinary convergence of various roads as expected by the Security Bureau did not happen.
    Director An was very satisfied with this and couldn't help drinking two more bottles of psychoactive drugs.
    This at least shows that whether it is the Federal Parliament or the Security Agency, it can temporarily deter all extraordinary.
    Of course, it has something to do with Monternet's opening of the live broadcast function. Otherwise, there may be many brave guys coming to the scene to cheer for Chen Xuan.
    As the day of the fight approached, the Dreamland Forum did not know when, and began to create a weird trend.
    Many people posted that Chen Xuan and the Security Bureau's fighting method was a turning point for the extraordinary on the stage of history. If they lose, the extraordinary will be subject to the Federal Assembly, and if they win, the extraordinary can gain more power.
    This argument is in line with what all transcendents think and think.
    The Security Bureau found through investigation that this group of people was the same group as the one who proposed the three-on-three method.
    "Check! Check it out for me! I want to see who has the courage to add to the flames."
    Director An was once a top federal agent, and he naturally had a hostility towards enemies hidden in the dark.
    The unknown forces seemed to want to provoke the contradiction between the Federation and the transcendent, and even further wondered whether they wanted to subvert the existing order of Blue Star.
    "Tomorrow's fight, you can win but not defeat!"
    "Director, what if you fail?"
    "The council has authorized it. If it fails, the thirteen clans will be sent."
    Chief An's voice is cold, without the slightest intention to kill, as if the thirteen clans are over The lives and deaths of thousands of people are just commonplace.
    Of course, the Security Bureau has considered failure, and even if the probability is extremely low, it needs to be remedied immediately.
    In a blink of an eye it came the day of fighting.
    The sky is clear, the breeze is smooth, and the scenery of Yanhu Lake is just right.
    Three streams of light descended from the sky, and the leader's complexion was scorched and sad, and the clothes on his body were ordinary, like extraordinary and more like an old farmer.
    Behind a monk together, it is the Taiqing Palace Xuanyi, the asceticism of the Great Buddha Temple.
    The Second Sect of Buddhism and Taoism received the news of the fight, and sent the first two people to practice. Their strength is second to none in Buddhism and Taoism.
    Chen Xuan, Shen Congge, and Li Du three islands on a flat area of ​​several tens of feet, after being leveled by the security bureau, it was used as the battle arena.
    "Yang Buyi, temporarily lead the consultant of the Security Bureau." The
    middle-aged farmer said: "This is Taoist
    Xuanyi, a master of hardship." Chen Xuan and Shen Congge bowed their hands to the court, and Li Du snorted coldly, his expression gloomy.
    Xuan Yi stepped forward and said, "This time the battle is the first battle from the poor road." With a
    flash, Xuan Yi fell into the ring.
    "Mavericks nose, I think you are not pleasing to your eyes."
    Li Du's figure is twisted, his movements are like snakes, and his speed is extremely fast.
    ...
    Dreamland Forum.
    Live section.
    After the fight started, two live broadcast rooms appeared immediately.
    One is the security bureau with Xuan Yi as the protagonist, and the other is Chen Xuan with Li Du as the protagonist.
    Tens of millions and hundreds of millions of people flooded into the two live broadcast rooms in an instant, and countless people have long been waiting for today's fighting method.
    Due to the prohibition of speaking in the live broadcast room of the Security Bureau, the number of people in the live broadcast room of Chen Xuan far exceeded the former, and countless people discussed the outcome.
    ——It's open and open!
    --the first!
    ——Li Du is jealous that drives me crazy? I don't know how powerful it is.
    ——The Taoist of the Taiqing Palace is so handsome.
    ——Not so handsome at first, but Li Du is too ugly.
    ...
    The barrage speech enveloped the screen for an instant, and the barrage had to be closed to see how they were fighting.
    Li Du's figure flickered, his arms turned into giant snake tails, each time he drew on the ground, he made a rumbling sound.
    Xuan Yi had a few talisman seals on his body, swiftly lightening his body and concentrating attentively... the gain state was full, and he could easily avoid the snake tail attack.
    "Can you avoid two and win ten?"
    Li Du saw the runes on Xuanyi's body, each of which was worth at least a few sacred coins. At the beginning of the battle, more than a dozen sacred coins were spent.
    Getting rich can easily cause jealousy.
    Jealousy distorted Li Du's face, his arms suddenly diverged, and they turned into five snake tails, like ten-clawed octopuses.
    Rumble!
    Ten snake tails fought, limited by the ring, Xuan Yi could no longer dodge.
    "Fire!"
    Xuan Yishou pinched Fa Jue and gave an order, and a raging flame ignited on the ground.
    This flame is extraordinary, red with purple, can easily burn gold and iron.
    Zi Zi Zi!
    Li Du made a sound of burning grease.
    From the beginning of the battle, the Security Bureau had hinted that there was no need to care about the life or death of the opponent.
    "Hiss!"
    Li Du hesitated and vomited, spitting out a black icy mist, protecting him from the flames.
    "Lei Lai!"
    A thousand-year-old spirit wood magic sword appeared in Xuan Yi's hand, and the tip of the sword shone purple thunder light, lasing out.
    Thunder to Sun, the most restrained against demons and evils, easily penetrated Li Du's cold mist, leaving a scorched black on his chest.
    This is not the end, one after another thunder, Li Du's body is covered with scars in an instant.
    "Jealous, driving me crazy!"
    Li Du was hit hard by this, and instead of languishing, his breath continued to grow stronger.
    The snake's tail waved and raised several feet high waves from Yanhu Lake, surging and scouring from the shore of the country.
    Xuan Yi took out a jade bottle without a hassle, opened the cork, and the mana
    turned : "Come!" The waves turned into lake water, and they were placed in the jade bottle. It was gently shaken, and there was less than half a bottle of water.
    Between the rabbits and falcons, there are three rounds of fighting.
    Dreamland live broadcast has exploded in popularity, and both Xuan Yi, who has the upper hand, or Li Du, who has been repeatedly suppressed, is far beyond ordinary and extraordinary.
    ——We are practicing martial arts, people are cultivating immortals!
    ——We cut with big swords, and others play flying swords!
    ——Nine adults decided their destiny as soon as they were born. I thought that being extraordinary could change, but the result was still the same!
    ——A cultivation technique for immortality, a perverted talent.
    ——Great Lord of Dreams, please grant fairness!
    -Absolute fairness is the greatest unfairness.
    ——Is Li Du going to lose?
    ——It is not the strength that loses, but the lack of krypton.
    ...In the
    process of discussion, various rewards continued one after another.
    More than 100 million people watched the live broadcast, and the number of rewarding stars is innumerable. Occasionally, one or two rewarding gods will be highlighted.
    At this time, the fighting scene, another change occurred.
    Li Du was constantly struck by thunder and fire, his breath continued to expand, and eventually his human form was changed.
    The human head turns into a snake. First, the ten snake tails formed by the arms are integrated into the body, and the legs become a snake tail.
    In a blink of an eye, in the flames and lightning, the original human became a black giant snake several feet long.
    Hiss--
    The scales of the giant snake easily resisted the thunder flames, staring at Xuan Yi with green pupils, spraying purple black venom with his mouth open.
    "Guard!"
    Xuan Yi's expression changed, calling out a shield magic weapon to block him.
    Zi La Zi La sound kept sounding, and the shining shield magical
    weapon was a day later.
    The extraordinary convergence of various roads as expected by the Security Bureau did not happen.
    Director An was very satisfied with this and couldn't help drinking two more bottles of psychoactive drugs.
    This at least shows that whether it is the Federal Parliament or the Security Agency, it can temporarily deter all extraordinary.
    Of course, it has something to do with Monternet's opening of the live broadcast function. Otherwise, there may be many brave guys coming to the scene to cheer for Chen Xuan.
    As the day of the fight approached, the Dreamland Forum did not know when, and began to create a weird trend.
    Many people posted that Chen Xuan and the Security Bureau's fighting method was a turning point for the extraordinary on the stage of history. If they lose, the extraordinary will be subject to the Federal Assembly, and if they win, the extraordinary can gain more power.
    This argument is in line with what all transcendents think and think.
    The Security Bureau found through investigation that this group of people was the same group as the one who proposed the three-on-three method.
    "Check! Check it out for me! I want to see who has the courage to add to the flames."
    Director An was once a top federal agent, and he naturally had a hostility towards enemies hidden in the dark.
    The unknown forces seemed to want to provoke the contradiction between the Federation and the transcendent, and even further wondered whether they wanted to subvert the existing order of Blue Star.
    "Tomorrow's fight will win and not defeat!"
    " Director, what if it fails?"     "The council has authorized it. If it fails, the 13 clans will be sent."

    Director An's voice was cold, without the slightest intention of killing, as if the life and death of the thirteen clans with more than thousands of people was just ordinary.
    Of course, the Security Bureau has considered failure, and even if the probability is extremely low, it needs to be remedied immediately.
    In a blink of an eye it came the day of fighting.
    The sky is clear, the breeze is smooth, and the scenery of Yanhu Lake is just right.
    Three streams of light descended from the sky, and the leader's complexion was scorched and sad, and the clothes on his body were ordinary, like extraordinary and more like an old farmer.
    Behind a monk together, it is the Taiqing Palace Xuanyi, the asceticism of the Great Buddha Temple.
    The Second Sect of Buddhism and Taoism received the news of the fight, and sent the first two people to practice. Their strength is second to none in Buddhism and Taoism.
    Chen Xuan, Shen Congge, and Li Du three islands on a flat area of ​​several tens of feet, after being leveled by the security bureau, it was used as the battle arena.
    "Yang Buyi, temporarily lead the consultant of the Security Bureau." The
    middle-aged farmer said: "This is Taoist
    Xuanyi, a master of hardship." Chen Xuan and Shen Congge bowed their hands to the court, and Li Du snorted coldly, his expression gloomy.
    Xuan Yi stepped forward and said, "This time the battle is the first battle from the poor road." With a
    flash, Xuan Yi fell into the ring.
    "Mavericks nose, I think you are not pleasing to your eyes."
    Li Du's figure is twisted, his movements are like snakes, and his speed is extremely fast.
    ...
    Dreamland Forum.
    Live section.
    After the fight started, two live broadcast rooms appeared immediately.
    One is the security bureau with Xuan Yi as the protagonist, and the other is Chen Xuan with Li Du as the protagonist.
    Tens of millions and hundreds of millions of people flooded into the two live broadcast rooms in an instant, and countless people have long been waiting for today's fighting method.
    Due to the prohibition of speaking in the live broadcast room of the Security Bureau, the number of people in the live broadcast room of Chen Xuan far exceeded the former, and countless people discussed the outcome.
    ——It's open and open!
    --the first!
    ——Li Du is jealous that drives me crazy? I don't know how powerful it is.
    ——The Taoist of the Taiqing Palace is so handsome.
    ——Not so handsome at first, but Li Du is too ugly.
    ...In an
    instant, the barrage speech enveloped the screen, and the barrage had to be closed to see how the two were fighting.
    Li Du's figure flickered, his arms turned into giant snake tails, each time he drew on the ground, he made a rumbling sound.
    Xuan Yi had a few talisman seals on his body, swiftly lightening his body and concentrating attentively... the gain state was full, and he could easily avoid the snake tail attack.
    "Can you avoid two and win ten?"
    Li Du saw the runes on Xuanyi's body, each of which was worth at least a few sacred coins. At the beginning of the battle, more than a dozen sacred coins were spent.
    Getting rich can easily cause jealousy.
    Jealousy distorted Li Du's face, his arms suddenly diverged, and they turned into five snake tails, like ten-clawed octopuses.
    Rumble!
    Ten snake tails fought, limited by the ring, Xuan Yi could no longer dodge.
    "Fire!"
    Xuan Yishou pinched Fa Jue and gave an order, and a raging flame ignited on the ground.
    This flame is extraordinary, red with purple, can easily burn gold and iron.
    Zi Zi Zi!
    Li Du made a sound of burning grease.
    From the beginning of the battle, the Security Bureau had hinted that there was no need to care about the life or death of the opponent.
    "Hiss!"
    Li Du hesitated and vomited, spitting out a black icy mist, protecting him from the flames.
    "Thunder!"
    A thousand-year-old spirit wood magic sword appeared in Xuan Yi's hand, and the tip of the sword gleamed with purple thunder light and shot out.
    Thunder to Sun, the most restrained against demons and evils, easily penetrated Li Du's cold mist, leaving a scorched black on his chest.
    This is not the end, one after another thunder, Li Du's body is covered with scars in an instant.
    "Jealousy makes me crazy!"
    Li Du was hit hard by this, and instead of languishing, his breath continued to grow stronger.
    The snake's tail waved and raised several feet high waves from Yanhu Lake, surging and scouring from the shore of the country.
    Xuan Yi took out a jade bottle without a hassle, opened the cork, and the mana
    turned : "Come!" The waves turned into lake water, and they were placed in the jade bottle. It was gently shaken, and there was less than half a bottle of water.
    Between the rabbits and falcons, there are three rounds of fighting.
    Dreamland live broadcast has exploded in popularity, and both Xuan Yi, who has the upper hand, or Li Du, who has been repeatedly suppressed, is far beyond ordinary and extraordinary.
    ——We are practicing martial arts, people are cultivating immortals!
    ——We cut with big swords, and others play flying swords!
    ——Nine adults decided their destiny as soon as they were born. I thought that being extraordinary could change, but the result was still the same!
    ——A cultivation technique for immortality, a perverted talent.
    ——Great Lord of Dreams, please grant fairness!
    -Absolute fairness is the greatest unfairness.
    ——Is Li Du going to lose?
    ——It is not the strength that loses, but the lack of krypton.
    ...In the
    process of discussion, various rewards continued one after another.
    More than 100 million people watched the live broadcast, and the number of rewarding stars is innumerable. Occasionally, one or two rewarding gods will be highlighted.
    At this time, the fighting scene, another change occurred.
    Li Du was constantly struck by thunder and fire, his breath continued to expand, and eventually his human form was changed.
    The human head turns into a snake. First, the ten snake tails formed by the arms are integrated into the body, and the legs become a snake tail.
    In a blink of an eye, in the flames and lightning, the original human became a black giant snake several feet long.
    Hissing-the
    scales of the giant snake easily resist the thunder flames, staring at Xuan Yi with green pupils, spraying purple black venom with his mouth open.
    "Guard!"
    Xuan Yi's expression changed, calling out a shield magic weapon to block him.
    Zi La Zi La sound constantly sounded,
    and in the process of discussing in Lingguang Yiyi's view of shields and instruments , UU read www.uukanshu. Comm all kinds of rewards one after another.
    More than 100 million people watched the live broadcast, and the number of rewarding stars is innumerable. Occasionally, one or two rewarding gods will be highlighted.
    At this time, the fighting scene, another change occurred.
    Li Du was constantly struck by thunder and fire, his breath continued to expand, and eventually his human form was changed.
    The human head turns into a snake. First, the ten snake tails formed by the arms are integrated into the body, and the legs become a snake tail.
    In a blink of an eye, in the flames and lightning, the original human became a black giant snake several feet long.
    Hissing-the
    scales of the giant snake easily resist the thunder flames, staring at Xuan Yi with green pupils, spraying purple black venom with his mouth open.
    "Guard!"
    Xuan Yi's expression changed, calling out a shield magic weapon to block him.
    The sound of zila zila keeps on sounding, the magical shield magical weapon that shines brightly

***NOT MY NOVEL ORIGINAL AUTHOR AND RAW LINK BELOW******
After Xiao Ding passed through, he became a librarian, accidentally integrated the godhead, and became the only god of the Blue Star Federation... Behind the scenes + virtual game creation + aura recovery + main god construction + heavenly players! ps: The protagonist is accustomed to shrinking behind the scenes, and is not online every day. ps: The main god recruits people online, granting opportunities including but not limited to crossing, rebirth, system, etc.

Author: 吾乃梦境之主
RAW LINK: https://m.qidian.com/book/1023730159

Fang De, the old fox, received the sword talisman in Fang Jie's hand, and then gave a jade slip to Fang Jie as a token, which meant nothing to Fang Jie's direct descendant. He also directed Fang Jie to the inn in Qingmufang to rest for one night. Knowing that Fang Jie was robbed of his storage bag, he did not give Fang Jie a piece of spirit stone. It seemed that Fang Jie didn't mention it, and asked him if he didn't know it.

However, speaking of spirit stones, Fang Jie still had three pieces on his body, but the cost of the three pieces of spirit stones was a bit high. Fang Jie lost three Snake Ivy seeds in exchange for it.

After finally coming out, Fang Jie didn't want to roll back into the family bird cage after handing in the task like this. At Laixing Inn, Fang Jie found a room of the lowest class and stayed in.

As long as you don't consume, a low-grade spirit stone can only live for one day in Laixing Inn, and it is the lowest-grade one. The reason why the charge is so high is that the location of Laixing Inn has just been built on a small spiritual vein.

If you live in such an inn, live better, with two low-grade spirit stones. The highest room rents ten low-grade spirit stones a day. If you want to taste fruit, spirit wine, immortal food, etc. At the end of the day, not a single middle-grade spirit stone is not enough.

The room is not big, about five or six square meters. In such a place, the room seems to be designed by a special person, and one person lives in one room. Otherwise, the person has a piece of spiritual stone. There are more than a dozen people, so what else does the inn rely on for income!

Fang Jie locked the door and activated the phantom array in the room. The phantom array itself had no effect. It was only able to isolate others and scan with God's consciousness.

Of course, with Fang Jie's current level of immortal cultivation, he would naturally not understand what divine consciousness is. That thing was created by breaking through the twelfth level of the Qi training period, which is the Great Perfection state of the Qi training period.

After finishing this, Fang Jie sat on the bed and said to Mu Lao with his mind: "Mu, are you there?" Mu Lao replied, "Master, where the old slave has been all the time!"

Fang Jie asked, "Mu, you said you still have a lot of snake green vine seeds, don't you?" Mu said proudly, "Of course, don't you look at my body?"

Fang Jie said, "Then, I would like to ask, what is the use of this snake vine. Why are others vying for it!" Mu Lao said, "Master, your words are too bad for the old slave. That's too much!" After Mr. Mu's explanation, Fang Jie discovered that he had such a huge wealth in his hands, but he didn't know it.

Speaking of Snake Ivy, it turned out to be a natural magic weapon, so I can use Snake Ivy to attack. Under normal circumstances, if you want to use Snake Ivy as a weapon. That sucks to make Snake Qingteng recognize the master.

After the Tongue Qingteng recognizes it, he can be with his master, and the master can command the Snake Qingteng to attack others at will. It's like Mu Lao and the prison now. I don't know that he was the first master of the prison system. He regards Mu Lao as the main prison. Although Mu Lao's current Xiu $ lewd novel has reached its shape, But they can't get rid of the control of prison.

Now Fang Jie became the master of the prison, and naturally became the master of Mu Lao, that is to say, now Fang Jie can command Mu Lao to attack at will.

Of course, this is the theory, but I don't know if Mu Lao is willing to listen to Fang Jie's command. As for the snake green vine seeds, they are naturally cultivated. If they are well cultivated, it is like getting a powerful assistant. After all, the snake green vine is an evolving biological spirit weapon.

When Fang Jie mentioned the snake green vine seed to Mu Lao, he was thinking of this kind of child. Now he heard Mu Lao say that this kind of child is so powerful, Fang Jie felt a little reluctant.

Of course, there is a prison in his body. This matter must not be exposed. For the safety of the prison, Mu Lao's existence naturally cannot be exposed. Fang Jie secretly made such a decision in his heart. Said: "Mu Lao, give me two seeds, how can I let the seeds germinate, how can I make the seeds I planted recognize me as the master."

Mr. Mu laughed and said: "Master, you want my children to germinate, as long as they are buried on the ground in the prison. There is no land more suitable for planting than here. As for the children to recognize you as Regarding the Lord's affairs, look at the old slaves, this is not necessary, as long as there are old slaves, they will listen to the master."

Fang Jie said with joy when he heard the words: "Really, that would be great. Mr. Mu, thank you!" Mr. Mu said: "If you can see the accident with your own child with your own eyes, the old slave should thank you, the master. If not, The master's approval, the old slave dare not plant the children."

Fang Jie listened to Mu Lao's sincerely moving voice, and didn't know what to say, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "It's Mu Lao, the open space of your prison can be used to grow things. Does that mean you can grow anything? come out."

Mu Lao said, "Of course, let alone plants, even Lingshi can be planted here." Fang Jie heard such exaggerated claims by Mu Lao, and said in surprise, "Mu, what did you say, even Lingshi Stones can be planted here. Just kidding!"

Mr. Mu said solemnly: "Master, you don't know that. The land here is not ordinary land. As for what kind of land it is, the old slave doesn't know what it is. In short, what do you get?"

Fang Jie dubiously put aside Mu Lao's somewhat phony words, then took out a childlike fruit from the storage bag, controlled his mind, and took the childlike fruit into the prison space. Said: "Mu Lao, you said the land here is so magical, I don't know if this kind of childlike fruit can be planted."

Mr. Mu said, "You can plant it, as long as there is enough aura in the prison space. And it will definitely be able to live!" Fang Jie listened and said, "How should I plant it!" Mu Lao said, "Dig a hole and bury it. Go down."

Fang Jie didn't feel any distress for the childlike fruit of ten low-grade spirit stones of this value, so he buried it underground. Mr. Mu said, "If you want to grow this childlike fruit, you have to bury it in the ground. You have to splash water on it."

Fang Jie said: "Can ordinary water work?" Mu Lao said, "Master, ordinary water can't work, it can only be the magical water around these things."

Fang Jie said, "Well, don't you say Mr. Mu, that the water around these surroundings can be melted by touching it with your hand? Then how can I get the water!" Mr. Mu smiled and said, "Master, the old slave is talking about other people. Instead of you, the master, everything here belongs to the master. How can you, the master!"

Fang Jie fished around the water like the sea with his hands, and found that it was cold. Then he came back with a hug of water in his hand and sprinkled it on the soil where the child's heart fruit was just planted.

It's strange to say that after the magical water was raised, the place where the child's heart fruit was buried suddenly arched, as if something was about to break out of the ground. Following that, Fang Jie took out another yellow papaya. The classmate buried it and sprinkled it with magical water.

Fang Jie sat on the ground and waited for about a quarter of an hour. Suddenly, he saw only one sprout popping out of the soil. It didn't stop growing until it reached ten miles long. And where the yellow papaya was planted, seven or eight sprouts burst out of the soil. The reason why there are seven or eight sprouts, this may be related to the seven or eight seeds of the yellow papaya! 

Everyone is guilty, the crime world is condemned, and when U enter my prison, Ur life and death are my responsibility! ??? Fang Jie, who is also a cultivator, accidentally got an upgradeable prison. With A Invincible Prison System..After countless years of hard work, his prison became a prison for the cultivator! ??? "Are you a cultivator? I'm sorry, this is the place to control the life and death of the cultivator!" ??? jail! ??? The beheader? jail! ??? Bully? jail! ??? The heinous man? jail! ??? Anyone who commits such crimes must go to prison; except for Fang Jie Because It's His PRISON. There is no second way! ??? The paradise of mortals, the sorrow of immortal cultivators; immortals All hate This Place...!

I talked with Gralman about the situation with Voldemort's horcruxes and the preservation of the artifacts that were perverted for his evil plans. Secrecy was necessary for dealing with the situation to ensure mutual survival so those involved took oaths. Once we successfully removed the horcrux from the cup I immediately read through its magical signature to learn how it was created and what it could do. Just a single drop of a potion or beverage was needed to allow the cup to fill up with a never ending supply. In fact, the potion itself would become more refined resulting in a greater effect while any drink would be become packed with nutrients without changing the taste. I took out a rare Body Strengthening potion from my storage and let a single drop fall. With a sip I felt empowered and then proceeded to chug as much of the pineapple flavored liquid as I wanted. Feeling my physical form change into something foreign to this dimension's supernatural societal standards of strength was addictive. Gralman watched me with intrigue before becoming a bit startled at my nonverbal offer of the drink by passing the cup to him.

Needless to say, once he realized the potion's effect he chugged it the same way I did just moments earlier. He looked at me and then the cup before cursing up a storm in the goblin tongue. I was handed back the cup by the giddy account manager. "Sebastion, I must thank you. Strength and skill are the most important qualities in the goblin nation so by sharing that wondrous elixir you have ensured my ability to protect my family if there are ever any great dangers in our future. In goblin society, sharing the cup you drank from with another is a sign of forming a bond between equals. You didn't know of that but I'm sure no other wizard has done the same as a result of their belief of magical creatures being beneath them."

"Um I'm certainly surprised by your words but I already respected you so I don't think this actually changes anything between us, Gralman. Using my first name does feel more comfortable than that 'Lord Black' title though..."

"Grahahahaha you're a fine lad, Sebastion. Let's get on to the Slytherin vault. I'm sure you're eager to see what is inside."

Somehow Hufflepuff's cup could hold whatever was inside regardless of outside gravity so on the long way down to the Slytherin vault I enjoyed some chocolate milk. I've been storing a lot of different things for any occasion so I decided to include literal tons of food and drink. It is clearly becoming a pattern where I require food after doing intense magic while also being able to eat without limit. I assume my core is still that of a young child that has only recently awakened his magic so despite my Inexhaustible Mana allowing for whatever phenomena I can visualize while focusing my intent, the ability to process that amount with such complexity is very taxing on the body. Makes for great training though so I don't mind. Besides, that Body Strengthening potion will solve part of the issue even though the process of it affecting my physical form has temporarily compounded to further worsen my need for sustenance. My affinity with the aspect of Space might be where my limitless capacity for food comes from. Thankfully the cup makes it much easier to have my fill. 'Maybe I should try making something similar for food in the future?' I was brought away from my thoughts by our arrival to the Slytherin vault.

It was a solemn moment for us to enter the vault but Gralman wouldn't go through the first room because of his ancestor's written warning of anyone not of Slytherin blood dying when they reached the threshold and turning to dust once they collapsed where they stood. Might be some sinister magic but you can't help respecting a man going to great lengths to protect what is his and his family's. The inside of the vault was grand in design as well as size. A short walk brought me to a table that showed a map of the vault with sparkling pins at every noted section. It was too much to explore even for a whole year. A golden pin was placed at the farthest point of the map with the illusory floating words 'Heir's Inheritance' taking all of my attention. Just in case, I memorize the map as well as send my magic throughout the entire vault to allow myself to fully influence the space with my intent if needed. The pin is pulled but I still see the same map in front of me. It took only a small fraction of a second to realize I am somewhere different. A fast travel function for the vault is useless for me but no doubt would have been necessary for any other individual.

The room I now find myself in is filled to the brim with books, rolls of parchment, magical artifacts, equipment, preserved rare ingredients, unending mountains of gold and there is even a large cage where a snake seemed to be sleeping. This snake looks like a green anaconda except with ridges going down its spine and spots along the back that look like golden suns.  An altar where a ring and a black book were enshrined was closest to me. Without hesitation I place the ring on the middle finger of my right hand. A simple silver band with the Slytherin coat of arms. Though it is modest in design I feel immense magical power within this family ring. With this ring I get the feeling that all harmful potions, poisons, and venoms will be ineffective on me. There are numerous smaller charms on it like always having fresh breath, more billowy robes, better timing for snake puns and a vastly more complex system of muscles within the tongue. I've suddenly become an even bigger fan of that Salazar guy than I already was. He knew what was most important. I send the black book into my storage while I let out a chuckle which awakens the sleeping snake in the cage filled with plants and stones that emit sunlight. Those eyes are shiny yellow orbs filled with both surprise and hope.

"~Oh sorry, did I wake you?"

"~You...speak?"

"~Uh yeah. I'm a speaker."

"~I listen."

"~Exactly how long have you been in here?"

"~I know not. ~Sleep...lonely. ~Salazar here leave. ~Salazar where gone?"

Oh this is breaking my heart. "~Salazar died nine centuries ago."

"~I see... ~Selena where gone?"

"~Who is Selena?"

"~Familiar. ~Teacher. ~Mother."

"~I don't know. ~Familiars live as long as their master..."

"~Mother alive not. ~Live not long. ~Mother normal."

"~Normal?"

"~Father live long. ~I live long..."

"~I understand. ~Living so long while trapped is lonely and boring."

"~You live long? ~You not young?"

"~Hahaha I lived many lives. ~Alone and isolated in all. After my most recent one I was even dead for too long."

"~You lie not?"

"~No. I can show you proof?"

"~You proof show? ~Please..."

I used my version of the mind arts I developed in the past to share some memories of my lives. Mainly about myself and the way I had to spend my time. I included memories of how this world of theirs is now.

"~You not lie. ~I something ask?"

"~Sure."

"~I familiar become? ~Us live long. ~...Friends become? ~Us not lonely."

'.....this snake is so damn cute.' "~Yes. ~We'll be friends. ~You'll be my familiar. ~What is your name?"

"Name not have. ~Mother say...Master choose."

'Is her speech subtly changing a little because of the memories? Wait...her? How did I know tha-Oh we're already starting the bonding!' "Your name... Your name will be Stacia."

"~Stacia...name pretty. ~Thank you."

I feel a permanent connection forming between us, giving Stacia a consistent amount of my mana. It disperses throughout her body while larger amounts saturate in her scales and especially in the spots that look like suns. "I'm going to open the cage so you can get out okay?"

"Yes, Master."

After opening the metal door, Stacia eagerly slithers off her perch and comes towards me. She nuzzles the hand I offer before climbing my arm and wrapping around my shoulders. Seemingly content with snuggling against me and resting her head on top of mine. 

"~Master warm. ~We outside go...please?"

"~Yeah, I've already got everything important so we can go outside now."

"~Outside! ~Outside! ~Yes. ~Us sun enjoy? ~...eat maybe?"

"~Sure. ~What do you want to eat, Stacia?"

"~Mother say...swine tasty. ~Us eat...swine? ~Alive not matter. ~Mother say...cooked very tasty. ~Stacia not hunt before."

"~I'll cook for you then. ~You can eat as much as you want."

"~Yessss. ~Stacia lots eats~!"

This is a story about a cheaty main character from our dimension exploring the wizarding world while trying not to get a bad ending. Using everything he can remember to his advantage is obvious but that is not going to stop him from changing the plot.

"I'll kill you, you bastard!" I yelled as a threw dirt in Long Jingluo's face. Did I? My glasses were broken and on the floor.
"Ugh!" Long Jingluo fell on the ground again.
It was a bit blurry and dark, my vision was not helping.
It seems like Long Jingluo was staring at something. A tree stick? But it was bending... a rope? He stood up and threw it at my chest, lightly. I grab it with both of my hands. The rope was strangely warm, the texture was rough like fish scales, and it's moving... moving?
I quickly threw it away and started to panic.
It was a snake! Definitely a snake! It was slithering in my hands! The way how they move without legs? Disgusting! Burn it! Kill it! Stab it! Don't let it get close to me! The skin texture was horrible! Worse than sandpaper! Ew! I just touched it!

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Long Jingluo noticed a snake slithering around in the dark. From the color and the scale patterns, it wasn't venomous. He stood up and threw the snake. He thought it would be funny, but his conscience started to kick him. Xie Feihao had always been afraid of reptiles, but the person right in front of him couldn't be Xie Feihao. It would be fine... right?
A few seconds passed as he silently watched. There wasn't any reaction from Xie Feihao. Long Jingluo got slightly upset that his predictions were correct.
As he was about to conclude, Xie Feihao dropped the snake and ran behind him. Long Jingluo jumped from Xie Feihao's sudden movement.
"Ew! Ew! Ew! Get that thing away from me! I just touched it!" Xie Feihao yelled and panicked, "Kill that thing with fire!"
Long Jingluo raised both of his hands to head-level unconsciously. That was how he reacted in the past when he was a child. He and Xie Feihao used to play in the back garden at the age of 8, looking for crickets and insects. That came to a stop when they found a large snapping turtle. It had almost snapped Xie Feihao's finger off when he tried to feed it.
There were many encounters with reptiles after that incident, but it never ended well for Xie Feihao. He was never good with animals, after all.
Long Jingluo imagined the snack cursed Xie Feihao in his head before it slithered away. "It's gone. Calm down!" Long Jingluo told Xie Feihao. He turned his head to find Xie Feihao wiping his hands on Long Jingluo's jacket.
Long Jingluo froze. He expected Xie Feihao to cry.
A shadow appeared behind them. Long Jingluo turned his head back; it was Yang Li. Long Jingluo thought Xie Feihao's scream must have caught Yang Li's attention.
"Haohao, what are you doing?" Yang Li asked while holding a flashlight, noticed what the two of them are doing.
"Baptizing my hands." Xie Feihao replied while glaring at both of his hands.
Yang Li started to burst out laughing, "I came because I thought someone was dying, but you freak out because of a lizard!" His laughter caught Li Honglie and Li Feifei's attention.
"It was worse! A snake! A snake I'll tell you! It was slithering in my hands!"

"So Xie Feihao's weakness are snakes." Li Honglie had a dark expression on her face, "I'll keep that on my mind." Then she started to laugh menacingly.
"Was it venomous?" Li Feifei asked as she hid behind Li Honglie.
Long Jingluo thought it was strange that he felt relief.

"So you two fought in the forest? And you lost? Ha!" Li Honglie laughed as she pointed at Xie Feihao from the backseat next to Li Feifei.
"Shut up." Xie Feihao mumbled while a part of his cheek was covered in bandages.
Long Jingluo was confused. Why is Xie Feihao angry? A third of his face was covered in bandages.
"Haohao, what did you do to him? He looks irritated!" Yang Li had tried to keep his voice down so Long Jingluo won't be able to hear, but he failed.
Long Jingluo, who was in the front passenger seat, turned his head to glare at them, but the only response he'd received was a laugh from Li Honglie, "Look at his face!" She burst out.
In the midst of the cacophony caused by Li Honglie and Yang Li, Long Jingluo heard a mumbled from Xie Feihao, "No, I'm not him."

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Li Honglie woke up late, but she thought it didn't matter since it was the start of the summer vacation. She sluggishly crawled out of bed and into the bathroom, but the first thing she'd seen was the horrendousness of her hair.
She'd brushed them straight, but no matter what she had done, the curls always come back. Li Honglie quickly changed herself into something both fashionable and comfortable. As she opened the guest bedroom door, she took a glance at another door on the other end of the hallway.
It hasn't been long since Li Honglie's parents tried to convince her to go back home, but she insisted to stay with Zhao Lili. Li Honglie never liked how her father ordered her around. After all, it's a once in a lifetime choice to live with a famous retired actress.
Normally, there would be waves of laughter or complaints, but Xie Feihao had been awfully quiet today.
Li Honglie ignored the silence, turned to her left, and walked down the stairs. It'd seem like the nanny of the house had prepared some meal for her.
"Good morning." Li Honglie nodded.
"Miss, it's almost noon." Noon? Since when?
"Where's Xie Feihao today?" Li Honglie asked. Why was Xie Feihao so silent today? Did he run off somewhere with idiotic Yang Li?
"He went to a family meeting because of some rumours on social media." The nanny gave a detailed report. She'd thought Li Honglie wasn't a stranger, since she did live in this house for a while now.
Li Honglie took out her phone with curiosity, but when she noticed her phone had been on silence the whole time, she realized why Xie Feihao was very quiet today.
There were fourteen phone calls and 23 messages from Yang Li.

Xie Feihao is a confident young girl with manhua and novel addiction, and she never had any interest in romantic relationships. She planned to have a casual high school life, but her accident didn't even let her finish her first year.
When Xie Feihao woke up with blurry eyesight and an unfamiliar hospital room, her soul fell into another world.
Now Xie Feihao is a boy with the same name as her, but his personality as exactly different from hers!
Being the confident girl she is, Xie Feihao accepted her death and decided to gamble in this 'little game' of this world's characters.

Note: The only reason this is under female lead is because of chapter 1 and the story is similar to FL drama

in a forest there was hundreds of cultivator surrounding a man wearing a snake mask and long black daoist robe.

 "as you can see snake King we have you surrounded with all the enemies you have made it was quite easy to get some alliances with a lot of them." said by one of the people "give us the heaven ascending pill it we will let you live."


under the mask of the snake his eyes turning colder by the second he looks at his ring of holding 'do I really have to use the pill by swallowing it will lead me to hearing judgement upon me' he furrow's his brows looking at the people which have surrounded him he grabs his sword tightly with determination in his eyes he swallows the pill.


the people that surrounded the snake king saw this "quickly kill him" suddenly the sky rumbles like the heaven's showing judgement on criminals from the clouds came an immesurable amount of giant closed fist came raining down towards everyone in the vicinity the cultivators seeing this quickly tried to run away use all kinds of means.


the masked man seeing this sigh in relief then looks at the closed fist that's larger than the rest coming straight at him he points his sword to the giant fist forming a phantom image of large snake hissing towards the heavens the masked man body suddenly being covered with armor like scales leaving his mask being shown and eyes changing to snake ones he jumps straight to the giant fist slashing his sword a phantom like snake materializes shooting towards the giant fist.

the giant fist destroying phantom snake slowing down a bit went towards the masked man.

the masked man seeing this Dodged with phantom like steps this went for a long until the cultivators either escaped or died the smaller fist changed their directions toward the masked man.


the masked man seeing this 'with all of the attacks I have made toward the giant fist it should have lessened the power behind' the masked man thinking it's the right time two more phantom like snakes with all three snakes appearing the phantoms combined the masked putting all his power towards the phantom sends it toward the giant fist

after sending it the masked man looking towards the smaller fist that's coming he expands his scale like armor to cover him like a turtle shell.


as the three headed snake phanthom is fighting with the giant fist it coils itself around the fist finishing and went straight destroy the smaller fist opening up it's mouth widely it swallows the fist one by one until they are all gone.


the masked seeing through the phanthom eyes makes the scales return to normal sighing in relief as he spits out blood running his senses over his body he furrows his brows 'it will take time for me to recover to my peak I will need to find where to hide until I recover' as the masked man thinks over his next move the sky suddenly darkens as if the heavens are in rage a bolt of lightning appears in the sky heading for the masked man.


the masked man completely unprepared for a sudden attack gets hit by the lightning bolt "ahhhhhhhhhhh" the masked man was screaming in and  eventually turning to ashes.


as I open my eyes all I see white when I try to make sense of what is happening a warm voice said "come here my child"  turning to the voice I saw a beautiful woman with features that can't help but say she's perfectly. somehow I feel a connection to this woman I sense a feeling of safety and loving.


while I was stuck in a daze the woman giggled " while I do appreciate being called beautiful and perfect but we have more important business to attend to" with a snap of her finger's my vision went out for a second           my surroundings suddenly changed it turned to majestic kind of palace while goddess like woman was sitting on a throne her head resting on her hand looking at me with those eyes that feels like it can see through you're soul.

with another snap of her fingers I feel my mind clear from any distractions "now that you're in the right mindset let's start with an explanation I am the serpent goddess of rebirth or in some planets called Ouroboros I call myself Orianna and you are a person of my bloodline Im sure you sense some kind of connection." seeing the him nod his head the goddess continued "I will give you a chance to get to live another life in another world of course I will have a mission for you to do while you're in you're new world."


understanding the words "goddess orianna why me though I'm sure that they are a lot more people with you're bloodline that is suited for the mission you will give" nodding at the question "the thing is you're not the only one people who have broken through the limit of their worlds imposed on them will be chosen to go to different worlds with each having their own kind of mission." nodding at that "but I failed in breaking through the limit of the world so why was I chosen."


the goddess waved her hand and smoke like vision of the world that masked man used to live in " you're world has a more special kind of circumstance the difficulty of breaking through the limit that's imposed to you on you're world are a lot more harder that it is usually is for other world's I don't know what kind hidden thing is in you're world since it's currently owned by another good with similar power to me long story short if you were sent to another world you could have already broken through the limit of the world earlier.


masked man nodding to that " goddess orianna so how can I get to the next world as my body most likely turned into dust by the lightning".


the goddess pointer her finger to my head. I suddenly felt pain the pain was gone as fast as it came feeling new knowledge I heard the goddess say these are the powers that I can bestow upon you as for how you will get to another world I will put you're soul in one of the eggs of a snake demon beast as you progress through you're cultivation you will eventually be able to turn to more human form."

nodding in understanding "is there a time for me to go to the other world" the goddess nods her head "yes there somewhat of time limit since the world's I'm sending people like you are places I can only influence a bit if we miss the opening of the world it will take a long time well for you that is it will be along time of course you have enough time to consider what kind of power you will get" snapping her fingers they teleported to a comfy room with all the basic needs to relax "just call me when you're ready to go." she says as she disappeared.


the masked man laying on the bed with his hands behind his dead wondering what kind of world he will live he fell asleep as quick as a light.

Nearly all the beasts had noticed what had happened. After all, the chieftain had stayed at the front, far away from everyone else, making her quite conspicuous. When Gravis killed her, they nearly all stopped breathing in shock. A mid-rank Spirit Beast had killed a Lord? That was impossible!
What would happen to them now? Were they supposed to stay and wait? Could they flee? What were they supposed to do?
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Gravis asked Orthar with a smirk.
"If the chieftain was confident enough in leading a raid-party towards the land with her strength, the opposition on the land shouldn't be something she couldn't deal with," Orthar answered.
Gravis' smirk widened, and he nodded. "Exactly. I've got a Unity Beast to eat now, but I need another one to reach the Unity Realm myself. I should be able to find a suitable one at the shore. After all, the beasts on land surely wouldn't keep their territory undefended."
Orthar looked at the stunned beasts behind them. "Do you intend to use them?" he asked.
"No," Gravis answered immediately. "I'm not a fan of forcing people or beasts into servitude. They can follow me if they want, but they don't have to."
"I'm glad to hear that, Gravis," Orthar said. "I'm also not a fan of forcing others to do my bidding as long as they didn't show aggression towards me."
"I think I should talk to them," Gravis said as he turned to the beasts. Not all the beasts were inside his Spirit's range, but most of them were.
When the beasts saw Gravis looking at them, they grew panicked. If they wanted to flee, this was their chance.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Many beasts suddenly started fleeing with all their powers into the distance while others decided to stay. It wasn't that they wanted to go on land, but that Gravis could probably kill the fleeing beasts. Acting against his potential wishes could doom them.
Yet, contrary to their expectations, Gravis didn't chase any of the beasts. He just let them leave. When the hesitating beasts noticed that, a lot of them also decided to flee. Invading the land? They were not suicidal! Their instincts screamed at them that there was danger, and they followed their directions.
After a minute, only around 10% of the beasts remained. Gravis grew interested in the fact that so many beasts stayed, even though invading the land was basically a death sentence. When he saw no more beasts fleeing, Gravis swam forward.
"It's interesting that you decided to stay," Gravis transmitted to them. "You know that the land has food for me and, therefore, is also enticing to me. Why did you decide to stay?"
Most of the beasts remained silent. They weren't even sure why they didn't flee. Maybe they were just too indecisive?
Even after several seconds, no one answered Gravis.
"Anyway," Gravis transmitted to them. "It doesn't matter what you want to do. You can leave, and I won't stop you. But you can also stay if you want. I have some nice ideas for assaulting the land."
The beasts looked around unsurely. Yes, assaulting the land was akin to suicide, but that was only true when they were forced to attack like a suicide squad. Every beast was interested in becoming more powerful. Wasn't a raid on the continent perfect for that?
"How do you intend to attack?" a beast transmitted.
Gravis was a bit surprised about the clear message he had received. Apparently, this beast wasn't stupid. Gravis immediately noticed the speaker.
It was a thin blue snake, and it was nearly 200-meters-long. Its eyes appeared interested, sneaky, and in control of the situation. Gravis immediately knew that the snake prided itself in its craftiness.
Gravis scratched his chin as he looked at the snake.
"You know what?" Gravis transmitted with a smirk. "I had some plans for an attack, but you look like you have a better idea. Otherwise, you wouldn't have spoken up like this, right?"
The snake narrowed its eyes a bit as its tongue briefly peeked through its mouth. Right now, the snake was thinking about a lot of things at once. It had expected many different answers from Gravis, but not this one.
It was rare that the snake mispredicted its opponents' actions. This threw all its plans into the trash. "Why are you asking me?" it asked back.
Gravis' smirk intensified. He preferred speaking to smart beings.
"Your eyes show a craftiness and greed," Gravis transmitted only to the snake, keeping the other beasts out of the loop. "I think your goal is power, but in a different meaning than most beasts interpret it."
"Go on," the snake said with narrowed eyes. This weird creature in front of it was scary. The snake had never been seen-through like this before.
"I think you're interested in authority," Gravis transmitted. "I think you're chasing power to enable you to rule over the others. You want respect, followers, riches, beautiful companions, and many other things. Am I correct?"
"Isn't that why every beast tries to become stronger?" the snake answered, not denying Gravis' claim. "They all want to live in security and live their lives to the fullest."
"You're wrong there," Gravis said.
The snake narrowed its eyes. "How am I wrong?" it asked.
"You are assigning your values to others. I, for example, have no interest in ruling over others. I want the power to be free and unconstrained. The lives of the weaker beasts are irrelevant to me. Why would I care what an ant thinks about me?" Gravis said.
"Some beasts have the same goals as you, but a lot of others chase power for different reasons. Revenge, freedom, riches, respect, protection, surviving, and even knowledge are motivators for others."
The snake looked around at the other beasts and was honestly thinking about these words. Normally, when someone just said something, the snake wouldn't start doubting its usual outlook on life.
Yet, Gravis had proven his intelligence by seeing through its plan. Gravis was also quite powerful. The words he spoke could be valuable knowledge.
"Is that why you directly asked for my plan?" the snake asked.
Gravis nodded. "Yes. You probably wanted to take part in the invasion and use your ingenuity to gain some followers."
The snake remained silent for a bit. "I must admit that you're correct. Yet, even though you knew my goal, why did you still ask?" the snake asked with interest. It couldn't understand this beast's reason for directly giving the snake part of its authority. This seemed like Gravis was giving away part of his power for seemingly no reason.
Gravis laughed a bit. "Because, as I said, I don't care about ruling over others. I'm only interested in becoming powerful. I'm interested in freedom. Ruling over others will inherently force me to bend my will to their wellbeing. This is only a restriction."
"A true ruler bends to no one," the snake said.
"It depends on what your goal is," Gravis answered. "If you suppress everyone below you, they will feel stifled. As your following grows, the dissidents may start to overwhelm you and revolt. Maybe they will run to an enemy and inform them of your plans. As long as you rule with fear, your rule will only be shallow."
"If someone leaves, I'll just kill them," the snake said.
"That works once, or maybe twice, but the more you do it, the more your followers will fear for their own lives. They will start fearing for their lives even when they have never intended to betray you. At that point, they will only run away. With your power alone, you might be able to stay at your current position, but you won't be able to rise."
The snake still wasn't wholly convinced. This went completely against its ideology. Yet, it remained quiet since its arguments felt very weak right now.
"For example," Gravis said. "If I were to force you into serving me, you would search for every opportunity to get away from me, correct?"
The snake narrowed its eyes again.
"Yet, if I give you the authority you want, you wouldn't go against me. After all, we're allies. As long as I don't get between you and your goal, I won't be a hindrance, but an asset."
The snake still had narrowed eyes, but its mind was going crazy. This strange beast was showing proof of its claims by using the snake as an example. The snake knew best what it would do in the situations that Gravis spoke about, and it knew that Gravis was right.
After some seconds, the snake showed a kind of smirk, at least, that's what Gravis thought he saw.
"I want authority and knowledge," it said. "In return, I will manage the battle and beasts."
Gravis shook his head. "As I said, I don't intend to rule over others. So, I'm not interested in finding or founding a group."
Yet, the eyes of the snake remained confident. "You're new to this area, aren't you?" it asked.
Gravis furrowed his brows. "Yes, so what?" he asked.
"I thought so," the snake said. "If you want to become stronger than a level one Lord, you need a group. Without a group, it's impossible."
"How so?" Gravis asked.
"Because the Kingdoms and Empires don't just allow anyone into their territories," the snake answered. "Of course, you can go to their territories as prey and live there. After all, if all beasts are hunted down in those territories, they would lose their value."
"Yet," the snake said with a crafty sparkle in its eyes. "Prey is meant to strengthen the Empire or Kingdom, not weaken them. Not many beasts know of this, but as soon as a prey has killed a set number of assets from the Empire or Kingdom, someone far out of their class will come to clean them up."
Gravis narrowed his eyes as he looked at the snake.
Meanwhile, the snake only smirked.


With a father as strong as the highest heavens themselves, Gravis wasn't required to step into the cold and ruthless world of cultivation.

But when Heaven used him in a scheme to get back at his father, Gravis realized that he needed strength to gain true freedom.

As long as he remained his weak self, he would always remain beneath Heaven’s oppression. Only true power brings true freedom.

To gain strength, Gravis ventured into the lower worlds to start his cultivation under true life and death tempering. 

Only a strong will, which had been forged in striving for every resource available, would allow him to reach the peak.

Heaven’s strongest weapon was Lightning of Divine Punishment, and only if he made this weapon his, would he have a chance.

So, to overthrow Heaven,

Lightning Is the Only Way!

Yet, the path to power is painful. 

Not everyone reaches the peak.

But Gravis will!

No matter how much pain he feels along the way!

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Sara's heart began to thump faster as the car went further past the hotel gate.
Why was this happening? Why did she have to meet these people now?
Those questions and many others, ran through her mind and even her hands began to shake.
She simply would have ignored them. But now, it seemed they were going to go after her family if she did so. What was wrong? Was she not already done with them?
As she followed Snake and the others inside the hotel, she tried as much as possible to not show how uncomfortable she was. 
They were other normal guests there but she knew the devils were all around the vicinity.
Everyday of her life, she prayed for this day to never come. The day where she had to face them again. But it seemed the deity did not give ears and heed to her prayers. 
With his thumb print, a button with a new floor number appeared in the elevator which sent them to the penthouse at the last floor of the six-storey hotel. 
The atmosphere there was completely different from outside. Maybe because she knew the kind of people that stayed here.
Two men who looked like bodyguards were stationed by the door and immediately they saw Snake arrive with the others, they allowed him enter with her but the rest remained outside. 
She would have been awed by the interior if she was not very scared right now. 
Inside the penthouse featured a large living room that was painted in gold, with a stunning view of the night sky through the wall to ceiling window at every corner. There was a dining area at one end and before she could look further around, she saw someone come out from a door she believed was probably the kitchen with two full glasses of wine in both hands. 
The heater made the place really warm so the man was not wearing winter clothes like them but rather, he was on a tee-shirt and blue pants.
He was average in height, and from his completely grey hair and slight wrinkles on his face, one could easily guess he was in his fifties already.
He smiled when he saw her and continued approaching where she was quietly standing beside Snake.
One would have thought he was a normal good looking responsible man if not for the creepy tattoo of a snake wrapped around a sword which extended from his exposed left upper arm down to his lower arm. 
She had known that message was sent by them because of the sword emoji at the end of the message. That was the logo of the gang— a sword.
Every member of the gang also had tattoos but it was depending on their rank. And that was how she had known Marcus was a level three. His tattoo was a plain sword. The more they climbed higher in rank, more inks were added. But it took years to be able to climb from one level to another. 
"I'm happy to see you" He said before handing her a glass of wine.
Sara stared at him uncomfortably and refused to take the glass of wine from him. If she hated Snake with her life, this man was the bane of her existence. He was called Fuji.
He smiled again before handing it over to snake. "You have done well." He praised him. 
Snake bowed and turned to leave but was stopped by Fuji. 
"You should take a seat. The others are coming soon. They need to say hello to their little sister. How long has it been again? 5 years..or 6.. Or 7? I can't quite get it" 
He shook his head before carefully plumping himself down on the couch. 
"You should sit. We have a lot to discuss.. And lest I forget.... Merry Christmas" 
Immediately he finished saying that to her, the door opened and in came three men.
She pursed her lips when she saw the people who had just entered.
Unlike Snake and Fuji, she did not have much resentment towards these three.. They were called Blue Rays, Sword and Black Dog.
Blue Rays smiled and waved happily when he saw her. If she remembered correctly, he should probably be around twenty seven years old now.
He had a small stature, looked really girly and his long hair that was in a ponytail did not help matters since people naturally assumed he was a girl and there was nothing he said that made them believe otherwise.
He was the tech whiz of the gang and most times, he went undercover as a female. 
Sara did not bother to wave back as her eyes landed on the other young man beside him — Sword, also in his late twenties.
His face was expressionless and his eyes were dark but she could tell this was his 'happy face'.
He never smiled, neither did he talk much but he was extremely good with knives. And never has it been recorded that he missed a target; Not even in his sleep.
The last beside Sword was called Black Dog, in his mid thirties. 
He did not bother to look at her as his eyes were fixed on Fuji instead. 
Sara did not know much about this one. But according to the rumours, she heard he was called Dog because of his hypersensitivity. He was also very alert and knew when danger was about to arise. As for the 'Black', well, he was always dressed in black. Even right now, he was wearing a black pant and shirt. That would probably explain why he was called a black dog.
"You miss them don't you?" Fuji asked her as he gestured for her to sit first.
"What is it you want to say. Hurry up. I don't have all night" She answered coldly. 
The others looked at her but were not so surprised she was talking to him like that. She had always been that way but it still felt strange to them since no one dared talk to Fuji like that. 
"Let's have a drink first. We've not all gathered like this for years."
"You promised me. You promised you were never going to disturb me again. What is this about?" She yelled at him in anger. She was no longer scared as she looked at them. She was angry! 
"It seems she is not interested in catching up with you guys" Fuji complained to the others but he didn't look annoyed. 
The others said nothing. It was their norm to always remain quiet when Fuji spoke unless he asked for their opinion which was actually a rare occurrence.
"Then let's get to business. Everyone get seated." 
The others soon found themselves sitting except for Sara who was still standing with a look of displeasure.
"Did you have to go that far with my little cousin? Do you act so childishly now?" She asked Fuji in annoyance. 
He sipped a bit from his wine glass before twirling it around with the stem.
With his gaze fixed on the drink, he began to speak. "Would you have agreed to come here if we had not done so? What's the big deal about not receiving a prize?" 
"If it was not a big deal then you wouldn't have done that! Why didn't you just come for me instead of hurting her?" It almost made her cry when she remembered how Joreen had suppressed her tears that day.
"Remember when I told you that before you can be strong, you shouldn't have weaknesses. We only did something insignificant and you're already acting up. Shouldn't you be happy it wasn't your father's restaurant. Or your Aunt.  Or even...a CEO?" 
He slowly lifted his eyes to look at her and saw her tense up. 
She swallowed hard and tried to control her unsteady breath but it wasn't working. She knew she couldn't act rashly when it came to these people. It was the reason she was still very calm. 
She knew she had to act indifferent. It was the only way she could be able to win against them. But no matter how hard she tried, it was not working. She still didn't want to give up anyway.
"So? You can try.. But you should already know me by now. You should know I won't let you hurt anyone close to me"
"Because you are a good fighter? Would you like to have a little training with Snake let's see how much you have improved over the years?" 
The others who had been quiet the whole time looked at him in surprise. What? Snake should fight with her? Was he planning to kill Sara?
Even Snake was also shocked when he heard Fuji's words.
Thinking Sara would be scared, they heard her scoff.
"You don't seem to be scared. Even if you have been taking some classes lately, do you think you can be compared to a full BLACK? If not for the ritual we performed on you years ago, did you think you would have been able to lift your weak body to fight?"
So they even knew about the classes she was taking? How long have they been monitoring her? She sighed irritably.
"Which useless ritual are you talking about? You think that was the reason I could do everything I did?"
"Obviously." 
"Don't kid yourself. I had the will to live that was why I could do everything I did. I wanted to live and be free from your clutches."
"You would have died if we hadn't saved your life. Do you think you would be standing here today if we hadn't saved your life?" 
"You ruined my life!" She placed a hand on her chest to show how much pain she was going through "I would have preferred death to the kind of life you made me live. But I had to live so as to get away from you all."
"But we saved you. That is why you can enjoy all of these now. Getting famous, having fun and meeting a rich boyfriend. Isn't that so?" 
Sara laughed humourlessly before turning to walk away. "I won't continue this conversation with you band of thieves." 
For the first time, Fuji's eyes darkened. 
The others also shifted uncomfortably in their seats as they witnessed the entire exchange.
"We all saw you as our family. I took you as my daughter. Isn't it unfair that you are treating us this way? Come back to us." Fuji said calmly but his eyes were still dark. 
She turned around to look at him in disbelief. 
"Are you high on expired drugs or something? You took me as your daughter? Would you treat your real daughter the way you treated me? Think long and hard about how you treated me and tell me if you would ever treat your real daughter like that.  Would you... try to rape your daughter? You should be happy I am not putting a knife to your throat right now you disgusting old man."


"You're crazy. But I love you" He said to her.
**

She swore to never have anything to do with Socialites again. They were all backstabbing bastards and womanizers. 

She also found it difficult to believe that anyone was actually going to love her for who she truly was...


Well, until Muchen came into the picture. 
He got attracted to her the very first time he saw her two years ago. 

It was the first time he saw a girl looking like a gangster. She had even beat up his cousin's bodyguards in front of him. And for the first time also, he allowed someone bully his dear cousin. 

After cunningly have her work for him two years later, she pretended like it was their first meeting since she didn't want her employer to see her as troublesome.

'This is going to be fun' He thought. 

The more he knew her, the more he got curious about her. But Sara didn't want anyone to ever find out about her past. Especially Mr Li.



**

"Mr Li. I think...I know you like me and I'm kind of flattered that you do. But I... I don't like you that way" Sara tried to convince Li Muchen and herself. She had to put a boundary between them now before things become more complicated.


He looked at her with an unreadable expression and took a step closer to her. "Its either you don't know it yet, or you know it but you're pretending. You do like me that way" He said in a low voice.

"Mister... Mister Li. You are my employer" She tried to focus as she couldn't stand his gaze.

"So should I fire you?" He asked. 

"I didn't say that." She panicked. "What I am saying is.. is.." She stuttered
 "Heya is like a sister to me. Which makes you like a brother to me" 

Muchen moved even closer to her and smiled.

"You are getting something wrong Sara Wang. I..only have...one sister" 

And with that said, he covered the remaining distance between them and locked his lips with hers. It was soft, it was gentle. 

Sara's breath stopped. So did Muchen's. He had not actually intended to do that. 

Sara's stomach tightened. Her heart raced. She really couldn't process what was going on right now. 

He pulled away slightly to gauge her reaction. Her eyes were wide open but her focus was on his face.

 He smiled at her and was gradually lifting his head when he felt her soft hands which had been by her side, around his neck. He was startled when he felt her pull him back towards her. This time, She initiated the kiss. 

Me: Probably a sisterly kiss..lol 

Sara Wang is never going to be Li Muchen's sister.


***

NOTE: This is a light drama. No rape or too many unclear misunderstanding. It is simple and straight to the point 


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THE NOVEL IS NOW COMPLETED AND WOULD BE RE-EDITED. PLEASE BEAR WITH THE MISTAKES YOU'LL FIND!

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