"You! You pervert!!!"
Looking at the scene before her.
Even as innocent as Xiaobai was, she realized what was going on.
"Your master Danxia's body isn't even cold yet, and you, you huge pervert, are actually... actually playing with a snake here!!!"
"Do you have any conscience left?!"
Seeing this, Ye Shu didn't bother to hide it.
Holding the snake in one hand, he said calmly, "Do you think I wanted to? This little guy ambushed me when I wasn't looking."
He exchanged a somewhat innocent look with the little snake.
"Was it you who sneaked a bite?"
"Hiss, hiss~" The little snake flicked its tongue and nodded its small head.
"You Hachi-rat."
Xiaobai was stunned by his shamelessness.
How could there be such a brazenly shameless person in this world, not even sparing a snake.
"Hiss, hiss..."
The little snake flicked its tongue, let out a satisfied burp, slowly coiled around Ye Shu's finger a few times, and affectionately rubbed against the pad of his finger.
"Is this?"
Xiaobai only just noticed that this snake looked very familiar.
It seemed to be... Medusa!
That's right, it was Medusa's infant form!
There was absolutely no mistake!
"How can she be so intimate with you? She, she, she should be dying to bite you to death!" Xiaobai was puzzled.
"I don't know either."
Ye Shu shook his head, then crouched down, placed the little snake on the floor, and straightened its body under the snake's bewildered gaze. With a flash of silver light in his right hand, a broken longsword suddenly appeared in his grasp.
"What are you trying to do?"
Xiaobai froze.
"Chop it to death, of course," Ye Shu looked at her as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "What else? Keep it around to use as a fleshlight? Though it is indeed quite nice to use."
"But this is Medusa's infant form."
"Although her divine soul is currently dormant, who knows when she might awaken and suddenly take a bite out of me."
"No, you guy..."
Xiaobai's head was spinning.
She really couldn't figure out the guy in front of her. If you said he was ruthless, back in the Snake-Man City's holy temple, he was kissing and licking Medusa, and now he was playing with a snake.
If you said he wasn't ruthless...
After he was done playing, he'd pull up his pants and turn his back on her, ready to chop her up without hesitation.
Ye Shu, however, didn't care in the slightest.
He had a scale in his heart. He wasn't the type of person to let his little head control his big head and throw things out of balance. But as long as the situation was under control, he'd use his big head to control his little head.
And right now, the threat this little snake posed was too great.
Medusa was the same kind of person as him: rational and calculating. Even in a desperate situation, she still managed to play him. If it weren't for his master, he would probably be dead and his cultivation erased by now.
Just now was merely a tiny bit of revenge.
Now, she could not be kept alive.
Thinking this, Ye Shu's eyes flickered, and the broken Xiongyuan Sword gleamed with a cold light in the morning sun.
"Hiss, hiss~"
The little snake seemed to sense his killing intent and looked at him with pitiful eyes, as if begging for mercy.
"Begging is useless. My mind is made up."
Ye Shu's eyes turned ruthless, and he slashed down with the sword.
Crack—
Split into two.
Clang!
The Xiongyuan Sword snapped cleanly in two, bouncing twice on the ground with a crisp sound.
Ye Shu: "..."
Xiaobai: "..."
The little snake flicked its tail, its round eyes full of innocence. "Hiss, hiss?"
Looking at the little snake's innocent eyes and the Xiongyuan Sword broken in two on the ground, Xiaobai couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.
"Ahahahahaha!"
"I'm dying of laughter, you huge idiot!" She clutched her stomach, rolling around on the floor. "You actually tried to use a rotten sword to chop a Void Return Realm great demon! Even if she regressed to an infant form, she's still in the Void Return Realm. Her physical body is comparable to an Earth-grade spiritual weapon. What are you going to chop her with using that shattered spiritual sword?"
Ye Shu's face darkened.
He snatched the little snake up from the ground, tugged at it forcefully, and even bit it with his teeth. The little snake's body was very soft but possessed a tough resilience; he couldn't bite through it at all.
The little snake was made dizzy by his rough handling, looking extremely wronged.
"Damn it, it's so hard."
Ye Shu spat. Beside him, Xiaobai was already laughing so hard she couldn't stand up straight. "Just stop tossing it around. With your current strength, you can't do anything to it."
"Hiss, hiss~"
The little snake was still innocently flicking its tongue.
Holding it, Ye Shu didn't know whether to let it go or keep it. Finally, he just glared at it fiercely.
"Hmph! I'll keep you around for now. Once I find a way, I'll kill you!"
The little snake shrank its neck, the tip of its tail gently hooking around his finger as if trying to curry favor. Its pitiful little appearance was enough to melt anyone's heart.
"Since things have come to this, let's think about the future first."
Ye Shu rubbed the bridge of his nose, stuffed the little snake into his pants, and fiercely warned it.
"Without my permission, no sneaking bites!"
"Hiss, hiss~" The little snake nodded with great intelligence.
"So..."
Xiaobai suddenly realized something and stared at Ye Shu suspiciously. "Your master has fallen into a deep slumber, so how come you don't look sad at all?"
"Will being sad wake my master up?" Ye Shu asked in return.
"No."
"Then there you have it."
Ye Shu spread his hands. "Besides, I remember this was part of your original plotline, right? Since it was expected and there will definitely be a way for her to recover in the future, what is there for me to be sad about? It's not like she's dead."
"I just need to figure out a solution later, right?"
Seeing his indifferent attitude, Xiaobai was dumbfounded.
It seemed to make some sense.
No, no, wait.
She shook her head and pointed at his nose, scolding, "Do you think this Heavenly Dao doesn't know? I've been watching you the whole time! Last night in the sea of consciousness space, you were chasing after Danxia's soul body and crying non-stop. What was that all about?"
Hearing this, Ye Shu merely shrugged.
"That was obviously an act."
"I couldn't exactly stand there expressionless while my master was looking all sorrowful and melancholic, and say something like, 'Master, actually this was all within my expectations, so just go in peace.'"
"If I did that, she would probably cry again and scold me for being a bad disciple."
"It's like mourning at a funeral. Even if you don't feel much sadness inside, you can't show it."
"I am an adult now."
Ye Shu said very seriously, using a tone full of worldly experience, "One must learn to take care of other people's emotions."
"You Hachi-rat."
Xiaobai was completely stunned.
It was exactly as she had expected. This detestable guy was completely two-faced—pure on the outside, but pitch-black on the inside.
He was a demon who toyed with people's hearts!
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
