Chapter 138 – Land of the Serpents
Translated by Sunyancai
“Careful!”
Shao Xuan cried out loudly.
Just like a spring, the serpent ejected his body, which streaked through the air and generated a grating sound, like strong wind. Chacha couldn’t react in time.
Even if the distance was a dozen meters, the serpent arrived in the blink of an eye.
Shao Xuan wanted to help Chacha. But his ability was restricted in the air. The only thing he could do was just warn Chacha to watch out. However, it was still too late.
When Chacha heard Shao Xuan’s warning, he wanted to fly higher, so he did not notice the serpent’s movement. When he noticed that, he tried his best to avoid the serpent. However, he failed.
The serpent rushed at Chacha and gripped on one of Chacha’s wings with his teeth.
Shao Xuan was on Chacha’s back, so Chacha didn’t have enough strength to keep flying in the air when he was dragged down by the serpent.
Jiaoo~~~
Chacha released a cry into the sky and fell down helplessly.
The serpent and Chacha fell on a tree and rolled down from the tree, passing through layers and layers of tree branches, and then finally falling to the ground with exuberant green grass.
Scenes like this were very familiar. The serpent was not afraid of dying or being injured when falling down. The obstructing tree branches reduced their falling speed, but not hurt the serpent at all. His skin protected him very well.
Biting one of Chacha’s wings, the serpent rolled tightly over Chacha with his long body. For him, Chacha was the prey, he must strangle it first, and then eat it.
Jiaoo~~~
Chacha struggled to free himself, but he failed. He found he could not loosen himself at all. Every time he tried to get rid off the serpent, the serpent’s body tighten around him even more, which made Chacha feel even more painful. He could not even cry for help, and it seemed he would lose his breath after a while.
When the serpent rolled up towards them, Shao Xuan, who was grasped by Chacha, got rid of the claws of Chacha promptly, took out the tooth sword and hacked down with great force. Bang! The sword hit heavily upon the body of the serpent.
Kaka!
A violent great sound echoed in the woods, as if tree branches were breaking.
The serpent’s strong and thick skin was hit by Shao Xuan’s tooth sword, and some fragments splintered off.
When Shao Xuan hunted in the hunting area, he used this sword to kill wild beasts. If the skin of his prey was too tough, he would hack them one more time with his tooth sword.
Shao Xuan hacked the serpent ceaselessly in one breath. Every time he hacked, he hacked at the same place. Even though a beast’s skin was strong and was rigid, it would crack when one hacked it ceaselessly with the sharp tooth sword .
However, the serpent had his defense, which were his specialized scales. The scales seemed like tree branches and could protect the serpent from being found. However, the scales were much more harder than tree branches. Even though Shao Xuan hacked the serpent with his tooth sword, he could not wound it with just one hack.
Yes, Shao Xuan was wounded before and lost some strength. He could not give the serpent a finishing hack. The leathery armour of the serpent, which was more difficult to hack than the solid spine of the thorn black wind, was a big problem for Shao Xuan.
But, if hacking once is useless, then hack twice, hack ceaselessly.
Many tough fragments were splintered off, and some flew towards Shao Xuan and hit his face, which made him feel painful. Like something exploding, the fragments scattered everywhere.
Do not stop! Do not give the beast enough time to react!
Chacha was coiled up by him. Shao Xuan needed to solve the sudden problem in the least amount of time possible. The longer it took, the possibility of Chacha being strangled to death became higher.
Ka! Ka! Ka!
He hacked for three consecutive times, which generated crisp sounds. The debris from the hard skin splattered everywhere. The weird serpent roared strangely, which was like the whistle from a narrow gap that the stormy wind swiftly swept through.
Hack!
Hack!
Hack!
Shao Xuan had no time to care about the discomfort in his ear, and only focused on hacking at the crack on the back of the serpent with the tooth sword. He hacked and hacked, the serpent’s thick and hard leathery armor cracked deeper and deeper.
The big serpent learned what Shao Xuan wanted to do and he became angry.
The specialized scales that had been contracted, unfolded, as leaves in spring growing rapidly. Except for the part where Chacha was coiled up in, other parts stood up and unfolded completely. The serpent’s original big body expanded twice suddenly, like a branch blooming!
The sharp two eyes on the weird face of the serpent, which Shao Xuan had never seen, stared at Shao Xuan. The brown forked tongue was like a branch, dancing outside its mouth. The serpent twisted its sturdy body, and swept against Shao Xuan mercilessly with its tail.
Shao Xuan had to stop hacking temporarily. He bent his knees, and swerved a little. His foot stepped heavily on the ground, all the plants under his foot became a green muddy puddle instantly.
In order to avoid the sudden tailsweep of the serpent, Shao Xuan hit the ground and bounced to his feet instantly. His feet hit the ground heavily, leaving deep prints on the ground. He changed his position as quick as the wind to avoid being hit by the serpent. Soon afterwards, Shao Xuan swiftly slashed the sword and heavily hacked on the crack that had been hacked several times just now!
Do not think that I can’t see your scar when you expanded!
Hack!
The “leaves” that were covering the opening were cut off. Shao Xuan continuously slashed the sword and exactly hit the crack that had been hacked several times just now! Then, continuous hacking followed, and the serpent had no time to strike back.
Even if the tooth sword was not sharp enough, it would do great harm to the big serpent.
Puchi.
The big serpent spluttered weird dark green blood from his mouth.
In spite of their hard shell, no ferocious beast could avoid injury and pain.
After all, the serpent did not have a body of steel. His thick and hard leather had a big crack, and this crack was becoming deeper and deeper. If the serpent did not take measures, he would be cut apart.
Feeling the pain on his body, the big serpent became angry and roared continuously. At first, he only focused on that eagle that flew over him, because he liked to eat this kind of eagle the most. As for the creature held by the eagle, the serpent thought it was just a prey caught by the eagle, and did not take it seriously. The serpent could not understand why the creature in front of him looked so weak, but had unexpectedly threatened him a lot.
The serpent never expected its outer layer breaking, and blood flowing out. If the serpent knew what would happen, he would have left the creature far behind after he had seized that eagle.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
The serpent was twisting its body in order to prevent its wound from being attacked again.
However, Shao Xuan was very agile, he not only avoided the serpent’s attack, but also struck back repeatedly.
Another hack!
Again!
The tooth sword flashed repeatedly.
The wound on the big serpent was getting bigger and bigger, and the dark green blood was flowing out even more.
Eventually, the big serpent chose to abandon the prey, put away the “leaves” and threw away the coiled up eagle. Then, the serpent left quickly, dragging its injured body.
It had been only one minute from when the big serpent fell on the ground with Chacha, to the time that the serpent was defeated and ran away. The reason for the serpent being defeated in such a short time was that Shao Xuan was worried about Chacha’s condition, and didn’t give any time to the serpent to strike back. Relatively, Shao Xuan had unleashed much more strength than usual in such a short time.
Watching the serpent fleeing away, Shao Xuan breathed heavily and did not chase after it. After the serpent threw down Chacha, Shao Xuan quickly ran over to check his injury.
Chacha’s wings were injured and had a fracture. They could only move up and down powerlessly, he might not fly for a short period of time.
He examined Chacha’s parts which had been bit by the big serpent, and no bite marks by fangs were found. The wounds didn’t seem to have any toxins.
Shao Xuan relaxed, for Chacha was ok.
Having solved the trouble just now, Shao Xuan was considering finding a safe place to heal Chacha’s wounds. After both of them had recovered, they would fly high over the sky, which he thought may be much safer than otherwise.
Of course, they had to fly high and not give any chance to this kind of weird serpents. In this forest, there were many weird serpents that Shao Xuan had encountered several nights.
No wonder they had not seen any other birds in the sky, probably, the birds had been caught by these weird serpents.
While Shao Xuan was thinking, he suddenly stopped moving.
And Chacha, who was swerving up and down despondently, also stopped.
Sha sha——
Sha sha sha sha——
Above their head came the familiar sound once again.
Cold sweat dripped from Shao Xuan’s forehead, and his muscles tightened up. Shao Xuan had run out of almost all his power in that one minute, and now, he was still in a state of exhaustion. Before coming here, Shao Xuan had gone through a battle and had hurt his arms. He had thought that he would have time to recover, but he suffered another attack in this forest just now, which caused him to have no time to recover.
Shao Xuan turned around, with his back facing Chacha, and looked up to look in the direction that the sound came from.
Standing on the ground, Shao Xuan looked up in the large forest, he saw that the lush foliage was all over the sky. The little bit of sunshine through the leaves seemed like some kind of charity.
Because some branches had been broken off when the big serpent fell to the ground, dragging Chacha down with him, more sunshine could come down now. Combined with the surrounding environment, the sunshine was like a column of light which was incomparably eye-catching.
At this moment, Shao Xuan and Chacha were standing in the column of light.
The sunshine made this place much warmer than the rest of the forest. If they were in the tribe, basking in the sunshine might have been a very enjoyable thing. The comfortable sunshine and warmth almost made people close their eyes. [I’m getting sleepy here myself]
But at the moment, neither Shao Xuan nor Chacha were able to feel the warmth. On the contrary, they just felt like they were in the coldest winter snow.
Looking at the distance, they found there were no other creatures or flying insects in the forest.
Above, two sturdy “branches” bent and then slid down the trunk.
Bang!
The slight short thud was just like what Shao Xuan had heard in the air. The two big serpents had retracted the special scales which were used for camouflage. They moved towards Shao Xuan unhurriedly, and didn’t seem worried that the prey would run away.
One was in the front, and the other in the back. Shao Xuan and Chacha were cornered in the middle.
Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang!
Shao Xuan heard his heart thumping, and feel his palms sweating.
The grasped tooth sword was not trembling, and Shao Xuan was thinking about the solution. He knew that his physical energy was going to be exhausted. Even if he continued fighting with the serpents again, there was not much chance of winning. Yes, if he risked his life in fighting, he might have a little hope to win. But now there were two serpents, and any one of them was not less than the one before.