Under the cold moonlight, a dragon-like fire snake wriggled across the sand. The dragon pearl and inner core floating above his forehead illuminated the sand in front of him with a bright red light, as if they were two red lanterns!
Ye Fan stood on the head of the Fire Snake with a curious expression.
He had ridden horses and oxen, but this was the first time he was traveling on a snake. Moreover, he was standing on the head of the Fire Snake.
This made him suddenly recall the story of the Ye Clan's ancestor meeting the White Robed Heavenly Dragon in the Kunlun Mountains.
That year, the Ye Clan's ancestor went to the Kunlun Mountains to pick jade and met the White Snake by chance. It was a blessing in disguise.
Now that he had come to this vast desert to look for a cauldron and met the Fire Snake, he wondered if he would be like his ancestor, finding a divine cauldron and returning with a full load.
Just as Ye Fan was lamenting the similarity between him and his ancestor, Baihu, who had been hiding in Ye Fan's hat, stretched out its furry head.
Just like Ye Fan, the thousand-year-old Fire Snake was also full of curiosity, especially the two dazzling red beads floating on the Fire Snake's forehead.
One of the beads was the thousand-year-old Dragon Pearl of the male Fire Snake, and the other was the thousand-year-old Neidan of the female Fire Snake.
Baihu's eyes were clear as it looked at the two thousand-year-old Neidans with envy.
White Fox wondered when it would be able to obtain an Inner Core that was so full of spiritual energy.
Ye Fan turned his head to look at Baihu on his shoulder. In fact, he understood Baihu's thoughts.
The envy in Xiao Zhao's eyes made him feel as if his heart was being cut by a knife.
He had known Xiao Zhao longer than his beloved wife, Fujiwara No Chiko, and Xiao Zhao's care and love for him was no less than Fujiwara No Chiko. In order to save him, she did not hesitate to give up her life's Neidan and was willing to transform into a fox.
Regardless of whether it was the boundless sea or the yellow sand of the desert, she had never abandoned him. She had always been by his side in life and death. She had never felt any dissatisfaction towards him.
To be honest, whether emotionally or otherwise, Ye Fan owed it more than he owed Fujiwara No Chiko.
"Don't worry, Brother Ye will definitely help you regain your human form." Ye Fan said to Baihu, who was on his shoulder, "When I have the chance to see Nie Qing, I'll ask him for ten or eight Baicao Pills. I'll give them all to you and make you even more beautiful than before."
Ye Fan pretended to be relaxed and comforted Baihu.
He decided that if one day he really couldn't save his beloved wife, then he would go find Nie Qing and ask for a Hundred Herbs Pill for Xiao Zhao to restore her human body. Then he would transfer all of his spiritual power to Xiao Zhao and help her return to the right path. Then he would sever his own meridians and be buried together with his beloved wife.
After hearing Ye Fan's words, Baihu intimately rubbed her head against Ye Fan's face.
Compared to the Spirit Pill, Ye Fan was more important to her.
With the Spirit Pill, she could indeed restore her human form. But at that time, she couldn't be together with Ye Fan and could only return to Pear Blossom Palace.
Even though she had the body of a fox now, she could be with Ye Fan all the time.
It was really like what Laozi said, misfortune was a blessing in disguise, and a blessing in disguise.
If she really had to choose now, she would definitely choose to be together with Ye Fan without hesitation and not get the Spirit Pill to restore her human form.
Under Ye Fan's feet, the dragon-like Fire Snake was rushing forward while listening to Ye Fan's words to Baihu.
Actually, when it first saw Baihu in the desert, it already knew that Baihu was not ordinary.
There were two reasons. First, there was an extremely overbearing spiritual energy flowing in Baihu's body. The Fire Snake could tell that this spiritual energy was not cultivated by Baihu.
The reason was very simple. It could tell that Baihu did not have a Spirit Pill in her body, and it was impossible for a foreign species without a Spirit Pill to emit such overbearing spiritual energy.
In addition, the aura emitted by this spiritual energy was very similar to the aura emitted by True Monarch Fire Dragon. From this, it could be inferred that an expert in the Immortal Realm or an Immortal had injected spiritual energy into Baihu's body.
Second, Baihu's eyes. Her eyes were definitely not as simple as being clear and intelligent. In other words, her eyes were no longer the eyes of an animal, but the eyes of a human!
Analyzing the above two situations, Baihu's origin was definitely not ordinary. It was even possible that she had already transformed into a human form before!
After listening to Ye Fan's words, the Fire Snake understood.
Baihu was indeed as it had speculated. She had already transformed into a human form, but for some unknown reason, she lost her Spirit Pill and turned into a fox!
This made it suddenly think of its wife.
Like Baihu, its wife had also lost her Spirit Pill. However, she was not as lucky as Baihu.
Its wife had been disemboweled and taken away by force.
Although they were both foreign species and had both lost their Spirit Pills, the results were completely different.
This might be the fate of the previous life that True Monarch Fire Dragon had mentioned.
Fire Serpent thought to himself as he sped up.
A human, a fox, and a snake. All three of them had their own thoughts.
After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the Fire Snake stopped in front of a huge sand dune that was more than a hundred feet tall.
It lowered its head and steadily placed Ye Fan on the ground.
"Brother Snake, what is this place?" Ye Fan asked the Fire Snake as he observed the surroundings.
They were currently in the center of the desert, about six to seven hundred kilometers away from Fire Dragon Town.
"Hiss …" The Fire Snake hissed and slithered to the front of the huge sand dune.
"Whoosh …" The Fire Snake suddenly retracted its neck and opened its huge mouth, spitting at the huge sand dune that was more than a hundred feet tall.
"Whoosh …" A scalding hot and powerful stream of air came out of the Fire Snake's mouth like a gale.
"Whoosh …" The stream of air instantly blew up the sand on the sand dune, forming a golden sand pillar that was more than a hundred feet tall.
What a powerful stream of air! Ye Fan, who was standing beside the Fire Snake, sighed inwardly.
The power of the Fire Snake's attack was comparable to that of White Bone Gentleman's Yin Yang Wind Fire Fan.
"Whoosh …" As the stream of air continued to spit out by the Fire Snake's mouth, the huge sand dune that was the size of a small mountain began to slowly shrink and was razed to the ground.
More than a hundred feet away, another huge sand dune gradually piled up.
The Fire Snake directly blew this sand dune away by more than a hundred feet.
Just as Ye Fan was puzzled by the Fire Snake's strange behavior, a huge snake skull gradually appeared on the sand.
The skull was more than three meters wide and sixty to seventy feet long. It was eerily white and its eye sockets were hollow.
It was the female snake's skeleton. When the entire skull was completely revealed, Ye Fan immediately saw the clues.
This mountain-like sand dune was the female snake's burial ground!
"Woo …" Baihu, who was on Ye Fan's shoulder, couldn't bear the frightening scene in front of its eyes and immediately retracted back into Ye Fan's hat.
It was even afraid of human bones that were a few feet long, not to mention the huge snake skeleton in front of it.
"Whoosh …" The Fire Snake continuously adjusted the direction of the stream of air that it spat out, blowing away all the sand that covered the female snake's body.
It didn't stop until the female snake's skeleton, which was nearly a hundred feet long, was completely revealed.
Looking at the female snake's skeleton, which was coiled into a small hill, Ye Fan's brows wrinkled.
"Crack …" Ye Fan clenched his fists so tightly that they made cracking sounds.
He finally understood why the Fire Snake had given up on the human race.
If this matter had happened to him, with his temperament, he would have already started a massacre.
"Hiss …" The Fire Snake wailed as it slithered to the female snake's skeleton. It gently rubbed its head back and forth against the female snake's skull. Its eyes flickered with tears and tenderness.
The scene in front of him made Ye Fan's eyes turn red.
His wife was still alive, and he was already in so much pain. Now that the Fire Snake's wife was separated from the Fire Snake forever, and her bones were piled up. Wouldn't the Fire Snake's feelings be a thousand times more painful than his?
At this time, Ye Fan really wanted to kill people, especially those who had killed the female snake.
"Hiss … Hiss …" The Fire Snake kept wailing at the female snake's skeleton, as if it was pouring out its longing for the female snake.
"Brother Snake, the dead are gone. My condolences." Ye Fan said to the Fire Snake with red eyes.
The Fire Snake gently nudged the female snake's skull, then turned around and slithered in front of Ye Fan.
"Buzz …" After arriving in front of Ye Fan, the female snake's inner core floating above the Fire Snake's head suddenly shone brightly. It slowly floated down from the Fire Snake's head and directly stopped in front of Ye Fan.
Ye Fan stretched out his hand and held the glowing red inner core in his palm.
"Brother Snake, you …" Ye Fan didn't understand why the Fire Snake gave him the female snake's inner core.
"Hiss …" The Fire Snake lowered its huge head and gently touched Ye Fan's hand. Then, it turned its head and looked at the female snake's skeleton, hissing softly.
Ye Fan frowned and understood the Fire Snake's intention.
"Brother Snake," Ye Fan raised his head and said to the Fire Snake, "Do you want me to save it?"
Inner core, white bones. The Fire Snake's intention couldn't be more obvious.
He wanted him to regenerate the female snake's flesh and blood like Madam of Bones!
"Hiss …" The Fire Snake nodded to Ye Fan.
In its opinion, since Ye Fan could use the inner core and white bones to bring Madam of Bones back to life, he could certainly use the same method to save the female snake.
"Brother Snake, I …" Ye Fan said to the Fire Snake, "I can't do anything."
When Ye Fan said this, he felt as if a knife was being twisted in his heart.
He wanted to help the female snake come back to life, but he didn't have the ability to do so.
The Madam of Bones and the Fire Snake were completely different things.
"Hiss … hiss …" After hearing Ye Fan's words, the Fire Snake's eyes instantly widened. It stretched its huge head in front of Ye Fan.
It seemed that it couldn't believe what Ye Fan had said.
They were both inner cores and white bones. Why could he save Madam of Bones but not his own wife?
"Brother Snake, the Madam of Bones is completely different from you and your wife," Ye Fan explained to the Fire Snake in front of him, "Although Madam of Bones was forced out of her original form by me, her three spiritual and seven physical souls were still there, and her bone inner core was still there. More importantly, they have been sucking human flesh and primordial spirit all year round and sealed their essence in their inner core, so a mere physical body is nothing to them. Even if I force them out of their original form thousands of times, as long as their inner core is still there, they can completely restore their physical body. But you are different from them. You cultivate the orthodox inner core method and walk the path of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon. Before attaining the Dao, once your physical body is destroyed and your inner core is out of the body for too long, it will be very difficult for you to restore it to its original state. Moreover, Brother Snake's wife has been dead for many years and her soul is nowhere to be found, so … Brother Snake, I've disappointed you."
Ye Fan lowered his head as he spoke.
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