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"Why do I feel like this snake recognizes you?"

Wan Jingshan was not like the others. He had been staring at Pei Zhifan closely from the beginning, and naturally observed him more carefully than others.

The snake was not only interested in Pei Zhifan because it heard the name. More importantly, the snake seemed to be searching for something among them, and the snake paid the most attention to Pei Zhifan.

I just don't know why the snake didn't take action yet.

Perhaps, he hasn't found his true goal yet?

"Are you kidding me? If this snake knew me, why would it be so rude just now?"

Pei Zhifan sneered.

He was tidying up his clothes, but his coat was already wet and damp from the spray.

He also expressed his ridicule for Wan Jingshan without any hesitation. If the snake knew him, how could it possibly attack him?

"Perhaps I expressed it incorrectly just now." Wan Jingshan shook his head, a faint smile appeared on his lips, "He or it may not know you, but you should know it, right?"

"..."

Pei Zhifan's mouth corners twitched forcefully.

It has to be said that Wan Jingshan is a difficult character and the most observant person here.

He was actually able to vaguely guess something through the interaction between the snake and him, and his guess was almost right...

But so what?

How could a thousand-year-old snake recognize a person who was only a few decades old? As long as he denied it, who would believe Wan Jingshan's nonsense?

"Mr. Wan Er is really..."

"Don't deny it yet."

Before Pei Zhifan could finish his words, Wan Jingshan stood between him and the others, deliberately avoiding everyone's sight, and then, there was a hint of cunning in his eyes.

"I should have told you that I am not talented, but I have learned a lot, so I am a little familiar with the art of Xuanmen."

Wan Jingshan said this, but his eyes never left Pei Zhifan's face for a moment.

"...So you want to tell me that you know everything and ask me not to lie, is that what you mean?" Pei Zhifan smiled, and there was no sign of guilt on his face.

Wan Jingshan didn't say anything, just looked at him and smiled.

Pei Zhifan also did not respond.

The two people confronted each other silently, and the atmosphere between them was even more tense than the tension between the giant snake and the crowd.

"Alright, alright, what are you two doing? What haven't you caught yet? Are you two starting a fight?"

Wen Renluo is the oldest, most skilled and best at catching monsters among these people, and he is the one leading the team this time...

These people dared to engage in internal strife behind his back, but he would not allow it.

Pei Zhifan glanced at Wen Renluo, then smiled and looked away, "How could that be? What kind of internal conflict would there be between us?"

If he didn't admit what happened just now, Wan Jingshan wouldn't say anything, so Wen Ren Luo naturally wouldn't bother with the two of them.

"By the way, have you thought of any solution? What should we do with this snake?" Pei Zhifan intentionally or unintentionally changed the subject.

Although he failed to get much useful information from him, Wan Jingshan still focused his attention on Pei Zhifan. He didn't know why, but he always felt that this snake... Pei Zhifan should know it.

Even the appearance of this snake may be related to him.

"Shit - I can't help it!"

Wen Ren Luo cursed angrily.

Do these people have no one else to pick on? They only caught him to give advice, what can he do? It's such a big snake, are they going to let him eat it?

I'm sure I can't win by fighting...

However, the snake did not seem to have any intention of attacking them, and it had not caused any harm at present. The snake's body had grown so long, it must have been several hundred years, if not thousands of years. It was not easy to grow to this length.

He is not a good person either, so he just accepts it casually, right?

Besides, the premise is that he really has this ability.

He visually estimated, he didn't.

Pei Zhifan nodded. "If that's the case, I think we should both take a step back. We won't catch him, but we also won't let him go around the city scaring people."

"Since it was chased into this deep forest, this should be its territory. It usually practices here. So we are the ones who disturbed it."

What Pei Zhifan said made sense, and Wen Renluo nodded in agreement.

But in a flash, he thought of another question, "What you said is feasible, but how do you let the snake know that we should both take a step back?"

"We can't negotiate with it and say, 'If I don't touch you, don't come over.'" Wen Ren Luo twitched his mouth. He looked up at the snake again. The snake was looking at them in mid-air with a confused expression.

Not only does it not look aggressive, it also looks a bit cute.

"Perhaps you try to negotiate with him?"

Pei Zhifan spoke again.

It doesn't matter what he said. When he said this, not only did the scholar feel puzzled, but Wen Renyu beside him also widened his eyes and asked, "Talk, negotiate?"

"Are you talking about negotiating with a snake?" Wen Ren Luo also spoke with a twitching mouth, looking at him with an expression of "Are you crazy?"

Wan Jingshan listened from the side but didn't say anything.

Pei Zhifan nodded and said with a half-smile: "This one has been practicing for such a long time, it is probably already enlightened. You can discuss it with it, maybe it will agree."

Can this snake understand what he says?

Wen Ren Luo looked up at the giant snake again, "Good boy..."

I have seen this in ancient books before. There are indeed animals and plants with intelligence that can understand human language and even communicate with humans.

But that is a very small minority, and...

It happened hundreds or thousands of years ago.

In this era, spiritual energy is thin, and there is not enough spiritual energy for humans to practice cultivation, let alone animals and plants which have a more difficult time practicing cultivation?

There are very few spiritual creatures that have become spirits.

Although they heard that their main disciples were fortune-telling and catching demons and ghosts, everyone knew that over the years they had been doing more fortune-telling and catching ghosts, and the most important thing was cultivation.

As for catching monsters...there are really no monsters to catch in this era.

But who can say it? After all, he had never seen such a long wild snake before. It is said that it can spray water and fire...

By the way, didn’t Hua Wu and the other two say that this snake can spray both water and fire?

Why didn’t you watch it today?

Wen Renluo wanted to turn around and look for the two people from the Hua family, but when he turned around, he saw a scene that frightened him -

"Monster, don't even think about going out and harming people. It's your bad luck to meet me today!!"

As Hua Wu finished speaking, he threw out the spiritual power in his hand.

Wen Ren Luo was so frightened by what he saw.

Before he even had time to speak, the other party was already preparing to throw her spiritual power at the motionless giant snake. Wen Ren Luo widened his eyes and raised his hand to stop her.

"Don't--!!"

It's too late.

Hua Wu took out a glowing talisman from somewhere, infused spiritual power into the talisman, and threw it directly at the giant snake!

"Snapped--!"

The water ball, which was neither big nor small, hit the giant snake on the head with a slap, and the giant snake's green head was tilted slightly...

Drops of water splashed down.

The splash of water had no attack power on the snake. The snake's head slowly tilted back, and its pair of golden pupils stared at everyone. Everyone held their breath instantly.

Wen Ren Luo suddenly had a bad feeling.

He turned around and looked at Hua Wu fiercely, shouting as quietly as possible, "What are you doing?! Why are you irritating it?!"

"...Aren't we here to catch a monster? How are we angering it? Isn't the purpose of our coming here to catch it?" Hua Wu was not even convinced at all.

Hua Ling was also there to support his sister.

"Why are you just talking about my sister? You haven't taken any action yet, and you don't allow others to take action. Are you going to let this snake keep threatening us here?"

He said it as if it was a matter of course, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so much so that he didn't even notice that the atmosphere around him had become different.

Wan Jingshan clearly noticed that the snake's aura had changed.

If the snake had no ill will towards them just now, it was hard to say now... The look in the snake's eyes was different from before. Now its golden pupils stared at everyone sharply.

"……idiot."

"What right do you have - Jingshan, are you scolding me?" Hua Wu had just started arguing with Wen Renluo when she realized that the person scolding her was not Wen Renluo, but... Wan Jingshan.

Her expression instantly turned ugly, and she took two steps forward, "Wan Jingshan, wasn't I here to catch monsters? Why did you...how could you scold me? How could you scold me?!"

Wan Jingshan didn't even have the extra time to talk to her. He just glanced at her.

He ignored Hua Wu's frantic look, frowned, and said to Wen Renluo, "Have someone evacuate this forest immediately, this snake is not in a good condition!"

Wen Ren Luo obviously noticed it as well.

The snake did not attack them after being hit. It looked like the calm before the storm!

He immediately spoke up and called out to everyone, "Everyone, don't worry about the snake. We still need to think about this matter in the long run. Now retreat! Retreat, retreat—"

Although everyone wanted to catch the snake, they didn't want to risk their own lives, so they all obeyed the orders and retreated quickly.

If even Wenren Luo is not sure about this matter, then wouldn't they be throwing their lives in vain if they rushed forward?

Everyone retreated in a disorderly manner. Wen Ren Luo and a few others were at the end, always paying attention to the movements of the snake.

Hua Wu didn't want to leave casually. She was obviously hit by Wan Jingshan just now. She was ashamed and annoyed. Even though Hua Ling tried to persuade her, she was unwilling to leave.

She didn't think what she had just done was wrong.

They originally came here to catch monsters, and this time, before setting off, her parents and elders at home gave her many warnings, saying that the Hua family is no longer what it used to be, and now the family is in decline and is about to fall out of the top four families.

She must work hard to make some achievements so that the Hua family can gain a foothold among the four major families. This is also for the sake of the family's reputation.

"Hurry up and leave! Are you sick? If you are sick, go back and get treatment. Don't hold us back!"

Wan Zi'an has a bad temper to begin with, and the snake right now might be even more irritable than him. This is an urgent matter. What is Hua Wu doing?

Are you playing with their lives?!

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