Yong Shanling frowned. "Shushu, I don't know what's going on. Stick close to me."
After saying that, she grabbed Mu Yijie and ran towards the deck. However, a large crowd was running frantically towards them from that direction.
"Ah—There's a monster! Help!"
"So... so big a snake! We're doomed today. Wuwuwu~"
"Mom, is that a monster?"
"Hello, is this the police? There's a monster here. Come and save us quickly!"
...
Everyone was screaming and surging towards the inside of the ship. Yong Shanling, holding Mu Yijie, was like a slippery little loach, darting through the crowd. Before long, they reached the deck.
From what the crowd was saying, Yong Shanling already had a suspect in mind. When she got to the deck, she saw a python hundreds of meters long causing a commotion around the ship.
The huge ship was like a toy in front of it, easily being shaken back and forth.
"Shushu, it's the Sky - Devouring Python. Shushu, find a safe place first..." Before she could finish her sentence, she saw the Sky - Devouring Python suddenly get excited. It wrapped its whole body around the ship, gave a flip, and the ship sank into the sea amidst the screams of the crowd.
"Cough, cough—" Yong Shanling surfaced from the sea. She reached out and grabbed nothing. Alarmed, she quickly turned her head to look around.
"Shushu—Shushu—Where are you?" Yong Shanling summoned her wooden sword and flew on it. Whenever she saw someone who looked like Mu Yijie, she quickly fished them out.
"Shushu?" When she saw a strange face, she quickly put the person on a lifeboat nearby.
"My god, what's that? Is it a celestial being?"
"Mom, I've actually seen a real cultivator!"
"There really is a cultivation world in this world!"
"Isn't that the girl who's always following Mr. Mu?"
"Fairy, save me. I'll give you a hundred million..."
...
Everyone saw Yong Shanling and all pleaded for help.
The captain and Assistant Fang, who had organized the escape at the first moment, also saw her.
"Miss Yong, I'm Assistant Fang. I saw Mr. Mu," Assistant Fang shouted at the girl who was constantly looking for Mu Yijie.
Yong Shanling quickly flew over on her sword. She wiped the seawater off her face hard and asked in a deep voice, "Where?"
"He floated towards the east. In the blink of an eye, he was out of sight."
Yong Shanling's heart skipped a beat. The east was exactly where the Sky - Devouring Python, which was swallowing people everywhere, was!
She suddenly turned around and shouted at Assistant Fang, "I'll go and hold off the Sky - Devouring Python. You take the opportunity to save people." After saying that, she took out her Soul - Shaking Bell and threw it at the python.
The python was stuffing people into its mouth, one by one, enjoying its meal. Suddenly, it was hit hard by something. Its snake head swayed around.
"Monster, your opponent is me. How dare you devour humans? I'll punish you on behalf of the heavens today," Yong Shanling scolded angrily. She took out a dart and threw it.
The dart carried a trace of red light and flew around the giant python, constantly attacking its body. However, it only sparked and caused no damage at all.
Yong Shanling frowned delicately. This monster had devoured too much merit. Her magic tools couldn't hurt it.
She gritted her teeth, flew into the air directly, summoned the wooden sword under her feet, and flew towards the giant python.
She activated her cultivation technique to the extreme. Like a ghost, she flashed across the giant python's body and slashed at it hard with the wooden sword in her hand.
"Roar—" The giant python let out a roar. Its madness intensified because of the pain.
The giant python sank directly into the sea, wanting to catch the human who had hurt it in its domain.
Yong Shanling was suddenly dragged into the sea by the giant python. She was in a daze for a moment. Vaguely, she seemed to hear Shushu's voice.
The next second, she was tightly wrapped up. Her whole body was covered in red blood. She didn't know if it was hers or the giant python's. She had very little spiritual energy left. Her cultivation level didn't allow her to fly in the air, but she had forced herself to do so. Coupled with activating two powerful magic tools and failing to kill the monster with one blow, she had exhausted all her spiritual energy instead.
"Cough, cough—Didn't... expect I would be eaten by this snake," Yong Shanling's vision blurred. Just as she was about to be swallowed by the giant snake, a warm body suddenly hugged her.
The next second, she lost consciousness.
"Ling'er, Ling'er, wake up quickly." In a daze, Yong Shanling seemed to hear Shushu's voice. She was a bit absent - minded and thought, weren't she and Shushu shopping?
No! They had encountered the Sky - Devouring Python.
Yong Shanling was suddenly startled. When she came to her senses, she saw Mu Yijie tightly holding her. When he saw her wake up, a look she couldn't understand flashed in his eyes.
"Shushu, wasn't I swallowed by the python? Where are we—" She looked around and saw the red stone - like things around. She was suddenly shocked.
"We should be in the Sky - Devouring Python's belly. We probably haven't reached its stomach yet, or else we wouldn't be sitting here talking properly," Mu Yijie hooked the corner of his mouth. Even in a mess, his charm couldn't be hidden.
Yong Shanling sat up and grinned. "Shushu, we'll be okay. This monster has a strong external defense, but its inside is its softest part."
She looked sly, and the luck in her eyes couldn't be hidden.
Looking at such an optimistic Yong Shanling, the negative emotions in Mu Yijie's heart disappeared, and he relaxed.
"Then I'll rely on you, amazing fairy."
Yong Shanling sat cross - legged on the spot for a while. Unexpectedly, in just a short while, most of the spiritual energy she had consumed had recovered.
"Shushu, let's go. It must be because Shushu brought me good luck. I feel like I've even broken through." Now Yong Shanling was more confident about finding the monster's inner core.
The two walked through the stomach that was like a hail - filled place, except that what was falling there wasn't hail but highly corrosive gastric acid.
Yong Shanling put up a protective shield, and the two walked awkwardly towards the snake's "seven - inch" spot. They could only guess the location based on the snake dissections they had seen on TV.
"Help~ Help~" As they walked, they suddenly heard a hoarse voice.
"Shushu, there's still someone alive here." Yong Shanling was overjoyed. All the things they had encountered on the way were corroded corpses. There was no one alive. Unexpectedly, there really was someone still alive.
Mu Yijie frowned but didn't say anything.
The two walked around a corner and saw a young man whose body was severely corroded.
When he saw them, a strong will to survive flashed in his eyes.