Zhao Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at his assistant, who was stumbling around the house as if drunk. Damn, I’ve seen people get drunk on alcohol and high from smoking, but getting drunk off hot pot? That’s just bizarre.
Before he could finish wiping his brow, he heard dusa calling his na.
Hearing her, Zhao Rong looked at the Coke bottle in her hand. "Beautiful lady, can’t you open that bottle?"
dusa looked at him seductively. "Brother Zhao Rong, my mouth is strong, but my hands are weak... Co over here and help twist off the cap."
Zhao Rong was puzzled. What did she an, her mouth was strong? He walked over nonetheless.
dusa, who had been standing in the doorway of her room, took several steps back as Zhao Rong approached, retreating inside.
Seeing her retreat into the room, Zhao Rong paused at the threshold. "You want to co into your room?"
dusa’s soul-seizing gaze locked onto him. "Brother Zhao Rong, the night is deep and quiet. Don’t you want to co into my room and keep company?"
"Didn’t you just ask to open a bottle for you?" Zhao Rong asked, thoroughly confused. "Now you want to co in and keep you company?"
"A defenseless woman is asking you to stay," dusa cooed, starting to remove her clothes. "Are you, a grown man, actually scared?"
Clearly, she was deliberately provoking him.
"I’m a man, you’re a woman," Zhao Rong laughed. "If you aren’t afraid, what do I have to be afraid of?" He stepped inside.
Seeing Zhao Rong actually enter, dusa smirked to herself. n truly are animals who think with their lower halves. No matter how powerful a man is, he will ultimately be conquered by a woman.
Just then, as Zhao Rong drew near, dusa handed him the bottle. "Brother Zhao Rong, help open this Coke, would you?"
Zhao Rong took the bottle and began twisting the cap. At that sa mont, dusa started gathering her True Qi. She intended to concentrate all the Snake Qi from her Dantian and blast it at the unguarded Zhao Rong in one breath. As long as he was hit by her blast of Snake Qi, he would be instantly knocked unconscious. This so-called Snake Qi was, in fact, an extrely lethal poisonous gas.
Suddenly, dusa noticed sothing odd. Zhao Rong, a man who should have great hand strength, had assud a horse stance just to twist off a bottle cap. His posture was strange, but dusa didn’t let it distract her. She seized the opportunity and forcefully exhaled, unleashing all the Snake Qi in her body toward him.
As the gas cloud neared Zhao Rong, dusa burst out laughing. Zhao Rong, you may have dodged my poison perfu and the snake powder... but you can’t escape my Snake Qi.
However, just as she was reveling in her victory, Zhao Rong’s nose was overco by a sudden, unbearable itch. He let out an explosive sneeze. His nose had never been so itchy, and he had never sneezed with such force in his life.
In that instant, Zhao Rong’s sneeze blew dusa’s forcefully expelled Snake Qi right back at her.
The rebounding gas shot directly into dusa’s wide-open, laughing mouth. Ready to celebrate her victory, she never imagined that her own poisonous gas would be deflected by a sneeze and turned back to strike her down. Although the Snake Qi originated in her Dantian, the toxic gas could only be safely stored there. When Zhao Rong’s sneeze blew it back, it traveled down her trachea and straight into her lungs.
In an instant, dusa was poisoned by her own attack. She staggered back three steps before collapsing against the wall and sliding to the floor.
"Zhao Rong, you bastard..." she gasped, her face contorted in pain. "Your luck is just... too damn good, isn’t it? I try to poison you with perfu, your rhinitis flares up! I try to poison you with snake powder, you get diarrhea! And just now, I try to hit you with Snake Qi, and you just have to sneeze!"
Looking down at the fallen dusa, Zhao Rong feigned surprise. "Beautiful lady, so you’re not human, but a serpent person?"
Hearing this, dusa chuckled weakly. "Smart, Zhao Rong. You guessed right. But knowing now is too late."
With those words, she quickly swallowed an Elixir and began to transform, her body swelling and contorting into that of a giant python. Now in her true form, dusa lood over the now-miniscule Zhao Rong and roared with laughter.
"Zhao Rong, even though your sneeze poisoned with my own Snake Qi, I have the antidote! You can’t hurt . Now that I have transford, your ti of death has co!"
After speaking, she thought to herself, I really am clever for coming prepared. That idiot Zhao Rong might be lucky, but no amount of luck can overco my careful planning.
Just as dusa opened her massive, gaping maw to strike, Zhao Rong bellowed, "Ladies, let her have the realgar!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Lili, Yu Lan, Xuelian, and Tao Hua rushed in, brandishing a fire hose. Seeing the won charge in, the python-dusa was startled. But when she saw they were only holding a fire hose, she laughed derisively.
"You bunch of fools! Do you think we serpent folk are afraid of water? Do you really think water from a fire hose can kill ?"
What dusa didn’t know was that the fire hose was connected to a large tank on the roof of the villa, a tank filled to the brim with potent realgar water. Realgar acts as a stomach poison, attacking a snake’s digestive system with lethal results.
The truth was, Zhao Rong had seen through dusa’s disguise long ago. While she was searching for an opportunity to kill him, he was thodically planning her demise. Earlier, when dusa had instructed her assistant to prepare the hot pot, Zhao Rong had already ordered the won to begin adding massive amounts of super-concentrated realgar to the villa’s rooftop water tank. They did this to create a powerful stream of realgar-infused water for the perfect mont.
And now, as dusa revealed her true, murderous form and lunged for Zhao Rong, that mont had co.
The won decisively opened the valve on the fire hose, unleashing a violent torrent directly at dusa. The mont the concentrated realgar water slamd into her scales, the ferocious python imdiately cringed. She was not only driven back but was also severely injured. The won kept the stream focused on her, spraying relentlessly for a long ti. They didn’t stop until the entire rooftop tank of realgar water was depleted.
Seeing the serpent person thoroughly subdued, the four won high-fived and shouted, "Yay!"
When dusa finally realized the water wasn’t ordinary tap water but realgar water, she was stupefied. Looking at Zhao Rong, she spoke, her voice barely a whisper, "Zhao Rong... did you know all along that I was a serpent person?"
Zhao Rong nodded. "From the very first day you set foot in this villa, I knew you weren’t human. I was just playing dumb and didn’t let on."
Hearing this, dusa howled at the ceiling. "Damn it! So you knew I was a serpent person the whole ti... and I thought you were completely clueless! I thought I was a good actor, but I never imagined you were an even better one..."
After her outburst, she asked with genuine confusion, "But I had completely mastered my human form. How did you possibly find out?"
Zhao Rong pulled out his phone and opened a search page. "When I saw the tattoo on your leg, I secretly took a photo and looked it up on Baidu. I discovered that the logo was the official symbol of the serpent people. So, I knew who you were from that day."
Hearing him ntion the tattoo, the serpent person replied in disbelief, "But so many human girls have that tattoo now... and the difference between my pattern and theirs is minuscule, practically insignificant... most people would never notice! Why did you notice it? And why would you go so far as to take a picture and look it up on Baidu? Zhao Rong... you got good..."
As she spoke those last words, the serpent person dusa breathed her last.
Looking at the dead python, Zhao Rong sighed with regret. "Beauty, don’t bla . If you’re going to bla soone, bla that bored, internet-savvy mber of your serpent tribe who had nothing better to do than upload your tribe’s logo and identify it online."
With that settled, Zhao Rong fetched the Dharma Sword.
Seeing him prepare to dissect the python, one of the won asked, puzzled, "Brother Zhao Rong, what are you doing?"
Zhao Rong smiled. "I just did another Baidu search. Serpent people have Snake Crystals and Snake Gallbladders. They’re both valuable ingredients for making elixirs. I’m going to see if I can find them and try my hand at alchemy. Maybe they can help level up."
Having said his piece, Zhao Rong began the dissection of the giant python that was once dusa.
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