“Careful!”
Having witnessed Brother Nian’s brutal death, everyone understood that the white light was no good thing.
The Tiger Clan Uncle’s eyes flew wide.
He rushed over, hooked Jiang Ke’er by the shoulder, and yanked her aside.
The white light missed its mark. It spun sharply in midair and charged at Jiang Ke’er again.
The Tiger Clan Uncle let out a furious roar.
He unleashed a spiritual power blast, trying to knock the white light away—but it was completely unaffected, continuing its rush toward Jiang Ke’er without any obstruction.
Just as Jiang Ke’er was starting to feel troubled, the Tiger Clan Uncle squeezed his eyes shut, steeled his resolve, and stepped in front of her.
The white light flared.
“You…”
The Tiger Clan Uncle looked at her in pain.
“You still have family. No need to take the hit for me.” Jiang Ke’er smiled, gazing at the white orb rapidly merging into her arm.
She began to concentrate, sensing the changes in her arm.
“Aaaah—”
From afar, the Ruins Snake God suddenly let out a bloodcurdling scream.
Jiang Ke’er noticed that the white light treated her completely differently.
The moment it touched her spiritual power, it immediately showed signs of trying to flee.
But a strange component within her spiritual power seemed to grab its little tail. Jiang Ke’er realized that component came from the Nebula Dharma Aspect—a residue of the energy the Bell had sealed.
If not for this white light, she would never have known so much Nebula Dharma Aspect energy was hidden inside her body… When did it sneak in there?
‘Whatever its intentions, at least right now it’s genuine good stuff for me.’
“You’re growing scales!” Li Lao’er exclaimed.
Huh?
There was indeed some itching on her arm, but it wasn’t strong—nowhere near the degree that drove Brother Nian insane.
As the Nebula Dharma Aspect energy merged with the white light’s code, a layer of hard scales rapidly surfaced on Jiang Ke’er’s skin, spreading to wherever the white light touched.
That berserk code, which had devoured Brother Nian, instantly turned docile inside Jiang Ke’er’s body—even… timid, like a child who’d made a mistake.
It was as if it had run into its mother.
Meanwhile, the Nebula Dharma Aspect energy inside Jiang Ke’er was like someone holding a feather duster, eyebrows raised, chasing after the white light, watching its every move.
Whenever it misbehaved, it got mercilessly whipped.
The white light energy seemed unable to take it anymore. It suddenly erupted, transforming into a beam of energy that lunged forward!
In that instant, Jiang Ke’er felt her body start to slip out of control, the itching intensifying!
Unfortunately, the devil is always one step ahead.
The Nebula Dharma Aspect energy caught up to the white light with no effort, cornering it against a wall.
‘Was that my imagination?’ Jiang Ke’er could have sworn she sensed a cold, cruel sneer emanating from the Nebula energy.
The Nebula energy surrounded the white light completely, then forcibly squeezed it into a tiny knot shaped like a head.
Next, it split into over a dozen tentacles.
Piapiapiapiapiapiapia~
The scene was positively brutal.
It even reminded Jiang Ke’er of that “Mom Spanks Me Again.gif” of furious slapping—and the “Face the Wind!” version at that.
The Nebula energy didn’t let up until the white light was almost beaten out.
They squared off for a moment.
In the end, the white light gave up resisting. Sulking, it began to circulate along Jiang Ke’er’s meridians.
Pia!
Jiang Ke’er understood what the whip meant—too slow! Move it!
The sluggish white light sped up.
Pia!
This time, Jiang Ke’er didn’t quite get it.
But she figured it out soon enough—after that lash, the ugly purple-black snake scales on her skin gradually turned a pristine white, the scales becoming finer, barely visible to the naked eye.
Pia!
And then, even the faint itching from the scales disappeared entirely…
Unbelievable.
Jiang Ke’er was dumbstruck.
‘What the hell is this Nebula energy?’
“What’s wrong? Are you okay?” Li Lao’er’s anxious voice snapped her out of it.
Jiang Ke’er now noticed that everyone around her was watching her warily. They had drawn their swords and formed two opposing factions.
“I’m warning you—you’d better kill her now, or none of us will get out of this.” A human cultivator pointed nervously at Jiang Ke’er and shouted, “She’s already dead! She died the moment that thing merged with her! That’s not her anymore… That’s the Ruins Snake God’s clone!”
“…”
Li Lao’er couldn’t argue. He just stood in front of Jiang Ke’er, not knowing what to say.
“Enough of this. You can’t beat me anyway.” Jiang Ke’er drew Frost Shadow and glanced at the crowd across from her.
Seeing her draw her blade, the opposing cultivators tensed even more.
But Jiang Ke’er didn’t aim the blade at them. Instead, she brought it down heavily on her own arm.
Ding—
A faint halo rippled across her scales.
Sparks flew.
Jiang Ke’er was completely unharmed—not even a white scratch mark on her skin.
“Well, I’ll be damned…” Jiang Ke’er was stunned by the sudden surprise.
Defense had always been her weak point, forcing her to fight with a style that left almost no margin for error.
That not only consumed enormous mental processing power but also made it easy for powerful opponents to seize an opening and one-shot her.
But with this set of scales… things were different.
“Hiss—itchy.”
Jiang Ke’er quickly deactivated the scale state, panting as she reverted to human form.
Though the scales brought by the white light could drastically improve her defense and margin of error, she couldn’t maintain them long-term—otherwise, it might cause irreversible damage to her body.
She could feel that the Nebula energy had completely taken the lead inside her, and dark purple patterns were faintly surfacing on her skin… though they disappeared as she released the scale state, it still gave her a bit of a scare.
She had a premonition that if she broke the balance between the Nebula Dharma Aspect energy, the Fox Demon energy, and her own spiritual power, something terrible would happen.
She could use it—she could even switch it on and off frequently to counter instant attacks—but she couldn’t keep it active for long.
Still, that was enough to handle most situations.
The day she became a Hexagonal Warrior like Qiao Xiaoxian, turning the tables and singing for joy… was one step closer!
‘Heh, now I’m not the only one with armor!’
“Who are you now?!” The human cultivator across from her, seeing Jiang Ke’er become impervious to blades, became even more convinced that she had been fully corrupted by the Ruins Snake God.
“I…”
Creak—
Before Jiang Ke’er could explain, the entire group of human cultivators vanished without a trace.
In their place, an enormous snake head appeared.
It happened so suddenly that even Jiang Ke’er didn’t react.
The Ruins Snake God seemed to have rushed from far away at top speed, faster than the speed of sound itself.
“Heavenly Demon!”
After swallowing those human cultivators, the Ruins Snake God paid no attention to anything else.
Its massive snake neck pressed against the cave ceiling.
The head lowered slightly, eyes wide open, staring fixedly at Jiang Ke’er.
“Heavenly Demon!”
It seemed too emotionally agitated to speak coherently, repeating those two words over and over in a frenzy.
And the tone… was one of terror.
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