God of Pets

Chapter 364 Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Snake

The group discussed countermeasures overnight and finally decided to disperse the mysterious spirits near the River of Flames, otherwise they would regroup and pose too great a threat to the Qilin Mountains.

Risk comes with opportunity. If it really is the Phoenix King giving birth, this might be the best opportunity to kill the Phoenix King.

They decided to act sooner rather than later, lest things get complicated, and planned to take action against the River of Flames tomorrow to complete their final mission.

Nothing happened that night, and the entire corps was ready to set off early the next morning.

After these days of combat, the team's morale has changed significantly. In addition to gaining more combat experience, they are becoming more and more like a cohesive team.

With Chen Guan's order, the troops launched an attack on the River of Flames.

The pet army leads the charge, because true human-pet cooperation is impossible, so this is the only way to use pets in battle.

Unlike Leng Zhe's confidence and adventurousness, Shi Zhimen prefers a more cautious approach. He doesn't mind sacrificing his pet, as long as it's worthwhile.

Moreover, after these days of fighting, the soldiers have been getting more and more pets, and some lucky ones have already gotten more than a dozen pets.

Of course, some people are unlucky and don't get a pet, but that's only a very rare case. Most people get several good pets.

Although there are still nearly 100,000 Mystic Spirits left behind on the River of Flames, the proportion of those at the third awakening level is very small. When the legion marched over, it was unstoppable and advanced all the way.

In less than a day, the mystic spirits near the River of Flames were either dead or fled, and there were basically no mystic spirits left in the vicinity.

Chen Guan finally saw the white bones they had mentioned. Upstream of the River of Flames, the river channel was seven or eight hundred meters wide. For some reason, there were very few blood-red algae in this section of the river, and the riverbed could be seen directly through the clear water.

The riverbed was piled high with the bones of the Mysterious Spirits, as if the entire river was paved with bones, and no one knew how thick the bones were.

"Let's go, let's go upstream and take a look. We should be close to the Phoenix's lair." After the troops had a short rest, Chen Guan continued to advance upstream.

They were going to investigate what was going on with the Phoenix. If it was indeed the Phoenix King giving birth, now was the perfect opportunity to kill the Phoenix King and eliminate any future threats to the Qilin Legion.

The army advanced seventy or eighty li and saw a large number of giant red trees on both sides of the Flaming River ahead. Each giant red tree was one or two hundred meters tall and had a terrifyingly thick trunk.

Giant trees stand along the riverbank, so densely packed that it's impossible to count how many there are.

Among these giant trees, there is a super giant tree that is even larger, almost twice the height of the other giant trees, standing out like a crane among chickens in the forest.

Chen Guan and his team discovered that almost every giant tree had one or two phoenixes on it.

They stood silently on the branches, their eyes fixed on the river of fire, like decorative sculptures, motionless.

"If every tree in this giant forest has a phoenix, there must be more than 100,000 phoenixes, right?" Chen Guan thought in horror.

Phoenixes are all level 30 Mystic Spirits; it's hard to find a level 29 one.

One hundred thousand level 30 phoenixes—their legion is probably no match for them; trying to kill them is simply a pipe dream.

Chen Guan had already begun to consider retreating, secretly rejoicing: "If these phoenixes had swarmed out when we were clearing out the Flame River's secret spirits, we probably wouldn't have achieved such results at all, and it would have been a question whether we could have escaped unscathed."

No one had expected there to be so many phoenixes, and they were all shocked. "What are those phoenixes looking at?" Bai Yueguang asked, staring at the river surface. Apart from the white bones, there seemed to be nothing at the bottom of the river.

"Never mind that. The phoenixes are beyond our capabilities. Let's retreat first." Zhang Yujian was mature and cautious, but also a little worried. He was afraid of alerting the phoenix flock, and then it wouldn't be so easy to escape unscathed.

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard the sound of rushing water coming from upstream.

The River of Flames was not particularly fast-flowing before, but now huge waves were surging down from upstream, as if a great flood had occurred.

"Woo..." The phoenixes, which had been standing motionless on the branches like statues, suddenly let out strange cries and took flight in unison.

In an instant, the sky was covered in fiery red, and no other color could be seen.

Countless phoenixes seemed to transform into a red curtain that blotted out the sky, covering the entire heavens.

The group was even more horrified; the number of these phoenixes seemed to be greater than they had anticipated.

Everyone was startled, thinking that the phoenix had discovered them and was about to attack.

But before the order to fight could be given, the phoenixes rushed towards the waves, one after another, plunging into the water with their claws.

Strange, mysterious spirits were snatched from the waves by the phoenix, lifted into the sky, and then tossed about to peck at them.

Chen Guan and the others could see clearly that the water waves were not water waves at all, but mysterious spirits rushing out like a tide.

The mysterious spirit looked very strange; its body resembled a snake, but its head seemed to have a human face on it.

“Those are… Yellow Spring Ghost-Faced Snakes… How can there be so many…” Zhang Yujian was startled, and his face turned deathly pale.

Chen Guan and the others didn't look much better either.

The Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Snake, also known as the Yellow Springs Water Ghost, is a very famous mysterious spirit in the Yellow Springs River.

This extremely yin spirit usually lives at the bottom of the Yellow Springs River. If a person or spirit accidentally falls into the Yellow Springs River, it will silently entangle the person or spirit.

A person bitten by the Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Snake will have their mind controlled by the snake.

The Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Snake will crawl into the body of a person or a mysterious spirit through its mouth, turning that body into its vessel and controlling it to kill everywhere, just like a water ghost looking for a substitute, hence the nickname Yellow Springs Water Ghost.

People or spirits controlled by the Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Serpent are not easily distinguishable if one is not careful, and it is easy for them to blend into the crowd and secretly wreak havoc.

However, those controlled by the Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Snake will still have some distinctive features, but it takes a lot of careful observation to spot them.

When Lao Mo taught Chen Guan how to fish by the Yellow Springs River, he mentioned that the Yellow Springs Ghost-Faced Snake was one of the seven most ominous creatures in the Yellow Springs River.

Fortunately, the Yellow Spring Ghost Face Serpents are few in number in the section of the Qilin Mountain Range, so they do not pose a great threat.

But now, seeing these densely packed, wave-like serpents, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

(End of this chapter)