Starting with the titmouse, seventy-two transformations

Chapter 46 A Strange Snake Guards the Home, Old He Gets into Trouble
Shanyang County, Caiyuan Lane.

Back in their rented courtyard, Granny Liu and her daughter Yu Niang were noticeably more relaxed.

Although it had only been a few days since they left, it felt like an eternity to them.

The rice, flour, oil, and vinegar I bought last time are still here, but there's more dust and grime in the house, along with many traces left by rodents and insects.

The cleaning of the house was left to Grandma and Yu Niang.

Liu Sheng handed the baby tiger over to Er Ya to look after, picked up a bamboo basket from the carriage, and went to the back of the house.

"hiss~"

He made a faint hissing sound, and the bamboo basket in his hand shook, from which five small snakes slithered out.

Black, white, red, blue, and yellow—that's exactly five colors.

They are not very big, the longest is four or five feet, and the shortest is only half a foot, but they are all very intelligent.

Especially that little yellow snake, which kept sticking out its tongue, its eyes full of fawning.

It was about the thickness of a thumb, with a bright red nose.

It was none other than the treasure-hunting snake that Old Xu, the beast hunter, kept!
Not only this yellow treasure-hunting snake, but also the other four strange snakes were raised by Lao Xu.

After Old Xu died, these strange snakes somehow ended up hiding in Liu Sheng's house.

I only discovered their presence last night while cleaning the house!
Strangely enough, these strange snakes became exceptionally friendly and tried to please Liu Sheng after they met him.

He guessed that perhaps when he transformed from the Azure Scaled Serpent back into his original form that night, he had let his aura slip, which was why these five strange snakes recognized his connection.

In the world of demons, it is only natural for the weak to obey and follow the strong.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why these strange snakes approached him.

He had previously received two booklets from Lao Xu.

One of the books records the martial arts technique, "White Python Whip".

His other book, "The Record of Snake Raising," contains his insights and experiences from raising exotic snakes over many years.

There are five major snake species: Black-lined, White-frost, Red-banded, Bamboo Viper, and Treasure-seeking Snake.

Last night, Liu Sheng read through the entire "Record of Snake Raising," focusing on the methods of taming these five exotic snakes. After some experimentation, he has mastered the skills.

Not only is he skilled in snake taming, but he has also mastered the "White Python Whip" technique, which he practiced only in his spare time and is now approaching the level of proficiency.

It is estimated that it is closely related to the incarnation of the "Azure Scaled Serpent".

His hissing rose and fell a few times, and the five strange snakes coiled up in a line, like soldiers waiting for their leader to give instructions.

Not bad!

Liu Sheng nodded, and after hissing a few times, the strange snakes quickly dispersed and hid in various corners of the courtyard.

Of the five strange snakes, four are highly venomous, second only to the original Black Scale Snake.

Even a martial artist at the Bone and Tendon Realm would lose half their life if bitten.

Protecting Grandma and Yu Niang and her daughter is enough.

A moment later, Liu Sheng gave a shout and left home for the county government office.

Their family moved to the city, and the household registration needed to be changed.

Fortunately, now that he has the identity of a "beast hunter," all the procedures have been simplified, saving him from a series of processes such as application for citation, registration in his place of origin, and review in the place of relocation.

It saved at least two or three months of time!
After spending about ten taels of silver, the clerk readily made some marks on the household register and issued a new yellow register on the spot.

From then on, in his first month in Dayu, Liu Sheng successfully transformed from a rural farmer into a "city dweller" with status.

Along with Granny Liu and her daughter Yu Niang, they also ascended to heaven.

After resolving the household registration issue, Liu Sheng headed towards Ironware Alley.

The beast hunters of the Demon Suppression Division are similar to the "white-collar workers" of the government, and they need to raise their own weapons and bring their own food.

He is blessed with "copper skin and iron bones," his muscles and bones are as hard as refined steel, equivalent to others wearing three layers of heavy armor.

In order not to appear too special, he still had to get a suit of armor, just to make a show of it.

As for weapons, we need to get a good one, otherwise it's a waste of time to chop with our bare hands every time, and it's also very uncool.

I found the set of fine iron throwing knives very useful last time, so I'll go check it out at Li's Blacksmith Shop this time.

Less than half an hour later.

He stood in front of Li's blacksmith shop.

The shop is small, with its facade divided into two halves, both bearing the sign "Li's Iron Shop," though one is new and the other old.

The new business is booming, with people coming and going, and the sound of blacksmithing never ceasing inside.

The old place was deserted.

Inside, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes was sighing and lamenting.

It was the same stall owner who had sold him the fine iron throwing knife last time.

What's going on?

Liu Sheng frowned, his mind starting to waver. He only wanted to get a set of armor and didn't want to get involved in all the other things.

So, without making a sound, he moved his feet toward the blacksmith shop next door.

at this time--

"Guest officer!"

"It's me, the one who sold you throwing knives at the stall near the City God Temple last time!"

"Back then, you argued with me for almost half an hour just to save a hundred coins..."

The stall owner, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, rushed out and called out loudly.

To save 100 coins, I haggled for almost half an hour...

Pedestrians passing by in the alley turned their heads to look at Liu Sheng.

Surprise, curiosity, stifling laughter, and a variety of other reactions.

"What a weirdo!"

Liu Sheng was speechless, so he stopped and forced a smile, awkward yet polite:
"Ah, we meet again."

"Are you here to buy armor or farm tools? Come inside and tell me!"

The stall owner, with his thick eyebrows and large eyes, grabbed Liu Sheng and pulled him into the shop, as if afraid someone would snatch him away.

“I still have some secondhand items in my shop, all made by my father before he passed away. I can sell them to you at a discount.”

Second-hand goods?

Your father built this before he died!

That's very likely... it's attached to a spiritual point?

Liu Sheng raised his eyebrows and stopped resisting.

An hour later.

Liu Sheng carried a large iron box back home, his eyes twitching, unable to hide his joy.

"My dear grandson is back!"

Grandma Liu was standing guard at the gate of the courtyard. When she saw Liu Sheng, she quickly came to greet him.
"Is the matter done?"

"Grandma, you must keep it safe."

Liu Sheng smiled and took out the new yellow booklet, handed it to the old woman, and read the contents of the booklet aloud.

"Thank God, our Liu family has finally become city dwellers!"

Grandma Liu was overjoyed, carefully holding the yellow book as she slowly walked back into the house.

Upon seeing this, Liu Sheng chuckled and then opened the large iron box, revealing a set of armor inside.

The armor consists of two slits, with the shoulders, arms, and waist made of tanned old cowhide. The chest and back are covered with armor plates made of refined steel, woven together with small strips of leather, and reinforced with copper nails at the edges.

It cost more than two hundred taels of silver.

Two weapons, one a 140-pound goose-wing knife, five feet long, shaped like a goose wing, with a deep and long blood groove.

A fine steel whip, eighteen feet long, with 32 chain links strung together, but only about a foot long when it is closed. The whip's end is thin and cone-shaped, capable of piercing gold and splitting stone.

In addition, there was a ten-stone hard bow, a hundred armor-piercing arrows, and thirty fine steel throwing knives.

Among them, the Goose Wing Knife is the most expensive. It is said to contain one or two taels of spirit iron, which can split open the scales of alien species. It cost more than five hundred taels of silver.

This purchase cost a little over a thousand taels of silver!

This is because they are all secondhand goods, and they were discounted.

He basically emptied out all the valuable items in Li's blacksmith shop.

Of course, after thoroughly examining all the weapons and armor in Li's blacksmith shop's inventory, he harvested over four hundred points of spiritual energy.

This was one of the reasons why he readily paid in the end.

The next morning.

Liu Sheng bought some gifts and then visited the address Lao He had given him when they parted the day before yesterday.

One reason was to strengthen our relationship, and the other was to inquire about the situation within the Demon Suppression Division.

Secondly, regarding the Wild Horse Spirit's corpse, he entrusted Lao He to help sell it that day, and if it was sold, he would have to get the money back.

After all, I just bought a set of armor, which cost a lot of money, and I urgently need to recoup my losses.

But when he arrived at Chang Le Fang in the east of the city and knocked on the door of the He family, he didn't receive a response for a long time.

A faint scent of herbs wafted out from under the door.

Faintly, one could also hear soft sobbing.

Something happened?!

(End of this chapter)