The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Shen Yifei turned his head and saw that the entrance to the cave was blocked by a huge, blood-red rock. The surface of the rock was covered with snake-scale-like patterns, and it was fitted into the entrance of the cave perfectly, without leaving a single gap.

"Since you're already here, why are you in such a hurry to leave?" The snake's voice suddenly transformed into a woman's voice, echoing in his mind with a hint of mockery. "Have a chat with me. It's been centuries since anyone has spoken to me."

Shen Yifei turned around, a smile plastered on his face: "What would you like to talk about, senior? I'll keep you company until we're completely satisfied."

"Let's talk about that scent on you. The medicinal fragrance on you smells like the Hehuan Sect's style, but it's not quite the same. The Hehuan Sect's medicinal fragrance is alluring, but the medicinal fragrance on you is soul-stirring, it seduces a woman's soul."

Shen Yifei chuckled twice and hid the Myriad Things Cauldron behind his back. However, the monster on the cauldron was uncooperative. It stretched its neck out from behind him, opened its mouth wide, and bared its fangs, like a lecherous ghost seeing a pretty girl.

Shen Yifei pressed the monster's neck back, but it bounced back up like a spring. He gave up after three attempts. The monster's mouth opened even wider, its tongue lolling out as it panted heavily towards the giant snake.

"Senior is joking. I'm just an alchemist, and I have a bit of a medicinal smell on me. There's nothing to it about me being alluring or not." He said as he backed away until he had nowhere left to retreat to at the cave entrance.

"What's that thing sticking its neck out and staring at you from behind?"

"Senior, it's just a little gadget."

Upon hearing Shen Yifei call it a trinket, the Myriad Things Cauldron immediately became displeased and broke free from his grasp.

Shen Yifei looked down and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Everything has changed.

It was no longer the bronze cauldron that was half a person's height, but had become a small four-legged beast.

It was about the size of a small dog, with four short, thick, and powerful legs covered in dark red scales. Its entire body was covered in copper-green scales, and the little monster had a large head, about the same size as its body.

"You fucking can transform?" Shen Yifei squatted down and poked its belly.

The little monster ignored him. It stretched its four legs straight, raised its neck high, opened its mouth as wide as possible, and let out a deafening roar at the giant snake.

"Aww..."

The giant snake stared at the tiny creature on the ground, which was smaller than a single scale of its own, and its body curled up tightly into a ball.

A powerful demon with centuries of cultivation possesses an unparalleled intuition for danger. The aura emanating from this little creature instinctively alerted it to something amiss.

The giant snake's vertical pupils shrank to slits, and its head suddenly rose, spewing out a cloud of blood-red poisonous mist that enveloped the little monster completely.

Shen Yifei's heart tightened.

Oh no, this little thing is about to die right after transforming.

A low, cold laugh came from the giant snake's throat. Its head slowly lowered, its vertical pupils filled with smugness.

"How dare you be so presumptuous in front of me, you little thing?"

Before the words were finished, a slurping sound suddenly came from within the poisonous fog.

It looked like something was absorbing the water.

The giant snake's sneer froze.

The poisonous mist gradually disappeared, finally disappearing as if it had been sucked into the little monster's mouth all at once.

The little monster smacked its lips, burped, and exhaled a small puff of black smoke.

It raised its head, its blood-red eyes staring at the giant snake. Its mouth opened again, its tongue sticking out, panting. Its expression was as if it had just eaten an appetizer and was waiting for the main course.

The giant snake was completely dumbfounded.

It lived for eight hundred years, cultivating from a vegetarian snake to the mid-Nascent Soul stage. Its physical body was severed and sealed in this hellish place by the previous leader of the Blood Soul Sect. Its soul endured for several hundred more years, and it had seen everything.

I've really seen something amazing today. My poisonous mist can kill living things and corrode inanimate objects, yet this little thing dared to swallow it all in one gulp!

The little monster couldn't wait any longer. With a kick of its four short legs, it shot off like a cannonball towards the snake's head.

The giant snake was startled. It yanked its head back and lashed its tail out from the side, striking the little monster squarely.

"Snapped!"

The little monster was sent flying, crashing into the cave wall and embedding itself in it. A pile of crystals on the cave wall shattered, scattering all over the ground.

Just as Shen Yifei was about to run over to take a look, he saw the little monster embedded in the cave wall kick its four legs and pull itself out of the pit, landing on the ground and shaking off the rubble.

Unharmed.

It raised its head and grinned at the giant snake. Shen Yifei could see the expression clearly; it was smiling.

The little monster pushed off with its four legs and charged towards the giant snake again.

When the giant snake saw that swiping its tail was ineffective, it suddenly sank its head down, opened its huge mouth, and swallowed the little monster whole.

Shen Yifei stood at the entrance of the cave, completely stunned.

It just... swallowed it?

After swallowing the little monster, the giant snake raised its head high and made a hissing sound from its throat.

"Little thing, I've been in the Blood Soul Cave for hundreds of years. What kind of demons and monsters haven't I seen? A little beast that has just taken human form dares to be so insolent in front of me."

After saying that, the snake slowly unwinds, stretching out from its coiled state.

Shen Yifei pressed himself against the cave wall, still clutching the blood jade fragment given to him by Yin Wuxie.

The fragments were useless now; the soul had been scattered, and the Blood Jade was just an ordinary piece of jade. He held it in his hand purely because he had no other weapon for self-defense.

"Um... senior," he chuckled dryly, "you've already eaten, shouldn't you let me go?"

"Let you go? The smell of you is pleasant to me."

Shen Yifei has a big head.

The scent on his body was pleasant to women, and even female demon beasts would react to it!

What if this enormous creature in front of us has lustful thoughts?

"Senior, I have a problem. If I don't shower for three days, I'll start to smell bad. Then you won't smell the medicine anymore, you'll smell the sour smell."

"That's perfect, I'll eat you when you go bad."

Just as Shen Yifei was about to make up something else to buy time, the giant snake's body suddenly froze.

Its mouth opened as wide as it could, and a sharp hiss came from its throat.

Shen Yifei saw a bulge on the giant snake's belly, about the size of a fist, moving across the snake's belly from left to right and from right to left, as if it were looking for something.

The giant serpent's agonizing hisses grew increasingly shrill, its body writhing violently. Its tail lashed against the cave wall, shattering crystals and sending stone fragments flying.

The bulge on the giant snake's abdomen swelled larger and larger, growing from the size of a fist to the size of a human head. It stopped moving and remained in one spot, pushing outwards rhythmically.

The giant snake's hiss had turned into a scream.

With a "snap," the snakeskin split open.

A dark red hoof emerged from the crack.

Then came the second one.

The two hooves gripped the edge of the tear and tore it apart.

"Sizzle..."

A three-foot-long gash was ripped open in the snake's belly, spraying black blood all over the ground. The little monster crawled out of the gash, its body covered in black blood, a fist-sized bead in its mouth.

Liu Mengli suddenly appeared in front of Shen Yifei. It turned out that this guy had seen the danger and had hidden himself away long ago.

"This is a Beast Soul Pill! So it deliberately crawled into the snake's belly."

The giant snake's body was still twitching, its two eyes fixed on its Beast Soul Pill, but it could no longer utter a single word.

The little monster completely ignored it. It spat the Beast Soul Pill on the ground, stepped on it with one hoof, then lowered its head and took a bite.

"Click."

A crack appeared in the Beast Soul Pill.

"Click-clack-click-clack".

The little monster devoured the Beast Soul Pill like it was eating fruit. The fist-sized bead was gone in about ten bites.

After the little monster finished eating, the giant snake closed its eyes.

Shen Yifei cursed inwardly, "He didn't leave me a single cent again!"

But he couldn't say anything; it was all done by others, so he was entitled to the food.

Without the little monster, I don't know what would have happened to me.