Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 103

[Saw this photo of Tian Yao in the drama adaption.... He's so handsome❤️]

Vast forests with soaring trees can be found in Southern Qing Qiu. The sunlight was practically blocked from reaching the undergrowth. Yan Hui, who was flying in the sky, couldn't see any tracks leading to the lairs. She could only enter the forest and search from the ground.

Yan Hui hurriedly search in anxiety, but she found no traces. However, far up ahead came a loud noise. The ground shook. Yan Hui's heart tightened, and she immediately started towards that direction. She had only taken a few steps when the earth shook even harder. It seemed like whatever was making the ground shake was running her way. Yan Hui could barely keep standing.

The ground in front of her suddenly bulged up. The large trees were uprooted and toppled over. An enormous black demon coiled up from under the ground. Yan Hui stared wide-eyed. It was a nine-headed snake demon!

But three of its head were gone. Its entire body was covered in blood, and the remaining six heads were hissing in pain.

With a twist the six heads looked at Yan Hui in unison. Then with a hiss, the nine-headed snake demon struck at Yan Hui.

Its mouths gaped open like it was going to swallow her in one gulp.

Yan Hui was shocked at first, but then she immediately calmed down. She stood firm and gathered her inner breath. She circulated the heart technique she learned in Demon Bestowal around her body. She waved her hand, and a fire ball was launched at the snake demon.

The nine-headed snake demon didn't dodge or flinch. One of the heads stiffly swallowed the fireball down. Another head in a blink of an eye extended until it was right in front of Yan Hui. Fangs earily gleamed in the gaping maw, and its fishy breath was enough to make one retch.

Yan Hui narrowed her eyes. She was just about to go all out against the demon when suddenly a fiery light appeared overhead. A person dropped down from the sky, arriving with the weight and power of thunder. A jian pieced through the snake's head and sealed its mouth shut. The person stood in front of Yan Hui, demon aura pulsing outwards and pushing the snake demon 33 meters away.

Yan Hui blankly looked at Tian Yao whose eyes flashed red. He leapt up, went after the snake, and started the fight where the snake had been pushed to. Poison covered the snake demon's withering body, and its six heads never ceased moving. Finally, one of the heads seized an opening and swallowed Tian Yao whole, jian and all.

Yan Hui's mind whited out. She was just about to race forward to save Tian Yao when she saw a blaze of fiery light emit out of the snake's belly. The snake demon wailed and then immediately exploded into a fine mist. It was completely obliterated.

The mist made everything vague and fuzzy, but the gleam of a long jian could be seen within.

"Tian Yao......."

Yan Hui absentmindedly took a step forward. There were footsteps sin the mist, steadily walking out. Tian Yao emerged from the mist. He was covered in blood, and his left arm hung limply by his side. Blood flowed down his finger tips and dripped onto the ground. The fiery jian in his right hand slowly vanished until only a subtle light was left in his palm.

It was the snake demon's neidan.

Yan Hui was in no mood to pay any attention to the neidan. She ran towards Tian Yao and anxiously asked: "How are your injuries?"

Tian Yao didn't say a word. It wasn't until Yan Hui was standing in front of him that he started to lean. Yan Hui automatically reached out to hug him and support him upright. She could hear his harsh breaths and smell the reek of blood and snake venom. However Yan Hui didn't feel disgusted at all. She only felt......