Accidentally Reincarnated in Cultivation World-Chapter 377: Nine Headed Calamity Sperent Empress [2]

The nine-headed serpent inhaled softly.

Something invisible was drawn out of Yu Xuan, like smoke pulled from his chest.

He felt it immediately.

A pressure he hadn’t realized he was carrying lifted from his shoulders.

The subtle unease, the inexplicable misfortune, the feeling that the world had been tilting ever so slightly against him.

Gone.

Yu Xuan blinked.

His thoughts became clear.

"...Huh."

He felt light.

Shockingly so.

He thought about the serpent with a new expression.

’She’s... not that bad at all, is she?’

The nine-headed serpent seemed amused by the shift in his demeanor.

"All right," she said lazily, her many voices overlapping in harmony.

"Let’s get you to meet the others. After all, you do have a mission here, don’t you?"

Yu Xuan stiffened.

"How do you know that?" he asked cautiously.

"Hm." One of her heads tilted.

"So the information is being hidden from you... for your own protection, I presume."

She flicked her tail toward a distant tree.

"Go on. Enter that tree, it’s a shortcut."

Yu Xuan hesitated.

"But I’m being chased by a few mad people," he said honestly.

The serpent paused.

Then she casually gestured behind her with her tail.

"Are you referring to those?"

Yu Xuan turned around.

His soul nearly jumped out of his skin.

The Asura and the entire gang, were standing just a few meters away.

Watching.

Waiting.

The terrifying part? He hadn’t sensed them at all.

Not their presence.

Not their intent.

Nothing.

They were simply there.

Worse still, they were conversing among themselves, but whatever language they were using now slipped entirely past Yu Xuan’s comprehension.

Fragments still reached him.

"Why is she with him?"

"I told you we should’ve captured that brat immediately."

"I heard a rumor the Nine-Headed Calamity Serpent Empress was on vacation."

"Asura, you’re too unlucky for your own good."

"Damn it!" the three-headed, three-horned Asura snarled.

"I thought I could at least chill and kill him thirty more times until he finally learned fear!"

"Do you think I would just stand by and watch?" Absolute Immortal Lord Hanxu snapped back coldly.

A brief verbal clash erupted among them.

Yu Xuan stood frozen, the serpent’s tail still loosely looped around his neck.

After a moment, the group stopped arguing.

And then they approached him.

All eyes locked onto Yu Xuan.

Or rather.

Onto the nine-headed serpent perched upon him.

Yu Xuan could feel it clearly now.

Caution.

Not the wary caution of hunters sizing up prey, but the restrained vigilance reserved for something dangerous, something that could not be offended lightly.

Whatever this serpent truly was, even these monsters were reluctant to cross her.

’She is a hidden powerhouse...?’ Yu Xuan thought, he now definitely had a feeling that he is blessed by luck.

And he would never know that someone sucked his bad luck.

The nine-headed serpent lifted her head slightly, her many gazes sweeping across the gathered figures.

"You old people," she said coolly, her voice layered and calm.

"Bullying a young child like this. Perhaps after we are released from here, I should spread this little story among your descendants."

The atmosphere stiffened.

Immediately, reactions followed.

"Well now," the Great Demonic Sage, Hei Si Zun coughed lightly, adjusting his posture as if deeply offended by the accusation.

"I had only considered killing him once really! It was the Asura who took things too far, as you know, how could I, a great scholar, support such crude behavior?"

"What?!" the Asura roared, all three mouths shouting at once.

"Shifting blame already?! How shameless can you be! I only killed him once, the second time wasn’t even me, and you all know it!"

Absolute Immortal Lord Hanxu sighed, shaking his head as if deeply disappointed.

"How could that be? You forced him into a situation to test his mentality," he said gently.

"Poor child. Truly unfortunate."

Laughter rippled through the group.

Others chimed in casually, piling blame onto the Asura with visible amusement, each remark sharper than the last.

The Asura’s faces twisted.

"Good. Good. Go—cough!" he suddenly coughed and staggered slightly.

’Damn it,’ he thought grimly.

’I really am becoming unlucky.’

The nine-headed serpent watched the exchange with mild interest before turning her gaze back to Hanxu.

"So Empress Shemei... shall we take him to meet the others?" Hanxu said smoothly.

Shemei let out a soft, amused breath. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Wasn’t this Asura banned from greeting newcomers due to various past incidents?" she replied.

Her nine heads turned in unison to stare at the Asura.

"Forget it, let’s not dwell on someone’s... consistently poor behavior." she finished.

"Yeah, let’s not dwell on someone’s bad behavior," Hanxu added lightly, his tone almost considerate.

"It wouldn’t be good for my mental health."

The Asura’s expression twisted.

All three of his faces flushed a deep, furious crimson as veins bulged across his neck.

These bastards are framing him.

His reputation was being dragged through the mud right in front of a mortal.

Yu Xuan, meanwhile, remained very still.

He didn’t understand what they were talking.

But for the first time since entering the Land of Mortality, he understood something important.

He wasn’t just trapped in a time loop.

He had stepped into a place where living legends existed.

"Alright, we’ve talked enough. Let’s move," Shemei said, her tone decisive as she tilted her head toward the lone tree ahead.

Yu Xuan hesitated for only a heartbeat before stepping forward.

The moment he touched the tree, his surroundings shifted.

He didn’t pass through it in the normal sense.

Instead, it felt as though the world folded inward, compressing around him.

He was walking within a narrow, invisible passage.

There were no walls, no ground, no sky – only a thin path beneath his feet and a single point of light far ahead.

Silence reigned.

Steps felt both endless and instantaneous, as if distance itself had lost meaning.

Gradually, the light grew brighter.

Closer.

Warmer.

And the moment his fingers brushed against it.

The world expanded.

"Woah!" Yu Xuan exclaimed, genuine awe breaking through his composure.

Before him unfolded a realm so vast and vivid that he forget to breathe.