Chapter 85: Descending the Mountain

As the two lay on lounge chairs, chatting and watching the stars, they unexpectedly received an unexpected visitor.

“Hey, you two humans, I, the king, have arrived. You invited me here, or else I wouldn’t want to come to this stinky human place.” Hei Yi, who had just been complaining about humans, twisted its body and swam in from the wall, sounding extremely disdainful.

Chen Xin and Fang Ziyu turned to look at the courtyard wall, seeing its seemingly endless body crawling in made them feel sorry for it.

Chen Xin suddenly said, “Can’t your body shorten?”

Fang Ziyu also seemed quite happy; he hadn’t expected Hei Yi to really come.

Hei Yi sneered, “Who am I? I am the descendant of a noble species. How could I not know?” As it spoke, it blinked and transformed into a small snake about the length of a chopstick. Then, Hei Yi looked at its snake body and suddenly exclaimed, “Ah! This won’t do, it’s too small. I need to change.” Its royal dignity was not to be underestimated!

However, Fang Ziyu quickly stepped forward, grabbed it, and placed it in the palm of his hand, his eyes shining. “The little snake looks very cute like this, just like this.”

“Impossible. I am majestic, not cute!” Hei Yi retorted indignantly.

At this moment, Chen Xin reached out and, using two fingers, picked up Hei Yi and placed it on the coffee table. With a sour tone, she said, “Xiao Yu’er, you can’t touch anyone other than me.”

Fang Ziyu blinked dumbly at Chen Xin’s words, then looked at Chen Xin and smiled sweetly, “Xiao Yi is just a snake.”

“Don’t forget, it’s a snake that’s become a spirit.” Chen Xin added softly.

On the coffee table, Hei Yi felt as if it were being ignored, or rather, being discussed as if it were not there. It snorted and said, “Humans, I’m not a woman, I’m a Cixing! Understand? And I don’t care if he touches me.”

“What does Cixing mean?” Fang Ziyu really didn’t understand and asked Chen Xin.

Chen Xin glanced at Hei Yi and thought to herself: If snakes can talk, she wouldn’t be surprised if one day it turned into a person. So she couldn’t let Xiao Yu’er touch it carelessly.

“Cixing means female, Xiao Yu’er, you have to remember that men and female can’t be intimate.” Chen Xin pinched his nose affectionately.

Hei Yi finally understood what Chen Xin meant. “You two are a couple, right? Let me tell you, if I want a male, there are three thousand beauties waiting for me to choose from in the snake clan.” With that, it forgot to maintain its dignity and proudly spun in circles on the coffee table.

Chen Xin and Fang Ziyu were also enlightened. So there was still a harem? Hei Yi was indeed fortunate.

Lying down on the lounge chair, Chen Xin asked Hei Yi, “How old are you?”

“More than two hundred, I think. I don’t really remember.” Hei Yi tilted its head and replied after a while. Then it lowered its head to smell the pastry Fang Ziyu had placed in front of it.

Chen Xin was surprised; two hundred years didn’t seem like much. She had thought Hei Yi was already over a thousand years old. Such a spiritual creature indeed seemed to be the descendant of a noble species!

Fang Ziyu was also curious and asked, “Has Xiao Yi ever descended the mountain?”

With the sweet scent in the air, Hei Yi’s tongue touched the slightly yellow pastry, and its eyes widened in pleasant surprise. Distracted, it replied, “I’ve descended once before.”

And so, the two humans and a snake chatted for a long time, gradually dissipating their mutual sense of unfamiliarity.