Chapter 4 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The overjoyed Chu Chen howled at the sky. A tender squawk of an eagle cut through the air, lingering for a time.

That discovery was truly too full of surprises. He could not resist flapping his little wings and howled as he danced around. However, the next moment, a tragedy followed. The overjoyed Chu Chen felt himself trip over, missing a step, and lost his balance, falling down immediately.

It turned out that while he was overjoyed at the edge of the nest, he accidentally fell out of the nest. Sudden weightlessness washed over him as his world started spinning.

‘Sh*t! I’m just a hatchling. If I hit a rock falling down, wouldn’t that turn me into a pancake?! This time my joy really begot sadness! Could this be the end of my fate with this mountain filled with treasures?’

Just as the thought occurred in his mind, he felt a jolt of pain in his head. He slammed forcefully onto a limestone, causing him to be disoriented and dizzy.

The strong impact force was sufficient to have him bounce off the limestone, spin a few rounds in the air, and roll off the tall tomb.

Whimper…

He felt dizzy. What surprised Chu Chen was that he fell from the roof of the tomb that was several hundred feet tall, yet he only felt some pain instead of turning into a pancake as he had imagined! As he clumsily climbed on his feet, he stretched and flapped his wings several times, feeling nothing wrong with his body.

‘What kind of eagle is this? Just a hatchling and I can remain unscathed after slamming to the ground like a meteorite. If I grew up, wouldn’t I be invincible?!’

‘That gave me quite a scare,’ Chu Chen sighed in his heart.

After falling, his instincts sensed great danger. A cold feeling washed over him causing his down to all stand on end!

Danger! Extreme danger!

A wave of cold, overt killing intent washed over him, causing his body to freeze up for a moment.

Turning around slowly, Chu Chen’s eyes immediately narrowed.

Before him was a pitch-black venomous snake with a triangular head and a pair of blood-red eyes. On its forehead was a silver half-moon pattern.

Tss…

The black snake’s cold, bloody red eyes gave off an unconcealed killing intent.

It stared at Chu Chen for a moment. Its head moved suddenly, as though a black colored blade. With a swooshing sound, it pounced at him. The air was filled with a strong scent of blood. The strong feeling of imminent death almost caused Chu Chen to suffocate!

‘I’m going to die!’

Chu Chen was terrified. He was only a hatchling that could not even stand firmly. When faced with an attack by a black snake-like that, he was truly helpless and could only wait for death. He had no means to fight back.

The only thing he could do was to have the little beady eyes of the hatchling to give off a death glare!

‘I’m no match for you, but my gaze won’t lose to you. Who’s afraid of you!?’

The silver moon black snake’s eyes similarly gave off a cold and ruthless gleam. It raised its head high and prepared for a fatal blow.

Whoosh!

A sharp gleam of a sword flashed, followed by a black snakehead turning into a fountain of blood. It then spun and landed on the ground with a dull thud.

The next moment, a slender, fair, and supple hand grabbed Chu Chen.

His world spun once more. When Chu Chen finally came to, he saw the charming cheek of a stunning young woman coming within three inches from him. ‘This is way too close. Is she trying to kiss me?’

A pair of cold and approving eyes stared at Chu Chen.

“Little thing, you’re quite brave.”

The young woman in black clothes looked just like a fairy, but the icy expression on her face seemed to have come from h*ll.

‘Could she be thinking of keeping me as a pet?’

That was Chu Chen’s only thought.

The young woman before him had an icy expression. Her black sleeves flapped as it danced in the wind.

She looked like a young goddess of death that was about to destroy and collect the lives of all living beings, yet her hands carried Chu Chen with the utmost care.

While she was observing Chu Chen, his eyes were brazenly examining all corners of her body.

‘Although she’s cold, her chests…they’re huge!’

Chu Chen’s face turned red in an instant. However, realizing that he was just a hatchling, others would not be able to see him blush. With that, he continued to admire the beauty before him without care. ‘Such long legs. Too bad her buttocks are out of sight, but it must surely be supple.’

‘Wait a minute. I’m not that kind of a person. Why am I peeping at a woman so brazenly after turning into a bird? Could it be that my mindset is turning into an animal as I transform into one myself?’

After finding an excuse, Chu Chen once more felt at ease. At that moment, he was a bird. These were benefits that a bird should have.

Chu Chen suddenly noticed that the young woman had a skull-shaped hairpin on the left side of her head. The eyes of the small skull even had two shiny green gems in them, faintly exuding a terrible aura.

Chu Chen’s heart immediately sank.

In the world of cultivators, no female disciples from the good factions would use this type of skull-shaped accessories that carried an ominous aura with them. Those who took the path of cultivation focused on breaking free from the material world.

That was why most female disciples would prefer using accessories in the shape of the qilin, phoenix, blue phoenix, flame crows, and other auspicious creatures.