The Little Peacock Raises a Snake (GL) Chapter 60

The puppet technique was not a spell of the demon or devil clans. It began as a human yin-yang art. It was wicked. Whether one used blood to raise a puppet or controlled another person, backlash came easily. The stronger the person being controlled, the greater the backlash when they broke free.
Ordinary people would not dare take such a risk.
Yun Su frowned. “Did you see who held the other end of the puppet strings?”
“They were on Chi Heng. When I escaped, I saw a puppet ring on his hand. He was the one controlling Chu Yuebai.” The little black snake’s eyes filled with anger. “I will make him regret what he did that day.”
Yun Su’s eyes were full of worry. “He is very dangerous.”
Chi Heng was the Devil Venerable’s son, yet he had secretly cultivated a human world’s evil art. No one had discovered it for so many years. He must have planned to control the Green Lizard clan long ago, only hiding it deeply all this time.
Over these years, the flood dragon clan had seemed to submit to the devil clan, but in truth, it had only been working for Chu Yuebai. Anyone with clear eyes could see that the flood dragon clan had never served the whole devil clan. They served only Chu Yuebai.
But no one knew why Chu Yuebai helped Qu Linyan so much, and no one knew how loyal Qu Linyan truly was to Chu Yuebai.
Chi Heng did not dare gamble. He had to remove the flood dragon clan. Only by making sure he had cut off Chu Yuebai’s left and right arms could he avoid unnecessary changes in his plan.
Since he had already decided to kill, Qu Linyan going to Yuntian City again would be walking into a trap. It would almost certainly be death.
Yun Su knew Qu Linyan would definitely go back to save Chu Yuebai. She did not want Qu Linyan, who had just escaped death, to face danger again. But she also knew that to Qu Linyan, that friend was very important. She could not stop her at all.
“Saving someone is fine, but first you must recover. Then we can make a proper plan,” Yun Su said softly.
The little black snake lifted its eyes to Yun Su and asked with interest, “Does that mean you will come with me?”
Yun Su looked away, rolled her eyes, and said, “If you charge around recklessly like before, at most I will collect your corpse…”
The words like before were said casually, but they seemed to tap lightly against the listener’s heart.
“I really want to know how much of the past you have remembered,” it asked softly.
Yun Su was silent for a long time. “At least I remembered that you are not a good thing.”
“Then I am truly wronged.” The little black snake flicked its tongue.
It had just licked the side of Yun Su’s neck when Yun Su grabbed it at once and glared fiercely.
The little black snake froze, then quickly blinked its innocent eyes and stared back at Yun Su. One person and one snake stared at each other, big eyes to little eyes, for a long while.
In the end, Yun Su raised a brow and asked, “Qu Linyan, do you not understand your situation right now?”
“What situation?” The little black snake tilted its head in Yun Su’s hand. “I have food and drink, sleep warmly, and have a great beauty from the heavenly realm taking care of me.”
“So you are enjoying yourself?” Yun Su asked.
The little black snake thought about it and said glibly, “Not especially. Your cooking is not good. When we live together later, I will still have to cook.”
Yun Su gritted her teeth. With her other hand, she grabbed the little black snake’s tail too. Before it could react, she tied its body into a strange, complicated knot.
The little black snake’s body was soft, so untying itself would not be hard at all. But to let Yun Su vent her anger, it had to pretend to be pitiful, staring at her with wide eyes and softly begging for mercy.
Of course, Yun Su saw the perfunctory look in its eyes. She reached out and began feeling around the tail end of its knotted body.
“What are you doing?” The little black snake became uneasy.
Yun Su felt around for a good while, then lightly lifted a scale at the very end of its tail.
The little black snake panicked at once and struggled. “Are you some kind of female hooligan? I am already like this, and you can still do that to me!”
Yun Su asked with interest, “What, Clan Leader Qu is afraid?”
“You, you… If you have the skill, wait until I transform and then fight me…” As the little black snake spoke, it twisted its little tail hard, trying to pull free.
Seeing it so embarrassed, Yun Su felt much more at ease. Even the hidden anger she had felt because it always ignored danger for others faded quite a bit.
She teased the little black snake with her fingertip for a while longer. Finally, her conscience returned, and she remembered the little black snake was still injured. She carefully untied the knot.
The little black snake had been teased until its whole body tingled. It even shamefully discovered it felt a tiny bit of regret. Why had it struggled so hard just now?
It had not touched Yun Su for too long. To be honest, if Yun Su was willing to touch it on her own, that was not impossible… Why had she stopped?
By then, Yun Su had already stood. She straightened her sleeves and skirt and said, “I am going to make food for you. I am not taking care of you for free. Once your wounds heal, you have to pay me back!”
When the little black snake heard this, it quickly climbed onto Yun Su’s shoulder and went with her to the kitchen.
It saw that Yun Su was clumsy at lighting the fire and cooking. It could not help moving close to her ear and laughing softly. “I will pay you back. I will cook for you for a lifetime.”
Warmth rose in Yun Su’s heart, but then she remembered that painful, bone-piercing scene from her memories. Her expression suddenly sank.
“What is wrong?” the little black snake asked.
“Nothing.” Yun Su shook her head and stopped letting her thoughts run wild.
The little black snake stayed silent on Yun Su’s shoulder for a long time. Seeing her move busily back and forth, it finally could not help pleading softly, “I do not want there to be any barrier between us. Whatever you want to know, I am willing to tell you… Please, do not hide what is in your heart and keep it from me, all right?”
Yun Su’s hand, which had been stir-frying, paused. After a moment of silence, she asked coldly, “Qu Linyan, where is your sister?”
The little black snake fell silent.
“Where is Qu Muqing, the one you would rather sacrifice me to bring back?” Yun Su asked, her eyes reddening.
The little black snake thought for a long time. Yun Su thought she would not get the answer she wanted and had just let out a cold laugh when the little black snake spoke by her ear.
“She is dead. Her inner core fused with mine long ago.” The little black snake’s voice was low, pressing down deep grief. “Back then, Black Tortoise Divine Lord led heavenly soldiers and generals to slaughter my flood dragon clan in order to take you back. I met them myself and defended our clan without retreating. At last, I waited until the devil clan reinforcements arrived. But when I returned to the clan, I found that you had already been blood sacrificed by my clansmen… That night, she woke. After a thousand years, she finally woke. But I hated her to death.”
“I hated her for cruelly leaving me behind a thousand years ago. I hated her for finally coming back, only to take you away…” As it spoke, it seemed to be enduring great pain. “Do you blame me? Do you blame me for failing to protect you? Do you blame me because I promised to live and die with you, yet in the end I survived alone? Actually… I also thought of following you. But I was unwilling. I was unwilling for our one life together to be so short… Chu Yuebai told me she had a way to save you. So for three hundred years, I have been working for her. I…”
“Enough.” Yun Su interrupted the little black snake, her heart in chaos.
Every word the little black snake had just said was completely different from the scene in her memory. She could not understand. She had clearly already cut off her path back to the heavenly realm for it, so why did it still choose to keep lying?
She could forgive. But only if they were honest with each other.
Was telling the truth so hard?
“Xiaoba…” The little black snake rubbed its head against Yun Su’s neck.
Yun Su closed her eyes and corrected it. “Yun Su.”
“I wanted to tell you that the pot is burning…”
Yun Su was speechless.
…
Several days later, the barrier power outside the bamboo forest finally disappeared completely.
On a clear morning without snow, Yun Su woke from a dream with a start.
Without the barrier’s illusion, the bamboo forest’s traces appeared at once in the mountain woods. Some devil clan members who had been wandering nearby and searching for flood dragon clan remnants sensed the strange change and rushed over to investigate.
Yun Su hid the sleeping little black snake in her sleeve and hurriedly fled the bamboo courtyard, disappearing into the deep forests of Soul-Wounding Valley without looking back.
She tried to take a very remote path and did her best to hide the little black snake’s spiritual aura, but something kept chasing behind them. It was devil clan aura, and no matter what, she could not shake it off.
After waking, the little black snake crawled inward along Yun Su’s sleeve. Finally, under Yun Su’s shocked gaze that said she wanted to hit someone, it poked its little head out from her collar.
The itch from its long, thin body rubbing against her made Yun Su embarrassed and angry. “You!”
For some reason, ever since Qu Muqing had come up in their conversation that day, Yun Su had not given the little black snake a pleasant look. It was as if everything about it displeased her, and she was fierce every day.
It thought and thought, but could not understand what it had said wrong that day.
At this moment, seeing Yun Su suddenly wrinkle those especially pretty brows and reach out to grab it, its will to live flared. It quickly shrank its little head back a little and whispered, “Wrong, wrong. We should not go this way.”
“Then…” Yun Su froze, looked around, and asked blankly, “Then which way should we go?”
“You have been going north. If we do not change direction, we will get closer and closer to Yuntian City. In my current state, I cannot save anyone for now. It is better to avoid the devil clan as much as possible.” The little black snake thought for a moment, then poked its head out again and whispered beside Yun Su’s ear, “Go east first. Enter the ghost realm and pass through the underworld court. As long as we reach the human world, the devil clan cannot touch us!”
When the little black snake spoke, its red tongue kept brushing Yun Su’s ear, making her ear burn.
Blushing, Yun Su said awkwardly, “If you are going to talk, can you speak louder?”
The little black snake said, “Conspire loudly? Are you not afraid someone will hear?”
Yun Su said, “Then do not get so close.”
The little black snake said, “If I stay too far away, are you not afraid you will not hear?”
Yun Su took a deep breath. “Then can you stop licking my ear all the time?”
The little black snake looked blank. “I am not. I…”
It truly could not control this very well. It was like how humans breathed out when they breathed.
“Rascal,” Yun Su muttered softly. She turned east. After only a few steps, she snapped at it again, “How much longer are you staying in there?”
The little black snake froze, crawled out from Yun Su’s collar, and obediently coiled around her slender arm. Its eyes were full of grievance. “I was not doing it on purpose.”
Yun Su had not been that angry at first, but as soon as she heard the little black snake say this, she instantly became unhappy.
What did it mean, not on purpose?
It had crawled from her sleeve all the way to her collar, passed by her… her chest, and finally licked her ear. In that instant, her whole body had gone weak and tingling. Yet this little black snake still dared tell her it was not on purpose?
What did that mean? Was she not worth having it do that on purpose?
“You did it on purpose!” Yun Su argued angrily.
The little black snake got angry too. “Fine, I did it on purpose. So what? Three hundred years ago, we were already wife and wife in truth and had touched skin to skin. What exactly are you embarrassed about?”
When the little black snake said this, the lingering dream scene suddenly appeared in Yun Su’s mind, and her breathing grew quick. “Clan Leader Qu, I hope you remember that my name is Yun Su!”
“I did not call you anything else, did I?” the little black snake said. “Upper God Yun Su, are you not the wife I stole back from the heavenly realm?”
“You!” Yun Su was briefly speechless. She frowned and said with a red face, “Do you believe I will throw you down right now?”
“Can you bear to?”
Yun Su grabbed the little black snake off her arm and pretended to throw it.
“Hey, hey, hey!” The little black snake instantly became meek. With its neck held, it quickly bent its body and wrapped several tight loops around Yun Su’s wrist, trying to please her. “Upper God, I was wrong.”
Yun Su looked at the little black snake tightly wrapped around her hand. She felt both angry and amused. After several seconds of stalemate, she could not help taking a deep breath. “Good that you know. Do not do it again.”
The little black snake nodded. Only then did Yun Su release its neck.
It felt that life was truly not easy. It was heavily injured and could not even hold human form, yet it still had to be scolded by its forgetful wife.
But after thinking carefully, this was fine too. Being scolded was better than being treated coldly.
The little peacock had grown up. It was normal for her temper to change a little.
Understandable. Very understandable.