My Silly, Sweet Wife

At the same time, Ye Guichen seemed to have fallen into a bizarre space.

”Haha, another kid has come. Is it another Qi Refiner? Sigh, over the years, the highest cultivators to come here have only been Qi Refiners. It’s truly disappointing.”

A shrill voice sounded, resembling a duck’s quack, piercing Ye Guichen’s eardrums unpleasantly.

He raised his head and followed the sound, but all he saw was pitch-black darkness, revealing nothing.

However, directly in sight was a towering tree.

The tree’s diameter was several hundred meters, and looking up, its top couldn’t be seen, as if it pierced straight into the sky.

The giant tree was lush and leafy, yet countless Xiao She were coiled around it.

Practically, each branch had Xiao She curled around it.

And more than that, standing before the giant tree was a snake-headed woman.

The woman gazed up at the giant tree with her back to Ye Guichen, her long hair draped over slim shoulders. She was undoubtedly a Water Snake Demon.

Moreover, her body was covered in Scale Armor, with no clothes, making the scene look extremely eerie.

”Where is this place?”

Ye Guichen’s heart trembled, and he couldn’t help asking.

The woman seemed surprised to know someone was there, and after hearing Ye Guichen’s voice turned quickly, looking at him in shock, ”How did you enter the Spirit Tree Space?”

”Spirit Tree Space?” Ye Guichen frowned, even more puzzled, ”What Spirit Tree Space?”

”You don’t know?” The snake-headed woman moved and appeared before Ye Guichen.

Without hesitation, she reached out to grab Ye Guichen.

Ye Guichen dodged backward, escaping the snake-headed woman’s grasp.

The snake-headed woman clearly didn’t expect to miss her grab and turned her head strangely towards the giant tree, ”Did you let him in?”

An old voice sounded, ”Old Snake, over the years, you merely want to absorb the immortal power essence left inside me, though you have raised so many small demons sealing my body completely, I can’t even control myself. How could I let someone in?”

The direction of the voice was indeed from the giant tree.

Faintly, Ye Guichen seemed to see a mouth and two eyes appear on the giant tree.

The form was unmistakably a human face.

”Even the tree has become a demon,” Ye Guichen was incredibly shocked.

The snake-headed woman didn’t believe the giant tree’s words and sneered coldly, ”Old Tree, since you know why I’ve trapped you, why not honestly hand things over to me? We’ve been here for over a thousand years; neither you nor I have improved, and we can’t even leave this cursed White Mist Valley. Why do you stubbornly hold fast to this belief?”

The giant tree’s deep voice resonated again, ”The immortal patted my head and bound my hair for longevity. In the past, the Nameless Immortal instilled a trace of immortal power within me, granting me Spiritual Sense and allowing me to live for a thousand years. If I gave that trace of Spiritual Sense to you, you’d leave White Mist Valley and wreak havoc on the world.”

”Hmph, wreaking havoc on the world, what’s it to you! You’re but a Tree Demon; without ten thousand years of cultivation, it’s hard to take human form. Even if you did, you couldn’t leave the soil; you might as well let me, an old friend, benefit. In gratitude for your kindness, when I truly take human form, perhaps I’ll help you then,” the snake-headed woman retorted angrily.

The giant tree remained unmoved, ”In the past, the immortal saw you growing strong, unwilling to destroy your cultivation, trapped your Primordial Spirit within a statue, hoping you’d mend your ways and truly cultivate. Yet, a thousand years have passed, and you’re still hopelessly obstinate. Alas, it’s over...”

The snake-headed woman cursed as the giant tree chastised, ”What do you know! The path of cultivation is against the current; progress is mandatory! As a demon, if I don’t eat people, what kind of demon am I? Haha, though outside there’s a few with decent cultivation, once I completely devour their Primordial Spirits, I’ll escape the statue, then I’ll find more food outside. Without the trace of immortal power from you, I can still leave this place!”

The giant tree coldly laughed, ”Old Snake, perhaps you should consider how he appeared here.”

The ’he’ naturally referred to Ye Guichen.

The snake-headed woman perked up, seeming to finally remember Ye Guichen, turned her head with murderous intent in her eyes.

”Your Primordial Spirit should be under my control, trapped in the illusion I set. How did you come here? Tell me, who helped you!”

Ye Guichen now understood the situation.

No wonder Dongfang Yue and the others were kneeling motionless before the statue; it was the snake-headed devil’s doing.

Moreover, what they’re worshipping isn’t truly the enormous statue; it’s likely the little snake beside the statue.

The reason he came here was most likely because of the giant tree.

Tree Demon?

Instantly, Ye Guichen considered a possibility.

The true demon dwelling here isn’t the Snake Demon but the giant tree.

Yet, naturally, the giant tree lacks Spiritual Sense, unlike serpents that can acquire intelligence; its cultivation is obviously arduous.

Not only that, demons obtaining Spiritual Sense are exceptionally rare.

Those snake skins he’d seen on the giant tree were likely the snake-headed person’s doing to dominate the Tree Demon.

But Tree Demons are the lowest-class demons; they’re bonded to soil. Their patience is self-explanatory.

Their meaning implies the snake demon spent millennia trying to acquire the Tree Demon’s single trace of immortal power but failed.

Who’d expect in the White Mist Valley’s core to find two formidable demons?

Though he now understood the intrigue, Ye Guichen realized his situation was awkward.

According to the two demons, his Primordial Spirit had exited.

Exiting the Primordial Spirit essentially means the soul leaves the body?

My gosh, wouldn’t that mean my body became a mere corpse?

If this continues, wouldn’t the body decay? Without a body, would I actually die?

How can I leave this place?

Ye Guichen’s mind raced, noticing the snake demon’s gaze fixed intensely on him.

”Why aren’t you talking! If you don’t speak, I’ll eat you now!” The snake demon seemed to only have patience for the Tree Demon. Seeing Ye Guichen dazed, it transformed into a hundred-meter-long python, opened its huge mouth, and lunged at Ye Guichen with fangs bared.

Ye Guichen shivered, feeling terrified to the core.

This demon’s cultivation far exceeded his, by what margin?

Multiples, certainly.

How to dodge?

Ye Guichen was petrified.

Just then, a sword appeared before Ye Guichen.

The sword expanded infinitely as it appeared.

Originally just over a meter, in the blink of an eye, it transformed to over twenty meters.

”Slash!”

Suddenly, a voice issued from the sword.

The sword slashed downward, facing the python head-on.