At Chen Hao's home, five people were sitting in the living room watching the television news, paying attention to the latest developments of the snake disaster.

Suddenly, Ye Yuqiao's eyes shone with a sharp light, and she immediately got up and walked to the balcony to look down. At that moment, the road below was teeming with snakes, and a disgusting sense of discomfort immediately surged in her heart.

Afterward, most of the snakes surged toward the downstairs of the building, squeezing in through the entrance; while some quickly climbed up the walls or pipes.

"What's happening?" Chen Hao then walked up behind Ye Yuqiao and asked.

"Get inside, quick!" Ye Yuqiao hurriedly turned around and pushed Chen Hao back into the room, and immediately closed the balcony door. After closing the door, she urgently said to Chen Hao, "Many snakes are climbing up, at least a few thousand! You guys go down quickly and drive away the snakes that have climbed up, I'll take care of the ones on the balcony!"

After being stunned for a moment, Chen Hao nodded, and then he and Tang Chao as well as Xie Xiaofeng rushed downstairs.

"Yuqiao, how can I help?" Tang Jing asked.

"Snakes are afraid of fire and smoke, go find some waste newspapers and books," Ye Yuqiao said. As she spoke, she went into Chen Hao's grandfather's room and took out a bundle of unopened incense and two white candles from an old wooden cabinet. With these items, she briskly returned to the living room and lit the incense and two white candles using the candlelight from the Eight Immortals table.

By this time, over a dozen snakes had crawled up to Chen Hao's balcony, attempting to squeeze through the cracks between the balcony door and the floor.

Ye Yuqiao hurried to the balcony door, quickly pulled a dozen sticks of incense from the bundle that was burning, spread them on the floor, and pushed the lit incense out through the cracks between the door and the floor.

Several snakes caught in the gaps retreated as soon as they smelled the burning incense and scurried away. Half a minute later, with her head down to the ground, Ye Yuqiao saw no snakes approaching the door from the outside, and then she quickly got up and opened the door.

Stepping out to the balcony, she first inserted the two white candles into two deserted flower pots, then divided the bundle of burning incense she held into several parts, placing them in different flower pots.

With the candlelight and the smoke from the burning incense, the snakes that had retreated to the wall or pipes didn't dare to approach for the time being.

At that moment, Tang Jing arrived behind Ye Yuqiao holding a pile of waste newspapers and books. After dropping the papers and books on the ground, she said with a somewhat dazed look, "Yuqiao, do you think these are enough?"

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, causing her to sway with it. Had Ye Yuqiao not reached forward to steady her in time, she would have certainly fallen.

"What's wrong with you?" Ye Yuqiao frowned, "The venom from the snake bite inside you hasn't been cleared completely, has it?"

Tang Jing closed her eyes slightly and shook her head weakly, "It shouldn't be that, maybe it's because I didn't regulate my breath properly while cultivating on the mountain today."

"I'll help you back to your room to rest first!"

At the stairwell on the first floor downstairs, Chen Hao was awkwardly standing behind Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Chao, watching. Ye Yuqiao was right; when it came to dealing with snakes, he indeed wasn't as useful as Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Chao. Especially Tang Chao—unexpectedly, despite his mediocre performance against Yin Souls, his martial arts and inner strength were indeed impressive.

"Sword Qi, disperse!" Tang Chao shouted again at that moment, and the air around him rippled outwards like waves. Wherever those ripples traveled, they cut the snakes in two like an incredibly sharp wind blade. Once the ripples had dissipated, the accumulated snake blood and bodies would pile up thicker on the ground.

This was Tang Chao's strength! Maybe he wasn't too good at catching ghosts and demons, but in a fight or against living creatures, he was certainly a force to be reckoned with!

"Spell of Fire, Earthly Fire!" Xie Xiaofeng unleashed a technique, and immediately, bursts of orange-yellow flames rose from the ground, instantly turning dozens of attacking snakes into charred remains.

Watching Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Chao's performances, Chen Hao was inwardly amazed. At the same time, he also saw his own shortcomings: His Nether Eye Power was only effective against Yin Souls for the time being, and in situations like this, he seemed helpless. In order to elevate his Nether Eye Power to the power to cover myriad entities, he still had a long way to go. For now, he needed to accelerate the enhancement of his Yin Qi Spiritual Power and also learn some specialized Yin Yang Arts to counter similar creatures like snakes and demons that possess a Yang Spirit.

"Let's rush outside and drive the snakes away!" Xie Xiaofeng suggested.

"Good!"

Next, the three of them walked onto the road, with Tang Chao unleashing his sword qi recklessly in every direction; Xie Xiaofeng, looking around, used fire to turn the snakes lunging at them into roasted meat.

After wave upon wave of snakes hurled themselves to their deaths, they finally grew wise and no longer rushed rashly toward the trio, instead, they swiftly retreated backwards.

"Let's split up and move!" Tang Chao suggested, "The two of you clean up the snakes on the left, and I'll take care of those on the right!"

"Good!" Xie Xiaofeng and Chen Hao nodded in agreement.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Ye Yuqiao was observing the situation below from the balcony, while Tang Jing, who had suddenly felt unwell, was resting inside the room.

In the dark room, Tang Jing, who had been finding it difficult to breathe, suddenly felt a chill. After covering herself tightly with the blanket, she just as suddenly experienced a bout of intense heat. When she threw off the blanket, she was already drenched in sweat, her clothes soaked through.

"What's wrong with me?" Tang Jing's breath was weak and fast, and she now felt cold again, as if the air were mixed with snow, causing her to shiver uncontrollably.

"Sss!" Suddenly, a strange sound came from the air, carrying with it a bone-chilling coldness, just like the air itself.

"Sss!" The noise echoed once more.

Tang Jing looked around, unable to locate the source of the shiver-inducing sound; it always seemed like the sound was coming from within her own heart.

"Sss, sss!"

Although the two hissing sounds followed one after the other without any break, Tang Jing could tell from the slight difference in the decibel level that the sound was rapidly approaching her!

"Ah!" Tang Jing screamed loudly.

It wasn't long before Ye Yuqiao rushed over after hearing the scream.

"Tang Jing, what's wrong?" Ye Yuqiao asked urgently as she approached.

Tang Jing slowly raised her head, and in the dark room, her pupils glittered with golden light.

Ye Yuqiao's face showed shock, and in Tang Jing's golden pupils, she saw a vertical black line. Those were the eyes of a snake! Tang Jing had been possessed by a snake spirit.

Tang Jing pushed Ye Yuqiao away and said in a strange, indifferent tone, "I am the daughter-in-law of the Li Family, I must return to the Li Family!"

Having said that, Tang Jing strode out of the room.

"Don't go!" Ye Yuqiao rushed forward and grabbed Tang Jing's hand.

Tang Jing immediately turned back, glaring furiously with her eyes flashing gold momentarily. She suddenly mustered brute strength, kicked Ye Yuqiao to the ground with her left foot, then twisted around and continued to the balcony.

Enduring the pain, Ye Yuqiao quickly got up, ran to the living room's giant round table to find a red thread, and then rushed to the balcony. In the moment Tang Jing climbed up the railing, she threw the red thread and pulled Tang Jing back..

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