Chapter 35

After learning the skill "Battle Pet Swap," Yang Zhen stayed on Luojia Mountain for another three months.

During these three months, Guanyin Bodhisattva remained on Luojia Mountain, spending each day preaching and discussing the Dharma, living a truly carefree life. Guanyin Bodhisattva had about twenty disciples, among whom Muzha was the eldest and the most powerful, as he had followed Guanyin Bodhisattva since the Fengshen period, earning her utmost trust. Among the other disciples, although a few had extraordinary talent and high insight, their cultivation time was still short, and the most powerful among them was only at the level of a True Immortal.

As for Shancailongnü, she was the child attendant by Guanyin Bodhisattva's side, responsible for serving her. Although the status of a child attendant was lower than that of a disciple, there was a saying: "No matter how well you perform, it's not as good as being favored." Because Guanyin Bodhisattva liked Shancailongnü very much, her status on Luojia Mountain was second only to Muzha. Even Guanyin Bodhisattva's disciples would give her some leeway when they saw her.

As the saying goes: "Bad habits are formed by indulgence." Shancailongnü, who could get whatever she wanted on Luojia Mountain, had developed a spoiled and willful nature.

Half a year ago, because Yang Zhen did not give Shancailongnü face in Chaoyin Cave, she had been looking for an opportunity to teach him a lesson.

During the six months that Yang Zhen stayed on Luojia Mountain, Shancailongnü had caused him trouble countless times, using every possible means. However, without exception, she was defeated by Yang Zhen every time. Each time, Yang Zhen used a different method to punish her, making Shancailongnü hate him so much that even the water from all four seas could not wash away her resentment.

Although Shancailongnü looked like a child, she was actually over three hundred years old, more than a hundred years older than Yang Zhen. Therefore, every time Yang Zhen defeated her, he felt a sense of intellectual superiority, rather than the shame of bullying a child.

Today, taking advantage of Yang Zhen's absence while he went fishing at the lotus pond, Shancailongnü came to Yang Zhen's bamboo house again. Holding a few blue steel nails in her hand, the little girl smiled, thinking to herself, "Hmph! This time, with the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Super Invincible Soul Nails made by my fifth senior brother, let's see what you, the cat demon, can do."

The little girl smiled wickedly, crouched down, and carefully approached Yang Zhen's bamboo house. After confirming that there were no restrictions outside the house, she slowly pushed open the door and walked in...

"Ah—"

"Hmm?" Yang Zhen glanced back at the direction of the bamboo house, thinking that Shancailongnü must have entered the formation he set up. Thinking about what was inside the formation, Yang Zhen was delighted, believing that the little girl would be so scared that she would never dare to come back.

With this thought, Yang Zhen ignored Shancailongnü and continued to fish by the lotus pond.

Yang Zhen, lost in his own thoughts, did not notice that a goldfish in the pond was looking at him with resentment. With the limited intelligence of Linggan Dajiang, he could not understand why Yang Zhen had been fishing for half a year without catching anything, yet still came every day.

What did the little girl see in Yang Zhen's room?

Actually, Yang Zhen did not set up any powerful formation; he only created an illusionary formation. However, this formation was not meant to trap people but to display some terrifying images.

The little girl entered Yang Zhen's bamboo house, intending to place the Soul Nails under his bed. But as soon as she lifted the mattress, a zombie with a rotten face and decaying flesh crawled out from under the bed and lunged at her. The little girl, who had been pampered since childhood, had never encountered such a terrifying thing and screamed in fright, forgetting to use her magic and only thinking of escaping as far away as possible.

But Yang Zhen's formation was not that simple. Not only the bamboo house, but also a hundred feet around it, were within the formation. As soon as the little girl ran out of the bamboo house, she found that the world outside had completely changed. Luojia Mountain had turned into a hellish place. Countless zombies were slaughtering the creatures on the mountain. The little girl fled in panic and discovered that the senior brothers who usually took care of her had also been killed by the zombies, their bodies in a terrible state.

"Senior Brother!" Seeing Muzha fighting several zombies, the little girl felt a glimmer of hope in the midst of despair and ran towards him. But before she could reach Muzha, she saw him being torn apart by the zombies, his intestines and brains scattered on the ground.

"Senior Brother—"

In despair, the little girl sat on the ground and burst into tears.

After crying for a while, the little girl suddenly realized that she must have entered Yang Zhen's illusionary formation, and everything was just an illusion.

"Yang Zhen, you despicable person, to come up with such a terrifying thing to scare me! I hate you so much." Once she understood, the little girl felt that the zombies were not so scary after all, since they were just illusions. Although she was still trembling, she did not forget to use her magic.

The little girl, who had been with Guanyin Bodhisattva for a long time, could easily break through the small illusionary formation. When everything around her returned to normal, she was furious, feeling embarrassed. She glared at Yang Zhen's bamboo house and shouted, "Yang Zhen, I will never forgive you!"

Sensing that the illusionary formation had been broken, Yang Zhen was afraid that Shancailongnü would burn down his bamboo house out of anger, so he leaped to the front of the house and heard her powerful declaration, not knowing how to respond.

The little girl looked at Yang Zhen with tears in her eyes and said hatefully, "You wait, I'll get you back sooner or later."

Seeing the little girl's tearful and pitiful appearance, Yang Zhen's eyes softened: "Although she is over three hundred years old, she is still just a child in the dragon clan. Showing her those things might have been a bit too much."

As Yang Zhen was thinking, the little girl had already run far away, looking back at him one last time. She gritted her teeth and ran to the cave where Muzha was cultivating, planning to find the second most powerful cultivator on Luojia Mountain to seek revenge for her.

Seeing Muzha, the little girl exaggerated the events that had just happened and said with a pained expression, "Senior Brother, you must stand up for me. That cat demon bullied me so badly, sniff, sniff!"

Seeing the little girl crying with tears in her eyes, Muzha's resentment towards Yang Zhen grew rapidly. It was too much, really too much.

"Don't be afraid. Take me to that cat demon now, and I will stand up for you," Muzha stood up and said angrily.