Song of Adolescence

Chapter 259 Silver Banded Snakes Water Dragon Swims

Xiao Se gave Lei Wujie a deadpan look. Lei Wujie held his sword in his right hand with a pot of wine balanced at the tip of the sword, but his expression was a little provocative.

"How can we be drinking wine and eating snakes while you’re here drinking water and flirting with shijie?" Lei Wujie\'s mouth curled upwards.

Xiao Se took the wine flask and drank it all before he put it down. "Who’s scared of you?"

In the next second, Xiao Se collapsed in a dead faint.

Lei Wujie also fainted right after.

Because Sikong Qianluo had lifted her Silver Moon spear and knocked Lei Wujie out with one spear move.

"You better explain this properly, what do you mean by flirting with shijie?" Sikong Qianluo said angrily.

Mu Chunfeng rushed over with the medicine case on his back, pulling out his silver needles and wiping off the sweat on his forehead at the same time. "Can you guys stop doing this? Don’t create more trouble for this doctor, please?"

At the other end, Tang Lian was already drunk and he began to show off the various forms of his fist techniques. The fist techniques, Harness the Sea, imparted by Baili Dongjun was even more impressive when performed drunk. Every fist resonated with the tide and caused the ordinary boatmen to cheer and applaud continuously.

The only sober Snow Moon City disciple left, Sikong Qianluo rubbed her forehead, thinking that the head disciple of this distinguished number one city in the martial world was reduced to performing his fist techniques on a deserted island. It was really embarrassing, if you think about it.

Mu Chunfeng finished the treatment with his needles, wiped off his sweat and said with a smile, "Does shimei want to steal a bit of the limelight?"

Sikong Qianluo started. “Huh?”

"When it comes to such bonfire parties, isn’t it just a chance for everyone to show off their special skills and compare who’s better? You’re a woman, rare on a ship, so everyone is also looking forward to your performance," Mu Chunfeng said while he positioned Xiao Se carefully to lean against a boulder.

"Why not." Sikong Qianluo picked up her spear and jumped into the ring surrounded by all the people. Tang Lian, who had just wobbled his way through a set of Harness the Sea, was already sound asleep to one side. Sikong Qianluo picked up her spear and swung it in a perfect circle through the air.

The crowd applauded.

The Silver Moon spear had a pure white gleam from the moonlight, and when she waved it in a dance, it seemed as if the moonlight itself was flowing. It was really beautiful. On top of that, Sikong Qianluo had a pretty face, and after a while, the bunch of boatmen could no longer see the spear. They only had eyes for the face which smiled as she swung her spear, yet looking heroic between her brows.

Sikong Qianluo tilted her head slightly, and with a wave of her spear, it was as if she raised the moonlight. At that moment, she saw what looked like a person standing at the bow of the Golden Cross. The person’s robes fluttered in the breeze.

The figure looked somewhat familiar.

When the spear fell, Sikong Qianluo raised her head again, but there was nobody at the bow.

"Did I see wrongly?" Sikong Qianluo kept her spear and whispered to herself.

On the second day, dawn.

Silver banded snakes were less valuable than golden line snakes. They had no expensive medicinal value and furthermore, their numbers were much smaller, so the recruited snake catchers were no longer of much use. Therefore, only Mu Chunfeng, Xiao Se, Lei Wujie, Tang Lian, Sikong Qianluo and the two black-robed snake chiefs departed for Silver Snake Island.

After waking from their drunken night, Xiao Se and the other two had completely forgotten what they got up to the night before. Tang Lian, who had been performing his fist techniques on the beach the night before, was once again his serious and stern self. "Silver banded snakes only show up at dawn. How much time do we have at most?"

"At most an hour. After an hour, the silver banded snakes will return to their snake holes." One of the black-robed snake chiefs replied in a deep voice.

The group left Golden Cross on a small tender boat and set off for Silver Snake Island. Lei Wujie squatted down and rapped against the small boat. "Are we going to use this later to continue going eastwards? It kind of feels a little unreliable, though?"

Mu Chunfeng shook his head. "Lei-xiong, don\'t worry. When the time comes, I will naturally give you all a good boat. Alternatively, we can all go together too."

"This trip concerns life and death. I thank Mu-xiong for your kindness." Xiao Se turned him down mildly.

Mu Chunfeng nodded. He was a smart man, and he understood the tone of voice that represented a genuine rejection.

Very soon, the group arrived at Silver Snake Island. They followed the lead of the two snake chiefs deep into Silver Snake Island, but they didn’t see any traces of snakes along the way. In fact, there were even very few traces of other living creatures.

"Why is this?" Sikong Qianluo was puzzled.

Tang Lian plucked a leaf and sniffed it lightly. "The venom from one silver banded snake is equivalent to ten golden line snakes. All the plants on this island are also poisonous to some degree, so be careful as you walk. Don’t get cut by the leaves."

"The whole island is a poisonous island?" Sikong Qianluo pursed her lips and looked at the bright red flowers on both sides. She was still puzzled as she said, "What a waste of such beautiful flowers."

Tang Lian knelt down, plucked a red flower, and whispered softly, "This is Crimson Tears. The more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is. The sap from this flower can poison a full grown water buffalo to death." He pinched the flower gently, retrieved a medicine bottle from his robes and poured the sap into it.

"Aren\'t you afraid of getting poisoned?" One of the snake chiefs frowned.

Tang Lian smiled but did not answer. He kept the medicine bottle back in his robes and continued walking forward.

"Later, if you’re bitten by a silver banded snake, remember to ask Tang-xiong for a drop to drink." Mu Chunfeng patted the snake chief gently on his shoulder.

"What does young master mean?" The snake chief was puzzled.

"Wherever venomous creatures live, within seven zhang will be a plant that has the antidote. Of course, a venomous creature can produce an antidote and an antidote can also be a poison. You know snakes, but don’t know enough about poisons." Mu Chunfeng sighed.

The group continued to move forward, and after a while, they arrived at a waterfall. However, they also saw silver light twinkling from inside the waterfall, as if there were countless flying fish jumping. It was very beautiful. But when they looked more carefully, they realised that those were not fish, but snakes.

Hundreds of silver snakes were jumping and swimming in the waterfall, bathed in sunlight that resulted in a dazzling silver light.

"This…" Sikong Qianluo was stunned. When looking upon such a picture, you could only feel that it was really beautiful, but at the same time also indescribably disgusting and terrifying. Although the silver snakes had a trace of silver colour on their skin, on second look, they were in fact, almost transparent. No wonder these snakes could only move about at dawn, and they even had to swim in the water. After all, such a fragile layer of skin would easily burn if exposed to the sun.

"We use that rot incense?" Lei Wujie asked.

Tang Lian shook his head. "The rot incense won’t attract them. They won’t take the risk of getting burnt to come over."

"Then we’ll fly over and grab a few." Sikong Qianluo grabbed her spear, intending to step forward.

"If shimei doesn’t want to be bitten into a sieve, you should not be impulsive." Tang Lian reached out and stopped Sikong Qianluo.

The two snake chiefs exchanged a glance and stepped forward. One of them jumped to the other side of the river. The two of them pulled with their hands and spread out a small net.

Tang Lian nodded. "This method is not bad."

Xiao Se frowned slightly. "How long will that take?"

"Depends on luck. Based on their experience, the longest they’ve taken is to catch one in three days," Mu Chunfeng replied.

"Too slow." Xiao Se shook his head.

Lei Wujie sighed and stepped forward. "Out of the way."

The two snake chiefs glanced at him and gave way.

Lei Wujie took out an object from his clothes and hurled it towards the waterfall. The object hit the waterfall and suddenly exploded. In an instant, at least twenty silver banded snakes were blown out of the water. Lei Wujie flew over, picked up the bamboo basket they had prepared before, and caught the silver banded snakes. "Look through carefully. There should be at least one snake gall that wasn’t blown apart."

"Lei Clan Fort Heaven tier explosives, Water Dragon Swims. I actually used it to catch snakes. If all those shixiong in Lei Clan found out about this, they’d probably beat me to death."