Stranger Danger-Chapter 1738: Then We Fight

“Haha... alright, stop crying!”

It was at this moment Ye Qing gave the girl a head pat. “Senior Thousand Head is just playing with you. He’s not actually going to eat you!”

Some of the Stranger’s heads turned in Ye Qing’s direction. “And how do you know I’m just joking, child? Aren’t you worried that I would eat her first and then the rest of you afterward?”

Ye Qing wasn’t afraid in the slightest. “Come on, senior. I can tell that you harbor no killing intent or malice whatsoever, so why would you eat us? It’s clear that you’re just playing with the girl!”

Boom!

The next moment, the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent unleashed its terrible fiendish qi. Yin wind started howling inside the abyss, ghastly figures flailed wildly like grasses, and wails of pain filled the ears. Every one of the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent’s head glared at Ye Qing with cold, bloody eyes and hissed menacingly, filling the air with the stench of rot and death. “What about now? Are you afraid now?”

Ye Qing continued to smile fearlessly. “No. Why would I be afraid?”

The Yin Yang Qi underneath Ye Qing’s feet rotated and neutralized the fiendish qi surrounding the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent. A bell also chimed silently to dispel the fog, still the yin wind, and destroy the ghastly silhouettes.

The ensuing silence lasted a dozen or so breaths. Then, the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent suddenly burst into laughter and dropped its fiendish qi completely. “What a child! What a successor! The Earthly Sovereign found a good one!”

Ye Qing was surprised. “How did you know that I’m the successor of the Earthly Sovereign, senior?”

The Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent laughed. “You carry the Earthly Sovereign Bell, and your aura is identical to the Earthly Sovereign. If you are not his successor, then who is?”

This time, Ye Qing was truly stunned. “You... You know the Earthly Sovereign, senior?”

Everyone was surprised to hear this. They knew that the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent had lived for a very long time, but they did not know that it shared an era with the fabled Earthly Sovereign himself!

“Why do you think I’m here?”

The Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent’s voice grew a little cold. “He was the one who tossed me into this place.”

Oh. Crap. Did I screw up?

Ye Qing tensed up. Earlier, he used the Innate Yin Yang Qi and the Earthly Sovereign Bell to intimidate the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent and warn it against trying anything. He wanted to show off his power and make the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent aware that they weren’t easy preys. If it chose peace, then it would receive peace. Otherwise, there would be a war it might not be able to win.

However, the situation had changed. He never imagined that the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent held a grudge against the Earthly Sovereign.

Originally, no one knew who the other party was and so could co-exist in peace. But now that he had accidentally exposed himself to be the successor of the Thousand-headed Demonic serpent’s nemesis, there must be war even if the Stranger wasn’t planning to fight in the beginning!

Just when Ye Qing was about to make the first move, the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent said indifferently, “What’s wrong? Are you planning to attack me?”

“Are you sure about this? The Ghastly Abyss of the Lost is my domain. There is zero chance you—all of you combined—would win if you fight me here.”

Ye Qing gestured for Feng Qingyou to stay her hand before asking with a frown, “What do you want, senior? Whatever it is, this junior will take it head on.”

“Take it? Can you?”

The Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent sneered. “That old fart dumped me in this heaven forsaken place for hundreds of thousands of years, never to be free. Oh, my hatred and my resentment know no bounds!”

Old Man Turtle tried to play the mediator, “Senior, a person’s sin is absolved when they die, and the Earthly Sovereign is long dead. Whatever grudge that might have existed between you two is long gone, so why don’t you be generous this once and let an innocent junior go?”

“Be generous?” The Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent grunted. “I am a Stranger, not a human. Do not apply your standards on me. Also, I’m a believer of repaying resentment with resentment; vengeance with vengeance.”

“The old man may be dead, but his successor still lives. It is one thing if I haven’t run into him, but since I have, then it is fate.”

“Fate has decreed that I repay this resentment and absolve myself from this hate once and for all.”

Ye Qing’s tone grew cold. “You talk a lot of shit, but it all boils down to one thing. You want a fight.”

“Indeed I do!” 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent replied, “But the little turtle is right about one thing. I am a senior. It would not be right for me to bully a junior.”

“So let’s do it this way. You—and only you, no one else is allowed to interfere—and I will fight. If you can last an incense stick, then I’ll let you live.”

“Very well. I agree to your terms,” Ye Qing declared. “However, can you let them leave first? They have nothing to do with this.”

“But of course. I do not make a habit of venting my frustration on others.”

As the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent said this, a head broke off from its main body and floated into the air. Fog immediately gathered around it and formed the body of a flood dragon. It had transformed into a flood dragon several hundred meters long in just the blink of an eye.

“Go. It will take you away from the abyss.”

Old Man Turtle was still trying to change the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent’s mind. “Senior, everything can be resolved peacefully if you give it a chance. There’s no need to—”

Before he could finish, Feng Qingyou interrupted him, “Just do as Joyless says, elder. Let’s leave.”

Old Man Turtle wasn’t stupid. He immediately figured out that Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou had their own arrangements. So, he stopped saying anything.

“Do your best, big brother Ye! Try not to die!”

Lingyu made a fist and cheered Ye Qing on while they were boarding the foggy flood dragon. However, her words sounded awkward to say the least. It was like she didn’t expect him to survive at all.

“Yeah, whatever.” Ye Qing rolled his eyes. I’d rather not receive such encouragement.

After the trio left, Ye Qing looked back at the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent and declared, “I apologize in advance, senior!”

Ye Qing brought down his foot before he finished. It was as if the air was the drum, and his foot was the hammer. The resulting impact produced a sound that could shock even gods and celestials.

THUMP!

The fog permeating the air clearly separated into two after the thump. One rose into the air, and the other sank to the bottom.

The descending part of the fog sat on the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent’s back like a million mountains.

“Despicable boy. As expected of that old fart’s successor.”

The Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent grunted as it undulated its tail upward like it would topple mountains and seas.

Rumble!

Two invisible yet immense powers clashed against one another, causing Ye Qing to rise a couple hundred meters, and the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent to sink a thousand meters.

As Ye Qing ascended, he raised his hand and made a fist. For every three meters he rose, his energies would row a little higher. When he was three hundred meters in the sky, his energies penetrated the cosmos itself.

When Ye Qing could ascend no longer and began falling toward the ground, his fist force poured down on the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent like the river of heavens.

“Well met!”

The descending fist was such that even the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent felt threatened by it.

Every single one of the Stranger’s heads lifted into the air and spat fog, poisonous gas, fire, water, wind, thunder, black light and more.

The countless elements combined into a beautiful, fantastical world straight out of one’s dreams.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The next moment, the tidal wave that was Ye Qing’s force punched through the conjured world, ravaging and destroying everything in sight.

In just the blink of an eye, the beautiful, dreamlike world had broken into several pieces.

Right before the world would be destroyed, Ye Qing spread his fist wide and clenched.

The shattered world gathered at the center of his palm.

The palm had turned back into a fist once more. At the center of the hand was Primal Chaos, and the fist descending through the nine heavens were boundless.

“Unbounded Impetus”

If the fist before was like a cascading river or mountain, heavy and suppressive and destructive, then this one was an unstoppable spear that could penetrate anything, or a peerlessly sharp blade that could cut anything into two.

However, right before the fist would hit the Thousand-headed Demonic Serpent, it abruptly shrank down to the size of a speck of dust and vanished from view.