The Immortal Wife Is Like A Cloud

Chapter 651: Inquiring About a Matter

“elder hei ze, i will take hei shuang with me now. thank you for your help!” after taking hei shuang, su jingzhen politely addressed the black marsh water python ancestor.

given the high status of su jingzhen and qiu yaoyao, there was no need for them to bow or be overly polite to the blackwater python ancestor.

upon hearing his words, the ancestor waved his hand dismissively. “there is no need to thank me. if anything, i should thank you, young friend su. perhaps it’s hei shuang’s good fortune to follow you. but i hope you’ll treat her well.”

“of course,” su jingzhen replied with certainty.

since bai suzhen was not his contract animal, hei shuang would be his first official contract. of course, su jingzhen intended to treat her with special care.

after a brief chat with the blackwater python ancestor, su jingzhen and qiu yaoyao didn’t stay long.

soon, they left the blackwater marsh and left the depths of the blackwater gorge.

this time, at hei tong’s insistence, qiu yaoyao didn’t put her back in the spirit beast pouch. so the three of them continued on together.

as they stood on a cliff after leaving the marshes behind, hei tong’s gaze was filled with relentless curiosity towards su jingzhen.

finally, she couldn’t contain herself any longer. “su… lord su, i’ve been dying to know, how did you manage to pull off what you did back there beneath the blackwater marsh?”

even though hei tong knew by now that su jingzhen belonged to the top ranks of the heavenly dragon race, she still found it difficult to fully believe what she had witnessed.

how could someone at the true embryo first stage defeat ten powerful opponents without so much as a scratch?

the thought gnawed at her – did this mean that the supposedly pure-blooded descendants of the blackwater python were far weaker than they imagined?

strictly speaking, it was a bit inappropriate for a contracted beast to speak so casually to someone of su jingzhen’s rank from the heavenly dragon race.

however, qiu yaoyao showed no sign of reprimanding her. in fact, her expression suggested that she was curious as well.

at the beginning, qiu yaoyao had known that these ten descendants of the blackwater python wouldn’t be able to stop su jingzhen.

however, she hadn’t expected him to dispatch them so cleanly and effortlessly.

what puzzled her even more was that she hadn’t felt bai suzhen’s presence at all during the entire encounter while they were underwater.

in other words, su jingzhen truly relied on his own strength to defeat ten opponents alone and quickly ended the battle.

su jingzhen smiled faintly. “do you really have so little faith in my abilities?

demonic beasts, especially those from your blackwater python clan, are mostly good at close combat.

i practice body cultivation and have the advantage of suppressing others with my bloodline. to defeat ten of them at once-is that really so hard to believe?”

his tone was light, and he didn’t elaborate further.

in truth, things had gone exactly as he said.

at the beginning of the battle, su jingzhen had been quite cautious.

however, once he realized that his opponents specialized in melee combat, he had completely rejected the idea of summoning bai suzhen’s power.

after all, with his body cultivation, it would be a personal embarrassment for him to fear the close combat prowess of the black water pythons.

with the black brick and the power of the great desolate creation palm, even the formidable defenses of the blackwater pythons had crumbled under his full-strength attack.

in the end, everything had worked out by chance – it was a perfect match for his strengths.

on the other hand, if he had faced ten opponents of the same caliber underwater, where his netherworld ghost technique couldn’t be fully utilized, he might have been forced to rely on bai suzhen’s strength after all.

hearing his words, qiu yaoyao and hei tong exchanged glances and both let out a helpless laugh.

they knew that unless they went and asked the ten pure-blooded blackwater pythons that su jingzhen had thoroughly defeated, they wouldn’t get the whole truth from him.

“what are your plans next?” qiu yaoyao asked as she turned to him.

“do you want to continue

then he asked again: “so, sister yaoyao, have you heard of this person named jiuchi?”

he hadn’t forgotten about his one-year agreement with ning yao, but he was sure that if jiuchi and ning yao wanted to meet him, just like dantai mingjing and xuening, they would eventually come on their own.

after all, no matter how enigmatic jiuchi seemed, in su jingzhen’s eyes, he was still just a dominant figure in the relatively wild and remote qingzhou.

qiu yaoyao’s lips curled into a knowing smile.

“you’re looking for the little girl with heavenly spiritual roots, right?

oh, by the way, she should be zhang xiu’s daughter.”

“but as for where they are now,” qiu yaoyao continued, “i don’t know. i’ll keep my ear out for you, but don’t get your hopes up too high.”

although qiu yaoyao hadn’t specifically gathered all of su jingzhen’s background information during their trip to qingzhou, she was aware of most of the major events.

after all, it was at ning yao’s awakening ceremony that su jingzhen had first made his mark.

su jingzhen bowed slightly in gratitude. “thank you, sister yaoyao.”

“with the relationship we share, there’s no need for such formalities.”