Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 1

After leaving the mountain for awhile, there were two things that troubled Yan Hui the most. First, from now on she could never eat the food Fatty Zhang made daily. Second was poverty.

From when Yan Hui was little, she knew the pain of poverty. After being accepted by Ling Xiao as his disciple, every month Chen Xing Mountain gave her two silvers. They were like a regular balm for her mind. It got rid of her pain from poverty

But when Yan Hui was expelled, everything she kept in Chen Xing Mountain's storeroom was confiscated. When she was kicked out, the Shifus didn't even let her keep her jian. Thus the Yan Hui that went down the mountain only possessed herself. She didn't even have the money to buy a steamed bun.

But now the situation has turned for the better. At the bottom of the mountain under the direction of a person, Yan Hui found a way to make money------ Jianghu's Valorous Hunts.

When Yan Hui looked at the hunt list, she luckily just happened to see a rich man's post at the very top of the tasks: Search for and return the family heirloom stolen by a snake demon 100 years ago. Rewarding 88 taels......of gold!

88 taels of gold!

It was enough hire several Fatty Zhangs to be a personal cook for six days and eat well! Yan Hui's eyes were green with greed. She didn't even think before ripping off the hunt.

What was a 100-year-old snake demon? Back when she first met her former Shifu, she helped him kill an over 1000-year-old rattan spirit!

Yan Hui borrowed money from a friend and bought a peach wood jian. She rushed to Tong Luo Mountain to kill the snake demon and take its gallbladder. She originally thought this was an extremely easy task, but!

The expected demonic aura rocketed into a ruthless, giant snake demon! It actually came out! To scare her!

She had been walking around this mountain for five, six, seven, eight days now. She didn't even see a clever monkey. It was clear this mountain's spirituality was nonexistent. Yan Hui thought if this snake demon had a smidge of sense, it wouldn't stay here to cultivate.

Yan Hui looked almost to the point of despair. With a look, she saw it was noon again. Her stomach was hungry again. She sat on a tree root and sighed in frustration. Right now the person she missed the most was the unsurpassable Fatty Zhang.

When Yan Hui sighed, she felt the "tree root" under her butt move. She was astonished. She looked down and then discovered it wasn't a tree root at all. Clearly it was a scale-covered snake skin!

The demonic aura behind her filled the air. Yan Hui looked behind and saw the snake's body was as thick as a water barrel. It was staring at her with a pair of raw-red eyes, watching her spit out apricots.

Yan Hui immediately leapt up. She just grasped her peach wood jian when the snake demon's tail wound around her body. It gaped open its mouth to bite her. Yan Hui didn't avoid or dodge it. She cast a spell on the jian and stabbed it into the snake demon's mouth.

But the snake demon's mouth was huge. Unexpectedly it swallowed the jian whole!

If Yan Hui didn't rapidly pull back her arm, then she wouldn't have an arm left.

Yan Hui was indignant: "You're very impolite. That jian was bought with borrowed money!"

The snake demon didn't heed Yan Hui's nonsense. It only wrapped around Yan Hui until its entire body was exerting strength. It intended to squeeze Yan Hui to death.

Yan Hui was greatly suffering the loss of her peach wood jian and didn't avoid it. She pulled together her body's spirituality and met the snake demon force by force. Yan Hui deeply exhaled and her entire body burst with spiritual strength. It forcefully shook the snake demon apart.