Ways to handle this little demon

"Xiang, why aren't you coming out yet? We're already in Tian Forest."

Glancing down at his own hand, Yang Zhiqiang called out his little snake. A second later, his sleeve moved before a small head of a little white snake came out and took a quick peek outside.

Yang Zhiqiang knew his little demonic beast might be still sleepy at this time. Usually, both of him and his little pet were yet to wake up by now. Only after morning classes came to an end in Baiyun Sect, they used to get up. Since he woke up a bit early today to leave for Jianyu Sect, it didn't seem like his little pet also got to take its nap properly.

Right now, his little demonic beast had its silvery white tail and body wrapped around his forearm. Wherever he went, Yang Zhiqiang always took this little white snake just like this. People thought he was crazy or even loosing some screws in the head to carry a snake wherever he went.

Even his brother had been repeatedly scolding him just because of this habit. But Yang Zhiqing didn't care. The moment his masters, parents or brother scolded him due to his little snake, Yang Zhiqiang listened obediently. But once they finished reprimanding him, he didn't give a shit about it and just did what he wanna do. No matter how others criticized, Yang Zhiqiang never stopped his abnormal habit of taking his little snake wherever he went. And just like always, he also never stopped finding troubles in Baiyun Sect along with the little demonic beast. 

It's only been a year Yang Zhiqiang picked up this little white snake from a luxurious brothel in imperial city. Yeah...you heard it right. Yang Zhiqiang did pick up this demonic beast from a brothel when he sneakily went there on his sixteenth birthday.

Whilst a seductive prostitute was about to serve him, Yang Zhiqiang caught a glimpse of a snake on the bed of the brothel room. The prostitute freaked out and pathetically told him to quickly kill it. But instead of removing or killing it, Yang Zhiqiang just drove the prostitute out of the room.

By then, there's a reason for Yang Zhiqiang to choose the little snake over the prostitute. And that was because of the snake's unique appearance which intrigued him. Unlike any other snakes, it had a sparkly body with silvery scales. The color of its eyes as graceful as that of a silvery full moon. Just from one glance alone, it was pretty obvious that the snake's eyes were not cloudy. They originally had such clear yet sparkly silvery eyes. 

Easily catching the snake within seconds, Yang Zhiqiang started inspecting it. He was just curious what sort of special power a little demonic beast with such rare appearance had. But, it turned out it had no power. Yang Zhiqiang couldn't even sense any demonic essence from it. Even so, he was really sure that it was not just a normal snake. Inspecting and examining, Yang Zhiqiang finally managed to figure out its special ability. It could understand human language.

Though that little snake didn't speak back, Yang Zhiqiang gradually notice that it could understand his words. Somehow, he got intrigued by it, so the next morning when his brother came to drag him out of the brothel, Yang Zhiqiang stealthily took the little snake with him as well. He didn't even bother to ask workers in the brothel if the little demonic beast he picked up had an owner.

Yang Zhiqiang took it with him just like that.

If the little snake really had an owner, he might have long been accused of thef. It was such a good thing that it was ownerless.

But, even if the little demonic beast actually had an owner, Yang Zhiqiang wouldn't have cared. He was the type of person who only knew what he wanted and how to get it. 

At first, Yang Zhiqiang didn't even plan to raise it. He just wanna play with it for a day or two and intended to throw it away when he got tired of it. But Yang Zhiqiang changed his mind in the end. The little white snake was much to his liking. And both of them fit in with each other really well.

When it was in a good mood, it did everything he told it to do. For instance, if Yang Zhiqiang told it to kiss him, it really kissed him.

But once it was in a bad mood, that little snake didn't listen to him at all. It had to roam around the whole sect and find every single trouble it could, making him deal with all of them. Sometimes, it was obedient, sometimes it was troublesome.

The little snake didn't even have enough power that could compete low-level demonic beasts. In fact, it was no different from an absolute trash. But, for Yang Zhiqiang who was in need of a buddy to accompany him in making troubles in the sect, he instantly took a liking to the little white snake and started raising it seriously.

Yang Zhiqiang gave it everything it wished. They slept and woke up together, made troubles in Baiyun Sect together, annoyed all the other disciples together. Such was how much the two of them fit in with each other. At first, Yang Zhiqiang only liked it because the little snake had a troublesome character just like himself. But now, he came to like it for no apparent reason. Maybe he had finally grown attached to it due to moments they spent together. 

Bringing his forearm on which his little pet was wrapping its silvery tail, closer to his face, Yang Zhiqiang gave the little snake a kiss on its head. This was their usual daily routine to give a kiss to each other once they woke up. Now that Yang Zhiqiang had already given it a kiss, now was his little white snake's turn to give him one. Knowing that Yang Zhiqiang was not going to let it go without getting a morning kiss, the little snake also brought its little head closer to his cheek before touching him there as if giving Yang Zhiqiang a soft kiss on his cheek. 

" Xiang is so obedient. What do you think of this forest? Daddy especially brought you here because of the forest's tranquil surrounding. In imperial city, it's so rare to see such a quiet and tranquil place. Does Xiang like it?"

If this little snake was a real human, it would have been vomiting blood already after hearing Yang Zhiqiang addressed himself as its daddy. It just didn't know anymore what's wrong with Yang Zhiqiang's head. Would it kill him to treat a demonic beast just like a demonic beast? 

It really wasn't a good ability for a demonic beast to be able to understand human language, was it? How good would it be if only it also couldn't understand any human language just like other demonic beasts. For normal snakes, they could barely hear human's words clearly, let alone understanding it. Just because it was a demonic beast, it had this kind of special ability.

But that's the only ability it had....being able to understand human language. If not, it wouldn't be even different from a normal snake anymore. Though it sometimes got really tired of listening and understanding human language, it would rather saved this petty ability lest a certain young cultivator wouldn't want to take care of it anymore. 

The little snake was not even fully awake, yet this annoying human kept making it look at the forest. Why would Yang Zhiqiang even take it here in the first place anyway? He was just a little demonic beast as fragile as a small pet. To bring him to a forest where many other big and creepy demonic beasts inhabited...was this human even scheming to make him some snack for other beasts?

Not interested to look at his surrounding at all, the little snake sneaked into Yang Zhiqiang's sleeves once again before preparing to go back to sleep. Seeing this, Yang Zhiqiang was a bit disappointed. Did all his efforts to make his little demonic beast happy end up in vain?

With mild disappointment, Yang Zhiqiang walked back to the place where his seniors were awaiting him. He hadn't roamed for too long in the forest, so Jianyu sect disciples shouldn't have arrived by now. Or even if they were already in the forest to get him and his seniors, they shouldn't have been waiting for too long. 

Leisurely sauntering to a place in the forest where his senior were waiting, the bored Yang Zhiqiang kept muttering words to his little snake in the sleeves. After a couple of minutes, Yang Zhiqiang finally arrived to his destination. But instead of his seniors, the ones awaiting him right there were just dead bodies of them. His seniors had been brutally killed. But Yang Zhiqiang could tell it was not doing of some average evil beings just from the first glance....because, right now, the blood that were gushing out of their seven orifices didn't have a crimson color. Instead, their blood was black...

And at that moment, a familiar name of a demon popped up in Yang Zhiqiang's mind.

Princess of black blood curse, He Jingyi....