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Whatever was on the other side did not back down either. It reared up, towering even higher than Zhu Erniang.
It was a giant python, black and ash-gray. Its body coiled deep within the reeds, its full length impossible to judge, but the thickest part of its body was over a meter and a half in diameter, and it had whiskers hanging beneath its jaw.
It opened its mouth in a show of dominance. The fangs it flashed curved like scimitars, each nearly a meter and a half long.
The wind happened to be blowing toward the shore, and He Lingchuan immediately caught a wave of rank, fishy stench.
The air was tense, the fight seemingly about to erupt at any moment. He Lingchuan quietly edged backward.
No one knew how the two monsters communicated—perhaps by aura, perhaps by instinct—but after a dozen breaths or so, the giant python lowered its head. Zhu Erniang, too, folded her legs back in.
A little while later, the python monster turned north and slithered away.
Zhu Erniang watched it leave, then slowly crawled back.
As she passed He Lingchuan, she spoke suddenly, “You look pleased. Were you thinking that if we two giants clash, you’ll get a chance to slip away?”
“I wouldn’t dare,” He Lingchuan...
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