Right as Chu Yi was fully on his guard, a black snake the size of an adult male's arm suddenly slithered forward from the bushes, its forked tongue flickering out. In an instant, it had wriggled beside Chu Yi's foot.
Before Chu Yi could react, the snake slithered up his leg at lightning speed, attempting to coil its body around him.
When Chu Yi glanced down and spotted the snake, he was so frightened that his hands began to shake. In fact, he very nearly hurled away the broadsword he was holding.
This type of soft-bodied creature terrified him most of all; their cold clamminess gave one goosebumps.
His entire body went stiff, and he swung the broadsword in his hands toward the black snake.
In the short span of time between raising his hands and the blade slicing down, the black snake's head was immediately separated from its body.
The smell of blood began wafting through the forest.
