Hei aim for her face. His nails barely touch her skin somehow they got tinted with her acid. His hard nails gets soften and the edge desolve. Hu Li seeing this immediately summon lighting towards the snake. Before she doge the lighting, it hit faster and harder on her shoulder. She fly backwards with a scream.
Below a number of people gather to watch what happen to a top Inn of the capital. Plus the rooftop collapsed and the sky is dark with strike of lightings. Yang Yang run downstairs as fast as she can. She relay on her sense to find Bai Lu. She push and run through the crowd. Running for awhile, she finally spot Dong Dong in one of the street stalls. She run up to him and talk to him with hand signs. At first he can't understand. Later, he notice she hand sign danger to him. In a panic state he hold her hand and drag her to find the rest of them. Above them the dark sky rage. Bai Lu who is in a stall eating a bowl of noddles, stop eating. He look up the sky, his eyes turn black. Dong Mei who see it. She stop eating and stand up to shield him for others might see his odd eyes. "Something is wrong." He whisper. Dong Wan put his bowl down and Huan Xi in his pocket whisper back.
"Young master, it might be Master Hu Li in danger."
"I don't have any magic to help mother. I have to stay away to help her."
At that moment Dong Dong and Yang Yang comes running. Yang Yang in her soft low voice try to say what had happen but no one can understand but Huan Xi who can hear all low noise.
"She said master Hu Li and Hei ge ge is engaging a fight with a big snake in Meng Lan's Inn!"
"Snake?! Dogs dislike them!"
"Still we need to go help master! Both Masters treat us like family! I will go! Someone needs to stay with young master!"
"Brother Dong Dong, i will go with you!"
"I thinking Yang Yang and Dong Mei plus Huan Xi stay with young master. We brothers will go to assist!"
"Dong Dong and Dong Wan, please come back in a piece!"
"Dong Mei! Take care of everyone."
She watch her two brothers run off. She stand there knowing she shouldn't cry. She look up the dark sky.
Meng Lan rush upstairs after hearing s thunder strike and a scream. She hiss loudly and show her fangs at the snake. Her feline face appear.
"Be careful don't touch her and don't allow her saliva to touch you. It is acid! "
"I won't allow that bitch to destroy my Inn!"
"Hei, Meng Lan. She is here for me. I will bring her away."
Hei and Meng Lan pick up Hu Li's words through their feline ears. Hei watch Hu Li leap up and jump from rooftop to rooftops. The snake to follow fast and furious. They leap from rooftop to tree branches and finally to the mountain. All the time, someone is riding a horse to follow what he see.
Hu Li finally leap at a place where she feels she is far away from any living creatures. The snake lady watch her from a distance.
"Don't you dare to run! You take everything and you are trying to run again! "
"i never run. You are the one who force him to stay with you. I ... did not have a saying in this... so who..."
"You steal his heart and soul! You are a fox demon!"
"Say what you want but i never steal anything. I was with him right from the beginning. The beginning of his everything."
At that moment the thunder is cast down fast and hard behind Hu Li. Immediately it strike on the snake's body. She scream and fall. Hu Li can see where she stands that the snake is not dead, Her stomach is still moving, she is still breathing. At the same time, the rider is coming near their spot. He stop the horse and get off. Yue Sheng Luo stare at Princess Ming An. He turn to look at the feline looking Hu Li. He see all her five tails. The center long tail is absorbing the incoming thunder. Her hair is still neat and tie high up in a pony tail. Her nails are long and crystals athat re growing on the germinal matrix, making it thick and sturdy. With the thunder behind her, she looks majestic and commanding.
He kneel down and place his hands together.
"Hu Li, please... please spare this lowly creature. She doesn't know what she is doing."
"How did she become this..."
"That night after the funeral, she seek a dark witch for help. Things when wrong and she become like this. She was imprison in the dudgeon by her son. He watched over her and now i am the one watching over her. She is the unspoken in my family. Therefore, i beg you to let her go and i will watch over her that she won't come out anymore."
Hu Li hear what Sheng Luo had said. She walk on the edge and look down the cliff, a deep steep drop. She look back at both of them.
"You cannot keep her for long. The long she lives like this, the harder and more she is going to suffer."
As that moment the snake suddenly strike with her tongue race towards Hu Li. Hu Li leap up as fast as she can. She looks down and command a strike of lighting on her again. The snake scream but she try to flicker her tongue and saliva to Hu Li's feet. Fortunately, the acid hit Hu Li's shoes. She blink her eyes to shoot small electrical arrows towards the snake. It hit on the snake's neck. She roll on the ground in pain. Yue sheng Lou who is watching this beg the snake to stop what she is doing.