My Demon Husband Is a Snake

The man's brow had a deep seam, through which the white of his skull was visible.

A pure red spider crawled out, its back carrying an eerie human face, "Master, what are your orders?"

"Kill," the man uttered coldly, voicing only one word.

With red wings sprouting from its back, the human-faced spider levitated mid-air, "Kill!"

The sound it made didn't come from its own mouthparts but from the human face on its back.

That face was not just a simple pattern; it also exuded the unique Corpse Qi present in human corpses.

At the same time, countless bright red spider threads burst from the body of the red spider.

These threads were stained with human blood and melted as soon as they touched the ice.

The ice in the room dissolved into water, crisscrossed by spider threads that densely occupied most of the space.

The threads effortlessly destroyed the cold aura that protected the Ice Silkworm's body and attacked its true form.

"Be careful, Little Fatty," I shouted its nickname in haste.

The Ice Silkworm Gu turned its head sharply, glaring at me, "Who's Little Fatty? Do I look fat to you?"

"Uh, whether you're fat or not isn't the point, the point is..." aren't you done for?

I was ready at any moment to throw out the handkerchief woven from Mysterious Silk.

Such silk had extremely strong tensile strength and could act as a temporary barrier for protection.

Just as the terrifying red threads were about to pierce through the chubby body of the Ice Silkworm, it sighed, "I'm so benevolent; I really don't want to kill too much. Why must you force me to act?"

Then, it spat out a strand of Ice Silkworm Silk.

There was only a single strand, yet it pierced through the thick layers of red threads.

Dissolving the red threads into nothingness, it quickly penetrated the air and jabbed right into the center of the human face on the back of the red spider, "Boring."

"Ah... no... I won't die, I've lived a thousand years, I can't die!!"

The eyes on the human face of the spider widened in a futile roar, and it vomited a mouthful of red-black blood with its dying breath, "Bitch... you wait..."

After struggling a few times,

It deflated like a punctured balloon, reduced to a mere layer of skin.

Incredibly, countless human-formed black Qi floated up from its body, drifting slowly in the chilly room towards the outside world.

Gradually, little by little, all of it floated out of the window, heading toward the bright, full moon.

But the cloaked man didn't even have a chance to cough up blood, his body staggering without his Life-bound Gu, instantly frozen by the chill into ice, collapsing to the ground with a dull thud.

"Su Wan." The Ice Silkworm Gu lifted its neck, as if yawning.

I stared dumbfounded at the man frozen on the ground and, upon hearing the Ice Silkworm Gu's words, snapped back to reality, "Here, is there... anything you wish to command?"

You can't fault the Ice Silkworm Gu I bought for hundreds of thousands; impressive, my Little Fatty!!

"Little Fatty, I like this name. I'll take it," declared the Ice Silkworm Gu.

My mouth twitched, "Eh, yes, yes, aren't you going back into the jar?"

"The jar is too stuffy," the Ice Silkworm Gu ordered imperiously, "Take me to that bastard-man's side."

"But out here it's too cold, freezing to death, literally," I said, holding the jar containing the Ice Silkworm and walking toward the man on the ground.

Since the lid was off, the cold air escaped, numbing my hands completely.

The Ice Silkworm Gu glanced at my hands, now turning blue from the cold, "My apologies."

The white cold Qi it had been releasing ceased for a moment, and the chill in the air dissipated suddenly.

Perhaps because of the temperature difference,

when the warmth of the world of the living returned, I actually found the air pleasantly warm, "Little Fatty, why did you come over to this man? Do you know him?"

So it turns out the Ice Silkworm can control whether or not to release its cold Qi; the few times it froze the outside world were all Little Fatty's doing on purpose.

"Don't know him, I just... am hungry. Slurp~ It's been so long since I had human flesh." Little Fatty made a slurping sound, squirming, and dropped down like a cotton candy onto the frozen cloaked man.