Reborn As a Snake, I Can Absorb Fear

Chapter 145 Swallowed an Electric Black ChickenThe Thunderbird shivered all over, its feathers standing on end.

[fear points + 50000]

”Who is that?”

”It’s your Grandpa Snake.” Jiang Feng watched the shivering Little Black Chicken below with great interest.

He had originally been waiting for the Little Black Chicken to continue its electrotherapy, but the Little Black Chicken had actually tried to escape.

How could that be allowed? Did it have his permission?

Therefore, Jiang Feng decisively used the Evil Snake Domain.

Ever since he started killing, he had used the Evil Snake Domain less and less.

For one thing, after his Physique surpassed his spirit, the Evil Snake Domain didn’t help much in his battles.

For another, the efficiency of gaining fear points with the Evil Snake Domain was far lower than just taking action directly.

But now that his spirit had reached one million points, the terror of the Evil Snake Domain was once again apparent.

Because an Evil Snake Domain with a million points of Mental Energy was enough to cover a radius of one hundred kilometers.

A radius of one hundred kilometers could easily cover an entire city; if he used the Evil Snake Domain to travel, it would be even faster than the Star Escape Technique.

Within the Evil Snake Domain, he was a god, able to reach any place within the domain instantly.

As long as he wanted, he could move one hundred kilometers in an instant. Then, he would retract the Evil Snake Domain and release it again.

Every time the Evil Snake Domain was released, its range was fixed and would not move with him, so it needed to be retracted and re-released.

As long as he kept releasing and retracting it, repeating the process, he could achieve true ”shrinking the earth into an inch.”

It was also very practical in battle, more convenient than the Star Escape Technique.

Because the Star Escape Technique had a delay when released.

Of course, the distance was certainly not as good as the Star Escape Technique; with Jiang Feng’s current million points of Mental Energy, escaping several hundred to a thousand kilometers at a time was absolutely no problem.

If he wanted, he could directly Star Escape across the Rocky Mountains, but there was no need.

The Star Escape Technique was only for saving his life in critical moments; unless absolutely necessary, Jiang Feng would not use it for traveling, as keeping his Mental Energy fully charged was the only way to avoid flipping over.

Previously, the area covered by the Evil Snake Domain was small, so the effect was not obvious.

Cognition changes as the process changes.

Not long ago, he thought the Evil Snake Domain was not very useful, but that was only because he hadn’t seen the current range of the Evil Snake Domain.

Therefore, when you feel that something or a matter is useless, it doesn’t mean it’s truly useless.

It’s just that your cognition has changed.

Take a novel for example; if you feel it’s no longer good, it’s not that it’s truly bad, but that your cognition has changed.

Jiang Feng knew this deeply; in his past life, when he first started reading novels, every single one was good, and the novels of the ”Five White Authors of the Central Plains” were all masterpieces.

But later, he found that the new books by Tudou, Xihongshi, Shenji, and Chendong were not that good anymore and he couldn’t get into them; this was the change in cognition.

Cognition is a double-edged sword; sometimes it lets you discover the beauty of the world, and sometimes it blocks your view, making your perspective narrow.

Therefore, whether being a human or a snake, one shouldn’t be too ”cognizant.”

In layman’s terms, don’t take things too seriously.

”Flickering like a butterfly, unaware of being Zhou.”

”Small knowledge does not reach great knowledge; a short life does not reach a long life.”

”Free and easy wandering is not about size, but about having no dependence.”

In his past life, only someone with the character of Zhuangzi could avoid being bound by cognition.

Only then could he write about things of such imagery as: ”In the Northern Ocean, there is a fish, its name is Kun. The Kun is so large, I do not know how many thousands of miles it spans...”

Yet Confucius was constantly reinforcing human cognition, and the Legalists were even more so framing human cognition.

Jiang Feng didn’t dare say who was right or wrong, although he preferred the ”free and easy wandering” of Zhuangzi.

However, Confucian thought was clearly passed down more widely and was more suitable for state governance.

The same was true for Legalism; in his past life, no one dared to disagree with Legalism.

Does the law protect the poor or the rich? If the law is really that useful, why is there still corruption?

Animals have no laws, yet have you seen any chaos? Tens of thousands of Emperor Penguins in the Antarctic gather together to resist the cold and raise their offspring; have they ever gone wrong because an Emperor Penguin didn’t follow the law?

Human empires talk about law, yet people want to rebel every day. Why?

Is it because people can’t survive? And why can’t they survive? Aren’t the wealth gap and social classes of humanity caused by the law?

Yet ordinary people still revere the law to the extreme; the lower the status, the more they believe in it, and the less they dare to step out of line.

Perhaps this is precisely the art of ruling people passed down from generation to generation by the ruling class.

In ancient times, what true emperor would study Legalism or Confucianism? Most of them only studied the Dao, because the Dao is what a real person should learn.

Jiang Feng suddenly thought of the first Catastrophe Level giant beast he encountered when he first entered the ocean; that giant beast seemed very similar to the Kun.

Could that have been an immature Kun?

The more Jiang Feng thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. Looking at it this way, the world was about to get lively.

Although the Lord of the Ocean was powerful, compared to the Kun or the Peng, it was certainly far inferior.

After all, the Kun is so large, I do not know how many thousands of miles it spans; the back of the Peng, I do not know how many thousands of miles it spans.

It was definitely a Civilization Level giant beast.

The Thunderbird looked up in terror at the Big Spicy Strip above; it couldn’t imagine how a Big Spicy Strip could appear out of thin air above its head.

A Big Spicy Strip could fly too?

Could this still be called a Big Spicy Strip?

[fear points + 80000]

”How are you up there? You, you can fly too?” The Thunderbird stuttered.

”Little Black Chicken, you didn’t think only you could fly, did you?” Jiang Feng looked down at the Thunderbird, his massive size giving the Thunderbird an infinite sense of oppression.

[fear points + 90000]

”Big, Big Snake, what do you want?” The Thunderbird’s voice trembled slightly.

Originally, its flight ability, which it was proud of, was supposed to keep it in an invincible position.

But now, the Big Spicy Strip could actually fly too, so it had no ”invincible position” at all.

At this moment, it no longer had even a shred of pride.

”I originally wanted to keep you around to give me electrotherapy, but since you actually wanted to run, I’ll just have to eat you first.” After saying this, Jiang Feng opened his bloody maw, ready to swallow the Thunderbird.

”Don’t, don’t swallow me, Big Snake, I don’t taste good.” The Thunderbird was about to cry from fear; the Big Spicy Strip’s bloody maw opened up to over a hundred meters, fully capable of swallowing it in one bite.

[fear points + 100000]

”Whether you taste good or not, I’ll only know after eating you.” Jiang Feng ignored the Thunderbird’s pleading; he had intended to eat chicken all along.

How could he let it go just because of the Thunderbird’s pleading?

His giant mouth snapped towards the Thunderbird.

In its terror, the Thunderbird desperately tried to dodge, but within the Evil Snake Domain, how could it possibly escape?

Jiang Feng easily bit onto the Thunderbird, as if the Thunderbird had flown into Jiang Feng’s mouth on its own.

[fear points + 100000]

The Thunderbird struggled desperately in Jiang Feng’s snake mouth, its wings flapping continuously as arcs of electricity spilled from its body.

Jiang Feng felt like he had bitten a light bulb; his mouth and tongue were numbed by the electricity.

Holy crap!

Am I swallowing an electric chicken?

This electric chicken tasted terrible, and Jiang Feng even thought about spitting it out.

However, Jiang Feng soon felt the Little Black Chicken’s struggling strength getting weaker and weaker, and the intensity of the current also lessened significantly.

Jiang Feng’s mouth finally regained sensation, and he stopped the action of spitting out the Little Black Chicken.

[fear points + 100000]

With the final release of fear points, the Thunderbird was successfully swallowed into Jiang Feng’s stomach.

Jiang Feng smacked his lips; there was still a tingling aftertaste lingering in his mouth, like eating a spicy chicken. The feeling was quite unique.

Before, when the Little Black Chicken shocked Jiang Feng, the scales blocked it, causing no damage to Jiang Feng.

But just now, when he bit it into his mouth, there were no scales to block it inside, which was why Jiang Feng was numbed by the electricity.

But it was only a numbing sensation; it was far from enough to cause any damage to Jiang Feng.

After swallowing an electric black chicken, Jiang Feng felt a sense of fullness in both his body and spirit.

An electric black chicken a hundred meters long weighed about several thousand tons.

A single chicken leg was a hundred meters long, a chicken leg of several hundred tons, and a chicken wing was also several hundred tons.

Jiang Feng’s belly was bulging round; after all, his torso diameter was only sixty-something meters, so swallowing a chicken with a diameter exceeding a hundred meters would naturally make it bulge up high!

However, relative to his several-thousand-meter-long torso, a bulge of only a hundred meters didn’t mean much; he could swallow a dozen more chickens.