29: Chapter 29 Green Snake Saves Humans

"In the future, any Frogs you catch must be given to me. We'll distribute them equally."

Xu Qing righteously confiscated the Frogs caught by the Silly Snake.

Then, he would secretly eat them behind the Silly Snake's back.

The Silly Snake never kept count. Every time, he would give it two or three, tell it they were all gone, and it would go out to catch more.

Whenever it got a bit suspicious, he would process one Frog into two pieces and give it one.

He didn't even have to lift a finger to eat Frogs anymore.

Xu Qing felt he had truly mastered the essence of the Bare-Butted Red-Moxibustion Crane.

Once he was sure the Silly Snake had gone to catch Frogs, Xu Qing stealthily took out a piece of processed Frog meat from his Spatial Pupil and swallowed it in one gulp.

That's the taste. Refreshing.

When the Silly Snake returned with the Frogs, Xu Qing would process them in front of it and store them away.

Then, inside the Spatial Pupil, he would carefully cut them in half; now they looked like two Frogs.

"Let's keep moving!"

Xu Qing pulled the Silly Snake along and continued flying toward the west.

In ten days, they had already flown past the Hundred Monster Ridge.

Xu Qing even left a piece of Frog meat with Dao Cultivation in front of a collapsed cave along the way.

At such a distance, there should be no need to worry about Cultivators from the Swamp of Death chasing them.

As time passed, even if rumors of a Resurrection Green Snake appearing in the Swamp of Death surfaced, no one would believe them.

After all, the words of a few Foundation Establishment Cultivators who were scared witless by a Yao Beast and fled were of questionable credibility.

Once people went to verify and found no trace of him, no one would believe it anymore.

After all, the Resurrection Green Snake was a legendary snake that had long been extinct; how could one appear out of thin air?

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

"We just started flying. Why eat Frog meat now? I'm keeping it for you; I won't eat yours."

"If I give you the Storage Pouch to carry it yourself, you'll just lose it." (Stolen by a certain snake.)

"Wipe that drool away. If people see us, what will they think of our Noble Snake Alliance?"

Xu Qing had experience; right now, the Silly Snake's memory was still fresh.

If he gave it food now, it would remember the count. He had to wait a while until its memory faded, then he could pocket even more for himself.

“Huh, the terrain is leveling out.”

“Have we left the Yao Beast Forest?”

Xu Qing looked at the surrounding terrain, carefully probing with his Divine Sense.

After this period of travel, his Divine Sense had upgraded from lv2 to lv3.

His Detection range had expanded to a radius of three thousand meters.

His flight skill had also increased from lv2 to lv3.

He wasn't quite sure of their current location.

The map he had obtained previously was just an illustration with text from a miscellaneous book; its scope was very limited.

He didn't possess a map of the Cultivation World in the true sense.

However, it was said that to the west of the Xia Dynasty was the Central Region, and further west of that was the Tianzhu Kingdom.

Contrary to his imagination, the Central Region was not the most developed place on the continent.

It bordered Tianzhu to the west, the Monster Beast Mountain Range to the south, the Kunlun Mountains to the north—with the Kui Clan on the other side—and the Xia Dynasty to the east.

Consequently, it was a place beyond anyone's control, composed of many small nations with a mix of ethnic groups, characterized by disorder and chaos.

It served as a buffer zone for the four major powers.

Preventing the four sides from bordering each other and causing constant friction.

He suspected he was currently somewhere near the border of the Monster Beast Mountain Range and the Central Region.

"Silly Snake, descend. Flying makes us an easy target."

Xu Qing pressed down on the Silly Snake's head with his tail, slowly descending toward the ground.

His principle was: if he could avoid drawing attention, he absolutely would.

Once there was nothing around that could threaten him, then he could show off his divinity however he pleased.

Only in this way could a green snake live a long life.

He found a tall mountain peak.

After wandering around, he was about to start his life as the king of the mountain again.

He chose a spot on the leeward side and simply carved out a cave.

The Silly Snake chose a cave in a sunny spot nearby.

Xu Qing suspected it was going back to its life of sleeping all morning and sunbathing all afternoon.

Surprisingly, however, this Silly Snake actually began to Cultivate seriously.

It coiled itself earnestly atop the black flood dragon scale to Cultivate.

"Could it be that my bullying has actually changed its nature?"

"Does it want to Cultivate and then come to sanction me?"

"Heh heh, Silly Snake, you underestimate the power of cheats."

The corners of Xu Qing's mouth curled up; what did it matter if he let it have a hundred-meter head start?

Xu Qing took out the black flood dragon horn, hung it up, and slept for a full day and night.

Flying for a long time while constantly watching his back for pursuers had put a lot of mental pressure on him.

"Silly Snake, time to go out hunting!"

Xu Qing was about to call the Three-Colored Venomous Snake, only to find it was still Cultivating.

Silently backing away from the cave entrance, he decided to go hunting alone.

Since this Silly Snake had finally changed its ways, he wouldn't disturb it.

To the south of the mountain peak was the Monster Beast Mountain Range, and to the north was very likely the Central Region.

Into the Monster Beast Mountain Range he went.

He was now quite confident in his own strength.

Instantly killing that Early Stage Foundation Establishment human Cultivator had given his confidence a huge boost.

“Hmm, this is...”

“The scent of poisonous Spirit Medicine?”

Xu Qing's eyes lit up, and he quickly flicked his tongue, moving toward the source of the scent.

As he drew closer, he finally discovered the target.

A deep purple poisonous grass, speckled with brown spots.

No other plants grew around it, and it was shrouded in a pale purple poisonous gas.

It looked extremely toxic.

"I'll just dig it up and take it back to enhance the Silly Snake's Snake Venom."

Xu Qing had no use for this kind of poisonous grass, but the Silly Snake's talent allowed it to devour and Fusion with various toxins to increase its Snake Venom Rank.

When the time came, he would have a snake-shaped toxic mist sprayer version 3.0.

He truly did have an amazing Artifact Refining talent; the tool snake he refined was as easy to use as his own arm.

Xu Qing approached the poisonous grass and casually drove away a centipede that had been guarding it, using the toxic gas to Cultivate.

Then he wrapped his tail around the poisonous grass and yanked.

With his lv2 poison damage reduction, he wasn't afraid of this little bit of toxin.

“Hmm?”

“Someone is coming. Are they all just little Qi Refinement Stage fellows?”

Xu Qing looked up toward the north.

Within his Divine Sense Detection, four figures were rushing into the Monster Beast Mountain Range from the north, over two thousand meters away.

The one in the lead was a female, looking quite disheveled.

She was being relentlessly pursued by three Cultivators who didn't stop even as they entered the range of the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

“None of my business. I'm out of here.”

“What hero saving the beauty? I'm just a snake.”

By now, Xu Qing didn't care for the meager Dao Cultivation and evolution points provided by Qi Refinement Stage humans.

But the disheveled woman in front seemed to know Xu Qing's location, as she charged straight toward him.

It looked as though she wanted to take the people behind her down with her.

“I guess I'll just have to wipe them all out together.”

Since the meat was being delivered to his doorstep, it wouldn't count as him killing the innocent; Xu Qing naturally didn't mind swallowing them whole.

Besides, human Cultivators came with Storage Pouches.

Every time he opened a Storage Pouch, it was like opening a mystery box—very exciting.

"Snake Senior, help!"

The disheveled woman saw Xu Qing and rushed up with great excitement.

Xu Qing almost thought he actually knew her.

"Snake Senior, I have the Bloodline of the Green Water Snake!"

"One of my ancestors was a Green Water Snake King Senior!"

The faces of the three pursuers behind her changed drastically, and they turned to flee.

Xu Qing casually opened his mouth and spat out a ball of Green Fire. The three were instantly reduced to ashes, leaving only three Storage Pouches drifting toward Xu Qing, supported by a green light.

[Ding, killed an eighth-level Qi Refinement Stage human]

[Dao Cultivation +0.1, evolution points +0.1]

[Obtained dao condensation pill ×5]

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“Better than nothing.”

Xu Qing turned his gaze toward the only surviving, trembling human.