156: Chapter 156 Deep in the Qinling Mountains... The Snake Mother

Deep within the thousand-mile expanse of the Qinling Mountains.

Ancient trees towered into the sky, their foliage blotting out the sun. This place was shrouded in dense fog and miasma year-round, devoid of any trace of humanity.

Even before the appearance of spiritual energy on the Blue Star, humans had not set foot here for nearly a thousand years. For humans, the environment here was extremely harsh, and the same held true for ordinary wild beasts.

Especially after the recovery of spiritual energy, the concentration of spiritual energy in this area became astonishing, but the beasts living in the Qinling Mountains dared not approach, for this area had an owner.

In a depression in the terrain, a massive canyon had naturally formed.

The surroundings of the canyon were permeated with a cold and eerie aura, and at the bottom lay a patch of black "river water." If one looked closely, one could see that the "black river water" at the bottom of the canyon could move, and it incessantly emitted a rustling sound.

At the bottom of the canyon.

A giant snake over a hundred meters long was coiled in the deepest part of the canyon. The visual pressure brought by its massive body was immense; the coiled snake mass was as high as a three- or four-story building. What made it even more striking were the strange white patterns on the giant snake's head, which added a sense of mystery to it.

Behind her was a tall stone wall covered in bright red, alluring, and crystalline flowers.

The red flowers continuously absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy, and each crystalline flower emitted an aura that beasts found impossible to resist.

"Hiss..."

At this moment, the giant snake with closed eyes deep in the canyon suddenly sensed something and awoke from her slumber.

She opened her massive, vertical pupils, a trace of doubt appearing in her eerie snake eyes. As she slept, she suddenly felt something was amiss.

Snake Mother trusted this inexplicable intuition, and she thought of something.

"Hiss... Has any of my children left Snake Valley recently?"

It was evident that this eerie giant snake possessed high-level mental abilities, allowing her to communicate seamlessly, much like Ye Yang.

Her voice carried a languid, feminine charm; if one ignored her appearance, it sounded a bit like that of a delicate, sophisticated woman.

A Black Giant Snake beside her lowered its head and respectfully replied.

"Hiss... Lady Snake Mother... A... Black Giant Snake has left..."

"Hiss... Oh? I do not recall giving that little one permission to leave Snake Valley, do I?"

"Hiss... In reply to Lady Snake Mother... That Black Giant Snake was... the one about to serve you..."

A look of realization appeared in Snake Mother's massive snake eyes. No wonder it had left Snake Valley; it turned out to be the unfortunate little one chosen to serve her.

"Hiss... That little one must have encountered an accident outside. Well, there are many powerful creatures around here..."

She then turned, flicking her long, scarlet snake tongue, and said to the Black Giant Snake closest to her, "Hiss... Then you, little one, shall serve me."

"Hiss!!!"

Upon hearing this, the Black Giant Snake's body shuddered violently, its snake eyes filled with despair!

Snake Mother was over a hundred meters long, four or five times its size... If it were just a normal mating, it might be fine, but if the service wasn't up to par, Snake Mother would eat snakes!

...The scene shifts.

A massive golden bird stared with glowing eyes at the corpse of the Black Giant Snake before it.

Then, it glanced at the snake eyes that were still coldly staring at it; the snake eyes were filled with malice and a hint of shock.

Ye Yang sneered internally; there was no need to wonder, this giant snake must be pondering why he could see through its feigned death.

The reason he knew this giant snake was feigning death was simple.

Although this Black Giant Snake's head had been pierced by a sharp sword formed from his Lightning Energy, and in his perception, the life aura of this Black Giant Snake had disappeared, making it look exactly like a dead corpse.

However, Ye Yang knew that snakes had highly developed nervous systems; even if a snake's head were severed, the body would still coil and struggle, and the nerves in the head could remain active for half an hour, or even a day or two.

This Black Giant Snake was no ordinary snake; how could it have died so quickly?!

Even though Ye Yang now used his Lightning Energy to form a sharp blade and split the snake's head in two, the pair of vertical snake pupils still coldly stared at him.

"Hiss... Snake Mother will... surely avenge me..."

"Too chatty."

*Snap!*

He raised his golden claw and crushed the snake's head directly.

His golden pupils stared at the Black Giant Snake before him, a hint of craving appearing in his eyes.

It seemed to be a bird's instinct to have a genuine desire to feed on snakes...

Ye Yang shook his head; now was not the time to eat, as he still had to deal with the beast horde.

*Whoosh!*

He grabbed the massive body of the Black Giant Snake and flew into the distance, arriving before the beast horde in no time.

When the hundreds of thousands of beasts in the horde looked up and saw the headless body of the Black Giant Snake, they all became nervous.

If even the Black Giant Snake, whom they feared, had been dealt with so quickly by this golden giant bird, wouldn't they be in even greater danger?!

Ye Yang did not pay attention to the beasts; instead, he fixed his attention on two powerful beasts within the horde.

They were the Variegated Giant Tiger and the Gray Giant Lizard!

These two creatures had an evolutionary level of at least "D-", enough to fully suppress the attraction of the dragon blood fruit.

If the beasts in the horde were just controlled by instinctive desire when entering his territory, then these two creatures were doing it on purpose!

*Whoosh!*

Golden Lightning Energy surged out, forming a sharp blade that shot toward the beast horde!

"Roar... No!"

The two powerful beasts were pinned down by the pressure. Sensing a life-or-death crisis, before they could even beg for mercy, they could only let out a panicked roar!

They could only widen their pupils, watching the golden light carrying a sharp aura shoot toward them!

The golden lightning pierced through their heads, destroying their brains, and their bodies instantly went completely limp, becoming corpses on the ground.

Afterward, Ye Yang swept a glance over the hundreds of thousands of beasts prostrate on the ground, then looked toward the distant, fallen Divine Phoenix Mountain.

The anger in his heart dissipated quite a bit.

Originally, after his evolutionary level increased and he gained powerful strength, the golden Lightning Energy in his body had become turbulent, making him feel somewhat irritable. However, after killing the Black Giant Snake and the two powerful beasts, the violence in his heart had diminished significantly.

Considering that these hundreds of thousands of beasts had not come to his Divine Phoenix Mountain intentionally, he did not want to follow his original plan to kill them all.

"Behave yourselves in the future, and stay in the mountains..."

"Otherwise, you will become this bird's prey!"

After saying this, he rushed toward the beast horde, took the bodies of the two beasts, and departed, simultaneously withdrawing his own aura.

The hundreds of thousands of beasts prostrate on the spot were all panting heavily, looking with lingering fear in the direction where the golden figure had departed.

...

Ye Yang returned to the location of his three little brothers before he began to examine his own changes.

"System Panel!"