Chapter 1 The Snake King Temple

The empty Snake King Temple was quiet, with only the "clatter, clatter, clatter" of hooves echoing.

The Dragon Horse stepped on the steps, slowly approaching the snake head on the shrine. It looked wary and cautious, its fur standing on end, with a white dragon horn on its head.

One step, two steps, three steps... then she took a step back.

She probed like this several times.

Behind her, Bei Liu, who had retreated to the entrance of the Snake King Temple, observed intently, his knees bent as if ready for a hundred-meter sprint. At the slightest sign of trouble, he would run.

As for Second Sister, no need to worry. She could definitely run faster than him.

Inside the Snake King Temple, the eerie mist surged.

Giant snake patterns were carved on the stone pillars, and the oil lamps on the walls cast a dim light, hazy in the mist.

The Dragon Horse approached the snake head, shrouded in a huge shadow. An evil aura surged from the snake head, causing her to feel a surge of fear, but she still plucked up her courage and continued to approach.

"Huh?! Nothing?!"

She looked surprised, because the dragon horn on her head had not changed color.

Whenever there was danger, the dragon horn on her head would turn red, like an alarm. This was her innate ability.

She looked back at Bei Liu, who shouted, "Keep going forward, get a little closer, see that snake mouth? Try going inside."

The Dragon Horse looked at the snake mouth, and the rows of fangs made her feel flustered.

She took a deep breath and cautiously poked half of her body into the snake mouth, while paying attention to the changes in the dragon horn on her head. But the dragon horn showed no warning at all.

She breathed a sigh of relief, jumped off the shrine happily, and said easily, "There's no danger. Quickly take this snake head, let's go back to the Great Wilderness. My heat is coming, I can't stand it anymore."

She rubbed her hind legs together.

Bei Liu hesitated, his eyes fixed on the snake head on the shrine, still feeling uneasy.

The black-robed priest in charge of this matter had mysteriously disappeared. He didn't think the other party had just left for a while, but perhaps was already dead.

He liked to think of the worst-case scenario in everything, rather than take chances. This was one of the main reasons why he had been able to survive so long on his business trips to the Great Wilderness.

Unlike the other foreign affairs elders, who died one after another, only he was still alive.

"But, Second Sister's innate ability really didn't show any signs of danger. Am I overthinking it?!"

Bei Liu struggled, looking at the snake head on the shrine. That was a demon king bone snake head, of incalculable value.

Whether it was used to forge a sacred weapon or for auction, it would be invaluable.

"Slap!"

He suddenly slapped himself, "Bei Liu, you turtle son, wake up, will you? Why are you being greedy again? You're only ninety-eight years old this year, you're still a child, you're so young, are you going to put yourself in danger because of a demon king bone?"

Bei Liu took out a mirror, pointed at himself in the mirror, and scolded.

"As long as you can endure loneliness and resist temptation, with your green-headed turtle lifespan, you'll definitely break through to become an ancient beast if you live another thousand years. What's the rush!"

"Say your survival rules one more time: Don't believe in free lunches, don't believe in turning the tables in desperate situations, don't believe in jumping off cliffs to survive, only believe in your own fists."

With that, he put away the mirror, closed his eyes and took three deep breaths, then opened his eyes again, his eyes already calm.

"Let's go, Second Sister, let's go back to the Great Wilderness for a foot bath and massage!"

He waved his hand and shouted, then turned and left, as free as the wind.

Second Sister was stunned for a moment. She looked at the snake head on the shrine, feeling a pity. Just as she was about to follow Bei Liu, she suddenly saw a burst of white light in the snake head's mouth, and there were mysterious halos flowing.

She couldn't help but exclaim, shouting excitedly, "Look, is there a treasure? There's a treasure in the snake head!"

Bei Liu suddenly turned his head and looked at the white light in the snake's mouth. A sneer appeared in his eyes as he stroked his beard and said, "I was a little unsure if there was a problem with this snake head, but now that it suddenly emits light, it actually shows that there is a problem!"

"Let's go!"

He walked even faster.

Second Sister was anxious, but helpless. She was about to follow, but the white light in the snake head became even more intense, and bursts of precious energy soared into the sky, filling the surroundings, illuminating the Snake King Temple with a hazy, mysterious light.

Bei Liu smiled when he saw this, his eyes fixed on the snake head on the shrine, and said with his head held high, "The more you do this, the more I feel like you have a problem... uh... you may not have heard of a term called 'trying to hide something by overdoing it.'"

"You little rascal, you still want to trick me, Bei Liu, you're too young!"

With that, he gave the snake head the middle finger, laughed loudly, and waved his sleeve to leave.

On the shrine.

"Swish~"

The snake head opened its eyes, its scarlet vertical pupils opening and closing, emitting a cold and ferocious light. A majestic and gloomy voice came from the huge snake mouth...

"You are very smart, but also very stupid. Wouldn't it be better to obediently come into my mouth and let me eat you? Do you have to force me to show my true form?! Roar—!"

The snake head roared, its voice as loud as thunder. Huge sound waves rippled out, and the entire Snake King Temple collapsed with a rumble.

Far away.

Bei Liu and the Dragon Horse had just walked out of the Snake King Temple when they heard this gloomy voice. Before they could react, their eardrums were aching from the terrifying roar.

The two of them's faces changed drastically, their eyes full of horror.

Looking back, they saw that the Snake King Temple had collapsed, and a snake head appeared in the rubble of rolling wood and huge stones, with dust rising into the sky.

It shook its head from side to side.

The charred old skin fell off, and new flesh buds grew from the severed neck. The flesh buds spread, and the speed of flesh and blood generation became faster and faster. Blood-golden scales emerged and were arranged one by one, each one tens of meters large, with sharp edges, like a vajra wheel, capable of cutting everything, extremely terrifying.

In the blink of an eye, the snake's body grew to a thousand meters. The snake's body was too huge to be seen completely in the eerie mist, but it was even more terrifying, as if an ancient snake had been resurrected.

Under the front abdomen, flesh and blood squirmed, and a giant claw grew on each side, like wolf claws, but even more terrifying, covered with blood-golden scales, huge as iron hook blades, exuding a metallic cold light, full of power, and seemed to be able to tear apart all living things in the world.

"Shred~"

At the neck, flesh and blood tore, and two heads each emerged from the scales on the left and right sides.

A white-eyed wolf king's head, a mutated ferocious monster's head, and in the middle was a king cobra's head.

"I wanted to hunt in the guise of prey, but I, Zhang Ji, don't have that talent. As expected, crude and primitive devouring is more suitable for me, so I won't pretend anymore!"

Zhang Ji spoke in a human voice, his voice cold and majestic.

"Xichuan Town, tremble, the ferocious king cobra is back, roar—!"

His three heads roared together, his voice shaking the void like thunder, and his roar echoed throughout Xichuan Town. Terrifying sound waves formed hurricanes in the sky and earth, stirring up the eerie mist, and the wild grass swayed in unison.

At this moment.

In Xichuan Town, the survivors who were celebrating for the last hour all changed their expressions drastically, terrified.

Some men and women were making love, just about to reach the peak of ecstasy, but were softened directly by this roar.

"Oh my god, the ferocious king cobra isn't dead? I heard its roar again!"

"I heard it too, it scared me into premature ejaculation! Damn it!"

"Heavens, why is this happening? Such terrible lightning couldn't kill this king cobra, how did it come back to life?"

People cried out in grief and despair.

However, at the Heavenly Snake Gang's base, Liu Youshan, Hu San, and others all laughed excitedly.

"Lord Snake is back, I can continue to show off my power!"

"Suddenly I feel like my life has direction again, I, Hu San, can walk sideways again!"

In the wilderness.

The lone lynx tiger shrank into a ball, looking at the giant python that loomed in the mist in the distance. The ferocious aura that filled the entire wilderness made it tremble involuntarily, its eyes full of fear. It shrank its body smaller and smaller, and finally, it turned into a one-meter-tall white-haired husky.

"Woof~"

It barked like a dog, tucked its tail between its legs and ran back quickly.

"If the king cobra dies, I, the lone lynx, will go on a rampage, if the king cobra doesn't die, I'll still go home and be a husky!"

It disappeared into the mist in an instant.

The members of the Heavenly Snake Gang's Dog Hall quickly discovered that the lost husky had returned to the doghouse at Happiness Manor, and quickly brought a dog leash to tie it up.

In the ruins of the Snake King Temple.

Zhang Ji's front body stood upright, his three heads held high, his scarlet eyes opening and closing, naturally exuding a ferocious light, exuding endless majesty and gloom, coldly overlooking Bei Liu and the Dragon Horse who were running away below.

"Whoosh~"

It swept out with a gust of fishy wind, and the extremely fast speed brought about air explosions, and even the eerie mist showed vortices.