Invincible Snake Emperor-Chapter 85 - 84: The Evil Snake
From the thickets of She Mountain, the low calls of beasts and birds echoed from time to time. High in the air, a white streak came soaring through, looking like an arrow shot from a crossbow far in the distance.
What was this white streak? A casual glance wouldn't reveal much, but a closer look would make one question their reality.
It was a brilliantly gleaming Silver White Snake, soaring through the heavens as if strolling through space.
If any Snake Catchers from Bai Town were in these woods, they would surely drop to their knees in terror and awe, shouting, "Long live the Snake King!"
A snake that could fly—what else could it be but a Snake King?
Tu Xiao'an was no ordinary snake. Instead of slithering on land, he flew through the sky, utterly content.
He closed his eyes, and an image akin to a thermal map instantly appeared in his mind. When the Vampire Snake had fled earlier, Tu Xiao'an hadn't pursued it directly. Instead, he had dispatched ten Killer Bees to tail it.
The Killer Bees were a product of his evolution; they were his eyes. No matter how far they were from Tu Xiao'an, he could sense them.
Now, as long as he could sense the Killer Bees' location, he would know the Vampire Snake's position.
After a moment of sensing, Tu Xiao'an's eyes snapped open, shining brightly.
According to the location provided by the Killer Bees, it was, by a stroke of luck, quite close to his current position. 'Heaven is on my side.'
'Vampire Snake, you're dead meat!'
Tu Xiao'an couldn't wait to get his revenge on the Vampire Snake and swallow it whole.
He then flew several hundred meters in the direction his mind guided him. The reason he kept flying was that he wanted to completely master his flight Skills, making it as automatic and free as slithering on land.
He flew over a patch of tall grass that swayed with the mountain breeze, and he focused his senses as he surveyed the area.
Suddenly, Tu Xiao'an's sensitive nose caught a faint, barely-there stench of rot. He soon spotted an animal carcass and slowly descended toward it, his expression turning strange.
It was the corpse of a pheasant, its body completely desiccated as if it had been baking in the sun for a long time. The strange thing was, its feathers still held a hint of their original luster.
Tu Xiao'an gently nudged the pheasant's corpse with his tail. Instantly, all of its feathers fell off with a RUSTLE, leaving behind a bald, desiccated carcass.
'This...!'
A flash of surprise crossed Tu Xiao'an's eyes, and then a realization seemed to strike him, his expression turning grim. 'This pheasant definitely wasn't just dried out by the sun.'
Carefully inspecting the pheasant's dry corpse, Tu Xiao'an soon discovered the fang marks of a venomous snake. However, these marks were strange, clearly different from those of a typical venomous snake.
Normally, when a venomous snake bites its prey, it leaves one or two fang marks because it only has two fangs, and the wounds aren't usually very deep. But this pheasant had four puncture marks, two upper and two lower, as deep and distinct as if made by a syringe.
'Four fangs?'
Tu Xiao'an pondered for a moment, and his eyes lit up. A desiccated corpse with four fang marks—the culprit was obvious.
The Mutated Bloodsucker Snake.
The pheasant was desiccated because all of its blood had been drained. Only a mutant Snake Species like the Vampire Snake could have four fangs.
Tu Xiao'an sensed for the Killer Bees' location again. They were getting closer.
This meant the Vampire Snake was likely just ahead, and it was still hunting.
Its method of hunting was to find animals and drain their blood. It was an incredibly vicious, Evil Snake.
Leaving the pheasant corpse behind, Tu Xiao'an pressed onward. Along the way, he saw the bodies of four or five more pheasants.
Every one of them had been drained of blood, their bodies so dry that a slight touch would cause their feathers to fall off.
These pheasants had died miserable deaths. Encountering an Evil Snake like the Vampire Snake, they could only blame their own misfortune.
At that moment, Tu Xiao'an spotted a faint, S-shaped trail in the dirt. 'That damn Vampire Snake has been carving a path of bloodsucking all this way.'
Several hundred meters later, Tu Xiao'an stopped again. This time, it wasn't a pheasant's corpse he saw, but a wild dog. Its fur was a matted mix of yellow and white, and it too was desiccated, not a single drop of blood left in its body.
Wild dogs are ferocious and strong fighters, like soldiers baptized by the blood of battle, far beyond what any domesticated dog could compare to. Yet now, this one lay dead, a truly tragic sight.
But alas, no matter how strong a wild dog was, it was powerless against the Mutated Bloodsucker Snake and met a similarly miserable end.
The mountain wind howled, the green grass swayed, and the occasional roar drifted faintly from the shadows, while the chirping of insects echoed all around.
'It's just ahead. It's just ahead.'
Tu Xiao'an activated his dominance ability. He immediately sensed a powerful, chilling Qi from the Snake Race within a one-kilometer radius.
And this particular Qi was completely unaffected, neither enslaved nor controlled by his dominance ability.
SWOOSH...!
The Silver White Snake's pupils flashed with chilling Killing Intent as it transformed into a streak of light and shot forward. A moment later, Tu Xiao'an witnessed a jaw-dropping scene.
Beneath a tall, dense tree, a mountain goat was howling miserably, its face a mask of unbearable pain. Its hooves stomped the ground relentlessly, as if it held a deep-seated grudge against the earth itself.
The goat was in some kind of immense agony, and strangest of all, a long tail seemed to be growing from its neck, swaying in the air.
The tail was fiery red and looked exceptionally bizarre.
In truth, it wasn't a tail at all. It was a venomous snake, latched onto the goat's neck like a maggot on a corpse—a horrifying sight.
'Haha! Vampire Snake, I've finally found you!'
A sharp glint flashed in Tu Xiao'an's eyes, and his entire body thrummed with excitement.
The Vampire Snake was biting the goat's neck and draining its blood, which was why the animal was crying out so miserably.
For such an Evil Snake to live in the mountains was not only a nightmare for Snake Catchers but a catastrophe for all the other animals within.
Because if you encountered it, you would be drained of your blood and left for dead.
From something as small as a pheasant to as large as a wild dog or mountain goat—if the Mutated Bloodsucker Snake grew strong enough, it would even dare to drain the blood of a tiger.
Tu Xiao'an's arrival, and the distinctive Qi he exuded, immediately caught the Vampire Snake's attention. The snake detached itself from the goat, and its pupils, which glowed with a cold light, swiveled to stare at the Silver White Snake.
That one gaze was like the dead of winter. Any ordinary person locked in by such a look would surely be sent into a cold shiver, their legs turning to jelly.
HISS...!
The Vampire Snake hissed at the Silver White Snake, its vicious gaze as demonic as a fiend's from the abyss.
THUD...!
The mountain goat collapsed to the ground, unable to get up. Even though the Vampire Snake had released it, it no longer had the strength to support its own body. Most of its blood had already been drained.
The Vampire Snake stared at the Silver White Snake, and as it looked on, its vicious Snake Gaze filled with greed.
It was as if Tu Xiao'an were some priceless, nourishing treasure in its eyes, something that would cause its Power to skyrocket if consumed.
This Evil Snake was a classic example of a snake-eater. The emergence of the Supreme Profound Snake had immediately lured it out, proof that it wanted to devour any top-tier Snake Species it encountered.
This time, however, the Vampire Snake and Tu Xiao'an had the exact same goal: to devour the other and strengthen their own abilities.
It remained to be seen who would be the victor.
