Invincible Snake Emperor

Chapter 702: Chapter 645: Disturbance in the Yaoling Mountain Range (2)

This meant that the Snake Race would only grow stronger and stronger.

SWOOSH... After two months in seclusion, Tu Xiao’an appeared before Elder Snake for the first time.

"Your Majesty, congratulations! This is a joyous occasion!" Elder Snake hurriedly offered his felicitations.

Tu Xiao’an smiled. "There’s nothing to congratulate me about. This is just the beginning."

What he wanted wasn’t a Dragon Snake that had reached its Rank of Enlightenment, but the Divine Beast Profound Turtle.

Crossing the Tribulation and reaching the Rank of Enlightenment was merely the first step.

At that moment, with a thought, Tu Xiao’an summoned the fortune-telling Profound Turtle he had subdued.

Tu Xiao’an then asked, "This snake of mine... is it qualified to evolve into the Black Tortoise with you?"

As soon as the Profound Turtle appeared, mysterious Sanskrit characters materialized on its enormous shell. It stared intently at the Dragon Snake atop the Snake Palace and fell silent.

"This is..." Elder Snake was utterly astonished when he saw the Profound Turtle. "The White Demon King’s strategist, Elder Xuan?"

This Profound Turtle was incredibly famous. The Snake Race had Elder Snake as its steward, but in the Azure Bamboo Forest, this Profound Turtle controlled everything for the White Demon King. Even the White Demon King had to listen to it, so its status was extremely high.

"Your Majesty, when did you manage to get your hands on Elder Xuan?"

Tu Xiao’an said nonchalantly, "Didn’t I make a trip to the Azure Bamboo Forest before my seclusion? I happened to run into it. This Profound Turtle can perform Divination and peek at celestial secrets. It said that I, your great king, will become the Lord Gong of the Yaoling Mountain Range in the future, so it immediately decided to follow me."

The Profound Turtle: "..."

’Can’t you just tell the truth? You clearly used force.’

"The Lord Gong of the Yaoling Mountain Range?" Elder Snake was incredibly excited. When Demon King Liu was around, he was the number one powerhouse in the Yaoling Mountain Range, but even he couldn’t become its Lord Gong.

Becoming the master of countless races was a nearly impossible feat.

"Your Majesty, if Elder Xuan said so, then it must be true! Congratulations, Your Majesty! Felicitations, Your Majesty! You will make history in the Yaoling Mountain Range and become the one and only Lord Gong of the Demon Race!"

"Keep it down. It hasn’t happened yet, has it?"

Elder Snake shook his head and retorted, "But Elder Xuan said so. It can’t be wrong."

Tu Xiao’an glanced at the Profound Turtle. "It seems what you say is quite convincing."

’No wonder the White Demon King believed it back then when it said it was not a good day for fighting on the day of the grand wedding.’

The Profound Turtle’s enormous shell shifted, and it transformed into an old man with the air of a sagacious immortal, stroking his beard with a pompous look.

"Elder Snake, long time no see." The turtle and the snake clearly knew each other and began to catch up.

After a while, numerous gasps of astonishment rang out.

"Heavens, it’s a forty-eight-fold tribulation!"

In the dark red sky above, twenty-four Tribulation Cloud Flowers and twenty-four Extraterrestrial Meteorites streaked across. The pressure from the heavens descended like a mountain, filling countless Snake Species with fear and trepidation.

Tu Xiao’an saw this and nodded to himself. ’As expected of a Dragon Snake blessed with great fortune. This is quite the treatment.’

His Evil Snake had only faced a forty-two-fold Celestial Tribulation back then.

This wasn’t to say that the Dragon Snake was stronger than Tu Xiao’an’s Evil Snake. Rather, its immense fortune meant the Heaven and Earth Law would not allow it to easily succeed in Crossing the Tribulation.

It was just like Tu Xiao’an’s own guaranteed-death Celestial Tribulation—it was designed to blast you into ashes.

"Master, you have to protect me! Otherwise, this little snake will surely die!"

The Dragon Snake was panicking. ’Are you kidding me? A forty-eight-fold Celestial Tribulation is just too much!’

"This snake is indeed qualified to evolve with this turtle." The transformed Elder Xuan nodded. He knew that the White Demon King had also faced a forty-eight-fold Celestial Tribulation when he reached the Rank of Enlightenment.

As for himself, he had only faced a thirty-six-fold Celestial Tribulation.

"The Celestial Tribulation is starting!"

The moment the Celestial Tribulation began, all of She Mountain was thrown into turmoil, drawing the attention of countless nearby races and factions.

A forty-eight-fold tribulation meant the creature had the aptitude of a Demon King at the very least.

The Snake Race now had Cultivated Creatures Crossing the Tribulation one after another, and major ones at that. How was anyone else supposed to compete?

...

「In another castle within the Yaoling Mountain Range」

The two Deep Mountain Demon Kings, the Yellow Demon King and the Gray Demon King, were seated.

"Cousin, we have to make a move! We can’t wait any longer! Look at how prosperous the Snake Demon King’s Snake Race is now. Even a random snake is undergoing a forty-eight-fold tribulation! In the future, will there be any place left for us in the Yaoling Mountain Range?"

The Gray Demon King added impatiently, "Other things aside, that Snake Demon King himself is just too monstrous! In the short time since reaching the Rank of Enlightenment, he’s already become a Deep Mountain Demon King. Cousin, I am now one hundred percent no match for him."

"Indeed, we can’t wait any longer. As long as that snake is alive, he will only ruin our grand plans." The Yellow Demon King had gone to great lengths to rescue the Six-eyed Golden Lion from Wencheng Prison, but in the end, his plan backfired spectacularly.

He even lost his own clone in the process.

The Weasel and the rat both hated that snake, Tu Xiao’an, to the bone.

"How are things with the racial factions I asked you to contact? Have they all agreed?" the Yellow Demon King asked cautiously.

"The kings of the twelve great Peak racial factions have basically been persuaded. They’ve agreed to destroy the Snake Race with us." Ever since the incident at the Azure Bamboo Forest, the Gray Demon King had not been idle. He had been working with the Yellow Demon King to win over some of the major racial factions in the Yaoling Mountain Range.

The two Deep Mountain Demon Kings knew in their hearts that with their strength alone, it would likely be impossible to kill that snake and destroy the Snake Race. Their only option was to unite with other major racial factions.

The king of each of those races possessed the strength of a Demon King at a minimum.

"It’s a pity the Fox Immortal King’s Fox Race is remaining neutral and won’t join us," the Yellow Demon King said with regret.

If they had the Fox Immortal King, then killing the snake would be a certainty.

"Cousin, with the support of the twelve great race leaders, that’s already enough! Once we kill the Snake Demon King and destroy the Snake Race, we can deal with the Fox Immortal King together. Then, the Yaoling Mountain Range will be ours!"

The Yellow Demon King nodded, but still said with some concern, "It’s fine if the Fox Immortal King remains neutral. I’m just afraid she might suddenly decide to help the Snake Race. After all, she’s not stupid. Once the Snake Race is destroyed, the Fox Race will be next."

"Cousin, between the two of us, plus the twelve great races, we won’t have to fear them even if the Snake Race and the Fox Race team up!" The Gray Demon King was now itching to annihilate the Snake Race immediately.

Although that snake had let him go once, the look in its eyes as it stared at him, the Gray Demon King, was like looking at a turtle in a jar—as if it could kill him at any moment.

Having lived for thousands of years, the Gray Demon King cherished his life dearly. He couldn’t just sit around and wait for someone else to come and take his rat’s life.

"Cousin, go and inform the kings of the twelve great races to come to my Yellow Demon Castle for a meeting. We will choose a date to attack She Mountain, kill the Snake Demon King, and destroy the Snake Race!"

The Gray Demon King was overjoyed. "Cousin, I’ve been waiting for you to say that!"

...

「A short while later」

Under Tu Xiao’an’s protection, the Dragon Snake finally passed the forty-eight-fold Celestial Tribulation without any real danger, invigorating the entire Snake Race.

Afterward, Tu Xiao’an immediately returned to the Ten Thousand Blood Pool to monitor the condition of his clone.

He was like a scholar who paid no attention to the outside world, focusing solely on his studies.

The clone was his top priority; he was just waiting to give his mother and older sister a surprise.

He hadn’t even gone to see Su Rushi, whom he had left in the Purple Bamboo Forest, for over two months.

It was worth mentioning that after the Dragon Snake reached the Rank of Enlightenment, Tu Xiao’an immediately used a Middle Rank Divine Beast Bloodline rewarded by the system to evolve it and the Profound Turtle into the Black Tortoise.

Everything went more or less as he had expected. To evolve the Black Tortoise, a mixed evolution of a snake and a turtle was required.

Another giant egg appeared in Tu Xiao’an’s system. Counting them now, there were a total of four.

One was the Bull Demon King bloodline from the Bull Demon King’s evolution, one was the Six-Eared Macaque bloodline from the Ape King’s evolution, one was the Divine Beast White Tiger from the Golden Pupils’ evolution, and now, the Black Tortoise bloodline was added to the list.

Of the Four Great Divine Beasts, only the Vermilion Bird was now unaccounted for.

He had originally considered evolving the Azure Owl, but Tu Xiao’an still wanted to evolve it into a Phoenix bloodline, and the Azure Owl itself also wanted to develop into a Phoenix.

So, he could only set the matter aside for the time being.

He would need to have another decent avian bloodline on hand.

But from his debut until now, the only bird Tu Xiao’an had ever subdued was the Peacock.

If he had to name another, it would be that big black Crow.

Speaking of the big Blackbird, Tu Xiao’an wanted to curse. That thing had definitely run off.

Ever since they parted ways when he first entered the Yaoling Mountain Range, the Blackbird had vanished without a trace. During this time, Tu Xiao’an had even sent countless Snake Species out from the Snake Palace to search for it.

But there was no sign of the Blackbird’s whereabouts.

Tu Xiao’an concluded that the Blackbird must have heard that he had reached Rank Three of Enlightenment and become the King of the Snake Clan, so it had promptly fled.

It was afraid of suffering the fate of becoming his Battle Companion.

That Blackbird was smarter than a monkey.

But then again, even if the Blackbird were here, it wasn’t a suitable candidate to evolve into the Vermilion Bird.

A Crow turning into a Vermilion Bird? Was that even plausible?

That was even more ridiculous than a wild chicken turning into a Phoenix.

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