Invincible Snake Emperor

Chapter 533: Chapter 520: The Lascivious Nature of Snakes

Tu Xiao’an stood there, stunned. He was too embarrassed to jump on, a faint blush creeping up his handsome face.

’Alright, I guess I’m just a country bumpkin. This treatment is a little too extravagant. I can’t handle it.’

Tu Xiao’an didn’t move. Elder Snake simply waved his Snake Staff and announced, ”The King is not pleased. Bring another.”

At these words, the voluptuous Beauty Snake grew terrified. She looked at Tu Xiao’an and pleaded, ”My Lord King, I beg you, please get on my back. Otherwise, this servant will be doomed for all eternity!”

The Beauty Snake was filled with despair, but the group of Beauty Snakes behind Elder Snake wore expressions of thrilled excitement, as if they had just won the lottery. If this one was eliminated, they would have a chance to take her place.

Tu Xiao’an didn’t understand the rules of the Snake Palace. These Beauty Snakes existed solely to serve him.

If the King found one of them unsatisfactory, she would be driven out of the Snake Palace by Elder Snake, suffering the greatest humiliation of her life. Once outside, she would be scorned by all other snakes, and might even be devoured alive by another Snake Species.

If you were rejected by the Lord Snake King, what right did you have to live?

”No need to switch. She’ll do,” Luo Ziyun said with a smile. She then leaped gracefully onto the snake’s back and looked at Tu Xiao’an, motioning for him to come up as well.

Seeing the Beauty Snake’s terrified and desperate expression, Tu Xiao’an couldn’t bear it. Since Luo Ziyun had already jumped on, he stopped being difficult and finally got onto the Beauty Snake’s back as well.

The Beauty Snake heaved a heavy sigh of relief, feeling as though she had just escaped the jaws of death.

”Xiao’an, your future is looking *very* blissful,” Luo Ziyun said with a playful, gloating expression. ”See? All these Beauty Snakes... whatever you want to do to them in the future, they won’t resist. Whatever position you want, you can have your way with them.”

’I’d actually considered that,’ Tu Xiao’an thought. ’As the king of an entire race, with a so-called harem of three thousand beauties, the whole race is technically mine. What’s this in comparison?’

’Still, I can’t quite get used to it. It feels so... evil.’

It is said that a snake’s nature is inherently lustful. As cold-blooded animals, snakes have strong sexual appetites. They favor shade and crowds, often tangling together in writhing masses to reproduce.

There’s even a saying that a dragon’s nature is inherently lustful, capable of mating with all things. The promiscuity of dragons is quite famous, but the same is true for snakes.

But Tu Xiao’an was not this kind of snake. At his core, he was still an innocent young man. After all, he wasn’t born a snake, but possessed a human soul.

’This Beauty Snake is beautiful, true, but she’s only partially transformed,’ he thought. ’With that long, slender snake tail trailing behind her... how could I possibly bring myself to do anything?’

”If I wanted to do something to you, would you not resist either?” Tu Xiao’an suddenly asked Luo Ziyun, raising a mischievous eyebrow.

Luo Ziyun froze for a second, then broke into a bewitching smile. ”And what is it you’d like to do to me, hmm?”

”Ahem... well... you know...”

”I know nothing of the sort.” Luo Ziyun shot Tu Xiao’an a massive eye-roll.

The Snake Palace was, in fact, a gigantic palace complex. It was not only vast but also opulent—truly a place of carved beams, painted rafters, and golden splendor. The four corners of the main hall’s roof curled high into the air, supported by numerous massive red pillars. Each pillar was carved with a coiling, lifelike python, a truly spectacular sight.

Typically, such massive pillars would be carved with dragons to project an air of nobility and grandeur. But this was the Snake Palace; here, everything was centered around the snake.

In the main hall of the Snake Palace, a Giant Snake, well over a hundred feet long, coiled upwards, holding a huge Bright Moon Pearl in its mouth. The pearl shone with a dazzling light, like a full moon, illuminating the entire hall.

Yet, this was a living, breathing Giant Snake, not a stone statue. It was a mutated Golden Snake that had reached the Peak of the Spirit Monster level, a very High Rank species.

’Holy crap, this is too much,’ Tu Xiao’an thought, dazzled ever since he had entered the Snake Palace. ’This is a palace for snakes? It’s even more luxurious and grand than a human Emperor’s palace!’

They said that among the Five Great Deep Mountain Demon Kings of the Yaoling Mountain Range, each Demon King had their own castle or palace. This place must be Demon King Liu’s castle.

But now that he had ascended the throne to be crowned King and been respectfully invited to the Snake Palace... what did that mean? It meant that Demon King Liu probably no longer existed.

One mountain cannot contain two tigers, unless one is male and the other female.

There could never be two kings within the same lineage.

’But for a great Deep Mountain Demon King to just... not exist? To be dead? How did he die? Who could possibly have killed him?’

Tu Xiao’an believed he would soon have the answers to all these mysteries.

As the Beauty Snake brought Tu Xiao’an and Luo Ziyun into the main hall, the motionless Golden Snake holding the Bright Moon Pearl in its massive jaws trembled all over. It immediately prostrated itself before Tu Xiao’an in an act of worship.

”This Golden Snake is the current Lamp Holder of the Snake Palace,” Luo Ziyun explained, seeming to know everything about this place by heart. ”The object in its mouth is called the Bright Moon Pearl, a sacred artifact of the Snake Race.”

All along the way, the two of them stood on the Beauty Snake’s back as if in a parade, with Luo Ziyun constantly filling Tu Xiao’an in on the details of the Snake Palace.

’This python is magnificent,’ Tu Xiao’an thought. ’Covered in golden stripes, and a mutated Snake Species to boot. It’s guaranteed to become a Rank Three Demon Spirit in the future.’

Tu Xiao’an couldn’t help but say sympathetically, ”This Golden Snake has it pretty rough. Such a noble bloodline, yet it’s been reduced to being a Lamp Holder.”

”Why does it have to hold the pearl in its mouth?”

Luo Ziyun replied, ”The Bright Moon Pearl must be infused with Energy to shine. Otherwise, do you think it’s just doing this because it has nothing better to do?”

”Besides, this job is anything but rough. Within the Snake Race, countless snakes dream of being the one to hold the Bright Moon Pearl. The Golden Snake’s species is so noble that it barely qualified for the position.”

”Holding the Bright Moon Pearl... enhances one’s Cultivation?” A spark of realization hit Tu Xiao’an.

Luo Ziyun nodded with a smile. ”Exactly. The Bright Moon Pearl is uniquely blessed and contains a mysterious power. Although holding it in your mouth requires you to infuse it with Energy every day, it brings immense benefits to the Snake Species itself.”

”Ten years ago, this Golden Snake began holding the pearl right after it reached the Spirit Monster level. Now it has already reached the Peak of the Spirit Monster level and will probably break through to the Demon Spirit level very soon.”

”Once it breaks through to the Demon Spirit level, a new Snake Species of noble breed will be chosen from the Snake Race to become the Lamp Holder.”

Tu Xiao’an was slightly taken aback to hear this. Ten years to go from the start of the Spirit Monster level to the Peak... that was from Level 20 to Level 29.

That was some fast Cultivation speed.

After all, not everyone was a freak like Tu Xiao’an, who could gain a Level every few days.

For ordinary Cultivated Creatures, it normally took five hundred years of Cultivation to become a transcendent Demon Spirit.

So, the Bright Moon Pearl was a true treasure. It was precisely because of it that the Snake Race had so many Snake Demon Spirits.

Unfortunately, a treasure like this was completely useless to Tu Xiao’an now.

”To the Ten Thousand Blood Pool,” Luo Ziyun suddenly said to the Beauty Snake.

”Yes,” the Beauty Snake immediately replied, accepting the order.

After leaving the main hall, the Beauty Snake twisted and turned through the palace, arriving at a mysterious passage deep within. The entrance to this passage was guarded by a Snake Demon Spirit.

Moreover, this Snake Demon Spirit was at the level of a Deep Mountain Great Demon—a true powerhouse of his generation.

”This subordinate pays his respects to the King and to the Esteemed Aunt.”

Seeing Tu Xiao’an and Luo Ziyun on the Beauty Snake’s back, the Snake Demon Spirit immediately dropped to one knee.