Chapter 888 - 874: Royal City of the Desert

Su Muyao nodded seriously and said, "Okay."

Then she continued walking forward.

Xuan Che watched her figure from behind. He kept standing there without moving, even after her figure had completely disappeared from sight.

No one knew how long had passed, until a subordinate came hurrying over from afar to remind him, "Young Master, it’s already very late. If you still don’t go back, the three little masters will get worried."

Only then did Xuan Che finally turn around with difficulty and return to the Bird Tribe.

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Su Muyao, on the other hand, walked toward the depths of the mountain forest.

The sky grew darker and darker, and this stretch of forest became increasingly strange, carrying a kind of eerie silence.

The damp, cold breath in the air grew thicker and thicker.

No one knew how long she had been walking—probably several days.

The trees inside grew taller and denser, blocking out the sky and sun, even the moonlight at night was completely shut out.

Luckily, Su Muyao’s Wood Element Ability was at Level 4 now, so she could still see the road clearly at night.

These few days, there was that same eerie silence in the forest.

She looked at the roadside grass and trees, always feeling like they might mutate at any time, ready to open huge maws and swallow her whole.

Su Muyao steadied her mind and lightly touched the snake mark on her collarbone with her hand.

"This direction can’t be wrong."

After entering deeper into this place, Su Muyao’s sense of the mark had grown ever clearer.

The system said, "So Wen Nanxi must be somewhere nearby."

Su Muyao looked around and said, "But there’s nothing around here that looks like anything."

The system said, "The plants around here, including some underground ones, are full of danger. There are insects underground that devour living beings, but you have the Ancient Celestial Snake mark on you, so they don’t dare approach you."

"Otherwise, why do you think it’s so quiet here, with so many bones in the outer area, yet none around here?"

"Just keep walking in the direction your feeling points to. You’re not wrong."

Su Muyao felt she was getting closer and closer, and couldn’t help growing excited.

She started walking a bit faster, and somehow tripped over something; her whole body pitched forward, falling down.

But something very fast suddenly appeared beneath her.

"Ah..."

Su Muyao was about to fall, but then suddenly saw several snakes. She let out a sharp scream and in an instant used her Wood Element Ability to support herself.

She stopped herself from falling.

Although Wen Nanxi’s true form was a Snake Beastman, Wen Nanxi knew she was afraid of snakes deep down in her bones, so most of the time he didn’t reveal his true form.

And normally she had mental preparation; this time it was too sudden.

The dozen or so snakes saw Su Muyao’s reaction and realized she feared them; in an instant, they swished away and vanished.

The system said, "Host, are you okay? Turns out there were a lot of snakes hidden around here, but they keep their aura concealed."

"According to Snake Beastman traditions, there should be many snakes on the outer perimeter forming a protective belt."

"These snakes aren’t Beastmen and can’t take human form, but they just emerged, purely out of instinct to protect you."

Su Muyao snapped out of it, her eyes brightening. She turned and looked around, only to find those snakes seemed to have disappeared all at once.

She spoke up, "Are you all okay?"

"I’m sorry about just now, I scared you."

"Can I ask where your master is?"

"He’s my Beast Husband—how is he? Can you take me to him?"

Su Muyao asked softly.

She didn’t know if they could understand.

"Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you. I just want to find my own Beast Husband."

After a while, a Green Snake slid down from a tree and came to a spot not far in front of Su Muyao.

Probably afraid Su Muyao would be scared, only it came out; the other snakes still remained hidden.

They knew that foreign Beastmen were afraid of Snake Beastmen, let alone snakes that couldn’t take human form.

And females—females all despised them, the snakes.

But this female was the wife of their King; she carried their King’s aura on her.

This female was never at the King’s side—could it be that she hated the King, and that’s why she didn’t stay with him?

And with so many wounds on the King’s body, could it be the little female who caused them?

But even so, the King loved her to the point of maddened frenzy.

Thinking of the King, they couldn’t help but want to cry.

They would still guide her.

The Green Snake slid forward a bit, then turned its head to look at Su Muyao, checking if she was following.

Seeing its movements, Su Muyao realized it was leading the way.

She said gratefully, "Thank you, Green Snake."

Thinking for a moment, she took out some roasted meat from her Space Bracelet. "This is for you."

The Green Snake looked at this gentle female, its eyes lighting up.

"Hiss hiss..."

It wasn’t a Snake Beastman, just an ordinary Green Snake, with a bit of Spiritual Sense but not much.

It simply felt that this female was so nice, so gentle and kind, far better than those females outside.

She wasn’t looking at it with disgust.

But it didn’t know whether it should eat.

Su Muyao said, "This is for you. Go ahead and eat."

The Green Snake guiding her was working hard too, wasn’t it?

It happily ate, then continued to lead the way for Su Muyao.

No one knew how long they walked before arriving at an abandoned cave.

Passing through the abandoned cave, a dense fog lay ahead, making it impossible to see the scenery.

The Green Snake started hissing again.

As for what it was saying, Su Muyao couldn’t understand at all.

"Sorry, I can’t really understand you."

It gestured for quite a while, even anxiously using its teeth to carve out a wooden figure, miming with it.

The system said, "Host, it’s telling you to let your own blood drip down."

Su Muyao didn’t hesitate, pricked her finger, and let her blood drip onto the ground.

No one knew what kind of Power the blood was giving off; right after that, all the fog in front of her dispersed.

Revealing a scene of desolate desert.

Even the climate turned hot.

Su Muyao wanted the Green Snake to guide her further, but the Green Snake couldn’t enter this place.

Su Muyao could only rely on the mark’s sense and walk forward herself.

After walking for a few days, Su Muyao felt the wind and sand growing stronger, and the air becoming hotter and hotter.

"Nanxi, he’s an Ancient Celestial Snake Beastman—how could he be living in a desert?"

If not for the mark guiding her, Su Muyao would have suspected she’d gone the wrong way.

The system suddenly seemed to sense something and said, "Host, look ahead, quickly—there are Snake Beastman sculptures."

"They feel similar to the abandoned Snake God Temple sculptures in that dense forest on Cang Beast Continent."

"It’s just that those sculptures were almost all destroyed, while the sculptures here are intact."

Su Muyao looked at the intact Snake Beastman sculptures lining both sides of the desert road, as if they might be swallowed by wind and sand at any moment.

She kept feeling like this place had once been glorious.

The system took in the surroundings and couldn’t help sighing, "Could this be Snake King City? No wonder no one could find this location—you need special blood to enter here."

"But if this really used to be Snake King City, I don’t know why it’s become like this now."

"Snake Beastmen like humid heat, not desert climates. Why would they choose such a place as their Royal City?"

Su Muyao seemed to sense something and said, "Maybe this place used to be an Oasis, not a desert at all."

She didn’t know why, but standing here, looking at those Snake Beastman sculptures, it felt like their eyes could move, falling on her. In a daze, Su Muyao seemed to see a beautiful, dreamlike Oasis scene.

Birdsong and fragrant flowers, rivers and lakes, forests and waterfalls, Spiritual Energy dense, with many Snake Beastmen living here.