"Does a snake that magical really exist?"
Xiaoyue listened, completely captivated.
ilin smiled. "I don’t know the specifics myself; it’s all just hearsay. But if a Supre Profound Snake were to appear today, its market price would definitely be over five million. I can guarantee that."
The siblings stared, dumbfounded. Five million for a single snake?
"More valuable than that other snake?" Tu Xiao’an suddenly looked at ilin seriously.
ilin naturally understood which snake Tu Xiao’an was referring to: the legendary Mutated Bloodsucker Snake.
"When it cos to dicinal value, I’m afraid no snake can compare to the Supre Profound Snake."
Tu Xiao’an said resolutely, "If that’s true, then I really have to go to She Mountain and look for one."
"Little brother, I forbid it! This whole Supre Profound Snake thing is nonsense. Besides, we have money now. We just need to take Mom to the doctor, and that’s it. You can’t get into any more trouble." With one hand, Tu Xiaoyue forcefully yanked back the Silver White Snake, which had been lounging comfortably in ilin’s gentle embrace.
"Sis, don’t worry. I’m a snake now. What kind of trouble do you think I can get into?" Tu Xiao’an said.
"Snakes eat other snakes all the ti! You’ve already lost your human life; I can’t bear the thought of you losing your snake life, too."
Knowing his sister was worried, Tu Xiao’an quickly placated her. "Sis, I get it. I was just kidding. Sister ilin also said that snake is basically extinct and hasn’t been seen in centuries. Even if I wanted to catch one, I probably couldn’t find it anywhere."
And so, the thought of the Supre Profound Snake planted a seed in Tu Xiao’an’s mind, one he couldn’t forget.
........
That afternoon, Tu Xiaoyue took their mother, Wen Qiu, to a large hospital downtown for a check-up. Xiao’an had wanted to go with them, but considering he was a snake, appearing in public would be far too conspicuous. He quickly dismissed the impractical idea.
He couldn’t stay idle, either. In a flash, the snake zipped off to the old forest on the back mountain to grind so levels.
Although he had already reached Level 5, it was still far from enough. More importantly, he wanted to catch several more valuable breeds of venomous snakes on She Mountain to sell.
Now that he had reunited with his sister and Sister ilin, Tu Xiao’an’s life was finally getting back on track.
A single Tiger Snake could earn him two hundred thousand. For the current Tu Xiao’an, catching one was no longer a difficult task. As long as he ca across one, he could subdue it.
As he entered She Mountain, Tu Xiao’an felt like a fish back in water; there was even a sense of familiarity.
First, he checked his latest stats.
The stats appeared.
Host: Tu Xiao’an!
Identity: House Snake (100cm!)
Level: Level 5
Evolutionary Energy Value: 100/5000.
Talent 1: Devouring
Talent 2: dominance ability.
Pet Box: Level 1 Mosquitoes (500), Level 1 Young Black Mamba.
Over the past two days, Tu Xiao’an had been busy reuniting with his family, so there hadn’t been much change to his stats.
As for his Pet Box, it only contained five hundred mosquitoes, which served as his suicide squad, and so previously caught venomous snakes. He had given all the other snakes to Sister ilin today, keeping only the Black Mamba.
He let her take care of selling them.
As for why he kept the Black Mamba, it was because the snake was still too small and had little comrcial value. He would keep it and let it grow for now.
If the Black Mamba grew into an adult, its value upon being sold would be no less than that of a Tiger Snake.
Right now, Tu Xiao’an was feeling the pressure. To break through from Level 5 to Rank 6, he needed a full 5,000 Energy Value points. ’That’s a lot. How many creatures will I have to devour to level up?’
He decided to spend the afternoon leveling up on She Mountain. By evening, his sister and mother would probably be back from the hospital.
In the old forest, Tu Xiao’an didn’t intentionally activate his dominance ability to summon nearby venomous snakes. He devoured whatever he ca across by chance, and if he saw a good breed, he would absorb it into the system.
However, valuable breeds of venomous snakes weren’t sothing one could find everywhere; most were just common venomous or non-venomous types.
There were, however, plenty of wild mosquitoes in the mountains, and they sward around Tu Xiao’an, the venomous snake, eyeing him predatorily.
Mountain mosquitoes are very different from house mosquitoes. One is like a dosticated animal, the other is purely wild. The mountain variety is more ferocious, and the toxins in their proboscises are much more potent than those of their household counterparts.
It’s just that wild mosquitoes are rather "stubborn." Once they spot a stranger, they’ll latch onto you and refuse to leave, vowing not to stop until they’ve drunk their fill. Even if you slap at one, it will treat it as nothing more than a gust of wind.
If Tu Xiao’an wasn’t careful, these wild mosquitoes would suck a mouthful of his blood. His Snake Skin glimred, looking like a glowing Luminous Pearl under the sunlight.
It was fatally alluring to these wild mountain mosquitoes.
Logically, as a Level 5 venomous snake, Tu Xiao’an’s aura was already quite strong; ordinary snakes wouldn’t dare approach him.
Yet these wild mosquitoes were completely unafraid, even seeming to posture at him defiantly.
Using Insight, Tu Xiao’an was surprised to find that the wild mountain mosquitoes actually had a Level—they were Level 1.
This ant their Life Force was more robust than that of house mosquitoes.
Moreover, they were extrely agile and very fast flyers.
Overall, the wild mosquitoes were far superior to their dostic counterparts, like the difference between a soldier and a civilian.
Back when Tu Xiao’an was still human, he had suffered quite a bit from these wild mosquitoes while catching snakes in the mountains.
’Trying to suck my blood? There’s a price to pay for that.’
Tu Xiao’an smiled to himself, then sent out his consciousness to envelop the wild mosquitoes.
Instantly, the five or six surrounding wild mosquitoes seed to panic, BUZZING erratically, clearly bewildered!
’Collect!’
With a single thought from Xiao’an, the wild mosquitoes vanished, reappearing inside the system’s Pet Box.
"DING... Congratulations, Host, for subduing 6 Level 1 wild mosquitoes. You have obtained 6 points of Energy Value."
’As expected of Level 1 wild mosquitoes, they’re actually worth one whole point of Energy Value. House mosquitoes are only worth 0.1. If that’s the case, with how many mosquitoes there are in these mountains, I could level up just by subduing five thousand of them.’
Five thousand mosquitoes might sound like a lot, but in the vast mountains, it was just a drop in the bucket. There were as many of these tiny creatures as one could want; it all depended on whether Tu Xiao’an had the will to catch them.
’Collect, collect...!’
As long as there was Energy Value to be gained, Tu Xiao’an was motivated. He kept his consciousness spread out as he moved, sotis subduing fifty or sixty wild mosquitoes at once.
It was incredibly easy and effortless. He even found large swarms of wild mosquitoes gathered in bushes, allowing him to absorb a hundred or so in one go.p>Last night, Tu Xiao’an had unleashed five hundred mosquitoes on Lei Ao, and they had been enough to terrify the large man into submission.
If Tu Xiao’an didn’t want to kill a person, unleashing mosquitoes to teach them a lesson was truly effective. The bites might not be fatal, but they could certainly tornt soone to death.
Besides, these wild ones were even more ferocious combatants. The mont one landed on you, it would take a mouthful of blood.
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