Queen Medusa Swallowed the Heavenly Flame

"Damn, I can't swim. I can only do the backstroke."

After plunging into the lake, Chen Mo suddenly realized that, whether in his previous life or this one, he had never known how to swim.

Thus, he could only turn over, lie on his back on the surface, and painfully "float" his way across.

The lake water was highly poisonous. Strands of deep-purple liquid, nearly invisible to the naked eye, slowly emerged, but the moment they touched the Thunder Fire surrounding Chen Mo, they were burned into wisps of black smoke.

Using his hands as oars, he rapidly paddled in spiraling motions, leaving a trail through the water as he gradually approached the island.

But just as Chen Mo was about to reach shore, a giant snake covered in emerald-green scales, with a triangular head, surfaced behind him. Its savage bloody maw wide open, it swiftly swam toward him.

"Fuck!"

His legs instantly turned into electric motors. After an utterly unqualified dive, he scrambled and crawled his way onto the island.

The giant snake feared the island and did not dare swim ashore, only circling endlessly outside it.

The island was not large, but its vegetation was extraordinarily lush.

Even from far away, Chen Mo could still feel the temperature of the Heavenly Flame.

Following the heat of the Heavenly Flame, Chen Mo moved onward. Passing through a bamboo grove and around several small paths, a round, open clearing came into view.

"Ding. Green Lotus Core Flame discovered. It can be Plundered for 130,000 Fortune Points."
"Ding. A large amount of Ice Spirit Cold Spring discovered. It can be Plundered for 8,000 Fortune Points."
"Ding. A sixth-tier magical beast, a semi-complete Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, discovered. It can be Plundered for 9,999 Fortune Points."

The system's voice rang out. The exorbitant prices were beyond Chen Mo's reach.

"Go take a rest," he grumbled inwardly. Chen Mo hid behind a huge boulder and watched Queen Medusa dance gracefully atop the crystal Lotus Seat.

Queen Medusa wore an expensive purple brocade robe that wrapped around her alluring figure, exposing her slender, snow-white waist. As she swayed with the dance, her voluptuous and exquisite body exuded a seductive charm.

Most importantly, Queen Medusa had even put on makeup.

Chen Mo had no idea what kind of makeup it was.

But it was beautiful, and that was all that mattered.

Chen Mo fiercely slapped himself. "You pervert, you can even be attracted to a snake."

Only then did Chen Mo realize that Dou Po had every type of beautiful woman.

There were lolis, mature beauties, girls next door, princesses, and queens.

Unfortunately, Chen Mo did not have a collecting habit.

After the dance ended, Medusa's beautiful eyes fixed tightly upon the green flame in the small pool. A rare trace of hesitation flashed across her enchanting face.

But it vanished in an instant, replaced by resolve.

Her hands formed seals.

The next moment, a flawless jade-like body was displayed naked before Chen Mo.

Chen Mo recited a calming mantra. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

Yet his gaze remained completely undisguised, staring straight at the scene.

What an old pervert.

Something on Chen Mo's body stirred restlessly. Aside from a man's instinctive reaction, there was also the innate seductive power Medusa possessed.

Chen Mo suddenly envied Xiao Yan.

This kind of pleasure was beyond anyone else's imagination.

At last, Queen Medusa brought her hands together. Her jade-like hands continuously formed strange seals, and with each change in the hand seals, the energy of heaven and earth suddenly became violent, forming a massive vortex over the island that shot straight toward the heavens.

Queen Medusa's body continued to transform.

Then, a purple giant snake over thirty meters long floated in the air.

This was Queen Medusa's true form.

Outside.

Everyone stared at the pillar of energy piercing the heavens, filled with shock.

Then, all the snake people of the Snake People Tribe knelt down, as though performing a solemn ritual.

"Queen Medusa has begun evolving," the black-robed figure floating in midair outside the city wall murmured softly.

"You should retreat first. Although this evolution has no fixed rules, once she succeeds, even I won't be able to protect you," the black-robed figure continued. "As for the Heavenly Flame, if Medusa's evolution fails, I'll find a chance to retrieve it for you."

"Then you..."

"I wish to stay and witness this crucial moment."

Chen Mo watched the purple giant snake swallow the Green Lotus Core Flame in a single gulp and fell silent.

What the hell?

What was going on?

Didn't the novel say Medusa would enter the Heavenly Flame?

Why had she swallowed it?

What exactly had happened?

Chen Mo had countless question marks in his mind.

After swallowing the Heavenly Flame, the purple giant snake hurriedly plunged into the small pool filled with Ice Spirit Cold Spring.

Then, miserable screams continuously rang out from the pool.

Chen Mo could vaguely see the purple snake's enormous body rolling about in the pool. Its scorching heat boiled the water, sending up mist.

Then, green flames rose from the pool and, in the blink of an eye, engulfed the purple giant snake.

Snake scales fell away one after another, while crimson blood trickled out.

The piercing pain twisted the purple snake's body into a corkscrew shape as the Heavenly Flame wrapped around its entire body.

A moment later, the giant snake's enormous body was burned pitch-black by the Heavenly Flame. Its massive head crashed into the pool with a bang, splashing water everywhere.

The violent energy dispersed, and the enormous vortex above the island vanished as well, as though everything had returned to calm.

"In the end, she still failed." Outside, the black-robed figure let out a low sigh. Ignoring the snake people who had begun to fall into despair, he flew straight away from the city.

"Her Majesty the Queen!" Within the city, the snake people began praying for their queen.

The violent energy had vanished, and the Queen's screams had also stopped. Everything seemed to declare that Queen Medusa's evolution had failed.

The snake people also realized that their queen might have failed her evolution, but they were unwilling to believe it.

"No way, did her evolution really fail?" Chen Mo also began to doubt. Queen Medusa should not have been able to fail, but she had swallowed the Heavenly Flame directly into her stomach, leaving Chen Mo uncertain as well.

This wasn't following the original plot.

Chen Mo walked toward the small pool. Although Queen Medusa's evolution had failed, he hoped the Green Lotus Core Flame was still there.

In the small pool, the charred giant snake lay quietly in the water, and the green flames that had burned over its body had vanished as well.

"No way? The Green Lotus Core Flame is gone too? Did I come here for nothing?" Chen Mo stared wide-eyed at the scene.

"No, if Queen Medusa's evolution had failed, why hasn't the system informed me that the mission failed?" After a brief moment of stunned silence, Chen Mo noticed something was wrong.

Sure enough.

A short while later.

A sound like an egg cracking open came from within the charred giant snake's body, and tiny cracks appeared across it.

As the snake body shattered, dazzling seven-colored light burst out from within.

When all the light had faded, a tiny snake formed of seven-colored radiance crawled out of the blackened corpse.

There was no Heaven and Earth Phenomenon whatsoever.

Queen Medusa had evolved successfully just like that.