Another Him

Deep Sea, Serpent Island.

At noon, the blazing sun hung high. Yet on the vast Serpent Island, there was not the slightest trace of sunlight's warmth—only bone-piercing chill spread through every corner of the island.

Compared to the world at large, such a climate was clearly abnormal.

Yet for Serpent Island, it was a special climate that arrived every midsummer and lasted an entire season.

In the height of summer, beneath the scorching sun, bone-chilling cold blanketed Serpent Island, stimulating the bloodline growth of the countless juvenile Dark Serpents upon it.

This process had been passed down on Serpent Island since ancient times and was a cornerstone of the Dark Serpent Clan's inheritance.

Whenever this period arrived, this Serpent Island, which had endured for countless years, was almost always at its most heavily guarded.

The countless juvenile Dark Serpents whose bloodlines were growing were the hope for the continuation of the Dark Serpent Clan's legacy, protected under layer upon layer of tight security.

Over recent decades, due to the conflicts in the Outer Sea, the entire Dark Serpent Clan had become as vigilant as if facing a great enemy.

Even the Island Protection Array, which had not been fully activated for many years, had remained at nearly full operation throughout these recent decades.

Such circumstances had undoubtedly deeply affected every Dark Serpent, and even every person, living on Serpent Island.

Among them, those most deeply affected were clearly the outsiders at the very bottom of Serpent Island's food chain.

But for these outsiders, being trapped in the prison of Serpent Island was already misery beyond measure.

No matter how much worse it became, fate seemed hardly to care.

For Yan Ming, that seemed to be the case.

He had been trapped in this cage for so many years that even