Snake Princess

Journey to the West World!

West Niuhe Continent, Seven Absolutes Mountain!

The mountain range was beautiful, winding and twisting. Looking down from high above, white clouds wrapped around the peaks like a gigantic dragon sleeping soundly amid the mist. Before the mountain stood a stone stele carved with two lines of red characters: The mountain path stretches eight hundred li; since ancient times, few have traveled it.

The stele had stood for five hundred years. Though battered by wind and sun, it bore no trace of time and was Seven Absolutes Mountain's best-known landmark.

The Seven Absolutes Mountain range truly did stretch for eight hundred li, but "few have traveled it since ancient times" had become a thing of the distant past, all because Seven Absolutes City, where humans and demons lived together, stood upon the mountain.

Five hundred years ago, Duke claimed the mountain as his domain and demonstrated his iron hand. The king of the Vermilion Purple Kingdom at the time honored him as the kingdom's Divine Protector, offering gold, silver, and treasures every year in exchange for peace.

Back then, Seven Absolutes Mountain was nearly devoid of human traces. Demon clouds pressed down overhead every day, making it a forbidden land feared by all. However, everything began to change after the Red-Scaled Python Duke kept took human form.

No one knew what species the Red-Scaled Python was. It clearly possessed no bloodline of ancient beasts, yet it was far larger than ordinary pythons, and its cultivation talent was utterly abysmal, making transformation exceedingly difficult. Duke had gone to great lengths, force-feeding it rare treasures, miraculous fruits, immortal pills, and spiritual medicines until it finally assumed human form.

Perhaps because she had often listened to Duke's ramblings, the woman the giant python became perfectly matched his tastes. She