Are You Telling Me What to Do?

Yan Lin stared in astonishment at the timid girl. He felt that today was his lucky day.

Running into an alchemist after leaving home was one thing, but he had also encountered a little girl selling "Exotic Pupils."

Yan Lin could not help wondering whether he had been blessed by the luck gods today, to run into people with traits he wanted to copy one after another.

"Could she be Qing Lin?"

Once his astonishment subsided, his intelligence took over. Yan Lin studied the girl with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and the more he looked at her, the more she resembled someone he knew.

The girl appeared to be around his age and wore an ordinary pale green dress. She was petite, yet her development was surprisingly mature.

She was the very definition of slender branches bearing abundant fruit.

The young girl looked rather immature, but her exquisite, adorable oval face was as beautiful and moving as a porcelain doll's. Yet her panicked appearance, like that of a frightened little rabbit, made people pity her.

Looking at her appearance, then considering her physique, age, gender, and the place where she had appeared, Yan Lin instinctively thought of the girl despised and abandoned by both Snake People and humans.

After all, in the Tagor Desert, Yan Lin did not believe there would be two people possessing the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils at the same time. He thought that possibility was even lower than the chance that the girl before him was not Qing Lin.

The Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were the number one Exotic Pupils on the Dou Qi Continent!

According to the original timeline, Qing Lin possessed these Exotic Pupils and, in less than ten years, rose from someone who was not even a Dou Zhe—a complete weakling—to the level of a Dou Zun powerhouse.

That alone showed how powerful the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were.

They were also the nemesis of all snake-type magical beasts. Aside from a very small number of serpent magical beasts possessing pure Ancient Bloodlines, the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could control them all.

Although this eye technique was more suited to dealing with snake-type magical beasts and could not control humans or other magical beasts, it could draw out their souls and seize control of their bodies. It could also make people hallucinate and kill them by surprise.

Once the eye technique was mastered, it could even create its own space within the eyes, allowing controlled puppets to be stored in that eye technique space.

However, within the eye technique space, these puppets would steadily weaken. That was because the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils would continuously absorb and devour their power before feeding it back to their host.

It was precisely because the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were so absurdly powerful that they were called the greatest Exotic Pupils in the world...

Whether she is Qing Lin or not, I'm taking the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. No one can stop me!

Yan Lin's gaze burned with intense possessiveness as he looked at the trait panel above the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils girl's head.

He knew how terrifying the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were, and precisely because he knew, Yan Lin wanted them even more.

Previously, he had been unable to leave the Snake People Clan's territory. Otherwise, he would have gone looking for Qing Lin long ago. Now, it seemed that heaven had delivered her to him of its own accord, and Yan Lin naturally would not let her go.

If he could obtain the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, they would be of enormous help to his future cultivation.

To say nothing else, the fact that the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could control powerful snake-type magical beasts and use them to feed back cultivation alone was enough to tempt Yan Lin.

He could grow stronger without cultivating, simply by controlling puppets. Who would not be tempted by that?

"Let's go."

Yan Lin called out to Yin Yue and stepped forward. Although Yin Yue and the other Medusa guards did not understand his intentions, they did not dare ask and silently followed after him.

"Saint King!"

"Your Majesty Saint King!"

As Yan Lin and his group stepped forward to block their path, the Snake People squad escorting the captives stopped as well. When they saw that Yan Lin was the one being protected by Medusa's guards, the Snake People immediately bowed respectfully.

After Yan Lin gave a faint nod, the Da Dou Shi leader at the head of the Snake People squad finally swayed his snake tail and slithered forward.

Under Yan Lin's gaze, the bald leader raised his right hand and placed it over his heart. After lowering his head and bowing slightly, he respectfully asked, "Your Majesty Saint King, may I ask why you have blocked our path?"

Yan Lin pointed directly at the girl at the very back of the captives. "Her. I'm taking her."

The girl he pointed at immediately paled, her body trembling. She was clearly more timid than the other captured women.

When the bald leader followed Yan Lin's finger and saw the girl, his fierce face also creased with worry.

After hesitating slightly, he said to Yan Lin, "Your Majesty Saint King, I can give you anyone else, but you cannot take her."

Yan Lin frowned, his tone turning slightly cold. "Why?"

Seeing Yan Lin's expression darken, the bald leader did not dare offend this Saint King of outrageously high status and hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty Saint King, she carries the filthy bloodline born from one of our people and a deceitful human."

"She is an ominous woman. She will bring harmful consequences to Your Majesty Saint King and even the entire clan. You must never keep her by your side. She will bring you harm."

"Once we escort the other captives back to the tribe, we will drive her out. Our Snake People Clan will absolutely never accept such a filthy bloodline."

The bald leader's disgust toward the girl in green was plain to see.

It was not just him. The other Snake People all looked at the beautiful girl in green with the same revulsion.

Children born of Snake People and humans were usually regarded as cursed, inauspicious beings by both humans and Snake People.

Neither humans nor Snake People would accept those with such filthy bloodlines.

Even though Snake People were lustful by nature, they still felt disgust toward the bloodline born from Snake People and humans, as though they had seen dog shit.

Had they not already brought her into the tribe and still needed to deal with the captives and hand over the alchemist first, the bald Da Dou Shi Snake Person would have driven the girl in green out of the Snake People tribe long ago.

Even Yin Yue regarded her as a bringer of misfortune and chimed in to persuade Yan Lin, "Saint King, he is right. You cannot take in this girl. She is an ominous person."

Yan Lin could not help but sneer inwardly.

Ominous?

Then I'm a red-haired freak.

They actually want to let such a treasure go?

What a bunch of idiots!

Yan Lin scoffed at the stubborn thinking of Yin Yue and the other Snake People. He had no intention of listening to them.

He did not know how lucky he had been to encounter such a treasure. There was no way he would simply give her up.

Not even if the Emperor himself came would he agree. He said so!

"Say no more. I'm taking her!"

Yan Lin spoke in an unquestionable tone. His resolute gaze seemed to tell the bald leader: I am informing you, not discussing this with you.

The bald leader immediately looked troubled. Though he was stronger than Yan Lin, in the strictly hierarchical Snake People Clan, he absolutely did not dare offend a superior, much less defy Yan Lin.

Yet his traditional beliefs prevented him from accepting the girl in green remaining among the Snake People. Helplessly, he turned to Yin Yue with a pleading look.

Understanding his meaning, Yin Yue hesitated briefly. Her lips moved, and in the end, she still tried to persuade him. "Your Majesty Saint King, you truly cannot take her in. If you do, she will bring misfortune upon you and the clan."

Yan Lin narrowed his eyes and cast Yin Yue a cold sideways glance. "Are you telling me what to do?"

Though he possessed only the strength of a Dou Master, under the pressure released by his Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python, Yin Yue—also a Da Dou Shi—instantly felt her body and mind kneel beneath Yan Lin's bloodline suppression.

"This subordinate would not dare."