Unscrupulous

The Giant Serpent was deeply puzzled.

What kind of enemy could make its subjects so panicked?

They kept jumping and dancing before it, frantically pointing toward the ground above the cave.

From their gestures, the Giant Serpent roughly understood—it seemed the crisis came from some oddly shaped creatures among the Blood Food before it.

Dinosaur People and Primal dinosaurs—the Giant Serpent had seen them many times before.

After all, in its many awakenings, these had been part of its meals.

But never before had its subjects been so terrified.

From the looks of it, they even wanted it to help them?

Had these strange-looking creatures actually grown strong enough that its own subjects could no longer resist?

What had these poor little things been doing all these years?

They seemed to lack the courage and ability of their ancestors.

Poor and foolish little ones.

Oh well, it might as well go out and take a look!

The Giant Serpent was a bit lazy, but for the sake of its subjects serving it for millions of years, it decided to stir itself for the first time in ages.

If its subjects truly couldn't handle the crisis outside, wouldn't it directly lose this comfortable life of getting plenty of food without moving?

Even if just for its own sake, the Giant Serpent reluctantly shifted its body.

The underground cavern was spacious enough, but the exit was very small.

With the Giant Serpent's current massive size, it simply couldn't get out smoothly.

But it didn't care about that anymore. It directly rammed its head into the rock wall on one side of the cave.

Its scales were like knives, densely packed, glinting coldly, standing up like thousands of sharp blades.

Using these scales to cut through the rock and push its body forward, it moved through the underground as easily as a fish through water.

Relying on sensing the vibrations on the ground, the Giant Serpent quickly found the source of the greatest tremors.

Then, following that sensation, it charged straight up from underground.

"BOOM!!!"

Like a whale leaping out of the water, like a high-explosive bomb detonating.

The moment the Giant Serpent burst out of the ground, it caused the earth for hundreds of meters around to collapse and explode, kicking up a huge cloud of dust.

Its appearance was so abrupt that countless nearby Serpent People and Dinosaur People were all sent flying.

At this moment, the long-absent Giant Serpent had appeared on the surface.

But the surface was now night, moonlight spilling down. Breathing the dry air above ground, so different from the dampness of the cave, the Giant Serpent felt a moment of discomfort.

But the discomfort passed quickly.

Looking around at everything, the Giant Serpent was stunned for a moment.

Ten-meter-tall Dinosaur People, and they were on fire?

What kind of creatures were these?

And those Primal dinosaurs, some nearly fifty meters long, also left the Giant Serpent somewhat astonished.

How were they so different from the Blood Food it saw in its cave?

No wonder its subjects had come to beg for help.

The Giant Serpent understood the reason, but only paused for a moment.

The Dinosaur People were big, but the Giant Serpent was bigger.

The part of its body above ground was only one-fifth of its total length.

But even that one-fifth was nearly a hundred meters tall.

A serpent, after all, wasn't humanoid; it naturally had an advantage in body length.

But its overall thickness was just so-so.

The Giant Serpent's body was about thirty meters in diameter, and its total length barely exceeded five hundred meters.

Still, that size made it look enormous—at least swallowing a fifty-meter-long dinosaur in one bite was no problem, though it might be a bit of a tight fit.

The moment the Giant Serpent appeared, all the Serpent People and Serpent monsters present erupted in cheers.

Roars and excited expressions overflowed, just like when the Dinosaur People had first seen Kangqiao.

Their previously flagging morale surged high, full of vitality.

Perhaps infected by the cheers of the Serpent People, the Giant Serpent, satisfied, opened its mouth and let out a strange hiss toward the sky.

The hiss carried a low-frequency tremolo, giving it an almost hypnotic quality.

But just as the Giant Serpent finished its hiss, it suddenly heard a tremendous roar from across the great river in the distance under the night sky.

That was the sound of Kangqiao's footsteps.

Because the Dinosaur People had stopped tangling with the Serpent People and ceased using their flame abilities, the thick steam and mist that had risen from the great river under the night sky slowly began to dissipate.

The moment Kangqiao stepped closer.

His figure, as if bursting through clouds and suddenly revealing itself, instantly silenced every sound on both banks.

In that instant, time seemed to freeze, and the air fell into an eerie stillness.

The Dinosaur People and the Serpent People all silently retreated behind their respective gods, steadily moving farther away, leaving only the two giant beast gods on opposite sides of the river, staring at each other.

The Giant Serpent was dumbfounded.

This was the first time it had ever seen another giant beast, and also the first time it had seen a creature as terrifying as Kangqiao.

It knew even less about this world than Kangqiao did.

After all, it was lazy and never went out, right?

But the Giant Serpent had its own pride—from ancient times to the present, it had never encountered a true enemy.

Some giant beasts looked terrifying in size, but most couldn't withstand its fearsome venomous fangs.

So, the first time it saw Kangqiao, although its heart trembled inexplicably for a moment, a calm and serious light quickly flickered in its eyes.

The ancient blood-soaked memories of battle were awakened. At this moment, the Giant Serpent's expression was no longer lazy; it was preparing for combat.

Neither side made the first move.

The reason Kangqiao didn't strike was that he was charging up.

This was evident from the fiery red glow spreading from his tail.

The Giant Serpent was the same.

Its entire body crawled out from underground, its tail coiled, its head raised high, its eyes locked onto Kangqiao.

Inside its chest and abdomen, the venom sac had already begun to churn out vast clouds of poison gas, faint black smoke seeping from its nostrils.

The moment Kangqiao saw the Giant Serpent, he was also dead serious.

Because this was the first time he'd seen such a huge Spicy Stick. Its flat, cobra-like head and pitch-black body looked extremely venomous just by sight.

Fortunately, Kangqiao figured his molten-lava body should be highly resistant to poison.

At a time like this, he couldn't show weakness.

The beast and the serpent stared at each other, the air growing incredibly tense in that instant.

"Fuck it!"

Suddenly, Kangqiao threw honor aside. The red glow that had only spread halfway up his back completed in an instant, and he opened his mouth to blast a massive fiery red beam straight at the Giant Serpent across the river.

Too bad, it wasn't Atomic Breath.

The moment he spat out the red fire beam, Kangqiao inwardly regretted it.

Yes, Kangqiao currently couldn't manage a white-hot ray, since there wasn't enough magma, lava, or nuclear energy around to charge him up. Radiant Heat Ray was decent enough.

But it was still enough.

Because the moment Kangqiao caught the Giant Serpent off guard and fired the Radiant Heat Ray first, the Giant Serpent, caught unprepared, could only hastily spew out a thick, ink-black cylindrical poison mist ray to clash with Kangqiao's beam.

The result was predictable. The poison mist ignited and was scattered the moment it touched the Radiant Heat Ray, and then the entire Giant Serpent was blasted in the face by the beam.

This was the price of lacking education!

Blasted in the face by the Radiant Heat Ray, the Giant Serpent's entire Spicy Stick body was knocked to the ground.

The searing pain on its face and upper body made it let out a sharp shriek.

But there was no time for the Spicy Stick to react. Kangqiao, the terrifying giant beast, actually started running. With a single step, he crossed the river, one short arm clamping down on the Giant Serpent's vital spot, while the other fist relentlessly pounded the serpent's head.

As he pounded the Giant Serpent, Kangqiao muttered to himself.

Was he too strong?

Or was this Giant Serpent too weak?

Heh, all that size for nothing! If you shouldn't be beaten, who should?

PS: Thanks to book friend Ji Xiyue for the 1500 starting point coin tip. Thank you.