Strange Creatures
Song Wen turned to look at He Su, frowned, and said in a somewhat cold voice.
"Manager He, the current situation is quite different from what you reported to the sect."
He Su was somewhat at a loss, "This... this..."
Song Wen turned and walked out of the snake enclosure. "Let's try a different snake enclosure and select a few more Azure Jade Snake."
"Junior Brother Wu, there's no need to try. He wasn't telling us the truth," Zhou Siyi suddenly said.
She stared intently at He Su and continued speaking.
"Tell me what you've been hiding. There's no need to hide it anymore. I already know that the Beast Essence Pill is absolutely effective against the Azure Jade Snake."
Faced with Zhou Siyi's questioning, He Su seemed flustered and stammered for a long time without uttering a single word.
Song Wen gave Zhou Siyi a strange look.
Considering her contradictory behavior when accepting the mission, Song Wen was certain that this woman knew something.
Song Wen said, "Senior Sister Zhou, since Steward He is unwilling to speak, let's return to the sect and report everything that happened here to the sect truthfully. Our mission will then be complete."
As he spoke, Song Wen's figure floated into the air, and a flying sword appeared beneath his feet. He was about to ride the sword away.
There must be some secrets hidden in this Spirit-Nurturing Workshop.
Moreover, Zhou Siyi knew some of these secrets.
But Song Wen had no interest in the secrets of the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop; he only wanted to return to his sect as soon as possible.
Song Wen wanted to leave, but Zhou Siyi wouldn't allow it.
"Junior Brother Wu, wait a moment. It seems someone is deliberately falsifying the mission to deceive the sect. Now that we're here, we should naturally find out everything in the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop before returning to the sect to report back."
He Su looked completely lost, unsure of how to respond, as if caught in the middle, torn between two options.
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out.
"Why are you two elders of Pill Peak making things difficult for a Qi Refining Stage disciple?"
Before he could finish speaking, a figure flew out of the water and landed beside He Su.
The newcomer was a male cultivator who appeared to be around forty years old. His skin was somewhat pale, as if he had never seen the light of day.
A hint of melancholy crept into his eyes, as if he had been troubled by a problem for a long time.
"My name is Liu Jiang, an elder in charge of the Pill Peak of the Beast Taming Sect Pill Peak. You two look unfamiliar, so you must be newly promoted honorary elders."
"My name is Wu Sheng. I greet Elder Liu. This lady beside me is Senior Sister Zhou. We are indeed newly promoted honorary elders," Song Wen replied, cupping his fists in greeting.
Unlike Song Wen's polite demeanor, Zhou Siyi directly questioned him.
"Since you are an elder in charge of Pill Peak, you must be proficient in the art of Alchemy. Why then do you need to seek help from the sect and send the two of us here?"
"The message I sent back to the sect was requesting the dispatch of one steward elder, not two newly promoted honorary elders," Liu Jiang replied.
Upon hearing this, Song Wen roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.
It seems that Liu Jiang encountered a problem and sought help from the Beast Taming Sect, requesting that they send an elder to handle it.
However, for some unknown reason, when Pill Peak issued the mission, he did not reveal the real mission details, but instead claimed that there was a problem with the reproduction of the Azure Jade Snake.
Finally, the task was assigned to Wei Ding, but he refused to come and forcibly pushed the task onto Song Wen and Zhou Siyi.
After Song Wen and his companion arrived at the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop, Liu Jiang looked down on Song Wen and tried to send them away.
Zhou Siyi knew some of the inside stories of the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop and refused to leave, so Liu Jiang showed up to meet her.
Zhou Siyi said, "Elder Liu, since Junior Brother Wu and I are already here, why don't you tell us about the real mission? What if we can solve it?"
Liu Jiang remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking.
"Alright, come with me. But what you are about to see is a sect secret, and you must not reveal a single word of it to anyone."
Liu Jiang activated her protective spiritual power and jumped into the lake.
Zhou Siyi followed closely behind.
After hesitating for a moment, Song Wen finally jumped into the lake.
After diving more than 20 meters, a hole at the bottom of the water came into view for the three of them.
At the cave entrance, there was an invisible barrier that kept the lake water outside, but Song Wen and his two companions easily passed through the entrance and entered the cave.
The passageway inside the cave is very smooth, clearly carved out by human hands.
After walking several dozen meters along the passageway, a spacious underground hall, several acres in size, suddenly appeared before us.
At the top of the underground hall, there is a glowing sphere that illuminates the entire hall.
On the floor of the hall, there are hundreds of pools, each about three zhang square.
Liu Jiang pointed to one of the pools, "The real problem that needs to be solved is the creatures in those pools."
Upon hearing Liu Jiang's words, Zhou Siyi seemed unable to contain her eagerness and quickly walked to the edge of the pool.
The scene before her eyes widened in shock, and a look of astonishment appeared on her face.
Curious, Song Wen quickly followed, and then an expression of Song Wen appeared on his face.
In the pool, a strange creature with a human body and a snake's tail floated.
The creature's entire body was covered in snake scales; its upper body resembled a woman, and its lower body was a snake's tail.
The Man-Snake was about ten feet long, with the human body only taking up three feet and the rest being the snake's tail.
His eyes were vertical pupils. When he saw Song Wen and the other person standing by the pool, he opened his mouth and extended a blood-red snake tongue.
When Song Wen first saw Him, he thought he had encountered some kind of High Antiquity legendary being.
He immediately realized that this thing could not possibly be some High Antiquity being.
His strength was too weak, only at the Qi Refining Level One.
Moreover, He was not in good condition, giving the impression of being very weak.
"What the hell is this thing?" Song Wen muttered to himself.
He looked up and saw similar creatures in other pools, both male and female, and each creature was different in size; some were children, and some were adults.
Zhou Siyi's eyes gleamed with excitement, as if she had seen something extraordinary.
She turned her head and looked at Liu Jiang.
Elder Liu, what are these?
"They are beings born from the hybrid of humans and Azure Jade Snake," Liu Jiang said.
"Can a human and a snake interbreed?" Song Wen asked in surprise.
Liu Jiang, who had been looking melancholy, suddenly became excited when the topic came up, even revealing a proud to the point of madness.
"Humans and snakes are two species, and they cannot normally combine. I took out an undeveloped human embryo and fused it with Azure Jade Snake embryo. After tens of thousands of attempts, I finally obtained Man-Snake hybrid."
"The fact that humans and snakes can merge into one, transforming into a completely new creature, truly shows that the mysteries of life are full of endless possibilities."
Upon hearing this, Song Wen was somewhat shocked.
The way Liu Jiang prepared it is simply unbelievable.
Countless pregnant women have fallen victim to his ruthless actions in pursuit of the Man-Snake he so desperately sought.
As Song Wen's understanding of the Cultivation World deepened, he gradually realized that there was no distinction between good and evil between the righteous path and the demonic path. One side was truly evil, while the other was hypocritically good.
But what is the purpose of the Beast Taming Sect in cultivating these Man-Snake?
These Man-Snake creatures were very weak, and Song Wen couldn't discern anything particularly unusual about them. Could it be, as Liu Jiang said, that they were merely there to explore the mysteries of life?