What I Eat, My Dog Eats

The Pillar Python was dozens of meters long, looking like a branchless trunk of emerald green.

Oddly enough, it did not lie down when resting. Instead, its lower body plunged straight into the ground while its upper body stood rigidly upright, like a rounded yet perfectly straight pillar.

Its jade-like scales gleamed with a cold, ghostly light beneath the sun.

Its head was raised high, oval in shape and slightly broad and flat on both sides, covered in protruding bony ridges that resembled an exoskeletal helmet.

At that moment, the cloudy film over its eyes gradually cleared, and it slowly opened a pair of lantern-sized vertical pupils. An eerie green light swirled within them, like two ghost flames that would never go out.

Its massive head slowly lowered, its icy gaze instantly locking onto the person below.

In an instant, its gaping maw opened, revealing four rows of gleaming fangs. Each fang was as thick as an adult's finger, terrifying enough to make one's hair stand on end.

The atmosphere immediately turned tense. Just as Xu Changqing thought it was about to attack, a deep male voice, startlingly human, suddenly rang out. "What are you looking at?"

Xu Changqing froze for a moment, then shot back, "So what if I'm looking at you?"

The Pillar Python said irritably, "Can't you see I'm sleeping?"

Xu Changqing inwardly let out a breath and hurriedly waved his hands in explanation. "Sorry, it's my first time in Beast Spirit Valley. I didn't know you were alive!"

Well, damn. He had thought he'd run into a fellow countryman.

Turns out he had worried for nothing.

Still, any spirit beast capable of speaking human language was no ordinary creature.

At that moment, Hu Bugui came galloping over on a camel. Before he even got close, his