Silk Entanglement: The Crystal Serpent Snared

Huo Hai had painstakingly prepared this swarm of insects. It looked enormous, but there were actually very few insects in it. They were spread far apart, and all were flying insects with relatively large wings.

Large wings meant very little meat on their bodies. A bird might have felt somewhat satisfied after eating them, but for a snake at least as thick as an arm, they barely amounted to anything.

No, it did feel something—it felt even hungrier. After all the effort it took to eat those insects, the White-Pattern Crystal Serpent only grew more ravenous. It scanned its surroundings, desperate to find more food. Its hunger made it increasingly restless. At the same time, it still glanced back now and then.

Just then, the White-Pattern Crystal Serpent suddenly spotted another swarm of insects hovering nearby. This swarm looked larger than the last. Excited, it rushed over.

Huo Hai narrowed his eyes as he secretly watched the White-Pattern Crystal Serpent. It relies on its eyes to see? I wonder how its heat sensing works. The snakes in this world really are strange. Many creatures on the Heavenly Spirit Continent overturned everything Huo Hai had previously known about living things. Discovering that this snake had excellent eyesight no longer surprised him much.

And so he released swarm after swarm of insects, never letting the White-Pattern Crystal Serpent eat its fill. In fact, the serpent's frantic efforts to catch the insects flying overhead burned through what little food it had just consumed.

After all that time, it had eaten very little and only grown hungrier. Gradually, the White-Pattern Crystal Serpent looked back at the World-Spirit Tree less and less often, while moving farther and farther away from it.

The White-Pattern Crystal Serpent's wariness slowly faded away. Meanwhile, it drew ever closer to