Today, Master of Heavenly Snakes-Unrivaled Across the Northwest!

[With that, the Heavenly Snake Venerable removed his Storage Ring and handed it to you, saying casually, "These are my lifetime savings. Consider them a welcoming gift, young friend."]

["What extravagant generosity!" You exchanged a glance with Queen Medusa beside you, each seeing the shock in the other's eyes.]

["Lord Yang possesses extraordinary talent and vision. He is one of the Northwest Continent's foremost Dou Zun experts. Little Chen, give it some thought. I shall take my leave."]

[Seeing this, Su Qian merely smiled without comment, then turned and left.]

[You pondered for a moment before turning to Medusa beside you. "Little Shasha, what do you think?"]

[Queen Medusa's slender brows knitted slightly as she considered it. "The Heavenly Snake Mansion is the Northwest's second-greatest power, with unfathomable foundations. Joining it would naturally bring you endless benefits. Why ask me?"]

[With that, Queen Medusa turned and walked toward Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy, swaying her waist.]

[You watched her retreating figure thoughtfully, thinking, That waist is positively bewitching. As expected of Her Majesty—she certainly knows how to sway better than an ordinary snake spirit...]

["Have you reached a decision, young friend?" the Heavenly Snake Venerable asked gently, anticipation on his face.]

["I agree, but I intend to travel to the Central Plains for experience someday. You mustn't stop me."]

[After a moment's consideration, you decided to try the path of joining the Heavenly Snake Mansion. This was only a simulation, after all; trying it would cost you nothing.]

["Excellent!" The Heavenly Snake Venerable smiled, delight shining in all three of his eyes.]

[In the fifth month, you bid farewell to Vice President Hu Gan and Great Elder Su Qian. You also said goodbye to Xun'er, giving her a little white jade snake and telling her a tragic love story between a human and a snake.]

["What happened to Bai Suzhen afterward?" Xun'er asked sadly, her eyes moist.]

["Her son rescued her. In the end, husband and wife were reunited and lived happily together." You handed Xun'er a handkerchief and wiped the tears from her eyes.]

[Xun'er smiled and stroked the white snake in her hands. "I understand. I'll take good care of this little snake. You needn't worry."]

[I want you to take care of me too, Mommy...]

[You thought this to yourself, knowing it would be difficult to live off this wealthy young woman. You could only hope the gift would remind Xun'er of you often, so that the next time you met, you would still have her powerful thigh to cling to.]

[In the sixth month, you brought Qing Lin, Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Medusa to the Heavenly Snake Empire.]

[This was the most prosperous region in the entire Northwest. Dou Ling experts were everywhere, while Dou Wang and Dou Emperor experts were hardly rare. Only Dou Zong experts could draw cries of astonishment. It stood several levels above the Jia Ma Empire.]

[In the ninth month, you refined all the earth fire lotus seeds and successfully broke through to the Dou Emperor realm.]

[The Heavenly Snake Venerable formally appointed you Holy Son of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, granting you authority over all matters of life and death and free access to its resources. The mansion erupted in uproar, with countless talented youths expressing their discontent.]

Among them, the loudest voice belonged to the Heavenly Snake Venerable's eldest son, the Heavenly Snake Emperor, who was hailed as the young Mansion Lord. He accused his father of acting unjustly—how could the Heavenly Snake Mansion be placed in an outsider's hands?

[The Heavenly Snake Venerable ignored him. So did you.]

Afterward, the Heavenly Snake Venerable took you to meet the Heavenly Snake Mansion's seven Dou Zong elders, known as the Heavenly Snake Seven Elders. Their great elder was a Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong expert of formidable strength, second only to the Mansion Lord.

The Mansion Lord introduced everyone in turn. All the elders stared at you with burning eyes, especially the Seventh Elder, who practically wanted to press herself against you. Her full, soft breasts nearly left you unable to breathe.

["Holy Son, could you start with me?" the Seventh Elder breathed sweetly, instinctively leaning toward you. Queen Medusa shoved her aside and said coldly, "I came first!"]

[The Seventh Elder's expression darkened as she examined Medusa's voluptuous figure. Damn it, her legs are even longer than mine. Those hips look perfect for bearing children, too. How did some wild snake get ahead of me?]

[In the second year, your cultivation reached Three-Star Dou Emperor, while your alchemy advanced by leaps and bounds. You could now refine peak sixth-grade pills, standing only one step away from the seventh rank.]

[During this time, all six elders of the Heavenly Snake Mansion aside from the great elder successfully evolved their bloodlines, their strength soaring. Three reached High-Rank Dou Zong, and three reached Mid-Rank Dou Zong...]

[As for Dou Wang and Dou Huang experts who evolved their bloodlines, their numbers were beyond counting.]

For a time, the Heavenly Snake Mansion flourished. The Holy Son's name spread throughout the Heavenly Snake Empire. In some remote regions, people even knew only the Holy Son and not the Mansion Lord...

[The Heavenly Snake Holy Son's name now resounded throughout the empire, shaking the world!]

[That same year, the fallen heart flame erupted, and Han Feng led a surprise attack on Jia Nan Academy. Vice President Hu Gan sent you a plea for help!]

["Gather our forces and reinforce Jia Nan Academy!" You swept out your hand. The Heavenly Snake Venerable personally opened a spatial passage and led a host of experts to Jia Nan!]

[Boom! Below Dou Zun, all were ants. Han Feng was instantly blasted to pieces, while the experts who had accompanied him scattered and fled. The Heavenly Snake Mansion's reinforcements immediately gave chase.]

[In no time at all, half the Black-Corner Region's factions had been razed. Countless powers, large and small, trembled in terror, closing their gates and sealing their mountains.]

[In the third year, you devoured Han Feng's sea heart flame, reached Six-Star Dou Emperor, and began striving toward the Seventh-Rank Alchemist realm.]

[In the second month, you became a Seventh-Rank Alchemist and refined a peak sixth-grade Emperor's Extreme Pill. One pill brought you to Seven-Star Dou Huang. You then sparred with the sect's elders, defeating three Dou Zong in succession before the fourth elder halted your advance with a draw.]

[The sect was shaken. Countless young disciples shouted the Holy Son's name, while numerous fifth- and sixth-rank magical beasts roared without cease, swearing to serve His Highness the Holy Son unto death.]

The Heavenly Snake Emperor went pale with fright and never mentioned injustice again. He departed for the Central Plains that very night, claiming he wished to visit his grandaunt living there.

[In the fourth year, you broke through to Dou Zong and became a peak Seventh-Rank Alchemist. You helped the great elder evolve his bloodline, allowing him to successfully break through to Dou Zun!]

[The Heavenly Snake Venerable stepped aside for a worthy successor and invited you to become the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master.]

You declined three times and yielded three times, but ultimately had no choice but to inherit the position, becoming the youngest Mansion Lord in the Heavenly Snake Mansion's history!

[The entire Northwest Continent erupted in uproar. Countless first-rate powers visited the Heavenly Snake Mansion, bringing congratulatory gifts to express their respect.]

[Two Dou Zun under one roof—with such strength, it was already no weaker than the Northwest's foremost sect, the Lion Nether Sect. The Heavenly Snake Mansion's rise was unstoppable!]

[In the fifth year, you drew on the Heavenly Snake Mansion's resources and constantly consumed pills, swiftly reaching Five-Star Dou Zong. You also studied the Poison Pill Method, believing that a Poison Pill should likewise count as a medicinal pill, merely one with demanding refinement conditions.]

Afterward, you prepared to heal the former Mansion Lord's lingering injuries from being wounded by the Lion Nether Sect's master. After some research, you decided to use a peak seventh-rank Life-Restoring Origin-Reversing Pill.

[This pill specifically treated hidden injuries and reversed damage to one's foundations. It could bring the dying back to life and had considerable efficacy even for Dou Zun experts.]

[Before long, the pill was completed. The Heavenly Snake Venerable took the Life-Restoring Origin-Reversing Pill, and all his injuries healed. The Northwest shook, and the Lion Nether Sect flew into a rage!]

[In the second month, Shi Tian, master of the Lion Nether Sect, demanded that you come to his sect bearing thorns upon your back to plead guilty. He declared that daring to refine a healing pill for the Heavenly Snake Venerable had offended him.]

[Only by coming to the Lion Nether Sect and swearing to serve it could you earn his forgiveness.]

[You nearly laughed in anger. After questioning the Heavenly Snake Venerable and learning that Shi Tian was merely a Three-Star Dou Zun, you secluded yourself in research. You improved the Life Devouring Pill's formula and developed the Life-Burning Pill, a peak seventh-rank pill.]

[It could consume the user's vitality to forcibly raise their cultivation, producing remarkable effects even for Dou Zun experts!]

[In the third month, you delivered the famous Anti-Lion Declaration at the Heavenly Snake Mansion, calling on the Northwest Continent's cultivators to unite against the Lion Nether Sect's oppression. Using your influence as a peak Seventh-Rank Alchemist, you allied with four other first-rate powers and jointly besieged the Lion Nether Sect!]

[In the sixth year, the war reached a stalemate. Fighting two opponents alone, Shi Tian suppressed both the Two-Star Dou Zun Heavenly Snake Venerable and the great elder after they took Life-Burning Pills. Though the Heavenly Snake Mansion held the advantage in mid-level combatants, it still could not decide the outcome.]

[At this point, your cultivation reached Nine-Star Dou Zong. You gathered every alchemist in the sect and decided to pool your efforts to refine an eighth-tier Ice-Fire Barrier-Breaking Pill!]

[You had created this formula yourself. Based on the sea heart flame's properties, it contained the power of ice and fire to temper the body. For you, it was an excellent breakthrough pill; for other Dou Zong experts, it was deadly poison.]

[In short, it was a special pill tailor-made for you!]

[In the seventh year, strange red-and-blue lightning descended over the heart of the Northwest Continent. The wondrous spectacle of ice and fire filling the heavens lingered above the Heavenly Snake Empire for months!]

[Then came astonishing news: Lin Chen, the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master, had broken through to Dou Zun. From that day onward, he reigned over the world, powerful enough to look down upon the Northwest!]

[In the eighth year, Shi Tian joined forces with his sect's great elder and three other first-rate faction masters at Peak Dou Zong. They challenged you to a decisive battle atop Thunderclap Mountain!]

[You calmly accepted. On the day of the battle, you went alone to face two Dou Zun and three Peak Dou Zong experts!]

["Have you lost your mind, brat? Everyone, attack! Kill him!" Shi Tian smiled sinisterly, his figure suddenly flashing forward as lionlike claws reached for you.]

[Behind him, the Lion Nether Sect's great elder and the three Peak Dou Zong experts attacked together, unleashing lethal blows toward you!]

["Insolence! Stand down!" A heaven-shaking Dragon-Elephant Roar thundered out. In an instant, it was as though the heavens collapsed and the earth caved in. Countless mountains shattered, and terrifying silver sound waves spread for a thousand miles!]

[Terror instantly appeared on the three Dou Zong sect masters' faces. Before they could react, their heads exploded into masses of yellow and white matter!]

["This..." Shi Tian's expression changed drastically, fear flashing in his eyes. Forcing himself to remain composed, he bellowed, "What are you afraid of? Such a powerful Dou Technique must only allow one strike! He's surely a spent arrow now. Seize this chance and kill him!"]

[Having said that, he was about to turn and flee when a streak of light shot past him—the Lion Nether Sect's great elder had already fled without a fight!]

["Damn it! How are you running faster than me?" Shi Tian roared. Then another Dragon-Elephant Roar rang out, followed by a heaven-cleaving blade like an asura's. Its edge chilled him to the bone, involuntarily reminding him of the days just after his birth...]

[Before long, Thunderclap Mountain collapsed, Shi Tian died, and the Lion Nether Sect was destroyed. The Heavenly Snake Mansion won an overwhelming victory!]

[Meanwhile, the name of Lin Chen, the Nethersea Demon Venerable, spread throughout the Northwest Continent. No rival remained within the region, and the Heavenly Snake Mansion's title as overlord was fully deserved!]

[In the ninth year, you united all the Northwest Continent's first-rate powers to establish the Heavenly Snake Alliance, formally unifying the continent. Its mighty reputation spread throughout the entire Dou Qi Continent!]

["A young man has recently risen to fame in the Northwest Continent. They say he reached Dou Zun and unified the Northwest while barely in his twenties..."]

[When the younger generations of the Central Plains' great powers heard of your deeds, their blood surged with excitement. They declared that they would travel to the Northwest to witness your peerless bearing.]

[In the tenth year, while you were meditating in seclusion, a spatial rift suddenly tore open above the Heavenly Snake Mansion. Two mysterious black-robed figures descended, demanding to see you by name.]

[Your expression grew grave. In a flash, you appeared in the sky and looked at the two figures, speaking with hostility. "The illustrious Ninth Heavenly Venerate of the Hall of Souls—what brings you to this remote backwater of the Northwest?"]

["Lin Chen, submit to the Hall of Souls and deliver one million souls each year. In return, we will ensure your Heavenly Snake Alliance's safety," the Ninth Heavenly Venerate said sinisterly, his expression chilling.]

["What a joke! Since ancient times, the Northwest has never had a sect master who slaughtered his own people. The Hall of Souls has gone too far!" You sneered, sweeping your sleeve and immediately activating the Heavenly Snake Grand Formation.]

["Disciples below Dou Zong, flee through the space wormhole immediately! Elders at Dou Zong and above, join me in repelling the enemy!"]

[You issued your command, knowing that today could hardly end well. Yet you were now the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master, leader of the Heavenly Snake Alliance, and the one who held the bull by the ears among the Northwest Continent's sects. How could you retreat?]

[You then swallowed a Life-Burning Pill, exhausting your vitality as your cultivation soared from Two-Star Dou Zun to Five-Star Dou Zun. Sublimating yourself to the utmost, you faced the Hall of Souls' two Heavenly Venerates!]

[Before long, the Heavenly Snake Mansion's disciples had evacuated. Holding the Ninth Heavenly Venerate's severed head, you watched the might of a Half-Saint descend from the heavens. You smiled freely and laughed aloud. "Through autumns spent pursuing the Way, I never strove with worldly men for common gain. "What fear is there when a Half-Saint descends? I shall cleave the heavens and depart!"]

[Then you burned the last of your blood essence, becoming an incomplete Asura blade that slashed toward the saint!]

[This simulation has ended-]

[You may choose one of the following three items.]

[One: Your peak Seventh-Rank Alchemist experience.]

[Two: Azure Flame Asura Blade cultivation experience (major accomplishment realm).]

[Three: The Ninth Heavenly Venerate's head, its eyes still open in death.]