Her Majesty's Exclusive Slave

A calm summer night.

The moonlight was cool as water, and the twinkling stars kept the night from sleeping.

Somewhere in the desert stood a tavern built upon a sheer cliff.

The night wind swept past as a black shadow slipped in through the tavern window.

Faint moans echoed softly through the room.

As the shadow entered, the middle-aged fat man seated in a chair, dressed in ragged clothes with a face full of flesh, shoved the Snake-Woman on top of him away and said with slight displeasure, "Must the great Ice Emperor come in at a time like this?"

As he spoke, he waved his hand and had the Snake-Woman leave the room.

Once the door closed, Hai Bo Dong ignored him and said indifferently, "This mission can be canceled."

Hai Bo Dong took out the portrait of the Snake-Woman from his Storage Ring and tore it apart.

The middle-aged fat man straightened his clothes. Hai Bo Dong's abrupt arrival had scared him so badly that he had gone soft down there, leaving him rather disgruntled. Hearing this, he said mockingly:

"The famed Ice Emperor can fail too? But you clearly promised to bring that Snake-Woman to me."

"But you never said this mission was related to Queen Medusa, nor that it involved another Dou Emperor," Hai Bo Dong said calmly.

"Queen Medusa!" The middle-aged fat man was startled. "How is that possible?"

"I saw it with my own eyes. Queen Medusa actually left the royal palace for her sake. How could it be false?"

"What about the other Dou Emperor?"

"I don't know. There is no such person in the Jia Ma Empire. He should be an outsider."

Silence fell for a while.

Hai Bo Dong glanced at the middle-aged fat man, turned, and prepared to leave.

The middle-aged fat man suddenly said, "Since the Ice Emperor has voluntarily abandoned the mission, the remaining commission will be deducted according to the rules."

Hai Bo Dong paused, then said, "Mm. I understand the rules."

With that, he darted out through the window. At the same moment, as Hai Bo Dong leaped away, a sharp crystal shard flew toward the middle-aged fat man.

As the middle-aged fat man's head fell to the floor, Hai Bo Dong's voice rang out:

"I told you last time that if you dared speak to me like that again, I would twist off your head and use it as a piss pot. Those are the rules I follow."

Moments later, a scream shattered the stillness of the night.

"The boss is dead! Murder!"

"Have you heard? Her Majesty brought back a naked human?"

"Really? Why would Her Majesty bring a human back?"

"I heard from a friend who took part in the capture that the human saved the traitor several times and even wounded Chief Mo Bas. The Queen brought him back to be her slave."

"He wounded Chief Mo Bas? Doesn't that make him a Dou Wang? Making a Dou Wang expert into her slave—Her Majesty is mighty!"

"Bullshit. My brother is one of Her Majesty's personal guards. He told me himself that the human is a Dou Emperor expert. Not only that, Her Majesty even brought him into the royal palace."

"Gasp."

Chen Mo had no idea that the moment he arrived among the Snake-People Clan, he had already caused a tremendous uproar.

Queen Medusa arranged for him to stay in a crude room, then hurriedly left while pulling Die along with her.

Chen Mo forcibly suppressed the injuries within his body and looked around at his surroundings.

There was a wooden bed, a table, a wooden stool, and an oil lamp on the table. Other than that, there was nothing.

Chen Mo sighed. It seemed she truly regarded him as a slave.

Creak.

At that moment, the door was pushed open, and two beautiful Snake-Women slowly walked inside.

Stopping before Chen Mo, one of the Snake-Women took a wooden tub from her Storage Ring, poured in a large basin of water, then added a heap of strange medicinal solutions before saying:

"Her Majesty had us prepare this medicinal bath for you. It can heal the injuries on your body."

The other Snake-Woman handed Chen Mo a Storage Ring and said in a soft, sultry voice:

"Her Majesty asked me to give this to you. It contains clothes for humans like you, as well as some food. From now on, you are Her Majesty's exclusive slave. Once your injuries have healed, you must go serve the Queen."

After saying that, neither Snake-Woman lingered. They left the room, leaving Chen Mo standing there in a daze.

Only after hearing the door close and the discussions outside drift in through it did Chen Mo come back to his senses.

"That human is so handsome!"

"I think so too. And he has a particularly captivating aura about him."

"Ahhh, you feel that too? Me too!"

Chen Mo: Σ()

Being handsome was also a mistake.

Boys really had to protect themselves when they were outside.

Narcissism aside, Chen Mo knew that this was probably thanks to the top-tier charm he had obtained earlier.

Chen Mo did not dwell on it. He slipped the Storage Ring onto his middle finger, promptly stripped himself naked, removed the cloth bandages on his back, and stepped into the wooden tub, which came up to his waist.

The liquid in the tub was green. As Chen Mo submerged his entire body, streams of warm, gentle energy flowed in through countless pores, quietly circulating within him.

Wherever the energy passed, his damaged meridians, severe internal injuries, and external wounds slowly began to heal.

"Ah, comfortable."

Chen Mo let out a pleased moan, then summoned his status panel.

Name: Chen Mo

Race: Human

Cultivation: 3-star Dou Master

Host Level: lv1 (81/100)

Bound Goddess: Die, Favorability (79). At 100 Favorability, you may become cultivation partners.

Cultivation Art: Supreme Primordial Chaos Art

Skills: Kunpeng Wings (Upgradeable), Cloud Roaming Steps, Mystic Thunder Palm, Swordfall of Nine Heavens

Bloodline: Ordinary

Favorability Coin: 36

Physique: Qiankun Sword Body (Upgradeable)

Charm: Transcendent Aura

Without much thought, Chen Mo directly spent 30 Favorability Coins to advance the Qiankun Sword Body to the major mastery stage.

In an instant, Chen Mo discovered that his understanding of the sword had improved greatly.

At major mastery, the Qiankun Sword Body could condense a Sword Heart and control swords with qi.

Chen Mo hurriedly retrieved the Low-Grade Spirit Flying Sword from his inventory. Its name was Tian Yuan.

According to the system's description.

Spirit artifacts such as flying swords were divided into four ranks: Mortal, Spirit, Saint, and Divine. Each rank was further divided into low, middle, and high grades.

The higher the grade, the greater the boost to one's strength. High-grade flying swords could even give birth to an Artifact Spirit and fight alongside their master.

With the Qiankun Sword Body, Chen Mo immediately mastered and refined it. After controlling Tian Yuan to fly around the room for a while, he stored it within his body.

Spirit artifacts above the Mortal grade could be stored inside one's body.

After that.

Chen Mo checked his inventory as usual.

1st-grade Alchemy Skill, Incense Stick's Worth of Enlightenment Time x7, 1st-grade medicinal pill Desire Pill, Medicine Saint Pill Codex, Youth Preservation Pill, Accompanying Amethyst Source, Mystic High-Level Dou Skill—Senluo Death Seal.

Chen Mo first retrieved the 1st-grade Alchemy Skill.

As a vast amount of memories flooded into his mind.

Chen Mo mastered all the experience of a 1st-grade alchemist, including pill-refining techniques and fire control.

In other words, he was now already a 1st-grade alchemist.