The Tagor Desert was dry year-round, with scarcely any greenery.
This place was ill-suited to the Snake-People Tribe's survival and growth, but over all these years, a tacit understanding between the Jia Ma Empire and the other two empires had kept the Snake-People Tribe trapped in the desert.
The Snake-People Tribe was not human, after all, and could hardly integrate with humanity. Every successive Queen Medusa had sought a habitat where her people could survive and multiply, and several wars had erupted as a result.
Peak Dou Emperor experts were rare, but even the weakest of the empires, the Jia Ma Empire, had both Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan. The other empires even had Dou Zong experts.
Overall, although the Snake-People Tribe was formidable, it was only a tribe and still no match for the surrounding empires. Meanwhile, none of the major or minor powers within those empires had the resolve or incentive to exterminate the Snake-People Tribe. After all, that godforsaken desert where even birds wouldn't shit had few resources worth fighting over, and Queen Medusa's strength was there for all to see.
Thus, as long as the Snake-People Tribe stayed quietly in the desert, everyone could coexist in peace.
Following his memories of the original novel, Fan Tian used Zi Yan's precise treasure-hunting talent to quickly pinpoint the location of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
However, just as he had expected, Medusa had already taken the heavenly flame.
Naturally, Fan Tian had his own reasons for coming here. In the original novel, Yao Chen had deduced that Medusa had obtained the heavenly flame from a Seven-Colored Snake Scale she had shed, then taken Xiao Yan to the Snake-People Tribe's temple.
"So this is Medusa's Seven-Colored Snake Scale?"
Fan Tian held the scale and examined it closely. It was