"Teacher, you traveled the continent before, didn't you? Have you ever heard... anything about the Snake-People Tribe? The branch in Tagor, specifically."
Xiao Yan was finally scared.
To be fair, powerful enemies didn't scare him. If he truly couldn't beat them, he would only think about how to take them down with him.
Humiliation didn't scare him either. He would only think about how to grow stronger, then repay every last bit of shame they had dealt him.
But... but this fucking Snake-People Tribe business genuinely scared him.
What the hell was this?
"The Snake-People of Tagor were once extremely powerful. Only after their territory was seized and most of their experts died were they forced to relocate here."
"But honestly, even I have never heard of the Snake-People Tribe having such... peculiar tastes."
Old Yao looked utterly stunned too.
Yao Lao: What haven't I seen?
(Crossed out)
I really haven't seen this before.
He could only feel grateful that he hadn't visited Tagor back in the day.
After all, not to blow his own trumpet, but he had been something of a pretty boy in his youth...
"Then... then what do we do now?"
Xiao Yan felt completely at a loss.
"Your second brother and that fellow named Luo Bu were right. Finding Heavenly Flames is important, but with your current fighting strength, you wouldn't be able to escape if you encountered a stronger Snake-Person."
"Focus on cultivating for now. Didn't you gather plenty of herbs in the Magical Beast Mountain Range a while ago? I'll sort them out and refine some pills for you. That should speed things up a little."
Yao Lao stroked his beard, regarding Xiao Yan with an odd expression.
If the rumors were true, and Little Yanzi was captured by the Snake-People Tribe...
*Hiss.