At that same moment.
Blackwater Town, A Little Shop.
Shopkeeper Yun was unwrapping his "gift snake."
The little box condensed from Radiant Sun Divine Power rested on the desk, a faint glow lying still within it as wisps of chaos aura curled around it.
Not long after being knocked back into his original form, Ye Hui had passed out.
Whether that white game piece had knocked him senseless, or the sudden reality of his "grand transformation into a living snake" had frightened his divine soul clean out of his body, no one knew.
His tiny snake body lay loosely coiled in the center of a soft cloud brocade cushion. His pitch-black scales shimmered with a dark iridescence, and the tip of his tail rested lightly beside his head. He looked exceedingly well-behaved.
Of course, whether he would remain well-behaved once he woke was another matter.
Yun Qing lowered his gaze to the little snake coiled in the box, his double pupils still sparkling.
When he had first read accounts of Chaos Ancient Beasts, he had decided that once he broke through to Immortal Venerable, he would go to the Chaos Sea and find an Ancient Beast to contract with.
Born before heaven and earth had separated, raised amid the chaos between seas of worlds, they could swallow stars and devour moons at adulthood, traversing all the heavens.
How impressive it would be to ride one out.
Unfortunately, he had later heard that the Chaos Sea was on the verge of running dry, and the ancient exotic beasts were either slumbering or long since dead. He had felt quite disappointed at the time.
Who would have thought the mountain path would turn and reveal a new vista, letting him pick up a juvenile Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python?
Ah, praise Brother Huang.
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