Little Giant Serpent had lived a sweet little life these past years.
Back in the Drowning Dao Lower Court, it used to perform a snake dance with Third Brother: Third Brother played the flute, and it emerged from a bamboo basket, swaying its body.
That drew tips here and there from hard-pressed martial artists and New-Method Cultivators.
Life had been bitter then. Third Brother took the lion's share, leaving it only scraps and leftovers.
But that bitter life had changed thirty years ago:
Thirty years ago, the Drowning Dao Lower Court had grown lively. The appearance of [Sun Flower Spirits] had made the Lower Court bustling and prosperous.
Then many ordinary people had wanted to come to the Lower Court to make a living.
After that, it had parted ways with Third Brother and found a few spirit monster brothers to study route running together.
After plenty of effort, relying on their shared identity as spirit monsters, it had made connections with the spirit monsters of Riverside Mountain.
Now it ran the route six times every month.
Over a month, it earned several hundred thousand Green Fly Coins.
Before, it would never even have dared dream of that kind of money.
Now, all it had to do was lead people along the route, and the money came easily.
How could that not delight it?
This time, just as before, it hummed a little tune as it slithered along the cliffs of Riverside Mountain.
"Once this run is over, I'll go back and marry Little White and Little Green, making them my seventy-second concubines."
"Then I'll work hard out in the world while my concubines worship the Great Sun at home, gather sunlight, and produce some offspring."
"As long as the Lower Court's Inspection Office doesn't catch me, this little life