The little Giant Serpent swayed his head as he continued explaining the benefits of becoming a temporary worker at Riverside Mountain.
As he talked, he instinctively turned around, only to discover that the Daoist beside him had vanished.
The little Giant Serpent froze for a moment, then curled his lip and sneered. "Idiot!"
"I only bothered because you were human and could ride clouds. You had some prospects."
"I meant to give you a great opportunity, but you wouldn't appreciate it."
"You couldn't seize an opportunity delivered right to your doorstep. This is all you'll ever amount to!"
The little Giant Serpent spat, swayed his body, and hummed a tune as he first went to Route Runners Cave to clock in and hand over a portion of his earnings.
Then, still humming, he went to find a matchmaker.
He wanted to marry his seventy-second concubine, expand his Lineage, and add his brick and tile to the growth and prosperity of spirit monsters.
His enormous body slithered along, accidentally rolling over several stone lions playing with an embroidered ball.
Once he had passed, the little stone lions struggled out of the dirt, baring their teeth. "For today's humiliation, we'll repay you a hundred, a thousand times over!"
"When we guard the gates for important people, we'll never let you hateful snake spirits set half a foot inside."
"No, we'll turn away anything with your snake bloodline."
"Damn it, these spirit monsters are absolute bastards."
After cursing for a while, the little stone lions stopped playing with their embroidered ball and began eating dirt to grow bigger, striving to start guarding gates soon so they could make trouble for other spirit monsters.
The Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust roiled, heading straight for Seven Maidens Mountain, where Qian Xiuyue lived.
Years