"Everyone, all the information concerning the Nether Domain Calamity and the Moses Civilization is here. The instruments that have yet to be fully deciphered are on Friendship Island, where human experts are working on them. We Snake People have also sent some linguists and writing-system specialists."
"No matter what, we must prepare for the worst."
The current Chief Governor was named Teng Ran, the very Governor who had first made contact with humanity. A hundred years later, he had risen to the highest position in his civilization.
The higher he rose, the more he understood how society operated, and the plainly visible helplessness of his civilization.
The Snake People Civilization was not a particularly united civilization, and its system had enormous problems. Although it currently had a Supreme Governing Council, the Chief Governor's power was limited.
A large part of the reason was...
They possessed a set of Transcendent Remains!
Its name was-"Xiangyou"!
In fact, their entire green world, filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, was built upon Xiangyou's incomparably enormous corpse!
Those mountain ranges stretching for thousands of kilometers were Xiangyou's bones and scales!
Those winding underground rivers were Xiangyou's meridian channels.
The countless underground treasures had formed from Xiangyou's flesh and blood.
Other civilizations' legends also recorded this Divine Beast's might and extraordinary nature: "With a serpent's body and nine heads, it devoured countless people. Wherever it went, everything became a watery realm."
Legend had it that the water it spewed was more terrible than a flood, bitter and pungent, and fatal to drink. Thus, not even birds or beasts could live in such wetlands.
There were also other legends that called it the "Nine-Headed Snake," "Yamata no Orochi," and so on.
After all, the more legends there were about a Divine Beast, the greater its combat strength.