She Wang smiled faintly. "Back then, I was only in the Embryonic Breath Realm, on the verge of breaking through to the Dan Origin Realm. But my aptitude was merely second-rate, my family was poor, and my temperament back then... was also very withdrawn."
"I had few friends and no brothers to speak of. If I wanted cultivation resources, I could only risk my own life... That time, I took a bounty mission to find medicinal herbs, so I joined a mercenary squad and came to the Star Radiance Mountain Range..."
"But after we found the herbs..."
She Wang's gaze deepened. He pointed upward with a finger and said, "It was on the mountaintop up there."
"The other members of that mercenary squad suddenly turned their murderous hands on me. Clearly, they didn't want to give me a share of the spoils... Naturally, I didn't want to die back then, but if I stayed up there and fought them, I was outnumbered, not to mention the disparity in strength. How could I possibly survive?!"
"After being gravely wounded, I had no choice left. I shut my eyes and plunged straight off the cliff."
She Wang smiled faintly, but his eyes held a cruel, venomous malice.
"When I jumped down back then... by sheer coincidence, I landed right on the Snake Ancestor. Although that cushioned my fall and kept me alive, it was also the same as delivering myself straight to the Snake Ancestor. My only fate should have been to become food in its mouth... But the Snake Ancestor had just finished shedding its skin and was severely depleted. It actually didn't eat me..."
"That time, the skin the Snake Ancestor had just shed was from its most crucial, king-level molt, but its strength had plummeted as a result. It