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Glug glug...
In the bottomless depths of the pool.
A giant turtle and a large snake, about six or seven zhang in length and as thick as a bucket, stood facing each other.
Both creatures, unlike ordinary animals, were making noises, as if they were communicating.
If there were those who could understand, they would know that the turtle was instructing the snake.
"In today's world, humanity is flourishing, and we demons are being suppressed. Originally, we had many ways to cultivate, but they've all been severed by mankind. Now, if we demons wish to succeed, there's only one way... to eat humans!"
The Old Tortoise taught patiently.
The big snake, 'Yibai', listened with great interest.
"Eating humans sounds simple, but in this age of human prosperity, it's not so easy. Once you harm humans, how could they let you off? One false move, and it's all over."
"That's why even the successful Mountain Lords, despite their myriad abilities, only dare to hide in the deep forests, luring humans with Ghost Servants, and while the practiced Mountain Demons may transform a thousand ways and harvest vital energies, they do not dare to take human lives."
"But these are things only capable demons dare do. You, Royal Serpent, even though you are of dragon kind, your cultivation is still shallow. You must not harbor any thoughts of harming humans!"
The Old Tortoise spoke earnestly and gravely, fearing that Yibai might entertain some unworthy notions.
"I understand, I understand. I'll just go eat some small fish and shrimp nearby."
Yibai maneuvered his snake body, shooting away like an arrow released from a bow, leaving the area.
He shuttled about the bottom of the pool.
Soon, he found a boulder covered with algae and coiled himself upon it.
Yibai raised his serpent head, his vertical pupils looking up at the sky as he became lost in memories.
He was not a creature of this world.
He was a transmigrator!
In his previous life, he had been human, but due to an accident a month ago, he traversed from Blue Star to this world and became a Royal Serpent.
Royal Serpent is just another term for a big snake.
Initially, when he had just transmigrated, he was quite excited, after all, according to legend, a serpent could become a Jiao after five hundred years, and with a millennium of practice turn into a dragon.
How could he not be thrilled to become a dragon of myth?
But as he came to understand this world, he became bewildered.
In this world, as the Old Tortoise had said, the way of humans was thriving, demons were despised like rats in the streets, taunted and driven away, making cultivation extremely difficult.
After searching for many methods, he finally found the only way that might allow him to become a Jiao, to turn into a dragon.
That was...
To eat humans!
There seemed to be some sort of mysterious power contained within the human body that could greatly accelerate a demon's cultivation.
"Eat humans..."
"I was originally human myself, how could I possibly eat humans? So, a month ago, I was almost trapped in a dire situation, but for me now, it seems, it is no longer a checkmate."
Yibai reminisced about the events from a month ago, and he couldn't help but become lost in thought.
But as it turned out.
A cornered rabbit will still bite.
A cornered dog will still jump over a wall.
A cornered snake will...
He transmigrated once more!
Without any warning, Yibai's entire snake body disappeared from its spot.
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The next moment, Yibai appeared in the midst of a mountain forest.
Yibai coiled his serpentine body, scanning the surroundings, and feeling reassured that there was no danger around, he relaxed.
This was the world he had traveled to through transmigration!
The fact that he was able to transmigrate a second time dated back to half a month ago.
A half month ago, he had been distressed by the dead end he found himself in and had rashly left the deep pool where he lived.
And then...
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Then he encountered an old bald donkey, and Yibai could never forget the feeling of his entire body being uncontrollably drawn when the old bald donkey lightly summoned his Alms Bowl.
It was the first time in his two lifetimes that he truly understood the meaning of "to be the fish on the chopping block."
Just as the old bald donkey was about to make a move on him, he unexpectedly discovered that he actually had a golden finger, which was the ability to travel to another world, commonly referred to as a second pass!
His golden finger gave no warning or omen, whenever a thought struck his mind, he could travel through.
The situation was critical at the time, and he dared not stay, so he traveled straight through.
When he first arrived in this world, he knew nothing, but after half a month of understanding, he got to know this world.
This world is a very eerie world. It is said that it used to be a normal urban world, but at some unknown time, a Red Moon descended.
Most of the humans in this world turned into some kind of 'monsters'.
During the day, these monsters imitate the behavior they had in life as humans, but at night, they reveal their true nature, searching everywhere for the surviving humans to hunt down.
Yibai calls this world 'Red Moon'.
"This world just might be the key to unraveling my dead end!"
Yibai had a plan in mind.
In the Immortal Cultivation Realm, humanity was flourishing, cutting off the demons' path to cultivation, leaving risky human consumption as the only option for cultivation.
But consuming humans was too great a risk.
However...
What about this world?
The monsters here are just like humans!
Yibai had roughly understood that the reason demons could bolster their cultivation by consuming humans was because human blood and essence were greatly beneficial to demons.
And the monsters in this world also possessed blood and essence, even stronger than that of ordinary humans!
In other words, he could rely on eating these monsters to cultivate, to transform into Jiao or dragons!
"I hadn't figured it out before, but now that I have everything clear, I can start hunting monsters. I really want to see how much my cultivation can improve from eating one monster!"
A cold light flickered in Yibai's vertical pupils, and a dangerous aura began to permeate the air.
He quickly twisted his serpentine head, fixing his gaze in one direction.
In that direction lay an old human city, now occupied by monsters, known as 'Jin Town'.
Among the monsters, there were some who posed a danger to him.
But those were higher-ranking monsters. To his knowledge, the monsters were ranked, with fifth order being the highest and the first order being the lowest.
Within Jin Town, many high-ranking monsters sent chills down his spine.
However, he wasn't much afraid of the lower-level monsters found on the outskirts in the small villages.
So his first choice of targets were the villages on the outskirts of Jin Town.
Yibai twisted his serpentine body, quickly heading towards Jin Town.
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Before long.
Yibai had already reached the edge of Jin Town, his serpentine body leaving behind a trail of marks, neither deep nor shallow, on the earthen road.
He lifted his snake head to look, and at the edge of town, he could vaguely make out the trace of some villages.
According to Yibai's observations, Jin Town was not a wealthy city; apart from the city center, many places resembled villages.
His first target to hunt.
Starting with the villages.
When it came to low-level monsters, that is, first-order monsters, there were more of them in these kinds of small villages.
"This place will do."
Yibai chose the nearest village and made his way to a small creek nearby, doing his best to hide his serpentine body.
Those cold pupils stared fixedly in front of him.
Under his gaze, faint sounds of conversation could be heard coming from the village ahead.
According to Yibai's observation, these monsters, during the day, would imitate the behaviors of humans before death.
There were quite a few children in the village; which child from the village doesn't like playing in the creek?
Yibai planned to lie in wait here, ready for the prey to come...