*Tagre desert*
YaoYan and dieba were moving towards the wretched ship . YaoYan can see dieba condition, she was tired, thirsty and hungry as well . They have been moving for a long time without any stop knowing dieba she wouldn't complain due to her timid nature and plus she didn't wanna be a burden to him.
If his memories serve correctly he remembers that it's taken as a resting place for every mercenary group or for any travelling merchants nobody knows how such a huge ship came here or what happened but it became a resting place for everyone cause it is only the place that provide shade in this vast desert an only resting spot.
The reason why he is rushing here is because this place is far from the tribe and near the border so snake people can't make a move and it's also a main route for traveling merchants if snake people try to move towards here it will alert the strong people of Jia ma empire as they will think that snake people want to monopolize the route. And Medusa don't want that she really doesn't want any attention for now as no one knows about Medusa twin sister and her only weakness.
As Yao Yan lost in thought feels a strong pull from his sleeves turning around to see dieba holding his sleeve seeing her condition he feels guilty but what can he do there was no oasis in the way or any place where they can stop and take a rest he only knows this place it wasn't far he can see the wretched ship from here although they weren't far but dieba can't move any longer .
She soon fainted in his arms he sighs and pick her up in princess carry and start to move towards their destination. Using the forbidden technique really took a toll on her body plus the environment of desert and they were moving without stopping for a moment . Plus right now the sun was on its peak so it was quite normal for her to faint if not due to dou huang cultivation level she might have fainted long ago.
Suddenly Yao Yan feels a dou wang powerhouse aura as he mutters three dou wang. After awakening his perception ability has increased hundred fold even if someone was hiding he can still feel their aura very easily. Just like right now he can easily tell how many people are there he can easily sense everything. Seeing dieba still unconscious in his arms he smiles slightly and mutters under his breath it will be very easy now just as he said that a dragon rushed from his sleeve towards the location of dou wangs he sensed earlier.
Yao Yan feels glad that dieba is unconscious or it will ne really trouble some if she interfere and objects in killing them soon he reached inside the wretched ship .
Yao Yan puts down dieba in the corner and carefully and turns around to see bodies lying everywhere . He watched all of them without any pity and started to collect their storage rings. He soon notices the huge three cage covered with cloth but there was no noise he reached and pulled them down only to see snake people inside.
As soon as he pulls them down they all started to beg please don't kill us we will not make any noise they were afraid panicked.
Yao Yan can see fear in their eyes after all they were all young snake people very young one at that their bodies were all bruised clearly indicating they were beaten very badly soon a girl in purple catch his eye she was panicked and afraid same as the rest of them however she was very different then them although she was afraid but her eyes keep observing the dead bodies she notices all of the humans dead and the man who was standing had a same tail as them she felt relived. Soon their eyes met and she quickly lowers her eyes.
Yao Yan who was also watching her sees her small action and went towards her he asks in a cold voice what's your name.
YYue mei... She replied little fearfully . Hearing this Yao Yan confirmed his speculation she was indeed Yue mei the future leader of one of the eight tribes but right now she wasn't that seductive and prideful Yue mei but an innocent girl. Now he understands why she hates humans so much in the future. He never knew she had such a tragic past experience with humans.
The commotion had already made dieba to wake up hearing pleading voices of snake people she first saw many dead humans lying down. She gasped and puts her hand on her mouth feeling terrified . She slowly looks towards the pleading voices and saw Yao Yan standing in front of a cage. She stands up and rushed towards Yao Yan.
Yao Yan feeling dieba rushing towards him did nothing soon she reaches him and before she could say or ask anything he hands her a water bottle. Dieba caught off guard doesn't understand what happened for a bit before coming to her senses. She ask what happened here did you kill them?
Yao Yan just looks at her then slowly said I was trying to help them. They were human traffickers see they were going to sale snake people as slaves pointing towards the snake people who had quite down now after seeing the dead bodies of human traffickers.
Yao Yan who was originally going to swallow all the snake people souls stoped as he feels although he is getting stronger however he was being influenced to absorb more of the souls he didn't want to become a ruthless killing machine so he decided he won't absorb any souls from now on until he is able to control this power instead of being controlled.
Dieba freed all the snake people while Yao Yan goes in a silent corner to check his gains as he was searching the rings he found many pills techniques food and water and many gold coins they were truly rich but what truly caught his eye was a torn map yes the same remnants which originally belonged to hai bo doung so this is where he got it from.
Yao Yan smirks after seeing and confirming it was indeed the map remnants map of demon lotus flame.
Oh Xiao Yan let's see how you will become fire emperor in the future I am going to take all the chances that belongs to you and this is just a first step to that. Hehehe .