Chapter 1170: The Green Giant Mountain in the Jungle, the Explorers

Thinking thus, the giant serpent retracted its body, slithering through the jungle toward the place where Blood Orchids grew.

Due to its increased strength, even as its body grew larger, its speed did not slow—it became faster.

A flash of green light shot through the jungle, and in the next instant, the green light vanished without a trace.

Throughout, all the small animals failed to detect its presence.

"Sss."

At the site where Blood Orchids grew, countless giant serpents dwelled.

Suddenly, all the serpents grew alert.

Some raised their bodies upright, gazing toward the distance.

In the next moment, a green-gold serpent appeared—hundreds of meters long, its scales gleaming with metallic cold light, radiating an utterly terrifying aura.

Even though serpents possessed little emotion, they now felt fear deep within, their bodies instinctively retreating.

Though they were enormous, with bodies dozens of meters long.

Compared to the green-gold giant serpent before them, they were nothing but tiny worms.

Now, they were like cats facing the king of the forest—the tiger.

To stay meant death.

The Blood Orchids were undoubtedly vital.

But life was even more important.

The giant serpents left reluctantly, leaving only the green-gold serpent behind.

"Smart of them!" The serpent's eyes flashed with icy light. "Unless necessary, I have no desire to kill my own kind."

Though serpents held no moral concepts and often devoured their own kind.

But it was no ordinary serpent—it was a serpent that had joined a chat group.

Having awakened wisdom, it was naturally different.

Even just to distinguish itself from its kind, it refused to be like those mindless, sluggish brethren.

Though its thoughts swirled endlessly, its movements remained swift.

Arriving close, it channelled true qi, uprooting each Blood Orchid and tossing them into the chat group's Shangcheng.

【Ding, you sold one Blood Orchid and earned fifty points.】

【Ding, you sold.....】

【Ding, you sold... and earned 600,000 points.】

Though in movies, Blood Orchids were scarce.

But in reality, they were plentiful.

On the mountain ridges, in the gorges, hidden Blood Orchids were found by the giant serpent and sold to the Shangcheng.

After selling all the Blood Orchids, its points surged.

It opened the chat group.

King of the Jungle: "If I want to keep my serpent form, which technique should I cultivate?"

Su Xiao: "Dragon God Art."

Hu Yifei: "No, won't the serpent transform into a dragon after cultivating Dragon God Art?"

King of the Jungle: "I don't want to change my race!"

The giant serpent still loved its own kind very much.

Moreover, it had lived for decades in its serpent form and had grown accustomed to it.

Zhang Taixuan: "This is simple. 【Dragon God Art / Modified Version】—cultivate this technique to retain your serpent form indefinitely, and your serpent body will gain terrifying enhancements, becoming immensely large. The technique has been uploaded; you can purchase it slowly."

Xia Chuan: "Did Taixuan Brother add the Law of Giant Beasts into it?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Correct."

Xia Chuan: "Then won't it one day grow larger than a planet?"

Zhang Taixuan: "As long as its cultivation base is sufficient, it could even become a giant serpent coiling around the world."

Zhang Taixuan: "As long as your cultivation base is sufficient, you can even become the great serpent that coils around the world."

Su Xiao: "Taixuan Brother, you're creating a monster. When it grows, won't it eat all humans?"

King of the Jungle: "I won't eat humans."

%裙/8【②{2*六【⑨|8~5_1>6)Zhang Taixuan: "Cultivating this technique involves absorbing the essence of sun and moon, the vital energy of heaven and earth—there's no need to eat anything."

Su Xiao: "Good. I was afraid one day the giant serpent would swallow Earth whole."

Zhang Taixuan: "Even if it wanted to, it couldn't. Earth's civilization is vital to the world—if a world-ending crisis arises, the Dao of Heaven will naturally intervene."

King of the Jungle: "What is the Dao of Heaven?"

Su Xiao: "The Dao of Heaven is..."

King of the Jungle: "I won't provoke him."

King of the Jungle: "I shouldn't provoke him."

The giant serpent purchased the Modified Version of Dragon God Art.

Of course, due to limited points, it could only afford up to the Divine Ability Realm.

But that was enough.

In this world where technology was not highly developed.

The Divine Ability Realm was an invincible existence.

After purchasing the technique, the giant serpent also bought several elixirs, swallowed them, and began to cultivate.

After buying the cultivation art, the giant snake selected some more elixirs, swallowed them, and began to cultivate.

Days passed, and the giant snake's body grew longer and longer.

A thousand meters, two thousand meters, ten thousand meters… two hundred li… five hundred li…

Its girth had gradually become like a towering green mountain rising from the jungle; from afar, no one would doubt it was a living thing.

"Crack!"

On this day, a sound appeared in the quiet forest.

Since this place became the giant snake's nest, all animals had moved away and dared not linger here.

Animals' senses were the most acute.

In their perception, the giant snake was far too dangerous—more terrifying than natural disasters.

But humans had no such perception.

The survey ship still arrived here as scheduled.

Yet compared to the original account, everyone was far luckier.

Because of the giant snake's presence, all other snakes had long since left; along their journey, they encountered no danger at all.

"Something's wrong, Captain—this place is too silent, like a dead zone!"

"Don't overreact—move out!"

Driven by profit, the group began moving forward again.

"Huh, look ahead—that mountain is so beautiful, bluish-golden. Could it be some rare mineral vein?"

Suddenly, someone whispered in astonishment.

The captain took out his telescope and examined it closely.

Suddenly, a sense of dread rose in his heart.

The mountain before him was too strange—its bluish-gold surface was divided into segments, each like a scale, each scale larger than a water vat, as if a colossal dragon lay sprawled upon the earth.