Chapter 112: Subduing the Hydra Serpent!

"Ice Lion, are you a descendant of myth?"

The Hydra Serpent did not answer; it was still troubled by its own defeat.

Since its birth more than half a year ago, it had never encountered a rival.

Even against that Black Abyss Giant Horned Python, it was an even split!

Now it had actually lost to an Ice Lion that looked utterly ordinary but whose actual combat power was absurdly exaggerated?

Chen Mo shook his head, then said calmly:

"I am a newly risen creature of this realm of heaven and earth."

"But that is not important. What matters is that I defeated you."

"Submit to me, and I promise that one day I will lead you back to the Guixu of the West Sea, and make that place your territory."

"Furthermore, once my secret realm produces Tier-Three Divine Herbs, I will give priority to providing them to you."

Chen Mo attempted the first round of persuasion.

Creatures possessing mythological bloodlines might have some pride, and would not be so easy to subdue.

From the sea monster leader's account, Chen Mo learned that the Hydra Serpent had once lived in a secret realm deep in the ocean, only for that place to be eroded by the Black Abyss.

The Hydra Serpent had been forced to lead them away.

And coming here this time was because it sensed the possibility of other secret realms existing.

They wanted to conquer the secret realms here, then obtain Tier-Three Divine Herbs, advance to the King Realm, and fight their way back to the Guixu of the West Sea.

The Hydra Serpent's two greatest needs right now were first, Tier-Three Divine Herbs, and second, revenge.

Chen Mo chose to prescribe the right remedy for the illness.

Now two choices lay before the Hydra Serpent.

To die in obscurity, or to restore the glory of the Hydra lineage and return to the Guixu of the West Sea secret realm!?

"Roar!" (Lion King, I am willing to submit to you.) To Chen Mo's surprise, the Hydra Serpent agreed outright.

He had originally thought the Hydra Serpent would still need to weigh things over in its heart before it might agree.

He did not even need to use the sea monster chieftain's persuasion.

The Hydra Serpent was very clear-headed.

Could mythological bloodline be eaten?

Staying alive was the real truth!

Seeing their own god cleanly choose submission, the sea monster chieftain also breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Sea God would rather die than submit, they would naturally also choose to keep fighting, until the last drop of blood in their bodies was shed.

"Roar!"

With the Hydra Serpent's submission, all the sea folk also laid down their resistance.

Of course, there were not many sea folk left who still had the strength to resist.

Fortunately, most of the sea folk were only injured, not dead.

After realizing that the scales of victory had tipped completely to their side, Elsa had the extraordinary creatures of the Ice Lion Kingdom avoid killing the sea folk as much as possible.

These sea folk would very likely soon become part of the Ice Lion Kingdom as well.

"A wise choice."

"Then, let us form a contract!"

The Ice Void Sprite beside Chen Mo took out a beast hide scroll — the same 【Vassal Contract】 used with the sea monster race.

After confirming the contract was correct, the Hydra Serpent infused its ice-type spiritual power and completed the contract.

"How large is your territory?"

After completing the contract, Chen Mo asked.

The Hydra Serpent shook its head; it had never cared about things like territory size or vassal numbers.

Aside from the sea monster race, the unicorn dolphin race, and the killer whale race from Deep Sea City that had followed it from the very beginning.

The other vassals were merely underlings it had picked up along the way while searching for Divine Herbs.

"Then you must have found quite a few Divine Herbs in the ocean, right? I need Divine Herb seeds."

Chen Mo spoke up.

He planned to build an ocean farm to cultivate water-type Divine Herbs and spiritual plants.

Thereby cultivating a batch of water-type extraordinary creatures and human Awakeners. The Ice Lion Kingdom's military was too single-attribute right now.

Moreover, the abilities born from water-type extraordinary creatures or Awakeners had a high probability of being healing-type, which would still be very useful for the current Ice Lion Kingdom.

"Seeds? What seeds?"

The Hydra Serpent froze for a moment, its golden pupils unexpectedly showing a trace of a college student's innocence.

Seeing this, Chen Mo no longer held much hope for it; he figured that when this fellow ate Divine Herbs, it swallowed the leaves, branches, and roots all together.

Chen Mo's gaze turned to the sea monster leader Siren beside him, and he instructed: "From now on, any Divine Herbs and spiritual plants found in the ocean are to be handed over uniformly to the Ice Lion Kingdom for centralized cultivation."

"Understood, Your Majesty the Lion King."

During the past week, the Ice Lion King had not completely restricted their freedom.

The Siren sea monsters had visited the farms and pastures of Frost Crane City.

It was truly an eye-opener.

She had never imagined that Divine Herbs could actually be mass-planted, and through catalysis, could mature in just a few short months — simply unbelievable!

At the time, she had been thinking how wonderful it would be if the ocean kingdom could also mass-plant Divine Herbs like this; she never expected this wish to be realized so quickly.

Only the path to realization deviated greatly from what she had imagined...

"Alright, you all may go back!"

Before parting, Chen Mo handed several copies of the Ice Lion Code to the giant serpent Hydra.

"Roar?" (What is this?)

The giant serpent Hydra asked in confusion.

"The Ice Lion Code — regulations that the sea clans should henceforth follow."

After saying this, Chen Mo looked toward the siren chief.

"You still remember all the knowledge I taught you before, right?"

Over the past week and more, whenever Chen Mo had free time, he taught the siren chief Chinese and the Ice Lion Code.

Once it learned them, it was to promote them among the siren clan and the other sea vassal clans.

Under Chen Mo's personal instruction, the siren had already learned Chinese to a fair degree.

The siren discovered for the first time that its aptitude was astonishing — learning felt as though aided by heaven, and in a mere single week it had actually mastered such a complex language!

But when the Ice Lion King dropped the line "You're the worst student I've ever taught," it instantly extinguished the pride in its heart.

It also realized that the Ice Lion King must have used some special method or treasure to master a complex language in such a short time.

"I should… probably still remember it all?"

The siren chief said, not entirely certain, frantically recalling the relevant contents of the Ice Lion Code in its mind.

"Never mind — Bing Li, send a Treading Snow Fox to teach these sea clans!"

Seeing this, Chen Mo spoke up.

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Time flew by.

A week had passed since the Hydra behemoth and its vassal clans were subdued.

【Lying Flat Lion】 Day 23.

The Ice Lion Kingdom had now begun to enter stable development.

Whether in the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm or the various cities of the Ice Lion Kingdom, everything presented a thriving scene.

The Ice Lion Code was rapidly promoted, becoming the "law" that all living beings in the new era must obey.

The area of pastures and farms was also continuously expanding.

The spiritual plants and livestock produced by each city now not only met local demand, but there was even a large surplus that could be transported to the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm.

The number of extraordinary beings and Awakened was growing ever larger, and their strength ever greater.

Moreover, in this peaceful environment, many extraordinary beings had begun to reproduce.

The birth rate climbed rapidly.

Especially the Frost Crane clan.

After using the black-tech Peach Peach Mushroom, the Frost Crane clan, which originally had over 300 members, saw their numbers surge to over 1,000 in just one short month! Excluding some single cranes, each family had on average produced 10 little frost cranes!

(End of this chapter)