The blood-red snake made its way directly to the outside of Qingshan Village.
It tracked the scent to this place, a unique smell that only it could detect, emitted after the death of a Demon Shadow Blood Snake. This scent could only be traced by another of its kind.
The one who killed the Demon Sound Blood Snake had been here.
The little blood-red snake needed to confirm the exact location, to see if the person was still in the area or had already left.
The snake’s speed was not slow, and it quickly avoided everyone to arrive near Wang Sheng’s house.
This was the place!
The blood-colored snake was certain, the scent didn’t extend any further; there were a few spots in the village with this smell, but it was strongest here.
It soon spotted a person—it was him!
It was time to return to its master to report.
But before it could turn around, it found that it couldn’t move, as if something had fixed it in place.
Then it heard a voice that sounded very young.
“Blood-red snake, seems I’m quite fated with snakes lately!”
He emphasized heavily on the word “fated.”
The speaker was, of course, Wang Sheng.
Just moments ago, Wang Sheng had sensed a spying presence.
With his Divine Thought, peeping from hundreds of meters away would not escape his notice, let alone when it was this close.
So he easily detected that something was observing him.
Then with a thought, he instantly became aware of a blood-red snake lurking in the shadows.
It hadn’t been long since he had killed a snake, and now to be spied upon by another so soon, he had every reason to be suspicious.
“Yue had just mentioned the lack of a medium, and here one comes.”
He hadn’t forgotten about killing the Demon Shadow Blood Snake. Although he was unaware of the methods its master would use to find him, he kept an eye on the matter after returning and had also sought out Yue.
Unfortunately, Yue wasn’t capable of everything.
The Demon Shadow Blood Snake itself wasn’t targeting Wang Sheng or anyone in the village; it was merely caught by him, and its entanglements with everyone were not deep.
If the Valley Master of Stargazing Valley were here, perhaps they could have found the culprit, but Yue’s cultivation was not profound enough. Just these clues weren’t enough to locate the master of the Demon Sound Blood Snake.
Even if there were some calculations, they could not be one hundred percent accurate; it was all down to luck.
Yue had said that if they could capture the Demon Shadow Blood Snake, they might be able to use it to trace back to its master.
Unfortunately, Wang Sheng had been impulsive at the time and had simply killed the Demon Shadow Blood Snake.
So the clue was lost.
But that might not be the case now.
This blood-colored little snake might not be as strong as the previous Demon Shadow Blood Snake, but it was definitely not an ordinary snake.
Wang Sheng immediately grabbed the blood-colored snake and headed to Yue’s house.
The blood-colored snake, possessing a not low spiritual intelligence, knew it had encountered a tough challenge and struggled desperately to escape.
Unfortunately, the force exerted by Wang Sheng made it feel as if it were pinned down by a mountain; with its strength, it couldn’t budge at all.
Soon, Wang Sheng arrived at Yue’s house. Yue had sensed the commotion early and came out to meet him even before he knocked.
“Lord Wang Sheng!”
Wang Sheng didn’t waste time. He said, “Yue, I need your help with something. Can you use this snake to find its master?”
“Lord Wang Sheng, is this… related to that Demon Shadow Blood Snake you mentioned last time?”
“Unsure, but I have my suspicions!”
It was nonsensical for someone to spy on him without any purpose.
“As long as it truly has a master, there should be no issue in finding it, of course, unless the snake’s master is a Great Grandmaster.”
“Try it then!”
Wang Sheng passed the blood-colored snake directly to Yue.
Yue was a Grandmaster himself and naturally managed to pin down the snake with ease.
“Please, wait a moment!”
Yue returned to his room, and it took about fifteen minutes before he came out.
“Lord Wang Sheng, I have not failed you; I’ve successfully located this little snake’s master’s position and even inferred the identity—a Snake Demon.”
“Snake Demon, is that a well-known name?”
Wang Sheng didn’t know much about the powerhouses of this world, only aware of the nine Great Grandmasters.
“In Miao territory, he’s a very renowned Grandmaster. There are numerous venomous snakes and insects in Miao; hence, many Martial Artists use various methods to command poisonous creatures. Snake Demon is one such famous powerful Grandmaster who commands snakes. I just didn’t expect the Demon Shadow Blood Snake to have originated like this; it’s the first I’ve heard of such a thing.”
Yue learned of the Demon Shadow Blood Snake’s origin from Wang Sheng.
“That’s normal. If others’ secret weapons were known to you easily, that would be the real issue. It’s just strange that a Grandmaster from Miao has come to Shuzhou… You and Xing too, King Yong Nian as well, what is it about Shuzhou that attracts you all?”
Yue also shook his head: “Not sure, but it is indeed strange for the Snake Demon to come to Shuzhou. Although Miao has a vast amount of venomous creatures, resources are also rich; there are many Martial Artists’ families with influence in Miao. Normally, the Snake Demon rarely leaves Miao territory.”
Something seemed to brush through Wang Sheng’s mind.
Many resources in Miao?
“Yue, how would you rate the resources in Shuzhou now?”
Yue was taken aback, then said, “Plentiful, very plentiful, even somewhat abnormally so. Within a hundred li of this area, not to mention the appearance of a Medicine King, there are so many Spiritual Medicines; the resources for cultivation are exceptionally abundant.”
“Then would you say this is the situation in Shuzhou, or the entire Great Zhou?”
The proliferation of Spiritual Medicines was known to both Wang Sheng and Qin Yuan. They hadn’t given it much thought before, because it didn’t seem like a bad thing, so they subconsciously assumed it was the situation across Great Zhou.