Beast Taming: the More the Better

Chapter 664: Chapter 304: The Scent of Spring Herbs! The Shock of the Snake Saint’s Soul!_4

The gigantic python’s body was a full twenty meters long, its inverted triangular eyes filled with an indescribable ferocity.

This was the Iron Thorn Peak, a somewhat famous Pet Beast.

However, Rong Mang’s Iron Thorn Peak before him clearly seemed a bit different.

Typically, the Iron Thorn Peak is a Metal Element poisonous snake-type Pet Beast, primarily focused on the Metal Element. Conversely, its Poison Type traits—which one might expect to be potent for a King of Venomous Snakes—are comparatively weaker.

However, for Rong Mang’s creature, judging by the powerful corrosive saliva flowing from its maw, its venom was also likely extremely potent.

"Haha, Iron Head, my primary battle Pet Beast! An Iron Thorn Peak that possesses both Metal and Poison Elements!"

Su Ping nodded. With his experience as a Breeder, he suspected this creature was quite remarkable.

After all, the Wood Element and Poison Type have a significant derivative relationship. However, the association between the Metal Element and Poison Type is relatively low. He just didn’t know how his elder cousin planned to cultivate it.

He didn’t probe further. With a thought, Xiao Qing’s figure also appeared by his side.

Su Ping riding Xiao Qing looked fairly normal, especially since Xiao Qing’s body had now grown to the size of a calf, a full size larger than an average fierce tiger. Yet, Rong Mang, perched where the Iron Thorn Peak’s neck flared out, grasping the iron thorns that resembled a King Cobra’s spread hood, presented an indescribably comical sight as it slithered swiftly along the ground.

「Blue Snake Forest.」

Just from the name, one could tell what kind of place it was.

In the Five Saints Secret Realms, there were many traces of artificially created environments, and Su Ping observed them closely as he traveled.

The Heart of Earth might need to accommodate many land-based Pet Beasts, Su Ping considered. When the time comes, how they are settled will be issues I need to focus on.

And as for Snake Pets, since I’ve already decided, I naturally won’t forget about them.

Even the Blackwater Mysterious Snake and the Cloud-Patterned Tree Python have already been settled. I’m just waiting for their place to be constructed so I can personally go build a bond with them and then illuminate their entries in the Catalog.

This was a lush forest.

Though dense, it was not disordered.

There was even a large clearing that separated sections of trees.

The trees and plants cultivated within had many notable characteristics.

The trees were uniformly verdant, not very tall, but their winding shapes resembled snakes.

Moreover, some parts of their trunks genuinely resembled the fine scales of pythons.

Su Ping certainly knew what this was.

A Commander Level resource, the ’Serpent Pattern Tree’! It’s the mother plant of another Commander Level resource, the ’Snake Blood Fruit.’

It’s one of the favorite Poison System Resources for serpentine Pet Beasts.

As a mother tree that grows in areas teeming with serpentine Pet Beasts, its value is extremely high.

And yet, such immensely valuable trees...

...a quick glance around this forest revealed over a thousand of them?

There were also some other sparsely planted trees, all Ordinary Level or Elite Level resources, along with a few other similar types.

The fruits these trees bore served as food for the not overly numerous serpentine Pet Beasts of Blue Snake Forest. Perhaps for this reason, there weren’t any particularly massive serpentine Pet Beasts in this part of the forest.

And this was just the periphery. He could sense that deeper within the Blue Bamboo Forest, the aura grew even richer. Clearly, as an artificially established habitat for venomous snake Pet Beasts, more Advanced Level resources were growing there, serving as lairs for these Snake Pets.

The value of this Blue Bamboo Forest was simply immeasurable!

Even Su Ping couldn’t help his pupils contracting at the sight.

He was beginning to understand the true strength and heritage of the Rong Family.

Just this expanse of Blue Bamboo Forest alone, in terms of sheer value, might rival his Heart of Myriad Spirits, perhaps even surpass it.

Only families with centuries of history could amass such a wealth of resources.

And this was just one location within the entire Five Saints Secret Realms.

What a pity... If only this forest, along with the entire Five Saints Secret Realms, could be moved to my own territory...

Su Ping blinked, reigning in that utterly absurd greed, and refocused his attention on the various Poison Type Pet Beasts in the forest.

As expected, likely due to the Rong Family insignia Rong Mang wore and perhaps their familiar scent, the various serpents—whether coiled on Serpent Pattern Trees or leisurely swaying in the forest—merely glanced at Su Ping and Rong Mang without any intent to attack. Instead, they actively cleared a path.

Blue Snake Forest wasn’t very large. After entering its territory and proceeding for about a kilometer, the trees suddenly parted, revealing a peculiar boundary before them.

It was a turquoise river, seemingly cutting through the entire Blue Snake Forest.

Many serpentine Pet Beasts were playing along both banks of the turquoise river, some occasionally tumbling into the water.

If one could ignore the serpents’ spine-chilling forms, the scene might even appear rather leisurely and carefree, wouldn’t it?

But Su Ping and Rong Mang’s gazes slowly passed over these scenes, fixing on an outlet where a tributary of the turquoise river flowed out.

An immensely large, cyan snake statue stood in the deepest part of Blue Snake Forest. Its maw was wide open, revealing a forked tongue and fangs within. From the depths of its mouth, a blue-green stream, fed by the tributary before it, flowed into the main channel of the river.

An indescribable sense of sanctity emanated from this cyan snake statue.

As for the so-called Five Saints’ Spirits, Su Ping mused, they are likely similar to the true spirits left behind in the Sword King’s Secret Realm that belonged to my family.