Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 595: Chapter 460: Ten Thousand Snakes Cave

Humans are creatures who remember hunger but not the pain of being hit.

This is a compliment!

Because those who remember only pain and not hunger have been mostly tamed, just like the snake horde driven by Hee Zhen!

The Black Serpents have been driven by Hee Zhen and his father to fight against enemies since birth, and after defeating them, they are heartlessly driven into the bamboo forest where the Moon Bears reside to be devoured by the giant bears.

In the brief back and forth, from the over eight hundred Black Serpents that survived the battle, only a little over seven hundred remain.

Yet even so, Hee Zhen still plans to exploit them.

At the far end of the left side of the Moon Lake Secret Realm is a treacherous place referred to by Hee Qiang and his son as the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave. Why is it considered a perilous place? Because, taken literally, it means that many, many snakes inhabit this place.

Black Serpents.

These Black Serpents are kindred to those driven by Hee Zhen, and Hee Zhen drives the remaining Black Serpents here to feed the recently hatched Black Serpents to the now egg-laying great black serpents, allowing him to enter and retrieve the newly laid eggs.

A very bizarre approach.

Driving the young Black Serpents, hatched from eggs produced three years ago, into the Snake Cave, and while the Black Serpents inside are preying on these young snakes, he sneaks in to steal their eggs.

This seemingly unscientific activity occurs right within the Moon Lake Secret Realm, and has been a strange chain of events continuing for as long as the Hee Family has managed the Moon Lake Secret Realm, sustaining for a full two hundred seventy-six years.

Walking inside the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave, hearing the scales rubbing due to predation, even after experiencing this process hundreds of times, Hee Zhen still finds it hard to adapt.

Hee Zhen knows that several Snake Kings exist within the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave, all True Self Realm Great Demons subdued by the Moon Bear King and imprisoned in this Ten Thousand Snakes Cave, for long ago, before the Hee Family came into contact with Moon Lake Blessed Lands, this place was likely known as Black Serpent Blessed Lands, because at that time the Blessed Lands’ owners were these nests of Black Snake Kings.

But it was later discovered by the Moon Bear King, who forcibly occupied it, and locked these easily bred and edible Black Serpents within the Snake Cave, allowing them to reproduce within the Snake Cave, producing more offspring for the Moon Bears to consume.

Afterward, the Hee Clan’s ancestor discovered the ’Moon Lake Blessed Lands’ and made an agreement with the Moon Bear King, from then on the Hee Clan occupied the Mangcang Mountains at the exit of the Moon Lake Blessed Lands while the Moon Bear Race lived inside the Blessed Lands, the two became neighbors.

Previously, when Elder Huang said that the Hee Clan was the gatekeepers for the Moon Bear King, he was not wrong, because the Hee Clan has managed to occupy Mangcang Mountain for nearly two hundred years primarily by maintaining a good relationship with the Moon Bear Race, thus receiving support from the Moon Bear Race.

For instance, the Moon Bamboo Forest outside the Blessed Lands was propagated from roots originating from the Moon Lake Blessed Lands.

The reason Hee Qiang and his son could drive Black Serpents is that the Moon Bear King fashioned a few old bear teeth into magical artifacts capable of commanding Black Serpents and gifted them to the Hee Family, granting the Hee family this ability to control Black Serpents.

Of even greater value is the promise given by the Moon Bear King, ensuring that the Mangcang Hee Clan would have Divine Travel Realm experts emerging in every generation, and every century, a heavenly material, the Enlightenment Flower, with a pure white color highly revered by the Hee Clan ancestor, would be gifted to the Hee Family.

The Enlightenment Flower, upon consumption, allows one to comprehend True Self.

The True Self Realm ancestor that appeared three generations ago in the Mangcang Hee Family, who founded the Mangcang Sect, was Hee Zhen’s great-grandfather who achieved the True Self Realm by consuming the Enlightenment Flower.

One could say that the Hee Family’s current prosperity entirely relies on the contract made by that ancestor who explored the Moon Lake Blessed Lands with the Moon Bear Race!

And the benefits brought by that agreement have been enjoyed by the descendants of the Hee Family to this day.

Unfortunately, it can only continue until today.

After entering one thousand seven hundred meters into the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave and encountering nine tunnels, selecting the second one from the left, Hee Zhen drives the remaining hundred or so little Black Serpents scattered along the way into a cave beyond the tunnel, encountering a massive Snake King with black and gold patterns inside the cave.

This was a black-gold giant python nearly thirty meters long with a body as thick as two meters, and even though it was lying in a spring with only its head perched on the bank, the well-built Hee Zhen from the human race standing before it could only levelly gaze into its lantern-sized pale golden pupils.

Upon seeing Hee Zhen enter, the Snake King hissed once, then opened its mouth.

Immediately, those little Black Serpents driven by Hee Qiang entered the Black Serpent’s gaping mouth in an orderly queue.

Once the Black Serpent finished its meal and lazily closed its mouth with a hint of anthropomorphism, Hee Qiang cautiously stepped forward to salute the Snake King.

"Snake King, long time no see."

"Hiss..." The Snake King, of course, remembered him; this human was one of the prison guards chosen by those two bears outside.

Angry?

No.

From being driven into the Snake Cave by the Moon Bear Race until today, nearly five hundred years have passed, and in these five centuries, countless offspring of the Black Serpent race have mostly ended up in the bellies of a few Snake Kings.

A part of them was from their own laid eggs.

Even more were the offspring of other weaker kin.

Reproduction.

Devourment.

Bloodline purification.

Then exclude impurities from the body by laying eggs.

It can be said that during these enduring years of confinement, these Snake Kings inexplicably found an opportunity to break through their racial limitations from this situation that seemed worse than death.