"When I'm an old woman, I'm going to find a forest like this to settle in permanently and build a wooden cabin there," Xu Xiaoyan said with a hopeful expression.

Tang Wulin smiled, and said, "You're still far from becoming an old woman; perhaps you will have already changed your mind by then."

Just as he was speaking, his eyes suddenly turned purple, and he reached out with his right hand, which instantly swelled in size as a layer of fine golden dragon scales appeared over its surface.

A faint clang rang out, indicating that Tang Wulin had caught something, and sure enough, a small snake that was just over a meter in length had appeared in his grasp.

The snake's entire body was completely transparent, and after being caught by Tang Wulin, it was struggling with all...