Hazy light blossomed as a flamboyantly dressed young man with green hair rolled out from the petals of the Emperor Sunflower.

“Mercy, oh eminent one! Please spare this lowly one! This little monster spirit didn’t know that the heir of Celestial Master Zhang had come. Please be lenient of this humble one’s ignorance!” The young man fell to his knees the second he showed himself and smacked his head repeatedly into the ground, sobbing for mercy all the while.

Lu Yun and the youth in green from the Green Firmament gaped at the sight.

The true form of the young man in front of them was an enormous water snake, and an incomparably dominant one at that. Fangs glinting dangerously, his nascent spirit poison had reached preposterous heights.

If it hadn’t been...