Wow~~~
The ten-meter-long giant happily wriggled its body, swiftly weaving through the Forest of Purple Trees.
The visual impact and dynamic sense of motion gave Su Qi, standing atop the snake’s head at this moment, a thrill akin to riding a rollercoaster at an amusement park.
For a moment, Su Qi and the group of young women sitting on the snake’s back couldn’t help but shriek in excitement.
Given the Spirit Serpent vehicle’s rapid movement, the journey that originally would have taken half an hour to reach the pathway after entering the purple forest was forcibly shortened to just ten minutes.
“Big guy, you can stop now.”
As they neared the entrance to the mysterious pathway, Su Qi gently patted the giant’s large head.
Receiving Su Qi’s instruction, the big guy finally began to slow down.
Unlike the last time they came to this mysterious pathway, when the connection between the Second Plane and the Third Plane was opened.
Many magical beasts had come to the Second Plane from this pathway’s entrance, and the area around this entrance was quite chaotic back then.
Not only were there many corpses of Purple Spirit Snakes and other magical beasts due to the invasion, but even this big guy was on the verge of death, and a large swath of purple spirit trees had been destroyed.
Now, arriving here again, although the purple spirit trees near the pathway were still in a state of recovery.
Judging by the haphazardly strewn magical beast remains on the ground, Su Qi could deduce one thing: it seemed the big guy’s strength had become quite formidable.
Thinking of this, Su Qi couldn’t help but feel a doubt arise.
The Shuxi Bento he made—it seemed feeding the big guy only a few times had transformed it from a cute little creature into such a behemoth.
And from recent posts spreading on the network, Su Qi had learned that many customers who ate his Shuxi Bento had also gained some experience points, more or less.
Looking at it this way, his Su Wife Ability seemed to be somewhat overpowered in various senses!
Was it that the Su Wife Ability itself was powerful?
Or was it that his Su Wife Ability was, in some sense, connected to his own mother?
Had it been strengthened without his knowledge?
“Xi?”
Just as Su Qi was pondering,
perhaps sensing a familiar presence,
Su Xixi in his arms, the little one who had fallen unconscious due to evolution, mumbled something in a daze.
Seeing this, Su Qi stopped thinking about his ability for the moment.
He simply began moving forward into the mysterious pathway once more.
It’s worth mentioning that Su Qi originally intended to have the big guy wait at the pathway entrance.
After all, it could now be considered the BOSS of the Purple Snake Forest.
But the big guy indicated that the creatures threatening the snake forest generally came up from the pathway from the Third Plane, so Su Qi decided to bring the big guy along for the exploration.
Drip… drip…
Within the quiet, gloomy mysterious pathway.
The crisp sound of water droplets falling to the ground could be heard from time to time.
If it were his first time here, facing such a dark and silent environment, Su Qi would definitely feel anxious.
But today, with five powerful and beautiful young women by his side and a giant beneath him, Su Qi felt more relaxed than tense, almost like he was on vacation.
“Sister Fufu, that Beast Tamer said for Xixi to evolve, it needs to be in a spiritual energy environment it’s familiar with. Would the entire pathway’s spiritual energy environment work?”
Lighting a torch, Su Qi advanced toward the lower levels of the pathway while recalling in his mind the location marked on the treasure map Su Xixi had given him earlier.
Hearing Su Qi’s question, Ye Fufu nodded gently.
“That’s what the Beast Tamer said. The evolution process will take about three days…”
As Ye Fufu spoke, passing by the Succubus Statue sealed by the Adventurers’ Guild, a flicker of nostalgia and hope flashed in her eyes. Seeing that Su Qi had no intention of revisiting the old site, she couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed.
As for Ye Fufu’s inner thoughts and expectations, Su Qi was unaware. In fact, even if he knew, he probably wouldn’t go near the statue.
After all, it was because of that Succubus Statue that Su Qi’s Su Wife Ability had leveled up twice in a row—just thinking about it brought tears to his eyes.
After receiving Ye Fufu’s reply, Su Qi had already recalled the specific location of the treasure from before and decided to ask for everyone’s opinion.
“Since Xixi can evolve within the pathway, and it told me about a treasure last time, should we take this opportunity to look for it? Of course, there’s also a possibility the treasure has already been taken by other magical beasts or adventurers?”
Hearing Su Qi’s proposal, the group of beautiful young women were taken aback for a moment.
After all, they had never heard anything about treasures within the pathway from the guild before.
But after brief consideration,
perhaps because, as fellow adventurers, they had a rough understanding of each other’s strength and believed there likely wouldn’t be any danger in the pathway,
or perhaps because, as rivals in love, they found the atmosphere of doing nothing a bit boring…
After a short silence, everyone nodded in agreement.
With consent obtained, Su Qi, holding Su Xixi, headed toward the remembered treasure location while pondering an important matter.
Hmmmmmm… The Purple Spirit Snake underwent two evolutions and became a giant.
Would this little Su Xixi also grow larger after this evolution?
If possible, Su Qi hoped the little one’s size wouldn’t increase.
After all, being small looked cute and was comfortable to hold, right?
While Su Qi was lost in thought, after walking for nearly half an hour, the group arrived near the lowest level of the pathway where the map’s treasure was located.
Along the way, thanks to the Dragon Might and the imposing presence of the big guy,
although they occasionally encountered some Third Plane magical beasts, the beasts always fled before any fight could start, making the journey unexpectedly peaceful.
“This should be the place, right?”
Su Qi arrived at the spot Su Xixi had marked as the treasure location.
The space on this level was no different from any other space within the mysterious pathway, with not a single trace of treasure to be seen.
If there was anything unusual, it was that there were slightly more magical beast remains in this space—just a tiny bit more.
However, recalling the second time he met Su Xixi,
when it had manipulated a mechanism to open a hidden door, Su Qi’s spirits lifted again.
Perhaps these magical beasts had sensed the aura of treasure but couldn’t find the mechanism!
If that were the case, then the treasure probably hadn’t been discovered yet.
Thinking this, Su Qi couldn’t help but get excited.
After all, searching for treasure sounded fun and held a certain romantic appeal for a boy.
As Su Qi grew excited, the experienced young women also sensed something unusual from the magical beast remains.
One by one, they sprang into action, searching for the switch to open the treasure in this lowest-level space of the pathway.
Ye Fufu, the Saintess, cast a Brilliance spell, illuminating the dark space as bright as day.
An Xiaoling, the scout, swept her moist eyes over the stone walls, trying to find the mechanism.
Gu Wen Yin, the succubus with exceptional constitution, began whipping the stone walls with her whip, trying to determine from the sound if there was treasure inside.
Watching each young woman use her unique experience to search for treasure,
Su Qi, with his shallow adventuring experience, felt like he was witnessing something eye-opening.
Although Su Qi had no experience finding treasure in the Saint Ruins,
wanting to participate, Su Qi, clad in the Dragon Knight Set, quickly dismounted from the big guy and imitated the others, approaching the stone walls to try and find the treasure-opening mechanism.
But just as Su Qi handed Su Xixi to the big guy, jumped off, and took a few steps,
RUMBLE~
A terrifyingly loud sound echoed throughout the pathway, as if from an earthquake.
Amid the violent shaking, Su Qi suddenly realized the ground beneath his feet was cracking.
Losing his balance due to inertia, he instinctively began to fall.
Faced with such an accident,
if he were wearing ordinary women’s clothing, Su Qi might not have reacted in time due to insufficient attributes.
But now, with the high attribute bonuses from the Dragon Knight Set, Su Qi could easily escape this sudden ground collapse.
However, as Su Qi instinctively looked toward the collapsing area near his feet, he forcibly halted his escape the next second.
Because Su Qi discovered, to his shock, that beneath the shattered ground was a hidden, massive space.
Within that space were piles upon piles of shiny objects.
Looking at those objects, Su Qi, still in debt, felt his deep peach-blossom eyes light up with excitement.
Could… could there really be treasure?
So many good things—they must be worth a lot of money!
Am I, Su Qi, about to become rich?
His agile figure dodged and weaved between the rapidly collapsing rubble.
After leveraging a few jumps, Su Qi landed on the ground completely unscathed.
Looking at the pile of glittering treasures on the ground—
there were swords, crowns, unknown spirit fruits, and countless golden scales.
As a little money-grubber, Su Qi’s instinct took over, and a happy smile spread across his palm-sized face.
He instinctively wanted to look up and share the moment with the many beautiful young women.
But as Su Qi slightly turned his body, shifting his gaze,
one shiny object caught his attention first.
It was a giant egg, entirely golden, covered with layer upon layer of mysterious runes.
Looking at this giant egg, Su Qi felt an inexplicable sense of connection and familiarity.
Just as Su Qi was wondering where he had seen this giant egg before,
“A dragon! Why is it here?”
“A Qi, get up here, quickly!”
Urgent shouts from the young women above reached his ears.
Hearing these shouts, Su Qi felt a bit puzzled.
A dragon?
Where’s a dragon?
I only see treasure.
But as Su Qi instinctively looked up toward the source of the voices,
he finally realized…
Hmmmmmm… There was a giant dragon together with the treasure.
It’s just that it was so huge,
he hadn’t noticed it earlier?
Well, no, he had noticed—he just mistook its scales for treasure.
Gulp~
Gazing at the majestic dragon, as imposing as a mountain, Su Qi was awestruck by its overwhelming pressure, especially when its crimson eyes, larger than his own body, looked directly at him.
He couldn’t help but swallow hard.
His legs felt weak, his throat dry, and all his earlier greedy thoughts vanished completely.
“Th-that, Brother Dragon, I got lost and ended up here. I’ll leave right now.”
Trembling, Su Qi bowed to the dragon and, while speaking, instinctively tried to escape along the stone wall toward the collapsed area.
But as if sensing Su Qi’s desire to flee,
or perhaps realizing a group of young women was about to intrude into this space,
the next second, the Golden Dragon began to radiate a pure white light all around it.
Feeling the white light envelop him and seeing the group of girls and the big guy unable to break through,
Su Qi at this moment felt like crying but had no tears.
Th-this… why won’t it let me leave?
I was wrong, truly wrong.
I shouldn’t have been greedy, shouldn’t have relaxed!
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