Roar

After our meal... raw and hairy... ugh, I need to forget this...

We leave and find another cave, this one much bigger, and warmer, which gives me some sleep. Strange, in my other life, I always refused to sleep, but in this life, whenever I am in a warm place, I feel my body relax and an uncontrollable sleep takes over me. Sleep makes me vulnerable, so I refuse to think about sleeping, especially here, where there is only this purple grass, which looks so comfortable... Get a grip man! Or snake, in this case.

And yes, I know I died. Why do you think I prepared so many measures to protect my daughter? My life force was already almost depleted before my Battle with the Celestial Emperor, then I still split my soul. And using the dark dimension, it consumes a hundred years of my life every second I use it. I just don't know yet whether I died in my sleep or someone killed me.

Apart from my daughter and my brother, this is the third reason I have to return to that place. My mother made some sounds and brought me out of my thoughts. She wrapped herself around me, then released from her mouth two circular objects in front of me, and gestured for me to do something. Fuck, I know what she wants me to do, but I refuse!

Seeming to read my rude thoughts, my mother hit me with her tail, and gestured for me to do it again, but now with a more severe look. Come on... I mean, even in my other life, I have even eaten rotten food while living on the street, so eating raw food is not tasty, but tolerable. But this... ugh.

How am I supposed to do that? These things are bigger than my head! Putting aside my thoughts, I concentrated on the task in front of me, and let my instincts do their work.

My mouth felt abnormally big, giving me a strange sensation. It didn't hurt as I ate those balls, but it wasn't pleasant either. Searching my mind for a subject that would take me away from my reality, I began to think about what it was. In the world of the immortals, demonic creatures and ferocious beasts have crystallized cores in their bodies, but they are completely different from spherical things.

But I am absolutely sure that I have heard of these things... yes! I remember! My little girl was alive reading some stories that were now popular all over the continent. What was it called again? Mana core!

The shape my daughter described is simply the same as this one, even the color is strangely similar. I couldn't finish my reasoning, because, I had finished eating the mana cores, and something was happening to me.

At first, I felt a comfortable warmth. But soon it turned into a hellish heat. This heat didn't stop in my body and seemed to creep into my soul. It was as if I was in a furnace, body and soul.

Looking at the head of my mother who was watching me closely, she nodded softly when she saw my gaze, and I understood immediately that this was normal. The pain was so great that even I, who had been tortured both in body and soul, was finding it unbearable.

I wanted to scream, to curse, but nothing came out except a hissing sound. Unable to bear it any longer, I raised my head to the heavens and roared with all my might.

Fuck this pain! I didn't lose to the greatest powers on the continent, it's not a pain from something I ate that will kill me! Even death can't defeat me! Come on everybody! You can send more universe, this is not enough to stop my Dao!

And with that mental venting, I blacked out completely.

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In a cave in the underground world, a fifteen-meter-long snake was coiled around a much smaller snake, one meter long at most. The white snake had complicated eyes, watching the black snake agonize in pain as it rolled on the ground.

He was the only cub she had out of all the eggs she laid, and he was the strangest snake she had ever seen. But it didn't matter, for he was her child, and she would protect him from everyone and everything.

At that moment, the black snake stopped squirming as it looked everywhere, as if looking for some enemy, while arching its body to stand as straight as possible.

Its eyes began to glow with a strong red light, and you could feel the madness and bloodlust in those eyes, someone who wanted to destroy the world! The white snake watched what its youngster was doing closely with curiosity and amazement.

Then the little black snake raised its little head and roared to the heavens. It was not a voice that a puppy should have. It sounded more like the roar of an ancient beast. The roar shook the foundations of the cave and frightened all the beasts in the surroundings. Not even the tiny insects stayed, they all fled away from the cave without exception.

After roaring, the little black snake lay down and slept. Seeing that his youngster was just sleeping and doing fine, the white snake felt proud of his little baby. He made it.

Yes, her cub was strange, but still, it was her cub, and no one will ever hurt it, not as long as she lives.