manynovel Chapter 48 Red-Striped Python
Chapter 48 Red-Striped Python
Crunch crunch, the taste is simply wonderful!
A black lightning bolt flashed across the sky.
After confirming there was no danger, it reappeared and slowly and meticulously finished off the remaining eggshell.
A small, light red snake, like a graceful ribbon, slowly crawled along the winding mountain path.
Wandering aimlessly, unaware of how many other formidable rivals it devoured on its journey of growth.
Unbeknownst to it, it had grown into a small python more than three meters long, and its scales had undergone three or four transformations, from the initial dark red to the blood red when it first appeared.
At this moment, it finally had a clear goal for itself, and it gradually realized that there was a mysterious energy in its body called soul power.
If used properly, it will surely possess even greater strength by the time one reaches adulthood.
However, growth always comes at a price, and every step of growth means encountering a soul beast with an extremely strong possessive nature.
In order to grow strong and live longer than others, every battle leaves it battered and bruised.
Some of its scales would even be shattered, but it grew little by little in this way, and gradually became the overlord of the volcanic forest.
Its total length is nearly 60 meters, and its body is so thick that it would take at least five adults holding hands to encircle it.
Despite its enormous size, it actually only has about 8 to 1 years of cultivation, which it feels is far from enough and still yearns to continue growing.
However, for a red-banded python like this, cultivating to around 1 years is already the limit. If it wants to break through, it needs some rare treasure to have a chance of survival.
Whether it was divine favor or its own exceptional character, in less than a week, it discovered a wild fruit, resembling a hanging ornament, in the crater at the heart of the volcanic forest.
The fruit was like a mysterious treasure, constantly emitting a scorching heat. With each breath of heat it released, the plant corresponding to the fruit seemed to be infused with powerful vitality, rapidly growing larger.
This amazing product captivated him deeply!
Especially when he glanced at it casually, the fruit seemed like a seductive enchantress, radiating an indescribable glow, as if casting a bewitching spell, constantly tempting him. Deep down, he kept shouting that if he ate it, he would gain unexpected power.
After that, he racked his brains every day, trying to figure out how to pick that fruit. After all, the crater would occasionally erupt some hot lava, which wouldn't affect the plant, but there was also no platform inside the crater to stand on.
His only hope lay in that lone plant. After he hesitated and lingered outside the crater for nearly two weeks, he finally made up his mind.
He decided to take the gamble, because every day he could see the fruit expanding like an inflating balloon, its radiance growing ever more dazzling, as if inviting him with a tempting invitation.
He decided to use his body to form a ball shape, with part of his body hanging down like a rope from the crater. As soon as his mouth could reach the fruit, he would immediately lift his body up.
However, the ideal is full, and the reality is very skinny.
At first, everything went relatively smoothly, but as his body descended deeper, he needed to use more and more parts of his body. Finally, after a difficult struggle, Fatty finally managed to reach the fruit.
But at this moment, his lower body could no longer bear it, and three-quarters of his body was standing vertically in the crater.
In that critical moment, he bit down on the entire plant, swallowing it whole, fruit and stem together.
Immediately afterwards, his body began to tremble violently in the air, making it impossible for him to climb back up. Instead, he fell downwards step by step like a kite with a broken string.
He originally planned to take the fruit out of the volcano and savor it slowly, but he didn't expect that his lower body, the tail part, had already fallen off.
His heart tightened suddenly, and he instinctively swallowed. The fruit that had been in his mouth burst open and flowed rapidly throughout his body like a torrent.
Suddenly, he felt an unprecedented surge of intense heat, as if every cell in his body was burning fiercely.
Then the entire giant python fell into the lava of the volcano's crater without any resistance. Compared to the massive volcano, its plump body appeared extremely small.
After falling into the lava, it did not immediately engulf his body. Instead, a peculiar liquid appeared on his scales, like a mysterious shield that provided some protection to his body.
Although it ensured that he would not be swallowed by the lava, the extremely high temperature of the lava was still like the claws of a demon, relentlessly scratching at his body through pain.
However, the energy unleashed by that fruit, like a raging torrent, filled his entire body, causing a pain from the physical transformation that was far more intense than that from burning magma. It felt like being pierced by a thousand arrows, making it unbearable.
Although the two kinds of pain were each more intense than the other, in reality, at the moment of falling, he was already overwhelmed by the pain of the energy explosion and lost his sense of self.
Just a second before he fell, he was thinking, "I managed to eat it, but I'm doomed."
When he awoke again, although he was still inside the crater, he had carved out a sizable platform within it. He lay there alone, like an abandoned orphan.
Beside him was a pool of fiery red lake, seemingly calm on the surface, but in reality, it was magma capable of melting everything, like a lurking beast that might open its bloody maw at any moment.
Meanwhile, on his other side, there was a huge set of remains, like a majestic monument.
He was astonished to find that he had survived such a calamity, but what surprised him even more was that he had not only become thinner, but also stronger.
The original blood-red scales have now turned crimson, and between the scales are inlaid a faint layer of golden patterns, like mysterious runes.
At the same time, he was surprised to find that he had grown hands and feet, and there were two small fleshy bumps on the top of his head, which were slightly painful to the touch.
After completing an evolution, he felt his body was much lighter and discovered that he could do many things that he couldn't do before, and even fly briefly.
However, after evolving, he felt an unprecedented hunger, and on that day he ate all the ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts within a five-mile radius.
That barely gave his body a chance to recover its energy.