Alien Hotel.

Chapter 485 Adding to the Lively Atmosphere

When Little Red Riding Hood called, Yu Sheng was taking a walk with Hu Li in a nearby park. He was shocked by what had happened in the valley and immediately went to the fairy tale town in a secluded spot. There, he saw the giant snake demon playing with the children in the square.

This snake demon was different from the one he remembered.

Somehow, she transformed away her numerous heads of jackals and tigers. Now, although her lower body still had a long snake tail, her upper body was that of a beautiful girl from the waist up, dressed in an elegant dress reminiscent of the Taixu Lingshu style, looking... even somewhat like a "fairy".

At this moment, several daring children surrounded her, two of them even riding on her long tail. Xiaoxiao was giving the snake princess a "haircut" with a bunch of colorful plastic hair clips and beads. The latter was covered with a bunch of odds and ends by the children, and there was also a "flower wreath" made by someone—a rough grass circle with a few wilted wildflowers stuck in it, and the grass wreath seemed to have been bitten a few times.

Even so, the snake demon wasn't angry at all—she was no longer the crazy person she had been before. Instead, she laughed and joked with the children, even performing magic tricks and turning her tail up like a slide for the children to slide on.

Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel watched this scene from the edge of the square, muttering to themselves:
"How did she become so familiar with everyone so quickly... like she was at home, and she's quite popular with the kids."

"I don't know... The last time I saw this thing was when Snow White caught her. Thunder Titan was pulling her by the tail like a noodle and swinging her around. As soon as he let go, she would bite people. It scared me to death!"

Little Red Riding Hood frowned, then caught a glimpse of Yu Sheng arriving at the square out of the corner of her eye.

"Ah, he's here."

"Brother!" Rapunzel immediately waved her arms vigorously. "You've finally arrived! Look at the situation."

"I was just about to ask that too, what's going on here?" Yu Sheng looked at the giant snake in the square with a bewildered expression. "Wait... I heard that this snake was cured, but how did she end up here?!"

"It's said that she sneaked in when Xuanche opened the door to deliver the Sanfu Paste to the children," Little Red Riding Hood sighed. "But once inside, she found she couldn't go back—she didn't have the authority to open the door."

Yu Sheng blinked: "And then?"

Little Red Riding Hood shrugged: "Then she built herself a 'cave' in the nearby woods and stole a lot of things from the town..."

Little Red Riding Hood was only halfway through her sentence when the Snake Princess, who was not far away, suddenly looked up and shouted loudly, "How can that be called stealing! I picked it up! Your kitchen doesn't even have a doorman."

"Who has a doorman in their kitchen?!" Rapunzel immediately waved her fist at Snake Queen. "I'm telling you, it's because we weren't on guard. If we got serious, even our doorman is a Supreme Dao Realm expert... You're still sticking your tongue out, huh?! If you do that again, I'll call those Thunder Titans outside town over and tie you up in a knot..."

The snake queen immediately pulled her head back and continued to perform her magic tricks to amuse the children, pretending nothing had happened.

Yun Qingzi watched this scene with a smile. Then she walked over and waved to the long-haired girl, saying, "It's alright. She was originally a mountain spirit and had been crazy for so long, so naturally she has no manners or common sense. But I think she is still kind-hearted. Otherwise, she wouldn't get along so well with the children."

Yu Sheng listened to the conversations around him and finally understood the whole story. Then he suddenly realized, "Wait, what about Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain—"

“I just got in touch,” Little Red Riding Hood sighed. “I went there myself to tell her—there’s chaos on Beast Taming Peak over there. After all, such a powerful demon just vanished into thin air within the territory of Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain. When she sneaked over, she avoided many of the mountain path surveillance cameras and patrolling disciples. Plus, the passage between our side and Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain was only recently built, so they never expected that she would slip away through the door on the Cloud Viewing Platform.”

"Yuan He is just trying to trick me into going back to cultivation—cultivation is so annoying," the Snake Princess scurried over at some point, muttering to herself, "This place of yours is so interesting, so much fun, completely different from Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain!"

As she spoke, her gaze fell on Yu Sheng. The great demon curiously raised its body, propped itself up with its tail, and looked Yu Sheng up and down several times until Hu Li suddenly bared its teeth and let out a threatening "Awooo." Only then did she casually withdraw her gaze: "I recognize you. I saw you when I ran away from the Demon Suppression Tower, but my mind was a mess back then..."

"Yuan He and the others said you are a 'master,' a strong fighter capable of defeating the Dark Angels. Is that true? Are the Dark Angels really that powerful?"

"Are you the sect leader here? Or the sect master... valley master? What should I call you?"

Yu Sheng was speechless at the unruly and capricious snake demon. He took a half step back and waved to her, saying with a wry smile, "Just call me Yu Sheng. By the way, Yuan He will be worried if you run away from home."

Snake Princess: "So what?"

Yu Sheng: "..."

"Old Yuanhe... now he knows I'm here!" Snake Queen continued confidently, then rummaged through her clothes and pulled out a small, exquisitely designed mirror. "Little Red Riding Hood brought this to me when she came back earlier. It's a Spirit Mirror, given to me by Yuanhe. I used it to let him know I was safe. The old man said I can stay here for a couple of days, as long as I don't cause any trouble."

Yu Sheng looked at the snake demon in front of him, who was two heads taller than him and was swaying back and forth like a seaweed, without any proper posture (of course, you could say that it was a graceful sway of the waist, but this thing's rude behavior and blank stare really didn't deserve such good words). After thinking for a moment, Yu Sheng silently took out his phone, opened "Border Communications", found the Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain group that he had recently joined, and searched for Yuan He's name.

A contact with the nickname "Niechu40K" popped up, with a profile picture of an old man with a sage-like appearance.

"Niechu40K" had two recent updates: one was "The snake is missing, disciples are searching for it on the mountain, its characteristic is that it is half-human and half-demon (a type of monster)," and the other was "The snake has been found." Yu Sheng felt something was amiss, then messaged Yuan He to confirm, and discovered that... what the Snake Queen said was actually true.

He raised his eyelids and glanced at the great demon who was still wriggling and swaying like seaweed beside him.

"I wasn't lying to you, was I?" Snake Princess tilted her head back, looking quite smug.

“Yuanhe told me that you are allowed to visit other places, but you must listen to me and abide by the rules of the valley while you are here,” Yu Sheng said unhurriedly. “Anyway, my valley and Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain are separated by only one gate, and disciples with the authority are allowed to travel between the two sides. In addition, he actually wanted to take you to the Cloud Viewing Platform to see me on the day I left the gate, but you hibernated in the ice cellar and missed it.”

Snake Princess: "...Is that so?"

Yu Sheng was both amused and exasperated by her attitude. He sighed, raised a finger, and called out in a certain direction, "Luna—"

No sooner had the words left her mouth than a series of continuous, leaping shadow rifts suddenly appeared from afar. The artificial saintess, who was watering the land outside the town, leaped across the shadows and swiftly struck with her sword. Then she rushed back outside the town to continue watering the land.

Yu Sheng raised his blood-stained hand and stretched it out in front of the Snake Princess: "Come here."

The village snake demon had never seen anything like it before. The snake queen immediately backed away, her fearless demeanor from just a moment ago replaced by a look of terror as she cried out, "You... what are you going to do?!"

“It’s a blood-donation ceremony,” Yu Sheng continued, stretching out his arm. “Just a quick touch will do—hurry up, or it’ll grow too big later.”

Snake Princess blinked, then suddenly realized what she was doing and shouted, "You're an evil cultivator!"

"You son of a bitch!" Yu Sheng's veins bulged. "This is your 'door-opening permission'! Without this, you can't open any of the teleportation portals in the valley—do you still want to freely visit other places in the future?"

Snake Queen then leaned closer, still somewhat doubtful, and whispered to confirm while looking at the blood on Yu Sheng's hands: "...Old Man Yuanhe and the others did this too? Xuan Che did it too?"

"of course."

The Snake Princess seemed to believe her, but then she suddenly frowned: "...But I'm a vegetarian."

"No need to drink! I just told you to just touch it! The blood will seep in on its own..." Yu Sheng was both amused and exasperated, but then he realized in surprise, "Wait, you're a vegetarian?"

"correct."

"You're such a powerful demon, and a snake demon at that! You're a vegetarian?" Yu Sheng stared at the Snake Queen in disbelief. "Yet you were clamoring to eat Yuan He, and even ate your own dog's head..."

"I was out of my mind back then," the Snake Princess said matter-of-factly. "I'm usually a vegetarian—otherwise, how do you think I attained enlightenment?"

The long-haired man, who had been listening to the commotion for a while, finally couldn't help but ask, "What does this have to do with attaining enlightenment?"

"Cultivating immortality and attaining the Dao is inherently defying the heavens, so the first step to achieving enlightenment is to defy the heavens," the Snake Queen declared confidently. "My recipes are rather extraordinary..."

Yu Sheng was dumbfounded. The other party's words were so outrageous that he was not sure if they were true. So he turned to look at Yun Qingzi, the greatest cultivation expert present.

The old man immediately shook his head: "It's fake, don't believe it."

Yu Sheng raised his hand and pressed a thumbprint on the Snake Demon's forehead, completing the "blood transfusion" before the talkative and dawdling snake demon could continue her rambling.

The Snake Princess immediately sprang to her feet like a spring, rolling around in pain: "Ahhh, there's blood! There's blood! Are you some kind of evil cultivator?! It hurts, it hurts, it's seeping in... Oh, it doesn't hurt? Then it's alright, you scared me..."

Yu Sheng: "..."

He looked at the large snake rolling around on the ground with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, then suddenly sighed with a smile.

It's foreseeable that this valley will become even more lively in the future.

(End of this chapter)