Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 6 Food is the foundation of communication
For safety reasons, Du Yi first inspected the mammoth meat.

Du Yi's caution proved correct; the mammoth meat was indeed poisonous—though he considered the amount of toxicity negligible, it was probably sufficient to kill mammoths.

"In other words, they poisoned the mammoth, then ate the poisoned meat... and the meat was spoiled."

Du Yi roughly figured out the sequence of events.

Things started to get complicated.

As for poisoning mammoths, Du Yi does know how; he only needs to bite them with his fangs or spit at them from a distance. Of course, most of the time he doesn't use such laborious methods to hunt; he prefers the simple and direct method of throwing stones.

But as for detoxification...

Du Yi has absolutely no idea how to do that.

So he could only treat it as a food poisoning for the time being. The first thing he did was to gently tap the man's abdomen with the tip of his tail, making him vomit, but not so much that he would be shoved into the ground by too much force.

After that, he found some black nightshade berries.

These black berries were what he had collected when he was gathering seasonings. At the time, Du Yi thought that these things could be used as a substitute for rock berries, but who knew that the taste was completely wrong after it was made, and he even vomited for half a day after eating it.

But at times like these, these black nightshade berries are perfect for inducing vomiting.

"First, we need to clean out all the rotten meat from the stomach..."

After gently beating the person on the ground with his snake tail until they opened their mouth and closed their eyes, Du Yi precisely dripped the fruit juice that was stuck to the tip of his tail into the person's mouth.

After that, he brought back a large quantity of honey.

Du Yi had once heard a theory that said that in many cases, whether it is detoxification or treatment, drugs only provide an auxiliary effect. More often than not, the body's own self-healing ability is the key to recovery. This means that if he followed this approach, even if he didn't know how to detoxify, he could at least enhance the person's recovery ability by providing them with a large amount of energy.

To put it more vividly, he might not know how the fighting was going on the front lines, but at least he could get enough logistical support.

Honey, with its high sugar content, is undoubtedly the best food for quick energy supply. However, Du Yi was essentially trying anything as a last resort. He could have solved the problem if it were just simple food poisoning, but he hadn't expected that the mammoth meat itself was poisonous.

To Du Yi's surprise, perhaps this person was lucky, or perhaps the wild man's metabolism was much stronger than he had understood, the wild man actually regained consciousness and even began to vomit profusely.

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The Radiant One was almost dead just now.

In his dying moments, the Radiant One was somewhat delirious, dying from the poison he himself had infused into his own flesh. He might be the most foolish patriarch in the history of the Ignivas family to die.
But just as those happy moments from the past began to surface in his mind, a strange liquid dripped into his mouth.

He then began to vomit violently, his stomach churning violently, the nausea so intense that he felt as if he were about to throw up his internal organs.

At that moment, a tremendous force lifted his body from the side, turning him over.

This directly saved him from the tragic fate of choking to death on his own vomit, as he had just caught his breath.

But at this moment, the Radiant One had no time to care where the power came from. The violent vomiting even made his breathing disordered, his head was dizzy, and he couldn't even open his eyes.

God knows how long the vomiting lasted; he even thought for a moment that he was going to vomit himself to death.

Fortunately, the contents of my stomach were quickly vomited out, leaving only the body's instinctive dry heaving.

It was at this moment that the Radiant Ones gradually regained their sight.

He saw a snake.

Just as my father had said in his last words, there really was a giant snake as big as a small mountain. However, there were some differences from what my father had said. At least the snake in front of me did not have any steaming flesh and blood hanging on it, nor could I see any white bones.

As far as the eye could see, there were only tough, jet-black snake scales, the edges of which even had a faint yellowish-gold tinge. Its majestic appearance truly resembled that of a god descending to earth.

"This... Ugh!"

The Radiant One wanted to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was met with another violent retching.

It was at this moment that the Radiant One saw the large, smashed berries around him. Just by smelling them, he knew they were emetic herbs commonly used by the village's witch doctors.

"Such a large dose would make even a mammoth collapse, no wonder I vomited so badly... But who did all this?"

Thinking of this, the Radiant One subconsciously raised his head.

It seems there's no need to think about this anymore.

After all, the tip of the giant snake's tail was still covered with black jam that hadn't dried yet.

"I……"

The radiant one felt dizzy.

He, who had originally intended to poison someone, ended up consuming the poison he had given himself. Ironically, the giant snake he had intended to kill saved his life.

What am I doing?

At this moment, the Radiant One felt that perhaps it would be better for him to die.

However, faced with the sweet scent so close at hand, he instinctively reached out his hand despite his weakness.

He had never tasted such sweetness.

As the nineteenth generation leader of the Ignivas family, the Radiant One had tasted honey before, but this was the first time he had ever tasted honey of this quality—it didn't even need any processing; the honey itself was already a rare delicacy.

"This level of honey can only be found deep in dangerous mountains, places that even mages dare not easily venture into..."

With this thought in mind, the Radiant One, having regained some strength, raised his head once more.

Those huge snake eyes were also looking at him.

Eyes facing each other.

The Radiant One sensed it...

A little bit of goodwill?
"He... never intended to kill me."

At this moment, the Radiant One had subconsciously begun to use a respectful title.

This made him feel even more ashamed.

It was at this moment that the Radiant One realized that he might have misunderstood the serpent god before him; the other party was neither a terrifying evil nor a bloodthirsty monster.

While the Radiant One was still feeling guilty and blaming himself, the enormous snake tail had already coiled around him and then gently set him down.

This made the Radiant One even more ashamed.

Simply because, at this moment, he is on the back of a god.

What a privilege.

(End of this chapter)