From the Valkyrie to the Endless

The sundial slowly rotated clockwise, and the writing on the side changed.

[Current time and space coordinates: the 492nd year of the Zhaolong calendar.]

[Expected duration of stay: July 119. ]

Seeing the length of stay, Shen Qing was a little dazed for a moment. Nearly one hundred and twenty years, it was ten times longer than the previous time.

This means that she will spend the longest period of her life in this world.

"Zhaolong calendar..."

Looking at the time and space coordinates displayed on the sundial, Shen Qing frowned slightly. She had never seen this era name in the database of the General Administration of Psychic Energy, but she always felt that it looked familiar.

Looking at the empty light screen next to the sundial, Shen Qing was a little confused for a moment. She thought that after having another body, the golden pages would appear again, but now, it is obvious that she can't switch bodies like before.

But the good news is that the sundial's functionality has returned to normal again, and as long as there is enough energy, it can predict the future.

She still has a lot of stored energy in the sundial. As long as she can guide the energy into her body, it won't be difficult to escape from her current predicament.

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"Girl, don't blame your second uncle for being cruel. The mountains are now covered in snow and the lives of the entire village are in the hands of the Red Dragon Immortal."

"Without the blood food given by the immortal, half of the people in our village would starve to death this year. We are so sorry for you. We have received your kindness. When you came to this world, your parents died early and you didn't enjoy any happiness. Find a good family in your next life..."

A deep voice sounded slowly, with a hint of obvious guilt.

Shen Qing didn't want to listen and tried to find the energy, but her weak body made it difficult for her to get into the state.

In the blink of an eye, about an incense stick of time passed, the sound of the door opening was heard, the cold air around gradually faded away, and a heat with a fishy smell gradually rose.

Shen Qing was gently put down, and the quilt wrapped around his body was untied. Without the isolation of the quilt, the fishy smell in the air became heavier. Shen Qing propped up his drowsy head, and after seeing the scene in front of him clearly, his breath was choked.

It was surrounded by bluestone walls, with torches burning on both sides. An unknown amount of oil was burning with a hissing sound, emitting a pungent smell.

Not far in front of him was a huge stone wall. Under the stone wall, there was a huge red snake as thick as an adult's waist. It was estimated to be at least seven meters long. Its forehead was slightly protruding, and the scales on its neck were flying. The edges of the snake flashed with cold light, like a sharp blade.

The two men who brought her here were of similar age, both in their thirties. It was the coldest time of the year, and they were only wearing a thin animal-skin vest. They were stout, with muscular arms that must have possessed the strength of a thousand pounds.

Shen Qing did not receive many memories. As a girl of six or seven years old, she knew too little about the world, but she still had some impression of the two people in front of her.

The man who previously called himself "Second Uncle" was named Yan Jun. He was the second son of the Snake Village chief. He had no blood relationship with Shen Qing, but because he was the second child in the family, most children in the village called him Second Uncle.

The other man was named Ma Zhengsan, a member of the village hunting team.

The strength of these two men, if placed in the future Da Xia, would be comparable to that of acquired masters, and they could be appointed as captains of a thousand men in the army. But in this era, they are just ordinary hunters.

"Great Immortal."

The two of them knelt down and kowtowed in greeting, with respectful expressions, and did not take any further action.

hiss--

The red snake twisted its body, raised its head, and reached in front of Shen Qing. It stared at her with its light golden vertical pupils for a long time before slowly retreating and coiling up in the center of the temple again, with its eyelids drooping, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep.

Yan Jun and the other man were still kneeling, looking at each other's noses and hearts, without any reaction, as if they were waiting for something.

"Cough...cough..."

For a moment, the only sound in the stone hall was Shen Qing's violent coughing.

A moment later, the door of the stone hall was pushed open again, and a skinny man in his fifties, carrying a brocade quilt on his shoulders, walked up to the red snake.

Shen Qing recognized this man, the chief of Snake Village, Yan Baohai. According to the legend in the village, this man had seen the world in his early years, worshipped the Immortal Sect, and practiced the method of immortality. Later, due to his lack of talent, he was exiled down the mountain.

Yan Baohai rolled up his arms and unfolded the brocade quilt, revealing a sleeping boy wrapped inside. He looked to be no more than four or five years old, with a round face and a healthy complexion.

When Shen Qing saw the boy, his pupils shrank slightly. This was the eldest grandson of Yan Baohai.

"The village has no food for the next day. Please give us blood food."

Yan Baohai looked calm and knelt down respectfully.

goo—

There was a sound coming from the red snake's abdomen. After a while of squirming, its bloody mouth opened and it spit out a giant silver-haired bull that was over ten feet long. Then the snake's tail swept lightly, and the huge bull's corpse fell in front of Yan Baohai like a rolling gourd, splashing a cloud of dust.

"Thank you, Great Immortal."

Yan Baohai kowtowed again. The moment he lowered his head, he looked at the sleeping boy lying in the quilt, with an uncontrollable sadness in his eyes.

The three of them did not stay for long. They went out to find iron chains and tied up the silver-haired giant bull layer by layer.

The cow's corpse weighed nearly ten thousand pounds. It took the combined efforts of three people to barely drag it out of the hall.

boom--

The door closed again. Shen Qing stared at the red snake in front of him. He felt a little nervous and tried his best to sense the spiritual energy floating between heaven and earth.

But drawing qi into the body is not something that can be achieved overnight; it requires calmness and concentration.

hiss--

Suddenly, the red snake moved, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed the sleeping boy into its stomach.

After swallowing the boy, a hint of obvious satisfaction flashed across the red snake's vertical pupils. Humans are naturally intelligent, and eating humans is a shortcut to unlocking spiritual wisdom, especially for monsters, which is of great benefit and can greatly increase their growth rate.

Shen Qing frowned, considering whether to force herself to start deducing. Given her current physical condition, if she forced herself to deduce the future, there was a high possibility that she would suddenly die before she could develop a sense of Qi.

After swallowing the boy, the red snake returned to its original position, coiled up in layers, with its head drooping, and fell into a doze.

tread--

Suddenly, footsteps were heard in the hall, and a woman walked out from behind the stone wall where the red snake was coiled. She was about twenty years old, without any clothes on, and her clothes were in a mess, covered with bruises.

The woman walked up to Shen Qing with a jar of steaming medicine in her hand and forced the medicine into her mouth without saying a word.

After the medicine went down his throat, Shen Qing immediately felt much better. The burning pain in his lungs was relieved and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Don't think about escaping, don't anger the Immortal, and you will survive."

The woman stared at Shen Qing with a warning in her eyes: "If you run away, you will bring trouble to the village."

Shen Qing retracted her gaze, lowered her head, and fell into deep thought. This woman fed her medicine, obviously at the instruction of Red Snake.

The reason why this big snake didn't eat her couldn't be because it had compassion, but because it kept her for other purposes...

Before Shen Qing could think about it carefully, she quickly knew the answer.

Soon after the woman fed her the medicine, she walked straight towards the coiled red snake.

The red snake raised its head in excitement, its scales sparkling and reflecting a bloody color. The two thorny red-black shadows near its tail and abdomen made Shen Qing feel a chill down his spine.

The sizes don't match no matter how you think about it.

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Several days passed in the blink of an eye.

One morning, the woman came again with a jar of medicine. Before Shen Qing could force her to drink it, she drank it all in one gulp.

This soup is a mixture of many old medicines and is a tonic that can just repair her weak foundation.

These days, Shen Qing saw a lot of not very pleasant scenes. This red snake and the woman had intercourse almost every day, except when the red snake occasionally went out hunting.

This is not indulgence, but the red snake is trying to reproduce offspring with the help of the human body.

Its original form is a monster, but now it is worshipped by humans and has a hint of divinity. If it reproduces with the help of human blood, it is very likely to give birth to a hybrid of three creatures, which may be an unprecedented monster.

However, there is a huge gap between humans and monsters, and their body structures are completely different. The red snake's cultivation is far from the point of transformation, so it is extremely difficult for it to produce crystals.

Watching the human and snake mating every day was nothing short of torture for Shen Qing. Every time he did so, he felt a chill down his spine and the urge to leave became more and more urgent.

The old medicine entered his stomach, bringing with it a warm feeling. Shen Qing sat cross-legged, calming his mind, and his breathing frequency fell into a very regular rhythm.

Half an hour later, a faint wisp of true energy suddenly emerged in the meridians, making Shen Qing instantly overjoyed and he opened his eyes immediately.

The battle not far away had just ended, and the woman dragged her tired body back to the stone wall. The red snake, having completed its daily task, did not retreat to the stone wall to rest as it did in the past, but swam towards Shen Qing, its scales rubbing against the bluestone slabs, making a rustling sound.

In the blink of an eye, the red snake came to Shen Qing, and its tongue flickered across Shen Qing's cheek, bringing a wet and sticky touch.

Shen Qing's hair stood on end. He suppressed his conditioned reflex, stared at the red snake in front of him, and calmly observed its next move.

After licking it, the red snake did not make any further movements. Its head drooped as if in disappointment and retracted under the stone wall.

This sudden action made Shen Qing's heart suddenly rise.

Can't delay any longer...

She had to strike first and kill this lewd snake.

Shen Qing didn't think that this red snake had any humanity. If it suddenly became beastly one day, she would be torn apart.

Suppressing the thoughts in his mind, Shen Qing began to wait for the red snake to go out hunting next time.

When the sundial predicts the future, it will inevitably affect the spiritual energy around it, which may alert the red snake and make it aware of it in advance.

The best opportunity is when it leaves.

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A few more days passed, and the opportunity Shen Qing had been waiting for finally arrived.

Every day's battle consumes a lot of essence. The red snake's appetite is quite amazing. Now that the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, the Snake Village cannot provide it with blood food, so it can only rely on itself, so it hunts very frequently.

The palace door was wide open, and the wind and snow blew into the palace.

Looking at the red line gradually disappearing in the snow and wind, Shen Qing immediately sat down on the ground, turned the sundial forward, and began to deduce.

hum-

The energy stored in the sundial began to burn at an astonishing speed, more than ten times more intense than in Daxia.

But at this moment Shen Qing had no time to feel sorry for the energy. If the energy was gone, she could collect it again. She knew what was important.

As the sundial turned rapidly, traces of time began to appear on Shen Qing's body. His tender bones crackled, his body began to straighten, his hair grew longer, covering his waist and back, and the true energy in his dantian also surged rapidly.

A strange phenomenon occurred in the world outside the palace. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly rolled back, forming a huge funnel, which was wrapped in wind and snow and was clearly visible within a radius of hundreds of miles.

The middle stage of metamorphosis...

Transformation is complete...