It was late autumn. Frost and leaves were flying, wild geese were traveling westward, fish were sinking to the bottom, and cold winds were blowing. Even the rats and frogs that could be seen everywhere had crawled into warm caves, preparing to spend the entire winter underground.

However, in the withered grass by the river, a slender black-browed snake was crawling slowly and firmly despite the raging cold wind.

The snake's posture was not elegant at all. Its slender body was covered with scars, some new and some old. The old wounds had been covered by new scales, while the new wounds were still flesh-colored, mixed with the soil and dead leaves. It was dirty and ferocious.

The snake couldn't help but laugh at itself." The way it stretches and contracts must be very similar to a thick and long earthworm."

Then, he stuck out his tongue and said," I have to find a safe cave to pass the winter as soon as possible. If I freeze to death in this autumn wind, it will really embarrass the transmigrators."

It had been a year since he left the mountain forest where he was born.

According to the history and geography knowledge in junior high school, human settlements were most likely to appear by the river.

Therefore, the brocade snake followed the stream in the mountains all the way to the east, crossing mountains and ridges, watching thousands of clear springs and mountain streams continuously converge and grow into the current great river.

The dangers they encountered were far more dangerous than what the snake soul had experienced more than twenty years ago. If it weren't for the great effect of human intelligence, the small snake would have died seven or eight times.

Even so, the little snake was covered in injuries.

During this period, they did not encounter any traces of humans.

Of course, the journey was not meaningless.

At the very least, the snake had seen that this world did indeed have a power that surpassed reality.

Snakes had seen demonic tigers with wings on their backs, thousands of white foxes wandering in the forest, and the leading demonic fox had two tails on its back. They had also seen black pythons that were more than 100 feet long, riding clouds and driving the wind and waves.

However, the snake was weak and had no way to get close to the ferocious tiger. It was likely that before it could kowtow to the tiger, it would be given its mouth as a snack. Secondly, they didn't have the language barrier and didn't have the ability to communicate with the demon fox. Wagging their heads and tails would only make them laugh.

The snake could only look at these mountain forest demon beasts in envy.

The last time he saw the Black Python was probably the closest he had ever gotten to the opportunity to cultivate.

It was four months ago when the snake smelled a strange fragrance on the cliff by the river. It was sweet and suitable for snakes, and it made its tongue tremble.

The snake did not climb up immediately due to its wisdom from its previous life. Instead, it stopped at the bottom of the cliff and waited patiently.

Since the brocade snake could smell the fragrance from a thousand feet away, the other local snakes would definitely be able to detect it. Could it be that they did not take action and let this foreign snake get there first?

The facts proved that Jin She was right.

In the next few days, snakes in the river were attracted by the strange fragrance and tried to climb up from the bottom of the cliff. However, without exception, they all lost contact. The delicious thing that emitted the strange fragrance remained safe and sound.

During this time, the snake heard the bird's cry more than once. It secretly guessed that the snakes that went up were probably fed to the bird's stomach.

Until one day, the black-scaled python emerged from the river. However, it did not climb up like the other low-level snakes. The python's long tail curled up, and layers of waves overlapped. It shook the snake on the shore and rolled on the ground. Then, steam rose. The black python actually rode the clouds and climbed up to the top of the cliff!

The birds on the cliff mountain also revealed themselves. More than ten large gray-haired birds flapped their wings and attacked the giant python that was soaring in the clouds. Immediately, bird feathers danced in the sky, and snake scales fell like rain.

After the fight, the snake hiding in the stone crevice by the river didn't know who won. The snake only smelled that the alluring fragrance in the thick smell of blood had disappeared, and heard a few bird croaks that frightened the snake from time to time.

The snake knew that the surviving big birds were cleaning up the scene, so it quickly crawled out of the crack in the stone.

He slipped away, he slipped away.

He didn't manage to benefit from the battle between the big shots. In the end, he didn't even know what the incense on the cliff mountain was, whether eating it would allow him to cultivate, what the outcome of the battle between the python birds was, whether the python won or fled with injuries.

However, the snake was very satisfied because it had found the path ahead!

Riding the clouds, I will have it! I will have it too if I cultivate and grow stronger! I can also become an immortal and a saint!

However, the most important thing now was to fill his stomach and survive the third winter of his snake life.

The sun was about to set in the west, and the temperature was getting colder.

The snake finally found a hole that was as thick as the bottom of a bowl. After wandering around for several years, the snake immediately determined that this was a fresh rat hole that had been built less than half a year ago.

"There's still the smell of rat feces near the entrance of the cave. What a dirty rat. It's time for Uncle Snake to teach you a lesson." In any case, they were no longer planning to reproduce, so their gender was not important. Snakes liked to use the language of surfing the Internet in their previous life, calling themselves uncle or grandpa.

The snake was not in a hurry to get in.

Even an innocent rabbit had three caves, and there were even more entrances and exits to the caves of wild rats.

Carefully sniffing the surrounding scents and scouting, the intelligent snake quickly found three more entrances.

The snake used its tail to stealthily roll over a large rock, blocking the rest of the holes, leaving only one entrance.

Next, it was time to kill!

Due to its injuries, the snake could not attack quickly. However, the rat was already a turtle in a jar, so the snake did not need to attack like lightning.

Its slender body crawled into the rat hole and wandered around the dry cave. The snake head swayed left and right, and its forked tongue kept extending and retracting, like a robber who had broken into a civilian's house.

In fact, the snake was a robber, but it was not robbing money or sex. It only wanted the lives of the Shu family.

A male rat was urging the snake to speed up.

pia~

Like a sharp arrow shooting through the bull's eye, the snake's sharp teeth killed the male rat.

However, the snake did not swallow it. Instead, it spat out the male rat's corpse and continued to search deeper into the rat hole.

A female rat was running toward another cave entrance with two young rats, squeaking non-stop.

The snake dashed over and bit the baby rat to death with one bite, then two with two bites. The mother rat tried to fight for her life, but was strangled by the snake. They would never see the blocked exit again. Not bad, they would never taste the despair when their hope was shattered.

He continued to search. At the fourth cave entrance, there was another young rat. It was digging hard under the rocks at the cave entrance, trying to escape from the corner where there was a trace of light.

The beautiful but evil head of the snake appeared behind the young rat.

"Should I greet it?"

"Forget it. Let's give it a quiet and painless end. After all, I'm a good snake."

The snake pounced and killed the rat in one blow. The rat died peacefully.

After wiping out the entire family of rats, the snake decided to drag all the corpses together out of the ritual that came with the human soul in its previous life.

After nearly three years of solitude, the brocade snake was used to talking to itself.

"A family of rats has to be neat and tidy!"

"A snake eating a mouse is like an eagle catching a snake. It's only right and proper. Don't have any complaints. I hope that you will be reincarnated into a good family in your next life!"

" If I had a phone in my hand, what I should do now would be to take a handsome selfie before dinner."

"Alright, I'm starting to eat!"

The feast was too bloody, so the following scenes will not be shown.

……

After the feast, the snake did not immediately enter hibernation.

His stomach was so big, and the food had not been fully digested. If he slept like this, it was easy for him to have indigestion or even get stuck in his stomach by the rat's bones.

The rat hole was covered with a thin layer of dried grass. The walls were also very dry, and the temperature was much higher than the ground. The snake could wait here for its food to be digested before hibernating.

Walking a hundred steps after a meal, although the snake had no legs, it still inherited the healthy habits of its previous life. It curled its tail and slowly swam in the mouse hole.

Snakes had the professional instinct of civil engineering in his previous life. They carefully analyzed the structure inside the cave. The design of different mouse caves was roughly the same. Therefore, as long as they used human intelligence to model the brain and find a set of rules, it would be much easier to commit crimes next time.

However…

When they arrived at the place where the rats stored their food for the winter, the snake made a new discovery.

A strange yet familiar smell entered his olfactory organs.

Of course.

What plant?

"F * ck!"

The brocade snake broke out.

This was just a curse from his previous life.

The plants that the rats piled up in the warehouse as food were naturally not grass.

The particles that were scattered on the ground, wrapped in golden shells, and emitting a strong starch smell had their own resounding names.

Rice!

The round and plump shape of the fruit, the crystal clear color of the flesh, and the abundant reserves in the rat hole allowed the snake to make more judgments the moment it saw them.

Humans, or at least intelligent creatures, lived nearby. Otherwise, it was impossible for a family of ordinary rats to hoard so much rice!

The snake was so excited that it stuck out its tongue.

It was really a blessing in disguise.

The reason why the snake was so eager to enter the world of human civilization was not because it had high expectations for humans.

The law of the jungle was also a golden rule in human society. However, human beings used the so-called civilization to wrap the naked and ugly exploitation into exquisite candy, and used capital transactions to whitewash the blood-stained exploitation into golden coins.

The reason why the snake was so excited was because it knew that it was a black-browed snake that had no other tricks other than intelligence.

There was no way to become a disciple of a wild beast, and there was no way to snatch spiritual herbs.

Only in human society could one obtain precious cultivation opportunities!

As the saying goes, a snake in a hurry can't eat hot tofu. Since it knew that the civilized world of mankind that it had been searching for was close at hand, the snake was not in a hurry.

As usual, he patiently digested the food in his stomach and spat out the rat hole bone on the ground.

Then, he curled up his body and closed his eyes slightly. He entered a half-asleep state in the warm cave where the rice was stored.

The snake had a good dream.

In the dream, he succeeded in cultivating immortality. He kicked Tathagata, punched the Three Pure Ones, hugged them on his left and right. He was so happy.