Invincible Snake Emperor-Chapter 134 - 132: The Beginning of the Nightmare

It didn't matter if this Snake King was a real Divine Spirit or not. For Shu Yao, there was nothing she couldn't accept now. She had no other options left.

"Tell me, how did you become pregnant with a Snake Embryo?"

Tu Xiao'an was especially curious about this. It seemed pregnancy always involved a process—an interaction between two people.

But her pregnancy was a Snake Embryo. The thought of what kind of process led to *that* was something one didn't dare to dwell on. Just thinking about it was enough to make one's skin crawl.

"I don't know. I really don't know why I became pregnant with a Snake Embryo. I live with my boyfriend. We've been together for three years and have even met each other's parents. We were planning to get married because of this pregnancy, but I never thought it would turn out like this."

Shu Yao clutched her head, her voice pained. Her whole body trembled. Suppressed, agonized sobs seemed to be drawn out, thread by thread, from the depths of her soul, filling the temple hall.

Her state immediately drew the attention of many people nearby. Gradually, everyone started looking at her.

Tu Xiao'an knew that understanding the whole story wouldn't be a simple matter of a few words. A busy place like this was obviously not suitable. But it was fine; he now had a loyal believer he could command.

As if he had suddenly received an instruction, Li Shun, dressed in his Daoist robes, immediately walked up to Shu Yao. He smiled and said, "Miss, please come with me."

"Go with him."

A mysterious voice sounded in Shu Yao's mind.

Shu Yao wiped her tears and followed him without any fear, eventually arriving at a quiet room in the temple.

Li Shun closed the door, stepped back outside, and stood guard to prevent anyone from entering. His face was flushed with excitement, his hands clenched into fists. 'I can't believe I get to do something for the Snake King! My ancestors must be smiling down on me. They really must be!'

Power of Faith from Li Shun +200...

Inside the room, Shu Yao sat fidgeting, her eyes darting around. It felt like more and more strange things were happening to her now.

"Don't be nervous. I'm here to help you."

A brilliantly shimmering Gold and Silver Snake was suddenly hovering in front of Shu Yao. Her delicate body trembled, and she clamped a hand over her mouth in shock to stifle a scream.

She wasn't a local, so naturally, she didn't believe in any Snake King. She'd heard the stories, of course, but had always just dismissed them with a little smile.

She didn't even understand why the people of Bai Town revered an animal like the Snake.

Most people have a natural fear of snakes. They get scared just seeing one. Worship? Have faith in one?

The legendary Snake King seemed particularly ridiculous to her. How could a snake be a Divine Spirit, one with a temple dedicated to it?

But recent events seemed to have entangled her life with snakes.

"You're... the Snake King?"

After a moment, Shu Yao came back to her senses. So the Snake King worshipped by all the people of Bai Town was such a small snake. But it was so beautiful.

She could only describe it as beautiful. This snake, which looked like it had slithered right out of a comic book, was extraordinary from head to tail.

And it could fly. It hovered in the air, a pair of luminous Snake Gaze fixed upon her.

Hope. She felt like she saw a glimmer of hope, a ray of dawn. She abruptly tried to kneel, but just as her knees were about to hit the floor, a Formless force seemed to hold her up, preventing her from kneeling.

"No need to kneel, and don't be nervous. Just tell me everything you've been through."

To be honest, this was the first time Tu Xiao'an had ever revealed himself so openly to a stranger.

But if he was going to help this pitiful woman and complete the system's mission, he couldn't afford to be timid. He had to be direct.

Her reaction was relatively calm. Perhaps she was so heartbroken that nothing could truly shock her anymore.

What could be more devastating than a woman becoming pregnant with a Snake Embryo?

Shu Yao took a deep breath. 'He really is a Divine Spirit. He has Mana.'

'He must have been sent by the heavens to save me.'

Shu Yao decided to relax. She wouldn't treat him as the Snake King, but simply as a listener, someone to hear her secret.

She had been so suppressed lately, so terrified of others finding out she was carrying a Snake Embryo and treating her like a monster.

Soon, she was lost in memory—the beginning of her nightmare.

It was on a morning two weeks ago. She woke up and realized her period was almost a week late. With a hunch, Shu Yao took a pregnancy test. Two lines.

In that instant, her whole world lit up. It was as if spring had arrived. She and her boyfriend had already been planning to get married; they just hadn't found the right catalyst.

Now, she was pregnant. The catalyst had arrived. The rest would surely fall into place.

She joyfully told her boyfriend the good news. He was ecstatic, picking Shu Yao up and spinning her around several times on the spot.

Suddenly, the room was filled with joyous laughter.

What is happiness? It isn't immortality, or lavish feasts, or wielding power over the court. Happiness is having every little wish in life fulfilled. When you want to eat, there is food. When you want to be loved, there is someone to love you.

When you want to get married, the heavens send you a little baby, letting you and him become a family of three.

Shu Yao felt like her new life was about to begin. She was filled with infinite hope and beautiful dreams for the future.

But who could have known that this was only the beginning of a nightmare?

The nightmare's curtain was raised during a trip to the hospital with her boyfriend.

Even now, Shu Yao clearly remembered the horrified expression on her boyfriend's face when he learned she wasn't carrying a baby, but a belly full of snakes. He had looked at her as if she were a monster.

He even wondered if he had run into the legendary Bai Suzhen. How could a human possibly get pregnant with a Snake?

It was like a bolt from the blue, casting the happy couple straight into the Eighteen Layers of Hell.

Unable to accept the reality, her boyfriend ran away. Whether he ran to the ends of the earth or the corners of the sea, she had no idea. In any case, she couldn't find him.

Her boyfriend treated Shu Yao like a monster. The hospital wanted to keep her, as if to use her as some kind of experiment, and they too scrutinized her with the same look one gives a monster.

In the end, she ran too. It was all she could do.

"Have you ever kept a Snake? Or had any contact with one?"

The Gold and Silver Snake hovering in the air asked Shu Yao.

Shu Yao shook her head. "No. We don't even keep cats or dogs, let alone a Snake."

"Then has anything strange happened to you? Anything related to snakes?"

A human couldn't possibly become pregnant with a Snake Embryo for no reason. Unless she was a Snake herself, which would explain it. But she wasn't.

Shu Yao struggled to remember, her brows furrowed in a painful effort. Suddenly, she seemed to recall something. She stared blankly at the Gold and Silver Snake hovering before her.

All at once, she became agitated. Her body started to tremble, and she cried out, "It was just a dream! Just a dream! It wasn't real!"

Tu Xiao'an watched her intently, his voice cool and steady. "Tell me. What was this so-called dream?"