"Okay." Hearing Wang Han's call, An Qi quickly wiped away her tears and chased after him.
"Master, thank you." After catching up with Wang Han, An Qi ran a few steps to him, knelt down and said.
“You are my disciple, my disciple Wang Han,” Wang Han said, waving his hand to help An Qi up with a gentle breeze.
"Yes, Master is my only family. He is the person I trust the most, respect the most, and treat the best to me. No matter what Master does in the future, or what he asks me to do, I am willing to always stand by Master's side." Anqi nodded heavily, and her face finally showed a genuine smile again, unlike the forced smile she had before.
"As long as I don't embarrass my master," Wang Han said with a smile, and continued walking forward.
“Mm.” Anqi nodded heavily and followed behind Wang Han.
"By the way, Anqi, you have three senior brothers and sisters." On the way, Wang Han said to Anqi, "It's just a pity that they are no longer in this world."
"Really, that's great." Hearing this, Anqi smiled again. It turned out that she not only had her master as family, but also her senior brothers and sisters. As for what Wang Han said about not being in this world, she didn't care. She just needed to know that she wasn't so lonely.
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Soon after, Wang Han brought An Qi back to the palace. They sat at the entrance of the main hall, quietly watching the still-smoke-filled city. An Qi stood quietly behind Wang Han. Although she felt some reluctance, she no longer blamed herself. Perhaps seeing so much Wang Han had killed had numbed her, or perhaps her mindset had changed, and she no longer cared so much. Perhaps she had promised to always stand by Wang Han's side, and having prepared herself mentally, she had convinced herself.
Apart from the two people, there was no other free living person in the city. The only survivors were a very small number of people with special abilities who had been captured by Wang Han's pets.
The entire Blue Maple City is now a ruin. The eastern district and the city center have been completely destroyed and devoured by the giant serpent, leaving nothing but ruins and corpses. The magic originally used to defend the city walls from enemies leaping over them has become the biggest obstacle, extinguishing any hope of survival for the city's inhabitants. Apart from those who escaped at the beginning, no one else in Blue Maple City has escaped. Although Wang Han knew about the pets' massacre and hadn't ordered them to do so, he didn't stop them. Having experienced so many worlds, Wang Han's compassion was no longer easily swayed.
"Whoosh..." The sound of the giant serpent's massive body sliding across the ground echoed within the palace. As the serpent's enormous body moved, the earth cracked and shattered, forming a wide, waterless canal. Soon, the serpent reached Wang Han, opened its mouth, and spat out a large number of people and some magical beasts, all covered in a thick, grayish slime. They were all on the verge of death, their faint breaths indicating that they were still alive. Among them were the five great professional gods of Blue Maple City, including the ancestor of the An Dun family, and the professional saints who had been devoured by the serpent.
"Eat and digest them all. Absorbing them should make you stronger," Wang Han instructed. The giant serpent's body contains two spaces. One space possesses a strong ability to absorb energy and dissolve objects; it's where the serpent devours and digests food, transferring energy to its stomach. The other space is used by the serpent to store items. Furthermore, this serpent is a silver-ringed wire snake, possessing terrifyingly toxic and corrosive poison.
"Thank you for the reward, Master." Upon receiving Wang Han's order, the giant snake was overjoyed and immediately opened its mouth again to devour all the people it had just spat out.
Wang Han's pets also arrived at the palace with their respective spoils of war. They placed their trophies before him and respectfully looked at Wang Han, who sat before the palace. Among them were people and various other items.
"Take all of these back." Looking at the combat supplies his pet brought back, Wang Han nodded in satisfaction and waved his hand to open a huge divine power space passage.
After the passage to the Divine Might Space opened, the pets each took their spoils and entered the Divine Might Space in an orderly manner, leaving only the giant snake, the armored rhinoceros, and a two-headed wolf in its growth stage outside.
"The guest has arrived, half an hour earlier than expected. Great Serpent, it's here for you. We belong to the same category, but are different species. Say hello." After storing all the pets in the Divine Might Space, Wang Han glanced in the direction east of Blue Maple City and said to the Great Serpent.
"Hiss..." Upon hearing this, the giant snake immediately straightened its massive body and hissed loudly towards the east of the city.
Angie also looked expectantly towards the east side of the city. Wang Han had mentioned before that this guest had come from the Monster Forest and was a terrifying monster stronger than the giant serpent. She was curious about what kind of monster this guest was, that it was even stronger than the terrifying giant serpent, but she didn't see anything.
"Hiss..." As the great serpent's hiss echoed far and wide, a slightly different, equally powerful hiss returned from a hundred kilometers away, as if in response. A hundred miles east of the city, a gigantic serpentine shadow, just like the great serpent, rose upright. It was also a serpentine magical beast, equally colossal, reaching into the clouds, its scales much thicker and whitish than the great serpent's. Then, it stood upright and slowly approached. Behind it, a dozen or so powerful magical beasts followed.
"Master, what is this?" At this moment, Anqi finally saw the snake-like magical beast that was even thicker than a giant snake.
“It should be the serpent god they were talking about—Jormungandr, a true god-level being who surpasses even false gods,” Wang Han said with a smile.
"A true god." Upon hearing this, Angie swallowed hard. A god—that was a legend, like the gods worshipped by magicians.
A hundred kilometers is but a minute's journey for the colossal serpent god Jormungandr. Its gaze is fixed on the great serpent, hissing.
"Speak human language," the giant snake said, though it could understand it, its master could not.
"..." The serpent god Jormungandr paused, then, seeing Wang Han and Anqi behind the giant serpent, asked, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
The voice was rather gentle; it was a female snake. However, it didn't seem to be hostile towards Wang Han and the others.
The giant snake did not answer. Instead, it asked, "And who are you?"
"I am Jormungandr, the ruler of the Beast Forest two thousand miles away, also known as the Serpent God," said the Serpent God Jormungandr. "Now you can answer my question, my powerful kin."
Upon hearing this, the giant snake looked at Wang Han. After Wang Han nodded slightly and spoke a few words to it spiritually, it said, "My master and I came here from a very far place. Coming here was just an accident."
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