Invincible Snake Emperor-Chapter 173 - 170: Jiang Xingze Kneels in Humiliation Again

'So it really wasn't Dr. Snake.'

In the video Sister Meilin had sent him, the Vampire Snake had rampaged out of Shanye Group, carrying someone on its back.

Tu Xiao'an had always been curious about the identity of the person on the Vampire Snake's back.

Besides Dr. Snake, who else in the world could possibly control the Vampire Snake?

'New and old scores to settle?'

Tu Xiao'an took note of what the black-robed man had said. Seeing the man's towering hatred for him, he wondered, 'Could he have a grudge against me?'

'No way. If someone that ugly held a grudge against me, it's impossible I wouldn't remember him.'

'Generally, two kinds of people leave a lasting impression: those as beautiful as a Celestial Immortal, and those who are incomparably hideous. This man was clearly the latter.'

Levitating in the air, Tu Xiao'an stared at the black-robed man with utter disgust. The longer he looked, the uglier the man became—so ugly that even he, a snake, felt his heart sink in despair.

Jiang Xingze understood the look of disgust in the Gold and Silver Snake's eyes. He became like a furious lion, roaring at the sky, "You damned snake! I, Jiang Xingze, will drink your blood and eat your flesh!"

'Huh?'

'Jiang Xingze?'

'He says he's Jiang Xingze? He didn't die?'

Tu Xiao'an was even more surprised. Back in the laboratory, he had controlled several thousand bees to sting Jiang Xingze all at once. How could he have possibly survived that?

'Talk about a tenacious life. They say the good die young, while a scourge lasts a thousand years.'

'It seems there's some truth to that saying. The ancients truly weren't lying to me.'

If this ugly fiend was Jiang Xingze, then he was an old acquaintance indeed.

'Could his current ugliness, his skin riddled with thousands of sores, be the after-effect of being stung by all those bees?'

'If that's the case, I feel much better about it. Otherwise, were my thousands of bees just for show?'

"Get lost. You're disgusting me."

The levitating Gold and Silver Snake spoke to Jiang Xingze, its voice dripping with mockery and utter disgust.

Disgusting?

Jiang Xingze trembled, his entire being consumed by rage. Who was responsible for turning him into this creature, neither human nor ghost?

Anyone else had the right to be disgusted by his ugliness, but this damned snake had absolutely no right to do so.

Back in his school days, Jiang Xingze had been handsome enough to be the campus heartthrob. Now, he had been reduced to this hideous state.

Who doesn't care about their looks?

"You damned snake! I, Jiang Xingze, swear that today I will grind your bones to dust!"

Jiang Xingze's eyes bulged, veins popping on his hideous face. He became even uglier—so ugly he could blot out the sun and moon.

He didn't care about anything anymore. All that mattered was killing this damned snake. So what if he was ugly? He couldn't see himself, anyway.

If he could manage to disgust the snake to death, Jiang Xingze would be overjoyed.

Hearing Jiang Xingze's shameless boasting, Tu Xiao'an looked at him as if he were an idiot. 'How does this guy never learn his lesson?'

Whether back on She Mountain or in the laboratory, he had been made utterly miserable by him. For a time, Tu Xiao'an had even thought the man had already gone to the Underworld to be reincarnated.

'To think he was the one who left Shanye Group with the Vampire Snake.'

But in any case, surviving the stings of thousands of bees was his own good fortune. Why didn't he know to cherish his life? Why did he still dare to run his mouth in front of him? Had he forgotten the beatings but not the meals?

'He should know how easy it would be for me to kill him. Or maybe, after becoming this ugly, he's no longer afraid to die?'

Tu Xiao'an's mind wandered, indulging in dark humor.

"Kneel before me."

Tu Xiao'an's gaze was cold and placid, yet it held a lofty disdain as he spoke to Jiang Xingze in a commanding tone.

As if the man were his slave.

Kneel?

The moment he heard the word "kneel," Jiang Xingze felt like he was about to explode. Back on She Mountain, this very snake had forced him to his knees, making him lose all face.

And now, upon meeting again, it wanted him to kneel once more?

He, Jiang Xingze, was no longer the man he used to be. He had not only become a Human Awakened, but he had also acquired the Vampire Snake as a pet.

He was no longer the helpless weakling of the past. He had more than enough power to face anything.

"Who do you think you—"

Jiang Xingze had just started to curse when the levitating Gold and Silver Snake's Snake Gaze flickered toward him. Instantly, his expression changed, and he found himself completely paralyzed.

A mountain-like pressure washed over him, weighing him down as if by a thousand pounds. Unable to bear the force, his knees began to buckle.

He gritted his teeth, struggling to keep himself from kneeling. In his peripheral vision, he saw the levitating snake reveal a disturbingly human-like expression of contempt.

In the eyes of this damned snake, he was nothing more than an ant, utterly insignificant.

"Bastard…"

'It wants to make me kneel again? Impossible! I'm a Human Awakened now! A single one of my punches carries no less than a thousand pounds of force! How can I possibly endure such a humiliation again?'

He clenched his jaw, resisting with every ounce of his strength. 'I won't kneel! I'd rather die than kneel!'

But… THUD!

Jiang Xingze was dumbfounded. He was on his knees, completely against his will. The worst part was that he couldn't even stand up; it was as if the legendary Five Finger Mountain was pinning him down.

"You pathetic clown. Do you have any idea how easy it would be for me to kill you? As simple as crushing an ant."

Tu Xiao'an looked down at the kneeling Jiang Xingze with utter disgust. He had to admit, the man was truly hideous now.

'Where does he even find the courage to keep living? Did he survive looking like that just so he could go around scaring people like a ghost?'

'Okay, I admit it. He scared me.'

"Shout, 'Long live the Snake King,' and I might just spare your life like I did last time."

It was as if a scene from the past was playing out again. Jiang Xingze was once again being forced to his knees by this snake, forced to shout, "Long live the Snake King."

Damn it! Bastard! Jiang Xingze was going insane with rage. He had fantasized countless times about encountering this damned snake again and enacting his sweet, satisfying revenge. But why was the reality so completely different from his imagination?

It was the complete opposite of what he'd pictured.

'It forced me to my knees with a single glance, and I can't even struggle. Is my status as a Human Awakened a fake?'

"Vampire Snake, are you dead?! What are you waiting for? Help me!"

Jiang Xingze suddenly remembered that he had the Vampire Snake. He was being pinned down by a Formless force, unable to move. Slowly, he found it was becoming difficult to breathe.

A familiar terror of death washed over him.

The thirty-meter-long Vampire Snake behind him had been watching all along, a vicious light gleaming in its eyes. At Jiang Xingze's roar, that vicious gleam intensified, and a terrifying aura burst forth from it.

BANG!

The Consciousness Power that Tu Xiao'an had wrapped around Jiang Xingze abruptly shattered.

As if a great weight had been lifted, Jiang Xingze scrambled to his feet. He didn't dare run his mouth any longer. He understood with painful clarity that even as a Human Awakened, he was nothing but trash before this flying, Thunder-wielding Gold and Silver Snake.

'It's too terrifying. Has the world changed? Why are snakes so ridiculously powerful, while I, a proud human being, am as weak and insignificant as an ant?'

Jiang Xingze took ten thousand points of emotional damage. This snake was his nemesis. He hated it with every fiber of his being, yet he was completely powerless against it.

Meeting again now, the outcome was just the same as it had been on She Mountain. Apparently, nothing had changed. He was still being trampled on and humiliated.