As the convoy headed away, free of all stress, Midas calmly waved them off at the border of her barrier.

“Pleasse vissit again~!” <Midas>

Although she wore her usual clothes she had the addition of a chubby cute snake wrapped around her neck like a loose scarf; it’s head hovering about her ear. This snake was of course Ulwazi. Other than the snake she had a faint blush upon her cheeks and the golden fabric around her crotch and nipples appeared moist. She also smelled rather ‘unique’ with a rather strong combined ‘musk’ that overpowered her usual odour.

The men didn’t seem to mind that however as they constantly shot her heated gazes. Just looking at her milk juggs had gotten their pants in a pitch; truthfully it seemed like they didn’t want to leave. Nonetheless they had to and likely wouldn’t survive a few more rounds with those monster mounds - neither would their wallets!

Seeing this she gave them a ‘loving’ grin and wink combo after using her hand to blow them a kiss.

| They are already within our consstriction mother. They aren’t even aware they aren’t the oness in control - I wonder how much milk & [Spirit Stones] we’ll get from them next time. I can’t wait to reach the Foundation Formation realm to help you harvesst our gainss. | <Ulwazi>

For a while Midas showed no reaction to Ulwazi’s words but the little snake didn’t react - unlike herself her mother was in a humanoid form afterall. Nonetheless, as soon as the mortals were out of view, the blush on Midas’ cheeks vanished but her smile did remain… This time it looked more sly than it did loving. She did still look rather seductive as she was in fact a very seductive person just by standing still.

| I certainly managed to get quite the income, didn't I shashasha~! Thiss iss jusst the beginning though sso I hope you’ll do your besst to be ready ssoon. You’ll have to do a lot of work after thosse mortalss have finisshed preparing their future poor attempt at a ssubduction. | <Midas>

The little snake couldn’t help but tilt her head gently. 

| I thought you were planning to tesst your abilitiess on their mother? | <Ulwazi>

| Indeed but afterwards you will have them blow load after load into your chubby little ass till they’re empty - whether you get a humanoid form or not~! | <Midas>

| Eh? | <Ulwazi>

Midas ignored any protests the girl may have had to instead lift up her left hand to boop her on the snout. She then turned around and began to walk back into the oasis behind them with a sly grin on her face - she was quite excited about their future exploits but looking at the giant golden wall made her brow furrow for a second.

| You are such a creative girl so it’s only right I make sure to reward you with this all you can eat buffet right? | <Midas>

<| Initializing <Answer>{It appears you're just mad about your daughter suggesting you are a dick in front of your first batch of man-cows.} |>

| Wait, I did that?! | <Ulwazi>

| You really have a lot to learn in the future, Uli. Doessn’t change the fact you will be expected to improve your realm. Anyway how iss the progresss with the ssect going; better yet did that lasst one actually make it to the sect~? | <Midas>

<| Initializing <Answer>{Well as unlikely as it is he managed to get back to his sect after crushing a jade pendant that summoned some elders to his location. They should’ve gotten his report though he also would’ve succumbed to your venom shortly afterwards. Didn’t really care enough to pay much attention to them though.} |>

| True enough, never rely on the divine for something vital. | <Midas>

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Silently a man adorned in a purple robe with platinum scales lining the edges sat upon a bone throne with a giant cobra skull peering down on those below him. The man appeared to be in his middle age with faded black hair with clear signs of age upon his skin. Not only was his skin fairly wrinkled but it was even strangely pale despite living his entire life in the {Gold Dust Desert Continent}; it was as if he had never seen the sky before.

Stranger yet were his veins under his abnormally white skin. Instead of the usual blue they appeared as a soft purple which didn’t look healthy to say the least; he still looked healthier than the disciple in front of him though. He wasn’t even sure if this was truly a disciple as to him it literally seems just like a golden statue… What made him lean forward was the unusual qi coming from the statue though. Not to mention the story he was hearing from this supposed ‘report’ sounded more like something passed around by some foolish mortals rather than something from an actual cultivator. 

Because of this he shook his head while resting his arms on his thrones armrests. Leaning back his cold venomous gaze slowly passed over his purple adorned elders as they sat on both his left and right. Many of them were just as confused as he was as they stared at the golden statue but one of the outer-court elders who had bronze scales adorning his purple robe looked nervous. He almost seemed fearful as he stared at the golden statue which made the middle-aged man disgusted with his cowardice.

“Care to repeat your ‘report’ one more time; I do believe we are all quite curious about this supposed terror.” <Lord Purple Cobra>

“Y-Yes Lord Cobra.” <Outer-Court Elder>

The poor elder almost seemed to shit himself as Cobra’s request visibly made him jump; of course this did little to improve Cobra’s opinion of him. The middle-aged man didn’t even hide his disdain for the weaker cultivators as he visibly scowled. His fingers strummed on his bone throne while glaring down at the elder. He clearly was not a gracious sect master.

“It appears a giant winged golden serpent appeared between {Aqua Liger City} & {Flaming Tiger City} around the core of the desert. When a team of our inner-sect disciples investigated the situation they were attacked by the beast as it… It inflicted them with a strange venom which turned them into this strange [Spirit Gold] material - exactly like gold but releasing a strange qi I’ve never seen. Other than that it launched a powerful attack which has created a sandstorm that could shred a beast into a bloody mess that was still going on when I received the call.

The one who managed to escape the beast is… Is what you see in front of you. Before I managed to bring him back to the sect he had already turned to solid gold.” <Outer-Court Elder>

“Hm… What have we found out about the venom?” <Lord Purple Cobra>

This time someone competent actually stepped forward to answer him; one of his core elders actually stepped forward to answer his question. He could tell due to the gold scales marking his elder ranking. Thinking he was finally going to get some actual answers made him smile happily while motioning for the elder. Much to his disappointment the elder just gave a wry smile.

“We’ve only seen some petrification poisonous or venoms that could be said to be linked but they don’t make anything like this gold. We have confirmed it is indeed a metal. There were also some freezing poisons we looked into for any possible links but with our limited knowledge we aren’t even sure what this gold is.” <Core-Court Elder>

“Did you actually discover anything!?” <Lord Purple Cobra>

With that yell he slammed his fists onto his chair in rage causing the room to shake under the pressure of his initial Core Formation realm cultivation. A very impressive cultivation for a human in this desert - with this cultivation he could practically walk around anywhere with respect! Though considering how pale he was, everyone would doubt if he said he walked anywhere even if they were too afraid to say it out loud.

“That’s the thing Lord Cobra… We discovered nothing about anything this serpent apparently did within our records nor the records from the neighbouring cities. If there was another ‘endless sandstorm’ we would have known about it.” <Core-Court Elder>

“So what we know is it’s something new?” <Lord Purple Cobra>

“At the very least it’s new to this desert.” <Core-Court Elder>

“Hm…” <Lord Purple Cobra>

This was actually quite interesting to know. 

If there was a new venomous creature within their grasp, as the number 1 poison sect, how could they not be intrigued. Not to mention this beast apparently acted casually when displaying its power but then retreated thus letting one of their disciples get away? This seemed to suggest something else than it’s power just being that great. A confident grin appeared on his face as he chuckled gravely to himself.

Soon another elder with the same platinum scales on his robe, though lesser in amount than his own as he did not have them on his cuffs, stepped forward from beside his throne. Sharing the grin with the sect master.

“Perhaps you are thinking what I’m thinking Cobra?” <Supreme Elder>

“Indeed… It seems likely that whatever this beast is they used all their power to use a power above their realm in order to scare off the weaklings. If this is true it seems that whatever this beast is they aren’t too high in cultivation. At best they could be said to be 6th layer of Qi Consolidation if they were fearful of those inner-court disciples.” <Lord Purple Cobra>

“Heh-heh-heh but even then it’s techniques were very impressive in terms of destruction even if it wasn’t able to use them in a proper battle. I can confirm that the sandstorm does indeed exist Cobra so it should be in our best interest to have a talk with this serpent. We needn’t go ourselves so I think maybe an inner-court elder leading a few outer-court elders to deal with the situation at most?” <Supreme Elder>

“I doubt we need to go that far… Then again I would be more worried if other sects got their hands on such a technique. Such a technique or venom alone could completely change the scales of power in this desert so we should be wary of any other sects getting information on this beast…” <Lord Purple Cobra>

“Sure enough; the main enemy is other humans. If we could perfect the venom we could wipe out an entire city with ease and the same can be said for the sandstorm technique.” <Supreme Elder>

“Hm… I’ll trust your judgement for this important matter now that I’ve talked myself into it as well. Choose some trusted elders as well as disciples from the following two courts and have the core elder lead the elders while the core disciples will act under those elders - I want the core disciples to have their hands on their safety Jade’s.” <Lord Purple Cobra>

“We also need to look into uses for that gold to make the most of the venom when we get it.” <Supreme Elder>

“Indeed, it’ll be as good as ours. Though remind those over eager kids that we ideally want the snake alive or some eggs from it so we can breed them for that venom. We also need to get that technique… Maybe we can fatten up the beast and tame it. Better yet bind it & it’s descendents into service for the sect?” <Lord Purple Cobra>

“We’ll have to change our name to Gold Serpent Sect then Cobra heh-heh-heh!” <Supreme Elder> 

“Indeed hahaha!” <Lord Purple Cobra>

The mood within the sect hall began to lighten as the core-elders chuckled along with their leaders. Even a few of the more gutsy outer-court elders had a hearty laugh at the banter between the two. They acted very quickly, quicker than Midas expected… 

It was questionable if that was a good thing for them though.