Now accompanying the White Snake and Green Snake, Tao Qian was merely a Mystical Pearl Avatar and could not truly escort the two women back to the Imperial City to prepare for the wedding and such.
He also knew this would not happen; following the ways of Golden Cicada, before long, a "big trouble" would arise, leading Tao Qian and the two female Snake Immortals to embark on a journey of escape. Along the way, one or two forces would surely be drawn out, but there were many benefits for him, Great Demon Tao.
Thus, Tao Qian could leisurely return and wait.
Before long, a change indeed occurred.
Still as familiar as ever, a thunderbolt resounded in the distant sky.
Soon after, a towering apparition of a god-demon with a human head and serpent body appeared across countless territories.
A human head with a serpent body was a shape Tao Qian had seen often in the Cultivation World.
But one as ferocious as this was unique.
