Simply put, the Snake Taming Technique was to use the Snake Taming Flute to control snake-type beasts.
By blowing the Snake Taming Flute, it would emit sound waves of a certain frequency to stimulate the mind of the snake-type beasts.
The Snake Taming Flute had been passed down in the Hundred Snake Valley for thousands of years. Only the current Hundred Snake Valley Master was qualified to possess the Snake Taming Flute. Others were not qualified to use the Snake Taming Flute.
Even a Young Master like the Snake King was not qualified.
If not for the fact that the Hundred Snake Valley Master was the Snake King's father, the Snake King would not have been able to obtain the Snake Taming Flute.
And now, the Snake Taming Flute, the most valuable treasure of the Hundred Snake Valley, had been obtained by Fang Chen. If the Hundred Snake Valley Master knew about this, he would be furious.
However, Fang Chen did not have time to think about this. He only wanted to increase his strength.
In front of Fang Chen, there was a book. This book was full of information about the Snake Taming Technique.
After a long time, Fang Chen read through the entire Snake Taming Technique. In general, he had a clear understanding of it.
The Snake Taming Technique had a total of three realms. The first realm was Snake Taming, the second realm was King Taming, and the third realm was Myriad Taming.
This book also introduced it in detail. The Snake Taming Technique was easy to understand. As long as one could master it, they would be able to control ordinary snake-type beasts.
The second realm, King Taming, was to control snake-type kings, such as the Red Devil Snake King.
As for the third realm, Myriad Taming was an exaggeration. According to the Snake Taming Technique, once one reached the third realm, they would at most be able to control non-snake-type beasts. It was impossible to achieve Myriad Taming.
However, even so, it was still very terrifying.
Until now, no one in the Hundred Snake Valley had been able to cultivate the Snake Taming Technique to the third realm. At most, it was the second realm.
Previously, when the Snake King fought with Fang Chen, he used all his strength to break the Red Devil Snake King's seal. He forced it to enter the second realm. If he did that, he would suffer a backlash.
"This Snake Taming Technique is not simple." Fang Chen thought to himself.
After that, Fang Chen began to practice the Snake Taming Technique.
Simply put, to cultivate the Imperial Snake Technique, one needed a martial artist with a strong enough soul. Fang Chen's soul had reached the later stages of the Orange level, which was enough.
The next step was to control the snake and the sound waves emitted by the Snake Taming Flute.
Fang Chen began to slowly cultivate according to the music score on the scroll.
In the beginning, when Fang Chen played the Snake Taming Flute, he was unable to produce any sound. However, Fang Chen was not discouraged. He continued to explore diligently.
Finally, after failing several hundred times, Fang Chen was finally able to make the Snake Taming Flute sound.
At this moment, Fang Chen held the Imperial Snake Flute in his hand and placed it by his mouth. In an instant, Fang Chen's soul force revolved around the Imperial Snake Flute.
Then, Fang Chen blew the Snake Riding Flute, and intermittent sounds came out from the flute.
"That's great!"
Fang Chen was ecstatic. This was a huge improvement.
He was not a member of the Hundred Snake Valley. It was very difficult to cultivate the Snake Taming Technique. It was not easy to reach this level by self-study.
As long as the Snake Taming Flute could produce sound, Fang Chen was confident that he could control it.
In the following time, Fang Chen continued to cultivate the Snake Taming Technique. According to the records on the scroll, the first stage of the Snake Taming Technique was very easy to cultivate. The second and third stages were the hardest to cultivate.
While Fang Chen was cultivating in seclusion, the elders of the Hundred Snake Valley in the inner circle of the mansion were clamoring to find Fang Chen and kill him.
Of course, there was a tremor in the inner circle of the mansion. An underground palace appeared, and all the martial artists who had condensed seven strands of True Qi and above entered it. Then, the palace sank into the ground again.
All the martial artists believed that this palace was the most precious place in the mansion. Some of the weaker martial artists could not even enter it.
At this point, the strongest martial artists in the inner circle of the mansion had only condensed six strands of True Qi. Even so, the younger generation could not compare to them.
However, while Fang Chen was cultivating, Xuanyuan Feng successfully condensed six strands of True Qi, shocking all the martial artists.
Xuanyuan Feng was still so strong, firmly suppressing all the martial artists of the younger generation of the Four Great Ridges.
After Xuanyuan Feng broke through, he disappeared from the inner circle of the mansion. It was said that he went to explore a hidden building.
As for the other younger generation, they were all looking for their own opportunities.
Only the elders of the Hundred Snake Valley kept clamoring to cut off Fang Chen's head as a sacrifice to the dead Snake Lord, the Young Valley Master of the Hundred Snake Valley.
"Where is Fang Chen? Get out here! How dare you kill the people of the Hundred Snake Valley?"
"Fang Chen, you piece of trash. Don't let me see you again. Otherwise, I'll make sure you don't have a burial place."
"Fang Chen must be scared. He's hiding in the dark and doesn't dare to come out."
Many of the elders of the Hundred Snake Valley were cursing Fang Chen. Their hearts were filled with resentment.
When they came to the West Ridge this time, the Hundred Snake Valley Master had personally warned them to protect the Snake Lord. Now that the Snake Lord was dead, they would definitely be punished by the Hundred Snake Valley Master when they returned.
Therefore, they hated Fang Chen even more.
Fang Chen did not appear in the face of the clamoring of all the elders of the Hundred Snake Valley. This puzzled many martial artists.
Little did they know that Fang Chen was in a hidden place, practicing the Hundred Snake Valley's lost technique, the Imperial Snake Technique.
In just three days, Fang Chen had mastered some of the Imperial Snake Flute's tricks. The current Fang Chen could blow the Imperial Snake Flute as he pleased, releasing a certain frequency of sound waves.
However, he was still unable to summon a snake-type demon beast. That puzzled Fang Chen.
In the end, Fang Chen had no choice but to ask the Bronze Ancestor.
"Ancestor, what method do you have?" Fang Chen asked the Bronze Ancestor.
The Bronze Ancestor's mind entered the Imperial Snake Flute to examine it. He said, "This Imperial Snake Flute's craftsmanship is very exquisite. There are many snake-type demon beasts sealed inside. Only by unsealing them can you summon them."
The Bronze Ancestor told Fang Chen a few methods, but he wasn't sure if they would succeed.
Fang Chen began to experiment. Since there were snake-type demon beasts sealed inside, the most important thing was to unseal them.
The Imperial Snake Art wasn't just a secret technique for controlling snake-type demon beasts, it was also the key to unsealing the Imperial Snake Flute.
Fang Chen placed the Imperial Snake Flute near his mouth and blew it once more.
Dong dong dong.
Sound waves came out of the Imperial Snake Flute one after another. At this time, Fang Chen used the Imperial Snake Art's incantation with all his might.
Suddenly, the shadow of a snake-type demonic beast appeared in his body. Fang Chen tried his best to control this snake-type demonic beast shadow and enter the Snake Taming Flute.
Boom!
When the demon beast phantom entered the Imperial Snake Flute, a rumbling sound came from the Imperial Snake Flute. Fang Chen discovered that the sound waves coming from the Imperial Snake Flute were even louder than before.
Hu hu.
When Fang Chen blew the Imperial Snake Flute, he discovered that the frequency of the sound waves coming from the Imperial Snake Flute was exactly the same as the Snake Monarch's.
"Unsealing is a success," said Fang Chen with an excited smile.
In the next moment, Fang Chen blew the Imperial Snake Flute once more.
At this time, snake-type demon beasts appeared out of thin air one after another. They wriggled their bodies in the air, as if waiting for the order to attack.
Seeing this, Fang Chen's eyes lit up. He then used the Imperial Snake Flute to give the snake-type demon beasts the order to attack.
Hiss hiss hiss.
The snake-type demon beasts flicked their tongues and instantly attacked a distant building.
Bang bang bang.
Under the control of the Imperial Snake Flute, these snake-type demon beasts successfully crashed into the distant building, instantly damaging it.
Seeing this, Fang Chen was very excited.
"Have I successfully cultivated the first realm of the Imperial Snake Art?" Fang Chen thought to himself.
However, Fang Chen quickly discovered that he had only cultivated the Imperial Snake Art to a small success. There was still a long way to go before he could completely cultivate the first realm.
The most obvious difference was that he could only summon ordinary snake-type demon beasts, while the Snake Monarch could summon Red Magic Snakes.
"This is just the beginning," Fang Chen said confidently.
In the following time, Fang Chen repeatedly practiced the Imperial Snake Art. As time passed, he became more proficient in the Imperial Snake Art.
At the same time, his control of the Imperial Snake Flute became more and more perfect.
At this time, Fang Chen was even more aware that the Imperial Snake Flute was really a treasure. He wondered if the Snake Valley would be heartbroken if they lost this treasure.
Of course, Fang Chen didn't care so much. What was in his hands was his.
"The current me can easily kill a martial artist who has condensed five strands of True Qi," Fang Chen thought to himself.
Using the Imperial Snake Flute to display the Imperial Snake Art, coupled with his own crazy attacks, killing a martial artist who has condensed five strands of True Qi was very easy.
However, Fang Chen wasn't very confident that he could defeat a martial artist who has condensed six strands of True Qi.
However, Fang Chen knew that his strength still had room for improvement. Once he condensed four strands of True Qi, his strength would greatly increase.
"My cultivation has reached a bottleneck. Let's stop cultivating for now," Fang Chen said.
He left the seclusion area and prepared to look for opportunities in the inner area of the mansion.
As soon as he left the seclusion area and appeared in the inner area of the mansion, Fang Chen heard the clamoring of some elders of the Snake Valley.
"These elders of the Snake Valley have been looking for Fang Chen. They insult Fang Chen every day in order to force Fang Chen to show himself."
"Yeah, I don't know where Fang Chen went. Since he dared to kill the Snake Lord, I'm afraid he isn't an ordinary person."
"A bunch of old farts bullying a young man. What's so great about that?"
"Do you guys think that Fang Chen is secretly hiding and doesn't dare to come out?"
Fang Chen walked to the end of a wide alley and heard a few disciples talking.
"The people of the Snake Valley are looking for me."
Through the discussion of these few cultivators, Fang Chen learned that the Hundred Snake Valley Elder had been mocking him during this period of time.