Serpent Ancestor

In the City Lord’s mansion, a figure identical to Mo Wuyou emerged.

His eyes were clear, his voice calm, and his demeanor gentle, completely different from the demonic aura of Mo Wuyou.

”Everyone in Wuyou City is my people. Their thoughts are my thoughts! As long as one of them loses their humanity, I will fall into darkness, never to return!”

”Your idea is commendable, but unfortunately, you have failed!”

”For three years, no one has resorted to cannibalism, and no one has killed each other.”

”You have lost!”

Gongshu Wuyou’s voice was firm as he waved his hand.

A golden light descended from the heavens, accompanied by the vast and boundless might of the Dao, suddenly enveloping the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Compared to this might of the Dao, the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon was like an ant trying to shake a tree. The demonic aura vanished like snow meeting boiling oil. Its body crumbled instantly under a black speck of dust cast by Xu Hei.

This was not dust; this was the Dao!The face of the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon gradually turned fearful, emitting a sharp, piercing scream.

”This is impossible! No!!!”

Within the might of the Dao, the form of the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon gradually blurred, as if vaporized. The demonic aura disappeared, and its body vanished as well.

Ultimately, it turned into a wisp of black light.

Gongshu Wuyou took out a mirror, pointed with his hand, and the wisp of black light flew into the mirror, transforming into the Heart-Mirror within the pyramid.

At that moment!

All negative influences vanished.

Disaster ceased to exist.

”Whoosh!”

Heavenly rain descended, and Spiritual Qi was revived.

Wuyou City experienced a long-awaited downpour.

Plants grew wildly, bringing new vitality.

The plague among cultivators naturally lifted, True Qi surged into their bodies, and the cultivators in the city were overjoyed.

Everyone, without exception, immediately sprang into action, rushing to the homes of mortals, going door to door.

They did not sit down to meditate and restore their cultivation but instead rushed to save people at the first opportunity!

This was the order of Wuyou City!

In times of disaster, good intentions were hidden, but when peace returned, everything would revive.

Lives were saved one by one, and those on the brink of death awoke under treatment.

Some healers collapsed on the front lines, and some cultivators permanently lost their cultivation, but they had no regrets.

Xu Hei’s gaze swept over Wuyou City, witnessing everything within the city, his eyes filled with awe.

At this moment, he finally understood.

The people of Wuyou City were the anchor points of the City Lord’s Dao heart. As long as these anchor points did not fall into darkness, the City Lord would not either.

Once an anchor point had issues, the City Lord would also be doomed.

Xu Hei also had his own anchor point, which was that big black snake.

He gave up comfort, endured daily beatings, and practiced the Diamond Suppression Technique, causing the big black snake to grow stronger, regain its wild nature, and develop venomous fangs.

He learned gratitude, and the big black snake followed suit, knowing to repay kindness.

”Are these scenes real or fake?” Xu Hei couldn’t help but ask.

By now, he had recovered all his memories.

He had entered this world after receiving an inheritance.

No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like a dream, an illusion, but it was too real for Xu Hei to distinguish.

”Both real and fake,” Gongshu Wuyou said.

Xu Hei looked at him in confusion.

”In true history, Wuyou City was destroyed, I was invaded by the Inner Demon, and everyone turned into madmen.”

Gongshu Wuyou paused, then solemnly said, ”But you changed history.”

Changed history... Xu Hei was initially stunned, feeling utterly confused.

History is something that has already happened; how could it be changed?

”Some outcomes are already destined and cannot be changed, but some things can still be salvaged!”

”When you return to reality, you will understand.”

Gongshu Wuyou said slowly.

…………

Xu Hei returned home, and his parents had recovered after treatment.

However, the big snake could never rise again.

It had grown venomous fangs and had a sturdy skeleton, but it was not used for killing or hunting, nor did it have a cruel instinct. Instead, it was used to repay kindness and to carry out Xu Hei’s Dao intentions.

Xu Hei buried it.

Afterward, the family had dinner together.

”Father, Mother, I have to go. I am leaving Wuyou City, going to a far, far place,” Xu Hei said.

Faced with Xu Hei’s farewell, his parents did not try to stop him.

Xu Daniu patted Xu Hei’s shoulder and said, ”Your father is uneducated, doesn’t know what to say, take care!”

Xu’s mother said, ”Don’t fight with people outside, and if you feel wronged, come home.”

Xu Hei’s nose tingled, and he nodded heavily.

Even though he knew that Father and Mother might be fictional, an illusion, he couldn’t help but shed tears.

Why was this?

Xu Hei didn’t know, he didn’t understand, he was just a snake, unable to comprehend such complex things.

A snake’s life is three years, a human’s life is twenty years.

He carved the names and portraits of the three family members onto a stone tablet and buried it underground.

”Father, Mother, I’m leaving!”

At the gate of Wuyou City, Xu Hei turned his back, eyes filled with tears, and walked towards the city gate.

In a daze, Xu Hei returned to the moment he first gained awareness.

Reincarnated for countless lifetimes, living once as a human.

He envied humans.

How wonderful it would be to live in Wuyou City forever?

Xu Hei did not look back, resolutely walking towards the city gate, just as he chose the most challenging path of body cultivation, a life of comfort was not for him.

”Buzz!”

A bright white light shone before him, illuminating everything, space twisted, consciousness was extracted, and he traveled swiftly through the void.

He didn’t know how long it took.

Xu Hei’s consciousness returned to reality.

He was back in the crevice of space, beneath him was still the teleportation formation left by Hei Huang, and he was still that big black snake.

However, all the snake bones in his body had unconsciously transformed into dragon bones, including his head.

In front of him appeared an ancient scroll, with four names written on it, and this treasure returned with him.

”Xu Hei.”

From the void in the sky came the voice of the City Lord of Wuyou.

”Do you think a true Wuyou City exists in the world?” the voice asked.

Xu Hei shook his head and said, ”Born in adversity, die in comfort, there is no Wuyou City in this world.”

”But if there are countless worlds, perhaps in one of them, somewhere, there is a place close to Wuyou City. The technology there is more advanced than Wuyou City.”

”Everyone yearns for beautiful things, such a place must exist.”

Xu Hei understood that in the harsh Cultivation World, Wuyou City could not exist.

The scenes in the city just now were but an illusion, with a powerful cultivator like the City Lord as a backing, enjoying favorable weather, free from illness and disaster, living in peace.

In a normal city, how could there be no disasters for a thousand years? It was just a Will-o’-the-Wisp.

”Born in adversity, die in comfort.”

”Everyone yearns for beautiful things.”

”Hahaha, it’s a pity you weren’t born in my era.”

The City Lord of Wuyou laughed heartily, his voice tinged with regret, gradually fading away.

At that moment, the world suddenly shook.

Xu Hei looked up at the void, where a vortex appeared, leading to the heavens, as if terrifying thunderclouds were forming in the vast void.

These thunderclouds were countless times more terrifying than any Xu Hei had seen before.

”The Core Formation Stage tribulation is here!” Xu Hei thought to himself.