Serpent Ancestor

Earlier, they had sensed a nauseating power emanating from Hei Huang’s body. Now, that power was expanding wildly, growing stronger and causing them intense unease.

This kind of unease, they had only ever seen in one person—the Sea God.

They all thought of the Sea God at the same time!

For the thousand cultivators on Twin Islands, the Sea God Sect had made thorough preparations, laying plans in advance, deploying two protectors, and bribing insiders, ensuring a foolproof operation.

Even if the defensive forces on Twin Islands doubled, it would be to no avail.

However, with the unexpected variable of Hei Huang, both of them felt a heavy weight in their hearts and dared not hold back any longer, immediately unleashing their full power.

The Nightmare Demon Lord unleashed the Devouring Sky Black Curtain, transforming into a ferocious, devouring maw that lunged toward the trading venue. But Jiang Chong and Jiang Ying immediately sensed the situation. Ignoring their injuries, they advanced instead of retreating, attacking the Nightmare Demon Lord together.

Jiang Chong wielded a thunder spear, its energy piercing the sky, transforming into a roaring thunder dragon, purple lightning coming from the west! Meanwhile, seven jade beads appeared on Jiang Ying’s bracelet, radiating a seven-colored light, transforming into a seven-colored phoenix, with dragon and phoenix in harmony, striking the Devouring Sky Black Curtain.

The Nightmare Demon Lord had already figured out the tactics of these Twin City Lords.

These two, their lives were interconnected, endlessly regenerating. As long as one of them remained alive, the other would resurrect even if their entire physical body was destroyed. They had to be killed simultaneously in a single breath, or they could never be killed.Their concept was twin birth, twin death.

The reason the Nightmare Demon Lord had been delayed for so long was due to the bizarre tactics of these Twin City Lords.

”Two mere mid-stage Elemental Infants trying to stop me? Courting death!”

The Nightmare Demon Lord transformed into fear, countless bats appearing in the clouds, forming a black wind tornado that crashed into the two. The dragon and phoenix harmony scene was instantly shattered. Both spat blood, their bodies enveloped in shadows, their minds plunging into an endless deep sea, about to be overwhelmed by the terror within the trench.

On the other side, Xu Fu raised his hand and pointed swiftly, igniting karmic fire on everyone present. As long as they were cultivators, they had some degree of karmic hindrance.

At this moment, those hindrances materialized into flames, emerging from the void, devouring everyone.

Xu Hei saw the people he had killed before, transformed into surging karmic fire attacking him, many of them still bearing parts of the butcher.

Members of the Iron Mountain Gang, disciples of the Snake Catchers Sect, people from the Heavenly Dragon Casino... even the giant octopus he had taken down appeared in the void, hideous and terrifying, with fierce flames rushing toward Xu Hei.

”Karmic fire?”

Xu Hei had no idea what these things were. The target of the karmic fire seemed not to be the butcher but his true self—the sword!

Of course, his true self was bound to the butcher, and no one could distinguish them except himself.

”Whoosh!”

Xu Hei instantly dashed out of the trading venue, the Ever-changing Fish and Dragon fully activated, but the flames followed him like a shadow, never leaving.

Xu Hei immediately realized that appearances were born from the heart. These karmic fires were not summoned by outsiders but were born from within him. Xu Fu couldn’t possibly see through his memories.

”Wait, why do I have demonic beasts here, while others don’t?” Xu Hei’s eyes flickered as he noticed something unusual again.

He could see the karmic fires on others, all of them human cultivators, but he had demonic beasts on him, which was different.

Han Te’s karmic fire was rather strange, consisting of piles of spirit stones, gold, and silver jewels.

Xu Hei’s mind raced, and just as the karmic fire was about to reach him, something in his storage bag suddenly trembled.

”Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...”

A string of copper coins flew out, quickly assembling into a money sword before Xu Hei’s eyes, radiating brilliant light!

”Is this... the copper coins Xu Bai left me?” Xu Hei’s expression changed.

At this moment, the money sword’s size matched Xu Hei’s true self, three feet long, almost overlapping.

The butcher held two swords, looking at the endless karmic fire coming at him, and a bold idea formed in his mind. Without changing his expression, he raised the sword and slashed forward!

”Slash!”

The money sword and Xu Hei’s true self swung simultaneously, cutting into the vast sea of flames.

In an instant, the karmic hindrances emitted a mournful scream, wisps of smoke rising from their bodies, turning into clouds and dissipating.

With just one slash, he severed the cause and effect, cleansing himself!

Xu Hei was filled with shock.

Looking around, among the nearly thousand people present, he was the only one who had broken through the karmic hindrances. The others were burned beyond recognition, each consumed by the karmic fire, dying a miserable death.

Some cast pleading glances at him, but Xu Hei had no time to spare, nor any intention of helping others clear their karmic hindrances, as Xu Fu had already set his sights on him.

”Daring to be distracted, Yehuo Demon Lord, you don’t know the meaning of death!”

Hei Huang sneered coldly, changing his hand seals, and slammed a palm into the void.

”Gate of Hell!”

In an instant, space cracked open, void spreading, and from the other side of that void world, a massive shadow emerged, coming from another world, descending upon this realm.

The eyes of the two protectors immediately turned toward this place, their hearts surging with tidal waves.

From that cracked space, a pitch-black door slowly descended, its surface burning with demonic flames, demonic energy surging, carved with scenes of hellish Asura, hideous and terrifying. Even though only a small part was exposed, just one glance was enough to draw one’s mind in!

”Ah!!”

Xu Fu’s eyes suddenly burst with two streams of blood.

The Nightmare Demon Lord suffered backlash, forcibly retracting his thoughts, and the two city lords, who were about to be consumed by fear, narrowly seized a chance at survival.

As the space continued to crack, the door from beyond the world was about to descend upon the world, the heavens and earth seemed on the verge of collapse, trembling endlessly, the world shaking, sun and moon losing light.

”Retreat!”

The two protectors simultaneously thought of one word.

The Nightmare Demon Lord spat out a stream of black blood, performing a mid-air transformation, his indescribable demonic body shrinking by half, as if activating some life-burning secret technique!

In the next moment, an invisible ripple swept across the entire venue, and those cultivators burning in karmic fire vanished one by one, being teleported away. The evil cultivators retreated in droves, rushing out of the trading venue, disappearing into thin air.

Xu Fu also tapped his brow, his corpulent body shrinking, rising into the air, about to escape into the void.

But his gaze was locked onto Xu Hei, reaching out to grab him, Xu Hei’s body was immediately locked in place, about to be taken away with him.

”Trying to leave?” Hei Huang snorted coldly.

At this moment, the demonic flames on the exposed corner of the Gate of Hell suddenly rose into the air, transforming into a tornado, burning toward the escaping Xu Fu, touching the hem of his garment.

The demonic flames quickly spread upward, burning from his feet to his chest, and in an instant, most of his body was gone.

”Ah!!!”

Xu Fu let out a blood-curdling scream, the remaining small portion of his body escaping into the void, disappearing without a trace.

Xu Hei broke free from control, just letting out a sigh of relief, but was immediately locked by a teleportation force.

”Whoosh!”

A demonic flame swiftly swept toward Xu Hei and the Nightmare Demon Lord in the sky.

The Nightmare Demon Lord spat out black blood, his demonic body shrinking again, pointing forward, a strong spatial fluctuation flashed by, and Xu Hei uncontrollably escaped into the void, disappearing in an instant.

The Nightmare Demon Lord followed closely, but he was a step slower, burned by the demonic flames, leaving a large blank space in the gloomy sky.

With a muffled grunt, the Nightmare Demon Lord slipped into the space rift, vanishing completely.

The dark and gloomy sky dispersed, light returning, sunlight once again shining on Twin Islands, illuminating every survivor.