Serpent Ancestor

The sun shone brightly, the blue sky stretching endlessly.

The trading venue of the Sea Commerce Guild had collapsed, reduced to ruins.

The formation guarding the place was also destroyed, its spirit burned to ashes.

With Xu Fu’s retreat, the karmic fire extinguished. Over a thousand cultivators had died, with more than seventy percent perishing, and a large number being teleported away, leaving only a hundred behind, wailing in agony amidst the charred remains.

It wouldn’t be long before this group succumbed to their severe injuries, with even fewer surviving.

Fortunately, it was over!

The invasion of the Sea God Sect had finally ended.

Twin Islands did not end up like other invaded islands, where everyone vanished without a trace; many survived, becoming rare witnesses to the evil faction’s invasion.

Previously, no one knew the true faces of the evil faction’s protectors, because the Sea God Sect left no survivors each time they struck. The fearsome aura of the Nightmare Demon Lord and Xu Fu’s identity were mysteries.

But this time, they made an unprecedented breakthrough, revealing the true faces of the two protectors.In the sky, the dark, boundless gate of hell had disappeared, returning to the other side of the spatial rift. Hei Huang’s body had shrunk significantly, turning into a skinny old dog, falling from the sky to the ground.

Han Te crawled out from the pile of corpses, poked his head out, glanced around, then closed his eyes and lay back down.

On the coast, Jiang Chong and Jiang Ying supported each other, flying out from the deep sea, returning to Twin Islands, landing at the trading venue.

Their eyes were blank, and upon closer inspection, they had lost consciousness, falling into a deep coma. Yet, an inexplicable force was supporting their advance.

Supporting each other, they staggered to the venue, Jiang Chong looking at the vast expanse of corpses on the ground, at the cultivators in agony, whose lives were nearing their end.

Suddenly, a flash of sorrow appeared in his hollow eyes, a glimmer of consciousness emerging.

With a thud, Jiang Chong knelt on the ground.

”I have failed Twin Islands! Failed all the islanders!”

Kneeling on the ground, Jiang Chong kowtowed heavily to the deceased cultivators, gritting his teeth and growling, ”I, Jiang Chong, swear to the heavens, one day, I will personally slay the Sea God Sect and avenge this hatred!”

”I, Jiang Ying, swear to slaughter the Sea God Sect and avenge this hatred!”

After shouting these words, the two collapsed to the ground, unable to move.

In the distance, a woman in white with white hair, as light as smoke, rushed over, landing in front of the venue within a few breaths.

She looked at the severely injured crowd before her, without hesitation, she produced a pill and injected it into a critically injured cultivator.

The nearly exhausted heart vein of the cultivator immediately regained vitality, starting to beat again.

Though the frequency of the beats was a bit high.

From her sleeve flew out a green medicine cauldron, suspended in mid-air, emitting waves of emerald light. Xu Bai took out spirit medicine, placing it under the light, which quickly decomposed into specks of green light, falling on the severely injured, keeping them from dying.

”Senior Cauldron Spirit, why didn’t you act earlier?”

Xu Bai asked while saving people, her tone always indifferent, devoid of emotional fluctuation.

A crisp sigh came from within the medicine cauldron, ”My soul is incomplete, missing three souls. Even if I had one more soul, such a tragedy wouldn’t have occurred.”

Xu Bai nodded at these words, saying nothing. Her hands never stopped moving, scattering spirit medicine, refining it into pills, saving lives one by one.

With Xu Bai’s help, more and more people on the brink of death were saved, life reappearing within them.

Even the two City Lords, though unconscious, were injected with spirit medicine. Although their lives were no longer in danger, their divine senses were severely damaged, and their cultivation might decline, but with such treatment, there was a chance of recovery.

Although Xu Bai’s pills had side effects, as long as they could survive, what did those side effects matter?

In fact, it was precisely because the medicine cauldron was missing three souls that these strange effects occurred.

”Thank you, divine healer!”

”Your great kindness, I will never forget!”

”A living Bodhisattva!”

Some who had the strength shed tears of excitement, sincerely thanking Xu Bai. In the face of disaster, having survived, they had no other thoughts, only gratitude in their hearts.

Suddenly, a pile of corpses was pushed aside, and Han Te jumped out, joining the rescue efforts.

Although he wasn’t skilled in healing, as a cultivator, he could perform the simple task of injecting spiritual power to sustain life.

”Don’t rush to thank me; I charge for saving lives!”

A cultivator was about to express gratitude, but Han Te’s words left him speechless.

And those who received treatment, upon waking, took a deep breath and joined the ranks of rescuing others.

Soon, the injured but not dead cultivators were mostly treated, stabilizing their vital signs, ensuring no more deaths.

This crisis, from the moment Xu Bai arrived, was resolved in just a few breaths.

Only then did everyone realize someone was missing.

The black dog that fought fiercely with the two protectors, making the Sea God Sect flee in defeat, the hero who saved Twin Islands, had disappeared without a trace.

No one knew when he left.

”Where’s that black dog, did anyone see?”

”Not sure, it was just there, then vanished in the blink of an eye.”

”Sigh, this senior is indeed a peerless expert, unwilling to show his face, understandable.”

”To make the Sea God Sect so embarrassed, he’s the first.”

”We don’t know his name, let’s call him Senior Hei.”

Everyone discussed, deeply admiring Hei Huang’s deeds.

No matter what, today’s events would surely spread, the Sea God Sect’s defeat was a cause for celebration for all.

The evil faction was not invincible, it could be defeated!

Especially having exposed the abilities of the two protectors, this was of great significance to the cultivators living in the East Sea.

Many cultivators bowed and worshiped in the direction where Hei Huang disappeared, expressing heartfelt gratitude.

…………

In the depths of the East Sea, on an island of unknown distance from Twin Islands.

The island wasn’t large, entirely pitch black, made of black mysterious iron rock, indestructible, ordinary artillery couldn’t penetrate a single stone.

At the center of this island, complex patterns were engraved, countless top-grade spirit stones buried underground, and a spiritual vein buried a thousand feet below.

These patterns connected together, linked with the spiritual vein, forming a long-distance teleportation array.

Only a spiritual vein could support such a distance for teleportation.

”Buzz!”

Suddenly, the teleportation array lit up, space cracked open, and one by one, human figures were transmitted over, landing on the island.

At the same time, figures burned by karmic fire fell from the void, but shortly after landing, the flames extinguished, the screams ceased, and all those people died.

These cultivators were all those captured from Twin Islands.

Besides the Foundation Establishment cultivators from the auction, there were also a large number of Qi Refining stage cultivators, over a thousand in number, but compared to previous times, the number captured this time was more than ten times less.

The harvest from Twin Islands was not even as much as some ordinary small islands.

Among them, Xu Hei’s butcher was also in the crowd, carrying his true form on his back, his eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings.