Serpent Ancestor

”Don’t call me husband, I’m Xu Hei. Just use my real name.”

Even though Xu Hei had corrected this countless times to no avail, he repeated it once more.

Artifact refining is a precise process; any slight mistake can lead to total failure, with the lightest consequence being a shattered magical treasure, and the worst being the destruction of both the artifact and the person.

He didn’t know what reaction would occur if he refined himself into it, as this aspect of artifact refining was still a blank slate for him.

Xu Hei could only rely on his own exploration.

However, his attempt seemed to have succeeded.

The thunder tribulation was successfully absorbed into his body, and after a long ordeal, the tenth thunder tribulation finally dissipated.

At the same time, the thunderclouds densely covering the sky also dispersed.

Seeing this, Xu Hei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, yet there was a small sense of regret.

Ten thunder tribulations only touched the threshold of a fifth-grade magical treasure, comparable to Jiang Nine Phoenix’s Fire Phoenix Seal. If there were two more, it would be a true fifth-grade magical treasure.Back then, Huangfu Duanlong successfully achieved Divine Transformation by refining a true fifth-grade magical treasure.

”However, with my current strength, enduring two more thunder tribulations might be unbearable, and it could very well blast both the snake and the sword to bits,” Xu Hei thought with relief.

September survived, with only a cat’s head remaining.

But as long as it hadn’t dissipated, there was hope. As long as the flying sword could continue to improve, September could also grow stronger.

She was no longer a mid-fourth-grade formation spirit but the artifact spirit of a quasi-fifth-grade magical treasure! Her strength had transformed!

”Heavenly Demon, return!” With a thought, Xu Hei separated the flesh from the flying sword, and it condensed into a new body outside.

The flying sword before him was now officially formed.

Its entire body was pitch black, shimmering with starlight, and five stars of different colors representing the Five Elemental powers adorned the spine of the sword.

On the hilt were a pair of illusory cat eyes, faintly visible, as if watching him.

”September, you did it!” Xu Hei said with a smile.

”Husband, we did it!” September replied joyfully.

Xu Hei felt a bit helpless; this was something he couldn’t correct.

After pondering for a while, Xu Hei said, ”September, let’s call this sword the Star-Moon Sword, how about it?”

”Whatever you say,” September replied obediently.

”Great!” Xu Hei laughed heartily.

He transformed into human form, holding the Star-Moon Sword. He could feel the surging power of the stars flowing from his palm, as if he was holding not a sword, but a star.

The scene of a star falling emerged in Xu Hei’s mind.

The fall of a star, beautiful yet leading to destruction! Xu Hei suddenly had an epiphany, closing his eyes to quietly feel the essence of destruction and beauty.

In his mind, the scene of a star falling replayed continuously, as if capturing that moment of eternity.

”Stars, such a magnificent cosmic spectacle, yet they create such terrifying destruction in their fall. Is it beauty, or death?” Xu Hei murmured, falling into a wondrous state of enlightenment.

This enlightenment lasted the whole night.

He didn’t know how much time had passed.

Xu Hei suddenly opened his eyes, holding the Star-Moon Sword, his gaze sharp, and slashed forward with a single stroke.

In an instant, a deep sword mark cut through the void, filled with starlight, dazzling like a hanging galaxy, like a waterfall of stars, illuminating the underground world like a row of lights in the night.

The moonlight drips on the leaves, the galaxy hangs in the sky!

This galaxy-like sword mark hovered in the void, even splitting the space, enduring for a long time.

Xu Hei looked at the sword move before him, then at the Star-Moon Sword in his hand, his mouth agape.

”Did I create this move?” Xu Hei exclaimed in surprise.

He couldn’t believe that he had just forged an unparalleled divine weapon and created a matching sword technique divine ability.

This was the first time in Xu Hei’s life that he had created a divine ability!

He was amazed at his own comprehension.

It’s no wonder, the scene of a star falling is a rare spectacle, something many people never witness in their lifetime. After seeing it with his own eyes, and given his decent comprehension, it wasn’t surprising that he gained some insight.

However, unfortunately.

Xu Hei focused his mind, and when he tried to perform that sword move again, he frustratingly found that he couldn’t replicate it.

”Ha!”

Xu Hei drew his sword and slashed, only leaving a scattering of sword light, unable to recreate the galaxy-like scene.

”What was that move?” Xu Hei fell into deep thought.

He took a deep breath, quietly recalling the state he was in at the time, trying to recapture that feeling, but after several attempts, he was unsuccessful.

After a long time, Xu Hei sighed helplessly.

Inspiration is elusive, and Xu Hei had no solution. However, he had forged the Star-Moon Sword, a quasi-fifth-grade magical treasure, powerful enough even without a sword move.

Xu Hei thought to himself, even if someone else wielded a magical treasure like the Fire Phoenix Seal, he would not be afraid and could fully contend with it.

Moreover, he still had the trump card of his insect army.

Xu Hei didn’t know where he ranked in the entire outer battlefield now, but he was definitely among the top tier.

…………

The tremors outside continued, and such a catastrophic disaster was rare in the history of the outer battlefield, the first in nearly ten thousand years.

The largest city in the eastern wasteland, Chaos Star City, was completely gone. A meteor had created a vast void world, filled with broken space and nothing else.

The meteor’s fragments turned the surrounding hundred thousand miles into ruins, with small craters everywhere from the impacts, pockmarked and uneven.

The sky was also gray, with dust covering it, making it impossible to see anything with the naked eye. Even the atmosphere was polluted, and the rampant energy turned this area into a death zone.

The number of cultivator deaths was incalculable.

Countless people were shocked, and the scene of the meteor falling would be remembered for a lifetime. Some even gained enlightenment and achieved a breakthrough in their realm.

The surviving cultivators considered it a great fortune!

Three days later, when the tremors ceased, a large number of cultivators arrived to clear the site, finally opening a passable path.

This path led directly to the meteor’s impact site, not out of goodwill to search for survivors, but to seek opportunities.

”No!!!”

On a bare mountain peak, a young man with purple hair knelt on the ground, looking at the vanished Chaos Star City, clutching his head in agony, wailing in grief and anger.

”My cave dwellings, I bought twenty-three cave dwellings and a mine, and now they’re gone! Gone!!!” The purple-haired youth clutched his hair, letting out a pig-like scream.

This person was Han Te.

After obtaining spirit stones from Qin Xuanji, he didn’t foolishly hold onto them but learned to invest.

He was the first to discover the business opportunity in Chaos Star City, so he invested all his spirit stones, acquiring twenty-three cave dwellings and buying a mine.

He knew this place would attract a large number of cultivators, and by then, the price of cave dwellings would rise again and again, allowing him to make a fortune.

As he expected, after treasures were unearthed in Chaos Star City, the price of cave dwellings doubled, and Han Te just needed to wait to collect money.

However, he was only gone for three days.

Three days later, Chaos Star City was gone, his twenty-three cave dwellings were gone, his mine was gone! Everything was gone!

All his investments turned to nothing!

”Ahhh!! My spirit stones!” Han Te let out a mournful wail, spat out a mouthful of old blood, and fell straight down.

Not long after Han Te fainted.

With a ”bang,” a figure emerged from the ground, an unremarkable-looking person with an average build, the kind that would be lost in a crowd.

At his waist hung a sword, faintly adorned with starlight, very peculiar.

This person was Xu Hei.

Xu Hei looked around, finding himself on the edge of the impact zone, the sky a gray haze from the impact’s smog.

Nearby, a few scattered cultivators were collecting meteor fragments, searching for the corpses of dead cultivators, or digging for stones, all in search of opportunities.

Xu Hei’s gaze shifted, suddenly noticing the unconscious Han Te nearby.

Without hesitation, he quickly approached, reaching for the storage bag at Han Te’s waist.