Serpent Ancestor

Death, she wasn’t afraid of it!

As long as she died, Xu Hei wouldn’t survive either. Her death aura would mark Xu Hei, and the Jiang family would definitely grind his bones to dust, no matter where he fled.

But what worried her most was Feng Ge.

Jiang Nine Phoenix felt as if struck by lightning, her mind in chaos, and urgently asked, ”Where did Feng Ge go?”

”Of course, I put him into my ring as artifact refining material,” Xu Hei sneered. ”But this wooden block is truly loyal, still not completely dead, thinking of protecting you. How pathetic.”

Xu Hei shook his head in mock pity, pulling out a charred branch and waving it in his hand.

In reality, after the tree burned itself, it was already dead, its spirit obliterated, leaving only a trace of lingering thought. But Xu Hei deliberately twisted the truth, claiming it wasn’t completely dead.

This rekindled hope in Jiang Nine Phoenix.

A glimmer flashed in Jiang Nine Phoenix’s eyes, but then her body trembled as she stared at Xu Hei, asking, ”What do you want?”

Her voice carried a hint of tremor.To her, Feng Ge was her weakness. Hearing that Feng Ge wasn’t dead made her happy, but knowing he was in Xu Hei’s hands sank her heart to the depths.

”Didn’t I just say? Since you want to die, I’ll kill you first, then turn him into a dung shovel, ensuring nothing goes to waste,” Xu Hei sneered.

Jiang Nine Phoenix took a deep breath, suppressing her inner anger, and said, ”Let him go, and come at me instead!”

”Oh?” Xu Hei raised an eyebrow, ”Weren’t you just wanting to die? Why the change of heart?”

Jiang Nine Phoenix was so angry she could grind her teeth, but thinking of Feng Ge suffering for her, possibly being turned into a magical treasure and humiliated, she could only lower her head and solemnly say, ”As long as you let him go, I can promise you anything, anything at all! I swear on the Jiang family name.”

At this moment, her previous arrogance was gone, her voice even carrying a hint of pleading.

”Slap!!!”

Without a word, Xu Hei slapped her, knocking her to the ground.

”Still want to negotiate? Get in here!”

Xu Hei grabbed her hair, lifted her up, then took out a storage ring, and with a thought, put her into it.

This time, Jiang Nine Phoenix didn’t resist, being placed into a storage ring filled with a medicine garden.

This was Black Lotus’s storage ring, originally planted with a large amount of medicinal herbs, but under the erosion of the Desolate Law, the herbs in the ring had lost their spiritual essence.

Jiang Nine Phoenix’s cultivation was sealed, making even walking extremely difficult. She raised her head, gritting her teeth, and asked, ”What exactly do you want to let him go?”

Xu Hei said no more, directly throwing in several packets of spirit medicine seeds, ”Stop wasting time, start farming for me. Cultivate these spirit medicines well, or I’ll chop that piece of wood for firewood.”

Although he wanted to kill Jiang Nine Phoenix, if she died, that piece of wood probably couldn’t be refined into a magical treasure.

Moreover, Tu Sen said Jiang Nine Phoenix was from the Jiang family of the Spirit Realm, which sounded significant.

Though people from the Spirit Realm couldn’t possibly reach here, if Xu Hei ever went to the Spirit Realm, he might encounter them.

Killing a Jiang Nine Phoenix could solve some hidden dangers, but it would also create more.

”Farming...”

Jiang Nine Phoenix thought she misheard, but considering Feng Ge’s situation, she could only pick up the seed packets and head towards the medicine garden.

”Both this man and woman have weaknesses, which can be used to control them both,” Xu Hei thought to himself.

The more emotional a person is, the more flaws they have.

The heartless are the most unbreakable and survive more easily in the cruel world of cultivation.

After witnessing the massacre at Liefeng City and seeing Jiang Nine Phoenix with the Divine Wutong Tree, Xu Hei deeply understood this.

He was curious about the end of cultivation, whether those legendary immortals were emotional or heartless.

If immortals were emotional, how did they reach that point? Weren’t they eliminated?

Or perhaps true immortals had long lost their humanity?

Xu Hei didn’t know the answer.

He gradually realized that with his original Dao heart, it was difficult to survive on the path of cultivation.

Would there be a day when he, like Jiang Nine Phoenix, would be controlled by others? Or like the Wutong Tree, sacrifice himself to save someone?

No! He wouldn’t reach that point; he still had his inner demon! Any difficult decisions, he would leave to the inner demon.

For instance, if not for the inner demon’s reminder, he wouldn’t have thought of such a ”despicable” method to deal with these two.

Xu Hei shook his head, no longer pondering those chaotic thoughts.

His immediate problem was that he was out of money.

The only Supreme Spirit Stone he had was used up during a breakthrough, and he had no lower-grade spirit stones left. Unsurprisingly, his insect army had fallen into slumber again.

Xu Hei first interrogated Jiang Nine Phoenix, but found she also had no money, and her magical treasures were fused with her bloodline, unable to be retrieved until the seal was lifted.

”What a hassle, I still need to find a way to make money,” Xu Hei thought, shaking his head.

He glanced back at Liefeng City, thinking there was nothing worth searching for, and immediately flew westward.

He was heading to the core area of the Outer Battlefield, the Central Plains.

With his current strength, he could almost walk horizontally across the Outer Battlefield. Before the next passage opened, he wanted to rob those super sects one by one.

The Tianhen Sword Sect, Ancient Tomb Sect, and Yan Dao Sect, none would be spared!

”Brother Xu, are you leaving?”

At this moment, a distant voice came from within Liefeng City. Xu Hei looked into the distance, seeing Luo Gang’s phantom appear on the Tianshan.

”That’s right,” Xu Hei nodded.

”You forgot something.”

Luo Gang tossed something through the air, a token landing in Xu Hei’s hand.

It was a guest elder token.

”With this token, you are a guest elder of mine, Luo. Until we meet again!” Luo Gang said calmly.

Xu Hei said nothing, simply put away the token, cupped his hands, and turned to leave.

Soon, he disappeared into the yellow sand.

Xu Hei’s feelings were complicated. Luo Gang had shown him great kindness, clearly treating him as a brother. However, this person was a complete demon.

Among those Xu Hei had met, only the sea god could compare to him.

Would he associate with such a demon as the sea god?

”Inner demon, if it were you, what would you do?” Xu Hei asked in his heart.

”Heh, do you even need to ask? As a cultivator, don’t question right or wrong, only consider your stance. That’s the basic survival rule! That Wutong Tree only wanted to protect someone important, what did it do wrong, yet you still want to refine it into a magical treasure?”

”Since Luo Gang stands on your side, why care what kind of demon he is or what evil he’s done? As long as he can help you, that’s enough,” the voice in his heart spoke confidently.