Serpent Ancestor

”Burn your soul blood for me! I refuse to believe that after all this preparation, it will end in failure!” Daoist Minghe shouted angrily.

In an instant, all five people present began to burn their soul blood. The hundreds of ghosts turned blood-red, like malevolent spirits, and charged even more frantically toward the sea of consciousness.

And at that moment.

Xu Hei, who had been motionless all this time, suddenly twisted his head and looked at them.

To be precise, Xu Hei didn’t ”look” in the traditional sense, as his eyes were vacant, merely aligning his head in their direction.

Daoist Minghe’s face changed, a sense of foreboding creeping in.

”Whoosh!”

In the next second, Xu Hei opened his massive mouth and lunged forward, swallowing Daoist Minghe in one swift motion.

Immediately following, the five disciples behind him were also swallowed whole before they could even react.

”Ah!!”A harrowing scream echoed from Xu Hei’s belly.

The soul blood of everyone flew out, absorbed into the Demon Seed, and was drained in the blink of an eye.

A pitch-black bud, like ink, began to show signs of blooming after absorbing the soul blood, releasing a sinister demonic aura that shrouded Xu Hei’s sea of consciousness in a layer of dark clouds.

The commotion here caught the attention of everyone in the battle, each wearing a look of shock.

”Xu Hei swallowed everyone?” The crowd was bewildered.

At this moment, a coffin not far away opened on its own, and a zombie that looked identical to Daoist Minghe sat up.

With a change of hand gestures and a low whisper, ”Borrow the corpse... to return the soul!”

A spiritual body floated up from the ground and entered the zombie’s body, its eyes quickly regaining clarity. Daoist Minghe had successfully resurrected.

Yet, his eyes still held traces of fear.

He hadn’t expected that Xu Hei, clearly dead, still possessed instinctive defensive capabilities!

Fortunately, he had preserved a part of his soul beforehand, preventing his demise.

”This Flood Dragon is indeed troublesome!”

Daoist Minghe took out several formation flags, planting them around as he prepared to implement a second plan, the Soul Devouring Formation.

He suspected that Xu Hei’s Divine Sense wasn’t completely dead, so he intended to extinguish that last remnant of the soul.

And at that moment, Xu Hei looked at him again, but this time, there was a hint of demonic nature in those vacant eyes.

Daoist Minghe’s pupils contracted, and he instantly vanished.

In the next second, Xu Hei’s ferocious maw crashed down, biting through the spot where Daoist Minghe had just been, causing a large section of rock to disappear, swallowed into Xu Hei’s belly.

Had he been a moment slower, he would have been the one swallowed.

Xu Hei, missing his target, locked his eyes on Daoist Minghe again and lunged once more.

”Not good!”

Daoist Minghe took out a coffin lid, flying with it towards the horizon, but Xu Hei’s speed had reached an unbelievable level, comparable to teleportation. In the blink of an eye, he caught up again, swallowing Daoist Minghe whole.

Immediately, another group of zombies appeared in the distance, all looking identical to Daoist Minghe, scattering in all directions.

”Borrow the corpse to return the soul!”

One of the bodies made a gesture, reviving once more, but the horror in its eyes was even greater.

”What kind of speed is this?”

Xu Hei opened his massive mouth, charging into the group of corpses like a wild beast, using the most primitive method to swallow each one whole.

”Corpse Explosion!”

Daoist Minghe uttered a low command, and the corpses that had just been swallowed by Xu Hei exploded one by one, causing thunderous booms within, making Xu Hei’s belly bulge.

Yet Xu Hei’s eyes remained vacant, as if unscathed, charging at Daoist Minghe.

”Corpse Division Technique!”

Daoist Minghe produced a large number of bodies, all looking like him, fleeing in different directions.

Although Xu Hei was incredibly fast and his physical body nearly invincible, he seemed unable to discern the real body. Daoist Minghe easily lured him away using the corpses, seizing the opportunity to escape.

But no matter how he fled, Xu Hei, after devouring the corpses, always managed to lock onto him and catch up again.

In just a few breaths, the chase took them farther and farther away.

At this point, the battle between Tianhen City and the Nine-Headed Snake had become meaningless. With Xu Hei already gone, what was the point of continuing the fight?

”Chase!”

Both sides, in a rare moment of agreement, pursued Xu Hei.

…………

Ancient Tomb Sect’s stronghold, Ghost City.

The last time Xu Hei arrived, most of Ghost City’s population had fled. Now, a year later, those people had returned, and after preparing for so long, they had set up various countermeasures.

Even if Xu Hei came again, they had nothing to fear, confident they could ensure he wouldn’t leave alive!

And on this day, a dense horde of zombies appeared in the distance, surging toward Ghost City.

”A corpse tide outbreak?”

A guard on the city wall widened his eyes and immediately sounded the alarm.

The scale of this corpse tide was massive. Had some great figure emerged from seclusion?

”Are you blind? This is clearly Daoist Minghe’s Thousand Corpse Formation... No, wait, look at that!”

His companion was explaining when both looked toward the sky.

A shocking scene unfolded before them.

The corpse tide was fleeing in panic, chased by a massive black creature!

It was a black Flood Dragon!

The Flood Dragon weaved through the corpse tide, swallowing large swathes of corpses in one gulp. They exploded inside it, but the tide was endless, continuously emerging from the ground, fleeing toward Ghost City.

Daoist Minghe’s figure flickered, entering Ghost City, his face pale as if he had encountered something terrifying.

He shouted repeatedly, ”Activate the Hundred Thousand Ghosts Formation, stop that Flood Dragon!”

Hearing this, everyone dared not hesitate and immediately activated the formation.

This formation, more powerful than the previous Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation, was completed by sacrificing a hundred thousand souls, evolving into the Hundred Thousand Ghosts Formation.

The Hundred Thousand Ghosts Formation was far stronger than Tianhen City’s Unmoving Sword Formation! It’s no exaggeration to say that even if a Divine Transformation Stage cultivator came, they were confident they could hold them off!

”Woo woo woo...”

In an instant, dark clouds covered the sky, and countless ghostly wails echoed within the city, a fierce wind howling, filled with murderous intent. Spectral figures floated from beneath the city, entering Ghost City, swirling with the fierce wind.

This Ghost City had become a true ghost city, filled with malevolent spirits!

Among these spirits were some Xu Hei had seen before, including rogue cultivators from Tianhen City who had died, and even Elder Mo Yun was among them.

That’s right! The Hundred Thousand Ghosts Formation was completed using the souls of Tianhen City’s dead!

After Tianhen City was massacred, Qin Xuanji took the corpses’ essence blood, and Xu Hei took the storage bags, but the souls were left behind.

This gave them the opportunity to use them. By bribing the last remaining elder of Tianhen City, they collected all these souls and, piecing them together, crafted the astonishing Hundred Thousand Ghosts Formation.