Serpent Ancestor

Xu Hei gazed at the numerous demonic beasts within the grand hall. Without exception, they were all creations he had carved, yet now, they had all come to life, right before his eyes.

The dead could not return to life; Xu Hei refused to believe it.

He would rather believe it was an illusion!

”Fellow Daoist, these are all your wood carvings. I’ve returned them to you. Are you satisfied?” The white-bearded elder smiled broadly.

As his words fell, all the demonic beasts moved closer to Xu Hei.

”Xu Hei, do you remember me?”

”Brother Xu, long time no see!”

”You devoured me back then, and now I’m alive again!”

”Hiss, fellow, how did you turn into a human form?”

Various noises came from the mouths of these demonic beasts.Faced with such a bizarre scene, Xu Hei’s face remained expressionless.

He closed his eyes, and his long-sealed divine sense slowly awakened, spreading out like a flood, sweeping across the heavens and earth.

As he scanned these demonic beasts, Xu Hei found no trace of illusion, as if they were truly alive!

”Boom!!”

A muffled thunder sounded, and Xu Hei opened his eyes, lightning flashing across his gaze. He raised his hand and waved, a giant hand formed of divine sense reaching out to grab the white-bearded elder.

”Poof!”

The elder was caught in Xu Hei’s grasp, his bones crushed, and Xu Hei coldly said, ”I don’t care what methods you’ve used, restore them immediately!”

The white-bearded elder, captured, showed no fear, only laughed heartily, ”Fellow Daoist, I resurrected these old acquaintances for you. You should thank me, why must you...”

”Crack, crack...”

Before he could finish, Xu Hei’s palm exerted force, crushing half of the elder’s body, blood gushing from his mouth, cutting off his words.

”My patience is limited!” Xu Hei said with a grim face.

At this moment, Xu Hei had used every method to test, yet found that the demonic beasts before him were not illusions, not tricks of the eye, but real entities!

The white-bearded elder laughed, ”There’s no restoring them! These demonic beasts were crafted by me using the White Bone Dao technique, fused with the essence of your wood carvings. They are real, living beings, not illusions, hahaha!”

Without a word, Xu Hei raised his hand and unleashed a serpent-like lightning bolt, striking the lion at the forefront, Lei Meng.

”Roar!!”

Lei Meng let out a miserable cry, its body shattered into pieces, blood splattering, revealing the bones within.

”Xu Hei, you actually... killed me...” Lei Meng’s eyes showed terror, but after a few breaths of struggle, it died.

Xu Hei carefully examined its corpse, discovering it truly was a lion.

”Do you see? This is the White Bone Dao technique, I crafted it from the real lion’s bones, they are all living beings!”

The white-bearded elder laughed up to the sky, ”Fellow Daoist, as long as you can provide the essence, the dead can also be resurrected! Joining the White Bone Sect is a match made in heaven, then no one in the world can stop our progress. This is the supreme Dao, it can help you transform into a god, become immortal!”

”Bang!”

Xu Hei slapped the white-bearded elder to the ground, his physical body instantly shattered, leaving only an Elemental Infant, which Xu Hei grabbed in his hand.

Even in this state, the Elemental Infant’s face still bore a smile, as if mad.

”Fellow Daoist, you don’t understand the essence of the White Bone Dao technique! The mortal body cannot bind us, we can also, like Divine Transformation cultivators, break free from the shackles of the physical body, even surpass Divine Transformation, achieving immortality!”

The Elemental Infant in his hand laughed crazily.

Xu Hei couldn’t be bothered to listen to his nonsense, his palm exerted force, crushing it into powder.

Then, flames burst from his palm, burning the powder to nothing.

”Roar!”

All the demonic beasts pounced towards Xu Hei.

With a thought, Xu Hei unleashed a terrifying spiritual pressure from within, the oppressive force of Great Perfection at the Elemental Infant stage descending upon the grand hall.

”Boom!!”

All the demonic beasts were pressed to the ground, bones and flesh separating, blood splattering, their screams piercing, subdued by Xu Hei in one strike. Yet what Xu Hei saw were all real, living beings.

Xu Hei’s eyes held no emotion.

He didn’t know what the White Bone Dao technique was, but falsehood could never become truth. Xu Hei increased the spiritual pressure, and with a series of cracking sounds, all the demonic beasts were crushed into a mist of blood.

A faint scent of blood lingered in the air, Xu Hei exhaled, it had been a long time since he used spiritual power.

And a long time since he had taken a life. If these demonic beasts could be considered life.

Xu Hei turned to leave.

Suddenly, a sinister laugh echoed in the grand hall, ”Fellow Daoist, the White Bone Dao technique is not so easily broken.”

Xu Hei turned back, seeing a mass of flesh emerge from the ground, rapidly growing under the nourishment of spiritual liquid, forming into the shape of an infant, then a child, a youth, a young man, and in just a few breaths, it became a white-bearded elder.

He donned a Taoist robe, identical to the elder Xu Hei had killed before!

Xu Hei stared intently at the scene before him, his eyes shifting rapidly.

Too real!

He couldn’t find a single flaw, as if he had killed an elder, and the elder had resurrected? No, not resurrected, but regrown!

”The White Bone Dao technique, with just a drop of flesh and blood, can create a complete individual. Even if you kill me a thousand times, ten thousand times, I can regenerate!”

”Not resurrection, but regeneration!”

”A new life!”

As the elder spoke, the flesh of the dead beside him rapidly divided and multiplied, spiritual qi gathering, and the demonic beasts Xu Hei had just killed regrew bones, flesh, and fur.

Right under Xu Hei’s eyes, in less than half an incense stick’s time, the group of demonic beasts had regrown, identical to before.

The White Bone Dao technique, terrifying as it was!

”Hahaha!”

Seemingly enjoying Xu Hei’s shock, the white-bearded elder laughed up to the sky.

Not only that, the humans Xu Hei had carved also walked out from the back, including mortals he had carved, and the only cultivator, Xiao Chou.

”Do you see, Fellow Daoist Xu, you can perfectly replicate the essence of cultivators, and I can perfectly create life!”

The white-bearded elder grew more excited as he spoke, ”Together, we will create a golden age! Just like the Mo Clan immortals created the art of mechanisms, advancing to replace the outdated, proving the Dao through technology, we too can prove the Dao, transform into gods, ascend!”

”This is the Dao of Life!”

Bang!!

Before he could finish, Xu Hei shattered him with another punch, smashing him into a pulp.

”Fellow Daoist Xu, the White Bone Dao technique contains the laws of life, you cannot kill me!”

In the grand hall, the voice of the white-bearded elder resounded once more.

Xu Hei’s expression remained unchanged, summoning fire and lightning, blasting the newly revived demonic beasts into pieces.

”If you like creation so much, I’ll kill one for every one you create!”