Serpent Ancestor

Over the years, Xu Hei had harbored suspicions about the fall of the Ma Kingdom. When he saw the woman laughing wildly and connected it with everything about the Le Kingdom, he instantly understood—it was this woman who had schemed for him to destroy the White Bone Sect.

As for her sister, who supposedly risked her life to deceive Xu Hei, he didn’t believe it. Because when he used the Blood Source Tracking Technique, he couldn’t trace anyone, meaning she was still lying.

Xu Hei no longer believed a word she said.

He needed to see everything with his own eyes and feel it himself.

Xu Hei spread his divine sense, sweeping across the entire city. At this moment, the people within Extreme Joy City were dying in extreme agony, whether mortal or cultivator, regardless of their cultivation level, all treated equally.

They were not only stripped of joy but also of life.

So this was the truth of the Le Kingdom!

The Le Kingdom had existed for so many years, with everyone indulging in endless revelry, not because of its powerful national strength, but because someone was using them to achieve Divine Transformation. They were all sacrifices for the Divine Transformation.

Could the same be true for the Ma Kingdom and the historically powerful super dynasties?

”You appear before me, telling me all this, what do you want?” Xu Hei tried to remain calm.”What do you think, benefactor?” The woman with the fox mask laughed.

Without another word, Xu Hei slashed forward with his sword, dispersing the illusion before him into smoke.

Then, Xu Hei’s gaze focused on a location, and he descended from the sky, his sword falling like a star, crashing down ahead.

”Boom!!”

The ground split open, and an invisible force traveled down the earth’s veins, blasting a large hole deep underground, yet there was nothing there.

Faintly, Xu Hei could hear some laughter, as if the other party was saying, ”You almost killed me.”

Xu Hei understood.

The other party told him all this because she wanted to amuse herself with him.

Everything this woman did was for her own amusement.

”Woman, you’ve gone too far!”

Xu Hei closed his eyes, his divine sense spreading like the sea, only to see countless seductive figures underground, in all directions, numbering in the thousands.

All of them wore fox masks, identical in appearance, lying underground, maintaining the same posture, staring at Xu Hei.

”Benefactor, let’s play a game. If you can find me, I’ll give you ultimate joy, how about it?”

All the fox women spoke in unison with soft voices.

Xu Hei’s face darkened, and without a word, he charged forward, fully activating the Demon God Cauldron, drawing the group of women towards it.

”Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...”

One seductive illusion after another was absorbed by Xu Hei, transforming into a vast stream of spiritual qi, pouring into the Demon God Cauldron, increasing the stored spiritual qi within the cauldron.

Wherever Xu Hei passed, a tidal wave of spiritual qi vortexes surged in, absorbing from dawn till dusk, from night till day.

Yet, strangely, the number of opponents did not decrease but continued to grow.

In one day, Xu Hei had absorbed over a thousand people, and the spiritual qi stored in the Demon God Cauldron had reached an astonishing level, equivalent to absorbing the Great Perfection of dozens of Elemental Infant cultivators, yet the opponents continued to appear endlessly.

”How is this possible?”

Xu Hei was incredulous.

This didn’t align with his understanding; spiritual qi couldn’t appear out of thin air, yet before his eyes, it seemed to be doing just that!

Why was it increasing the more he absorbed? Where was the opponent’s spiritual qi coming from, was it endless?

As Xu Hei began to doubt, a strong sense of unease surged within him. He quickly calmed himself, forcing himself to remain composed.

”Something’s wrong! She’s trying to disturb my Dao heart, she’s deceiving me!”

Xu Hei focused on the continuously appearing female figures below, who looked at him seductively, giggling, ”Benefactor, what’s wrong? Haven’t you absorbed enough yet?”

Xu Hei had had enough.

The opponent was clearly trying to deceive him, to throw him off balance and make him doubt himself. Xu Hei couldn’t let her succeed.

Xu Hei retreated a thousand miles, frantically refining and purifying the spiritual qi stored in the Demon God Cauldron.

Xu Hei had thought that the refined spiritual qi would decrease, but it was merely compressed in volume, turning into spiritual liquid and a small amount of crystals. The quantity hadn’t decreased; there really was that much!

”My Dao can’t be wrong! She’s deliberately giving me so much spiritual qi to mislead me, to disturb my Dao heart!”

Xu Hei wasn’t easily shaken. His doubts were fleeting, and he quickly regained his composure.

Now, looking at the distant seductive woman, she had already merged into one, covering her face and laughing softly, ”Hehe, benefactor’s devouring law is truly formidable, you’ve drained me dry!”

Devouring law?

Xu Hei hadn’t named his law, and this was clearly another trap, trying to define him.

Xu Hei suddenly realized the woman’s trickiness was unparalleled in his life! Without using Dragon Soul Descent to summon those old beings, it would be hard to gain any advantage over her.

Every word was a trap! Every move, a snare!

The opponent had seen his methods and understood his nature. If she dared to stand before him, she must have been thoroughly prepared.

But Xu Hei had experience now. He closed his eyes, and various thoughts flashed through his mind.

Suddenly, Xu Hei had a flash of inspiration and took out a black mask.

This mask was left to him by Yu Jianqiu, capable of blocking his five senses, allowing his sixth sense to reach its limit, putting him in an absolutely calm state.

Xu Hei put on the mask, covering his eyes like the seductive woman.

This action made the seductive woman pause, and she laughed softly, ”Benefactor wants to try something new?”

Xu Hei could no longer hear what she was saying.

At this moment, Xu Hei’s mind and body seemed to be immersed in an icy spring, replaying everything. Xiao Chou’s appearance, the fall of the White Bone Sect, the birth of dragon blood, the struggle for the Dao, and the mysterious woman’s schemes...

Xu Hei’s thoughts were a thousand times faster than usual, as if a sharp sword had cut through the fog before him, allowing Xu Hei to grasp the essence of things.

After a long time, Xu Hei removed the mask and exhaled.

He looked at the seductive woman ahead, his eyes devoid of anger or killing intent, only nodding slightly.

”Thank you, fellow Daoist, for pointing the way. Farewell!”

Xu Hei cupped his hands and turned to leave.

The seductive woman was momentarily stunned, ”Eh? Leaving already? Don’t you want to play?”

Xu Hei didn’t look back, not hearing a word she said.

From the start, this woman had been guiding him, trying to provoke him into anger and action. Xu Hei understood he couldn’t follow her lead; he had to do the opposite.

From this moment on, Xu Hei would no longer be led by the nose.

Watching Xu Hei walk away, a trace of disappointment flashed in the seductive woman’s eyes, ”Such a good toy, and it just ran away. What a pity, no more chances to play.”

”However, I will thank you. I’ll go ahead.”

…………

At this moment, behind Xu Hei, the laws of heaven surged and boiled, concentrating from above and below, resonating with the Dao’s sacred sound.

The leader of the Extreme Joy Sect, the National Teacher of the Le Kingdom, Gongsun Ya, formally broke through to the Divine Transformation stage.

All the people of the Le Kingdom died in sorrow.

Xu Hei stood at the border of the Le Kingdom, looking back at the land, seeing no living soul left.

One person attains the Dao, and even the chickens and dogs ascend.

But it was an ascension of death.

”I understand now.” Xu Hei exhaled.

He took out the wooden board from before and wrote down the second sentence.

”The essence of cultivation breakthroughs is the enhancement of spiritual qi. The higher the cultivation, the more spiritual qi is needed, with a hundredfold difference between realms, and the Divine Transformation stage is over a thousandfold.”

On his journey, Xu Hei had seen many Elemental Infant cultivators. As long as there was enough spiritual qi, they could break through, but there wasn’t a single Divine Transformation stage cultivator.

The number of Divine Transformation stage cultivators was greatly limited. Even if one comprehended the laws, without enough living beings to sacrifice spiritual qi, it was impossible to achieve Divine Transformation.

The most crucial point was that Xu Hei easily extracted spiritual qi equivalent to hundreds of times the Great Perfection of the Elemental Infant stage from that mysterious woman, yet she didn’t mind at all.

It was evident that compared to Divine Transformation, that spiritual qi was insignificant! What Zhao Nanqi prepared was far from enough.

This was the key point that led Xu Hei to this conclusion.

Then, Xu Hei’s expression turned solemn, and he took a deep breath, writing down the third sentence.

”The total amount of spiritual qi on the Divine Continent Star is fixed!”

The moment he wrote this, a void thunder suddenly resounded from beyond the nine heavens.

…………

On the sea of the Divine Continent Star, Night Owl, who was rushing at high speed, suddenly paused, looking towards the horizon.

”Was that... the laws of heaven?”

Night Owl was shocked. The laws of heaven were the foundation of all laws, why did they suddenly resonate?

Night Owl immediately accelerated, heading towards the horizon.

…………

After writing these three sentences, Xu Hei vaguely felt something above his head was trembling, about to emerge.

”Spiritual qi doesn’t appear or disappear out of thin air, it only transfers.”

”The essence of cultivation breakthroughs is the enhancement of spiritual qi. The higher the cultivation, the more spiritual qi is needed.”

”The total amount of spiritual qi on the Divine Continent Star is fixed.”

Combining these three points, it easily explained the mysteries Xu Hei had encountered.

Why did so many people have to die, so many cultivators sacrificed, every time a Divine Transformation stage appeared?

Because the total amount of spiritual qi on the Divine Continent Star is fixed, it can’t support so many Divine Transformations!

For every additional Divine Transformation stage, a thousand Elemental Infant cultivators must die to make up for the lack of spiritual qi, otherwise, it’s impossible to break through.

Huangfu Duanlong’s fall turned into the Netherworld Mine, providing resources for thousands of years, allowing countless Elemental Infant stages to emerge in the East Sea.

The Demon Lord’s fall could even defeat the sea god, blessing the East Sea for ten thousand years, allowing Xiao Chou to quickly form a Nascent Soul.

The total amount of spiritual qi is fixed, more people occupying the spot means some must die to vacate it.

At the same time, Xu Hei also understood why the spiritual qi on the Divine Continent Star was becoming increasingly scarce, disappearing by more than half from ancient times to now.

Because Divine Transformation cultivators were constantly ascending.

They absorbed the spiritual qi of the Divine Continent Star but didn’t fall there; instead, they ascended to the Spirit Realm, taking the spiritual qi elsewhere.

As time goes on, the total amount of spiritual qi on the Divine Continent Star will only decrease, making cultivation increasingly difficult!

The Divine Puppet Sect must have understood this, which is why they let Qin Xuanji break through on the outer battlefield, rather than returning to the star to break through.

Each additional Divine Transformation stage makes the spiritual qi of the entire planet thinner.

Of course, if it were only this, it wouldn’t be the sole reason for the rarity of Divine Transformation. These three sentences were still incomplete; Xu Hei felt something was missing.

”What’s missing...”

A flash of inspiration crossed Xu Hei’s mind, and he thought of the struggle for the Dao.

The mysterious woman’s goal was first to destroy the White Bone Sect, then to disturb Xu Hei’s Dao heart. Everything she did was aimed at destroying others’ Dao lineage!

Xu Hei squinted his eyes and wrote down the fourth sentence.

”Laws, same as above!”

Laws are equivalent to spiritual qi, mutually exclusive, mutually enhancing, the Divine Continent Star cannot accommodate more Dao seekers.

To achieve Divine Transformation, one must destroy others’ Dao lineage and seize their law power!

”Boom!!!”

The moment these four words were written, the entire sky of the Divine Continent Star resounded with endless terrifying thunder, echoing throughout the universe, throughout the land.

In the Western Cang Realm, within the Divine Puppet Sect.

Five Divine Transformation stage ancestors rose into the sky, emerging from seclusion with astonished expressions, looking towards the heavens.

In the secret realm of Medicine King Valley.

This was a forbidden area isolated from the world for years, where the remaining Dao lineage of Medicine King Valley resided.

Ye Li was cultivating spirit medicine, while Gu Yunxi sat beside a mortar.

At this moment, an old woman suddenly rose into the sky from the mountains, her eyes filled with surprise, looking beyond the secret realm.

”Granny Jin!” Ye Li and Gu Yunxi were both stunned.

It was their first time seeing Granny Jin move.

In the far north of the Central Divine Continent.

A lazy white bear lay on an iceberg, chewing on a strangely shaped bamboo shoot, which had eyes and a mouth, quite peculiar.

Suddenly, the white bear lifted its head, surprised, looking towards the sky.

”Something big is about to happen!”

The white bear opened its mouth wide, exhaling hot breath from its nostrils, turning its eye circles black.

In the depths of the East Sea, at the bottom of an unreachable trench.

A ferocious beast opened its narrow eyes, looking through the void.

”Hehehe, the laws of heaven are angry, this Divine Continent Star is about to get lively.”

A sinister voice echoed from the trench, like rolling thunder.

…………

At the moment the thunder resounded beyond the nine heavens, all the remaining Divine Transformation stage cultivators on the Divine Continent Star sensed it, looking towards the sky.

Even on the distant moon, an ancient and unchanging elderly figure opened his eyes, looking beyond the universe.

At this moment.

Xu Hei also heard the thunder from beyond the nine heavens, different from the usual thunder tribulation, it made him feel a shiver throughout his body.

”Huh?”

Xu Hei suddenly discovered that the wooden plaque on which he wrote the four sentences had disappeared.

That plaque wasn’t an ordinary piece of wood; it was a board he had cut from the Divine Wutong Tree, used to record his insights and reflections.

But it seemed to have triggered some taboo.

Xu Hei believed that throughout history, he couldn’t be the only one to comprehend these things; these rules might not be secrets within the Divine Transformation stage.

Yet, only he triggered the taboo.

”No, that plaque was... swallowed by the Demon God Cauldron?”

Xu Hei’s divine sense swept over, and he found that the plaque had been absorbed by the Demon God Cauldron, merging with it.