Serpent Ancestor

Zhao Nanqi was quite relieved to have encountered someone like Hai Teng.

”Hai Teng, my friend, they say the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I know you have a grudge against Xu Hei and would love nothing more than to kill him on the spot! I, Zhao, am more than willing to lend you a hand. You can stage a feigned attack while I ambush him from behind. Together, we can surely tear that little beast to pieces!” Zhao Nanqi said with a beaming smile.

Hearing this, Hai Teng simply looked at him quietly, without any expression or movement.

”What grudge do you have against him?” Hai Teng suddenly asked calmly.

Zhao Nanqi raised an eyebrow and immediately began to badmouth Xu Hei.

”Hai, my brother, you have no idea. That little beast is incredibly malicious. He stole my Spirit Medicine, snatched my Spirit Beast, broke my limbs and forced me to kneel, and even did unspeakable things with my Dao companion right in front of me...”

Zhao Nanqi exaggerated Xu Hei’s infamy, recounting it with vivid emotion and gritted teeth, as if he had truly experienced it himself.

Hai Teng just listened quietly, without any expression.

”He’s utterly wicked, intolerable by heaven and earth! Killing such a villain would be an act of justice.”

Filled with resentment, Zhao Nanqi cupped his hands and said, ”It’s getting late, I should be going. Hai Teng, my brother, until we meet again!”After a slight hesitation, Zhao Nanqi took out a Supreme Spirit Stone and tossed it to Hai Teng.

Regardless, the other party seemed to get along well with him, and he was happy to make such a superficial friend.

Then, he bypassed Hai Teng and turned to leave.

”Stop!”

Suddenly, Hai Teng’s cold voice came.

Zhao Nanqi halted his steps and turned back, ”Is there something else?”

He noticed that Hai Teng’s gaze was off, not even glancing at the Supreme Spirit Stone, but staring intently at him with visible anger in his eyes.

Zhao Nanqi’s heart skipped a beat, sensing an ominous premonition, yet he couldn’t figure out what he had done wrong, looking bewildered.

Hai Teng’s gaze fixed on him, coldly saying, ”Despicable scoundrel!”

Zhao Nanqi frowned, ”What do you mean?”

”Exactly what it sounds like!”

Hai Teng approached, his voice carrying endless chill, ”Yes, I stand opposed to Xu Hei! But he protects the Penglai Sea, slays demons, saves the East Sea, and ushers in a prosperous era. How could a shameless scoundrel like you defile him?!”

Listening to Hai Teng’s angry words, Zhao Nanqi’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Did he say something wrong? Where did he go wrong?

Weren’t they enemies? Weren’t they sworn foes?

He couldn’t understand what kind of image Xu Hei held in Hai Teng’s mind.

Growing up amidst scheming and plotting, Zhao Nanqi couldn’t comprehend that some things transcend interests, positions, everything!

Hai Teng swam closer, his eyes reddening, gritting his teeth, ”Gong Jiang said you’re ninety percent trustworthy, but I choose to believe the ten percent!”

”Die, despicable scoundrel!”

Hai Teng raised his dragon claw and swung it over, the water pressure forming a cage, locking the space ahead. The dragon claw enlarged, crashing down on Zhao Nanqi.

The sharp dragon claw carved five deep trenches in the water, like the claw of creation, descending upon his head, capable of annihilating both body and soul.

Zhao Nanqi’s eyes filled with horror, his primordial spirit igniting as he decisively fled. In the instant he escaped, his lower body was crushed, blood spraying wildly, dyeing the sea red.

”How did it come to this?”

Zhao Nanqi couldn’t understand.

He racked his brain but couldn’t fathom why it turned out this way. They were clearly enemies, clearly sworn foes!

…………

At this moment.

In the core area of the Northern Continent, Xu Hei was still in the process of enlightenment, unaware of everything happening outside.

Meanwhile, the two people above the sea of clouds couldn’t sit still.

”Hmph! We’ve waited so long, and he still hasn’t appeared. Could he have died in the Earth God’s forbidden land?” Wang Zhen frowned.

”Impossible.” Yuantai shook his head.

He stared at the distant Earth God’s forbidden land, pondered for a moment, then squinted his eyes, ”Why don’t we test it?”

”Test it? What do you want to do? Test the deity?” Wang Zhen’s expression changed.

Yuantai’s mouth curled into a smile, ”Wang Zhen, you know, the so-called deity is merely the remnant of an ascender, and the inheritance of the deity is just a law, right?”

Wang Zhen’s face turned a mix of green and red, his lips moved, but he ultimately said nothing.

”The usual arrangement, you only need to deal with Xu Hei, leave the rest to me!”

Yuantai remained expressionless, raising his hand.

”Crash!”

In an instant, the sea level at the edge of the distant continent suddenly rose, a flood surged, a tsunami swept, and the endless sea surged madly toward the continent’s interior.

The seawater submerged the land, an act of invading the Earth God’s territory, considered a great rebellion!

What no one dared to do before, Yuantai accomplished now!

The flood spread, submerging human villages by the sea, countless cultivators fell into the water, screams echoed, misery abounded. Fields turned into water realms, mountains into rivers, cities into lakes, land into oceans.

Yuantai merely wore a cold expression, controlling the flood, sweeping toward the Earth God’s forbidden land.

…………

Time passed day by day.

Three days later, Xu Hei slowly opened his eyes.

”Whoo!”

He exhaled deeply, his whole body drenched in sweat.

After breaking through to the Divine Transformation stage, it was the first time he felt such extreme exhaustion, from spirit to body, so tired he was about to faint.

Of the thirty-six Divine Abilities taught by the Earth God, most he only skimmed through, barely remembering any.

Even the parts he remembered, he might not be able to learn.

Too complex! It’s not something that can be instantly comprehended with a glance; it requires understanding the changes in the laws, personal attempts, experiencing it again and again to turn the Divine Abilities into one’s own.

However, as long as Xu Hei could comprehend one or two moves, he could walk confidently in the early Divine Transformation stage.

”Ascended cultivators are truly each more powerful than the last.” Xu Hei sighed.

The Earth God also lamented that his talent, among ascenders, was only at the bottom, far from those truly outstanding individuals.

Those strong ones could create Second-turn Divine Abilities during the Divine Transformation stage, merging more than two laws, they were the true masters.

The Earth God was merely lucky to ascend.

But to Xu Hei, the Earth God was already strong enough, and if he could learn those Divine Abilities, they would be more than sufficient before his ascension.

Xu Hei glanced back, the Earth God’s deity was still there, but the Earth Law had diminished greatly, its color much dimmer.

He slightly bowed to the Earth God’s deity, clasping his hands, ”Thank you, senior, for the grace of imparting the Dao!”

The Earth God left such a deity to pass on his own Dao to future generations, not wanting the lineage to be severed, nothing more.

The Earth God absorbed those corpses merely to maintain the cohesion of the laws.

As for the Death God, who absorbed the souls of all the deceased, what his purpose was, that remained unknown.

Not all deities of the Sea Star were treacherous, at least the Earth God wasn’t.

After adjusting his breath, Xu Hei walked out of the Earth God’s forbidden land and saw many cultivators gathered outside, all familiar faces from before.

They had sealed off the perimeter, forbidding entry and exit.

Seeing Xu Hei appear, the two leading figures’ expressions changed, hastily kneeling, ”Greetings, senior!”