Serpent Ancestor

Hei Huang spoke as a powerful divine sense surged forward, causing Gu Yunlong to instinctively step back half a pace.

”I told you we have important matters to attend to. Are you deaf, or just brainless? Can’t you understand human speech? Do I have to curse you before you’ll stop?”

Hei Huang showed no mercy, pointing at Gu Yunlong’s nose and unleashing a torrent of insults.

This made Gu Yunlong’s expression extremely unpleasant.

The onlookers were all stunned.

This short cultivator has some nerve! Who gave him the courage to treat the Grand Elder of the Gu Family like this?

Xu Hei quickly pulled Hei Huang back and cupped his fists toward Gu Yunlong, saying, ”Apologies! My colleague here has a fiery temper and speaks without thinking, but he means no harm! We appreciate your goodwill, but we truly have urgent matters and cannot stay!”

”In a month’s time, we will return to Tiandou City and visit the Gu Family and Wang Family!”

Xu Hei’s words were eloquent as he cupped his fists toward Gu Yunlong and Wang Xiaotian in turn.

Gu Yunlong’s expression finally softened a bit.These two are playing good cop, bad cop, and it’s impossible to see through their true intentions, leaving only wild guesses.

After this, no one dared to stop Xu Hei and Hei Huang, and they quickly left.

The Qingshan Sect also made a hasty retreat. Although they couldn’t grasp the details, they could guess that the situation was extremely dangerous.

One wrong move could lead to disaster.

Once the protagonists left, the crowd dispersed, and some cultivation families from afar, like the Zhao Family and Hou Family, who arrived late and missed the spectacle, felt deep regret.

Gu Yunlong looked at Wang Xiaotian and transmitted, ”Fellow Daoist Wang, you witnessed the whole thing. What do you think of these two?”

”Hmph! Why should I tell you what I think?” Wang Xiaotian sneered.

Gu Yunlong squinted his eyes and said slowly, ”It seems your Wang Family doesn’t want that Earth Fire Lotus anymore.”

Wang Xiaotian was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and said, ”I can’t see through these two either, but I suspect they are injured, and seriously so. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in such a hurry to leave.”

”If your Gu Family had acted with full force earlier, you might have been able to bring them to justice on the spot and save face!”

”However, they haven’t gone far yet. It’s still not too late to act!”

Wang Xiaotian smiled, leaving it unclear whether his words were true or false.

Gu Yunlong snorted coldly.

He had considered those thoughts too.

But just based on the finger Xu Hei displayed earlier, even if they could kill those two, the Gu Family would suffer heavy casualties, and one or two Divine Transformation cultivators would surely fall.

Divine Transformation cultivators are not easy to kill; they can burn their primordial spirit. If forced into self-destruction, the casualties would be even greater.

That’s why he didn’t dare to take the risk!

Moreover, if they really started a fight, who knows if the Wang Family would intervene to protect those two and take the opportunity to win them over? If the Wang Family succeeded, it would be a huge loss.

”Old Third, send someone to follow those two,” Gu Yunlong transmitted.

...

Tiandou City was vast.

The Gu Family was located at the far east, and Xu Hei and Hei Huang traveled eastward for half an hour before reaching the city gate and smoothly leaving Tiandou City.

This was mainly because flying was prohibited below the Divine Transformation stage. Plus, in their current state, flying was not advisable.

Outside the city lay a vast desert, yellow sand filling the sky, and the weather was gray and dim as night had fallen.

The temperature dropped sharply, and Xu Hei and Hei Huang hovered for a while, circled outside the city, then burrowed underground and fled into the distance.

Not long after they left, a shadow appeared at the spot where they had stood.

After observing for a moment, the shadow pursued in another direction and vanished.

”Heh, trying to track me without knowing your own limits,” Hei Huang chuckled.

By now, they had escaped over a hundred miles away and were hidden deep underground, perfectly concealed.

Xu Hei breathed a sigh of relief and said, ”Old dog, do you know how dangerous it was back there? You dared to provoke them, weren’t you afraid the Gu Family would really make a move?”

At the time, Xu Hei appeared calm on the surface, but inside he was panicking.

He only had enough true essence left for two more attacks, and if the Gu Family sent a few more Divine Transformation cultivators, he would be dead without a burial place.

”What is there to fear? Only at the brink of life and death can one temper their will. What if you suddenly had an epiphany and comprehended a supreme divine skill at the moment of death?” Hei Huang laughed.

”Get lost! You troublemaker!” Xu Hei cursed.

In any case, this cooperation went relatively smoothly.

The two earned eleven thousand spirit stones, splitting them evenly, each getting five thousand five hundred.

Hei Huang wanted sixty percent, claiming Xu Hei had agreed to it, which Xu Hei flatly denied, almost leading to a fight between them.

”Xu Hei! Those two thousand spirit stones were your promise to the Qingshan Sect, not mine. They should count as your expenses!” Hei Huang argued, but to no avail.

Xu Hei had already transformed into a snake and stuffed the five thousand five hundred spirit stones into his mouth.

His whole body swelled up, forming a small hill, his belly full of spirit stones.

”I’ve already eaten them. If you dare, try to take them from my mouth!” Xu Hei said.

Hei Huang was so angry his teeth itched.

He didn’t have time to argue, clutching the spirit stones in his hand and quickly refining them.

Both were seriously injured, lacking spiritual qi, and needed a large number of spirit stones to cultivate and restore their strength.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t buy pills yet, or their recovery would be faster.

”Buzz!”

At this moment, a green light suddenly shone from Xu Hei’s neck.

Xu Bai, who had been hanging around Xu Hei’s neck, began to emit the laws of life under the nourishment of spiritual qi, slowly repairing Xu Hei’s damaged meridians.

”Huh?”

Xu Hei was taken aback, then showed a look of joy.

Xu Bai had fallen into a coma, yet she could still actively absorb spiritual qi and release the laws of life. What could be more suitable for healing than the power of laws?

Xu Hei quickly spat out the spirit stones and stuffed them into Xu Bai’s mouth to help her digest and absorb them.

”Ugh, ugh, ugh!”

Hei Huang turned around and went to another place to meditate in seclusion.

...

Tiandou City, central area.

A magnificent palace stood suspended in mid-air, constructed entirely of floating stones, inscribed with various rune formations, bearing immense weight without falling, and was the place with the most abundant spiritual qi in the entire city.

Cultivating here for a day was equivalent to ten days elsewhere.

This was the City Lord’s mansion of Tiandou City.

It was also the retreat of the Void Shattering cultivator, the City Lord of Tiandou City.

At this moment, the City Lord sat inside the palace, appearing middle-aged, with long silver hair, carrying a long halberd, his entire being full of strength. He opened his sharp eyes and looked toward the door.

There, a soldier in armor flashed in and respectfully said, ”City Lord, there’s an important matter to report today!”

He spoke rapidly, reporting the major events that had occurred in the city in recent days one by one.

Among them, he focused on the tragic incident at the Gu Family’s gate and the attitudes of the Gu and Wang Families.