Serpent Ancestor

The Soul Refining Demon Lord had calculated everything in advance. He saw that the moment he captured Mo Xuan, those three would immediately make their move.

This move was merely to lure the opponent into advancing recklessly, thereby achieving a counterattack from a desperate situation.

The Master would self-destruct in a desperate attempt, and so would he.

However, his self-destruction would be lethal!

The Water Kylin and Mo Xuan, two generals from the Penglai Sea, were instantly lost, leaving only the semi-transparent Yu Jianqiu and the bewildered Master, who was at a loss.

Yu Jianqiu’s body grew increasingly transparent, almost disappearing, while the Master, with disheveled hair, had a swollen body covered in charred marks.

They were at the end of their rope.

Sacrificing two generals, if they could kill the Soul Refining Demon Lord, would still mean achieving their goal.

But what left them in despair was...

They saw the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s head falling rapidly past the shattered sword formation, his third eye exceptionally bright, still calculating everything.No one was a fool.

They had long seen that this pitch-black sea could heal wounds, and judging by the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s actions, this sea might also heal him!

As they witnessed, the moment the Soul Refining Demon Lord touched the sea surface, the severed part of his neck began to regrow flesh at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His faint and barely audible aura rapidly climbed, gradually returning to its peak.

Despair!

Two high-ranking members had fallen, yet they could only watch helplessly as the Soul Refining Demon Lord healed. Was all their sacrifice just now in vain?

On Martial Arts Island, the battle involuntarily came to a halt. Once the high-ranking members determined the outcome, no matter how hard the lower and middle ranks fought, it was all in vain.

Despair spread across Martial Arts Island, even the Chosen ones were filled with confusion and hesitation in their eyes.

Was their effort, their sacrifice, still worth anything?

For some reason.

At this moment, the only remaining head of Mo Xuan showed a hint of a smile.

”Whoosh!!!”

Suddenly, the black polluted sea surface surged with towering waves, as if a colossal creature had leapt out of the sea, bringing with it a massive wave that crashed down.

Along with it, the head of the Soul Refining Demon Lord, which was in the process of healing, was also swept up!

However, the face of the Soul Refining Demon Lord was filled with terror, as he was now held in the mouth of a Flood Dragon.

”How can this be?! Who are you?!”

The Soul Refining Demon Lord roared sharply.

He was completely bewildered. He had clearly calculated everything, all the way to him falling into the sea to heal. Yet, unexpectedly, there was an enemy hidden beneath the sea!

”Aren’t you supposed to see the future? Why ask such a foolish question?” Xu Hei said coldly.

The Soul Refining Demon Lord finally understood.

In his previous calculations, the Flood Dragon that swallowed him whole was not Mo Xuan!

It was the one before him, Xu Hei!

Xu Hei hadn’t emerged from a spatial rift but from the polluted seawater.

The Soul Refining Demon Lord had been misled!

He thought there was only one black Flood Dragon in the Penglai Sea capable of swallowing him, and that was Mo Xuan! Coincidentally, Mo Xuan was hiding in a spatial rift.

This made him firmly believe that as long as he dealt with Mo Xuan, everything would be fine.

All of this had completely misled him, leading him in the wrong direction.

It turned out that calculations were not omnipotent.

The future he saw was not the future he thought it was.

”Now, you can try to calculate your own future,” Xu Hei said coldly.

Without needing to be told, the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s third eye had already begun calculating with all its might.

In an instant, he saw countless possible developments, but the result was only one.

”No, I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!”

The Soul Refining Demon Lord roared to the sky, the third eye on his forehead lighting up, a terrifying storm of Divine Sense spreading from his sea of consciousness, darkening the heavens and raising a fierce wind.

Finally, he was about to use his most adept power of Divine Sense!

Yu Jianqiu remained silent, slashing out with a sword in the air.

Soul-Cutting Sword!

This sword did not bring a sword light but countless illusory sword shadows, like a storm, stabbing towards the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s Divine Sense.

At the same time, the Master summoned an illusory bead, simultaneously activating a mysterious formation.

It was the Soul Locking Bead and Soul Absorbing Formation that the Soul Refining Demon Lord had previously calculated!

These three methods, which the Soul Refining Demon Lord had long calculated, would be devastating to his Divine Sense.

”No!!”

The Soul Refining Demon Lord struggled desperately, his Divine Sense exploding, forming a storm that surged in all directions, yet most of it was absorbed by the Soul Absorbing Formation, while the Soul Locking Bead locked his sea of consciousness, preventing him from releasing his Divine Sense again.

And the Soul-Cutting Sword arrived in an instant, piercing the center of his forehead.

”Ah!!”

With a scream, the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s gaze dimmed, his sea of consciousness pierced by a sword, killing him on the spot!

”Demon God Cauldron, refine for me!”

Only then did Xu Hei swallow him whole, into the Demon God Cauldron, simultaneously using the Heavenly Demon Technique to refine him with all his might.

The Soul Refining Demon Lord’s demonic essence was hidden within that third eye, the best supplement for the Demon Seed, and also the method to completely kill the Soul Refining Demon Lord.

In no time, the Demon God Cauldron echoed with the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s terrified screams, filled with disbelief.

”How could you possibly kill me! This is impossible! No! No!!”

Before long, the screams ceased.

Xu Hei’s Demon Seed had already sprouted a branch, and the Soul Refining Demon Lord’s head had completely disappeared, leaving only that third eye still within his body.

As for the viscous demonic essence, a large portion remained, requiring a long time to refine.

This one Soul Refining Demon Lord’s demonic essence was more than the previous three combined, worthy of being the one personally bestowed with the divine eye by the Sea God.

On Martial Arts Island, a deathly silence prevailed.

All battles had ceased.

Because the high-ranking members had already determined the outcome, continuing the slaughter among the middle and lower ranks was meaningless.

All sacrifices, all efforts, had lost their value.

However, it was the Sea God Sect’s side that lost its value.

”How could this happen? The Grand Protector actually lost!”

”Swallowed whole by a Flood Dragon never seen before?”

”No, this is impossible!”

The Demon Cultists couldn’t accept such a reality, their minds racing with various thoughts.

Someone took the lead, turning in a direction and rushing towards the polluted sea, leaping into the water with a ”splash.”

This escape triggered a chain reaction.

Everyone turned around, retreating in unison, heading back into the sea.

No matter what happened, as long as they escaped into the sea, they could save their lives; the other side couldn’t possibly pursue them into the sea.

But they were wrong!

The first person to escape into the sea was already smashed into pieces by Xu Hei with a strike from afar.

And the remaining Sea God Sect cultivators were intercepted halfway by a wall of air from the Master. With a wave of the Master’s hand, a palm as large as a fan swept across the ground, lifting a layer of earth and blasting one physical body after another.

The Master, being in the late Elemental Infant stage, faced with elders no stronger than the early Elemental Infant stage, it was as simple as crushing a group of ants.

”Clap, clap...”

With just one slap, he killed over a dozen people, including two Elemental Infant stage elders.

Everyone could feel that the Master was completely enraged.

Faced with these Demon Cult evildoers, even he would unleash his fury and start a massacre.

”Kill!”

Hai Teng, Nine-Headed Worm, Xiong Dabao, Bai Luo, Bai Qiushui, and other Chosen ones rose to pursue, surrounding and attacking the Sea God Sect cultivators.

Xu Hei also joined the battlefield, crushing large swathes with a casual strike, killing wherever he went, as if in an uninhabited land.

Once the Sea God Sect couldn’t enter the sea, losing the healing effect, they were no different from ordinary cultivators, with no advantage to speak of.

In just a short time, hundreds of cultivators were slaughtered clean, not a single one escaped.

Thus, the Sea God Sect’s second assault on the Penglai Sea finally collapsed completely!

However, the matter was far from over.

Because the external pollution had not been eliminated, they still couldn’t leave. Except for Xu Hei, no one could survive long in the polluted sea.

This was also the question on everyone’s mind: how could Xu Hei hide in the seawater and deliver a sudden strike to the enemy?

Xu Hei explained, ”I resisted with True Essence!”

”......”

Everyone was stunned.

They all knew that the pollutants in the seawater were a type of energy completely opposite to True Essence, called anti-True Essence. Only by continuously pouring in True Essence to counter it could the pollution be eliminated.

But even at the Elemental Infant stage, one couldn’t stay in the pollution for too long.

How did Xu Hei manage to lurk for so long without being discovered?

Xu Hei didn’t explain much; he was telling the truth, he did indeed resist with True Essence.

However, the True Essence converted using the Heavenly Demon Technique was more enduring.

At this moment.

The entire Martial Arts Island was filled with the corpses of the dead.

Some held the bodies of their companions, crying out in grief, some knelt before the bodies of their elders, while others were tending to the wounded.

It was like a battlefield that had just ended, cries of anguish everywhere.

Among the dead, some were merely youths, some were participating in a battle for the first time, some had families, living in happiness.

But with the Sea God Sect’s attack, everything turned to dust.

Xu Hei stood silently, landing before a head.

It was Mo Xuan’s head.

Mo Xuan’s eyes were still open, his aura already severed, but his eyes remained unclosed, with a trace of lingering obsession.

”Xu Hei...”

Mo Xuan’s weak voice came, like a dying ember, his eyes quietly looking at him.

”Junior is here.”

Xu Hei kowtowed on the ground.

”I want to take my medicine,” Mo Xuan said.

Xu Hei held back the sourness in his heart, taking out a ten-thousand-year-old ancient spirit medicine, placing it before Mo Xuan.

Just like three years ago, when he first met Mo Xuan, he took out the ancient spirit medicine.

Three years later, Xu Hei was already a formidable force on his own, no longer needing the protection of his elders.

A trace of relief appeared in Mo Xuan’s eyes.

Xu Hei looked at the motionless Mo Xuan, he picked up the spirit medicine and placed it in Mo Xuan’s mouth.

Mo Xuan moved his throat slightly, a weak voice coming through, ”This taste is really good.”

His eyes lowered, closing forever.

Xu Hei stood silently in place, looking at the old Flood Dragon, tears streaming down his face, yet he was completely unaware.