Serpent Ancestor

Xu Hei remained silent for a moment, but as soon as he spoke, the crimson stone man’s expression turned peculiar.

”What kind of gibberish is this guy spouting?”

”Judging by his appearance, he doesn’t look like he’s from the stone spirit clan. He seems more like a flesh and blood being.”

”Strange, how could there be a flesh and blood being on Dark Star?”

With Dark Star’s terrifying gravity and lack of water sources, even in the safe zones, there are no conditions for flesh and blood beings to be born.

But at this moment, he didn’t think too much. Anyone who saw him had to die! Since this person appeared in the Earth Rock Zone, he was likely in cahoots with the Oli family, so he decided to kill him all the same.

”Boom!!”

Seeing the crimson stone man charging at him, Xu Hei, unusually, did not release his spirit insects. Instead, his entire body was covered in a thick crystalline layer, an enhanced version of the Rock Crystal Guardian.

Then, dragon scales spread across his arms, and two kinds of law powers converged wildly, forming a pitch-black orb in his palm.

It was the Second-turn Divine Ability, Death Meteor!Compared to when he first comprehended this move, Xu Hei could now execute it in the blink of an eye.

”Die!”

Xu Hei struck out with his palm, directly clashing with the crimson stone man.

”Boom!”

With a deafening explosion, the pitch-black orb slammed into the crimson stone man’s body and exploded instantly.

Under Oli’s shocked gaze, the crimson stone man’s physical body developed countless cracks, and then shattered inch by inch, being blasted away, flying tens of thousands of feet, and crashing into a deep mountain, embedding itself within.

The mountain collapsed, burying the crimson stone man.

In contrast, Xu Hei only retreated about a hundred feet, with the Rock Crystal Guardian on his arms shattered and a few dragon scales falling off.

The difference was clear!

”How is he... so strong?” Oli was utterly stunned.

Twenty years ago, he had faced Xu Hei in battle.

He believed that Xu Hei had only managed to beat him by relying on those strange black insects, and in a direct confrontation, he wouldn’t be weaker.

But seeing him today, Xu Hei’s direct combat power was terrifying, like a monster!

Xu Hei exhaled deeply, feeling his slightly numb arms, and thought to himself that the stone spirit clan truly lived up to their reputation as body-refining cultivators. In terms of physical strength alone, they were much stronger than him, but they lacked divine abilities and magical treasures, which put them at a disadvantage.

Moreover, Xu Hei’s cultivation had improved significantly compared to twenty years ago.

”Trying to escape?”

Xu Hei sneered, disappearing in an instant, and reappeared at the edge of the mountain, where the head of a crimson stone man was exposed.

Just as it emerged, Xu Hei raised his hand and delivered a Mountain Splitting Palm, smashing it down on the face.

”Smack!!”

The crimson stone man’s face was directly shattered, along with the mountain behind him, and as the stone man tried to escape from the ruins, Xu Hei caught up again. The Star-Moon Sword was unsheathed, imbued with Lunar Mystic Fire, and he swung it continuously, cutting countless gaps into the crimson stone man.

Each strike drove the Lunar Mystic Fire deeper into its body, burning it continuously, even melting the stone, producing a corrosive sound.

”Stop, senior, I am the eldest son of the Chi family... you can’t kill me!”

The crimson stone man shouted frantically, looking panicked, but Xu Hei couldn’t understand a word.

However, Old Tree in the shadows translated for Xu Hei in time.

Ignoring it, Xu Hei continued to hack away, slashing a hundred and eighty times, toppling the crimson stone man, and then added another Death Meteor, taking half an incense stick’s time to dismember the crimson stone man into eight pieces, completely extinguishing its life force before stopping.

”Damn, that was tough.”

Xu Hei cursed inwardly.

The stone spirit clan not only had strong defenses but also top-notch self-repair abilities, with cracks healing quickly and severed limbs regrowing at will. Xu Hei had never imagined that killing a cultivator of the same level would take so long.

But to Oli, this was already miraculous.

Even if a stone spirit clan cultivator was a realm lower, they couldn’t be killed so quickly, which was why he had survived being hunted for so long.

Yet Xu Hei had taken down a mid-stage Divine Transformation enemy in just a few moves, which was truly unbelievable.

”Thank you, senior, for saving my life. Thank you, senior.”

Oli quickly bowed to Xu Hei in gratitude.

This time, he spoke in the normal language of the outside world, which Xu Hei understood.

It seemed that Oli had secretly learned his language.

”Give me an explanation for why you led this person to my cave dwelling,” Xu Hei said coldly.

”Senior, it’s like this...”

Oli hurriedly explained, ”Our Oli family planned to transport a batch of goods to exchange for spirit sand with the Wood Spirit Clan, but we were intercepted halfway and almost perished. I had no choice but to come here to seek refuge. I beg for your forgiveness, senior! I... I will provide compensation!”

Xu Hei raised an eyebrow and asked, ”Goods? Spirit sand? What is that?”

Oli quickly took out a handful of granular crystals.

The moment Xu Hei saw these crystals, he was shocked and thought to himself, ”Supreme Spirit Stones?”

The granular crystals in Oli’s hand were indeed Supreme Spirit Stones, but much smaller, as if the Supreme Spirit Stones had been crushed!

They were about one-tenth the size of a normal Supreme Spirit Stone.

However, Oli’s handful contained over fifty grains of spirit sand, equivalent to five Supreme Spirit Stones.

”Senior, this is spirit sand! It’s essential for our Ling Clan’s cultivation.”

”But the spirit sand mines on Dark Star are mostly controlled by the Wood Spirit Clan. Any faction wanting to exchange for spirit sand must transport their goods for exchange.”

”Our Oli family sends people every ten years to exchange in bulk, but in recent years, we’ve lost several clan members and can no longer protect the goods.”

”This year’s goods were also stolen, and if it weren’t for you, senior, I would have died here.”

Oli said with a despondent expression.

Xu Hei pondered for a moment, then suddenly waved his hand, smashing the crimson stone man’s body and extracting a crimson crystal core.

This was the core of the stone spirit clan, also used for storing items.

However, it seemed that this world lacked storage artifacts and relied on their own crystal cores for storage.

From this crystal core, Xu Hei took out a large handful of spirit sand, about one hundred and fifty grains, equivalent to fifteen Supreme Spirit Stones.

”Talk about a timely gift.”

Xu Hei chuckled inwardly, storing the spirit sand and also taking the spirit sand from Oli’s hand.

In this way, he now had twenty Supreme Spirit Stones.

But it was still far from enough!

Whether it was raising insects, breaking through to the late-stage Divine Transformation, or cultivating techniques, all required a large consumption of spirit stones. Twenty was nothing, even hundreds or thousands would be too few for Xu Hei.

”Is there more spirit sand?” Xu Hei asked.

Oli, hearing this, lowered his head and said, ”Senior, our Oli family’s goods were robbed, and spirit sand has become scarce. I’m afraid the entire family doesn’t have much left.”