Serpent Ancestor

”Ah!!”

Hei Xuan let out a miserable scream, as if subjected to the most brutal torture in the world.

The stone spirit clan’s resilience is among the top of all creatures, but their weakness is that their primordial spirit is not strong.

Under Xu Hei’s divine sense attack, his whole body convulsed, wailing in agony, even his form showed slight cracks, a sign of mental torment reaching its limit.

”Someone paid a thousand spirit sands for your life, but I don’t know who... Ah!!” Hei Xuan continued to scream.

”A thousand spirit sands?!”

Upon hearing this, everyone displayed expressions of shock.

Such a price is rare even across the entire Dark Star, even assassinating a late-stage Divine Transformation wouldn’t cost this much!

Xu Hei was also stunned by the price on his head, equivalent to a hundred supreme spirit stones. The Flame Demon Ancestor was truly willing to spend.

Speaking of which, this person’s stealth techniques were indeed impressive, even Xu Hei hadn’t noticed.If he hadn’t anticipated someone plotting against him and left the stone chamber early, using a decoy to replace himself, he might have fallen into the trap! An assassination arrow capable of killing a late-stage Divine Transformation cultivator would have at least severely injured Xu Hei, if not killed him.

As for Hei Xuan himself, his cultivation wasn’t high, only at the peak of mid-stage Divine Transformation. Once Xu Hei got close, he only lasted a few moves before being captured.

Thus, this person’s assassination skills were indeed not to be underestimated.

”With such a large danger zone, how did you find us?” Xu Hei asked again.

To prevent pursuers, their route was not fixed, with many parts planned on the fly, Xu Hei also participated in the planning.

With this question, everyone present realized there might be a traitor among them.

”I, I...” Hei Xuan stammered, hesitating to speak.

”You should have heard, as an outsider cultivator, I know a soul searching technique. Even if you don’t speak, I have ways to make you talk. Will you speak yourself, or should I make you?” Xu Hei said coldly.

”I’ll speak!”

Hei Xuan trembled, taking out a stone crow from within his body, hurriedly saying, ”Someone in your team is carrying a Black Sand Worm, and this stone crow loves to eat Black Sand Worms. Even from a hundred thousand miles away, it can track the scent of the worm.”

”These are all instructions from the employer, I was just following orders.”

With these words, all the stone people fell silent.

Everyone exchanged glances, the atmosphere was eerily quiet.

They had caught quite a few Black Sand Worms yesterday, most were eaten, but a few were kept.

Everyone still had at least one in their possession.

If there really was a traitor using Black Sand Worms to lure the enemy, wouldn’t that make everyone a traitor?

Xu Hei immediately realized that catching so many Black Sand Worms yesterday was the traitor’s deliberate act.

That person had long suspected that Hei Xuan might fail in his assassination and be captured by Xu Hei, so to be safe, they shared so many Black Sand Worms to avoid detection.

”Ao Fei, you discovered the Black Sand Worms yesterday, right?”

Ao De’s gaze turned cold, looking at Ao Fei, releasing a powerful oppressive force that descended abruptly, causing Ao Fei to kneel directly.

Ao Fei’s face changed dramatically, ”Ancestor Ao De, I’m innocent, I really just stumbled upon a cave with those Black Sand Worms! If you don’t believe me... if you don’t believe me, you can use that legendary soul searching technique on me!”

His voice trembled, his face full of fear, willing to undergo soul searching to prove his innocence.

Ao Fei was evidently unaware of the cost of soul searching.

Without special heavenly treasures, once soul searched, one might suffer memory loss or diminished intelligence, unbearable for ordinary people. Especially for the stone spirit clan, whose primordial spirit is already fragile, the consequences are even more severe.

Xu Hei glanced at Ao Fei, whose eyes were filled with extreme fear.

But Xu Hei did not use the soul searching technique on anyone.

Unless the cultivation was two realms higher, the side effects on himself would be significant, and the traitor wouldn’t be foolish enough to personally distribute Black Sand Worms to everyone.

”I heard the bounty for killing me is a thousand spirit sands?” Xu Hei asked.

”Sir, that person only paid a twenty percent deposit, the remaining eighty percent would be paid after the kill...”

Hei Xuan shouted, just about to take out the spirit sands.

But Xu Hei, without a word, slapped his palm on Hei Xuan’s forehead.

”Smack!!”

Hei Xuan’s head exploded under Xu Hei’s slap, shattering into pieces, turning into rubble.

Xu Hei extracted Hei Xuan’s crystal core, the storage space inside was small, just enough to hold two hundred spirit sands, which Xu Hei took entirely, storing them in his storage ring.

Additionally, Xu Hei found a crossbow on him, the black arrow earlier was fired from this.

Hei Xuan’s body was also covered with a transparent object, constantly changing colors, a transparent cloak.

It was with this item that Hei Xuan could move freely in dangerous areas, unaffected.

If Xu Hei hadn’t planted Black Needle Ants in advance, catching Hei Xuan off guard, causing him to be poisoned by the Green Emperor’s leftover corrosive pill toxin, Xu Hei wouldn’t have succeeded so easily.

”Boom!!”

Xu Hei stomped down, crushing Hei Xuan’s body into a pulp, storing the remains in his storage ring.

The crossbow, arrows, transparent cloak, and the local exotic species stone crow, were all collected by Xu Hei.

The stone people watching were all dumbfounded, inexplicably shocked.

Those who had seen Xu Hei’s true strength among the Yan family cultivators thought nothing of it, but to the Oli family, it was like a storm.

Ao De, with a stern face, shouted, ”From now on, no one is allowed to leave the convoy’s ten-thousand-zhang range, or I will consider them a spy and kill them directly!”

”Do you understand?”

”Yes!”

The Oli family members responded one after another.

Knowing there might be a spy, they didn’t delay any longer. After resting for half a day, once the black sandstorm subsided a bit, the convoy set off, entering the Black Sand Ridge.

Xu Hei remained in his stone chamber, being pulled along by the convoy.

This was somewhat similar to a mortal world’s carriage.

Xu Hei took out the black crossbow and arrows, studying them carefully.

The crossbow was small, just slightly larger than a palm, a mortal could hold it with one hand.

The arrows were only as long as an arm, yet they pierced through Xu Hei’s puppet with one shot, even making a hole in the stone chamber, the power was truly absurd.

”Tsk tsk tsk! This is a good thing, hitting a target from thousands of miles away, if taken outside, it might kill someone tens of thousands of miles away,” Old Tree marveled.

The gravity on Dark Star is immense, all magical treasures’ power is greatly reduced, yet this treasure can still shoot thousands of miles.

The only pity is that there’s only one arrow, once used, it must be retrieved.

If it fails to kill the opponent in one shot and the arrow is picked up by someone else, it’s over.

”Can you tell what tier of magical treasure it is?” Xu Hei asked.

”Like my Star Compass, I can’t tell, but the usage method is simple, it shouldn’t be too high-tier. Unlike my Star Compass, without a late-stage Divine Transformation, you can’t even drive it,” Old Tree replied.