Serpent Ancestor

Xu Hei glanced at the Flame Demon Ancestor but didn’t continue the chase.

”Old Tree, retreat!”

Xu Hei transmitted his voice from afar, then reached out and pulled, connecting the Old Tree with a puppet thread and yanked it over forcefully.

”Whoosh!”

The Old Tree flew over like a stream of light, caught by Xu Hei, and was swiftly stored into his storage ring.

Immediately, Xu Hei dashed towards the exit without looking back.

”Stop right there!”

The Night Sky sped after him, vanishing completely from the ground.

”Huh? Why is everyone running? I haven’t even finished fighting!”

Seeing his boss flee, Han Te decided to quit as well and turned to slip away.As for Wang Dashan, he was embedded in the stone wall and hadn’t climbed out yet.

”Boom!!”

Qing Shuang’s body exploded, countless vines detached from the main trunk, attacking Qing Xuan like long snakes.

Meanwhile, her main body burrowed underground like a worm, performing a Golden Cicada Shedding, darting away like lightning.

Qing Xuan’s face turned extremely dark, gritting his teeth, he said, ”Today, none of you will escape!”

…………

The journey ahead posed no significant obstacles for Xu Hei.

The thorny thicket ahead had been completely cleared by the Flame Demon Ancestor, who was clearly no longer pretending and was determined to leave.

The guest token given by Qing Xuan was left untouched, showing just how cautious he was.

”This Infernal Realm is truly terrifying, growing to such a scale without anyone noticing.”

Xu Hei looked around; apart from the areas with spatial rifts, everywhere was covered with thorny thickets. Anyone thrown into it would face endless attacks.

These thickets contained three different laws, forming a Three-turn Divine Ability. Getting hit would mean death or severe injury.

Only Xu Hei and the Flame Demon Ancestor, with their strong divine abilities and fire that countered wood, could blast a path through.

Even the Thorn King probably didn’t expect the appearance of both the most yin and most yang fires of the mortal world here.

Before long.

Xu Hei reached the previous entrance.

The area was still shrouded in miasma, with the Flame Demon Ancestor’s banner planted ahead, infused with his divine sense, creating ripples that opened a passable path.

Seeing Xu Hei approach, the Flame Demon Ancestor immediately stopped his actions.

Xu Hei, noticing this, retreated to a safe distance.

”Hmph.”

The Flame Demon Ancestor snorted coldly and continued to infuse his divine sense.

At this moment, the Old Tree transmitted, ”Xu Hei, be wary of that Night Sky. Once he fully conceals himself, even a Great Perfection Divine Transformation Stage cultivator would struggle to detect him! My divine sense isn’t weak, but it’s just a split soul. If I use it a couple more times, I might fall into eternal slumber.”

”Is it that serious?” Xu Hei was surprised.

”This split soul has existed for too long, only sustained by the miraculous effects of the Soul Nourishing Wood. Being a Void Shattering Stage cultivator, I’ve held on until now. Only by returning to Divine Continent Star and finding the Demon Seed can my main soul awaken, which is the only way to survive.”

”Enough talk, I can still keep watch for a while. That Night Sky won’t be able to ambush you for now!”

After hurriedly saying a few words, the Old Tree fell silent.

Xu Hei’s heart sank.

His divine sense swept behind him, finding no trace of anyone. This meant that once Night Sky fully concealed himself, Xu Hei alone couldn’t detect him.

”The Shadow Clan is truly troublesome,” Xu Hei thought to himself.

…………

A stick of incense’s time passed.

Under the Old Tree’s vigilance, Xu Hei pinpointed the opponent’s position several times, but Night Sky seemed cautious. As long as Xu Hei’s gaze locked onto him, he dared not approach.

It seemed that complete concealment had its limits.

”Whoosh!”

Not far away, the miasma at the exit was opened, revealing a passage leading directly outside.

Xu Hei ignored the hidden Night Sky, leaping towards the miasma’s edge, with the Flame Demon Ancestor already a step ahead, rushing out.

This time, after dispersing the miasma, it didn’t reform for a long time.

The Flame Demon Ancestor clearly had ulterior motives, intending for those behind to follow him out.

Xu Hei burst through the miasma, returning to the outside world.

Though the outside also had spatial rifts, it was a completely different world compared to the miasma inside.

Xu Hei stared at the motionless Flame Demon Ancestor ahead.

The Flame Demon Ancestor squinted and said, ”Xu Hei, do you still want to fight? As far as I know, there’s a pursuer behind you.”

”So, you’re stopping here to team up with that person to ambush me?” Xu Hei asked.

The Flame Demon Ancestor remained silent.

His eyes scanned the surroundings, suddenly raising his hand without warning. A bright red flame rose, striking towards a certain spot.

”Boom!!”

A thorn suddenly emerged, colliding with the Flame Demon Ancestor’s palm and was incinerated completely.

”Oh? Quite a quick reaction.”

From the shadows, a verdant figure emerged, looking down from above.

This was a man covered in thorn armor, clearly from the Wood Spirit Clan, a member of the thorn lineage.

He was the helper Qing Xuan had invited.

Besides him, three other figures appeared one after another. A total of four people formed a circle, trapping Xu Hei and the Flame Demon Ancestor in the middle.

”Do these two know each other?”

”No.”

”According to Qing Xuan, if they don’t know each other, kill them both!”

The four communicated swiftly in secret.

Among them were two from the Wood Spirit Clan and two from the Stone Spirit Clan, all with considerable cultivation at the late Divine Power stage. With such a formidable lineup, anyone escaping would be in dire straits.

Qing Xuan had made ample preparations to ensure nothing went wrong and no information leaked.

”Kill!”

The thorn-armored man shouted.

”Boom!!!”

The Flame Demon Ancestor struck with a palm, a blazing sun like a star from the nine heavens, crashing towards one of the Stone Spirit Clan men.

Xu Hei also swung his Black Fire Meteor. In the state of three-phase fusion, he unleashed a Second-turn Divine Ability, almost instantaneously, rubbing his hands to form a sphere.

”Not good!”

The thorn-armored man’s face changed drastically.

”Thud!!”

The Black Fire Meteor smashed down, melting half the body of one of the charging stone men. The accompanying Wood Spirit Clan member’s body also exploded, juices splattering, unable to withstand even a single blow.

The two were blasted thousands of feet away, brushing against a spatial rift, the stone man’s body shattering into pieces.

On the other side, the Flame Demon Ancestor’s opponent was also incinerated, but the Flame Demon Ancestor didn’t linger, his body like a stream of light, fleeing at high speed, clearly not intending to stay and fight.

”How can these two escapees be so strong?”

The thorn-armored man was shocked and pale.

The Black Fire Meteor was Xu Hei’s strongest attack, originally created to deal with the Flame Demon Ancestor.

The Flame Demon Ancestor, with various strange enhancements from Spirit Realm cultivators and the evolved Solar Essence Fire, could barely hold his own.

But what were these people?