Serpent Ancestor

The Blood Escape Technique, a skill only the cultivators of the Blood Refining Sect excel at.

At this moment, in the hands of these fleeing cultivators, it was executed to perfection. At the brink of life and death, each of them unleashed this life-saving skill!

Their cultivation had also grown significantly stronger than when they were on the Divine Continent Star.

Enjoying the benefits brought by the Blood Refining Sect, yet unwilling to bear the corresponding price, how laughable!

Such fence-sitters, even if they returned to the Divine Puppet Sect, would be worthless. The thought of them charging into battle is nothing but a fool’s dream.

Of course, Xu Hei didn’t think there was anything wrong with their choice.

At the brink of life and death, defecting from the sect and choosing the side more beneficial to one’s survival is reasonable. Everyone has the right to escape.

If Xu Hei hadn’t appeared, they might have lived well, perhaps achieving greater success than staying in the Divine Puppet Sect, maybe even with hopes of ascension!

Can you say such a choice is wrong?

No matter what evil deeds, be it murder, arson, betraying one’s master, or backstabbing blood relatives... or like the Blood Refining Sect cultivators, sacrificing countless living beings, from a cultivator’s perspective, whether righteous or demonic, as long as it benefits oneself, it can be done.But once a choice is made, one must bear the corresponding price!

Victory belongs to the king, and the defeated are bandits! The fittest survive! If you betray your sect and choose to defect, you must be prepared to be exterminated by the sect elders!

As the Ancestor of the Divine Puppet Sect, Xu Hei was stronger than this group of traitors, so he had the right to enforce the law!

”Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...”

Xu Hei’s five fingers pointed continuously, True Qi shooting out like the sword of judgment, killing the surviving cultivators one by one, their bodies vanishing into smoke.

Regret, hatred, pleading, curses... all were useless, what awaited them was only the path of death.

Weakness is the original sin!

Being a traitor and wanting to avoid paying the price, unless you are stronger than Xu Hei!

After a long time, everything calmed down.

Xu Hei stopped his actions and let out a long breath.

You reap what you sow.

If in the future, any descendants of these cultivators seek revenge against him and are stronger than Xu Hei, he would have no complaints.

”Everything has a price!”

”Those who betray the sect, in the name of the Ancestor of the Divine Puppet Sect, shall be executed without exception!”

Xu Hei’s voice echoed throughout the vast Chaos Star City.

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In Chaos Star City, more than ninety percent of the cultivators were exterminated, with only a few surviving.

In a corner of the city wall, a ragged woman emerged. Her figure was outstanding, her smooth skin still bearing whip marks, tears of excitement at the corners of her eyes. She was one of the Five Elemental Furnaces from Tian Nan City.

She had been abducted by Shen Dapeng and offered to the elder of the Blood Refining Sect, suffering endless torment. Only just now, with the death of the Blood Refining Sect elder and the disappearance of the soul imprint, was she freed.

”Thank you... Ancestor Xu!”

She knelt on the ground, heavily kowtowing in the direction Xu Hei had left.

In various corners of Chaos Star City, many unfortunate souls emerged, be they slaves, furnaces for cultivation, or prisoners. They bowed deeply in Xu Hei’s direction, praying for his safe journey.

Xu Hei was not a good person, and what he did could hardly be called righteous.

What he practiced was merely his own Dao.

Xu Hei floated in the distant sky, and suddenly, his figure paused.

He saw that within him, another Dragon Qi had emerged, his fourth Dragon Qi!

This Dragon Qi was entirely crimson, as red as blood, exuding a fierce aura, like a blood dragon coiled near the other three Dragon Qi.

”Dragon Qi...”

Xu Hei gradually understood.

All along, he had only a vague guess about the birth of Dragon Qi, without enough examples to verify it.

Now, he understood.

By practicing his own Dao and receiving a response, Dragon Qi could be born.

What he had just practiced was slaughter, killing those who deserved to be killed with the conviction in his heart! The law carried by this Dragon Qi was the Slaughter Law!

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In the time that followed, Xu Hei swept through the Central Plains, eradicating the Blood Refining Sect’s strongholds one by one.

Often, before the other party could react, they were already annihilated, not even knowing who had killed them.

With Xu Hei’s terrifying speed, it took only half an hour to sweep through the Central Plains, completely wiping out the Blood Refining Sect’s city strongholds!

No one knew it was Xu Hei who did it!

To send a message from the outer battlefield back to the sect, only a Divine Transformation cultivator burning their primordial spirit could do it, and the Blood Refining Sect’s Divine Transformation stage was already annihilated.

In the Central Plains, within an underground cave dwelling.

The Green Lotus was stored here by Xu Hei.

The Green Emperor remained in the form of the Jianmu Overlord Body, and Xu Bai showed no signs of awakening, the gentle radiance illuminating the entire cave in a verdant green, bringing a sense of tranquility upon approach.

Xu Hei transmitted his divine sense, informing Xu Bai of the current situation, but she gave no response.

It was as if she were a vegetative person among mortals.

Xu Hei’s face was full of bitterness as he slowly said, ”So many things have happened to me over the years we’ve been apart. Though I don’t know if you can hear me, let me tell you everything.”

Xu Hei recounted everything that had happened since they parted in the Void Realm to Xu Bai.

After parting in the Void Realm, he left the outer battlefield and joined the Divine Puppet Sect.

Then came the core disciple competition of the Divine Puppet Sect, where he killed Shen Shaopeng, thwarted Zhao Nanqi’s conspiracy, traveled for a hundred years, and finally reached the Divine Transformation stage.

At the moment of Divine Transformation, the Dao of Heaven descended with divine punishment, Xu Hei resisted with all his might, and the Ancestor of the Divine Puppet Sect also intervened, causing the sect’s power to be greatly diminished, indirectly triggering the subsequent disaster.

The Sea Star border, falling out with Hai Teng, encountering Yu Shiyu, comprehending the Law of Death, and obtaining the Earth God’s inheritance.

The Seven Stars Alignment, internal and external troubles.

The journey to Guanghan Palace, encountering Hei Huang’s split soul.

Killing Jiang Liuyu, completely offending the Spirit Realm cultivators, leading to great disaster.

Until he returned from the Dark Star.

This was not only a narration for Xu Bai but also a review for Xu Hei himself, reflecting on whether there were any issues with his past actions.

If he were to face those situations now, what choices would he make?

”If it were me now, I might not have killed Jiang Liuyu, nor would I have caused such a great disaster.”

”However, even if I didn’t kill him, whether he would have developed greed towards me and mobilized stronger forces to kill me, I do not know.”

Xu Hei shook his head.

What’s done is done, there’s no need for regret, as long as one can bear the corresponding price.

”Xu Bai, I have more pressing matters to attend to, and I truly don’t have the time to accompany you.”

Xu Hei exhaled and slowly said, ”I hope we can overcome this crisis!”

Xu Hei left behind a jade slip with his divine sense and departed from the underground cave dwelling.

Subsequently, he traveled tens of thousands of miles to a massive blood pool, the core place where the high-level members of the Blood Refining Sect cultivated.

Absorbing the power in the blood, refining the physical body, and enhancing cultivation, this was the key to their cultivation technique.

Xu Hei took out a red bead, extracting a blood-colored human figure from it, resembling a skinned human, extremely eerie.

It was Bai Qiushui, who had been refined into a blood corpse by Xiong Yan years ago.