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Translator: Tamon
Xu Hei stared at the storage bag in his cave beneath the Valley of Snakes. The Divine Sense mark on it was beyond his level.
The repeated attempts left Xu Hei with only two choices, use his scales to pry it open and damage the contents, or swallow it and leave it to the Demon God Cauldron to refine.
No matter the choice, both damaged the contents.
Hei Huang appeared to take the storage bag. “Humph, easy peasy.”
He weighed it.
Xu Hei asked, “You can open it?”
“In three days, tops.” Hei Huang slapped his chest.
Xu Hei nodded, trusting the dog with this task.
The snake went outside the Valley of Serpents to give a hurried goodbye to the wolf king and the white snake.
Hei Huang sent two intents into their bodies before leaving.
“What was that?” Xu Hei asked.
“Memories to help them become sentient. It’s my exclusive secret art, one of a kind in the world.” Hei Huang showed off.
The white snake and wolf king’s eyes glinted with a humane tint.
Hei Huang sent two more golden glows at the demons, saving their lives when it counted the most.
“Come on, sentience doesn’t happen overnight. They’ll need close to two weeks to show any signs of improvement. Now it’s all up to them,” Hei Huang said.
Xu Hei sighed and left. They met the demons by chance and didn’t know if they’d meet again.
Hei Huang sighed at the Valley of Serpents. “What a sanctuary, only made worse by letting another take advantage of it.”
He saw the Valley of Serpents’ unique trait, of absorbing the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, a natural Spiritual Gathering Array that would birth spiritual herbs given time.
It was a rarity among sanctuaries.
Xu Hei was in deep thought as he crawled. Hei Huang noticed his issue but left him be. Every powerhouse had to go through this.
The weak had to bow to the strong. It was either turn tail or die.
Xu Hei understood the concept, never so impulsive to throw away his life, which Hei Huang appreciated.
…
Thousands of miles from here, in a sect’s cave in Chu Kingdom’s southern area, a middle-aged scholar flashed his eyes open.
“The wooden avatar died.
“The jade slip was blocked and the storage bag’s mark is gone. Who did it?”
Xuan Yangzi’s avatar was average but held a tremendous aura and Divine Sense, that of a genuine Golden Core cultivator.
To figure out its weakness and destroy it, the enemy was either too dumb to even think about consequences, or too strong to bother.
“Humph, I didn’t expect competition over the Valley of Serpents.
“This is getting more and more interesting.”
Xuan Yangzi closed his eyes and tapped the ground with a finger, deep in thought.
None defied the Snake Catchers Sect in the Chu Kingdom’s southern area. That made the only logical possibilities for the contender to be a foreign nation’s expert or an enraged demon.
“Su Bei!” Xuan Yangzi called.
A youth in yellow bowed before him out of nowhere. “Greetings, Master.”
“Take five inner disciples and scout the Valley of Serpents’ surroundings for the attacker on my avatar.” Xuan Yangzi said.
“Understood!” The youth left with a bow.
…
In the following days, the dog and snake kept going south. The wildfire wasn’t the only reason for relocating, as the Snake Catchers Sect sent search parties.
Venturing deeper into the mountain forest, they’d sometimes sense strong demons, even a Foundation Establishment one, but the doggy’s nose never steered them wrong so far.
Xu Hei would use every moment to train his body and strengthen his foundation.
“Earthen Motion!”
He slipped underground, borrowing the pressure of the earth to toughen. It was a simple and effective method.
As he transitioned from a hundred meters to three hundred and deeper still, his progress became apparent.
“Take it easy. I won’t pull you out when you fail.” The dog sent.
Xu Hei passed the dirt level and into the sandy layer mixed with rocks, spiking the pressure.
Earthen Motion had trouble as well.
Xu Hei was scared of death but not a coward. He was a poisonous snake, lurking in the shadows for the moment his prey slipped up to take its life in one strike.
“Without True Qi, humans crumble with a poke. I’m a demon, and I can’t let myself become weak like humans. I want strength.” Xu Hei motivated himself.
His bones creaked, his flesh squeezed, and his breath heavy under the heavy strain. Moving became impossible.
Only Xu Hei’s eyes remained steady, brimming with the will to follow his path.
The Demon God Cauldron shuddered, sending waves upon waves of energy fusing with his flesh to resist the mounting pressure.
The removed dark gold scales from his tail regrew. All recovered in record time and increased in number.
Xu Hei found his scales were now over twenty.
[I knew it. The scales are tied to my body strength. The tougher I am, the more scales I form.]
He was at peak mid Awareness Stage, but not his body, with plenty of room for improvement.
Xu Hei returned to the surface once he reached his limit, slumping unconscious.
He followed this routine for a week.
As they traveled the dog’s trek led him into the unknown.
Per Hei Huang, they had been out of Chu Kingdom for a while now. Crossing the river ahead would get them into the Qin Kingdom.
Only now did the dog manage to wipe the storage bag’s mark.
“Curses, that took long enough. It’s mark was a pain.”
Hei Huang slumped in exhaustion, its tongue out and gasping for air. He took an entire week to get rid of the Golden Core’s mark.
“Let’s take a look.”
Xu Hei rushed over, eager to see if their reward matched the danger.
“You do it. I’m spent.” Hei Huang panted, too weak to lift a paw.
Xu Hei crawled over and pulled a face.
The storage bag did have treasures, but far fewer than he hoped. Most of the stuff was common.
Pills, talismans, ingredients, low-grade magic treasures, magical art jade slips, and yet no spirit stone.
This was like no Golden Core cultivator’s storage bag to him.
[Did the dog swipe them?] Xu Hei pondered.
Taking a whole week to open it was highly suspicious, but from how tired the dog looked, he didn’t think it might be a trick.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Hei Huang sat up.
He took the storage bag and gasped, “Shit! What rotten luck! There’s not a single spirit stone. We did all that for nothing!”
“I have no use for the treasures, they’re yours.”
Hei Huang threw the bag to the snake.
Xu Hei kept staring.
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