A palm-sized golden dagger, covered in mysterious Great Dao patterns, intertwined with terrifying killing intent, the void unable to withstand its sharp power.

"Hoo~"

With a gentle wave, it instantly transformed into a size of several thousand zhang, its golden light as dazzling as the sun, rumbling as it slashed down, the void being cut open with a pitch-black gash, a chaotic storm raging.

This was a Heavenly God Weapon.

Its size could change at will, it could tear through space, forged from the bones of Heavenly God Realm giants, even more terrifying than Extreme Dao Divine Weapons, the most powerful and top-tier killing weapon in the Nine Mountains and Eighteen Seas, without equal.

"I finally have my own Heavenly God Weapon!"

Wu Zhan was ecstatic, unable to put it down.

This one was forged by the Specter King Cobra with Kirin True Flame (Qilin Zhen Yan), making it even more extraordinary, its power surpassing other Heavenly God Weapons.

Especially since this Heavenly God Weapon was very suitable for him, invincible in close combat, his battle power increased by a large margin out of thin air.

In the void, Long Chen witnessed this scene, shouting in pain, "Brother Wu Zhan, stop playing! Save me! I'm about to go into the Specter King Cobra's mouth!"

Wu Zhan came back to his senses and hurriedly cupped his fist to Zhang Ji, "Brother Zhang, spare this guy's life for now, he might be useful!"

Zhang Ji's snake tongue flicked as he swallowed the three Heavenly God Realm cultivators into his mouth. Terrifying biting force erupted in his oral cavity, and the three transformed into a bloody mist with miserable screams.

"Evolution points +40 billion, Evolution points +40 billion, Evolution points +40 billion, cumulative 970 billion/1 trillion evolution points."

The metallic sound in his mind prompted.

Zhang Ji frowned upon hearing this. Ordinary Heavenly God Realm cultivators were indeed worthless. One only granted 40 billion evolution points. Those Heavenly Gods who could enter and exit the River of Time and Space were worth 100 billion evolution points each. The difference was too great.

"Only 30 billion more and I can evolve."

The difference wasn't too large, so Zhang Ji's mood wasn't too bad, because there were still two Heavenly God Realm cultivators in front of him, one was an old acquaintance, Long Chen, and the other was a female Heavenly God from the demon race.

Hearing Wu Zhan's words, Zhang Ji smiled and said, "Oh? This guy is useful? How is he useful?"

"He...he...he..." Wu Zhan scratched his ears and cheeks, his face flushed red. He didn't know what use Long Chen had.

But Long Chen hurriedly shouted, "Ferocious Specter King Cobra... oh no, Great, invincible, handsome, lovable, flower-blooming Specter King Cobra, Big Brother, I'm useful! I can help you hunt Heavenly Gods! I'll work for you!"

Seeing that Zhang Ji seemed somewhat tempted, he continued, "What Wu Zhan can do for you, I, Long Chen, can also do, and even do better! Big Brother, give me a chance, please, spare my life and let me work for you."

"There's no deep hatred between us, it's just that Big Brother, you're so handsome and dashing. You could obviously live off your looks, but your strength is heaven-defying. I'm jealous, jealous until my eyes are red, so I'm always clamoring to suppress you. Actually, I'm also your fan! The person I, Long Chen, admire the most is you..."

Bla bla bla...

He spared no effort in praise, his flattery skills were consummately perfect, even Zhang Ji, who was used to the Specter Snake Woman's flattery, was still flattered by Long Chen until he felt lightheaded. In the end, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"You, you, you little Long Long, you really have a sweet mouth!"

Zhang Ji smiled, revealing his white fangs, a flash of red light in his eyes, "Since that's the case, considering we're both from the same hometown..."

Hearing this, Long Chen's eyes filled with excitement, but suddenly a flash of blood appeared before his eyes, and he was swallowed in one gulp. With a cracking sound, his powerful dragon body directly shattered into a bloody pulp, leaving only his head rolling out of Zhang Ji's mouth.

"Evolution points +20 billion."

The metallic sound reminded him in his mind, Zhang Ji's face full of smiles.

"You, you, you..." Long Chen was terrified and shocked. Zhang Ji clearly seemed like he was going to let him go, but he still devoured him.

Zhang Ji smacked his lips and said, "I haven't eaten dragon meat before. I was too curious, so I couldn't help it. But this taste is a bit sour, not as good as beef..."

Hearing this, Long Chen was terrified. Flesh regrew from his head, and a body grew out again, but his face was pale, his aura weak, looking like he had suffered a great loss of vitality.

But he had finally survived.

Zhang Ji stared at him and said, "This seat will give you a chance. Offer me three Heavenly God Realm cultivators a year. Can you do it?"

Wu Zhan's expression changed as he listened from the side.

This was highway robbery!

Which Heavenly God Realm giant wasn't a top expert? There were no weaklings who could prove the Dao and become Heavenly Gods. He had used decades of coaxing and trickery to suppress five Heavenly Gods.

Zhang Ji opened his mouth and told Long Chen to offer him three Heavenly God Realm cultivators a year. A year! This was too difficult.

It was truly an ugly way to eat, and greedy. It was clearly making things difficult for Long Chen.

However, Long Chen shouted, "Three?! Is Big Brother looking down on dragons? I'll get you five a year!"

The scarlet light in Zhang Ji's eyes intensified, and saliva flowed from his mouth like a waterfall, rejoicing, "Five?! Good, as expected of a dragon with powerful blood, domineering! This seat likes you!"

"You can live!"

As he spoke, the power of imprisonment loosened.

And in the void, only She Li was left, her face terrified and despairing, pleading loudly.

"Senior, spare me! We're both from the snake race, we're all family, please spare my life!" Then she looked at Long Chen and shouted hoarsely, "Brother Long, Brother Long, save me, save me—!"

Long Chen opened his mouth, wanting to plead for her.

However, Wu Zhan nudged his old waist with his elbow, transmitting his voice into his ear, "Don't be stupid, brother. Isn't it just a woman? The Specter King Cobra's patience is limited. Don't drag yourself down with her."

Hearing this, Long Chen's body trembled, and he finally fell silent, turning his face away, pretending not to see.

Seeing this, She Li suddenly smiled, two crystal tears falling from her beautiful eyes, her expression disappointed and mournful. She had just developed a good impression of a man, but it had cost her her life.

Too stupid, too naive.

"Bang~"

She turned into a bloody mist in Zhang Ji's mouth, her fragrant soul disappeared.

"Evolution points +40 billion, cumulative 1,030 billion/1 trillion, evolution conditions have been met, evolve immediately?"

Listening to the long-lost prompt in his mind, Zhang Ji's scarlet vertical pupils were full of joy, and he couldn't help but laugh loudly.

If he were on Earth, constantly gnawing on his Second Brother (Tai Sui), he didn't know how many years it would take. It was still better to be in the Nine Mountains and Eighteen Seas.

Apart from the three hundred years of sleep, the actual hunting had only been a short few decades, but he had already gathered one trillion evolution points.

On the ground.

Looking at Zhang Ji laughing, Long Chen's heart ached to the extreme. Two drops of tears fell from the void, those were She Li's tears, as clear and crystalline as jade beads, carrying She Li's aura, filled with sadness and disappointment.

Long Chen reached out and caught them, sealing them with True Dragon power, his eyes sad and self-blaming, with intense apology and grief.

"I harmed you!"

Because the other party had come to this place to help him, otherwise she wouldn't have died.

Wu Zhan patted his shoulder, comforting him.

But Long Chen's heart still ached, as painful as a knife cut, as suffocating as oxygen deprivation. For the first time, he felt that he was so weak, unable to protect even the woman he liked, watching her die in front of him.

"Little Long Long, you seem very sad?"

Suddenly, a surprised voice came from his ear.

Long Chen's body trembled, and he looked up to see a pair of huge, scarlet vertical pupils staring at him, the blood-red eyes clear, and he even saw his own reflection in them.

"No, I'm not sad!" Long Chen said insincerely.

Zhang Ji sighed, "This is the weakness of humans, they always like beautiful women and long legs, black silk and pretty faces. Therefore, I choose to be a snake, to evolve with a snake body, not to become human, nor to transform!"

Zhang Ji said, his tone inexplicable, seemingly with sadness, but also with some envy.

Long Chen raised his head and said, "Do you regret it?"

"Regret?... I never regret it!"

Zhang Ji's voice was firm, his six heads raised together, surrounded by ferocious aura.

"Having been a snake for too long, drinking blood raw, killing and devouring, I have long forgotten that I was once a human, and I have forgotten how to be a human, and how to love someone. This is the price of the strong!"

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Chapter 2

The faint voice echoed, causing Wu Zhan and Long Chen to tremble.

They suddenly understood why Zhang Ji was so powerful, so terrifying, while they worked hard to cultivate, possessing powerful and extraordinary blood, and even obtaining the inheritance of big shots, but still couldn't catch up with the other party's footsteps.

The reason for everything was this invincible belief!

All along, they had envied and been jealous of the Specter King Cobra's ferocity and power, but they had never thought about why the other party could evolve so quickly.

Today, after hearing the other party confide his inner thoughts, both of them had some understanding.

At this moment, Zhang Ji's snake mouth suddenly spat out a nine-colored snake scale, permeated with She Li's divine soul aura, very weak, but it truly existed.

Long Chen's body trembled, and he looked at Zhang Ji in shock.

Zhang Ji smiled and said, "Take it. Nurture it with your dragon blood for a period of time, and she can be resurrected and stand in front of you again."

Long Chen was puzzled, "Why? You never spit out bones when you eat, but today you actually left a trace of her divine soul."

Zhang Ji laughed and said, "Since you're working for me, I, as the boss, have to care about the emotional life of my employees! In the future, you'll have a nest of little Long Longs, and the whole family will work for me, wouldn't that be wonderful!"

Long Chen was stunned.

As he spoke, his snake claw patted Long Chen's head, "Work hard, little Long Long, five Heavenly God Realm cultivators a year, don't fail to complete the task! You know the consequences!"

A fierce light flashed in his scarlet vertical pupils, and Long Chen shivered. When he raised his head again, he found that Zhang Ji's figure flashed, the void turned into a black hole, and the snake shadow disappeared into it.

Long Chen looked in the direction where Zhang Ji disappeared, his eyes complicated, "This ferocious guy, you say he's ferocious, and he still has some humanity. You say he's kind, but he's thinking about my descendants."

Wu Zhan next to him heard this and sighed, "That's right, the ferocious Specter King Cobra is indeed violent and bloodthirsty, but he also has an unknown side!"

"For example?"

"For example, he's very trustworthy. He said he'd give me the Heavenly God Weapon, and he really gave it to me!" Wu Zhan grinned, playing with the Heavenly God Weapon dagger in his hand.

Long Chen looked at it with envy. He also seemed to want a Heavenly God Weapon!

Moreover, this was manufactured by the ferocious Specter King Cobra, and its quality and power surpassed other Heavenly God Weapons by a large margin.

"But now, she's more important than a Heavenly God Weapon." Long Chen looked at the nine-colored snake scale in his hand, feeling She Li's divine soul aura, his eyes gentle.

Wu Zhan shook his head, thinking that Long Chen had changed.

"You can have a Dao companion, but you must never have love. In this cruel cultivation world, without the protection of strength, love is a burden and a bond, and even a fatal weakness."

Wu Zhan said with a cold expression.

Long Chen glanced at a figure walking from afar, it was Zhang Xiaoyu, looking at Wu Zhan with deep affection and concern, Long Chen pursed his lips and said, "What about her? What do you say?"

Wu Zhan squinted his eyes and smiled, "The reason we can be together is because she has a powerful father."

"Who is it?"

"Soon, his old man will be here, and you'll know then..."

Just as he was speaking, the void suddenly rolled in with dark clouds again, lightning and thunder roared, and a huge blood-colored snake shadow rolled in the dark clouds, exuding a powerful and evil aura. The pressure of the Heavenly God Realm was vast and mighty, and even the void stirred with ripples of wind.

On Qingzhou's Three Bandit Ancient City, the countless creatures who had just relaxed became tense and fearful again.

Long Chen's expression changed, "Is the ferocious Specter King Cobra back again?"

As he spoke, he was also somewhat surprised, because although the aura in the void was also very strong, it was more than a little weaker than the Specter King Cobra from just now.

But Wu Zhan's face was full of joy, "No, it's my father-in-law arriving!"

In the distance, Zhang Xiaoyu walked over quickly with a smile, took Wu Zhan's arm, and the two stepped forward to meet him. They saw a flash of blood-colored snake shadow in the void, and a figure descended from the sky.

It was a young man, tall and well-proportioned, handsome but with a few evil qualities, long hair draped over his shoulders, looking up and glancing around, domineering side leaking, his eyes sharp and deep, with a flash of scarlet light from time to time.

He was wearing a blood-scaled snake robe, walking over with a smile on his face.

Long Chen saw this young man, his face blank: "This, this, this, isn't this the ferocious Specter King Cobra?"

However, Wu Zhan and Zhang Xiaoyu respectfully knelt down in front of the young man and bowed together:

"Daughter respectfully welcomes Father."

"Son-in-law Wu Zhan, respectfully welcomes Father-in-law's arrival. Father-in-law is invincible, Father-in-law is immortal and indestructible!"

Zhang Ji's mouth turned up, glanced at Zhang Xiaoyu, then looked at Wu Zhan, and smiled, "You voluntarily joined our Lao Zhang family as a live-in son-in-law?"

Wu Zhan said seriously, "Yes, willingly."

"Then why are you still calling me Father-in-law? You have to call me Father!"

"Yes, Father! Please accept this child's bow!" Wu Zhan excitedly kowtowed, Zhang Ji's words were acknowledging him as a live-in son-in-law.

Zhang Ji laughed and helped him up, then rubbed Zhang Xiaoyu's head next to him, "Good daughter, you've suffered these years."

These words made Zhang Xiaoyu's eyes red, tears streaming down her face, and the difficulties and dangers of wandering the world for many years were completely vented at this moment.

Her father had returned, having escaped from the Demon Suppression Tower, she finally had a support and was no longer lonely and helpless.

Zhang Ji gently patted her back to comfort her. After her emotions stabilized, he took her hand and asked how she had been these years, whether anyone had bullied her, whether Wu Zhan was good to her, and when she would give birth to a little Wu...

Chattering, but with loving eyes, full of smiles, without any high and mighty posture, and without any ferocious and cold feelings.

His appearance was very much like the way ordinary parents looked at their children, concerned and affectionate, with smiles in their eyes, without any aloofness, let alone ferocity and coldness.

Wu Zhan waited by his side, his eyes glowing.

Compared to the ferocious, tyrannical and capricious Specter King Cobra, this Specter King Cobra clone was much easier to get along with. He looked like a person who valued love and righteousness and was worth investing in, worth calling him Father.

With his old man covering him, the ferocious Specter King Cobra would be wary of eating him in the future!

Wu Zhan thought happily, his mouth splitting into a smile.