Abyssal Distortion Files

Deep underground, the Spiral City.

It was a massive cavity gnawed out by worms, buried deep below, its emptied structure resembling a screwdriver, with textures spiraling downwards in circles.

At the deepest point of the Spiral City, a colossal monster ceaselessly writhed its body, "No horns… no horns!"

"Why no horns?!"

"I have already fallen into the Lightless Upper Realm, so why have I not yet transformed into a dragon?!"

"It's deceiving me!"

"It's deceiving me?!"

"No… impossible, it must be that my depth is not enough…"

"Continue, as long as I continue to evolve!"

"As long as I reach the Deep Sea level, I will be a true dragon!"

"You say I am not the Son of Heaven, you say I am a worm, say I am a python, you all just wait, I will show you who is the true dragon, who is the loach!!"

The enormous monster roared, but at that moment, a human consciousness connected with its own.

"Serpent Ancestor, is the evolution complete?"

Serpent Ancestor?

The monster immediately bellowed in rage, "What did you call me, human? Who on earth gave you the audacity to speak to me like this?!"

… …

Inside Fengtian City.

In an old tenement building, Wei Jing squatted in the corridor, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, constantly exhaling grayish-white smoke.

True dragon?

What a laughable dream.

Wei Jing looked at his hands, metallic black scales, sharp, knife-like nails, like the claws of a beast.

Beneath were bones and flesh, only the outer layer of snake scales was made of metal.

His hands had been broken by Li Yang, and after that, he began to devour metallic elements in large quantities, completing the first evolution of his physical body.

This evolution only occurred in his head and hands.

But the evolution of his head was also incomplete, limited only to the previously corroded areas; snake scales grew on both sides of his cheeks, while only new flesh grew between his eyes and mouth.

"Serpent Ancestor, what do you say?"

「You should call me Dragon Ancestor!」

"Dragon Ancestor?"

"Hahahaha!"

"Stop making me laugh!"

Wei Jing dropped the cigarette butt and grinned, "A creature with a long body, scales, no feet, and no horns, what else could it be but a snake?"

"Oh right, where we're from, snakes are also called long worms, so… wake up, Ancestral Serpent, stop dreaming of becoming a dragon!"

"You are just a worm!"

「You better know who you're talking to?!」

Wei Jing tilted his head back, smelling the stench coming from the corridor, and revealed a ferocious smile, "Besides you, who else could it be?"

「You're courting death!」

"Hahahaha!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm courting death!"

Looking at the yellowed and charred walls, Wei Jing's smile grew more and more intense. Just last night, his mother had passed away.

He had just returned home when he saw his mother lying on the ground, no longer breathing.

"You said before that if I dared to disobey you, you would rush to the surface and kill my mother. Now it's good, my mother is already dead!"

"Because of you!"

Extreme anger surged in Wei Jing's eyes. If it weren't for the Ancestral Serpent forcing him to kill Li Yang, how could his mother have died in agony from a lack of painkillers?!

"I don't need anything now."

"I just want to… kill you."

Wei Jing grinned, but the Ancestral Serpent fell into a silence.

Wei Jing's abilities came from it. Under normal circumstances, the sect master could grant abilities and naturally take them back at any time.

However, some mysteries grant power in a very abnormal way.

For example, Li Yang's sect master did not give him abilities, but a seed of power. The situation between the Ancestral Serpent and Wei Jing was similar.

The power given was like water splashed out, it could not be taken back.

Even so, with the rank of the Yellow Springs Serpent, killing Wei Jing would be an easy task.

But the Ancestral Serpent's attitude towards this matter was very strange, as if it was wary of something.

「If you want to die, of course I will grant your wish.」

「But before I kill you, you better think carefully about what a foolish choice you have made.」

Wei Jing laughed, foolish?

You are the foolish one!

A black-robed man wearing a mask stood behind Wei Jing, silent and ethereal, like a ghost, "People really are better when they're a little crazy."

Hearing the black-robed man's voice, Wei Jing turned his head, "Tell me, what can I do… to kill that worm?"

The face behind the black-robed man's mask was expressionless, "Once upon a time, someone said that where vipers dwell, there must be an antidote within seven steps."

"Therefore, where the Ancestral Serpent was born, there must also be someone who can subdue it."

This black-robed man, calling himself Liu Tu, had met them several days ago.

At that time, Wei Jing was looking for Li Yang, and he appeared without warning and pointed Wei Jing in a direction.

It could be said that if Liu Tu hadn't given Wei Jing a direction, he would never have found Li Yang so easily.

This Liu Tu's origins were unknown, and Wei Jing originally didn't intend to trust him, but he directly revealed all the information about the Ancestral Serpent.

And most importantly, he also knew all of Li Yang's abilities.

Liu Tu also told him that Li Yang was powerful, and to deal with him, he had to lure the Ancestral Serpent's son to take action.

Liu Tu said so much, but Wei Jing still didn't know what his purpose was, or what the power behind him was.

He had been curious before.

But now, he didn't care about any of that, because none of it mattered!

Whether he had a purpose or not, as long as he had a way to kill the Ancestral Serpent!

That was enough!

Liu Tu looked at the crazed Wei Jing, but sighed incessantly in his heart, what a pitiful child…

He didn't even know who his real enemy was.

"Sometimes I don't understand, are we good or evil?"

"We are like a contradiction, repeatedly wandering in the boundary of good and evil, sometimes happy to do good, extremely devout, sometimes tirelessly destroying people, enjoying it."

"We say grand words, but behind our backs we do dirty and vile things. The main body says we are outside the seven layers of desire."

"But in my opinion, we have not only not escaped the seven layers of desire, but are also being pulled deeper and deeper by the seven desires at the same time."

"Pleasure is just a sweet lie."

"Perhaps, I am the least like him, because if our pleasure is to be built on the suffering of others, then how can this pleasure make people laugh?"

"I really don't understand."

"As a derivative body, thinking about these things is obviously foolish, because no matter what I think, the main body will still make the final decision."

"And the only thing I can do is to obey the main body's orders."

"Boss, my mission is complete."

… …

Under the night sky, stars twinkled.

At the top of a building somewhere in Asia, a group of black-robed people looked down at the city before them, smiles appearing on their faces.

The army was gathering in the city, carrying out 'bait tactics'. The trucks contained tons of refined metal.

Chen Ye's consciousness was on one of them, and he had just heard the news from 'Liu Su'.

"Not bad, you did very well."

"The monarch has already come out of the mountain, next we will see who is more skilled, we don't need to intervene in the rest, after all, we are just spectators."

File No. 1: 28 Mansions

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