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deep sea.

Snake Island.

The name of the island is very ordinary, but in this sea area with millions of miles around, and even in a vaster land, this island is also famous.

According to legend, in ancient times, the ancestor of the Black Snake clan was just a low-level monster with a yellow-level bloodline. His spiritual intelligence was still ignorant, and he was only an extremely insignificant person among all living beings.

Normally speaking, perhaps one day, this Black Snake ancestor might become the food of a certain monster beast.

But obviously no one can be sure about such things as chance.

This ancestor of the Black Snake clan, when he was hunted, fled in a panic, and for no apparent reason, he rushed to the Snake Island.

According to legend, Snake Island back then was just a barren island with few human traces and even rarer monsters.

It was an instinctive behavior for survival. No one would have thought that just this one desperate escape would create the Black Snake clan that has been passed down for countless years.

The reason lies in a spiritual plant on the Snake Island.

No one knew that on this seemingly barren Snake Island, there was actually a fourth-level top-grade Ten Thousand Snake Fruit growing!

The fruit is named Ten Thousand Snakes, so naturally it is closely related to snakes.

According to legend, the Ten Thousand Snake Fruits take thousands of years to bloom, take thousands of years to bear fruit, and take thousands of years to mature.

It took three thousand years before and after, and finally nine pieces were produced.

Each Ten Thousand Snake Fruit is a blessing from heaven and earth, and it also has incredible magical effects on monsters with snake blood.

According to legend, the Ten Thousand Snake Fruit can purify blood, select the higher-level snake blood contained in the blood, and have more growth potential, and even cause the blood to mutate!

All kinds of magical effects can be said to be the legend that gives the Ten Thousand Snake Fruits far more than its own value.

According to common sense, such treasures are obviously not available to the Black Snake Clan, which was still in its infancy.

For the Xuan Snake Clan, perhaps the greatest luck is that when the Xuan Snake Clan sprouted, it happened to be in the era when the Demon Court unified the demon clan.

The ancestor of the Black Snake was blessed with the Ten Thousand Snake Fruit, and he rose all the way up and made contributions to the Demon Court. After establishing the foundation of the Black Snake clan, he naturally paid tribute to the Demon Court and became a member of the Demon Court.

Under such a unified order, even if other monster races or cultivators are interested in spying on the Ten Thousand Snake Fruits, they will obviously be greatly restricted by the order of the Demon Court.

The ancestor of Xuan She was even more decisive.

The Ten Thousand Snake Fruit Tree has produced nine fruits in three thousand years, and the Black Snake family only has one left, and the remaining eight are all offered to the Demon Court.

It wasn't until the collapse of the Demon Court that this state of being a subordinate and a vassal came to an end for the Black Snake clan.

At this time, after years of rest and recuperation, the Black Snake clan has already acquired considerable strength. It is naturally more than enough to preserve a Ten Thousand Snake Fruit Tree that is only effective against snake-like monsters.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this Ten Thousand Snake Fruit Tree that the Black Snake Clan has become one of the very few ethnic groups in the world of immortality today that has been inherited from the ancient Demon Court and Heavenly Palace era.

And this Snake Island, in these long years, has naturally become the undoubted core place of the Black Snake clan.

Today's Snake Island is not so much an island as it is a continent.

The land spans hundreds of thousands of miles. After long years of management by the Xuanshe clan, it has already become a world unique to the Xuanshe clan.

All descendants of the Black Snake clan will undergo a bloodline test from birth. If they have outstanding qualifications, they can live on Snake Island. Even if their spiritual intelligence is not yet awakened, there will be dedicated personnel to attend to them.

And this special person, as the word means, is a person. He is an immortal cultivator or a bloodline monk.

After all, the existence of any stable order is inseparable from spiritual intelligence.

And spiritual wisdom, for people, is born with spirituality.

As for the demon...

Under normal circumstances, one cannot transform into a spirit until the fourth level. Even if there are treasures of heaven and earth that can allow monsters to give birth to spirits in advance, there are no exceptions. They are all rare and rare in the world.

With such a scarcity of spiritual intelligence, it is naturally doomed that most of the monster beast groups will find it difficult to build a stable and inherited order.

As for the demons that have been passed down from the Black Snake clan to this day, although they cannot be said to be lacking in spiritual wisdom, it is obvious that they are definitely not in abundance.

It may not be difficult to build a simple and crude order.

But to build a huge ethnic order that has been inherited from ancient times and has never been cut off, it is obviously impossible to be linked to simplicity and roughness.

Just relying on a basic and simple and crude order, the Black Snake clan cannot be passed down to this day.

Therefore, the existence of human beings from ancient times to the present has been part of the Black Snake clan. In other words, most of the demon beast clans with inheritance in this endless sea, even the ancient demon court, are inseparable from humans... .

But... whether such people who have lived in the environment of the demon clan for generations and worked for the demon clan for generations can still be regarded as real people obviously needs to be considered.

In ancient times, the Heavenly Palace defined such people as "traitors". In the world of immortality, there are many names for such people, such as "demon", "beast"...

Various titles also clearly indicate the nature of this kind of "person".

However, this kind of people rarely appear in front of the world of immortality. After all, the monster group that needs such people to be subordinate and use their intelligence to maintain the order of the group is often a behemoth.

Immortal cultivators are naturally wary of monsters.

Similarly, the demon clan is naturally very wary of people.

A demon who is just a chess piece naturally cannot be given too much power.

Just like on this Snake Island, the number of people has basically remained at around one million since ancient times.

Ninety-nine percent of them will only be given one or two levels of Qigong to allow them to enter the immortal path and be competent for their duties.

A very small number of people with outstanding qualifications or certain talents may also be trained by the Black Snake Clan.

The fundamental reason why the hundred arts of cultivating immortals are also popular in the world of monsters is the existence of these "people".

Otherwise, with the unique and brutal blood of monsters, the wisdom of cultivating immortals civilization would not be accepted by the monster tribe.

For example, the beast tide that often occurs in the vast sea of ​​immortal cultivation, for the monster tribe, may be to consume the monsters that grow too much in the sea, and at the same time to temper the monsters and select monsters with excellent qualifications for training. Secondly, it is often to plunder the world of immortal cultivation.

Just like the secular barbarians, any wise man goes down the mountain to plunder for survival, and more often to absorb the wisdom of civilization.

The Black Snake Clan is a model among them.

On the Snake Island, which covers an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of miles, snake patterns can be seen everywhere on the foreheads of "monsters", representing slave marks from the Black Snake Clan.

Each monster is like a brick of the giant Black Snake Clan, which is just right to be built in one place, one ring after another, and the strict order of the Black Snake Clan is constructed.

Under the cover of this order, the entire Snake Island, even if there are countless low-level monsters living in it, does not see the slightest chaos and barbarism. The atmosphere of civilization and order almost covers every part of this Snake Island.

If an uninformed cultivator breaks into this place, he will probably only think that he has arrived at a hidden great power, and will not know that under the surface of this orderly civilization, there will be a group of monsters that have been passed down from ancient times to the present...

And today...or in other words, in recent times, this Snake Island has obviously become more turbulent.

If we trace back to the past, the most recent wave of this kind should be when the Black Snake Clan set off a beast tide and invaded the Vast Sea Cultivation World.

In those days, the Black Snake beast tide marched straight into the sea, almost making the Vast Sea Cultivation World exist in name only.

The countless towns and cities in the Vast Sea Cultivation World, and the vast amount of resources and wealth, are almost continuously sent back to this island.

The large number of captured immortal cultivators with hundreds of arts are naturally one of these wealth, and they are also quite important core.

And this period of time seems to be a reappearance of the scene of the year.

Almost every day, a large number of immortal cultivators are escorted to Snake Island, and the iconic longevity robes undoubtedly clearly prove the identity of these captured cultivators...

What's even more weird is that in this escort team, in addition to the creepy giant snakes, you can even see dragons emerging in the sky.

The dragons, which were supposed to be the mortal enemy of the Black Snake Clan, actually coexisted harmoniously at this time, and even escorted groups of Changsheng Sect disciples together...

This almost incredible scene seemed to be taken for granted on this Snake Island.

For the Black Snake, it was taken for granted.

For humans, it was the same.

Yan Ming looked at the mighty team in the sky, and his dark eyes still could not see the divine light. Only when he saw the longevity robes, his dark eyes seemed to have some light.

But these little lights were only short-lived after all, and soon returned to darkness without any fluctuations.

Until a trace of bloody white appeared in the sky, it seemed to really touch the heartstrings, and the light in the dark eyes suddenly became bright!

Yan Ming stared at the white in the sky, and his dark eyes rarely showed emotional fluctuations.

However, this rare emotion was almost desperate and unbelievable.

"Eternal Life... Flying Boat?"

The dry lips moved slightly, and a faint whisper sounded. Yan Ming seemed to be asking himself, and seemed to be confirming a fact.

But in the sky, the fact... was very clear.

The Eternal Life Flying Boat covered the sky and blocked out the sun, just as magnificent and high as he remembered...

But the Eternal Life Flying Boat in front of him...

The flying boat covered the sky and blocked out the sun, and there were several hideous cracks on the bow, as if a giant claw fell from the sky and directly tore the entire bow!

On the flying boat, the palaces and pavilions that seemed like fairy palaces and represented status had also collapsed for the most part, leaving only ruins.

The terrifying war machines were also mostly broken, with no spiritual light and a silent atmosphere.

Between the ruins, you can still see puddles of hideous blood, or broken bodies, embedded in the mess...

Looking at this scene, Yan Ming's breathing became heavy. His lips moved slightly, trying to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say it...

Once upon a time, he... was also a disciple of Changsheng Sect, right?

The youngest direct disciple of Zhenyu lineage, even the position of Changsheng's true disciple, seemed to be within sight...

But all that...

Yan Ming looked at the ground, and there was a puddle of water in the depression of the bluestone. The reflection in it was not the once promising and high-spirited direct disciple of Changsheng, but a black snake slave who looked like a withered, half-human, half-ghost.

All the past, after all, is a thing of the past, and no longer exists.

Now he is just a traitor despised by everyone in this foreign land? A monster?

Yan Ming smiled grimly, and the snake patterns on his forehead surged, making him look somewhat lifelike.

The severe pain that penetrated into the soul surged at this moment, filling the whole body. Yan Ming seemed to have been accustomed to it, but his face was a little pale. He looked up at the sky, at the blood-stained white, and the light in his eyes seemed to be a little stronger.

He ended up like this because he was not as skilled as others.

But why did the immortal gate become like this?

Why did the Changsheng Flying Boat fall?

How could it fall?

The snake pattern surged wildly, as if warning and suppressing. Yan Ming remained indifferent, staring at the white, but soon, the little light in his dark eyes slowly dimmed.

The skinny body finally became a walking corpse, numbly shuttling in the snake nest, throwing pieces of flesh and blood containing rich essence into the snake nest, feeding these young black snakes that were regarded as descendants by the black snake clan.

Among them, there are still many numb people who are not much different from this skinny body. The only difference is that some are like walking corpses, while others have sound intelligence.

But without exception, these people have extraordinary cultivation. If there are immortal cultivators from the outside world here, I am afraid that they can tell the names of many of them at a glance.

In the immortal cultivation world, these people may also be admired by countless people, and they may also have infinite immortal paths and extraordinary talents...

But here, they are not much different from those born monsters.

Of course, in fact, they may be much lower in status than those born monsters.

At least, monsters still have some freedom and can get some rights, but these people...

Day after day, they are like a puppet with a set program, shuttling in this snake nest, and they will never see the end...

Life is worse than death, and death cannot be sought!

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