Serpent Ancestor

Chapter 790: Strength skyrockets

This was undoubtedly the fattest haul Xu Hei had ever seen.Compared to him, Xiong Yan was nothing.

Among the many materials, Xu Hei had never seen or heard of most of them, completely unfamiliar. He could only roughly estimate their value based on their placement and the spiritual power they emitted.

The majority of them were various metal minerals, a specialty of Dark Star.

Xu Hei glanced over them, estimating that these artifact refining materials would last him a lifetime.

Xu Hei seriously suspected that this person might have looted some major family of the stone spirit clan.

With Night Sky's methods, he was fully capable of doing so.

"Heh, what wooden box, what storage bag of some ancient cultivator, compared to Night Sky's storage ring, they're not worth mentioning at all," Xu Hei thought to himself with glee.

It turned out that the most valuable thing in that cave dwelling wasn't some wooden box or storage bag, but Night Sky himself.

Killing one person was worth Xu Hei's hard work over a thousand years.

As for the spirit sand on Night Sky, it was piled in a corner of the space, forming a small hill.

The quantity reached as many as five thousand, equivalent to five hundred Supreme Spirit Stones!

Xu Hei didn't know how many Supreme Spirit Stones a Void Shattering Stage cultivator in the Spirit Realm had, but he figured Night Sky wouldn't be much worse than them.

And these five hundred Supreme Spirit Stones were just a trivial thing on Night Sky.

Treasures more valuable than Spirit Stones were everywhere!

"I'm rich! I'm rich!"

Xu Hei was so excited his face turned red; he never imagined killing someone could be so profitable.

Xu Hei didn't recklessly touch those precious things but instead took out five stone bowls.

These stone bowls contained a milky white liquid.

It was the Earth Core Stone Milk aged for two hundred thousand years!

Previously, Night Sky wanted to use this to trade for a magical treasure with Xu Hei, but was refused. Now, it still ended up in Xu Hei's hands.

But the quantity was much more than the two drops shown before.

There were a total of five bowls, each containing two drops, making ten drops in total.

"Earth Core Stone Milk, just one drop can help the stone spirit clan break through the Divine Power stage, and also help those in the Divine Power stage advance."

"Its effect is equivalent to the Divine Fusion Pill in the outside world! It's the best spirit medicine for body refinement!"

After the effects of the Earth Core Stone Milk flashed through Xu Hei's mind, he directly took out a bowl and swallowed a drop.

"Gulp!"

As the stone milk entered his stomach, Xu Hei immediately felt a fiery sensation inside, like a volcano erupting within him.

"Boom!!"

Xu Hei's physical body swelled, his meridians bulged, and his skin turned crimson, like a red-hot branding iron, with his surface turning to magma, unbearably scorching.

"Roar!"

With a low roar, Xu Hei transformed from human form into flood dragon form, the first time he was forced into his true form by consuming spirit medicine.

His skin sizzled, emitting black smoke, his whole body turned red, even his dragon scales became scorching hot, like a red-hot iron slowly melting.

"This is bad, the power is too strong, I can't hold on much longer."

Xu Hei's face changed drastically.

The Earth Core Stone Milk was meant for the stone spirit clan, but Xu Hei's physical body was far inferior to theirs!

Xu Hei's eyes flashed, and he immediately activated the Demon God Cauldron to forcibly suppress the Earth Core Stone Milk, then circulated the White Emperor Sutra.

"Compress it for me!"

With a thought, Xu Hei separated a tiny bit of the Earth Core Stone Milk, circulated his cultivation technique to compress it to the extreme, then fused it with his flesh and blood.

He dared not fuse too much, only a tiny bit at a time.

After integrating the Earth Core Stone Milk, Xu Hei's flesh and blood became stiff and solidified, like stone.

A heavy earth aura spread out, and the previously stagnant Earth Law unexpectedly appeared on Xu Hei's forehead.

Comprehending the law was a complete surprise.

"Again."

After adjusting for a moment, Xu Hei separated another tiny bit of Earth Core Stone Milk, compressed it with the White Emperor Sutra, and fused it with his physical body.

Step by step, Xu Hei's entire body slowly absorbed the Earth Core Stone Milk, strengthening bit by bit.

Time flew by.

After a year passed, Xu Hei finally refined the first drop of Earth Core Stone Milk.

At this moment, his entire body exuded a heavy earth aura, his breathing long and deep, as if he were not a flood dragon but a mountain.

Every move was like a mountain shifting, emitting a rumbling sound.

By now, Xu Hei's physical body had reached the level of the stone spirit clan.

And Xu Hei's White Emperor Sutra finally crossed the fourth level, reaching the entry stage of the fifth level.

"Not enough! Far from enough!"

"To reach the level of the White Emperor back then, the fifth level is just the beginning!"

"I still have plenty of Earth Core Stone Milk, and since no one will come here, I might as well go all the way and absorb it all to see how much I can improve."

Xu Hei made up his mind.

Since he had nothing else to do, he decided to go into seclusion and absorb all the Earth Core Stone Milk.

Thus, Xu Hei directly swallowed the second drop of Earth Core Stone Milk and began refining it.

This time, unlike before, Xu Hei didn't feel too much pain, nor did his skin turn red and carbonized, only his body ached, and his meridians felt swollen.

It seemed he had fully adapted to the tempering of the Earth Core Stone Milk.

The first drop took a year, but the second drop was completely refined in just half a year.

Xu Hei's physical body didn't undergo a qualitative change, but it was about thirty percent stronger than before.

"Continue!"

Xu Hei took a deep breath and picked up the second stone bowl.

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Day after day, year after year.

In the blink of an eye, five years had passed since Xu Hei went into seclusion here.

Xu Hei had consumed eight drops of Earth Core Stone Milk, leaving only two drops.

It wasn't that he didn't want to use them, but the Earth Core Stone Milk no longer had much effect on him.

Or rather, this vintage was no longer sufficient.

At this moment, a rock pattern faintly glowed on Xu Hei's forehead, a heavy aura spread from his body, distorting the surrounding space and greatly increasing gravity.

"Swish swish swish..."

Dust and pebbles in the air automatically adhered to Xu Hei's body, merging with him.

During this time, he hadn't activated a trace of spiritual power; it was entirely the natural change of his physical body.

Like Dark Star, like a star, Xu Hei himself now possessed a certain gravitational pull.

Xu Hei didn't know how heavy he was, but when he moved, the earth trembled incessantly, as if a giant mountain was shifting.

Yet he didn't feel heavy.

Because his strength had grown to the point where moving a mountain was as easy as lifting a feather.

He exhaled, like a volcano erupting, hot air gushing out, creating a large pit in front of him.

He wanted to try throwing a punch but worried that the cave dwelling would explode from the impact, causing too much commotion, so he dismissed the idea.

Xu Hei transformed back into human form and donned a simple white robe.

Then, he retracted his aura, the surrounding gravity dissipated, and he returned to his previous appearance.

On the surface, Xu Hei looked no different from before, but once he unleashed his full power and activated the Earth Law, it would be extremely terrifying.