Chapter 161: Black Snake

Beneath the vast night sky, on the Tianjiang Plain, a black shadow about a zhang long was sprinting at an incredible speed; looking from afar, it was clearly a giant snake!

This snake was the black-headed snake that had been severed by Zhang Nuo in the Trial Ground and subsequently parasitized Yu Lei! Although it was not flying in the sky, its speed on land was also astonishingly fast; even with the escape speed of Nanxuan Laozu, it would be very difficult to catch up to it.

With a twist of its body on the ground, the entire snake body instantly flashed forward several hundred zhang; with another twist, the entire snake vanished.

The direction in which the giant black snake fled was not the direction of the Trial Ground's teleportation array, but the opposite direction! Under the cover of night, only a "rustling" sound could be heard, but the specific location of the giant black snake could not be seen at all; in the blink of an eye, everything became silent!

Inside the Nanxuan Sect, numerous disciples were cleaning up Yu Lei's courtyard, while Zhuge An, his daughter, and Zhang Nuo stood there blankly, their gazes constantly exchanging, yet no one spoke the first word.

The daylight slowly brightened, and everything around had been cleaned up, but the three of them still did not leave; finally, it was Zhuge Qing who said:

"Let's go back and rest first! If it really doesn't work, Father, you go and ask the Laozu!"

Even if the three of them stood there thinking for a month, they probably wouldn't reach a conclusion.

"Alright! I will go find the Laozu now, you two go back and rest first!"

This matter was too significant; Zhuge An could not calm down. After saying a few words to his daughter and Zhang Nuo, he transformed into a streak of light and flew toward the interior of the Nanxuan Sect.

"Thank you!"

Seeing her father leave, Zhuge Qing came to Zhang Nuo's side. Looking at the bloodstains still wet on the corners of his mouth, a look of apology appeared on her pretty face.

"It is nothing!"

Zhang Nuo's reply was very brief. With a flash of his figure, he stepped onto his Flying Magic Tool and flew toward his residence. At this moment, the air between the two had been cleared; they would no longer speak those kinds of hypocritical words as they had before.

On the open ground, only the young woman remained. She felt that Zhang Nuo had become cold; perhaps this was his true personality. Shaking her head with a light sigh, she also steered her Dharma Treasure and flew away.

In Nanxuan Laozu's room, Zhuge An stood to one side with his hands hanging down. In order to resolve the questions in his heart, he had to bite the bullet and come.

"The questions you ask are actually not very clear to me either; after all, those are the most confidential matters of the Demon race! However, there is one point I can be certain of: the two-headed snake in the Dark Swamp of the Trial Ground is the two strands of divine sense of the last Demon Emperor of the Demon race!"

"The last Demon Emperor?"

Zhuge An pricked up his ears to listen. The last Demon Emperor lived at least tens of thousands of years ago; could two strands of divine sense really survive for so long?

"Back then, the last Demon Emperor obtained a treasure. As for what it was, no one knows, but within this treasure existed 'Yin and Yang Qi'. This Yin and Yang Qi relied on each other and also restrained each other, existing in a very subtle relationship. For cultivators of our Human Realm, it is simply a forbidden zone that cannot be touched!"

Nanxuan Laozu narrowed his eyes slightly. With his level of cultivation, he at most had some understanding of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi; as for "Yin and Yang Qi," he couldn't even touch the edge of it.

Zhuge An did not dare to interrupt and continued to listen to the Laozu speak.

"The Demon Emperor spent his whole life trying to comprehend the mysteries of 'Yin and Yang Qi,' but although the Demon Emperor's cultivation in the Human Realm was remarkable, he never had any gains. Just as his lifespan was about to end, he forcibly extracted two strands of divine sense and attached them to the body of the two-headed snake, wanting to use the special nature of having two heads in one body to comprehend the 'Yin and Yang Qi'."

"So the two-headed snake that Qing'er encountered in the Trial Ground was actually the two strands of divine sense of the last Demon Emperor?"

Zhuge An felt truly fearful! The two strands of divine sense of a Demon Emperor were not to be underestimated. Fortunately, his daughter escaped; this was all thanks to Zhang Nuo.

"Correct! However, after tens of thousands of years of erosion, the two strands of divine sense of the Demon Emperor should not be too powerful anymore; the main consciousness of the two-headed snake should have taken control of the body! But the moment Zhang Nuo severed the black snake head, the snake head bit Yu Lei's shoulder, which is why the Demon Emperor's divine sense entered Yu Lei's body! I am only guessing!"

Nanxuan Laozu shook his head and gave a bitter smile repeatedly. How he wished he had guessed wrong, but from the current situation, this matter was very likely true.

"The black snake escaped! It... it must have returned to the Five Great Demon Mountains!"

Following the Laozu's line of thought, Zhuge An also thought of this point!

"It is possible! This is not even the most terrifying part; I believe you have heard of it too!"

Seeing Zhuge An nod, Nanxuan Laozu continued:

"Only today did I realize why the Five Great Demon Mountains joined forces to attack back then. The location of the two-headed snake is the place where the last Demon Emperor was buried; in other words, that Dark Swamp is actually the Demon Emperor's Fenzhong!"

With a "swish," Zhuge An's face turned pale. He did not expect the Trial Land of the Four Sects to actually be the location of the Demon Emperor's Fenzhong. How did the Demon Emperor open up such a large space? Cold sweat flowed down the old man's face; from this, one could see what kind of supernatural powers the Demon Emperor had back then!

The joint attack of the Five Great Demon Mountains six hundred years ago was probably just to enter the Trial Ground, find the location of the Demon Tomb, and obtain the treasure containing the 'Yin and Yang Qi' that the Demon Emperor had obtained back then.

"Now you should know why I said the Five Great Demon Mountains would join forces again to attack the Tianjiang Plain!"

Nanxuan Laozu's expression was gloomy, his drooping eyelids covering most of his eyes.

"But the teleportation array of the Trial Ground has already been opened once; to open it again, it will take three hundred years, right?"

"Foolish!"

After hearing Zhuge An's words, Nanxuan Laozu spat out these two words in anger, and Zhuge An immediately did not dare to speak again.

"Now that the black-headed snake has left the Trial Ground, once this strand of the Demon Emperor's divine sense is reborn through possession, wouldn't he be able to open the Trial Ground whenever he wants? Why would he wait three hundred years?"

The cold sweat on Zhuge An's face fell like raindrops. Just hearing these words made his heart turn cold. He truly dared not imagine whether the Four Great Sects on the Tianjiang Plain could hold out if the Five Great Demon Mountains joined forces again!

"I have told you everything. We in the Nanxuan Sect must prepare ourselves first, and wait for the right moment to notify the other three sects. Before the truth is obtained, do not make too much noise!"

"Yes, Laozu!"

After these last few sentences were spoken, Nanxuan Laozu waved his hand slightly. Just as Zhuge An was about to retreat, the Laozu seemed to suddenly remember something and asked:

"Has Zhang Nuo been practicing Body Refining Technique recently? Does he want to take the path of Dharma-Body Dual Cultivation?"

Nanxuan Laozu's gaze was truly sharp; he only glanced at Zhang Nuo once and saw the difference in his physique.

"I am not too clear about this! However, some time ago, he did refine a type of fire seed called 'Red Glow Fire' into his body!"

"What!"

After hearing Zhuge An's words, Nanxuan Laozu almost jumped up. His originally drooping eyelids opened, and several of his long eyebrows stood up straight.

After a moment, the Laozu felt he had been a bit uncomposed and regained his calm, but his heart could not settle down. To forcibly refine a fire seed into his body without reaching the Golden Core stage was simply too incredible! It was completely a fantasy!

However, looking at Zhuge An's expression, it did not seem like he was lying!

"This kid is too special! I had long heard that the Nine Dragon Sword Case was already broken, but it could still be used in his hands. I didn't expect him to give us such a big surprise this time: a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator refining a fire seed into his body!"

As if muttering to himself, a sharp light suddenly flashed in the Laozu's eyes as he said to Zhuge An:

"In the future, no matter what request he makes, you must satisfy him! I want to see just how far he can grow!"

"Yes!"

Zhuge An agreed and exited Nanxuan Laozu's room. He reached out and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. The fact that the Trial Ground was the Demon Emperor's Fenzhong was already shocking enough, and now the Laozu wanted to satisfy all of Zhang Nuo's requests.

Last time, just for one Red Glow Fire seed, it cost the Nanxuan Sect two million Spirit Stones. If Zhang Nuo made such requests a few more times, the Nanxuan Sect would collapse on its own before the Five Great Demon Mountains even came to attack.

"This kid is truly a headache!"

Zhuge An thought to himself. Nanxuan Laozu would not care how many Spirit Stones were left in the sect; with his status, as long as he opened his mouth, the people in the sect would have to comply.

Returning to his residence, the first person Zhuge An found was his daughter Zhuge Qing. After telling her about what happened after meeting the Laozu, Zhuge Qing's pretty face also flooded with waves of lingering fear!

So the two-headed snake lured out from the Dark Swamp was actually two divine senses of the Demon Emperor! It was fortunate that the two-headed snake itself had control over the body at the time; otherwise, let alone the few of them, even if they had brought Zhuge An along, they likely would not have been the two-headed snake's match.

"Father! It seems we have caused a great disaster this time!"

The young girl's face was deathly pale; if she hadn't led everyone to slay the two-headed snake to seize some heavy treasure, this would not have happened. As it turned out, they didn't get the treasure, but instead brought out the Demon Emperor's divine senses.

In fact, the young girl never knew that the heavy treasure of the Dark Swamp was in Zhang Nuo's Storage Bag—that thick book filled with Underworld Script!

Yet at this moment, Zhang Nuo possessed this book without knowing it was the relic of the last Demon Emperor, and also the source of the 'Yin and Yang Qi'.

Inside Zhang Nuo's room, he was telling Chunyangzi about what had happened to Yu Lei, but Chunyangzi did not know the cause of the matter and had no way to provide an explanation.

The only thing Chunyangzi could be certain of was that the black giant snake was not that simple, and it was very likely related to the book Zhang Nuo had obtained in the Dark Swamp!