I was born a god, the son of the Demon Lord.

He desperately channeled his demonic energy at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, attempting to withstand the golden flames falling from above.

The moment the demonic energy came into contact with the divine fire, it was instantly burned to nothingness.

The extreme heat enveloped his entire body, causing his skin to crack and his blood to boil and evaporate in his veins.

A piercing scream echoed throughout the area.

He couldn't maintain his human form at all, and with a bang, he transformed back into a giant dark green bluebird.

Its once bright and beautiful feathers were now all burned to charcoal, and it curled up on the ground, twitching.

Just as the charred bird was about to be roasted, an extremely dark green light suddenly appeared in his heart.

Xu Nanyi raised an eyebrow; she had seen this kind of low-health shield explosion trope in novels many times.

When you're out and about, finishing off an opponent is the most important thing for survival.

Without a word, she flapped her wings, and a solid line of fire shot straight toward the green light.

boom!

The fire line collided with the green light.

A translucent phantom, hundreds of feet tall, emerged from Kui Ke's heart.

"Who dares to harm my grandson!"

The old man's white hair moved without wind, and the terrifying pressure of his Nascent Soul stage swept through the entire space like a tsunami.

Xu Nanyi: Wow! The old man gets punished after the young one is beaten; it's an age-old rule in the cultivation world.

Shen Xizhou darted in front of Xu Nanyi in a flash, using half of his body to block the heat wave, his dragon claws gripping the ground tightly.

Wei Lin looked down.

The peerless genius whom I had placed high hopes on, who had reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage before the age of one hundred, had turned into a plucked, roasted black bird.

He was so angry that he was trembling all over.

"You two arrogant beasts! I'll skin you alive and extract your tendons to make blood pills to nourish Ke'er!"

The old man quickly formed hand seals.

Through this soul-binding technique, he forcefully crossed space and summoned an ancient, giant ruler into his domain.

The Heavenly Ruler.

The giant ruler swelled in the wind, blotting out the sky and the sun, and with earth-shattering power, it crashed down on the phoenix in mid-air.

Xu Nanyi looked at the frantically screaming remnant soul.

A single soul in the Fusion stage—this is practically a perfect tonic delivered to my doorstep! The one I swallowed last time tasted pretty good.

Instead of retreating, she advanced.

The red light between his brows suddenly flashed, and a purplish-black Nine Nether Mark appeared.

Above the area, the once clear sky was instantly shrouded in thick black clouds, and purple lightning bolts danced wildly within the clouds.

Shen Xizhou was enveloped in a soft golden light and looked up from the corner.

A huge black seal emerged from the thunderclouds.

The Nine Netherworld Ghost Seal.

A deathly aura emanating from the netherworld slammed directly onto the Heavenly Ruler.

Click.

That natal magic weapon that Kui Lin was so proud of couldn't even last half a second before shattering into countless points of light.

"This is impossible!" Wei Lin's phantom image twisted wildly.

The Ghost Seal ignored his clamor and crashed down, crushing the old man's remnant soul and the fragments of the Heavenly Ruler into nothingness.

midair.

The golden phoenix fell straight down like a kite with a broken string.

Shen Xizhou was startled. He pushed off the ground with his two short legs and rushed over in a blur.

boom.

Xu Nanyi landed on a soft mat and didn't feel any pain.

"Sister...are you alright?"

Shen Xizhou crawled out from under her, covered in dust, and brushed the grass clippings off his body.

Xu Nanyi transformed back into human form and reached out to pull him up.

He shook his throbbing head.

She was only thinking about defeating her enemy in one move, so she directly activated the power of the Ghost Seal. As a result, this thing was like a bottomless pit, almost draining her chaotic power and divine consciousness.

The dark clouds in the sky dispersed. The area returned to calm.

Xu Nanyi waved.

The Nine Netherworld Ghost Seal flew back in a flash.

Upon closer inspection, she noticed a small indentation at the edge of the Ghost Seal's base.

This thing actually knew to hold back and didn't crush the roasted bird to death along with it.

Gui Xi circled around her twice, nuzzled her cheek in a flattering manner, and then transformed into a streak of purple light, disappearing back into her dantian.

Shen Xizhou ran to the charred lump and poked it with his dragon claw.

Black ash fell down in a rustling sound.

"How ugly, sister... She looks completely dead, how can she be a hostage?"

Xu Nanyi walked over and kicked the bird's belly.

"Hey, get up right now, stop pretending to be dead in front of my brother."

The blackbird remained motionless.

Xu Nanyi grinned, made a trumpet shape with her hands around her mouth, and blew a breath.

"Grandma, I was wrong! Please don't burn it!"

The charred bird sprang up abruptly. Its whole body convulsed in pain, and its two charred wings clutched its head tightly.

He watched as his invincible Grandfather, who was at the Integration Stage, was directly smashed to pieces by a black seal.

I was so scared that my soul almost left my body.

He opened his beak, trembling, and made a whooshing sound.

A pile of spirit stones, magic treasures, and pills lay scattered on the ground.

Xu Nanyi glanced at it and nudged Shen Xizhou with her elbow.

Shen Xizhou understood immediately, quickly pulled out a storage bag, and shoved everything on the ground into it.

Xu Nanyi kicked the bird's leg again.

"Is that all? Are you trying to fob me off like a beggar?"

Kui Ke hunched his neck and slowly spat out three more exquisite jade boxes from under the feathers.

"You actually dared to keep it to yourself!" Xu Nanyi raised her hand.

"It's really all gone! This time, not even her underwear was left!"

Xu Nanyi didn't believe it at all. "Xiaozhou, search him!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Xizhou's two dragon claws flew up and down, ruffling the charred feathers that flew everywhere.

"Don't move! Behave yourself!"

Shen Xizhou slapped the black bird on the head. The black bird twitched twice and then lay down on the ground pretending to be dead.

The little fat dragon groped around under the black bird's wing.

"Sister! There's something here!"

He pulled hard.

With a clatter, a string of storage rings fell onto the grass.

Shen Xizhou looked down and counted, "One, two, three... ten!"

That wasn't all. He then crawled under the black bird's belly, rummaged around for a while, and pulled out a long string of interconnected storage bags.

There were fifty of them, all brightly colored and bulging.

Shen Xizhou, carrying a large pile of spoils, ran excitedly to Xu Nanyi.

"Sister, look!"

Xu Nanyi raised an eyebrow. This scruffy bird was really rich. A mere Nascent Soul cultivator, yet it carried so much wealth with it.

"Well done," Xu Nanyi praised.

Shen Xizhou was practically strutting around with his tail between his legs.

He threw the things on the ground and turned to look at the black bird lying there.

"Sister, turn around first."

Xu Nanyi asked, puzzled, "What?"

Shen Xizhou covered his mouth and chuckled, "I'll give him a full body check-up. Sister, you can't stand seeing this, turn away!"

"Okay, search carefully. I'll give you an extra 20% later."

She turned around and walked to an ancient tree a dozen feet away, leaning against the trunk and closing her eyes to rest.

Using the Nine Netherworld Ghost Seal just now consumed a great deal of energy, so now is a good time to recover my spiritual power.

A series of screams came from over there.

"Ouch! Be gentle! Ancestor, that's my natal magic weapon, you can't pull it!"

"You little fatty, why are you touching me like that! Stop touching me! It's really gone!"

Shen Xizhou completely ignored his protests, grabbed a storage bag with his dragon claws, and pulled it down forcefully.

"Shut up! Say another word and I'll rip your tongue out!"

There was a flurry of excitement.

A full half hour passed.

Things calmed down over there.

"Sister, that's enough!" Shen Xizhou shouted.

Xu Nanyi opened her eyes and slowly walked back.

The spoils on the ground piled up into a small mountain.

Spirit stones, magical artifacts, elixirs, jade slips, and even some strange and unusual materials.

Shen Xizhou was rolling around on a pile of golden spirit stones.

Xu Nanyi walked around the pile of treasure, but there was no black bird left on the ground.

Kui Ke has transformed back into human form, but his appearance is horribly disfigured.

His once magnificent blue robes were burned to tatters, and his face was covered in bruises.

He was frantically putting on a spare gray robe, which he had hastily found in the storage bag that had just been ransacked.

In his panic, he put on his clothes crookedly, tied the straps backwards, and left them hanging loosely on his body, exposing one shoulder.

Shen Xizhou poked his head out from the pile of spirit stones and jumped onto him, pulling his collar shut.

Shen Xizhou curled his lip. "You're such a big guy, and your collar is all loose. How embarrassing."

Kui Ke was so angry that he trembled. "You little beast, you've been stripping me of my clothes for half an hour, even my undergarments!"

Now you're blaming me for not dressing well?

Whose child ran away from home?!

His cultivation level was ridiculously high, his heart was ruthless, and his robbery techniques were even more skillful than those of demonic cultivators.

Their ancestors were destroyed by them with a single brick, what can a Nascent Soul cultivator do?

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