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Chu Nan's fist was wrapped in a layer of high-speed rotating penetrating force, pushing his speed to the limit in that instant.

The moment the man and the snake brushed past each other, a series of dense and sharp impact sounds exploded in the air.

The black snake's scales were smashed layer by layer by the fist, and the cracks spread outwards from the point of impact. Chu Nan's clothes were also torn by the cold air.

The man and the snake fought their way from the pool to the bottom of the rock wall, and from the rock wall to the mouth of the mountain pass. Rock fragments flew everywhere, and the cold air condensed into a white mist.

Each collision sent the mountainside trembling violently.

When the man and the snake separated again, Chu Nan stood still, his sleeve torn in half, but his expression remained as calm as ever.

The black snake landed by the pool, its body arched, still roaring.

However, more than a dozen obvious cracks appeared on its scales, and the crack on the side of its skull was bleeding.

It felt fear for the first time.

The human in front of it went from being suppressed at the beginning to now being the one suppressing it, all in less than thirty rounds.

The opponent wasn't using human-style techniques to suppress them, but rather confronting them head-on like a wild beast.

His speed was no slower than mine, his strength was no weaker than mine, and his special true energy was no less powerful than mine.

Moreover, Black Serpent could clearly sense that Chu Nan was constantly getting stronger.

Each punch was more precise than the last, and each dodge was more composed than the last.

The black viper's blood-red vertical pupils stared intently at Chu Nan, but it did not launch another attack.

It was panting, its scales opening and closing slightly with each breath.

But Chu Nan clearly had no intention of giving him a chance to catch his breath, and strode towards the black snake.

The black viper arched its body and let out a low growl, seemingly as a warning, but Chu Nan still did not stop.

The black serpent's roar grew louder, and its tail lashed rapidly across the ground, leaving cracks in the stone slab.

Chu Nan did not stop. In his view, this was a sign that the Black Serpent was full of fighting spirit.

He also felt the strength of his own body and decided to use the techniques from the Lotus Treasure Mirror to end the battle completely.

The black snake suddenly took half a step back, its tail curled up, and its whole body pressed very low, almost touching the ground.

It raised its head to look at Chu Nan, and then did something that no one expected.

It slowly lowered the snake's head, and the murderous intent in its blood-red vertical pupils disappeared, replaced by a soft light that was almost pleading.

The black snake opened its mouth, and a ball of dark red blood flew out from between its eyebrows.

The blood droplet was only the size of a soybean, hovering in mid-air and slowly rotating. The power it contained was more solid than any of the previous bursts of cold air.

Chu Nan frowned slightly as he looked at the blood bead, turning his head to look at Wen Bo and Lu Pingchuan. "What is it doing?"

At first, he thought the black snake had come up with some desperate way to fight back, but now it seems that's not the case.

Lu Pingchuan stared wide-eyed at the floating blood bead, his mouth opening and closing several times before he could utter a sound. "That's its life essence blood. It probably wants to offer itself as a sacrifice to recognize its master. As long as you mix a drop of your blood with its life essence blood, its life and death will be in your hands from now on."

"This is the highest-level ritual for a demon beast to recognize its master. I've read about it in the scriptures of the Jade Toad Temple, but I've never seen a real one, because it requires the demon beast to be willing to complete it; any coercion will cause the ritual to fail!"

Old Fisherman chimed in, "That's right. This black snake isn't trying to fight you to the death; it wants to acknowledge you as its master. If you don't kill it, it will follow you for life."

The young palace master leaned against the stone wall, and for the first time, a look of shock appeared on his pale face that even he himself could not hide.

Then he suddenly laughed. In his laughter was self-mockery, bitterness, and a kind of awe that even he himself was unwilling to admit. "I used the magic artifacts and secret techniques accumulated by the Sea God Palace over generations, and almost lost my life in the process. It would rather die than bow its head."

"Now it's spitting out its own life essence? It'd rather choose a mortal who can't even understand the recognition ceremony than the young master of the Sea God Palace!"

His laughter echoed through the valley, carrying a sense of anger and frustration that had nowhere to go after being defeated.

Chu Nan reached out and caught the dark red blood bead that was floating in mid-air.

The moment the blood droplet touched his palm, an extremely cold and icy aura surged into his body along the meridians of his arm.

That chilling aura was extremely domineering, attempting to rush straight to the heart meridian along the meridians.

But the next second, the chilling energy was directly forced back by the lotus's true energy.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Chu Nan squeezed out a drop of blood from his fingertip and slowly merged it into the Black Serpent's natal blood bead.

At the instant his consciousness was complete, a very faint snake-shaped pattern appeared on the back of his hand.

As the lifeblood bead returned to the black viper's body, the lines on the back of his hand began to fade, eventually leaving only a barely visible dark mark.

At the same time, the black viper's body began to shrink.

The scales on its body retracted one by one, and its body shortened segment by segment, shrinking from nearly ten meters to only about five inches.

As it shrank, its scales began to fall off again.

It doesn't fall off piece by piece, it peels off layer by layer.

Beneath the old scales, tiny new scales are revealed, each one gleaming with a deep, dark luster, like a thin slice of polished obsidian.

Its body became more slender, and the two short horns on its forehead fell off, replaced by two spiral-shaped sharp horns.

The sharp corners are dark gold, with a halo of white mist around them.

"Shedding its skin? It...it just shed its skin!"

Lu Pingchuan's voice was filled with undisguised shock, "The black serpent clearly could not evolve any further, but after borrowing the blood from this young man's body, it pushed its already fixed serpent body forward another step."

"A viper can never transform into a dragon; this is a consensus among us sorcerers. But after it completed its bond with its master, it shed its skin once more!"

"Now it is neither a pure hui nor a jiao; it has embarked on an unknown path of evolution."

Black Viper —

Do not!

It should be called the Little Black Snake now.

It climbed up Chu Nan's arm and wrapped itself around his right wrist.

Its entire body was as black as ink, with a faint, eerie light flowing across its scales, and the two dark golden spiral horns on its head looked like bamboo shoots just emerging from the soil.

The little black snake lay coiled there quietly, like a bracelet carved from black jade, its scales pulsating slightly with Chu Nan's pulse.

Wenbo couldn't help but ask, "In this form... can it still transform into a dragon?"

As the totem of the Great Xia Dynasty, the existence of the dragon is something that everyone yearns for.

If Chu Nan had simply tamed a set of black serpent demon beasts, it wouldn't be anything to worry about, but if it were a dragon...

Lu Pingchuan shook his head. "I don't know, but it originally followed the path of the serpent. When it recognized its master, it borrowed Chu Nan's true energy and shed its skin again, which is equivalent to overturning its original path and starting over. As for whether it can transform into a dragon, that depends on itself..."