Starting as a Snake: Defying Heaven with Invincibility

"Absorb for me!" Xiao Long shouted again, and the Eight Dragon Cauldron erupted with a powerful suction force, pulling in all the monks who were not yet dead, and then the lid closed.

"Clang!"

The cauldron landed on the ground, shaking slightly, with faint roars echoing from within.

Xiao Long clasped his hands together, chanting with a semblance of piety, "Amitabha, as a monk, compassion is key. I won't kill you; instead, I'll burn you for forty-nine days and nights, refining you into Buddhist relics, and send you to the Pure Land of Bliss."

Angry curses and threats came from within the cauldron, but Xiao Long acted as if he hadn't heard them. He kicked the cauldron over to the disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sect and said, "Refine these bald donkeys for forty-nine days and transcend them."

Leaving those words, Xiao Long turned and left.

"That person is..." Watching Xiao Long's departing figure, Xuanyuan Mingyue exclaimed, "Xiao Chen!"

"It must be Xiao Chen; I'll remember his back for the rest of my life!" Wang Ming'ao said excitedly.

"Senior Xiao Chen!" The disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sect were filled with joy and surprise.

...

Xiao Long flew into the sky, scanning the area. As treasures became scarcer, the only option was to seize them from others, making the battles in the forest increasingly brutal, with fewer survivors.

Originally, there were millions who entered the ruins, but now only about a hundred thousand remained, with even Canghai Academy reduced to just three thousand.