Starting as a Snake: Defying Heaven with Invincibility

Liao Qingfeng nodded in satisfaction, quite pleased with the flattery from the two.

"Steward Liu, is there a vacant room of the highest grade?" he asked with a sidelong glance.

Steward Liu was startled, trembling as he got up, thinking quickly, "Young Master Liao, please proceed to room Ding of the highest grade."

"Hmph! Now that's more like it!"

Liao Qingfeng lifted his head and swaggered forward.

Steward Liu breathed a sigh of relief. The guests in the highest grade rooms were all people of significant background and could not be offended. Fortunately, the guest in room Ding was a masked man in the Body Refining Realm, someone even Su Ya could enter and exit freely, so he probably wasn't a tough character.

...

Inside the room, Xiao Long had refined two Soul-Reviving Pills and consumed them to restore his depleted soul power.

Over the past two days of training, Huang Mao had successfully broken through to the tenth level of a demon beast, just a step away from becoming a Demon General.

"This is a Chongxu Pill. It can help a human at the tenth level of the Body Refining Realm break through to the first level of the Qi Condensing Realm. It's suitable for you as well."

Huang Mao excitedly accepted the Chongxu Pill, fully aware of its value.

"This isn't the right place for a breakthrough. Follow me!"

Xiao Long leaped out of the window, and Huang Mao followed suit.

A monkey and a snake raced through Fire Cloud City, soon arriving at a quiet forest. Xiao Long had discovered this place while eating; it was one of the few uninhabited areas in Fire Cloud City.

Huang Mao, having cultivated the Battle Saint Physique, required a large amount of spiritual qi for his breakthrough. The small room was far from sufficient, and he would inevitably draw in qi from the surroundings, potentially causing a spiritual qi storm that could blow the entire building away.

To avoid attracting attention, they had to find a secluded spot.

Xiao Long casually set up a Gathering Spirit Array, and within moments, a dense fog of spiritual qi rose, nearly as rich as that of a sect's sacred ground.

"Begin."

"Alright!" Huang Mao sat cross-legged at the center of the array and swallowed the Chongxu Pill.

In an instant, a torrent of spiritual qi converged on Huang Mao's crown, pouring into his body like a divine infusion, with a grand and astonishing momentum.

In just a few breaths, the surrounding spiritual qi was drained, and Xiao Long had to scatter a large number of spirit stones to replenish the source.

"Hmm? Someone's entered my room."

Through the surveillance array, Xiao Long sensed three people entering his room.

Seeing the emblem on their robes, Xiao Long's face twisted into a cruel smile. Fire Cloud Sect, you chose to enter hell when heaven was open to you. I'll give you a surprise later.

At this moment, in the room, Liao Qingfeng and his two companions had just entered, overwhelmed by the rich spiritual qi. They exclaimed, "I never expected the guest in this room to have set up such a high-level Gathering Spirit Array."

"The young master is fortunate," the elder beside him said respectfully.

"Deacon Liu, drag the person inside out. Since they're a formation master, ask if they're willing to work for me. If they dare refuse, kill them," Liao Qingfeng said arrogantly.

"Yes!"

The silver-haired elder rushed into the room, only to find it empty, with just a pile of depleted spirit stone remnants on the floor.

The window was open.

Liao Qingfeng also entered, glanced at the window, and wondered, "Escaped?"

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"Hmph! Lucky for him," Liao Qingfeng snorted coldly, unaware that if Xiao Long had been there, the three of them would have long been dead, turned into a wave of experience. It was unclear who was truly lucky.

Unaware of his brush with death, Liao Huoyun sent the silver-haired elder out and rolled onto the bed with a beautiful woman, indulging in pleasure.

The silver-haired elder, feeling helpless, could only sit cross-legged outside the door, closing his eyes to rest.

...

Huang Mao's breakthrough had reached a critical moment. The spiritual qi in the sky had gathered into a tornado, with the center below, as countless spiritual qi rushed in like there was no cost. Huang Mao's bones crackled, and his body began to grow.

Three meters, three and a half meters, four meters, five meters...

Huang Mao grew to a height of five meters before stopping.

The momentum was too great. Xiao Long frowned and set up a concealment array to avoid being discovered by experts.

At this moment, all the spiritual qi seemed to find a breakthrough point, pouring into Huang Mao's mouth. Huang Mao roared to the sky, and clouds began to appear, emitting a strange glow.

Fire Cloud City, City Lord's Mansion.

City Lord Han Wuxie looked up at the sky, his pupils suddenly contracting.

"Spiritual qi clouds! Someone's breaking through to the Prenatal Realm?"

"No, only five clouds. It should be some Body Refining Realm genius breaking through to the Qi Condensing Realm, causing this phenomenon," Han Wuxie thought.

When humans break through to the Prenatal Realm, hundreds of clouds appear in the sky. Similarly, when certain Body Refining Realm geniuses break through to the Qi Condensing Realm, clouds appear, like when Song Yu, the Soul Chasing Arrow, broke through, two clouds appeared.

But now there were five, indicating the person's high talent, possibly enough to enter the Qianlong List in the future and become renowned.

Due to the Fire Cloud Auction, Fire Cloud City was crowded with all sorts of people, so a few extraordinary talents emerging was normal.

However, Han Wuxie took another look, seemingly discovering something, and suddenly paused, his eyes bulging as he rushed toward that direction.

He was shocked to find that it wasn't five clouds, but... fifteen! Ten of them were hidden by a concealment array!

Five clouds indicated an ordinary genius, who might enter the Qianlong List in the future and become a hero. But more than ten clouds meant that as long as they didn't die, they would surely be a top-ranked superpower on the Qianlong List.

As for fifteen, that was legendary!

Such a person couldn't possibly come from Tianfeng Kingdom; they must be a prodigy from a super sect of a great empire! If they didn't die, not only the Prenatal Realm, but even the legendary Emperor Realm might be possible.

With such a heaven-defying prodigy appearing in Fire Cloud City, as the city lord, how could he not investigate?

When he arrived at the scene, the forest was already empty, leaving only the remnants of a Gathering Spirit Array and a pile of depleted spirit stone remnants.

"Tianfeng Kingdom is in for something big!" Han Wuxie's face still bore traces of shock.

...

Huang Mao successfully broke through to a first-level Demon General, his body nearly doubling in size, like a giant. However, the Demon General's body was more flexible, and with a bone-shrinking technique, Huang Mao returned to his previous height.

"Boss, I feel ten times stronger than before! No, twenty times!" Huang Mao was ecstatic.

Not only had he broken through to a first-level Demon General, but his Battle Saint Physique had also advanced to the second level. In terms of combat power, a human at the first level of the Qi Condensing Realm wouldn't be able to withstand a single move from him, and he could even fight someone at the third level. If he entered a berserk state, he might withstand someone at the fifth level.

Even Xiao Long, without using soul power, wasn't confident of defeating him.

But Huang Mao showed no sign of arrogance, still acting like a simpleton in front of Xiao Long, grinning happily. He knew that everything he gained today was granted by Xiao Long.

"A mere Demon General is nothing. Within a year, I can help you reach the level of a Demon King," Xiao Long said calmly.

Hearing the words "Demon King," Huang Mao held his breath, excitedly saying, "Thank you, Boss!"

The two demons headed back to the inn.

As they approached the inn's window, Huang Mao's eyes suddenly narrowed. After his breakthrough, his perception had significantly increased, and he could clearly sense that someone was in the room, rolling on the bed.

"There are two ants inside. Go clean them up," Xiao Long said calmly.