So spiritual?
What kind of demon was it, exactly?
Xu Jie frowned. Could it be that this little black snake had sensed his killing intent and started crying?
That was a little too spiritual...
This was no longer a matter of whether its senses were sharp or not!
After all, ordinary demons in this high-martial world did not have so many emotions, much less cry!
Just like the wolf demon Xu Jie had killed when he first arrived—it had possessed nothing but a pure desire to kill and feed.
Besides, snakes were cold-blooded creatures to begin with, their emotions scarcer than phoenix feathers and qilin horns. How could it possibly cry?
Just what were you—a human or a demon?
As Xu Jie stared in astonishment, a trace of spirited resolve flashed through the little black snake's large eyes in his palm. Then it bit down on the web between his thumb and forefinger.
Damn it!
Xu Jie's cheek twitched from the pain. With his endurance, he would not even furrow his brow if flesh were carved from his body.
Yet at this moment, he experienced an agonizing pain he had never felt before.
What was this snake trying to do?
Xu Jie neither moved nor panicked. He merely watched coldly as the little black snake drank his blood, judging the meaning behind its actions.
The next moment, Xu Jie did not know whether his eyes were playing tricks on him.
He saw an illusory crimson spell formation, so vast that its edges could not be seen at a glance.
Then, centered on Xu Jie, the formation rapidly contracted. In the end, it condensed into his body and vanished.
What had happened?
Xu Jie stood and checked his body, but found no changes.
Meanwhile, the little black snake in his hand continued blinking its big eyes at him.
"Y... you... hello..."
Suddenly, a young girl's timid, childish voice rang out in Xu Jie's mind, freezing his entire body where he stood.
"Y... you... hello..."
Xu Jie lowered his head slightly and examined the little black snake in his hand. For some reason, the longer he looked at it, the closer he felt to it, as though...
As though this snake had become his long-lost daughter!
The hell with daughter!
"What exactly are you?"
"I... I am... um... a snake!"
"???"
"S-sorry... sob sob... I don't know either... what I am... sob sob... I forgot... I don't remember... anything... sob sob..."
The little black snake began crying again for no apparent reason, making the veins on Xu Jie's forehead throb.
It was too damn noisy!
He hated chatty animals most of all!
In his previous life, if the guard dog at Xu Jie's military camp barked a few times too many, he would beat it black and blue.
What was it barking for when nothing was wrong?
"Shut up!"
"Sob sob..."
"Are you itching for a beating? Hm?"
"Sob sob..."
"Fine... I was wrong. Stop crying already, I mean it..."
"Mhm mhm~"
Covered in sweat, Xu Jie finally soothed the endlessly crying little black snake.
He let out a slight breath, confusion and helplessness flashing through his eyes.
Was this right?
Even if he were to take a demon as a mount in the future, it should be the kind that looked majestic, fierce, and savage.
What the hell was this little black snake that cried at a touch, cried at a movement, and even cried when no one moved?
Only after calming down for quite some time did Xu Jie ask the little black snake about that formation.
"What is your name? That spell formation just now was..."
"I don't know either... what my name is... sob..."
"Stop! Please, don't cry again!"
Xu Jie hurriedly cut off the little black snake before it could start crying again, quickly changing the subject and asking once more.
"The spell formation. Tell me about the spell formation!"
"Mhm mhm... That was a symbiotic... contract... I... sorry..."
A symbiotic contract?
Xu Jie glanced at the aggrieved little black snake, who looked like a child that had done something wrong, and roughly understood what had happened.
A symbiotic relationship...
No wonder he felt an inexplicable closeness with the little black snake.
The moment Xu Jie thought of the symbiotic contract, Little Black in his hand suddenly seemed to melt and flowed into his body.
Then the bloodline within him abruptly boiled, and dense, vicious black scales grew across his entire body.
This was...
Xu Jie opened his eyes in disbelief. His pupils had turned vertical now, as though he had truly mutated.
And his combat strength had increased severalfold. Though it was merely pure physical power, it still left him deeply shocked.
Could a symbiotic contract be used like this?
A few minutes later, the scales on Xu Jie's body receded. Looking utterly exhausted, the little black snake crawled back out of his body, lay in his palm, and rolled its eyes.
"You'll be called Little Black from now on!"
"Mhm mhm~"
Xu Jie did not dwell too much on something that had already become a fait accompli.
That had always been his personality. He could not kill the little black snake before, and now that they were symbiotic, it was even more impossible.
Besides, Little Black's existence truly gave him another trump card.
Never mind how much his strength had increased—after merging with Little Black, the scales covering his body alone were already heaven-defying.
Xu Jie had personally tested Little Black's defensive power. It simply could not be broken, which was equivalent to giving him an extra life.
"Little Black, what species are you... Forget it, pretend I never asked! No crying!"
"I'm so hungry... I want to... drink some blood... Is that okay?"
Drink blood?
Hearing Little Black's cautious question, Xu Jie smiled indifferently. As long as the little black snake did not cry, anything was fine!
So, he cut open his fingertip with his nail. The little black snake immediately pounced on it and began greedily sucking.
Ignoring the little black snake happily drinking blood, Xu Jie summoned the system panel, preparing to break through to the Pulse Opening Realm.
If he had not been delayed today by Chu Mingyue's attribute eruption and the inexplicable little black snake, he would have broken through long ago!
Host: Xu Jie Martial Realm: Blood Moving Realm Level 12 (Peak First Rank) Lifespan: 1 year + 1000 years (Unavailable) Usable Lifespan: 419 Martial Arts: 1. Basic Stance Training (Perfected), 2. Advanced Stance Training · Blood Burning Art (Perfected), 3. Yi Jin Duan Gu Scripture (Unable to Begin) Techniques: 1. Demon-Breaking Saber Art (Perfected), 2. Demon Subduing Flame Blade · Dark Devour (Perfected), 3. Nine Extremes Demonic Blade (Minor Achievement) Progress until next draw (292/3000)!
Xu Jie: "???"
Lifespan: 1 + 1000 years???
Were his eyes playing tricks on him, or had something gone wrong with the system?
How had he suddenly become an old monster with a thousand-year lifespan?
And it could not even be used!
If it could be used...
Would that not solve his greatest problem at present?
Damn it!
Although Xu Jie already had a guess in his heart, he still asked internally.
"System, what's going on?"
Alert! The host has formed symbiosis with a God-level demon and shares one percent of its lifespan, but this lifespan cannot be used to increase the realms of Martial Arts and Techniques!
One percent?
Did that mean the little black snake could live for a hundred thousand years?
And it was a God-level demon?
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