Jiang Ding saw a scene within a fragment of soul memory.
The location was the Ancient God Hall here, the Ancient God Hall of the Ancient God Dao Mountain Gate. A gray-haired dwarf elder sat at the center of the great hall, his hair hanging down in tangled strands, unkempt for a very long time.
"Wrong, wrong again..."
The Ancient God Patriarch muttered to himself.
Hiss~
Hiss hiss hiss~
While he was lost in thought, pitch-black Spirit Serpents spread from the palm of the severed arm from another realm. They traveled along the Heavenly Dao Rules, born as bodies that reflected the rules.
These Spirit Serpents burrowed into the Ancient God Patriarch's soul, devouring and chewing away at it bit by bit.
Deep within the Ancient God Patriarch's soul, snake eggs that had accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years broke from their shells one after another. They pierced his soul, devoured his body and flesh, and gradually consumed his entire being.
This outcome had already been destined when that Void Refinement cultivator encountered the severed arm all those years ago.
Slowly, bit by bit, the Ancient God Patriarch was devoured clean, until not even a strand of hair or fragment of bone remained. Even his Daoist robe was torn apart and chewed up bit by bit.
Hiss!
"Son of the Ancient God..."
"Great prosperity..."
Among the swarming Spirit Serpents, one that was the strongest, far surpassing all the others, let out a hiss.
The hissing sounded disorderly, yet it conveyed many clear thoughts. It was an exceedingly exquisite language, drawing hisses from the surrounding Spirit Serpents.
They were expressing their joy.
After hundreds of thousands of years of scheming, they had finally succeeded. Their race had once more hatched with the human Racial Inheritance Prodigy as its host, and