According to what Yi Yi had heard from the village elders, "Snake Doctor" Luo Lie was not a native of Wild Ghost Village, but the eldest son of the Luo family's Fire-Scale Sect, a renowned sect in the Northwest.
But he did have a connection to Wild Ghost Village.
-He had an Alien Beast's body part on him!
-His ancestor was Snake Demon Luo Yuan, one of the Eight Demons whom Xu Qingwei had personally transplanted with Alien Beast parts and who had perfectly integrated their powers!
Before his death, Luo Yuan had committed every evil, from rape to plunder. He had left behind a son, and the rest of the Luo family, mindful of their blood ties, had brought the child back into the family.
Over more than three hundred years, as their bloodline thinned, the savagery of Luo Yuan's descendants had gradually faded, and the bodies of later generations had become no different from those of ordinary people.
Until Luo Lie was born!
He had been born with a patch of Fire-Scale Snake skin inherited from Snake Demon, like a birthmark, and as he grew, that patch of snakeskin kept expanding!
This snakeskin gave him an exceptional aptitude for cultivating fire-based martial arts.
Luo Lie had practiced the Luo family's supreme art, the Blazing Fire Divine Skill, since childhood, and could be said to tower above the younger generation in the Northwest!
Moreover, his snakeskin was hidden beneath his ribs and could not be seen from the outside. So long as he concealed it well, no one would know. The Fire-Scale Sect had originally regarded him as the unrivaled choice to revitalize the sect.
But Luo Lie had no interest in revitalizing the sect.
Among the legacies Snake Demon had left behind, he discovered a copy of Transplanting