Chapter 1 The Wild

In the wilderness.

Bei Liu and Long Ma fled in terror, a savage, bloody aura surging behind them like a hurricane. The terrifying pressure of the demon king was overwhelming, causing them to tremble in fear.

"What's the background of this vile snake? It feels even more terrifying than those demon kings in the Great Wilderness, like an old demon that has accumulated power over the years!" Long Ma cried out in a trembling voice, his four hooves galloping wildly, leaving behind afterimages.

"Take this!"

Bei Liu shouted sharply.

He was the foreign affairs elder of the Great Wilderness Holy Temple, equipped with beast artifacts and secret treasures from the Holy Temple. At this moment, he unleashed them all, his killing intent soaring to the sky, blurring the void and cracking the wilderness.

However, these attacks landed on the king cobra behind him, failing to even break its scales, only creating sparks.

Bei Liu's expression changed drastically.

"Miscalculation, this is actually a demon king who mainly cultivates physical defense."

This type of demon king was the most troublesome.

A powerful physique could ignore the offensive power of many weapons, and the best among them could even use their bodies to withstand holy artifacts. Even the inner cabinet elders of the Holy Temple would find them a headache.

"It seems I have to use my trump card!" Bei Liu gritted his teeth, a look of pain on his face.

"Take another hit from me!"

He took out a purple-gold gourd from his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, the purple-gold gourd shone brightly, like a purple sun, emitting an endless aura of death.

Zhang Ji narrowed his eyes. This gourd was extraordinary, seemingly a great weapon.

He waited in full readiness.

He saw the other party holding the purple-gold gourd and shouting: "The seeds of the great gourd come from the heavens, flowing to the sea and never returning, hurry, hurry, like..."

"Whoosh~"

Zhang Ji flicked his tail, and before the other party could finish chanting, the Lightning Five-Whip Technique was activated. His thousand-meter-long snake body lashed out like a whip, casting a large shadow. The earth rolled, stirring up a bloody, fierce aura. The terrifying power caused the void to explode.

Bei Liu paled in horror. He shook the purple-gold gourd in his hand, and endless purple light poured out, cascading towards Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji was about to shatter the purple light when he suddenly saw that these rays of purple light were actually mountain boars.

Each mountain boar was fifty meters large, filled with vitality, and had succulent flesh.

Was this the opponent's ultimate move? Sure enough, it was terrifying, using meat as bait to successfully stop Zhang Ji's advance.

"Chī~"

Zhang Ji opened his bloody maw and swallowed a pig in one gulp.

"Evolution points +500000"

Zhang Ji's eyes lit up. All three mouths of his three heads opened at the same time, devouring all the succulent mountain boars. The blood and flesh were chewed up in his mouth, the bloody smell assailing his senses, yet he revealed an expression of enjoyment.

Having been a beast for too long, he had long forgotten that he used to be a human. In the past, if there was even a hint of fishiness when he ate pork, he would have to add cooking wine, scallions, and ginger to remove it. But now, he liked the fishy taste.

Especially the bloody taste, which intoxicated him.

"I've lost myself. All I want is to eat meat!"

"Is there more? Give me more!"

Greedy light shone in Zhang Ji's scarlet vertical pupils. He saw that the other party had taken advantage of his feeding opportunity to escape near the sinkhole and was about to leave.

"Where do you think you're going!"

"Boom~"

His three heads collided with each other. Instead of a concussion, it stirred up an electric arc that traveled through his entire body. This was the Lightning Serpent Movement Technique.

He darted out, like a flash of silver lightning, moving with thunder, suddenly arriving before the other party, blocking the entrance of the sinkhole.

"My little darlings, where do you think you're running off to! Why don't you hurry up and come into my mouth?"

Zhang Ji's scarlet vertical pupils looked down, radiating a cruel, cold light.

Bei Liu and Long Ma were terrified. They didn't expect the other party's speed to be so fast. Zhang Ji stared at Bei Liu and spoke in human language, "Pick up your purple-gold gourd, like before, and give me another fierce attack!"

"I like that kind of attack!"

Zhang Ji licked his lips.

"There aren't any more. That was all the pigs, and that was my food. I just gave it all to you, Demon King!" Bei Liu replied in a trembling voice. He didn't expect that after feeding the other party once, the other party would become addicted.

"I don't believe you!"

Zhang Ji raised all three heads.

The grotesque mouths uncontrollably drooled like waterfalls, landing on the ground. The ground instantly seemed to have been splashed with highly concentrated sulfuric acid, corroded and emitting bursts of white smoke.

Bei Liu and Long Ma trembled all over as they watched. What kind of monster was this? It was said to be a snake, but could a snake's saliva be so terrifying?

Moreover, another head was the head of a White-Eyed Wolf King.

Only the middle one was a snake's head.

This kind of evolution method and trend seemed to be evolving in the direction of the ancient ferocious beast, the Nine-Headed Serpent Xiang Liu, but Xiang Liu's nine heads were all snake heads, while the vile snake before them was not.

Bei Liu's eyes were filled with fear as he stared at the huge and terrifying three-headed snake before him, and said in a trembling voice:

"This is mutation, not evolution!"

"You've actually embarked on the path of mutation. This is the path of the evil god!"

"So you are the evil god emperor seed that the black-robed priest mentioned!"

He understood everything, but he was even more afraid.

Zhang Ji's front body rose high, as tall and majestic as a skyscraper. He could not see the full picture in the mist, only three pairs of scarlet eyes opening and closing, emitting bursts of fierce light.

Hearing Bei Liu's words, Zhang Ji pondered, and then decisively shook his head in denial.

"Once, there was a wolf who said I was a king seed, an emperor seed. Now, you say I am an evil god emperor seed. I don't know what these things are."

Zhang Ji's scarlet vertical pupils became profound.

"I am definitely not a king seed, nor an emperor seed, nor an evil god emperor seed, because I was born ordinary, just a cobra. I was able to get to where I am today entirely through my hard work of eating meat and drinking blood. It has nothing to do with talent, and nothing to do with bloodline."

"Whoosh~"

He suddenly swallowed in one gulp.

"Come into my mouth!"

He turned hostile without warning.

Just a food, there was no need to waste time.

Long Ma cried out in horror, "Cousin, save me!"

Bei Liu instantly transformed into his original form, a green-headed turtle, hundreds of meters in size, like a green mountain, supporting a green turtle shell, enveloping Long Ma and himself within it.

The turtle shell quickly fused together, turning into an oval turtle ball, protecting himself 360 degrees without any gaps.

He turned into a tortoise with a retracted head, his ultimate defense.

"Boom~"

Zhang Ji swallowed in one gulp. The terrifying biting force seemed to shatter the sky. The green turtle ball collided with his fangs, emitting a muffled explosion and sparks of metal.

However, the turtle shell did not break. The fangs and sharp teeth only left marks on it, three feet deep.

Zhang Ji was surprised, "Since I debuted as a snake, I have swallowed wolves and tigers, all of them crushed in one bite, swallowed together with their skin and hair. Today, I have encountered a tough opponent, and my teeth have been chipped."

Inside the turtle shell, Bei Liu was in tears.

"Great Demon King, please spare me. It's not like I haven't been bitten by other demon kings, but they can't even hurt my shell. Yet you were able to leave teeth marks, more than three feet deep."

"Your bite force amazes me, your decisive and resolute temperament makes me admire you, and your insidious and cunning personality makes me admire you even more."

"Your rise in the abandoned ancient land is no accident, but the result of your strength."

"How about we make a deal? You make a condition, and I will fulfill it, just asking you to spare me and my second cousin's life, okay?"

He begged bitterly, because Zhang Ji actually started grinding his teeth against his turtle shell. His fangs were like saw teeth, trying to cut open his turtle shell. This was too cruel.

Was turtle meat that fragrant?

Was it necessary to do this?!

Hearing the other party's voice, Zhang Ji opened his mouth, and a faint voice came from the snake's mouth: "Okay, as long as you can give me enough living food, I will spare you."

"Really?!"

"A snake never lies!"

"Okay, I can do it. So, can I show my head now? It's stuffy in the turtle shell, and my second cousin likes to fart, it's too smelly."

"Show it, I promise I won't eat you."

Bei Liu cautiously showed his head, but the bloody maw suddenly opened before him, and with a gust of wind, he was swallowed in one gulp, biting at his head together with the soil on the ground.

"Ah, you said you wouldn't eat me. A demon king's word is his bond, why don't you have martial morality?" Bei Liu was drenched in cold sweat and became a tortoise with a retracted head again.

Zhang Ji's eyes filled with regret. This green-headed turtle's meat was really not delicious. Hearing the other party's stifled voice, his snake mouth opened and said: "I certainly didn't bite you!"

The White-Eyed Wolf King's wolf mouth grinned and said: "Sorry, I bit you. I couldn't help it just now. I promise I won't eat you this time. Will you try showing your head again?"