"I never imagihat I, the mighty Burning Heaven Dragon Emperor, would be reborn as a mere beast."

  In the dim, damp cave, a long, slender, bck creature surveyed its surroundings with a cold gaze.

  Beside "it" were two identical creatures, young Bck Spine Snakes, with several broken eggshells behind them, indig they had just hatched.

  "Damn it! Of all things, I had to bee a snake, and a non-venomous Bck Spine S that, the lowest of the first-tier demos. Who knows when I'll be killed? What a joke!"

  As one of the eight titled Martial Emperors of the Shenzhou ti, Xiao Long was in a foul mood.

  He had painstakingly found the Temporal Aral Dragon's blood essenheritance. As long as he refihe essence, he was fident he could trahe peak of Martial Emperor and bee the legendary Asdant Immortal, breaking free from this world.

  But uedly, at the critical moment of refining, the Red Lotus Martial Emperor, along with two other titled Martial Emperors, attacked him. Severely injured and seeing no hope of breaking through, Xiao Long ighe Temporal Dragon Blood Essen a self-destructive explosion, killing one of the Martial Emperors on the spot. Another was regressed to infancy by the essence's power aually became a fertilized egg, turning to ashes. The Red Lotus Martial Emperor was severely injured and fled, uo recover for a hundred years.

  Accurately speaking, now on the Shenzhou ti, including the injured Red Lotus Martial Emperor, only six titled Martial Emperors remained.

  "Damn woman, the ime I see you, I'll rape you and kill you! Again and again, to quench my hatred!"

  Thinking of the Red Lotus Martial Emperor's fiery, devilish figure and angelic face, Xiao Long swallowed hard, then gritted his teeth. Such a venomous woman, killing her a huimes wouldn't be enough to vent his anger.

  The problem was, in his current state, entering the Red Lotus Martial Emperor would mean she'd blow him away with a breath, not to mentioher he could eve her.

  "Fet it, I'll wait until I break through to the Demon Emperor realm."

  After a long while, Xiao Long calmed down. To him, the physical body was fleeting; the soul was the essence.

  He had a human soul, so strictly speaking, he was human. Many demon cultivators on the ti had no choice but to self-destruct their bodies and possess a demo, which was not unon.

  At worst, he could wait until he reached the Demon Sn level, practice the Soul-Snatg Art, and find a human body with good aptitude to possess.

  Xiao Long tried to move, and although it was unfamiliar, he mao crawl around the cave with difficulty. After a p, he was exhausted and panting; this body was too weak and needed some transformation.

  "Right, what would happen if a demo practiced human cultivatiohods?"

  Xiao Long suddenly thought of this.

  In his past life as the Burning Heaven Dragon Emperor, he had received the Burning Heaven Aral Dragon's iahe cultivatiohod he practiced was the supreme dragon teique. Although dragons were divis, they were essentially evolved demos.

  If he used this Bck Spine Snake's body to practice dragon teiques, wouldn't that be...

  Thinking of this, Xiao Lo a surge of excitement.

  Apart from higher-level races, demos typically only began to take human form and practice cultivation teiques at the Demon Sn level. No first-tier demo had ever practiced cultivation teiques before; Xiao Long was certain this was unpreted.

  "Haha! Wonderful, wonderful!"

  Xiao Long immediately thought of a core dragon teique, the "Azure Dragon Tome." This teique produced gentle inner qi, strengthening meridians and tempering the body.

  As for its level, it was only a lrade Profound-level teique. He had more advanced ones, even Heaven-level teiques, but those were too violent. With this frail body, he might explode into pieces just starting to practice.

  The lrade Profound-level Azure Dragon Tome was the most suitable after much sideration. Once he id a solid foundation, he could switore advanced one.

  Immediately, he began abs the faint spiritual qi from the world acc to a specific circution route.

  Cultivation teiques were generally divided into four levels: Yellow, Profouh, and Heaven, each with frades: lower, middle, upper, and supreme.

  Ordinary people could mostly only practice Yellow-level teiques. Those with good family ditions might practi upper-grade Yellow-level teique, which was sidered good. Profound-level teiques were only avaible in major sects, and one needed suffit talent to bee a core disciple or elder to practice them.

  Xiao Long's teique was the ge among Profound-level teiques. Moreover, demos' bodies were ily strohan humans, making the practice even smoother.

  Xiao Long spent about a day finally drawing spiritual qi into his body. After several cycles, he stored it in his demon core.

  The core of human martial artists was the dantian, while for demos, it was the demon core.

  The Azure Dragon Tome, worthy of being a dragon teique, transformed Xiao Long's inally pitch-bck demon core. After the spiritual qi baptism, it carried a faint trace of gold, and his scales also bore a hint of golden spiritual qi, making them incredibly resilient.

  Xiao Long tried slithering around again, finding it much smoother than before, without any effort.

  "The Azure Dragon Tome is sidered mastered. , I'll aim to reach the first level within two days."

  Xiao Long calmed his mind again, coiling motionless in the .

  Waves of spiritual qi swirled in like a vortex, entering his meridians, cyg repeatedly. Xiao Long's body gradually strengthened, his snake frowing thicker and longer, its color deepening to a profound bck.

  The two "brothers" nearby seemed curious, slithering over and flig their tongues, but were immediately repelled by Xiao Long's aura.

  Xiao Long sidered teag these two little fellows, but with a first-tier demo's intelligence, uanding was questionable, so he ighem and tinued practig.

  ***

  Two days ter.

  "Haha! Finally reached the first level!"

  Xiao Long was overjoyed, feeling his strength was now more thaimes strohan before! Strohan ordinary sed-tier demos, yet his demon core remained unged, still just oimeter in diameter, indig he was still at the first-tier demo stage.

  Retrag his aura, everythiuro calm.

  He noticed the two brothers trembling nearby. The Azure Dragon Tome carried a supreme dragon aura, instilling fear in lower-tier demos, so Xiao Long had to restrain his aura.

  "Little ones! e here!" Xiao Lo out a mental and, having mastered the demo nguage from his birth memories.

  The two snakes dared not disobey, slowly slithering over.

  "Remember, I'm y brother, o fear me," Xiao Long tinued sendial ands.

  Both snakes flicked their tongues, indig they uood.

  Xiao Long hen realized snakes couldn't prehend nodding.

  The little fellows surprisingly mimicked Xiao Long, making a "nodding" motion, leaving Xiao Long speechless.

  "Haha! The Bck Spine Snake is here!"

  "Finally found it!"

  At this momeed human voices echoed from outside the cave.