The leader of the Black Serpent Thieves was named Chen Lin, originally a brilliant disciple of an average sect, who had been betrayed by his fellow sect brothers and lost his martial arts, to be left for dead in the remote mountains and forests.
The Black Serpent itself had just entered the realm of a Great Demon and was weak from shedding its skin when other Demons took advantage of this and left it severely injured and near death.
After Chen Lin discovered it, he saved the serpent, and both the man and the demon supported each other in their cultivation within the depths of the mountains and forests, ultimately forming the Black Serpent Thieves to run rampant through the Southern Mountain region.
Therefore, the relationship between the man and the demon was not as the outside world thought, as ruthless bandits colluding with Demons, but rather as close as brothers.
