212: Chapter 212 The Bloodline of the Grass Insect
A refreshing fragrance rushed straight to his crown, making his thoughts much clearer.
As the Yuncao Insect essence blood was absorbed by the [Demon Heart] one by one, Li Qing gradually felt a sense of satiety.
He looked at the panel.
[trait: Demon Heart (0/30)]
[Demon Heart Bloodline: Water Element Snake (Pupil)]
[Total of two Bloodlines this time, extracting Bloodline...]
Among the two types of Bloodlines, one was from a Thousand-Sting Scorpion, and the remaining nineteen were from Yuncao Insects.
Li Qing's goal was, of course, the Yuncao Insect Bloodline. After all, the Yuncao Insect is a beneficial beast that aids plant growth. Families like the Dong Family and others all raise them. Although they are difficult to purchase, it is at least a channel.
However, the Thousand-Sting Scorpion is relatively rare.
If Li Qing were to encounter this one-in-twenty probability, he would just have to accept his fate.
"However, that's not necessarily the case. If I were to draw the venom-related Bloodline of the Thousand-Sting Scorpion, that wouldn't be bad either."
Regarding the Bloodline extraction, Li Qing could only wait quietly. However, another piece of information made him happy.
"The progress of [Demon Heart] is not 40, but 30. It is a fixed increment, not a multiplicative increase!"
At the beginning, the progress of [Demon Heart] was 10, then it became 20. Now, after the second Bloodline extraction, it has become 30!
It increases by a fixed 10 points every time!
"Fortunately, it doesn't double every time."
This reminded Li Qing of a classic math problem from his previous life.
It was roughly about a king who wanted to reward someone. That person made a request to place rice on a chessboard: one grain of rice in the first square, two in the second, and so on, doubling each time. The king didn't think much of it and agreed.
As it turned out, it was fine at the beginning, but later on, the entire country didn't have that much rice. It was an astronomical figure, equivalent to the total amount of rice in the world for several hundred years.
It is conceivable that if the [Demon Heart] progress were the same, Li Qing wouldn't be able to satisfy it many times before it became very difficult to use again.
Fortunately! Its progress increases by a fixed amount!
Li Qing waited quietly as time passed.
"Speaking of which, I wonder if that underground cave is still there?"
When Li Qing first achieved his 'Five Vibrations' Breakthrough, he had chosen a hidden valley outside Huanglin City, not realizing it was the location of a Mountain Snake Secret Realm fragment.
He had tamed Little Gold there, and also obtained the 'Qi Concealment Art' and other secret techniques, as well as the Cultivation Technique and Martial Skill of the Mountain Snake Lineage, along with some long staffs and identity tokens.
Of course, what left the deepest impression on him was that massive stone statue that he couldn't tell if it was a Dragon or a snake.
Among them, he had killed a Thousand-Sting Scorpion, and in order to avoid the threat of the Thousand-Sting Scorpion King, he had left directly and never went to check again after that.
"Why not find a time to go take a look?"
Li Qing quickly dismissed this idea: "Not appropriate! Not to mention whether it would attract the attention of Huanglin City, the Thousand-Sting Scorpion King itself is a huge threat."
The Thousand-Sting Scorpion King is a Core Formation level Yao Beast, and its toxicity is so intense that even an ordinary Core Formation expert would find it unbearable.
What Li Qing did not know was that the stone statue was the remains of the [Mountain Venerable], which had long been taken away by Deputy Branch Master Ding Xiangtian along with the Mountain Snake Secret Realm fragment that had merged with the ground.
Even that Thousand-Sting Scorpion King had been killed by the Huanglin City Lord, Ding Xiangyun.
Nowadays, except for the Huanglin City Hua Jin experts still stationed there, nothing else remains.
Unintentionally, Li Qing had avoided a trouble.
...
Soon, a 'ding' sound reached Li Qing's ears.
[Bloodline extraction complete — Yuncao Insect (Liquid Gland)]
Li Qing looked at the panel.
[trait: Demon Heart (0/30)]
[Demon Heart Bloodline: Water Element Snake (Pupil), Yuncao Insect (Liquid Gland)]
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, it wasn't the Thousand-Sting Scorpion Bloodline, otherwise it would have been a huge loss."
Li Qing activated the [Demon Heart] without hesitation, quietly experiencing the changes in his body.
Suddenly, Li Qing felt his entire body's skin itching, which lasted for five or six seconds.
Then, there was no then.
"..."
After a long while.
Li Qing scratched his head: "Then what changes happened to me?"
He looked at his arm, and under the enhancement of [Micro-Perception], he immediately noticed that his skin was exhibiting a very faint green fluorescence.
It was so faint that even in the dark, that green color was almost invisible.
Looking at his whole body, his skin was basically covered in green.
He suddenly took off his pants, and then silently put them back on.
Li Qing went to the water vat, reflecting the firelight, to check the changes in his face.
Hiss!
Li Qing gasped.
Unlike his body, the green on his face was much more obvious, and a strange, unknown pattern had appeared.
"This pattern is actually quite similar to the markings on that Yuncao Insect."
Li Qing didn't know the effect for now, so he walked out of the cave and came to a dense forest.
"The Yuncao Insect's saliva can help plants ward off diseases and injuries, and has a slight effect on helping plants grow. Since that's the case, my [Yuncao Insect (Liquid Gland)] should also be related to plants.
Coming to a dense forest is definitely the right choice."
Sure enough, this time as soon as Li Qing activated the Yuncao Insect Bloodline, he discovered that these plants were emitting an attractive, peculiar fragrance.
"How should I use it?"
The Yuncao Insect is not as intuitive as the Water Element Snake Bloodline; Li Qing only needed to activate the latter for his pupils to turn into Water Element Snake pupils, allowing him to see the Qi and blood of living beings.
"Could it be using saliva?"
Li Qing pulled out a blade of grass and spat on it, but it had no effect.
Just then, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and pointed his index finger above the grass. Suddenly, he felt the [Demon Heart] tremble, and a stream of plant Demonic Qi flowed along his meridians to his arm, like a trickle of water. After reaching his fingertip, it re-condensed, and then Li Qing saw a miraculous scene.
Green liquid began to ooze from his fingertip, hanging on the pad of his finger, turning into a drop of green water, and finally, unable to bear its own weight, it fell onto the grass.
Li Qing knew that this green water drop was condensed from the plant Demonic Qi just now, which was the Yuncao Insect Demonic Qi.
Plop!
The green water drop landed on the grass, and instead of flowing down, it was almost instantly absorbed by the grass.
Suddenly, the grass began to tremble—no, that wasn't trembling, but rather its roots, stems, and leaves were constantly growing.
In just over ten breaths of time, the grass had grown a size larger than before. The roots that had originally been broken when Li Qing pulled it up were growing visibly to the naked eye, and then wrapped around Li Qing's palm.
He only needed to give a gentle tug to break free from the grass's restraint, but he didn't move, just observing quietly.
As the roots grew, soon the grass's stems and leaves also became lush and green, and then it shot up in height by nearly half of its original size!
The grass, which should have taken a long time to grow, was accelerated by the catalysis of the green water drop!
"It actually has such a miraculous effect!" Li Qing exclaimed.
Stimulating plant growth, making them grow at an almost unreasonable speed.
How is this any different from the legendary immortal arts?
However, Li Qing did not get carried away, but instead thought of several other possibilities.
"It has such a great effect on grass, I wonder how much effect it would have on other plants, or even medicinal herbs?
And whether it would have any effect on animals..."