120: Chapter 120 The Green Snake Creates the Underworld
Beneath the blade, the red points of light that the Scarlet Swallow had transformed into scattered and vanished.
[Ding, you have killed a mutated evil spirit]
[Dao Cultivation +25, evolution points +50]
[Obtained item: yin si stone ×1]
[yin si stone] A rare gemstone formed by a spiritual mineral vein being thoroughly saturated with Yin Qi, condensing the entire mineral vein into a single point. It contains dense Yin Qi; no Life Qi can exist within ten miles of its birthplace.
"It's over."
"She's gone."
Xu Qing sighed and beckoned with his hand toward the place where the Scarlet Swallow had dissipated.
The blue jade-like hair clip was summoned back into his hand.
Upon closer inspection, a blood-colored plum blossom mark had appeared on the hair clip.
[Blue Dream Blood Plum Hairpin] Spiritual Artifact, mutated from the Blue Dream Hairpin. It received the blessing of an evil spirit before its death and has integrated a hundred years of Dao Cultivation, transforming into a blood plum mark. Attached skills: See Through lv6, Sobriety lv5, Sanity lv4, Faint Scent lv4, Transformation lv2.
[See Through lv6] Can See Through illusions and illusory techniques; intuition becomes even more acute.
[Faint Scent lv4] 'The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.' The wearer will emit a faint, ethereal scent like a winter plum; it works even better when used in conjunction with Charm.
"...Is this helping me make up for my shortcomings?"
Xu Qing looked at the hairpin in his hand, a faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth.
Probably because when he fought her, he was so completely suppressed by her illusions that he left her with the impression of being quite weak.
The Clear Sight lv4 skill that the hairpin originally had has disappeared.
New additions: See Through lv6, Faint Scent lv4, and Transformation lv2.
It's much more practical; Clear Sight originally overlapped with the Sobriety and Sanity skills, making the functions redundant.
However...
What kind of skill is Faint Scent!?
'Works even better when used in conjunction with Charm'!?
Xu Qing would rather jump down from here and die outside than ever use the Charm skill again.
What an ancient meme.
He lightly brushed over the hairpin and activated its Transformation.
The hairpin flashed with blue light and turned into a light blue Hair Stick, with one end carved into a blooming blood plum blossom.
He gently inserted the Hair Stick into his hair.
After inserting it, he even sniffed his body to see if he could smell any fragrance.
Well, there wasn't any scent.
What? Is there a fishy snake smell?
Asking such a question is too impolite; Xu Qing is a scentless green snake.
"It's time to leave."
"I expect it will be quite lively tomorrow morning."
Xu Qing looked at the Wang Mansion, where the entire family had been slaughtered.
And then...
"Haha!"
"I bet the entire East City will be setting off fireworks and firecrackers!"
He laughed happily.
Then, he performed a hand seal and beckoned toward the air.
The green flood dragon ring turned into a green light and flew onto Xu Qing's wrist, transforming into a green jade bracelet.
Putting the tiancheng cloth back over his eyes to cover his pupils, Xu Qing walked into an alleyway and vanished after a few twists and turns.
Some time later, a dog that smelled blood began barking incessantly at the Wang Mansion.
It quickly attracted people.
As more and more people gathered, one person plucked up the courage to push open the door and look inside.
Then he collapsed onto the ground, his Face pale.
"People are dead! Everyone in the Wang Mansion is dead!"
He shouted, his voice echoing through the streets and alleys.
...
Back at the inn.
"You're back?"
Elder Li was meditating with her eyes closed, not even lifting her head.
In fact, she had only just flown back from above the Wang Mansion a short while ago.
But she couldn't let Xu Qing know.
If he knew that she had been secretly following him the whole time he was at the Wang Mansion to prevent any accidents...
What would happen to her Face as the Grand Elder of the Xuanyun Sect?
Elder Li also needs to save Face.
"Yeah, I'm back."
"I'm never doing such an exhausting task again."
Xu Qing stretched his body, and then, seeing there were no outsiders, he simply transformed his lower body into a snake form, stretching out comfortably.
"You seemed to be enjoying yourself quite a bit to me."
Elder Li opened one eye and gave Xu Qing a casual glance.
"Mhm."
Xu Qing didn't answer.
He slithered his body into the adjacent room.
It was getting late, and there was nothing left to do today.
As for looking for the Scarlet Swallow's relic jade pendant, he would leave that to the tomorrow version of Xu Qing.
Today's amount of exercise was already equivalent to a month's worth.
So for now, it was best to rest.
"Oh right, before resting, there's still the matter of the heaven-accepting gourd to deal with."
Xu Qing reached for his waist and took down the heaven-accepting gourd.
The heaven-accepting gourd contained its own world, and he intended to forge it into Hell.
The Hell Gourd.
And he would be the Lord of Hell, Yama!
Just thinking about it was incredibly cool.
Xu Qing performed a hand seal and entered the heaven-accepting gourd.
Inside the heaven-accepting gourd, the gourd's sun was still hanging high.
It appeared full of life.
"While the heaven-accepting gourd is full of vitality, the Yang Qi is too strong; it is a supreme Yang-attribute Spiritual Artifact."
"Wandering Souls definitely wouldn't be able to survive for long in the heaven-accepting gourd."
Xu Qing rubbed his smooth chin and looked at the Wandering Souls confined at the bottom of the mountain stream.
At this moment, they were all somewhat dispirited, their auras weak.
They certainly wouldn't be able to withstand many rounds of torture.
Xu Qing looked down from above at the layout of the heaven-accepting gourd's internal world, and in his heart, he thought of the Xuanyun Sect's Cloud Mountain.
The sea of clouds split Cloud Mountain in two; the peaks above the clouds were made into immortal abodes.
The peaks below the clouds were the domain of Mortals and wild beasts.
He might as well emulate Cloud Mountain.
Divide the interior of the heaven-accepting gourd in two, separating Yin and Yang.
The upper part would be Yang, and the lower part would be Yin.
"However, with my current Artifact Refining skills, I definitely have no way to re-forge the heaven-accepting gourd."
Xu Qing was well aware of how much skill he had in Artifact Refining.
However, using Green Fire for an initial connection should still be achievable.
Back when Xu Qing had no way to refine the white flood dragon scale, he used a linking method to embed the white flood dragon scale into the green tail white bristle sword.
He took out the yin si stone and found the lowest point of the entire heaven-accepting gourd realm.
Inside a deep mountain stream.
He embedded the millstone-sized, pitch-black as ink yin si stone into the bottom of the stream.
Spitting out Green Fire, he scorched the heaven-accepting gourd, linking the yin si stone and the heaven-accepting gourd together.
Boundless Yin Qi filled the heaven-accepting gourd, and the creation fluid inside began to be consumed rapidly.
By the time one-third of the creation fluid had been consumed, the yin si stone was finally linked with the heaven-accepting gourd.
The heaven-accepting gourd was split in two; the top two-thirds were Yang.
Full of life, with abundant Yang Qi, the sun created by the heaven-accepting gourd hung high in the sky.
The bottom one-third was eerie with Yin Qi and Death Qi, as the yin si stone constantly released Yin Qi.
Between the Yin and Yang, they were separated by a thick sea of clouds.
Even the world inside the gourd seemed to have expanded slightly.
The heaven-accepting gourd also gained an additional attached skill.
[Yin Realm lv6] A place filled with Yin Qi, where certain special Spirit Medicines can grow and ghostly creatures can survive.
"Hehe, now I can build Hell!"
Xu Qing found the feeling of playing MC in his previous life; his desire to create was simply unstoppable.
Inside the heaven-accepting gourd, as long as Xu Qing consumed the creation fluid accumulated by the gourd, he could basically do anything.
He consumed creation fluid to condense an eerie Ghost Tower.
Due to the insufficient amount of creation fluid, there was currently only one floor.
The first floor was an endless sea of fire.
Souls would be endlessly scorched, but because the flames were Yin Fire and the Yin Qi was dense, there was no need to worry about them being burned to death.
"Hehe, in you go!"
Xu Qing threw all the Souls inside.
Wails and howls echoed incessantly.
Amidst the wails, streaks of black gas surged toward the top of the tower and were then channeled through the tower top into the heaven-accepting gourd.
Inside the heaven-accepting gourd, besides the golden creation fluid, a type of black liquid was now condensing.
The black liquid was formed from condensed, dense Resentment.
It could replace creation fluid to power the yin si stone and maintain the daily consumption of the Yin Realm.
As long as he tortured these Souls, he would obtain a steady stream of Resentment.
Furthermore, Resentment could also be used to condense Vengeful Souls to do his bidding.
The more Resentment consumed, the stronger the condensed Vengeful Soul would be.
The light in Xu Qing's eyes hadn't faded since a moment ago.
In the future...
When encountering an enemy, he would first rob their belongings, then use them as a sandbag to level up skill Ranks, then absorb their lifespan, then kill them for Dao Cultivation and evolution points, and finally enter the boundary between life and death to pull out their Soul and put it in the heaven-accepting gourd to extract Resentment.
"Splendid, splendid!"