159: Chapter 159 The Green Snake Sees Through Everything at a Glance
Xu Qing's expression was cold and unchanged.
What Demon Son, what Son of Bliss?
His prefixes were already ridiculously numerous; he didn't want any new ones.
The Demon Disciple breathed his last.
Xu Qing's body swayed slightly as he clutched his head.
A wave of heat radiated from the back of his hand.
[Ding, killed an Early Golden Core stage Cultivator]
[Obtained skill Blood Seal blessing]
[Dao Cultivation +30+10, evolution points +20+10]
[Obtained Materials, Ice Jade Square Seal Stone]
Xu Qing clutched the back of his hand; both his eye sockets and head began to ache.
Blood Seal!
It actually activated on its own!
[Ding, starting forced evolution]
[Forced evolution, World-Ending Serpent Follower of Demon]
[Evolution failed, please continue to increase the level of Blood Seal lv1]
"Forced evolution!"
Xu Qing was furious.
He absolutely could not evolve into a World-Ending Serpent Follower of Demon!
Once he evolved, he would completely become the Demon Lord's Puppet, controlled by the Demon Lord!
Those Demon Disciples calling him Demon Son must have been for...
To make him kill them and evolve into the World-Ending Serpent Follower of Demon!
When he killed the Snow Wolf before, the Blood Seal hadn't activated.
This meant those Demon Disciples had a way to force the Blood Seal to activate when he killed them.
"Bastards!"
"Bastards!"
Xu Qing stomped his feet in anger.
Under the terrifying power of Xu Qing's Great Strength Divine Ability, the entire glacier shook and cracked.
If they just came in to kill him, Xu Qing wouldn't be afraid.
But coming in to let him kill them?
While they were attacking him, he had to find a way not to kill them.
Could he only run whenever he saw them?
Damn it, how frustrating!
Frustrating!
Xu Qing patted the heaven-accepting gourd and aimed it at the Demon Disciple's corpse.
He wanted to detain the Soul and torture it properly.
A transparent Soul floated out, was sucked into the heaven-accepting gourd, and suppressed within the hell pagoda.
Xu Qing felt it wasn't stimulating enough.
He would consume extra Yin Qi to give him a more VIP torture experience.
Otherwise, it would be hard to appease the hatred in his heart.
"bliss, the hell pagoda is your bliss!"
Xu Qing shook the heaven-accepting gourd vigorously, but he still felt uneasy.
"I must obtain the snake scale soon and leave this Glacier Secret Realm."
Xu Qing didn't dare stay; he dug out the golden core imprint from the Demon Disciple's body and left the area.
Soon, the Demon Disciple's corpse was covered by heavy snow, becoming part of the glacier.
"I need to find a way to evolve and escape the possibility of forced evolution into the World-Ending Serpent Follower of Demon."
"Demon Lord..."
Xu Qing could only feel that the Demon Lord atop that endless mountain of bones and sea of blood might be chuckling happily right now.
Convinced that he had Xu Qing cornered.
"...Demon Lord, This Snake will remember this grudge."
Xu Qing had always been a vengeful snake.
Next, Xu Qing collected various Glacier Secret Realm Materials along the way.
During the boring journey, he would take out various Cultivation Techniques and secret arts to read, then use a jade slip to deduce and improve his Green Snake Heart Sutra.
The Green Snake phantom also became increasingly solid.
But the weakness remained a lack of combat Divine Abilities, only being useful for Self-Destruct.
"I have to find a way to add some combat Divine Abilities to this phantom."
Xu Qing finally set his sights on the Xuanyun Sect's closely guarded secret.
The Art of Dharma Idol Weapon Condensation.
But it could only condense shield weapons and sword weapons.
Unlike the Dharma Idol the Demon Lord displayed back then, which could condense all kinds of weapons.
After all, the Demon Lord's status and prestige were right there.
"Let's first see if I can deduce and fuse it into the Green Snake Heart Method."
The Frankenstein Mind-Cultivation Technique was getting stranger and stranger.
Everything was fused.
However, the hand seals and incantations were so long they took over ten minutes to perform.
By the time Xu Qing finished the seals.
Others might have already entered their second round of combat...
"The hand seals still need to be as simple as possible."
Xu Qing began to refine and shorten the hand seals, while developing new ones to add.
Every time he designed a Green Snake Hand Seal, Xu Qing would record it in a jade slip.
Pondering carefully, copying bits and pieces.
It was very much like a programmer coding.
Perhaps if a programmer transmigrated to this Cultivation World, there would be an unexpectedly satisfying story development.
"Boom!"
The glacier shook.
It jolted Xu Qing, who was walking alone in the snow deducing hand seals, awake.
A Spiritual Qi vortex appeared, the snow in the sky stopped, and thunder rumbled.
"A phenomenon of heaven and earth, a great treasure is appearing nearby!"
Xu Qing marveled.
Then, without hesitation, he ran in the direction away from the phenomenon.
What a joke.
What great treasure did he, the Green Snake, not have?
He could barely protect himself now; risking his life to go to a crowded place for treasure-hunting was an international joke!
"Wasn't that picking up a sesame seed only to lose a watermelon!"
Run, the further the better.
His only goal was the snake scale; he didn't covet any of the remaining treasures.
He absolutely must not die due to greed; this was a lesson Xu Qing had learned.
"Sigh, there's actually a snake in this world as smart, excellent, and self-controlled as me."
"How are other snakes—no, other demons—supposed to live?"
Xu Qing lamented as he ran.
However, after a short while, Xu Qing met a White-haired girl not far from him, running wildly alongside him.
White hair, blue eyes, translucent skin.
Just like a snow girl.
"It seems there are still quite a few smart people in this world."
"This girl is half as smart as This Snake; she has the potential of a Great Emperor."
One person and one White-haired girl sprinted away from the phenomenon.
"I didn't expect that besides me, there's actually another fellow who can See Through this Illusion of Heaven and Earth Inversion."
The White-haired girl spoke to Xu Qing.
Xu Qing: ?
"Boom!"
The world transformed at this moment.
Like the flipping of a mirror dimension.
The phenomenon behind them vanished; it was actually an illusion of heaven and earth.
And the vanished phenomenon appeared intact right in front of Xu Qing.
"Holy crap!"
Xu Qing tried to brake immediately, but.
The phenomenon was too close!!
The glacier was too slippery!!
The Green Snake was too heavy!!
Poof!
He crashed headfirst into the phenomenon.
"To actually See Through this phenomenon at a glance and use the sliding entry method to get in!"
"This Snake demon is truly extraordinary!"
The White-haired girl, like Xu Qing, slammed on the brakes and slid into the phenomenon.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"
"I want to get out!"
Xu Qing activated his Escape Light and flew backward, wanting to escape the Spiritual Qi vortex and the phenomenon.
"Again, seeing through the glacier on the ground as an illusion with one glance and using Escape Light to leave the ground!"
"Who exactly is This Snake demon!?"
The White-haired girl looked at Xu Qing with suspicion and also activated her Escape Light.
Because of her race, she could See Through the traps of this Glacier Secret Realm.
But This Snake demon actually saw through many traps purely with his eyesight!
Incredible, simply incredible!
"Fellow Daoist Snake, are you willing to retrieve the treasure together?"
"Retrieve my ass, I'm leaving!"
After Xu Qing finished speaking, he flew toward the sky of the Spiritual Qi vortex.
Even if he had to risk the terrifying bone-freezing cold current in the air, he had to leave.
If he didn't leave now, he wouldn't be able to once everyone else arrived.
Who knows if there are Demon Disciples inside.
He couldn't beat so many Demon Disciples, nor could he afford to kill them.
But he could still run, couldn't he?
Once he evolved and escaped the evolution path of the World-Ending Serpent Follower of Demon, he would settle the scores one by one.
He'd record them all in his little notebook first.
"This, this, this, how is this possible!!!"
"To actually See Through with one glance again, again, and again that the great treasure isn't hidden in the vortex, but in the Ice Magic cold current!"
"Who, who exactly is he!"
"Who exactly is This Snake demon!?"