62: Chapter 62 The Green Snake Finds Its Ancestor

Xu Qing exchanged three Frogs for Silly Snake's shed skin.

He didn't even give the Frogs to Silly Snake; he just told her that the three Frogs were credited to her account.

Silly Snake even looked like she had made a huge profit.

After shedding once, Silly Snake's body grew slightly larger.

The three-colored scales on her body became more lustrous; they were quite beautiful.

They should be able to be refined into a good Spiritual Artifact.

Xu Qing gave his highest praise.

Besides that, her Dao Cultivation was also closer to one hundred and fifty years, nearly breaking through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

"Silly Snake, here's some poison for you to eat slowly."

Xu Qing handed Silly Snake a Storage Pouch.

Inside the Storage Pouch were various poisonous herbs, fruits, medicines, and the like.

They were various toxins he had commissioned Xu Linger to purchase.

Silly Snake took the Storage Pouch and happily rubbed her head against Xu Qing.

The Green Snake is indeed amazing, actually getting so much poison to feed me.

Unlike me, back in the Swamp of Death, I never knew where my next meal was coming from.

"Hurry up and become even more poisonous!"

"Whether I can achieve great success in the future depends on your venom."

Although a certain green snake was unwilling to reveal his ulterior motives, as long as the result was good, it was fine.

Curling the shed skin with his tail, Xu Qing returned to the cave.

Then, he impatiently took out the Artifact Refining Materials one by one and began Artifact Refining.

He planned to refine a glove Spiritual Artifact.

After the refining was complete, the proficiency feedback should allow his Artifact Refining Rank to increase.

The defensive power of the Three-Colored Venomous Snake wasn't outstanding, so making it into a defensive Magic Treasure wasn't a good choice.

After designing the glove's appearance, Xu Qing took a deep breath and activated his Demonic Power.

The emerald green scales on his chest began to glow.

Wooden strips grew out from the scales, entwining with each other to form two claws shaped by the heaven and earth spiritual root.

Xu Qing formed hand seals with both claws and spat out a ball of Green Fire.

The Green Fire floated in the air, swaying slowly.

With a flick of his tail, he threw the shed skin into the flames.

The shed skin didn't burn in the flames; instead, it gradually shrank and melted.

Seizing the opportunity, Xu Qing's tail unleashed a Wind Blade, splitting the shed skin enveloped in Green Fire into two.

The two parts of the shed skin now turned into two thin layers, shimmering with colorful spiritual light.

Xu Qing took out two bottles of Silly Snake's Snake Venom and poured a whole bottle into each part.

The Snake Venom quickly merged into the shed skin, soon becoming one with it.

Xu Qing spat out the green flood dragon pearl, forcing out Flood Dragon Qi to fuel the Green Fire.

Various Ores and spiritual Materials were continuously thrown into the flames, drawn into long, thin threads that merged into the shed skin.

The Demonic Fire continuously pulled and shaped it.

Soon, a glove took shape.

Xu Qing plucked a handful of bloody scales from his body and flicked them toward the flames.

The scales passed through the flames, merging one by one into the back of the glove.

The glove as a whole was as thin as a cicada's wing, with three-colored spiritual light faintly shimmering through the pure white.

The back of the hand was inlaid with thin green scales, as if embedded with emeralds.

Xu Qing held back his excitement and lowered the temperature of the Demonic Fire at an extremely slow pace, fearing he might damage the glove's spirituality.

[Ding, proficiency requirements met]

[Artifact Refining lv3 increased to Artifact Refining lv4]

[Nameless Glove] Spiritual Artifact. Main material: shed skin of a Three-Colored Venomous Snake with over a hundred years of Dao Cultivation; auxiliary Materials: Flood Dragon Spirit Fire and Resurrection Green Snake scales; infused with various precious Ores. Attached skills: Snake Venom lv5, Hard Scales lv2, Fire Reduction lv1, Resilience lv1.

"It comes with four skills!"

Xu Qing excitedly picked up the pair of gloves.

He wanted to give these gloves a nice name.

Colorful Scale Blue Light Gloves.

Unfortunately, snakes don't have hands.

Xu Qing put the gloves on the wooden claws he had condensed.

He felt... it was a bit redundant.

Xu Qing took off the gloves, thinking that he would surely find a use for them sooner or later.

Having successfully refined his first Spiritual Artifact, Xu Qing's confidence soared.

To condense an Artifact Golden Core, the minimum requirement for a natal spirit artifact is that it must be a Spiritual Artifact.

A natal spirit artifact requires commissioning an Artifact Refining Master to custom-make a Spiritual Artifact, and the refining process must incorporate parts of the owner's body.

It could be blood, flesh, or bone.

Only then can the Spiritual Artifact be absorbed into the Dantian to form an Artifact Core.

The more parts added, the better the fit between the natal spirit artifact and oneself, but the risk of refining failure also increases.

As for Xu Qing...

A Resurrection Green Snake with an insane Self-Healing ability.

He planned to use his own body as the material, without adding any auxiliary Materials, to refine his natal spirit artifact.

This required extremely high-level Artifact Refining techniques.

When the time comes, the condensed Artifact Golden Core will have no foreign objects, consisting entirely of his own Materials; how perfectly it would fit him.

Just thinking about it made the snake excited.

"Cutting off more than half of my body to use as Artifact Refining Materials seems quite good."

Xu Qing turned his head to look at his own body.

He began to consider which parts were suitable and where to cut for refining when the time came.

When he got ruthless, he would even refine his own body.

He almost decided to cut off his own head and use the rest of his body for refining.

But he felt that even as a Resurrection Green Snake, he would probably die that way.

How about dying once, growing a new body, and then using the previous complete body for refining?

Xu Qing's thoughts were becoming increasingly perverted.

But after thinking about the terrifying pain of death, he decided to give up.

"Hunt Yao Beasts to increase my Artifact Refining Rank."

At the same time, Xu Qing began to hope that things on Lin Yumo's end would go smoothly.

If his name became well-known, humans would come to him for Artifact Refining.

Then, he could gain a large amount of Artifact Refining skill proficiency without even leaving his home.

At that time, he would be an Artifact Refining Master, Great Master Qing!

At that time, who would dare to stew him into snake soup? Who would still dare to lust after his body?

At that time...

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

From outside the cave, the sound of a snake's hiss could be heard.

It wasn't Silly Snake's cry.

Xu Qing put away the gloves and crawled out of the cave.

A Giant Python was looking at Xu Qing with a face full of admiration.

It was the Giant Python Xu Qing had previously ordered to help him catch Frogs.

However, the Giant Python didn't bring any Frogs; instead, it had caught a human cub.

"This isn't a Frog!"

"By the way, where did you catch this human cub from?"

Xu Qing asked hurriedly.

After all, this hilltop was on the outskirts of the Monster Beast Mountain Range; humans were rarely encountered, so how could it meet a human cub?

The Giant Python obediently explained.

It had encountered the cub to the east and knocked it unconscious to bring back as an offering to the King.

Because it looked like it would be quite delicious.

"The east?"

"Could it be a refugee?"

Xu Qing remembered that a war had broken out in the Xia Dynasty to the east, and it was in great turmoil.

Maybe this human cub was a human escaping to the west and ended up being separated from the group.

What a poor human cub.

Although Xu Qing would kill Cultivators, he wouldn't do something like slaughtering a human cub if there was no conflict of interest.

However, the child's appearance as a Female Child gave Xu Qing a bit of a psychological shadow.

Xu Qing casually cast an Insight skill over.

To see if there was anything he could take advantage of.

[Human] Unnamed

[Dao Cultivation] 4,999 years (Lost)

[Realm] Soul Transformation Early Stage (Soul Transformation imprint lost, Realm lost)

[Skills] (Please continue to increase the Rank of the Insight skill)

"..."

"D*mn it, I ***, you ***, don't just pick up any *** and bring it here!"

"*** filthy thing, hurry up and *** throw it away!"

"*** throw it * far away!!!"

Xu Qing's tail shot straight up into the air.

He almost jumped up and achieved Ascension on the spot.

What the hell, has he violated some heavenly law?!

Soul Transformation! There are only nine Soul Transformation experts in the whole world! And his newly recruited lackey actually picked one up!

The Giant Python stared blankly at its King, lowering its head at a loss, using its tail to shield its large head, and peeking out from behind its tail at the crashing green snake with a look of grievance.