79: Chapter 79 Green Snake's Metamorphosis and Evolution
Xu Qing looked at the West River, which had returned to its clear and bright state, his pair of snake eyes seemingly flickering with green light.
The ice evil ruyi scepter, combined with the green tail white hair sword, had such a remarkable effect against evil entities.
System notifications continued to ring in his ears.
However, at this moment, Xu Qing could not spare any attention for the System. With a beckon of his hands, the jade ruyi and green sword returned to his grasp.
The ice flood dragon also transformed into crushed ice, falling into this stretch of the West River.
The crushed ice merged into the West River, turning into cold Qi as it entered the water, freezing a thick layer of ice over the river.
"What fine Magic Treasures."
"You are all my wings!"
Looking at the two Magic Treasures that were top-tier in both appearance and combat power, Xu Qing couldn't help but feel even more fond of them.
Although the green flood dragon ring was still the 'white moonlight' in his heart.
But these two were Spiritual Artifacts he had refined personally; they were like his own son and daughter.
"Today, I shall purge this section of the West River."
Xu Qing transformed into a green light, continuing to flee toward the upper reaches of the West River.
The green snake escaped away.
Seeing that peace had been restored, the people from the surrounding villages only then dared to cautiously approach the site of the magical battle.
They took a look at the West River.
Even though winter had not yet arrived, cold Qi drifted about, and a bone-chilling wind bit sharply.
Shivering, they approached the bank of the West River, hands tucked in their sleeves, standing on tiptoe to peer intently into the river.
At this time, there were no evil entities in the West River like on ordinary days; there was only a thick layer of ice, freezing this vast stretch of the river.
It looked like a miracle.
Ignoring the cold, everyone's legs went weak, and they began to continuously bow and kowtow toward the West River.
Before winter arrived, a new West River River God Temple was built here.
Without Xu Qing's instructions, they voluntarily fashioned a clay sculpture of Xu Qing.
The green snake clay sculpture, though simple, possessed quite a bit of spirit.
Its body was slender as it rode the clouds and mist, with a green ring around its tail, a ruyi scepter atop its head, and a green sword emerging from its mouth.
In the dark, perhaps it was destined by heaven.
At this time, how could Xu Qing know that those people were voluntarily preparing to build a River God Temple for him?
He was holding the jade ruyi in his left claw and the green sword in his right, while his other two claws continuously performed hand seals.
Using the evil-expelling skill of the ice evil jade ruyi scepter, he bullied the evil entities with all his might.
He hadn't fought such a wealthy battle in eight lifetimes.
Leveraging the Magic Treasure's suppression, he treated the evil entities like drowning dogs.
Who could refuse this feeling of ultimate satisfaction?
Moreover, the evil entities were very dull and lacked intelligence; even when they realized things were going poorly and they couldn't win, they still didn't run.
They only knew how to charge straight forward, fighting with bloodshot eyes.
They didn't show the slightest bit of cowardice.
This made Xu Qing find all sorts of bizarrely shaped evil entities more and more pleasing to the eye.
They were too polite.
They kept stuffing Dao Cultivation and evolution points into his mouth, as if afraid he would go hungry.
Aside from his parents, this was the first time Xu Qing had felt this kind of care.
Who wouldn't love these adorable evil entities?
The only fly in the ointment was probably that most of the evil entities in the West River had very low Realms, not even having a hundred years of Dao Cultivation.
After killing that pile of high-quality evil entities earlier, there weren't many left that were worth looking at.
Even a mosquito's leg is meat; Xu Qing could only accumulate it bit by bit.
Fortunately, the evolution points Xu Qing lacked weren't many to begin with. If things continued like this, he could complete his evolution before winter and the snow arrived.
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The first day of the eleventh lunar month.
More than half a month had passed since the Green Snake Goddess manifested and flew toward the upper reaches of the West River.
The air was growing colder and colder.
However, the people around the River God Temple were still full of Life Qi, not fearing the cold winter in the slightest.
Since the Green Snake Goddess manifested, the evil entities in the direction of the upper West River had vanished without a trace.
The range in which these fishermen could catch fish had greatly increased, so naturally, they could catch more fish.
With food for the winter, they didn't feel anxious.
Moreover, with the Green Snake Goddess around, they were free from illness and disaster.
What was the Green Snake Goddess doing now?
After clearing a good stretch of the West River's upper reaches of evil entities, Xu Qing didn't want to move at all.
It was getting colder and colder; he just wanted to curl up at home and go nowhere.
He wanted to hibernate.
Although Xu Qing was now a Resurrection Green Snake and not an ordinary snake—it didn't matter if he didn't hibernate.
But in his first year as a snake, the urge to hibernate was unstoppable no matter what.
He had the impulse to sleep straight through until spring.
"Silly Snake seems to have already gone into hibernation."
Xu Qing thought carefully; indeed, he hadn't seen Silly Snake for several days.
And he had seen it looking incredibly sleepy before.
Perhaps it wanted to use hibernation to Breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
After all, Silly Snake's Dao Cultivation had accumulated to almost enough.
Don't forget, the Three-Colored Venomous Snake was also an extremely rare Genius among snakes.
But seeing Silly Snake hibernate made Xu Qing want to hibernate even more.
It was so unfair that Silly Snake got to hibernate while he had to endure the cold.
He had to eat all the Frogs Silly Snake had stored.
Silly Snake probably wouldn't remember clearly after waking up from hibernation.
Xu Qing had the confidence to trick Silly Snake into believing it owed him Frogs instead.
In the future, he probably wouldn't be hanging on a black flood dragon horn, but on a streetlamp.
"It's almost time for me to evolve again too."
The evil entities killed during this period had not only raised his Auspicious Beast lv2 to Auspicious Beast lv3.
He had also finally accumulated enough evolution points.
[evolution points] 500/500
[Evolution Paths] Resurrection Green Snake King, Sky-Roaming Thunder Snake, Lisheng Green Snake, Azure Wood Si Green Snake
He wouldn't consider the Resurrection Green Snake King.
He wanted to choose a race that looked fierce and had combat capability.
The Sky-Roaming Thunder Snake controlled lightning magic, which was a bit tempting.
But it lacked that kind of special ability that would make a snake's heart skip a beat.
Like the Resurrection skill of the Resurrection Green Snake.
The Lisheng Green Snake could roam the boundaries of life and death.
Xu Qing didn't know what the boundaries of life and death meant, but all in all, a feeling of being 'badass' came over him.
The Azure Wood Si Green Snake was a living heaven and earth spiritual root.
And it raised the Resurrection ability of the Resurrection Green Snake to another level.
It could differentiate spiritual seeds and resurrect using the place where the spiritual seed was planted after death.
Xu Qing pondered carefully.
If he could, he wanted them all.
In the end, Xu Qing agonized between the Azure Wood Si Green Snake and the Lisheng Green Snake.
For the Azure Wood Si Green Snake, he had already obtained the heaven and earth spiritual seed skill.
Although he couldn't differentiate spiritual seeds to resurrect, it wasn't necessarily impossible in the future.
Moreover, the Azure Wood Si Green Snake felt like it lacked an aura of slaughter.
The Lisheng Green Snake fed on lifespan and roamed the boundaries of life and death.
It sounded like it would be very good at fighting.
It could just happen to make up for his shortcoming of lacking combat power.
As a Resurrection Green Snake that only had a very long health bar but pitifully low defense and combat power.
Xu Qing decided.
"System, select evolution path: Lisheng Green Snake."
In the River God Temple.
The green snake statue still received constant offerings from the surrounding fishermen.
And beneath the River God Temple, in a spacious Snake Cave.
The coiled green snake remained motionless, as if in hibernation.
The scales on its body surface flickered with green light, and beneath the scales, it seemed as if green water were flowing.
This sleep lasted for ten days.
The tenth day of the eleventh lunar month, the day of the Winter Solstice.
In the Snake Cave beneath the River God Temple, the green snake was as still as if it were dead.
A transparent green snake emerged from the coiled green snake's body, drifting and floating.
It was like shedding skin.
Except it had discarded its entire Physical Body and shed its soul.
The green snake that looked like a snake soul landed in front of the green snake's Physical Body, and the body gradually solidified.
In the Snake Cave, two green snakes appeared.