35: The dragon's wife! Territory doubled, a bountiful harvest!
Bai Ling, despite her profound Cultivation Level, had a rather simple mind.
Before she was captured, she mostly focused on cultivating to strengthen her power, all for the sake of traveling out to broaden her horizons.
As a result, the first time she left home, she was immediately caught by the Lord of the Purple Canopy Grotto-Heaven.
Since then, she had been imprisoned here.
Therefore, she had never encountered certain matters.
Now, upon hearing such words, she felt quite ashamed and annoyed.
"Our races are different... I'm afraid that might not be possible?" she stammered.
Xu Qing said, "Your father is a Dragon and your mother is a Carp Spirit. Didn't you still come into existence?"
Bai Ling couldn't imagine how Xu Qing could discuss these topics so calmly.
A blush spread across her fair cheeks, staining even the roots of her ears red.
Seeing her conflicted expression,
"If you don't agree, then I'm leaving."
With that, Xu Qing turned his head, ready to depart.
"Wait!"
Bai Ling quickly called out to Xu Qing.
"You agree?" Xu Qing asked.
Bai Ling looked at the deep underwater surroundings, then at the chains on her shoulders, and finally nodded.
No matter what, she didn't want to stay here anymore.
Moreover, matters of life and death allowed no room for her to hesitate.
Xu Qing nodded, immediately cast a Divine Ability, imbued himself with immense power, and slammed his long tail fiercely onto the array beneath Bai Ling's feet!
"Boom!"
The array shattered instantly, and the chains connected to it fell off.
Bai Ling's face turned pale, and she bit her pearly teeth, enduring the pain from her shoulders.
The moment the array shattered,
The inscriptions on countless chains at the bottom of the water glowed, illuminating the entire water area.
Amidst the scattered debris, a mass of black Qi condensed.
Immediately after,
The black Qi transformed into the image of a green-faced, fanged evil ghost.
"It's you!"
Upon seeing the evil ghost appear, Bai Ling's face turned ashen, and she recognized him at a glance as the one who had captured her back then.
The evil ghost glanced at the surroundings and immediately flew into a rage.
He looked at Xu Qing and said coldly, "You destroyed my array? You're courting death!"
"Repair the array, imprison yourself here, and offer ninety percent of your vital Bloodline and Soul Power. This Seat may allow a wisp of your remnant soul to exist."
The evil ghost stood with his hands behind his back, his words cold and domineering.
As if allowing Xu Qing to keep a wisp of his remnant soul was the greatest favor.
Hearing his words, Xu Qing naturally guessed the identity of the other party.
Most likely, it was the owner of the Purple Canopy Grotto-Heaven.
He had taken Chi Zhenzi's token, and the other party seemed unaware.
He quietly cast a Spell, his eyes flashing with spiritual light, seeing through the true nature of the evil ghost before him.
It was just an Incarnation projection.
To put it plainly, it was meant to scare people.
It had no real connection to the main body.
Xu Qing couldn't be bothered with idle talk and immediately spat out a mouthful of flames.
"How dare you!"
The evil ghost's face changed drastically, wanting to resist, but it was already too late.
Spitting Flame could incinerate evil demons, and the evil ghost's Incarnation was burned clean in the blink of an eye.
Bai Ling was dumbfounded, looking at the calm Xu Qing, her mind wavering for a moment.
What a terrifying fellow.
If I don't obey, will he roast me too?
Immediately, Bai Ling's heart raced, and she instinctively recoiled a little in fear.
But the chains on her shoulders twitched, and she couldn't help but cry out in pain.
Better short pain than long pain.
"Bear with it."
Xu Qing warned, then directly pulled out the chains that pierced Bai Ling's scapulae.
"Ah!"
Intense pain swept through her entire body.
Bai Ling was already weak, and now she fainted from the pain.
Xu Qing caught her and then turned his gaze to the surrounding chains.
Chains capable of imprisoning a great demon with several millennia of Cultivation Level must be good items.
He would pack them all up and take them away.
In addition, he didn't let go of the numerous skeletons.
Especially the skeletons of those several Dragons; even after dying for many years, their oppressive aura was still astonishing, making them excellent Materials for Artifact Refining and Alchemy.
Xu Qing searched along the way, and his storage ring was already full.
He simply used the chains to drag the skeletons forward, which made things much easier.
When he reached the outermost area, a python demon skeleton over thirty zhang long caught Xu Qing's attention.
He sensed a familiar aura from it.
After a careful examination,
Xu Qing discovered that a piece of the python demon's skeleton was missing.
"Could it be the bone that Ink Cloud King found earlier?"
The python demon's Cultivation Level wasn't high, and its most valuable bone was also gone, so it wasn't of much value anymore.
Xu Qing shook his head, dragging the small mountain of piled-up skeletons behind him as he swam towards the surface of the water.
Not long after,
Layers of ripples appeared on the tranquil deep pool, which covered an area of a hundred li.
A massive green head emerged from beneath the water.
Golden vertical pupils surveyed the surroundings, and a hint of surprise flashed within them.
"Crouching Dragon Pool?"
Xu Qing immediately understood.
Near the Black Mist Region, the largest body of water was the Crouching Dragon Pool, east of Profound Yin Mountain!
He had planted a willow, and it grew into a shade.
Xu Qing initially only wanted to understand the situation in the Black Mist Region.
But he unexpectedly swept clean the Flower and Fruit Forest, Crouching Dragon Pool, and the Black Mist Region!
The Monkey King of the Flower and Fruit Forest was killed, and its spirit fruit and flat peaches were all taken by him.
He prevented Chi Zhenzi's corpse transformation in the Black Mist Region, obtaining the Grotto-Heaven key that the Lord of the Purple Canopy Grotto-Heaven yearned for, and countless treasures within the Grotto-Heaven were just waiting for him to open!
The ghost cultivator of Crouching Dragon Pool was killed, his Karma increased again, and all valuable Materials and those great demon skeletons were taken by him.
His territory directly expanded by more than double!
Now, the Taihang Mountains, Profound Yin Mountain, Flower and Fruit Forest, Crouching Dragon Pool, and the Black Mist Region were all considered his territory!
With five territories under his command, Xu Qing already had the potential of an overlord!
Most importantly, he also picked up a wife with exquisite beauty, profound Cultivation Level, and Dragon Bloodline!
If they were to have a child, how generous would the rewards be?
Thinking of this, the translucent System panel appeared.
[Name: Xu Qing]
[Identity: Snake God of Mount Taihang]
[Bloodline: Ancient Return (600/1000)]
[Body Length: 72 meters]
[Cultivation Level: 2400 years]
[Number of Descendants: 3300]
[Earthly Fiend Techniques: Great Strength, Spitting Flame, Light Generation, Swallowing Soldiers, Spirit Expulsion, Wind Borrowing, Soul Seizing, Grain Avoidance]
[Spells: Breath Concealment Art, Five Thunders Incantation, Spirit Eyes, Divine Movement Technique]
While he was out and about, new offspring were born at home.
They added three hundred years of Cultivation Level to Xu Qing.
With his Cultivation Level steadily increasing and a bountiful harvest from this trip, Xu Qing was in a great mood.
He let out a long roar.
His voice echoed throughout the wilderness, and layers of ripples and waves appeared on the Crouching Dragon Pool.
The green snake, carrying the beautiful woman and dragging a mountain-sized pile of spoils, hurried towards the Taihang Mountains... Deep within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
Demon Spirit Realm.
On a ten-thousand-zhang-high mountain, Yin Qi was dense, and Evil Qi was thick.
Inside an Immortal Cave on the mountain peak, a green-faced, fanged evil ghost sat cross-legged, exhaling boundless ghostly Qi.
Suddenly,
In a certain part of the Immortal Cave, a statue shattered into two halves.
But the evil ghost seemed to be in a critical stage of his arduous cultivation and did not notice the change in the statue...