Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 173 Future Demon King Spy
"I'm saving you."

Gu Qing flexed her wrists and looked at She Xue.

“His Highness is the successor to the Demon King of the Golden-backed Eagle Clan. Once Mang Qian finds out about this, you will all be made scapegoats.”

"Even so, you're still unwilling to give up?"

She Xue smiled.

"If I don't kill her, will I be fine?"

"We are prepared to perish together. After His Highness Mangqian obtains the treasure he desires, he will return directly to Tianlin City for seclusion and will not venture out until he reaches the sixth rank."

"We servants, we die if we die."

"He's a good servant."

He sighed, knowing that this battle was unavoidable.

Gu Qing then took out a new toy—the Demon Puppet Artifact: Corpse Bone Fan, a vicious artifact created using evil alchemy techniques, which could be activated by either magical power or demonic essence.

Whether you call it an evil artifact or a demonic artifact, it's fundamentally on a completely different track from the mainstream art of weapon crafting.

It's more like a clever imitation of the innate art of weapon crafting.

However, compared to the innate artifacts that plunder the heavens and earth, the evil and demonic artifacts prefer to plunder living beings to achieve advancement.

Activate it with the external demonic energy attached to the dragon robe.

The larger and more ferocious-looking skeletal demon puppet materialized and, after arriving in the demon realm, devoured many of the scraps left over from the Demon-Slaying Sword.

The quality has improved to some extent, but it has not reached the point of qualitative change.

Twelve skeletal demon puppets of the eighth rank.

His physique, seemingly extending beyond the horizon and nearly three meters tall at the shoulders, was imposing simply by standing on the shattered earth.

"go with!"

Gu Qing didn't expect them to remove obstacles; their main role was to restrain them.

The White Bone Demon Puppet's primary target is Shexue.

Gu Qing unleashed his physical strength at incredible speed, the scales on his arms rapidly swirling and bursting open as if exploding, spewing out crimson dragon fire and using the thrust to accelerate the power of his punch.

Rumble!
The air was torn apart, producing a piercing pop.

With their demonic energy exhausted and severely injured, the only two remaining mid-ranking seventh-grade snake demons were already at their limit. How could they possibly withstand the powerful and vigorous Gu Qing?
In a single encounter, blood rained down.

The Azure Scaled Serpent Demon was blown up. Before the other serpent demon could react, Gu Qing twisted his hips and spun around, his long legs like battle axes striking it.

As the snake demon raised its hand to block, it retreated.

With a bang, the earth was cracked open, leaving fissures for hundreds of meters around.

Without activating the magical restrictions of the Demon-Slaying Sword, Gu Qing used it merely as a melee weapon and attacked again.

The sword light was fierce, completely different from the treacherous and elusive swordsmanship of the human Gu Qing. The swordsmanship that Mo Xuan used was powerful and forceful.

With a single sword strike, the demon race's scales were completely ignored, leaving the opponent horrified and a third of their shoulder severed.

Snake blood splattered everywhere.

With two sword strikes, he severed the head of the second snake demon, killing it instantly.

The entire process takes no more than four breaths.

She Xue had just dealt with twelve skeleton demon puppets and was now on high alert as Gu Qing charged towards them.

The bone fragments reassembled, and Gu Qing tucked the slightly damaged bone fan into his waistband. This thing could recover by absorbing some of the demon's corpse bones.

They're everywhere here, it's not a big problem, and there's no need to worry about them.

Clang!
The Demon-Slaying Sword clashed with a blood spear, and She Xue was surprised to find that the opponent's power was far superior to his own. No wonder he could shatter the body of a mid-level seventh-rank snake demon with a single punch.

"Dragon seed, huh? Let's have another one!"

Sword and spear lights clashed, and in the blink of an eye, the two had fought over a hundred moves with their bare hands. Unlike when he was fighting Mang Qian, Gu Qing's seemingly grand fighting style was actually a way to stall for time.

After all, his opponent was a seventh-rank upper-level player, and in his prime, he could have dominated him.

It would be safer to be shameless and drag things out until the opponent's injuries flare up.

She Xue naturally discovered Gu Qing's tactical objective.

He was seething with hatred, but there was nothing he could do. His demonic energy was completely depleted, and he could only unleash minor spells. His abilities were limited to physical combat, which was extremely frustrating.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

Panting heavily, She Xue was cleaved away by Gu Qing's sword, his chest bones bulging outwards, and you could even see his beating, burning demonic heart. He was dying.

"Hu Chi... Hu Chi..."

“Mo Xuan, you are shameless... but in the demon race, shame is not an important thing. You have great potential.”

Having said that, he used the blood spear to support himself and tried to stand up and fight again.

But Gu Qing kicked him over.

"You!"

Pooh——

The demon-slaying sword swung, and a head fell to the ground. Gu Qing said expressionlessly.

"I don't want to hear the teachings of the dead anymore."

Gu Qing, feeling a bit sore all over, stuck the Demon-Slaying Sword into the ground, activating its ability to absorb demon blood and essence.

There are many valuable things left behind from this battlefield.

Aside from a few storage bags, he could use every single hair of the demon corpse as a resource.

She returned to Qianzhu-jun's side.

The woman had already lost consciousness. Her injuries were so severe that she could even die without treatment, which shows how serious the situation was.

Gu Qing has one life-saving pill.

But it would never be used on Qianzhu Jun. After a moment of thought.

He peeled off She Xue's skin, using the blood and bone as veins, and integrated it into the fake artifact, the Dragon Robe, thus giving the artifact a second wailing demon face.

It replenished the demonic energy within and increased the upper limit.

This will allow Gu Qing to use it for a longer period of time.

Then he summoned the demon-slaying sword and comforted the spirit within.

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, old friend."

The Demon-Slaying Sword, which had just devoured a large number of demon corpses, began to tremble. Drops of pure demon blood seeped from the spine of the sword, gathered at the tip, and dripped into the jade bowl prepared by Gu Qing.

This thing is a collection of the essence of hundreds of powerful demon races.

Originally intended to upgrade the Demon-Slaying Sword, using it on Qianzhu Jun would also provide her with powerful homologous energy. Once she regains consciousness and activates her demonic powers, she will be healed.

With hands forming a mudra, the Gluttonous Refining Technique is used to refine and purify the blood from different sources into a single drop.

Gu Qing lightly touched her brow again, and a wisp of Crimson Crow's divine consciousness fell into her essence blood. Once Qianzhu Jun refined the essence blood, this wisp of divine consciousness would merge with her.

There was no harm in it; for Gu Qing, it was just that a wisp of his divine consciousness was permanently lost.

However, this could be used to control Qianzhu Jun's movements and glean some information about what was happening around her, which might be discovered by a powerful cultivator at the level of a demon king.

Therefore, it must be used with caution.

"I won't kill you, I won't restrict your freedom, just be a high-ranking spy for me, I'm easily satisfied."

He made many shameless remarks.

Then, she dripped the essence of a hundred demons into Qianzhu Jun's mouth. A rich blood light bloomed, and with the support of the vast primordial essence, her injuries healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Her fair skin grew back, and her broken golden wings were restored, except that her tattered clothes made her look somewhat erotic.

The two headlights are also quite conspicuous.

Gu Qing covered her with his own clothes and waited for her to wake up.

This wait lasted four days.

Inside an unnamed mountain cave.

"Hmmmm~"

The moment Qianzhujun woke up, he suddenly jumped up, and the moment he saw Gu Qing, his tense body relaxed.

(End of this chapter)