Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 190: Four Arms Form a Dragon Elephant Through Hand Seals; White Snake Transforms into Human Form After Five Years

It should be noted that at this time, there are very few people in the Three Realms who can refine pills, and the vast majority of them are human cultivators. Among the demon race, due to their nature, those who can refine pills are extremely rare. Of all the demons Liu Qing has seen, only the Weihe Evil Dragon can refine pills.

Not to mention the distance, there are probably tens of thousands of spirits and river demons in the Jinghe River area alone. Liu Qing is the only one who can refine pills.

Moreover, they are capable of refining third-grade pills, making them a force to be reckoned with, even among all beings in the Three Realms, including humans, demons, gods, and Buddhas.

Liu Qing was quite pleased with his achievement for a while. After swallowing a handful of fasting pills, he calmed his mind, cleared his thoughts, and continued.

This time, Liu Qing plans to refine fourth-grade pills, especially the fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pill, which is what Liu Qing is most envious of.
The initial reason why I was able to calm down and diligently practice alchemy was because of this Dragon Elephant Pill.

The Dragon Elephant Pill can increase strength without any side effects. You can continuously take the pill to increase your strength without any limit.

The main ingredient is the flesh and blood of dragon-type demons with at least the cultivation level of the Divine Power Realm or above, while the other auxiliary ingredients are all low- or mid-grade river treasures such as Black Spirit Ginseng, Polygonatum, and Euryale Seed.

The Weihe River Evil Dragon is in the late stage of the Dharma Realm. Its true form is a dragon, so its flesh and blood are the best materials. The other river treasures are all accumulated by Liu Qing.

After all preparations were complete, Liu Qing reviewed the precautions for refining the Dragon Elephant Pill and then began the refining process.
Unexpectedly, not long after it began, the water and fire energies within the Ruyi Double-Ear Furnace surged chaotically, and a plume of choking black smoke rose, indicating a failure in the refining process.

Liu Qing felt a pang of heartache.

The main and auxiliary materials required for these fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pills are not ordinary; none of them are inferior to low-grade river treasures. The materials for one batch of Dragon Elephant Pills are worth tens of thousands of incense silver coins, which were thus turned into black smoke.

In the end, Liu Qing sighed. The alchemy attempt had failed, but this was a necessary experience in alchemy. If he wanted to make progress in alchemy, there was no use in feeling sorry for himself; he had to grit his teeth and persevere.

Before starting the refining process a second time, Liu Qing closed his eyes and pondered, reviewing the previous refining process and identifying any potential problems.
After a long time, Liu Qing finally opened his eyes, his eyes filled with confidence, and threw another batch of materials into the Water and Fire Furnace.

Extract, fuse, separate, collect!
Once again, a puff of black smoke rose up, and Liu Qing collapsed at the first step of extraction.

Looking at the blackened, charred, and foul-smelling flesh of the serpent, Liu Qing frowned. This time, the hand seals were correct, but the speed was too slow, which caused the extraction of various materials to be delayed and ruined by the power of water and fire.

To solve this, it is necessary to speed up the hand seals during the extraction of the spiritual liquid, while also precisely controlling the magnitude of the water and fire forces through the hand seals.

On one hand, one must use hand seals to speed up the extraction of spiritual liquid, and on the other hand, one must use hand seals to control the power of water and fire.

At Liu Qing's current speed of hand seal switching, it's far too late, unless...
Liu Qing was so frustrated he was grinding his teeth. How could he not have thought of his talent for the "Tactile Cleverness" technique? With two heads and four arms, four hands were always faster than two hands for forming hand seals.
Two hands form hand seals to extract the spiritual liquid, while the other two hands form hand seals to control the power of water and fire. If the speed is not fast enough, we can just use an extra pair of hands.

He ruined two batches of precious materials before realizing how stupid he had been.

After finding a solution, Liu Qing's worries turned to joy.

With a wave of his hand, he summoned a stream of clear water to clean up the dregs of the medicine and rinsed the Water and Fire Furnace. After carefully concentrating, Liu Qing began refining the Dragon Elephant Pill once again.

With a tremor, Liu Qing, who was hovering above the alchemy furnace, revealed two heads and four arms. She then placed various refining materials into the furnace in order.
The four arms immediately split in two: one pair was responsible for forming hand seals to refine the spiritual liquid, and the other pair was responsible for controlling the power of water and fire.

As expected, the spiritual liquid was successfully extracted this time. Next, Liu Qing began to fuse the pills and then divide them. Several days later, the pills were successfully collected in one go.

This batch of pills yielded four grades, totaling ten pills.

Its entire body is the color of blood jade, perfectly round without any flaws, and faintly exudes a fragrance of cinnabar. With just a gentle sniff, one's blood and qi will boil.

Liu Qing immediately swallowed a fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pill.

In the next instant, the Dragon Elephant Pill transformed into a warm energy that permeated the body's flesh and bones, quickly taking effect.

After about a dozen breaths, the effects of the Dragon Elephant Pill wore off. Liu Qing clenched his fist and checked his pulse.

This Dragon Elephant Pill can increase strength by about 100 jin.

Thanks to the continuous evolution of his physical body and the cultivation of the Water and Fire Refining Technique, Liu Qing's strength had reached tens of thousands of jin.

This mere increase of a hundred jin of strength seems insignificant, almost unworthy of the fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pill.

However, the reason why the Dragon Elephant Pill can be made into a fourth-grade pill is not because it increases strength by a hundred jin at once, but because its strength-increasing effect is sustainable.

Taking one Dragon Elephant Pill increases strength by 100 jin, ten pills by 1,000 jin, 100 pills by 10,000 jin, 1,000 pills by 100,000 jin, and 10,000 pills by 1,000 jin!
Does the Giant Spirit God have the strength of a million catties? Does the Arhat Subduing Dragon have it? What about Sun Wukong, the Mighty Bull Demon King, and Erlang Shen?

Those who take over 10,000 drugs are kings, those who take over a million are heroes!
In any case, this fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pill has no drug resistance and can be taken continuously to increase strength. As long as Liu Qing has enough materials to refine enough pills, it is only a matter of time before he dominates the Three Realms in terms of strength alone.

Liu Qing put her hands on her hips, stood up, and laughed loudly several times.

After venting his excitement, Liu Qing began refining the Dragon Elephant Pill again. The flesh of the Wei River Evil Dragon, which was over thirty feet long, provided tens of thousands of catties of high-quality flesh and blood, and Liu Qing planned to refine it all into the Dragon Elephant Pill.

Using his two heads and four arms, he cleverly solved the difficulty of refining the fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pill. From then on, Liu Qing's refining path was unimpeded.

Five days later, Liu Qing refined another batch of ten Grade 4 Dragon Elephant Pills.

Half a year has passed, and Liu Qing has refined twenty batches of Grade 4 Dragon Elephant Pills. By this time, all the flesh and blood of the Wei River Evil Dragon that could be used to refine the Dragon Elephant Pills have been exhausted, as have the other auxiliary materials and spiritual medicines.

Liu Qing looked at the more than two hundred Grade 4 Dragon Elephant Pills in his pouch and was overjoyed.

Countless battles and plundered treasures were all refined into pills and consumed. Liu Qing also completely mastered the refining technique of the fourth-grade Dragon Elephant Pill, so he no longer went into seclusion.

During this period of seclusion, he achieved fourth-grade comprehension in alchemy and obtained a considerable number of pills, including Bigu Pills, Qi Condensation Pills, Water Element Pills, Soul Nourishing Pills, and Dragon Elephant Pills.

Moreover, this is only the achievement of the main body. In terms of other divided spirits, the sixteen divided spirits in the body helped to comprehend the formation, refine the weapon, cultivate the Dragon and Snake Devouring Qi Method, and learn various magic and supernatural powers of the East Sea, all of which have achieved success.

Among them, Liu Qing's cultivation level was due to his diligent use of the Dragon-Snake Devouring Qi Method by dividing his mind to accumulate the source Qi of heaven and earth. At this time, he had already reached the late stage of Refining Emptiness and Uniting with the Dao.

[Realm Level: Refining Emptiness and Integrating with the Dao 81%]

In terms of formations, the five divided spirits comprehended them simultaneously, each independently yet generously sharing their knowledge, and have already entered the basics. They have comprehended all the common formations, such as the Three Powers Water Formation, the Water and Fire Yin-Yang Formation, and the Four Symbols Revolving Formation, and have gained a great deal of knowledge about the entire field of formations.

In terms of weapon crafting, the five spirits simultaneously comprehended the techniques, sharing their insights while working independently. Within five years, they had already grasped the basics, enough to guarantee that Liu Qing could craft low-grade and mid-grade magic weapons, and even high-grade ones could be crafted with difficulty.

In terms of magical arts and supernatural powers in the East Sea, all five of their divine bodies simultaneously comprehended and practiced them. Hong Gu once jokingly said that the East Sea possessed three thousand minor arts and eight hundred supernatural powers.
It's no exaggeration to say that in the past five years, Liu Qing's several avatars have almost mastered all water-based spells, learned quite a few minor supernatural abilities, and also dabbled in other spells and supernatural abilities besides water.

The remaining part of the spirit is only responsible for operating the Dragon-Snake Devouring Qi Technique.

All sixteen of his divine manifestations had achieved some success, and while they were helping Liu Qing comprehend his teachings, Liu Qing's immense demonic energy was constantly nourishing them.

Over the course of five years, these sixteen divided spirits had all been nurtured and strengthened, reaching the limit of the Yang God realm. Upon seeing this, Liu Qing...
He left half as a seed, and the other half, divided into eight spirits, went to merge with the incense offerings. Soon, eight ninth-rank incense offering deities stood before Liu Qing.
After giving a few brief instructions, Liu Qing sent them to various waterways, including Old Turtle Pool, Water Jade Pool, Fairy Pool, Hunjia River, and Shuijia River, to serve as river gods.

The remaining eight were all at the limit of Yang God. Liu Qing used the Soul Splitting Divine Power again to split them into sixteen, and then split them a second time, reaching thirty-two.

The Soul Splitting Divine Power has reached a high level of mastery, allowing it to split three times. However, if Liu Qing's Yang Spirit is not allowed to fall into the Yin Spirit realm, it can only split twice.

If Liu Qing were to merge with the Dao and his divine soul were to become even stronger, he could split three or four times simultaneously.

Unfortunately, this time, with thirty-two separate spirits splitting off at once, even with a powerful main body, it will take a very long time to reach the limit of the Yang God realm.

If only there were a soul-path elixir like the Yin Lingzhi, but soul-path elixir is extremely rare and hard to come by, so all we can do is sigh in vain.

In terms of the physical body, over the course of five years, due to Liu Qing's continuous consumption of elixirs, coupled with a split-minded focus on continuously practicing the Dragon-Snake Devouring Qi Technique,
Its growth has not stopped either; it has now grown from ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) when it first transformed into a serpent to twelve zhang (approximately 33 meters) now.
Dragon-type creatures grow faster the further they progress in their cultivation. For example, the Weihe Evil Dragon, in the late stage of the Dharma Realm, already had a massive body of over thirty zhang.

However, it doesn't have as many opportunities as Liu Qing. If Liu Qing reaches the late stage of the Dharma Realm, its size will probably far exceed its size.

Five years have passed, and Liu Qing's overall strength has increased several times compared to before his seclusion.

Stretching and turning around, Liu Qing offered three incense sticks to her 'teacher' before leaving the secret room and arriving outside the island in the middle of the lake.

Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

According to the human calendar, this year marks the twelfth year of the Daye era.

Liu Qing strained his eyes to see the entire island in the middle of the lake, and even the entire Great Bay. On the island, inside the mansion, were Hong Gu, Bai She'er, Xiao Ya, and Shui'er.
Both her cultivation level and spiritual realm have increased. After five years of cultivation, Hong Gu has reached the late stage of the Divine Power Realm.

Thanks to the flesh and blood of the Wei River Evil Dragon given to her by Liu Qing, the White Snake's cultivation level has skyrocketed, and she has now reached the late stage of Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness, almost completely transforming into human form.
Her face was delicate and pretty, her eyebrows arched like countless tiny dots, her nose was slender and her lips were red. Her complexion was as beautiful as a flower, and her eyes held a thousand tender emotions, as if they wanted to speak but couldn't.

With a slender waist and alluring figure, dressed in white, she stood before Liu Qing, exuding extraordinary charm.

(End of this chapter)