Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 212 Mountain-Driving Whip (Mid-Grade Spiritual Treasure), Blood Peach (Acquired Spiritual Root)
The more arrogant they were just now, the more terrified they are now.

He suddenly produced three magical treasures. Holy crap, I could barely handle one of them, and that was only because my cultivation level was higher than his.

Now, with three magical treasures at once, how can I possibly handle them? During the ancient Investiture of the Gods, even a mere mortal wielding a magical treasure could potentially kill an ancient immortal, which shows just how terrifying magical treasures are.

Not to mention, that kid's strange spirit banner actually summoned four Yin soldiers whose cultivation was no weaker than mine.

How can we fight like this? We might as well admit defeat early.

"Give up just because you can't beat them? You son of a bitch! You think this is child's play? You wretched monkey, prepare to die!"

Liu Qing's spear thrust continued unabated. The gibbon was terrified at the sight and tried to dodge, but it was held tightly by Tiger Power Immortal and the other three, unable to move.

"Children, please save me!"

The gibbon, no longer caring about the demon king's reputation, begged for help from the monkeys in the peach grove.

The monkeys dared not disobey the demon king's command, and all of them unleashed their demonic energy, rushing towards Liu Qing.

Ignoring him, Liu Qing thrust his Panlong Eight-Tone Cone through the gibbon's chest with a soft "plop." However, due to the gibbon's enormous size—over twenty zhang long—Liu Qing's spear did not kill it.

"Grandpa, I call you Grandpa, spare my life, I'm willing to be your demon servant!"

The gibbon, feeling the terrifying killing intent of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone within its body, was utterly terrified and lost all courage to fight, begging for mercy.

A fierce glint flashed in Liu Qing's eyes. With a twist and a shake of his wrist, he instantly unleashed all the innate killing energy of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

The giant gibbon's massive body was pierced from the inside out, creating countless bloody holes. Demonic blood immediately gushed out like a waterfall.

"Kill you, and I'll naturally take your demon soul as a puppet, which will be far more obedient than a demon servant."

The gibbon's physical body was already broken, so it had no choice but to escape with its demonic soul at the Fifth Qi Realm. This was perfect, as Tiger Power Immortal and the other three quickly pounced on it.

It gleefully grabbed the long-armed ape's demonic soul by its limbs and forcibly pulled it into the Yin Jade Spirit Banner.

Liu Qing opened his mouth and swallowed the gibbon's entire body. He wouldn't use the Elephant-Swallowing Talent to refine it yet; he still needed to process it first.
The monkey's fur can be used to make magical artifacts and clothing. Its fangs, spine, and sharp nails can all be used to make magical artifacts.

Only the remaining flesh and blood were refined using the Elephant Devourer technique to enhance the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Liu Qing's standards have risen. Generally speaking, only great demons above the Divine Power Realm with the physical bodies of grass-root gods are willing to collect materials from their bodies for refining weapons.

As for monsters at the Divine Power Realm, such as the Eagle Demon, they can be directly handed over to the Elephant Devouring Talent for training.

The phrase "swallowing an elephant" is derived from the idea of ​​a snake swallowing an elephant. As Liu Qing's cultivation level increases, he can use this talent to swallow something several times larger than his own body in one gulp.

Therefore, Liu Qing swallowed the gibbon's body, which was over twenty feet long, without any effort.

Liu Qing reached out and summoned the mountain-driving whip that the gibbon had dropped.

[Description: Mountain-Moving Whip, a mid-grade acquired spiritual treasure, capable of whipping stones and moving mountains. It can gather the power of mountains and rivers, imbuing them with its power; a single lash can cause mountains to collapse and the earth to crack.]

Liu Qing poured his divine power into the mark, erasing the mark left by the gibbon and roughly carving his own divine power mark, quickly refining it in its initial stages.

Then swallow it and let the divided spirit within the body nurture and refine it until it leaves its own divine soul imprint on the core of the spiritual treasure, only then is it completely refined.

However, Liu Qing sensed that the Mountain-Driving Whip seemed to resist his refining process. After a moment's thought, Liu Qing realized the key point.

This Mountain-Driving Whip is an earth-elemental spiritual treasure, while my own authority and divine power are water-elemental, which is not compatible with it, hence the resistance.

If the attributes are not compatible, the power of the Mountain-Driving Whip cannot be fully unleashed, but Liu Qing didn't care. With a spiritual treasure right in front of him, how could he not refine it?

Whether it wants to or not is none of my business. You can't force a melon to be sweet, so I'll just eat it with sauce.

At this moment, the other ape monsters that the gibbon had called for help finally rushed over.

Liu Qing suddenly turned his head to look, and the monkeys immediately jumped and stopped in their tracks.

Even the Demon King, who was so powerful, was killed by it. Most of us are at the Divine Power Realm or the Dharma Realm, and many more are at the Refining Emptiness and Merging with the Dao or Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness.

Rushing in would be suicide.

Can't beat it.

Run away.

Since Grandpa Demon King is already dead, we no longer need to obey his commands.

The monkeys let out a shout, turned around and ran away in a flash. Some used their demonic energy to speed up their run, some used their innate ability to leap, and some jumped into the trees to fly.

They fled in panic, wishing they had been given two more legs.

This was a mobile source of primordial energy, how could Liu Qing let it go? He opened his mouth and spat out streams of water thunder, which exploded over there.

Fearing that some might survive, Liu Qing shook the Yin Jade Spirit Banner again, summoning all the Yin soldiers and puppets to block the area around the peach grove in the mountain valley. Regardless of whether they were dead or alive, he took them down one by one.

Most of the ape monsters were killed by the water mines, but a few were lucky enough to survive and knelt before Liu Qing, crying and begging for mercy.

This includes the beautiful female golden snub-nosed monkey and the female mandrill.

The two monkeys flashed with demonic energy, transforming into beautiful women. With tears streaming down their faces, they begged Liu Qing for mercy.

"My lord, you have no choice but to spare my life. I will do whatever you say."

"Master, I am naturally beautiful and skilled in all kinds of positions. I am sure I can serve you well. Please spare me."

The two female monkeys, while begging for mercy, were also striking poses and behaving very obsequiously.

Liu Qing disgustedly stabbed the two female monkeys twice, killing them.

"My master has five beauties in his household, and he hasn't even had a chance to taste them all yet. How could he possibly look at you withered flowers and fallen willows?"

For the other dead and surviving monkey demons, Liu Qing had the puppet Yin soldiers pull out their demon souls and throw them into the Yin Jade Spirit Banner, where they would line up to have their minds erased.

Having killed too many monkey demons at once, the Yin Jade Spirit Banner is now very busy and needs them to line up.

At this point, in addition to river demons, geese, and soul beasts, the Yin Jade Spirit Banner now contains a race of apes. If all of them were to have their minds erased, the number of puppets that the Yin Jade Spirit Banner could control would double, and its power would become even stronger.

Among all the low-grade acquired spiritual treasures, the Yin Jade Spirit Banner, with its many puppets, is among the strongest.

Liu Qing then swallowed the corpses of nearly a thousand monkey demons of various sizes into his mouth pouch. After collecting the materials for refining weapons, he would then swallow and refine them one by one.

Suddenly, an illusory portal appeared not far away.

Liu Qing's heart stirred, knowing that the Yin Jade Spirit Banner had finally erased the gibbon's consciousness, and the gibbon was completely dead, allowing its Dharma Realm to manifest.

Liu Qing approached the portal to the Dharma Realm and saw that the ground inside was pitch black, due to the evolution of demonic energy. He then looked around the Dharma Realm and saw that the space was extremely large, with a large mountain at each of the four ends and another one in the middle.

The five mountains correspond perfectly to the five vital energies within the gibbon's chest.

When the gibbon was alive, these Five Elements Mountains suppressed the Dharma Realm and stabilized the earth, wind, water, and fire. Now that the gibbon has been killed.

The five elements energy formed by these five mountains began to slowly dissipate, and the mountains also shrank.

If no outsider takes over and it is maintained by demonic energy or divine power, this Dharma realm will completely perish once the Five Elements Mountain collapses. Liu Qing will not take over the long-armed ape's Dharma realm. Their paths are completely different. His most fundamental power is divine authority, while the Dharma realm constructed by the long-armed ape is based on demonic energy.

Even if they wanted to take over, they couldn't; they could only let it perish.

However, the treasures stored inside by the gibbons need to be retrieved before they disappear.

With a sweep of his divine sense, Liu Qing immediately understood the gibbon's collection.

The numerous human corpses are believed to have been killed by Sun Hua during his rampage in the Qin region.

Besides these human corpses, there is another pit in the Dharma Realm, filled with blood-red liquid, on which float Spicy Grass, Drunken Linglong, and other earth treasures such as Polygonatum, ginseng, and Ganoderma.

The blood-red liquid had a strong aroma of wine. Liu Qing's eyes flickered, and he took a drop to taste.

Sure enough, it was monkey wine.

The wine is rich in aroma, not strong but very sweet and mellow. A drop of Monkey Wine enters the mouth and transforms into several points of primordial energy, which is rich in spiritual energy.

Liu Qing was overjoyed. The amount of spiritual energy in this drop of monkey wine was no less than that of ordinary low-grade river delicacies. The fermented monkey wine in this pit was probably no less than ten thousand catties.

Ten thousand catties of monkey wine is equivalent to tens of thousands of low-grade river delicacies.

Now, we finally have enough of the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Although one can use the Dragon and Snake Devouring Qi Method to accumulate the source Qi of heaven and earth by inhaling and exhaling the moon's essence, that takes a lot of time.

Now that we have so much monkey wine, who would bother meditating and using the Dragon and Snake Food Qi Method to accumulate the source Qi of heaven and earth little by little?

Liu Qing unleashed his divine power, digging out the entire pit used for brewing wine and moving it into his mouth pouch space.

Let it continue brewing.

Aside from these, the rest were all miscellaneous items. After sorting through them, Liu Qing found the key to a formation technique for transforming evil spirits, a scroll for the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Formation, and a collection of spells such as Earth Shield Technique, Falling Rock Technique, and Earth Cone Technique.

Everything else is unacceptable.

Having withdrawn from the gibbon's realm, Liu Qing turned her gaze to the peach grove.

This peach orchard, which could make the gibbon go to such lengths as to divinely control Sun Hua and collect the corpses of humans who died in battle to cultivate, must be something extraordinary.

Moreover, the blood peaches that grow on the peach tree can be used to brew monkey wine, which is rich in spiritual energy.

Liu Qing reached out and picked a blood peach, taking a bite.

The sweetness of the peaches mixed with the stench of human blood made Liu Qing feel nauseous.

Moreover, Liu Qing only sensed the weakest spiritual energy from this blood peach, so weak that it couldn't even compare to a second-rate local treasure.

Blood peaches of this grade could never be used to brew the same kind of spirit-rich monkey wine.

So, from which peach tree did the peaches that can be used to make monkey wine grow?
Liu Qing swept his divine sense across all the peach trees in the entire peach grove, but found no peach tree that could produce peaches for making monkey wine.

The monkey wine, which can be brewed to the point that every drop is equivalent to a low-grade earth treasure, is made from blood peaches, the main ingredient of which is at least no less than a low-grade earth treasure.

Liu Qing strolled through the peach grove, carefully examining each peach tree, but still couldn't find it.

At this moment, the intelligence box emitted a purple light, which, although not as dazzling as the original hint about the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, was still purple.

The information obtained from the purple-level item is likely to be no weaker than a spirit treasure.

Liu Qing waited anxiously.

[Today's Intelligence: Purple Level. Hidden beneath this peach grove is a mid-grade acquired spiritual root Blood Peach.]

Liu Qing was overjoyed.

Spiritual roots are superior to even the finest spiritual herbs. Unlike ordinary celestial treasures and river delicacies, which wither and die after being harvested, spiritual roots remain even after their fruit is harvested, and will produce new fruit again after a certain period of time.

Spiritual roots are divided into innate and acquired. Innate spiritual roots are nurtured by heaven and earth, and now they all have owners in the Three Realms. The most famous ones are Zhenyuan Daxian's ginseng fruit tree and Yaochi Jinmu's peach tree.

Acquired spiritual roots are cultivated by humans, not born innately. The peach trees of the Queen Mother of the West mentioned earlier, apart from one innate spiritual root mother tree, are all acquired spiritual roots cultivated by the Queen Mother of the West.

However, regardless of whether it is innate or acquired, having a spiritual root means having a continuous supply of spiritual medicine.

The intelligence indicated that the Blood Peach, a mid-grade acquired spiritual root, was hidden underground in this peach grove.

The fact that he managed to evade the divine sense's sweeping attack suggests he was very well hidden.

No matter how deeply it's hidden, it can't escape being found. Liu Qing is determined to have this mid-grade acquired blood peach tree.

Liu Qing slapped his fontanelle, and all thirty-two divine beings in the Divine Treasury flew out and disappeared underground.

Liu Qing's true perspective is focused on one of his divided spirits.

The thick soil and rocks couldn't stop the distraction from seeping in, and it continued to descend. As it went down, the soil and rocks along the way became redder and more damp the further down it went.

The roots of the peach trees on the ground seem to extend from each peach tree, with a main root winding downwards.

After his mind wandered downwards for hundreds of feet, all the peach tree roots that had extended down suddenly gathered together and drooped down.

Continuing down the path along the countless peach tree roots, a huge cavern suddenly appeared ahead, containing a pond.

The pond water was almost blood-red, emitting a strong bloody smell. In the middle of the pond stood a peach tree as thick as a man's waist, with branches that resembled gnarled dragons.

The entire tree, from trunk and branches to leaves, is the color of blood. The peaches it grows are also blood-red, each peach about the size of a bowl, one of which is equivalent to two or three of the blood peaches mentioned above.

Beneath the branches of this peach tree, which twist and turn like a dragon, grow aerial roots that do not hang down naturally but climb upwards.

Liu Qing looked up and saw that these aerial roots corresponded exactly to the roots of the peach tree on the ground that she had seen earlier.

It turns out that the peach orchard on the ground was all derived from the aerial roots of this peach tree.

Liu Qingfei flew over to the peach tree in the pond and reached out to touch it.

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[Note 1: The Blood Peach Tree is a mid-grade acquired spiritual root. Normally, it flowers once every two hundred years, bears fruit once every two hundred years, and matures once every two hundred years, producing three hundred spiritual peaches each time. Each spiritual peach is a mid-grade earth treasure.]

[Note 2: This Blood Peach Tree can be watered with the blood of all spirits. The more blood used, the higher the quality, and the shorter the flowering and fruiting period will be.]

Two explanations: firstly, it confirms that this peach tree is indeed the Blood Peach Tree, a mid-grade acquired spiritual root; secondly, it describes the characteristics of the Blood Peach Tree's spiritual root.

It blooms once every two hundred years, bears fruit once every two hundred years, and matures once every two hundred years. Each time, it produces three hundred spirit peaches, and each spirit peach is a mid-grade earth treasure.

In other words, if Liu Qing ignores it and does nothing, he can simply wait six hundred years and then harvest three hundred mid-grade earth-treasure peaches.

However, if, as stated in Explanation 2, the peaches are irrigated with the blood of all spirits, the harvest time can be significantly shortened.

(End of this chapter)