Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 22: Gifted Mouth Bag
The moon seemed unable to bear seeing the miserable plight of the living creatures, and sadly covered half of its face.

Liu Qing opened his mouth and a stream of moonlight was drawn towards him. He divided it into two streams, one large and one small. He kept the small one for himself and the large one for Hong Gu.

"Sisi——"

After the water in the pond dried up, Hong Gu's eyes seemed to have lost some of their liveliness, and the little life she had left was only given to Liu Qing.

Seeing Liu Qing drawing most of the moonlight to herself, she just laughed bitterly: "Xiao Qing, it's useless."

Liu Qing looked at her stubbornly.

Hong Gu had no choice but to swallow and exhale the moonlight as usual.

Who said it was useless? With the nourishment of the moonlight, Hong Gu persisted until the moon set despite being dehydrated.

The moon sets and the sun rises.

Liu Qing has never hated the sun as much as he does today.

His snake eyes stared coldly at the eastern sky, and the snake core in his mouth made a hissing sound.

Don't you give us any way to survive?
You want us to die, but we want to live!

Liu Qing moved his dry throat and swam around Hong Gu with his winding body. As he swam, he vigorously whipped the wet mud under him.

He turned over the wet mud, picked it up in his mouth, and spit it onto Hong Gu bit by bit.

He buried Hong Gu's almost dried body in the soil, leaving only her mouth and gills slightly exposed.

"Sisi!"

Liu Qing looked back at Hong Gu, made a snake-like sound, and then swam quickly towards the shore.

Hong Gu blinked her bloodshot eyes, which were stuffy due to lack of water, and dared only to gently watch Liu Qing's departing back.

Due to severe dehydration, Hong Gu no longer had the strength to speak.

The big mulberry tree that was knocked over by the earthquake still had half of its roots in the soil, so it was not dead yet. The scorching sun yesterday only made its leaves wilt a little.

The wilted leaves leaned downward, and a drop of crystal dew hung on the tip of the leaf, precariously falling.

Liu Qing was suddenly ecstatic and opened his mouth to hold the drop of dew.

He had never felt such sweetness in such a tasteless drop of water. Liu Qing only felt the muscles in the snake's neck wriggling crazily, and the intestines in his stomach, under the temptation of the elephant-swallowing talent, made the most greedy noises.

Liu Qing ignored it.

He swam quickly back to the depression at the bottom of the pond, stuck his head into Hong Gu's mouth, and spit out the drop of dew.

Hong Gu, who was in a semi-comatose state, was slowly awakened by the dew. She looked at Liu Qing, whose snake scales were dry and curled, and had no luster at all, and her eyes became redder and redder.

I was severely dehydrated and couldn't even cry.

Liu Qing climbed up the mulberry tree again, competing with the sun for dew.

Once, twice, three times, Liu Qing seemed tireless. Whenever he found dew, he was reluctant to swallow a drop and fed it all to Hong Gu.

Until the sun becomes scorching and evaporates all the dew.

"Xiaoqing, go away and leave Hong Gu alone."

"This is Hong Gu's fate. She deserves to die at this third level."

The sun became scorching hot, drying up the wet mud on Hong Gu's body. Her fish scales were unprotected and curled up due to the heat, lifting up the muscles under the scales and tearing them into pieces.

She felt her whole body burning like a fish roasting on a bonfire, and she felt like dying again.

She didn't want to implicate Liu Qing. Her eyes were red and she spoke to Liu Qing in a cold tone for the first time.

Liu Qing was speechless.

Due to lack of water, the snake's core was stuck in the sheath. Every time it moved, a tearing pain would be felt.

Liu Qing shook his head.

Due to lack of water, the snake's scales dried up and curled up, unable to secrete mucus as usual to lubricate the ground beneath it.
Every time he twisted his body, he felt as if his abdomen was being torn apart. Waves of tearing pain surged into his mind, almost drowning it, but he ignored it, his eyes firm as he stubbornly climbed towards the shore.

A bold hare came running from the western forest, drooling over the mulberry leaves that fell to the ground.

Liu Qing suddenly flicked his tail and pounced on the hare, tightly wrapping it around him, then quickly swung out his tail whip, smashing its head.

He dragged the hare and crawled towards Hong Gu at his fastest speed.

Hong Gu closed her eyes and mouth.

Liu Qing wrapped the hare with his snake's tail, with its broken head facing downwards, and poured the rabbit's blood on Hong Gu.

Hong Gu's bright red fish scales instantly turned blood-red and enchanting.

Unfortunately, a lot of rabbit blood was spilled on the way back, and only a small amount remained, barely moistening half of the mud covering Hong Gu's body.

It would be nice if there was a container for water, Liu Qing thought to himself.

Suddenly, he remembered the five points of Heaven and Earth Source Qi that he had accumulated over the two nights of the day before yesterday and yesterday. His heart moved, and he felt a strong anticipation.

"Unlock new bloodline talents."

Suddenly, the source of energy of heaven and earth on the panel disappeared, and cool gas appeared in the body. This time, the cool gas came to the air bag on Liu Qing's neck and acted quickly.

Liu Qing's original form was a snake. After receiving the gift of dragon blood from Hong Gu, he transformed into a horned python. However, the number of air sacs in his body remained the same as when he was a snake, at thirteen.

The one in the neck is the largest of the thirteen air sacs.

[Gifted Mouth Sac: Originated from the exotic beast, the Sky-Swallowing Python, it can transform a python-like air sac into a storage-type mouth sac. This talent can store inanimate objects, and as it grows, the storage space of the mouth sac will continue to increase.]

Originally, Liu Qing just had a feeling and wanted to give it a try.

I never thought that I would actually unlock the talent that I need most at the moment.

Liu Qing sensed the space formed by the innate mouth bag. It was oval in shape, about two meters long, and almost half a meter wide and high, about half a cubic meter.

It’s enough for now.

[Name: Liu Qing]

[Race: Horned Python]

[Bloodline Talents: 1 Swallow Elephant (Minor Success); 2 Tail Whip (Minor Success); 3 Thick Armor (Minor Success); 4 Mouth Bag (Beginner)]

[Heaven and Earth Source Qi: 2 points]

The rabbit meat, which had been drained of blood, was a bit dry and difficult to swallow, but Liu Qing needed to replenish his strength. He swallowed half of the rabbit with difficulty, and after a brief recovery, he climbed ashore again.

Half an hour later, Liu Qing caught another pheasant.

He opened his mouth and used his mouth bag's magical talent to shrink the huge pheasant to a size that could just fit into his mouth, then stuffed it into his mouth bag and restored it to its original size.

At this time, the sun had risen to the height of a tree, and the heat it emitted was becoming increasingly severe.

Liu Qing did not dare to delay and quickly climbed back to the pond. He hung the pheasant upside down above Hong Gu, letting the blood flow out to moisten the wet mud on Hong Gu's body.

Hong Gu still closed her eyes, trying hard not to look at Liu Qing.

Even if you give up on yourself, I will not give up.

Liu Qing broke off a few mulberry branches and covered Hong Gu's head with them, and then spread a layer of reeds and cattails on top of the mulberry branches.

No matter how scorching the sun is, it cannot escape the fate of being blocked.

Liu Qing killed a few more wild rabbits and pheasants until the sun was scorching high in the sky and the birds and animals were too hot to come out. Only then did Liu Qing crawl back to the pond.

He got close to Hong Gu and rested his neck against her cheek.

Whenever Hong Gu's body became hot and her scales dried up, Liu Qing would spit out the blood of birds and beasts from his mouth and smear it on Hong Gu's body over and over again.

(End of this chapter)