Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Although nearly ten thousand years have passed inside the Wanlong Palace, only a few months have passed in the outside world. The Eastern Journey is not yet over, and there is still plenty of time.

Liu Qing withdrew his divine sense and calmed down.

The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone hovered in mid-air. Liu Qing threw out the Multi-Treasure Pagoda, from which countless innate spiritual materials were poured out and injected one by one into the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone's spiritual treasure body.

Then, with his hands forming hand seals, he used the power of a perfected Great Luo Realm cultivator to perform the Spirit Treasure Refining Technique to help the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone evolve.

Then, spells, imbued with profound divine light, struck the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone and countless innate spiritual materials.

The innate spiritual materials melted rapidly, turning into various colored liquid clumps, removing impurities and preserving their original essence. Driven by the spiritual treasure refining method, they permeated into the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone transformed into a five-clawed golden dragon, seemingly resembling Liu Qing's true form, and hovered in the void.

As the essence of each innate spiritual material seeped in, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, which transformed into a five-clawed golden dragon, emitted bursts of joyful dragon roars.

The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone is slowly evolving.

Its own spiritual light began to become richer, deeper, and more profound.

Countless wails and howls arose, seemingly in fear of the ever-evolving Panlong Eight-Tone Cone. The Buddhist Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Heavenly Gods who had recently perished beneath the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone manifested their illusory forms, instinctively fearing, grieving, weeping, or wailing.

The countless specks of innate killing energy carried by the original source of the innate spiritual materials gathered one by one at the tip of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, making the innate killing energy even more intense.

Time slowly passed as the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone evolved.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of years had passed. Suddenly, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone let out a rousing dragon roar. When people looked again, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone had evolved from a high-grade innate spiritual treasure to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

Since the beginning of time, countless innate spiritual treasures have been born from the origin of heaven and earth. Among them, there are no more than nine supreme innate treasures and no more than forty-nine top-grade innate spiritual treasures.

This demonstrates the preciousness of innate top-grade spiritual treasures. But now, the ranks of innate top-grade spiritual treasures have been expanded to include the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

A supreme innate spiritual treasure is enough to suppress the fortune of a powerful force. Even the Jie Sect of yesteryear only had the supreme innate spiritual treasure, the Zhuxian Sword, to suppress its fortune.

Within the Three Realms, Buddhism and the Heavenly Court also use top-grade spiritual treasures to suppress fortune.

This shows how precious this innate top-grade spiritual treasure is!

But Liu Qing was still not satisfied, nor was the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone. Looking at the remaining half of the innate spiritual materials, it began to evolve again without stopping.

The method of refining spiritual treasures removes impurities from each piece of innate spiritual material, leaving only its original essence, which is then infused into the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone. The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone absorbs and refines this essence, using it as resources for evolution.

As time passed, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone steadfastly marched forward on the path from a top-grade innate spiritual treasure to an innate supreme treasure.

Three thousand years later.

The five-clawed golden dragon manifested by the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, just like Liu Qing's main body breaking through the eighth level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, gradually changed its color from gold to purple.

Moreover, it was already 90% covered in purple, with only 10% remaining untransformed. At this moment, Liu Qing realized that as long as the entire spiritual treasure body of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone was transformed into purple, it could leap into a supreme innate treasure.

The innate spiritual materials continued to be injected, melted, and absorbed, and the purple color on the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone once again slowly and steadily extended and covered the area.

99%.

At this moment, all the innate spiritual materials had been melted and absorbed, but the evolution of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone was stuck here.

The magical artifact of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone is almost entirely purple, except for a single golden line running from head to tail that has not yet disappeared, like a stubborn dragon tendon, still holding on to the past.

Liu Qing's eyes flashed: "The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone? A weapon of the Dragon Clan? Its evolution has reached its limit. To ultimately become a supreme innate treasure, it still lacks a catalyst!"

"An opportunity? Haha, I understand now!"

Liu Qing flicked his finger, and the Dragon Drum outside the Wanlong Hall suddenly sounded with a deep, muffled drumbeat.

The drumbeats spread outwards like ripples on water, and wherever they swept across the dragon-like beings in the Three Realms, including true dragons and jiaolong, they absorbed a drop of their original dragon blood.

Then, the sound of drums returned like an echo, carrying with it the primordial dragon blood of all dragons and dragon-related beings in the Three Realms.

Liu Qing reached out and injected all the dragon blood into the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

The blood of ten thousand dragons seeped in.

Suddenly, amidst the dragon roars of congratulations from ten thousand dragons, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone blazed with purple light, and its remaining golden thread vanished instantly.

The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone has finally evolved into a supreme innate treasure!
Liu Qing stood up and grabbed the grip of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone. The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone was now completely purplish-black, and its innate killing aura pierced the skin painfully. With a slight tremor, ghosts and gods howled, disturbing the minds of others and causing them to lose their courage before the battle even began, and their hearts to break even before they lost.

The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone emitted a buzzing gunshot, seemingly venting its accumulated killing intent.

"Good darling, don't be impatient. Before long, some fools will come, and then you'll get your fill of slaughter!" Liu Qing came out of the Wanlong Palace.

Ten thousand years passed inside, while only one year passed outside.

His divine sense swept across the Three Realms, instantly taking in everything within them.

High in the Ninth Heaven, the Golden Spirit Mother yawned boredly. Deep among the myriad stars, she looked down upon the Three Realms, temporarily acting as the Great Heavenly Venerable to govern the operation of the Three Realms, a dull and tedious task.

Liu Qing was speechless. It was really too much to ask the Golden Spirit Mother to guard the Nine Heavens.

Having been trapped on the Investiture of the Gods list back then, he was already tired of staying in the Nine Heavens. Now, he was entrusted by Liu Qing, the senior disciple of the sect leader, to temporarily take charge of the Heavenly Court. He dared not refuse, but he was extremely unhappy.

After thinking for a moment, Liu Qing realized that the souls of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West in the True Scripture of Earthly Destiny had been sufficiently nurtured.

He then captured their souls, erased their memories, and used the Spirit Treasure Sutra to guide them before sending them into the ninth level of the underworld within the Middle Thousand Worlds, allowing them to reincarnate.

At this time, Liu Qing's Middle Thousand Worlds had already bred hundreds of billions of mortals, as well as countless birds, beasts, fish, insects, and many flowers, plants, and trees on land and in water.

While the number of living beings in the world is less than that of the three outer realms, it is still enough to make the world prosperous and full of vitality.

Among them, hundreds of billions of mortals have long lived in Huazhou, which is divided into ten states. Each state has several mortal kingdoms that either fight or form alliances, playing out cycles of rise and fall.

Liu Qing instructed the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West to be reborn in Yingzhou, one of the ten continents. In Yingzhou, there was a country called the Kingdom of Gentlemen, and within the Kingdom of Gentlemen was a village called Zhangjia Village.

The Jade Emperor was reincarnated as a man from Zhangjia Village, named Zhang Bairen. He had a fiancée whom he was betrothed to since birth, who was the reincarnation of the Queen Mother of the West.

Although the two opposed Liu Qing many times and ultimately perished at his hands, they were not like Guang Chengzi or Buddha, who only thought about their own escape and disregarded others.

The two shared a deep bond that would not be severed by reincarnation. With Liu Qing's help, they were destined to reunite in this life.

Zhang Bairen, the Jade Emperor chosen by Liu Qing to be the next Heavenly Venerable, and the Queen Mother of the West, will also return to the Jade Pool with Zhang Bairen to become the Queen Mother.

The Heavenly Court cannot be without a master, and the Heavenly Dao will not sit idly by. If Liu Qing does not intervene, then the Heavenly Dao will secretly choose someone to be the Heavenly Emperor.

Rather than letting Heaven make the choice, Liu Qing should take the initiative to intervene, erase the memories of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, and then convert them to the Jie Sect so that they can be reincarnated as Zhang Bairen before returning to Heaven.

This move addresses neither the concern that Zhang Bairen might betray them, nor the concern that Zhang Bairen lacks the ability to rule the Three Realms.

After being converted by Liu Qing, unless Zhang Bairen uses a higher level of cultivation than Liu Qing, he will definitely submit to Liu Qing.

Liu Qing appointed Zhang Bairen as the Heavenly Emperor, and it is likely that Heaven will not object, since Zhang Bairen is the reincarnation of the Jade Emperor.

Zhang Bairen is the reincarnation of the Jade Emperor. Although his memories have been erased, he has the ability to rule the Three Realms, which he originally possessed in his previous life. He will likely regain it soon, so there is no concern that Zhang Bairen will be unable to rule the Three Realms.

He will not betray Liu Qing, is loyal to Liu Qing, has the approval of Heaven, and has the ability to rule the Heavenly Court. The Great Heavenly Venerable must be Zhang Bairen.

Zhang Bairen is nominally in charge of the Heavenly Court and oversees the Three Realms, but he must obey Liu Qing's orders. Liu Qing is behind the scenes, without the hard work of the Heavenly Court's Grand Venerable, but he is the behind-the-scenes boss who oversees the Three Realms. Why not?

After resolving the issues between the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, Liu Qing telepathically instructed the Golden Spirit Mother to grant him several more decades of blessings. The Golden Spirit Mother immediately felt hopeful of liberation and happily obeyed the order.

On the East Sea, the pilgrimage team, under the covert protection of Zhao Gongming, the Holy Mother of Wudang, and the Bull Demon King, has already passed the test of Xiong Kuohai, which was offered by the Dragon King of the South Sea.

Xiong Kuohai eventually met his end, his soul and spirit destroyed by Sun Wukong's staff.

After passing the ordeal with Xiong Kuohai, there is a small island hundreds of miles ahead. On the island, there are the remaining old demons under the command of Yuan Futong, the great demon of the North Sea during the time of the Investiture of the Gods, who were abandoned by the Dragon King of the North Sea.

With Zhao Gongming and Wudang Shengmu, two powerful figures of the Jie Sect, backing them up, the Jie Sect's journey to the east only needed to proceed step by step, without requiring much attention from Liu Qing.

Liu Qing will only appear when the journey to the East is about to end and the pilgrim team arrives at Biyou Palace on Jin'ao Island.

Shifting his attention from the eastward journey of the Jie Sect, Liu Qing looked toward Xiniu Hezhou, the stronghold of Buddhism.

The Great Thunderclap Temple had been destroyed by Liu Qing and the immortals of the Intercepting Sect, and now it was just a pile of ruins. However, in the past year, unexpectedly, some life has emerged from the ruins.

Ruins and ruins represent destruction, but after destruction, life is born.

After a few wisps of life emerged, blessed by the remaining fortune of Buddhism, they slowly gained intelligence and became spirits. Subsequently, their cultivation improved, and they barely managed to pass the three trials and transform into demons.

There were three newly born demons. The first awakened the talent for creation and called himself 'Brahma'. The second awakened the talent for protection and called himself 'Vishnu'. The third awakened the talent for destruction and rebirth and became Shiva.

Liu Qing didn't even bother to look at it.

It turns out that the ancestral god of the Indians in later generations was nothing more than a three-headed little demon that sprang from the ruins.

Liu Qing waved his hand, unleashing a burst of magical power to crush the three lesser demons, but then a phantom figure appeared before him, pleading and repeatedly bowing to him. (End of Chapter)