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Exorcism and Blessing underway.

Scene after scene emerged.

In a year of great drought, monsters bred in droves.

Evil demons and crooked cultivators of every stripe emerged one after another, ravaging Zhaoyang Country.

Summer, Year 38.

Great Wasteland, Luo River Land. Yet this summer, it remained unaffected by the drought. Heavy rain fell without pause, utterly unlike the other regions of the Great Wasteland.

Luojia Mountain, known as the Luo River Spirit Mountain, was destroyed overnight when flash floods erupted. The people along its banks were displaced and left in unspeakable misery.

Refugees gathered in crowds. In the shadows, the Hundred-Eyed Devil established a divine cult, spreading its doctrines and drawing countless impoverished people into its ranks.

It turned out that the Hundred-Eyed Devil had discovered an ancient ruin within Luojia Mountain, but opening it required vast quantities of flesh essence, as well as the seven-cun bone of the Ancient Si Snake.

Already plotting against Dragon-Raising Temple, the Hundred-Eyed Devil confirmed that the Dragon Bone within Dragon-Raising Temple's Snake Abyss was the remnant of the Ancient Si Snake he had been seeking.

Thus, he had his soul fragment intensify contact with Yuanming, who had long since been corrupted, cultivating the Serpent Seed of Si while plotting against Dragon-Raising Temple and seeking to seize the Ancient Si Snake's bones.

Unfortunately, man proposed, but heaven disposed. The Hundred-Eyed Devil never imagined that both the Serpent Seed of Si he had painstakingly cultivated with Dragon Bone Spiritual Light and his own soul fragment would become food delivered right to Su Qingqiu's door.

Not only had they died, but Su Qingqiu had also uncovered every detail of their secret schemes.

"Presumably, the Hundred-Eyed Devil began plotting against Dragon-Raising Temple three years ago, when Yuanming started dealing with the evil demons Beyond Heaven. The ruin at Luojia Mountain was only discovered this summer... So his plot against Dragon-Raising Temple wasn't solely for the Ancient Si Snake's bones?"

For a time, Su Qingqiu could not figure out what else within Dragon-Raising Temple, apart from the Dragon Bone, could have caught the Hundred-Eyed Devil's eye.

"Still, this thing is actually a snake—the Ancient Si Snake... I thought it really was a dragon."

Su Qingqiu clicked his tongue in wonder as he looked at the massive Dragon Bone.

Judging by the size of this Dragon Bone, the Ancient Si Snake had been no less than ten thousand meters long, with a diameter of over a hundred meters. It could be called a super giant beast.

After waiting a little longer, Exorcism and Blessing succeeded.

Su Qingqiu suddenly felt a piercing pain at the center of his forehead.

A vast surge of blood and vitality abruptly rushed toward that spot.

The next moment—

A single horn slowly grew out.

The horn was about three chi and seven cun long and half a chi thick. Broad at the base and narrow at the tip, it thrust skyward. Its entire body was fiery red, as though flames had condensed within it, matching the Crimson Line along Su Qingqiu's back.

Flames blazed brightly, and all evil retreated.

[Obtained: Crimson Fire Horn, 300 years of cultivation.]

"A horn? Is this really going to turn me into a dragon?"

Joy filled Su Qingqiu's heart.

At that moment, the Spiritual Light that had constantly flowed through his body and the Spiritual Patterns spread across his flesh seemed like wandering children returning home.

They all gathered toward the horn atop his head. Spiritual Light poured into it, while Spiritual Patterns covered its surface.

The Crimson Fire Horn shone brilliantly as raging flames surged upward. The cold, damp air around the Dragon Bone instantly evaporated away.

Even the Evil Qi wailed as it continuously fled outward.

The Crimson Fire Horn transformed Spiritual Light into blazing flames, burning away all Evil Spirits.

It suppressed and warded off evil, like a blazing sun that looked down upon all beneath it.

At the same time, the flames of the Crimson Fire Horn flowed across his entire body. Everywhere they passed, Su Qingqiu's scales crackled and popped.

Then, a layer of crimson flame Spiritual Patterns appeared over his golden snake scales. These Spiritual Patterns were more intricate, yet also more three-dimensional.

One glance was enough to make an ordinary person dizzy, leave their ears ringing and mind dazed, even causing auditory hallucinations and signs of corruption.

Not only that, under the enhancement of these Spiritual Patterns, it felt as though flames were burning within his body at every moment. From afar, he looked like an Ancient Fire Snake that had crawled out of molten magma!

Spiritual Patterns: hardness, protection, heaviness, rebound, crimson fire...

Crimson Fire Spirit Veins!

"They're attribute Spiritual Patterns—and fire attribute ones at that!"

Su Qingqiu's Serpent Eyes suddenly widened.

He had never imagined that the Crimson Fire Horn he obtained this time would cause all the Spiritual Patterns across his body to transform again, becoming Crimson Fire Spirit Veins.

Attribute Spiritual Patterns were exceedingly rare!

Any Spiritual Serpent that gained an attribute, so long as it grew strong enough, would become an overlord capable of suppressing an entire region.

According to the records within Dragon-Raising Temple, three hundred years ago, near Wanlin City in the northwest of the Great Wasteland, a fire-attribute Demon Snake once occupied the mountains.

This snake was twenty zhang long, with a fiery red horn growing from the center of its forehead. Its scales were dark and black, yet its belly was as clean and white as a fish's underbelly. Its eyes were bright crimson; when it emerged at night to wreak havoc, they looked like two great lanterns!

Unfortunately, the snake had already turned into a demon. Corrupted and fallen under the erosion of Evil Qi, it had only one thought left in its mind: becoming a dragon.

It even sought to devour living creatures to hasten its cultivation, Stirring Wind and Waves near Wanlin City. Countless villages were destroyed, Wanlin City itself nearly reduced to ruins, and corpses and White Bone covered the mountains and plains.

In the end, a passing eminent monk of Dragon-Raising Temple sealed and killed it by sacrificing himself.

This was also the only fire-attribute Spiritual Serpent ever recorded in Dragon-Raising Temple's history. Sadly, it had already fallen into demonhood and reached the point where it had to be killed.

Over a thousand years, there had been only this one fire-attribute Spiritual Serpent within Zhaoyang Country. The rarity of attribute Spiritual Serpents was plain to see.

It was said that if Dragon-Raising Temple's Monks absorbed the Spiritual Light spilling from an attribute Spiritual Serpent, they could grasp attribute Daoism cultivation and magical power.

Then, every movement and every attack would become an attribute attack. The extent of such an enhancement was easy to imagine.

The Crimson Fire Horn and Crimson Fire Spirit Veins, like the Eyes of the Spiritual Snake, were parts of Su Qingqiu's body—equivalent to innate divine abilities.

They were completely different from spells like the Rain Accumulation Technique.

"Hmm... Spiritual Light seems to be gradually transforming toward the fire attribute too... Interesting. If I used the Minor Rain Accumulation Technique now, what would fall? Heavenly Fire Meteors?"

Su Qingqiu scratched his head. He could test those questions later; there were more important matters to handle now.

This time, he had obtained the Crimson Fire Horn, and his Spiritual Patterns had even become attribute-based. Moreover, when the Vajra Sutra used fire-attribute Spiritual Light, its tempering effect on the flesh was clearly thirty percent stronger.

Thus, the urge to shed his skin, which Su Qingqiu had only barely suppressed, surfaced once more.

And this time, no matter what he did, he could not suppress it.

The drowsiness brought by shedding was already about to overwhelm his reason.

He forcibly gathered up the items dropped by the Hundred-Eyed Devil's soul fragment, then cast a Major Rain Accumulation Technique. After emptying all his Spiritual Light, he fell into slumber.

Emptying one's Spiritual Light before shedding was beneficial to the growth of one's own Spiritual Light.

Su Qingqiu had fallen asleep, but the Spiritual Light he had emptied with that Rain Accumulation Technique contained fire-attribute Spiritual Light as well.

Thus, the moment the Major Rain Accumulation Technique emerged, heaven and earth changed color. In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled above Dragon-Raising Temple. Streaks of fiery red radiance, like clouds aflame at sunset, dyed the entire mass of dark clouds crimson.

Within those clouds, a fire dragon seemed to faintly dance and move.

It was truly astonishing.

The countless factions keeping watch on Dragon-Raising Temple became even more convinced by the rumors that a True Dragon haunted the temple.

After the strange phenomenon of Dragon-Raising Temple's unceasing rain, fiery dragon clouds became another topic of conversation over tea and meals.