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The fifth day of the third month, 297 years before Zhaoyang.
When Insects Awakening arrived, blood rain fell from the heavens.
What should have been sweet dew descending everywhere had instead turned into something bloody and ominous.
More than half of the people in the Dragon-Raising Temple, from top to bottom, had died or been injured. Three arhats, one bodhisattva, and countless mid-level monks had fallen beneath the blood rain.
The Dragon-Raising Temple had been drenched in blood. It had gone from flourishing like the sun at noon, lofty and supreme as it looked down upon the entire Great Wasteland, to blood flowing like water and falling apart at the seams—all in the space of a single night.
Some said that the Dragon-Raising Temple had raised a True Dragon and committed an act defying the heavens, so the heavenly punishment had descended.
Others said that a powerful Evil Lord had been born within the Dragon-Raising Temple, and this was a war between immortals and demons.
There were even those who said that the bodhisattva in the Dragon-Raising Temple had tried to advance to the legendary Buddha, only to incur Heaven's jealousy.
Su Qingqiu did not know what exactly had happened three hundred years ago.
However, now that he was inside this Evil Remains called the Blood Nest, he had seen a different perspective.
Before Insects Awakening in the year 297, the Snake Abyss had suddenly begun shaking violently. Countless demons and evil creatures, along with all kinds of strange remains, had surged out from its depths, affecting several upper levels of the Snake Abyss.
No one knew what had happened. In any case, the monks training here at the time had suffered heavy losses. Even Puzhi, the holy monk who had earned his name by exterminating the Bull Demon, had fallen here as a result.
Afterward, the three arhats and that supreme bodhisattva entered the depths of the Snake Abyss to investigate. Only after more than ten days did they flee back, battered and bewildered.
What exactly had happened was impossible to record.
After that came the blood rain incident. On the very night the three arhats returned, some died, some went mad, and some were crippled.
As for that bodhisattva, he completely sealed the Snake Abyss. After establishing all kinds of unreasonable rules, he left the Dragon-Raising Temple and had never returned to this day.
But...
"Why would the Blood Nest contain records of this information?"
"I never expected that so many things had happened before the Dragon-Raising Temple's bloodbath... What did the arhats and the bodhisattva discover in the deeper layers of the Snake Abyss?"
Su Qingqiu was filled with doubts.
However, now that the memory transfer had finished, the much-anticipated part had arrived.
He had no time to think any further.
Reward: Cloud and Mist Companion
The prerequisite spell for Riding the Clouds and Mist. After merging into the Spiritual Patterns, it passively absorbs clouds and mist to reduce its own weight. Once mastered, ascending to the heavens, entering the earth, and escaping into the void would be effortless.
The Spiritual Patterns around his body began to glow one after another, as if an invisible brush were drawing across his scales.
The Spiritual Patterns became even more intricate. Faint Water Vapor gathered of its own accord, and after a moment, it transformed into a thin mist around his scales.
Riding the Clouds and Mist!
The flying art he had long dreamed of.
"Wonderful!"
Su Qingqiu was overjoyed.
With a thought, the clouds and mist around his body rapidly gathered beneath his abdomen. Like a mass of cotton, they actually lifted him slightly into the air.
He increased the Spiritual Light. The mist grew denser and larger, and his body involuntarily rose higher. After a moment, he had already reached the top of the cavern.
He floated in the sky and played excitedly for a while before finally descending, completely satisfied.
When he dispersed the Spiritual Light, the leaden, dense mist immediately turned into a thin haze, once more drifting around his scales.
It came when summoned and left when dismissed.
With a single horn atop his head, a dragon spine on his back, and clouds and mist following him,
he increasingly possessed the bearing of a dragon.
If someone saw Su Qingqiu now and said he was not a young dragon, no one would dare believe them.
Besides that, there were also a small amount of Daoism Cultivation rewards and various miscellaneous pill rewards, which were not worth mentioning.
"This Blood Nest seemed to have been nurturing a demon before, but that demon left the Blood Nest long ago. What I swallowed was merely an empty nest."
"Those memories I obtained earlier might have been left behind by that demon..."
"And this dressing mirror..."
Su Qingqiu opened his mouth and spat out a dressing mirror. After leaving the Blood Nest, the mirror no longer had that strange state it had possessed before.
It looked just like an ordinary mirror.
But Su Qingqiu knew that the mirror could not be shattered or smashed, and that it possessed its own mysterious qualities.
After studying it for a while without gaining anything, he swallowed it again and stored it in his personal space.
To this day, as he had grown stronger, the Bashe Swallowing Elephant ability had grown several times over. His personal space was now a full ten cubic meters.
It was enough for him to use.
After the Blood Nest was devoured, the Spirit Ruins node here was completely purified.
The blood-red color around it gradually receded as well.
Su Qingqiu approached the Spirit Ruins again, and suddenly, inspiration struck him.
The Protecting the Residence innate ability activated. After a hazy Spiritual Light flashed, Su Qingqiu blinked several times and found the Spirit Ruins before him strangely familiar.
Protecting the Residence Current type: Guardian Python Current homes: Dragon-Raising Temple, first level of the Snake Abyss, second level of the Snake Abyss Special home: Blood Spirit Ruins Blood Spirit Ruins: Training here allows one to absorb the residual Spiritual Light will of Si Snake, accelerating the arrival of the next molting period and speeding up evolution and growth.
The next molting period?
Accelerate growth and evolution?
Training in this special home actually had such an astonishing effect?
Su Qingqiu immediately decided to hole up here for a century or two. He would not come out until the world had grown old and barren.
Next came training.
Taking advantage of the abundant energy in his body after consecutively devouring the Great Asura Lord and the Blood Nest, Su Qingqiu activated berserk mode.
Spiritual Light tempered his body as the Vajra Sutra continued to operate.
His muscles, organs, and bones separated layer by layer while remaining linked together, tempered again and again until they became a perfectly rounded whole and divine strength arose on its own.
As his defense rapidly multiplied through continuous training, his body also became impervious to heat and cold, untouched by a hundred poisons. Below the sixth rank, all kinds of spells found it difficult to enter his body.
His five senses had also been greatly enhanced. He could distinguish every movement within ten thousand meters of the Snake Abyss, even without Spiritual Light. With Spiritual Light scanning added in, it was like giving a tiger wings.
He was practically a living little radar.
His organs were soft yet firm, unbreakable. His stamina in particular had increased the most. He could basically go ten days or half a month without resting and remain fine.
This laid a solid foundation for Su Qingqiu's sustained, high-intensity battles in the future. One snake becoming an army and surrounding and wiping out thousands of demonic remains was no longer a dream.
Day after day of training caused the mysterious substance contained within his Crimson Fire Dragon Spine to gradually spread toward all the bones in his body.
Su Qingqiu's Serpent Bone began to crystallize, with the skull showing the most obvious change. If his bones were cracked open and examined, one would find that they seemed to have been coated with a thick layer of Spiritual Crystals.
Under the sweep of Spiritual Light, they shone brilliantly, like the bones of an immortal god from legend.
Immortal Skin and Jade Bone!
And so, time flew by. In the blink of an eye, two months passed.
These past few days, Su Qingqiu had felt itchy all over. His soul swayed with dizziness, and his entire body felt as though ten thousand ants were gnawing at his heart, bringing an indescribably maddening itch.
Only then did he stop his frenzied training. He suddenly realized that without noticing, he had absorbed all the Spiritual Light will of Si Snake within the Spirit Ruins, reaching the stage for another molting.
The second molting after becoming a Spiritual Python had finally, at this moment...
arrived late.
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