Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 16 Second Molting
The dark and cloudy sky was suddenly torn apart by a pair of huge hands.

The golden sunlight shines directly down.

Suddenly, the entire pond became colorful and lively.

The waves are sparkling, dotted with golden fragments, reeds are blowing horns, lotus pods are beating drums, and the frog band, which has been silent for a long time, is singing a cheerful chorus.

The carp flicked its tail and jumped out of the shallow water. Its red body passed over Liu Qing's head and fell straight into the water.

The next moment, the water in the pool surged up and made huge splashes.

The carp emerged from the water with splashes of water. Its body length had increased from two feet to three feet, and its originally red scales had become as thick as blood.

Of the six whiskers around its mouth, only two remain, one on each side of its jaw. Its originally plump body has also become slender.

The tail becomes narrower, the tail fin becomes longer and larger, and the original pair of pectoral fins are also covered with a layer of fleshy membrane. If you don't look carefully, you might think it has grown two hands.

This is not a carp at all, it's clearly a dragon fish.

Liu Qing was astonished. He never thought that a low-grade earth treasure could have such miraculous effects. It not only restored the injured carp's body to its original state, but also transformed it into a dragon fish.

It is said that carp has the appearance of a dragon but not the form of a dragon. After this metamorphosis, it even has the form of a dragon.

Do you regret giving the inferior earth treasure to the carp instead of using it yourself? No, the carp has done you a great favor by helping you enter the Dao. When you receive a favor, you should think about repaying it.

There was a smile in the eyes of the Willow Green Snake, and it chirped towards the carp, congratulating it on its great improvement in cultivation.

The carp's eyes were red, tears welling up in them, and it opened its mouth and cried out with gratitude: "Gu, gu, I'm green."

"Ahem, puff—"

After a few violent coughs, the carp suddenly spat out a few pieces of bloody bones: "Xiaoqing, thank you."

Liu Qing's eyes suddenly widened, with a look of shock and surprise, and he made a quick snake sound, as if asking, "You can actually speak?"
This was the first time since he traveled through time that a living creature spoke in front of him. After Liu Qing was shocked, he was also filled with envy.

I don’t know when I will be able to achieve profound Taoism, refine my transverse bones, and speak.

"Yes, yes, I can speak now, Xiaoqing, thank you."

As the carp spoke, she became more and more fluent, and her voice changed from hoarse at the beginning to a clear female voice.

"From now on, Hong Gu will help you."

There was a look of realization in Liu Qingshe's eyes. The carp was blood red all over. When it didn't speak, it often made gurgling sounds. Perhaps for this reason, it named itself Hong Gu.

Carp Honggu turned her body and swung her tail in front of Liu Qing. Liu Qing smiled and climbed onto her body along her tail.

Hong Gu laughed like a silver bell, bumped her head with Liu Qing on her back, flicked her tail, and swam happily in the pond.

The water snake embraces the carp, and the carp plays in the water. Ripples appear behind it, and the lotus pods and lotus leaves are twisted and distorted. Accompanied by cheerful laughter from time to time, the frogs and toads sitting on the lotus leaves are scared and run away in all directions.

Hong Gu flicked her tail, broke off a lotus pod, put it in her mouth and bit it into pieces, then turned her head and sprayed out the white and tender lotus seeds, which landed right on her back.

"Xiaoqing, try it——"

Liu Qing tasted one and found it bitter, so he didn't like it very much. Seeing this, Hong Gu dived underwater and swam for a while before bringing Liu Qing to a pile of rocks at the bottom of the water.

There are jagged rocks of varying sizes at the bottom of the deep water, and the surface is covered with dense moss and aquatic plants.

Hong Gu suddenly swung her tail and hit a rock hard.

With a bang, bubbles rose up and the water in the pool became turbid. The stone suddenly moved and a head popped out from the front.

It was the old turtle from before.

When the old turtle saw Hong Gu and Liu Qing coming to his door, he looked at himself with fear and stretched out his limbs to paddle quickly, trying to escape.

But how could the clumsy turtle swim faster than the carp? It had not swam far when it was caught up by Hong Gu. She opened her mouth and shot out a water arrow, which immediately pierced the grass turtle's head.

The turbid pool water quickly turned a shade of red.

Hong Gu opened her mouth and spit out another bubble. The bubble quickly grew larger in the water, wrapping up the grass turtle as big as a millstone, and then was pulled to the surface of the water.

Liu Qing guessed that this talent of blowing bubbles and trapping others might be a new thing that emerged during Hong Gu's transformation.

Hong Gu led the grass turtle to the side of the big bluestone, and swung its tail to break the shell. Liu Qing understood what she meant, and went inside the broken shell to feast on it.

After eating, Liu Qing was too lazy to move, so he climbed onto Qingshi's back and dozed off in the sun, while Hong Gu stood by and watched over him.

Soon after, today's intelligence was updated, the level was white, indicating that the lotus roots in the mud at the bottom of Liuqing River were delicious.

But there was turtle meat next to him. No matter how delicious the lotus root was, it could not compare to the taste of turtle meat. Liu Qing did not go there as instructed.

Before I knew it, it was evening.

Liu Qing had exhausted too much energy last night and was still very sleepy. She did not wake up. Hong Gu looked at the crescent moon and thought for a moment before calling out softly, "Xiao Qing, wake up and go breathe the moonlight with your sister."

The voice was extremely gentle and doting, and it was clear that it was an older sister calling her sleepy younger brother to wake up.

After a night of breathing, Liu Qing's body was tempered by the moonlight again, and the source of energy of heaven and earth also increased by 2 points.

When swallowing, Liu Qing signaled Hong Gu to learn to expel the foul air from the anus, which could double the efficiency.
But Hong Gu was reluctant to do it because of her body. Liu Qing was speechless and rolled her eyes. "Sister, we are demons, not human daughters."

In the next few days, Liu Qing lay on the back of the big bluestone to bask in the sun and doze off during the day, eating the fish and shrimps caught by Hong Gu in the pond. At night, he followed Hong Gu to breathe in the moonlight, and his life was extremely comfortable.

Hong Gu was like a doting sister who passed food and drink to Liu Qing's mouth. In one go, Liu Qing went from being a water snake struggling to survive to a nerd who had food served to him.

The intelligence system has been lackluster these days, with all reports at the white level, either indicating bird eggs in the green grass or a nest of newly born water rats in a hole on the shore.

But compared with the plump and fresh fish fed by Hong Gu, these were far inferior and time-consuming and laborious, so Liu Qing ignored them.

The system panel showed that the Heaven and Earth Source Qi had accumulated to 10 points. Liu Qing had not unlocked any new bloodline talents.
Instead, he spent 9 points to increase the growth of the tail whip talent to a small success. He planned to accumulate the remaining 1 point for three or four days to improve the thick armor talent.

But plans can never keep up with changes. On the tenth day, Liu Qing woke up and found that his eyes were blurry. He was shocked and realized that this was the blindfold period and it was time for the second molting.

At this time, Liu Qing's body had reached nearly two feet in length and was as thick as a finger and a half. In just over a month, it had grown to the same size as other adult water snakes.
It shows how exaggerated the growth rate is for someone with the talent of swallowing elephants.

(End of this chapter)