Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 49: Drilling wood to make fire
The Water Spirit Pearl is a top-grade magical instrument with the functions of spreading fog and creating waves, purifying water, evolving water eyes, and controlling water veins.

The Blue Crab's Left Hand Brother reported that the underground waterway has been widened, and the rivers on both sides converge along the waterway, connecting with each other.
A constant supply of fresh water gushes out from the water eye under the Snake Pond, so there is no need to use the Water Spirit Pearl to evolve another water eye on the Xiaolugou side.

Although Xiaolugou does not need to evolve into a water hole and can share one with Shetan, there is currently too much silt at the bottom of the Xiaolugou River, causing the riverbed to rise.
The raised riverbed was actually much higher than the Snake Pond. The water veins that originally followed the natural pattern of being high in the west and low in the east were reversed.
Such water veins and water flow will greatly affect the future confluence of the two waters.

Therefore, after the Blue Crab Left Hand Brother expanded the waterway, Liu Qing took the time to go to Xiaolugou and control the water spirit beads.

It stimulates its ability to control water veins, stirs up the silt at the bottom of the river, and piles it up on both sides of the river.

The reason why it is called silt is naturally because water and mud are mixed together. Liu Qing uses the Water Spirit Pearl to control the water veins and manipulate the river water, so naturally he can also stir up the silt.

But then, the Water Spirit Pearl emitted a radiant aquamarine light. When the light suddenly appeared, the river water seemed to be lifted up from the middle by a pair of huge hands.
Carrying the silt from the riverbed, it rolled and piled up along both sides of the river. The black silt with a rotten smell was piled up on the shore.

At this point, the riverbed of Xiaolugou has moved down nearly ten feet and is lower than Shetan. The water level of the two is higher in the west and lower in the east. Only the Shetan water hole is needed to ensure that the river will not dry up in all seasons.

The eels and loaches startled from the mud hurriedly crawled out and slid into the water. Many river clams, some as big as bowls, and some as big as washbasins and water tanks, stretched out their fleshy feet, crawled out of the mud and climbed into the water.

The snake demon makes salt, but has no cooking container. Then the huge river clams in Xiaolugou are not natural pots?

Thinking of what he saw when clearing the silt earlier, Liu Qing had an idea and asked Brother Zuoshou, the blue crab, to go to Xiaolugou quickly and pick out a few of the largest river clams.

These clams mostly feed on the humus in the mud at the bottom of the river. There is a lot of silt in the small reed ditch, reeds grow in the river, and shrubs grow on the river bank. How can there be no humus from rotting fallen leaves?
Therefore, with sufficient food supply, even if they have not transformed into monsters, they are all huge in size.

Soon, the blue crab brother Zuoshou came hurriedly, with a river clam the size of a water tank mouth in each of its claws.

There is no need to spend effort to open the clams. Liu Qing just puts them in the sun. Soon, they will die of lack of water and the shells will open by themselves.

Now that they have a container for boiling water and need gauze or linen to filter out the rock salt and gravel, what are the river monsters in the wilderness going to do?
Liu Qing originally planned to wait until dark, then go to Lijiawu Fort to find Li Shimin and borrow some gauze.

But when he saw the sloughs of water pythons and anacondas among the rocks on the shore of the Snake Pond, his eyes lit up.

The skin shed by the python is as tough as gauze, and after being dried, it is covered with tiny holes as thin as a hair.

If this is used as a filter, isn't it better than gauze in the human world?
"White Snake, go get those snake sloughs over there and bring them over to me, the master—"

After having satisfactory subordinates, Liu Qing was almost too lazy to do some trivial matters.

The white snake responded softly, then turned its head and called out to a water python beside it that had a thick body but a short tail.

The water python was also extraordinary. Although it had not yet transformed into a monster, it was also smart. It seemed to understand the white snake's snake language, turned around and meandered away.

After a while, the short-tailed water python came back with the python skin it had just shed yesterday in its mouth.

Liu Qing took it, looked at it in the sunlight, and a look of satisfaction appeared in his snake eyes.

The cooking container was replaced by clam shells, and the shed python skin was used as gauze for filtering. Now, only the fire is left.

Since he did not go down the mountain to borrow gauze from Li Shimin, Liu Qing was not going to bother Li Shimin with the fire.
After all, favors will lose their value if used too much. If you have to use them, use them at critical moments, such as the big iron cage when you passed the thunder and lightning level.

If you don't go down the mountain to borrow fire, then you can make fire by rubbing two sticks together yourself.

Friends who are planning to travel through time, who among them has not carefully watched Bear Grylls: Man vs. Wild before traveling?
Liu Qing found a dry branch and asked Brother Zuoshou to pinch one end of it thinner. He also found a rotten and dry tree trunk and asked Brother Zuoshou to pinch a small hole in it. He put some dry moss and willow catkins that were everywhere in spring in the hole.

The rest will be left to Baisheer.

Let it wrap its tail around a small branch and rub the branch back and forth repeatedly in the tree hole.

A white snake that can wag its tail more happily than a dog's is most suitable for making fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Chi chi, chi chi.
The white snake wrapped itself around the small branch and kept turning. As the sun rose higher, the sunlight became more intense.
The white snake was so tired that its core hung out of its mouth and it was wheezing.

Liu Qing was kindhearted. Seeing that the white snake was tired and hot, he sprayed a stream of water to cool it down.

Of course, the water splashes are controlled so that it cannot splash onto branches and roots.

Time passed by in the rustling of branches, including Liu Qing, the blue crab Zuoshouge, the three carps including the scarred carp floating on the water, and numerous snakes and pythons.
They all opened their eyes wide and stared at the hole in the tree trunk.

Suddenly, a puff of green smoke rose from the small hole in the tree trunk.

“Hey, it worked!”

"White Snake, turn faster, don't stop!"

Liu Qing walked forward excitedly, put his mouth close to the smoking willow moss, and blew gently.

In the curling green smoke, as he blew, little sparks lit up. Liu Qing blew a little harder, and in an instant, the sparks ignited the willow catkins.

Teng, a cluster of flames rose.

The white snake bounced up due to the burning and let out a hissing sound.

Brother Zuoshou, the carps, and the snakes and pythons saw the fire rising. Their expectant eyes instantly turned into fear, and they all dived back into the water.

There is no monster that is not afraid of fire, especially river monsters.

Fortunately, there was a human soul in Liu Qing's demon body. He had seen many flames, so he suppressed his body's instinctive fear of fire.
Pile some dead leaves and branches that have been prepared long ago on the burning flames.

Suddenly, thick smoke billowed and wildfires rose.

The two clams were opened by the sun, and Brother Zuoshou took out the clam meat, handed one piece to the white snake, and the other piece to the short-tailed water python that provided the snake skin.
Then, place one of the clams on the stones that had been piled up earlier, and the other clams on a stone stove that is slightly lower nearby.

The short-tailed water python, along with a group of snake pythons, took the crushed rock salt particles and put them into the shells of the river clams. Then the carp spirits sprayed water into the shells.

The white snake jumped into the clam shell and swung its tail rapidly, stirring the water and rock salt particles until they were fully dissolved.
When the water turned yellow-brown, Liu Qing signaled, and Brother Zuoshou of the Blue Crab picked up the clam shell and poured it into the snake skin of the short-tailed water python.

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