Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 57: Snake Hidden in the Ox's Stomach
All birds, beasts, insects and fish, after awakening their spirits, escape from chaos and transform into spirits. Those with strong bodies will be born with one or two talents.

Like Hong Gu’s water arrows and bubbles.

After becoming a spirit, he had to go through three levels to become a demon. After becoming a demon, due to the monkey making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, the Heavenly Palace banned all demon cultivators in the world from practicing the "skills, skills, scriptures, and secrets".
As a result, demon cultivators have no collections to learn, no techniques to practice, and no way to cultivate Taoist magic after birth.

Therefore, in the past, when demon cultivators fought, apart from relying on their own bodies and minions, the only way left was to awaken their talents.

But for awakening talents, generally speaking, the stronger the body, the earlier it awakens and the greater the number, while the weaker the body, the later it awakens and the fewer the number.

For example, Hong Gu can awaken two talents when she is a spirit. For example, Zuoshou Ge is about to pass the third level, but his talent has not been awakened yet.

Of course, Liu Qing, the cheater, is an exception.

Some curious people have studied the talents awakened by mountain monsters or water monsters and concluded that most monsters will awaken at least one talent after they transform into monsters.

As for this talent, there is more than a 90% probability that the awakening one will be of the storage type.

Based on what he had seen in the past, Liu Qing deeply agreed with this conclusion.

For example, Xia Kexing and Eel Grandpa can take things out with just a wipe of their mouths. By analogy with the above, it seems that this buffalo monster, who is in the late stage of refining essence into qi, must also have a talent for storage.

River monsters mostly originate from fish swim bladders and air sacs, awakening their storage talents, while mountain monsters originate from stomach sacs, crop sacs, and cheek pouches.

The buffalo monster has four stomachs and is the leading merchant in Dayanhu Market. It travels between the water and the shore, carrying a lot of goods. It is obvious that it must have awakened the talent for storage, and it is in one of the four stomachs.

Liu Qing didn't know which one it was, and was too lazy to think about it. He used the water knife to cut open all four cow stomachs one by one.

Immediately, waves of strong stench came.

It's not the rumen, the reticulum, or the omasum. When it comes to the last abomasum, I see the water knife cut through it.
Suddenly, a large pile of messy things fell out of the wrinkled stomach, which was originally only the size of a bowl.

Liu Qing was delighted, as he had found it.

Looking closer, I saw that the most abundant thing in the pile was large yellow-brown salt blocks, weighing about one or two hundred kilograms.
The second is some dried meat, preserved fruits, earthworms, and bait fermented with bran.
Besides these, there was also a jar and several rusty iron forks. The iron forks were probably stolen and sold to the guards of the water monster as weapons. They were much sharper than the swords and guns made of fish bones, crab claws, and crocodile teeth in the hands of the river monster.
As for magic weapons, forget it. The Heavenly Court has cut off the "skills, skills, scriptures, and secrets" of demon cultivators, which naturally includes the collection of magic weapons.

In the Dawan Lake Water Palace, the water warning order that Liu Qing had seen was copied from the water vein map naturally nurtured by the water eye.
As for the Xiangshui Turtle Shells and the Shocking Demon Drumsticks, they are old and dead tortoise monsters from the mansion master's lineage. After they died of old age, the tortoise shells and leg bones on their corpses were nourished by demonic energy for a long time, and they were naturally magical, equivalent to low-grade demon weapons, but it does not mean that these two were artificially refined.

Therefore, the big and small monsters in the water palace are short of magic weapons and are extremely poor.

Liu Qing is able to own a top-grade magical weapon, the Water Spirit Pearl. I'm afraid that in the Water Palace, he is considered to be a wealthy man.

Without being able to equip the shrimp soldiers and crab generals with magical weapons, and only having bone knives and bone spears, how can we deal with the attacks from mountain monsters and other water palaces?

The master of the mansion slapped his bald turtle head and said, "Let's go to the human world on the shore to buy gold and iron swords and guns. Apart from the fact that they will rust after being used in the water for a long time, they have no other disadvantages."

At this point, the leaders followed suit. Since the lord of the mansion had opened the door, naturally some merchants dared to sell human weapons in the market.

Liu Qing moved the jar in front of him, conjured up his hands, and carefully opened the mud seal. Suddenly, a strong aroma of wine rushed into his nostrils, making him drowsy and his snake body limp.

Liu Qing was shocked. Although he had a poor alcohol tolerance in his previous life, he had never fallen to the point of sharing a table with a dog during a banquet. He only drank a glass of white wine and two bottles of beer. Looking around, which child under ten years old could beat him?
But now, the snake's body has become limp due to the smell of alcohol. Why is this?
Suddenly, he slapped his forehead and woke up with a start. It turned out that he had turned into a snake. Snakes are afraid of alcohol and realgar, which is their instinct.

Forget it, I'd better seal this jar of old wine and send it to the master of the mansion at the beginning of winter. Finally, from under this pile of things, Liu Qing finally dug out what he wanted.

Incense silver.

Big and small, they were pinched into small pieces by shrimp claws and crab legs, and were scattered at a penny or an ounce, but there was absolutely no whole ingot of five or ten ounces.

After shaking it and counting it, I found that there were almost ten taels, which was a good harvest.

If Liu Qing hadn't snatched the business away today, and so many buffalo salt products hadn't been sold, I'm afraid the incense money would have increased several times.

Liu Qing opened his mouth, smiled happily, and swallowed the pile of salt and silver on the ground into his mouth.

Several cow stomachs were cut open, and a pile of undigested or half-digested water plants, fish and shrimps were scattered around, smelling very sour.
After the stomach sac is rinsed clean in the river, it endures the dirt and swallows it into the mouth sac. After returning, it is fed to some eels, catfish and loaches with thick mouths to help it metamorphose.

Finally, there were only a few piles of stolen goods left. Liu Qing spit out the Water Spirit Pearl, causing waves to form, trying to sweep all the stolen goods into the water and bury them under the mud at the bottom of the river.

But just as Liu Qing was casting the spell, something suddenly rolled out from the stolen goods in the stomach.

The whole body is the size of an egg, irregular oval in shape, and bright yellow. It is clearly the precious medicinal herb bezoar.

If I sell it to a pharmacy in the human world, this one bezoar would probably cost dozens of taels of silver. Although human silver is of no use to me, it is still unexpected money, so I will just accept it.

Liu Qing rinsed the bezoar with a smile, and just as he was about to swallow it into his mouth, his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

It seems that the entire body of the horned boa constrictor, every inch of muscle and bone, every cell particle, is emitting excitement.

It’s like an old bachelor who has been single for many years meeting a female Bodhisattva who donates her body.

Liu Qing was shocked and smashed the ox-bile. The trembling in his blood was definitely not because of the ox-bile, because he had never heard that ox-bile could evolve into a snake or python.

After smashing it, Liu Qing found a piece of bone the size of a little finger. The bone was as black as ink and faintly exuded blood pressure.

[Explanation: A section of the tailbone of a snake demon at the Soul Refining Return to Void stage. This can be swallowed and refined to aid the transformation of the original horned boa.]

Liu Qing was overjoyed.

The long-lost path of the body's transformation began to show some clues after the appearance of the tailbone of this viper monster.

Liu Qing rinsed it clean, opened his mouth and swallowed it into his stomach. His elephant-swallowing talent came into play, quickly refining and absorbing the tailbone of the snake demon.

But this tailbone came from a snake monster that had refined its spirit and returned to the void. Although its elephant-swallowing talent had grown to a small degree, it would probably take some time to completely refine and absorb it.

The horn of transformation has sounded again. Liu Qing just needs to wait patiently and not be in a hurry.

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