Chapter 340: The Beginning of Transformation

On the bamboo slip, many names had been crossed out, but one name remained very clearly there.

The color on it revealed purple-red, as if it had dripped blood when it was carved, leaving it to become withered.

Brother.

Xu Qing looked at this name, his expression calm, looking as if there were no waves, only the hand holding the iron sign exerted force imperceptibly.

Then he withdrew his gaze, put away the bamboo slip, looked up at the red sunset clouds under the dusk in the sky, and after half a while, spoke softly to the Captain and Amidst Yan Yan.

"I am going to retreat for a while."

Amidst Yan Yan faintly felt that Xu Qing's mood seemed a bit low. Hearing this, she nodded hurriedly.

"Go, little Ah Qing, with Senior Brother here, rest assured to rush to the third palace." The Captain sat there and laughed.

"Big Senior Brother, I might have some poison dissipate during this retreat. You don't get too close. If... a change occurs, you leave at the first time. Don't pay attention to me. I can do it myself."

Xu Qing reminded.

The Captain heard this and was just about to brag a few words, but after thinking about it, he still pulled away rapidly.

For Xu Qing's poison, he had seen it many times and felt it was becoming more and more strange.

Amidst Yan Yan also widened her eyes and retreated immediately. She remembered the Night Dove members who were poisoned in the Capture Criminal Division prison.

Seeing the two like this, Xu Qing felt relieved. This time he was going to put the poison prohibition core into the heavenly palace. Although he had planned for a long time and analyzed the risks, after all, there were still some unknowns.

In addition, he didn't know how long he would be in retreat this time, so he gave the control of the magic ship to the Captain and turned to walk toward the cabin.

Just as he was about to step into the cabin, Xu Qing suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look at the Captain.

"Big Senior Brother, I seem to have never seen your magic boat?"

The Captain heard this, his expression revealed pride, and he spoke proudly.

"It is being nourished in a mysterious place. It will be ready soon. When it is ready, I will take it out. I guarantee that the old man will be taken aback after seeing it."

Xu Qing was used to the Captain's exaggerated words, so he nodded and walked into the cabin.

After stepping in, he closed the cabin door, sat cross-legged, pinched the art with both hands, opened the formation to seal the cabin completely, making the aura unable to dissipate.

Then he took out some magic tools and arranged them around.

After doing these, Xu Qing took a deep breath, opened the storage bag to organize, especially opening the bottles and jars obtained from the Youjing Spirit Venerable's cave dwelling one by one to check and distinguish, finding things containing vitality inside.

After all, the only thing useful against the poison prohibition core was vitality.

After screening, Xu Qing also checked other items in the same way, until everything was ready, he closed his eyes and was silent for half a while, then took out the wish box.

Looking at the wish box in front of him, Xu Qing didn't open it immediately. With a wave of his hand, an ancient jade slip appeared in his hand.

This jade slip was exactly the thing that existed in the wish box along with the poison prohibition core back then.

At this moment, it was held in Xu Qing's hand. As for the residual poison on it, his resistance had been able to ignore it to a certain extent, and there was the recovery power of the purple crystal, so although his right hand was a bit black, it didn't appear to rot.

As divine sense poured in, the vicissitudes of the voice echoed in Xu Qing's mind like heavenly thunder again.

"What is the Great Dao? Three thousand Great Daos, all can become saints. Is there a poison Dao within?"

"The world disdains the evil and vicious, disdains the poisonous and strange, regarding it as a rule of small Dao, difficult to become a great weapon?"

"I also once thought so, spitting on the method of poison and evil."

"Until one day I killed an alien race walking out of the divine domain. This cultivator's combat power was heaven-shaking, and the Dao he cultivated was incomparably evil. Before he died, his poisonous eyes stared, making my cultivation fall one big realm a day."

"Ten days later, I turned into a mortal, experienced sixty years of time in the mortal world, suffered endless pain and torture, spent countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures to survive, and refined this poison out of my body, turning it into a core."

"From then on, I studied this core until the catastrophe descended, but I never succeeded, leaving a semi-finished thing for future generations."

"This core is poison and also prohibition! If a high-level cultivator obtains it, they cannot use it themselves, or they will surely die without a place to be buried. They need to find a low-level cultivator at the heavenly palace Golden Core stage, make them replace the Golden Core in the heavenly palace they cultivate with this poison core, and become a cultivator of a different poison core."

"Only in this way can one change the divine soul and make oneself embark on this path of prohibition core!"

"According to my deduction, the path of prohibition core uses poison to shake all living beings, uses prohibition to destroy ten thousand generations, is terrifying and terrible, or is the method of the mysterious divine domain, and the divine domain will eventually be the enemy of ten thousand clans!"

Xu Qing's eyes revealed decisiveness.

"Putting this poison prohibition core in the wish box into the heavenly palace... this matter, listening to this senior's tone, seems to be his deduction, but I don't believe he hasn't tested it."

"But clearly, they all failed."

"So no matter what, in the end, there is a huge risk. What changes will occur, everything is unknown."

Xu Qing muttered in his heart, but the decisiveness in his eyes did not decrease.

"However, I have constantly adapted to this poison, and while having a certain resistance, I have also integrated the little black insects into it, which can stay for a short time."

"Although I don't have complete resistance to it yet, I have also achieved the extreme, and it is difficult to obtain more resistance."

"And the most important thing is that this poison prohibition core has almost lost its spirituality and is in a withered state, and it is still a semi-finished core, not a perfected thing."

"Continuing like this, its withered state will become thicker. If it really turns into a dead core completely, its value will be greatly reduced. Only by integrating it can there be a possibility of its revival."

"If you don't integrate it and continue to wait, it makes no sense. Who knows what will happen in the future, but following the rules can no longer satisfy my goal. I want to become stronger, only by taking risks."

Xu Qing took a deep breath and felt his third heavenly palace. This palace had already materialized ninety-nine percent, and only after forming a Golden Core could it be completely turned from illusory to real.

"The path of cultivation, where is there smooth sailing? It is inevitable to bear huge risks on the road!" Xu Qing raised his right hand and opened the wish box directly.

The moment this iron box was opened, a black poison core was revealed inside.

This core was much more withered than before, and the activity inside was almost gone, as if after the wish box was opened for the first time and contacted the outside world, its withered state intensified.

Xu Qing had long discovered this point and also knew that if it continued like this, I am afraid this core would eventually become a core without a source, and after repeated volatilization, it would completely dissipate in the world.

And at this moment, as it opened, as the rich poisonous gas dissipated and permeated the surroundings, Xu Qing bore the brunt, and his body shook.

Even with a certain resistance, even with the purple crystal, this poison prohibition core still made his whole body turn black rapidly, but Xu Qing didn't care about these anymore. His eyes were determined, and he raised his right hand to pick up the poison core in the box.

In the next instant, his right hand directly turned into Guiyou, became transparent, and covered the poison core.

And this poison core was astonishing. Even if Xu Qing's right hand turned into Guiyou, he could still see black silk threads forming inside, as if this state could not escape the power of this poison.

Xu Qing ignored these. After holding the poison core with his Guiyou hand, he probed rapidly toward his dantian.

Probing into the sea of consciousness, touching the heavenly palace, Xu Qing had done this many times, but this was the first time he used it on himself.

This was also the method he thought of.

If this core was swallowed, Xu Qing felt that his physical body might not be able to bear it. If it was sent to the heavenly palace directly with the Guiyou hand, in his analysis, the success rate was greater.

Thus, without hesitation, the Guiyou hand penetrated his own flesh and blood, and in Xu Qing's force, he stretched it toward his own sea of consciousness violently, approached instantly, and touched his third palace.

This process was incomparably painful, and there was the invasion of the poison core power. Xu Qing's body was trembling.

But he gritted his teeth dead, and his movements didn't pause at all. He knew very well that the faster this matter was completed, the better.

So with great perseverance, the moment his right hand touched his own third palace, he penetrated violently, loosened his palm inside this third palace, and put down the poison prohibition core inside.

Then his right hand withdrew rapidly.

Although his movements were fast, the severe pain still surged from his body. Xu Qing's body shook, and he spat out blood from his mouth.

His internal organs were all affected at this moment, and while emitting bursts of cramping pain, before Xu Qing could relax here, his third heavenly palace erupted with strong fluctuations.

The poison power within the poison prohibition core erupted suddenly, spreading from the third palace toward the surroundings like a mountain and sea, sweeping Xu Qing's sea of consciousness, affecting his soul, and permeating his whole body.

Xu Qing's body trembled, his whole body started to rot, his sea of consciousness started to wither, and his soul started to dim.

It was truly because the poison contained in this poison prohibition core was too terrifying, and the status was extremely high.

At the same time, silk threads actually spread out from every brick and tile of the third palace, rapidly connecting to the poison prohibition core that was erupting.

This was a fusion, and also a transformation.

Any external object Golden Core, the moment it appeared in a cultivator's heavenly palace, would be the first thing the heavenly palace would do to fuse it into one body. The moment the fusion was completed, in fact, the transformation had already been completed, and it became a life-bound treasure.

And the original third palace was golden. At this moment, as those silk threads integrated into the poison prohibition core, the entire third palace slowly turned black.

This process was extremely slow.

Xu Qing could feel that the moment his third heavenly palace was completely pitch black, it was the time when it was completely fused with the poison prohibition core.

And only when it reached that time, relying on his connection to the third heavenly palace, could he indirectly control this poison prohibition core and make it his own life-bound object.

By that time, he could control the third heavenly palace and make the poison spreading throughout his body return.

But this long fusion time, for Xu Qing, would be a fatal test.

If he couldn't bear it before the fusion was completed, then everything would fail, and the price of failure was the destruction of body and soul.

Xu Qing trembled all over, and the incomparably rich poison from the poison prohibition core permeated every area of his whole body.

The indescribable heart-drilling pain made him unable to help but emit a shrill sound from his mouth.

This kind of pain surpassed his several life-and-death experiences before, whether it was the mermaid clan island temple or the giant dragon chariot, it was different from now. The pain at that time was from outside to inside.

So in terms of feeling, he could resist it.

But the pain now was from inside to outside.

But this feeling, Xu Qing had also felt it before. In that rainy night, his heart tore apart, and the collapse of his heart and soul inside the high wall was the deepest pain in his memory.

Compared to it, these now were nothing.

So, Xu Qing didn't like his own screams at this moment.

Thus, he gritted his teeth with red eyes, forcibly turning this scream into a wailing sound squeezed out from between his teeth.

At the same time, the purple crystal on his chest operated fully, and purple light permeated Xu Qing's whole body, assisting him to resist.

There was even the Golden Crow transforming, spitting fire toward Xu Qing, helping him bless his physical body.

There was also the immortal spirit power accumulated in the sea of consciousness, also sharing for him.

In addition, the two life lamps transformed into heavenly palaces, and the life lamps within revealed a canopy, also blessing, and finally the Ghost Emperor Mountain emitted black light, suppressing everything.

Time, passed. ===== CHAPTER 341 =====