Chapter 41: The Qingyang Cauldron Finally Appears in the World (Seeking follows, seeking collections)

Bright pearls hung high.

Dots of starlight bloomed upon the walls, casting mottled and flickering stone shadows.

It was the same plaza as before, but when the Jinshe avatar walked in, he discovered that the monsters standing guard around it had become much scarcer.

The shadows of monsters that had originally swayed like a forest were now extremely sparse. It was to be expected; after these few bouts of fighting, the previously gathered spirits had suffered heavy casualties.

Clearly, the Snake and Scorpion Demons did not care.

The Snake and Scorpion Demons, sitting cross-legged on a stone cloud bed, also had a visibly weakened aura.

However, their spirits were increasingly excited; it seemed they saw hope in refining the Seven-Heart Pill~

What a pity, it was ultimately just a scam. The Jinshe avatar watched the undisguised excitement in the eyes of the two demons and sighed inwardly~

While he was thinking, he had already reached the two demons and immediately stepped forward to pay his respects: "This subordinate pays respects to the Lady and the Great King!"

Jinshe waved her hand casually, telling him there was no need for such formalities, and said: "Centipede Commander, go down and take stock of the spirits in the cave, then gather men to wait for orders at the Cold Pool!"

This was to prepare to retrieve the Alchemy Furnace in the Cold Pool. It was just unclear why, having clearly already refined the precious cauldron, they still needed so many subordinates to go together~

"Yes! This subordinate accepts the order~" Thoughts raced through the Jinshe avatar's mind, but on the surface, he remained respectful. Seeing that the Snake and Scorpion Demons had no other instructions, he turned and left.

"Madam, rest assured, although the Sun True Fire and Xuanming True Water have worn down my mark within the Spirit Treasure's Restriction, it only prevents me from controlling it for a moment. Once I have it in hand, I can nourish it back to its original state before long~" the Scorpion Demon promised with certainty.

"It had better be so~"

……

The Cold Pool was like an abyss, with vast water vapor.

Taking away half of the Xuanming True Water had no effect on the icy environment surrounding the Cold Pool.

The crowd of spirits shivered with cold.

Fortunately, they were not made to wait for long.

Not long after the Jinshe avatar brought these minor monsters to the edge of the Cold Pool—barely an hour or so—the Snake and Scorpion Demons arrived, riding the clouds and wind.

"Greetings to the Lady and the Great King!" The Jinshe avatar stepped forward to pay respects.

Seeing the three or four hundred spirits he had brought, the Snake and Scorpion Demons frowned slightly.

Not only was there not a single one in the Chengdan Realm among these three or four hundred spirits, but even those in the Shape-Condensing Realm were pitifully few.

The two of them could wipe them all out with a single breath.

The two demons looked at each other and sighed.

It was true; these were just monsters they had gathered at random. They were fine for doing odd jobs or waving flags to cheer, but one could never rely on these minor monsters to face an enemy.

"You little monsters, go keep watch in the surroundings. If there is any movement, you must return and report it." Jinshe issued orders to the minor monsters.

"Centipede Commander, I will cast a Dharma for you; go to the bottom of this Cold Pool and investigate whether there is anything else unusual besides the divine furnace." The Scorpion Demon instructed the Jinshe avatar.

Because of the Xuanming True Water, it was difficult for divine sense to extend and investigate in this Cold Pool. Too much time had passed, and combined with the current situation, the Scorpion Demon was worried there might be some danger inside.

Naturally, the Jinshe avatar would not say anything about having already been there. He kept his expression calm and leaped into the Cold Pool.

Relying on the Dharma cast by the Scorpion Demon, who was in the True Immortal Realm, he dived to the bottom of the pool, deliberately stayed for a moment, and then turned back.

Naturally, he reported that all was well.

Hearing his report, the Snake and Scorpion Demons relaxed for a moment.

Jinshe giggled and looked at the mighty and imposing Scorpion Spirit beside her, saying: "Dear, this time I must rely on you!"

The Scorpion Demon, who had transformed into a haughty Great Han, laughed loudly and patted his chest with a thumping sound: "Madam, rest assured. With me taking action personally, won't it be easily captured?"

Having said that, he stood on the shore and transformed into his true form, a giant black scorpion about a hundred zhang long.

He released his tail hook. Swish—the tail hook grew longer, like a rope with a curved hook, and reached deep into the pool water.

This kind of partial body transformation ability should be the innate talent the Scorpion Demon awakened through the interaction between heaven and earth.

What a scorpion tail~ The Jinshe avatar praised inwardly. If this were refined into a strange Dharma Treasure like a flying hook, it would absolutely have infinite wonderful uses.

It could both fly to hook and injure people, and serve as an Immortal-Binding Rope~ The Scorpion Demon stood on the shore, triumphant, and said to Jinshe with a smile: "It is thanks to me having this ability that I don't have to worry about the two of us being separated, avoiding an ambush by that old thing~"

Only then did the Jinshe avatar realize; no wonder the Scorpion Demon did not dive into the Cold Pool himself to refine the cauldron directly! He was afraid that if the couple were separated, they would suffer an ambush by the mountain spirit?

What a pity, cleverness is often the undoing of the clever.

If he had gone down to investigate himself, he surely would have discovered that portion of the Sun True Fire that had not yet fused within the cauldron.

And he would not have nearly lost his life here.

While he was thinking, the Scorpion Demon's tail hook had already extended a thousand zhang, caught the ear of the alchemy furnace, and then began to exert force. The long tail suddenly went taut, the Scorpion Demon's expression changed, and he began to drag it slowly.

Gurgle, gurgle—the water of the Cold Pool began to change; the cold air dissipated, and strings of bubbles carrying heat emerged.

Seeing this, the Jinshe avatar quietly retreated several steps, circulating his Dharma power, ready to cast a Dharma to flee at any moment.

According to the original situation, the Scorpion Spirit's salvaging of the furnace caused a sky-filling fire that burned many monsters to death; if it weren't for Shuiwa and Huawa taking action, these two demon immortals would have been burned to death by the Sun True Fire.

The cluster of Sun True Fire in the furnace was left behind by some great power, and its power was unimaginably great.

The Jinshe avatar had to be prepared in advance; he shouldered the heavy responsibility of playing the "old six" at the critical moment and giving these two demon immortals a fierce blow.

He could not die here.

Unexpectedly, the Qingyang Cauldron was actually salvaged safely by the Scorpion Demon.

Gently setting down the scorching precious cauldron, the Scorpion Demon caught his breath and transformed back into a human form.

He smiled at Jinshe: "Don't look at this precious cauldron as only half a person's height; if it is not refined, in terms of weight alone, a thousand-zhang mountain peak cannot compare to it!"

"Enough! No need to show off your divine strength. Hurry up and re-nourish it so we can return to the mountain~" Jinshe said irritably.

"Wait a moment, half an hour will be enough~"

Hearing this, the Jinshe avatar retreated a few more steps, his mind alert to the extreme.

"Twenty-one divine Restrictions! My direction of deduction was indeed correct!"

The Scorpion Demon permeated his primordial spirit Dharma power back into the cauldron's Restrictions, filling in the primordial spirit mark that had been worn away over ten thousand years, and stabilized the control over the precious cauldron, which in his view had been somewhat precarious.

He cheered in high spirits.

The low-grade Spirit Treasure with fifteen divine Restrictions that he had originally scavenged from Penglai Market had, under his planning and deduction, undergone the creation of tempering through ice and fire, and had already evolved its own Acquired Restrictions, becoming a mid-grade Spirit Treasure with twenty-one divine Restrictions.

The furnace fire inside was also replaced from ordinary Three Yang Spirit Fire to Sun True Fire.

This Spirit Treasure, which might have only been using the name of Nanjixianweng, was now truly worthy of the two characters "Qingyang"! His primordial spirit Dharma power circulated continuously, and he quickly finished warming and refining the fifteenth divine Restriction, stepping into the sixteenth divine Restriction that had not existed before.

Then, the seventeenth, the eighteenth...

Just as the Scorpion Demon was fully focused on the process of refining the treasure cauldron, he did not notice the True Fire inside the cauldron beginning to stir restlessly.

Wisps of golden Sun True Fire, having broken free from the restraint of the Xuanming True Water, became increasingly ferocious.

Suddenly, the Scorpion Demon spat out a mouthful of blood.

Bang! The cauldron lid was blown open by a violent energy eruption~

The golden flames that had been suppressed for a long time gushed out violently, flowing wantonly with a posture of destroying everything~

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(End of this chapter)