30: Chapter 30 The Green Snake's Fishing Behavior

"Senior Snake, this humble girl Lin Yumo thanks you for saving my life."

"My father's life is in danger, so I could only enter the Monster Beast Mountain Range to gather medicinal herbs..."

"Who wants to hear your sob story? Do you think this is some sob-story variety show? Give me your Storage Pouch and get lost."

Xu Qing sent the woman flying with a flick of his tail, snatched the Storage Pouch, and turned to leave.

He could indeed feel a faint trace of the Green Water Snake's aura on this woman, which was why he hadn't killed her.

But he had no interest in listening to her sob story.

"*Cough cough*, Senior Snake!"

"This humble girl understands a little bit of Snake Language!"

"Senior has not yet taken human form, so there must be many inconveniences!"

"This humble girl is willing to work for Senior like a dog or a horse!"

Lin Yumo shouted loudly at Xu Qing's departing figure.

"Oh?"

Xu Qing stopped and looked at the woman.

Although he couldn't tell if she was pretty or not, the fact that she understood Snake Language was very appealing to him.

He hadn't communicated with a human until now.

"Perhaps this person can be refined into a decent tool."

Artifact Refining Master Xu Qing thought to himself.

"Hiss hiss hiss, hiss hiss!"

"Senior, are you saying... a tool is useful, right?"

Lin Yumo quickly translated Xu Qing's meaning.

"Woman, I don't trust you."

"This humble girl is willing to swear to the heavens! I will never betray Senior!"

As Lin Yumo spoke, she held up three fingers and made a solemn oath.

Xu Qing didn't believe a word of it; he didn't know how many times he had made such oaths when he was a kid.

He still remembered swearing in elementary school that if he didn't marry the class beauty next door, he'd stay single for life...

Wait a minute, it seems he's discovered some important truth...

Xu Qing wrapped his tail around Lin Yumo and flew toward the cave.

Instead of an oath, it would be better to have Silly Snake apply some poison.

If there's a tool snake, it must be put to good use.

Once this tool was refined, he could establish a connection with the human world.

Flying back to the cave, he barged into Silly Snake's cave and presented his request.

To the side, Lin Yumo turned pale with fright upon hearing she was to be poisoned by the legendary Three-Colored Venomous Snake.

Xu Qing couldn't help but sigh.

To refine this tool, he was really going all out.

Perhaps a single mouthful of Silly Snake's Snake Venom was worth more than Lin Yumo's entire being.

"I am entirely at Senior's disposal!"

Lin Yumo took off her outer garment, revealing her smooth neck.

Unfortunately, there were only two snakes in the cave who lacked any sense of romance.

Seeing that he felt no interest at all, Xu Qing felt a wave of gloom in his heart.

Once upon a time, he was also a young boy who got excited watching Sora-sensei.

The Three-Colored Venomous Snake extended its fangs, bit into Lin Yumo's neck, and injected toxin.

The toxin lay dormant in her body; as long as the Three-Colored Venomous Snake activated it, this woman would surely die.

"Woman, don't worry. If you satisfy me in the future, I will remove the Snake Venom and grant you your freedom."

"By following the Leader of the Noble Snake Alliance, This Alliance Leader will not treat you poorly. Foundation Establishment is just around the corner."

Xu Qing painted a grand vision for the woman.

The Noble Snake Alliance had successfully gained its first official member besides its two leaders, Xu Qing and Silly Snake.

"Although our Alliance doesn't have many members, they are all worth a fortune and possess staggering wealth."

Hearing this, Lin Yumo looked at the two snakes in the cave with a strange expression.

The credibility of those words was actually quite high.

"What the Alliance Leader says is absolutely correct."

Lin Yumo replied respectfully.

"Good. Now, woman, I will ask and you will answer. You must not hide anything."

"Otherwise, I'll let you taste the pain of the Three-Colored Snake Venom's hundred poisons consuming your heart!"

"Jie jie jie!"

Silly Snake's eyes lit up, and it hurriedly wanted to say, "I don't know how to do that."

But as soon as it opened its mouth, Xu Qing slapped it shut with his tail.

This Silly Snake was good in every way, except it lacked a brain.

In the future, he'd have to go to the humans to get some Yao Beast Medicinal Pills like Spirit-Opening Pellets to mix into Silly Snake's meals.

Next, Lin Yumo answered Xu Qing's questions very honestly.

"I see."

Xu Qing gently tapped the ground with his tail, falling into deep thought.

The vast amount of information benefited him greatly.

The general distribution of power in the Cultivation World, the factions of high-level Cultivators, and the methods for Cultivators to Breakthrough in rank.

Among them, he originally thought that things like Realm Breakthrough methods would be secrets of the Cultivation World, but in reality, they weren't.

For example, the methods to Breakthrough to Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Soul Transformation were all common knowledge.

However, once Xu Qing understood them, he realized why they were common knowledge.

There are three methods to Breakthrough to Golden Core.

Request a Great Master of Alchemy to refine a Medicinal Golden Core, swallow it, and gradually merge one's Dao Cultivation into it to achieve a Medicinal Golden Core.

There's also binding a natal spirit artifact and merging one's Dao Cultivation into the spirit artifact to achieve an Artifact Golden Core.

Finally, there's the most common Golden Core: converting a thousand years of Dao Cultivation into a Golden Core.

These aren't considered very difficult to achieve.

But the most ridiculous part is that Breakthroughs to Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Soul Transformation all require a Realm imprint.

This world's capacity is limited.

The world can only sustain the existence of nine Soul Transformations, ninety-nine Nascent Souls, and nine hundred and ninety-nine Golden Cores.

If other lower-level Cultivators want to Breakthrough, they must kill an existing one and seize their Realm imprint.

There's no fear of this Breakthrough method being leaked.

"Could it be..."

Xu Qing recalled the scene when the Crimson-Tailed Burning Flame Crane killed the human Golden Core.

At that time, a Talisman-like object flew out from the ashes of the old human Golden Core.

It was inscribed with the characters [Gold-121].

"Could it be that it represents the 121st Realm imprint for Breaking through to Golden Core?"

Xu Qing felt a surge of excitement.

So, the Crimson-Tailed Burning Flame Crane attacked the human specifically to obtain the golden core imprint.

Was it to help some Yao Beast Breakthrough to Golden Core?

How fortunate!

He was all alone, with neither Yao connections nor human connections.

In the future, he'd have to find a way to obtain a golden core imprint himself to Breakthrough.

Slaying a Golden Core from a lower Realm is asking too much of a snake.

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine Golden Cores..."

This Cultivation World is so large; he shouldn't encounter Cultivators of this rank too often.

Before, it was just because his luck was too rotten.

He and the Swamp of Death were incompatible.

"I'll give you a bottle of This Snake's blood; it should be able to cure your father's illness."

Xu Qing took out a jade bottle and drew a bit of snake blood.

This was the blood of a Resurrection Green Snake.

Its collectible value alone was likely absurdly high.

People in any world are always drawn to things that are one-of-a-kind.

"Vice Alliance Leader, spit out some venom!"

Xu Qing took out a jade bottle and tossed it to the Three-Colored Venomous Snake.

In front of outsiders, it was better to give Silly Snake some Face, so he wouldn't call it Silly Snake.

The venom of a Three-Colored Venomous Snake with a hundred years of Dao Cultivation should sell for a lot of money.

Xu Qing also took out many useless items like Magical Artifacts and Materials previously rewarded by the System and packed them into a Storage Pouch along with the venom.

"Here, go sell these in the human Cultivation World."

"Then bring the Spirit Stones back to me. I'll give you ten percent of the proceeds."

Xu Qing handed the Storage Pouch to Lin Yumo.

"Alliance Leader, how could I dare to take as much as ten percent?"

Looking at the Storage Pouch, Lin Yumo saw that even ten percent of those vast resources would allow her to reach the heavens in a single step and become a wealthy woman.

At the thought of this, her Face flushed, and she panted with excitement.

"And then I'll take ninety-nine percent."

"..."

Xu Qing added another sentence, instantly rendering Lin Yumo speechless.

However, even one percent would allow her to make a fortune.

"After selling them, if any Cultivators follow you, lead them to me."

Xu Qing was using Lin Yumo for fishing on the side.

As for how big a fish he could catch, it would depend on whether this large bag of bait he threw out could tempt anyone.

"Yes, Alliance Leader."

Lin Yumo left the cave with the Storage Pouch.

As for her own Storage Pouch that had been snatched, she was smart enough not to ask for it back.

There wasn't anything valuable in it anyway.