56: Chapter 56 The Green Snake Will Absolutely Not Die
"At a time like this, the appearance of a new evolution path doesn't exactly make one happy."
Xu Qing felt a wave of bitterness in his heart.
This System simply doesn't do anything for the sake of the snake.
However, as long as he could survive this calamity, he would gain an additional evolution path.
The heaven and earth spiritual root had essentially paved the way for him.
Xu Qing comforted himself like this to keep himself holding on.
After a death reincarnation, living every extra second was a gain.
But he was a greedy Green Snake; he wanted to live for many, many more seconds.
To live for countless seconds.
Seeing Xu Qing enduring the terrifying pain while still resisting her control, the Tree Spirit could not understand it.
The heaven and earth spiritual root had already completely fused with the Resurrection Green Snake; everything was already a foregone conclusion.
Xu Qing's resistance seemed so laughable to her...
...
The fourth day.
Xu Qing's green light had weakened to the point where it was almost entirely covered by a glazed-colored light, putting him in a precarious situation.
The outskirts of the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
Xu Linger watched the sun rise, but the bead in her hand still showed no movement.
She hesitated no longer.
Everything would proceed according to the Green Snake's plan.
Not a moment longer would be delayed.
"Three-Colored Venomous Snake, trigger the toxins."
"Use all your Demonic Power to drive it; you must absolutely guarantee the kill, leaving no room for accidents!"
Xu Linger turned around and spoke quickly.
Silly Snake thought of the Green Snake, and though it felt some heartache, it still quickly activated the toxins.
The Green Snake was so smart, it must have its reasons; it just had to believe in the Green Snake!
Three-colored light radiated from its entire body.
All its Demonic Power was now focused on detonating the toxin in one place.
Snake Venom lv5 was activated with full force.
Inside the cave.
Weakened to the extreme, Xu Qing was on the verge of being swallowed by the glazed-colored light at any moment.
The Three-Colored Snake Venom erupted at this moment.
The intense Snake Venom surged through his entire body, turning him into bloody water from the inside out.
"What did you do!"
The Tree Spirit was furious.
The heaven and earth spiritual root had already fused with Xu Qing, so the toxins attacked her simultaneously.
"Just a little bit of magic, that's all."
"Since you want to become the Resurrection Green Snake so badly, then let me give you a taste of the pain of Resurrection."
Feeling his entire body turning into toxic water, at the moment of death, Xu Qing steeled his heart and let go of his last bit of resistance.
The heaven and earth spiritual root completely fused with him.
Time was infinitely stretched in this instant, and his extremely lucid consciousness felt the pain of his body melting.
On and on, as if there were no end.
Xu Qing dragged the Tree Spirit with him as they fell into an infinite darkness of pain and despair.
Endless pain submerged both Xu Qing and the Tree Spirit.
That was the price of Resurrection.
That was the curse of a forbidden ability.
That was a forbidden skill capable of torturing an entire race into committing suicide.
The Tree Spirit broke down and committed suicide.
In the endless, boundless pain, suicide became a form of liberation.
Xu Qing was not surprised at all.
After all, the heaven and earth spiritual root was not a Resurrection Green Snake and lacked the racial advantage.
Being dragged into the Resurrection skill of the Resurrection Green Snake, suicide was to be expected.
Xu Qing continued to endure the pain, desperately moving toward the shore of Resurrection in a world of eternal darkness and suffering.
A green scale flew out, rapidly growing into a Green Snake in mid-air.
The moment the Green Snake's massive body was restored, it began to twitch uncontrollably on the ground from the pain.
Two consecutive Resurrections within a short period.
The terrifying pain almost caused him to break down.
[Ding! Proficiency requirements met.]
[Plant Control lv1 upgraded to Plant Control lv4.]
[Resurrection lv3 upgraded to Resurrection lv4.]
[Skill learned: heaven and earth spiritual seed lv1.]
[heaven and earth spiritual seed lv1]: Can condense a Natal Spiritual Seed, growing a heaven and earth spiritual root for defense and attack.
Xu Qing didn't have the luxury to listen to the System's voice; he kept taking deep breaths, trying to suppress the phantom pain.
He felt as if his body was still melting bit by bit under the intense poison.
"It hurts so much!"
While crying out in pain, Xu Qing looked around.
Although he had watched the Tree Spirit commit suicide, the System provided no notification.
He was terrified that the Tree Spirit might not be dead.
The Resurrection Scales at the corners of the Green Snake's eyes, which looked like eyeshadow, had shattered; he could no longer undergo Resurrection.
Although he still had his Natal Scale, to his shame, it would still take a bit more time to recover.
"She should be dead."
"The heaven and earth spiritual root isn't considered a living being, so the System won't provide feedback...?"
Xu Qing had possessed the System for quite a long time now.
The System seemed to only act according to fixed procedures and lacked intelligence.
Perhaps when humans or the Yao race die, there is some substance that the System can detect and absorb, thereby giving him feedback.
But the Tree Spirit had none, which was why there was no kill feedback.
"golden core imprint!"
Although Xu Qing was trembling all over from the pain, he still excitedly and with great difficulty wriggled toward that [Gold-077] golden core imprint.
As the saying goes, snakes die for wealth, and birds die for food.
Only after storing the golden core imprint into his eye did Xu Qing feel at ease, continuing to roll on the ground and hiss repeatedly in pain.
At the same time, he crushed the bead to signal to Xu Linger and the others that he was fine, so they wouldn't worry.
Fortunately, he had prepared a backup plan this time; otherwise, he really would have gone to the other world so peacefully.
No, not peaceful at all!
Xu Qing corrected his own statement.
"It's good to be alive."
...
In the pitch-black cave, there wasn't a single ray of light.
Xu Qing was in so much pain that he bit through several of his fangs.
The fangs of a Resurrection Spirit Snake were incredibly precious, and Xu Qing collected them without wasting any.
Perhaps they could even be used to refine some Magical Artifacts to sell for money.
A Magical Artifact refined with the fangs of a Resurrection Green Snake with two hundred years of Dao Cultivation as the main material would be full of prestige and definitely sell for a lot!
[Ding! Proficiency requirements met.]
[Poison Fangs lv2 upgraded to Poison Fangs lv3.]
After biting through an unknown number of fangs, the skill increased in a way Xu Qing hadn't expected.
Then, his fangs became even harder to break.
Over the course of ten days, the phantom pain lessened significantly.
The inside of the cave had also been trashed from his thrashing.
"...Good stuff, good stuff! Good stuff!!"
With the pain lessened, Xu Qing was in the cave organizing his gains from this ordeal.
Although he had suffered heavy losses, the harvest was quite satisfying for a snake.
First and foremost was the golden core imprint.
Then there was the Myriad Laws Atlas, incomplete version.
Or rather, the Myriad Laws Atlas seemed even more precious than the golden core imprint.
The Myriad Laws Atlas was a massive black book with a cover made of an unknown stone material, inscribed with ancient characters: "Myriad Laws Atlas."
However, there were only three parchment-like pages inside.
The pages recorded all the skills Xu Qing already possessed, as well as their acquisition conditions.
Then there was the Spiritual Artifact rewarded for killing a Golden Core.
A defensive Spiritual Artifact, the green silk flowing light skirt.
A defensive Spiritual Artifact with four attached skills, two of which were damage reduction types.
Among defensive Spiritual Artifacts, its quality was quite good.
"Too bad it's a dress."
Xu Qing felt a bit of regret.
Even if he underwent Transformation in the future, he couldn't exactly go strolling around in a dress.
Even if his form changed, a dress was still a dress.
Besides the items.
The Fusion and reincarnation with the heaven and earth spiritual root had been a blessing in disguise; not only did his Plant Control skill get enhanced, but he also gained the heaven and earth spiritual seed skill.
At the seven-inch mark of his snake belly, a jade-green scale had grown, which was exactly the heaven and earth spiritual seed he had condensed.
As long as its Rank was raised, he might be able to pull off that move from before again.
"I shall strike in the form of a Giant Wood Snake."
Just thinking about it made the snake's blood boil.
"It hurts, it hurts!"
"Damn it, I bit through another fang."