80: Chapter 80 The Green Snake Soars Between Life and Death
[Name] Xu Qing
[Race] Lisheng Green Snake
[Bloodline] Spirit Rank
[Adaptive Attributes] Wood, Wind, Water
[Dao Cultivation] 246 years / 250 years
[Realm] Late Foundation Establishment Stage
[Cultivation Technique] "White Flood Dragon Heart Art"
[Skills] Constrict lv4, Wind Blade lv4, Demonic Fire lv5, Divine Sense lv5, Swiftness lv4, Poison Fangs lv4, Water Control lv3, Concealment lv4, Resurrection lv5, Snake Venom lv3, Poison Gas lv3, Self-Healing lv4, Self-Destruct lv3, Heal lv4, Revival lv4, Plant Control lv4, heaven and earth spiritual seed lv3, Lightning Strike lv4, Fearsome Might lv3, Artifact Refining lv5, Beast Taming lv3, Poison Reduction lv2, Fire Reduction lv1, Flight lv4, Snake Soul lv3, Suicide lv1, Hard Scales lv3, Way of the Sword lv3, Swordplay lv4, Saber Technique lv3, Detoxification lv1, Vicious Beast lv3, Auspicious Beast lv3
[New Skills] Strike Reduction lv2, Spiritual Body lv4 (can convert the physical body between Soul and physical form), Roaming Life and Death lv4 (can detain dead Souls, physical body can enter the Boundary of Life and Death), Fierce Birth lv3 (devour, deprive, and store lifespan), Granting Life lv2 (bestow lifespan upon other lives or objects)
[Innate Divine Abilities] Insight lv5, Great Strength lv5, Water Heal lv3, Life Drain lv2, Life Sight lv2 (see the opponent's lifespan and remaining lifespan)
[Spatial Pupil lv4] Spatial Storage lv4, Space Barrier lv4, Spatial Cleave lv4, Spatial Fixation lv4
[Evolution Bar] 0/1000
[Evolution Path] Lisheng Green Snake King (Spirit Snake, an extinct Spirit Snake, the king among Lisheng Green Snakes, Roaming Life and Death, controlling lifespan. Wood, Water, and Wind triple attributes.)
[Description] Spirit Snake, an extinct Spirit Snake, likes to feed on lifespan. Legend says it roams the Boundary of Life and Death, making it difficult to truly kill. It possesses a faint Bloodline of the legendary Undying Flood Dragon. Its flesh and blood can greatly extend lifespan and can also be used to refine high-tier Realm-Breaking Medicinal Pills. Its bones, skin, and scales can be refined into Spiritual Artifacts, with a chance to obtain the power to roam between life and death. As a spirit pet, its power to roam life and death can drive many Cultivators mad.
"Lisheng Green Snake!"
"It doesn't seem to be the kind of snake I imagined."
Xu Qing looked at his current appearance.
His length was about one or two meters longer than the Resurrection Green Snake, but his body size hadn't changed much.
His appearance hadn't changed either; he looked almost identical to how he did before the evolution.
There were still Resurrection Scales that looked like eyeshadow on both sides of his eyes.
The scales were green and translucent, with a luster inside as if spiritual water were flowing through them.
However, his pair of snake eyes had changed.
The left eye had a black iris and white pupil, while the right eye had a white iris and black pupil.
His vision, however, was unaffected.
After Xu Qing controlled his body to turn into a Soul form, the pair of snake eyes reversed.
The left eye became a white iris with a black pupil, and the right eye became a black iris with a white pupil.
It was like a reversal of Yin and Yang.
"I'm standing out again."
Xu Qing expressed his trembling fear.
Still, the heterochromia was quite cool; he was just afraid people would think he had cataracts.
One eye with a cataract, the other with an extraract.
Restoring his body to its physical form, Xu Qing looked at his old body.
When evolving into the Lisheng Green Snake, the Soul molted from the old body and then grew a new physical body.
It was similar to shedding skin, casting off the original physical body.
"As expected of yours truly, I look really good like this!"
Xu Qing swam his body around, carefully examining his shed body. The more he looked, the more he liked it, and he couldn't help but stretch out his head to nuzzle it.
He stored the old body into his Spatial Pupil.
Although he was a bit reluctant, this was a complete Resurrection Green Snake body.
There was now hope for his natal spirit artifact.
Using an entire, flawless Resurrection Green Snake body to forge a natal spirit artifact.
And since this was the body he had just shed,
When it transformed into a Golden Core and merged into his body, there would naturally be no possibility of any incompatibility.
In all the world, who else could achieve this?
To forge a natal spirit artifact using one's entire body.
The Lisheng Green Snake feeds on lifespan, and its body can convert between a Soul form and a physical form, roaming between life and death.
Xu Qing tried to communicate with the Boundary of Life and Death.
The surrounding environment began to change.
Both of Xu Qing's pupils had now turned into black eyes with white irises, a state where Yin flourishes and Yang declines.
In the Snake Cave beneath the River God Temple, the green snake's figure vanished.
Xu Qing looked around; endless darkness enveloped him.
Through the darkness, he could vaguely see transparent figures flying toward the depths of the dark, disappearing.
Swimming his body, Xu Qing moved closer to the direction the transparent shadows were coming from.
The boundary between darkness and light.
The darkness was like a wall standing between the two.
Not a single bit of light could penetrate, only transparent Souls passing through the wall and falling into the darkness.
"So this is the Boundary of Life and Death!"
Xu Qing had a slight realization.
The destination of Souls after life ends.
Of course, there was no Underworld Judge here like in his previous life; there was only endless darkness.
The same kind of darkness Xu Qing had experienced when he was resurrected.
Time had no meaning here; there was only an infinite sinking, as if there were no end.
During the sinking, it felt as if the Soul would completely merge into this darkness and disappear.
A Resurrection Green Snake could fish its Soul out of this darkness through Resurrection and then use its terrifying vitality to reshape its physical body, completing the revival.
But the Lisheng Green Snake could actually traverse into this darkness with its physical body.
In other words, the Lisheng Green Snake truly had the ability to Revival other beings.
As long as he understood the logic of the Resurrection Green Snake's revival.
Xu Qing tried to approach a Soul, attempting to pull it out of the darkness.
But as soon as he touched that Soul, the hollow-eyed spirit immediately regained consciousness.
For just an instant, it looked crazed and hideous.
Then it dissipated before Xu Qing's eyes, completely merging into the darkness.
"Suicide?"
Xu Qing immediately understood everything.
These Souls were all sinking in a state of muddled confusion.
If he broke this state of sinking, they would regain consciousness and, just like the Tree Spirit back then, they wouldn't be able to bear the pain and would commit Suicide.
As for why he didn't feel any pain now,
It was probably because he possessed a physical body.
If he were to die and his Soul entered this Boundary of Life and Death, it would likely be the same as before.
He would have to go through that terrifying torture before he could be resurrected.
"Perhaps in the future, I really will be able to master the power to Revival others."
Having understood the logic of how to Revival someone else, Xu Qing was exceptionally confident.
Although the Lisheng Green Snake wasn't as good at fighting as he had expected,
It really didn't live up to its ferocious-sounding name.
But the Lisheng Green Snake's survival capabilities were absolutely top-notch.
By entering this Boundary of Life and Death, those chasing him would be left staring blankly.
Furthermore, the body could switch between a Soul form and a physical form.
This could reduce a lot of damage.
Of course, he couldn't be careless.
Other beings might not necessarily lack the ability to enter this Boundary of Life and Death.
For example, human Magic Treasures.
The fact that Lisheng Green Snakes are extinct now doesn't mean they were extinct in the past.
Perhaps there are Magic Treasures passed down that were refined by past Cultivators using Lisheng Green Snakes.
Magic Treasures refined from a Lisheng Green Snake have a chance of carrying the ability to roam between life and death.