Immortal weapon refiner

Chapter 688: City Changes Ownership
A gentle voice suddenly rang out, stopping Li Qing from burning the city.

"stop."

After hearing this message, Li Qing knew that his threat had succeeded. It was common sense that the mushroom spirit would not want to be completely reduced to ashes.

Li Qing temporarily suppressed the spiritual flame source that he had condensed, his voice still cold:
"Release your spiritual consciousness, don't resist, let me plant the mark of spiritual consciousness, and you will be able to survive!"

Hearing this extremely cold voice, the Mushroom Sacrifice Spirit was silent for a long time before responding, "I want to negotiate terms with you. I am unwilling to be bound for the rest of my life and to fail and exit prematurely."

Failure and exit too early?
Li Qing raised his eyebrows, not quite understanding the meaning of these words.

But in the current situation, he has already grasped the absolute initiative. To be honest, he doesn't want to negotiate any conditions with this mushroom spirit.

"I think you still don't understand what the situation is. To be qualified to negotiate terms, both parties must be on a relatively equal footing."

"And do you think you are qualified now?"

As he spoke, Li Qing showed the spiritual flame in his hand. This was definitely a power that was enough to destroy it easily.

After another long silence, the Mushroom Sacrifice Spirit continued, "Yes, you do have the power to easily destroy me, but you have not yet done it. Instead, you want to control me, which means that I have something you need."

"If you don't even want to listen to my conditions, then you better do it."

After hearing this, Li Qing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He didn't expect that this sacrificial spirit was quite good at negotiation and could find out Li Qing's weakness so quickly.

That’s right, he really needs to subdue the opponent, and then use the red moon spores and flesh and blood spores produced by the opponent to strengthen himself.

"Okay, tell me what your conditions are." Li Qing's tone was still cold.

"I don't want to be controlled by you for the rest of my life. Set a deadline and give me freedom when the deadline is up." said the Mushroom Sacrifice Spirit.

Set a deadline?
It’s not impossible to consider it, Li Qing thought about it carefully.

Judging from the level of this mushroom sacrifice spirit, the red moon spores it can produce can at most have some effect on fourth-order alien beasts.

When he becomes a god or his cultivation becomes stronger one day, these red moon spores will not be so useful to him.

At that time, it's not impossible to let the other party go free.

After careful consideration, Li Qing said a number with some intention: "Three thousand years!"

"Submit to me for three thousand years. When the three thousand years are up, I will set you free."

This time was not something Li Qing mentioned casually, but was proposed after careful consideration.

First of all, his current lifespan is just over two thousand years. Even if he continues to forge magic weapons or celestial magic weapons in the future, his lifespan can probably only be increased to three to five thousand years.

And during these three thousand years, he will be able to obtain a city that continuously produces high-level exotic beast blood for him.

If he still cannot advance to the God Transformation stage after all this, then his hope of breaking into the God Transformation stage in this lifetime will be very slim.

In addition, the lifespan of these alien plants in the polar night world seems to be very long, but they are not really immortal. After all, there is a limit.

If the deadline he proposes is too long, the other party may not be able to accept it.

After all, a lifespan of three thousand years is long enough for any cultivator. It is an extremely long period of time.

The mushroom spirit was silent for a long time. The first thing it said was not bargaining, but a question in surprise:

"Three thousand years. Are you sure you can live that long?"

Indeed, it was true. It was known that this world had undergone tremendous changes and had fallen into darkness for less than a thousand years. It was surprising that Li Qing wanted to control it for three thousand years right away.

"Don't worry about this matter. If I don't live that long, you will be free in advance." Li Qing said nonchalantly.

"Okay, then as you said, I will submit to you for three thousand years!"

"Besides that, there is another condition. I can do things for you in the next three thousand years, but you cannot over-exploit me or deplete my essence."

The mushroom spirit finally agreed. Three thousand years was a long time, but it was still within its acceptable range.

After hearing the other party's agreement, Li Qing smiled slightly and said, "Then how can this promise be effective? Do you want to rely on my self-awareness?"

"Of course not. You swear an oath to the Red Moon with your own life. After you finish your oath, I will release my spiritual consciousness on my own and allow you to plant the mark of recognition as the master." The Mushroom Sacrifice Spirit replied.

Making a vow to the red moon? This is a bit strange. Could it be that this red moon in the sky also has restrictions similar to the oath to the inner demon?
If he broke this oath and then hid in his original world, could he circumvent this restriction?

This thought flashed through Li Qing's mind, but he didn't think about it deeply.

Because there is no need. For the sake of his own clarity of thought and mind, he does not intend to do anything in this regard, nor does he intend to play any word games with the mushroom spirit or exploit loopholes in the rules.

Just like that, Li Qing swore an oath to the red moon hanging high in the sky, promising to control the other party for only three thousand years, and once the three thousand years were up, he would set the other party free.

Afterwards, a small golden mushroom tree floated out from the castle below.

After Li Qing made a vow to the Red Moon, it fulfilled its promise and released its spiritual consciousness to Li Qing.

In response to this, Li Qing did not hesitate or be polite. He directly spread out his powerful and condensed spiritual consciousness, and then planted a spiritual consciousness imprint in his spiritual consciousness.

Ever since he entered the Nascent Soul stage, his spiritual strength has increased a lot again.

In addition, he has practiced the miraculous skill "Soul Refining Sutra", and now the strength of his soul is close to that of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and he can bear more spiritual imprints.

After confirming that the consciousness of the mushroom sacrifice spirit was completely under his control, Li Qing released the Fire Body with satisfaction, and then took back all the spiritual fires that were spreading and burning around, extinguishing the sea of ​​fire.

After quite a bit of effort, I finally managed to subdue the mushroom spirit.

His figure fell down and came to the front of the castle.

At this moment, Yang Gong knelt in front of the gate of the ancient castle, not daring to move.

At that moment, the mushroom spirit he served recognized the tall young man in front of him as its master.

Now Li Qing's status and position are even more supreme, which has shattered his worldview. Looking at this old charlatan, Li Qing gradually showed a playful smile on his face, and he said: "Stand up and slap yourself. When I come back, I want to see your cheeks and mouth swollen from your own slaps."

Li Qing was no longer interested in teaching this man a lesson personally, so as not to dirty his hands.

After saying this, he passed by Yang Gong, and then there were crisp slapping sounds behind him.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
After successfully subduing the mushroom spirit, Li Qing felt that he had developed a faint and mysterious connection with the giant mushroom under his feet.

With this wonderful feeling, Li Qing came to the deepest part of the castle in his original form. He still had many questions he wanted to ask the other party.

This time, facing the mushroom sacrifice spirit directly, the other party dared not make any disrespectful behavior. Instead, he took the initiative to fly in front of Li Qing with an extremely respectful attitude.

Quite interesting.

Li Qing nodded with satisfaction, and then asked:
"Tell me, you said before that you don't want to fail and exit too early, what does this mean?"

"Are you participating in some kind of trial now, competing with other alien plants?"

He thought of the giant magic willow in the Black Wind Region, and also of his own strange blood lotus.

Could it be that other large domains also have such strange and exotic plants? Are they undergoing some kind of trial, some test of evolution?

Li Qing wanted to clarify these questions, as he suspected that they were related to the secrets of this world.

The mushroom spirit that had already acknowledged Li Qing as its master naturally did not hide anything about this. It said leisurely:
"Since I was born, I have had this subconscious mind, and all my actions since then have been based on this subconscious mind."

"I want to become stronger, constantly stronger, and eventually surpass other similar beings."

"Unfortunately, I was born too early and was discovered by a strange beast, which caused congenital damage and trauma to my origin."

After hearing these words, Li Qing's eyes flickered slightly. He didn't expect that the existence of these strange plants really had some special meaning.

Li Qing had guessed at the beginning that this polar night world was really like a vast trial field, with various roads and strange creatures emerging one after another.

Living creatures compete with each other in this trial, and the one who survives at last is the victorious Gu King.

Li Qing nodded slowly and asked:
"It seems that there is an invisible hand behind this. What do you know about it?"

The Mushroom Spirit replied:
"I don't know. I have no idea about what happened before I was born."

Li Qing was not surprised by this answer. In his opinion, the water in this world was getting deeper and deeper.

The existence hiding behind the scenes is too mysterious, even though he has already formed a Nascent Soul, he is still deeply afraid of it.

Using a screen as a trial ground is a bit too exaggerated.

Without further delving into this issue, Li Qing only knew that it would be better for him to keep a low profile in the future and not fall into the sight of that mysterious existence so quickly.

All in all, it is better to be low-key.

Next, Li Qing briefly learned some basic information about the current Mushroom Spirit Sacrifice.

Now in this huge mushroom city, there are a total of sixteen third-level exotic beasts imprisoned in various places for the purpose of blood supply.

Every once in a while, the sacrificial spirit will produce a lot of flesh and blood spores to feed those powerful third-level monsters.

In addition, the city also raises a large number of second-level exotic beasts. These are seeds for cultivating third-level exotic beasts, and the people in the city take very good care of them.

In addition, there are various strange spores. Currently, the sacrificial spirit can produce five kinds of spores!
Crimson Moon Spores, Flesh and Blood Spores, and Corruption Spores are the types of spores that Li Qing already knows. The other two types of spores are called Imperial Spirit Spores and Hard Armor Spores!
The Yuling spores are used to enslave others. For example, Yang Gong, who was slapping himself at the door of the ancient castle, was planted with these Yuling spores and became a slave of the sacrificial spirit. Just now, Li Qing's Lingyan Taoist body was also invaded by these Yuling spores.

The effect of the hard armor spores is much more useless. This kind of spores can make anything hard for a short period of time, and its defensive power is extremely outstanding.

Apart from anything else, just the word "short-lived" is enough to tell you how useless this kind of hard-shell spores are.

"When I was born too early, I encountered the threat of strange beasts. I had no choice but to give birth to this kind of spores for protection." The mushroom spirit explained.

As its strength grows and its life level advances, it can choose to produce some spores with strange functions.

After evolving to the present, in addition to the congenital damage in the early stage, a kind of useless spores was also selected, which greatly increased the difficulty of the growth of the mushroom sacrifice spirit.

Fortunately, it has grown to its current stage by relying on the enslavement of the Yuling spores and coexisting with humans in cooperation.

"Let's talk about the Red Moon Spores. Can you now produce Red Moon Spores that can enable a third-level monster to break through to the fourth level?" This is a question that Li Qing is more concerned about.

The Mushroom Spirit replied honestly: "Of course it is possible, but the birth of a fourth-level beast is not that easy, and the probability of failure is extremely high!"

"Besides, the damage caused by the fourth-order red moon spores is not small for me. Every time I cultivate some, I need to rest for a long time before I can recover."

In fact, not only does the training of fourth-order alien beasts have a failure rate, the probability of failure in training second-order alien beasts into third-order alien beasts is actually quite high.

This is why there are only sixteen living third-level exotic beasts in Mushroom City now. This is a large number, but they were also carefully selected from many second-level exotic beasts and cultivated!

After listening to the other party's story, Li Qing finally understood the existence of this mushroom city.

This is actually like an assembly line processing plant for exotic beasts. The fate of every exotic beast brought to this city is already determined.

Either they fail to break through and are buried in the mycelium, being corroded by corrupt spores, and becoming the corpse of a strange beast to guard the peace of the city.

Either they succeed in breaking through and becoming a higher-level beast, or they are imprisoned and used as a blood supply tool for sacrificial spirits day and night, but in the end, they still die.

"Well, next I want you to produce fourth-order red moon spores. In addition, the blood and flesh spores cannot be cut off. I want to take the blood of the remaining six of the sixteen alien beasts in the city!"

Hearing Li Qing's request, the Mushroom Spirit had no choice but to agree.

The situation is stronger than people, and there is no room for resistance even if it does not want to do it.

The fourth-order red moon spores were naturally for the glutton, and Li Qing planned to use the blood of the other six strange beasts to feed his blood lotus and use the blood lotus to strengthen himself.

Just like that, the Mushroom City, which had changed its owner, began to take action for Li Qing's request.

(End of this chapter)