The myth begins with the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 107 Qingbai
"You take care of yourself."

Ding Lin released his breath-suppressing technique, and his breath leaked out for a moment. He then glanced at the Five Fairies meaningfully, then turned around and left without any hesitation.

When he was out of the sight of the five fairies, he chose a stream, then transformed himself into his original form and swam straight into the mountains.

……

The fifth fairy's body was tense, then slowly relaxed and she let out a long sigh. She didn't expect Ding Lin to leave so easily. There was a flash of surprise in her eyes, and some disbelief, and then a feeling of joy of surviving a disaster emerged in her heart. She was afraid that Ding Lin would go back on his word, so she wanted to leave immediately.

She supported herself on the ground with both hands and tried to get up.

A sharp pain surged into my heart.

The fifth fairy gritted her teeth, only then realizing that she was still seriously injured.

Looking around, there are vast expanses of emptiness. I am in an unfamiliar wilderness. The sea of ​​clouds is rolling, and as far as the eye can see, there are mountains connected to each other, connecting into a piece without any gaps, just like a cage.

In an instant, the five fairies suddenly felt a little uneasy.

……

Ding Lin swam into the mountain and slowly went deeper. He restrained the evil spirit in his body to avoid unnecessary trouble.

In the world of monsters, the law of the jungle is the unchanging law, and there are dangers everywhere.

The lower the level, the more so.

For the little demons, except themselves, all other demons are of only two types: those that can kill them and those that can be killed.

When facing the former, you need to be vigilant at all times and hide carefully.

The latter is food, nutrients for growth, and elixirs for improving one's cultivation.

For this reason, the ruling demon kings or big demons had to issue orders or take other measures to maintain order and prevent the small demons under their command from fighting each other.

In order to maintain the stability and sustainability of their own power.

Therefore, the unfamiliar foreign smell is particularly delicious and tempting.

To this mountain, Ding Lin is an outsider.

He wanted to investigate secretly first to avoid hitting a wall, so disguising himself as an ordinary carp was the best way.

The stream gurgled.

Ding Lin swam in it slowly and leisurely.

What we saw along the way was lush greenery, which was also pleasing to the eye.

After walking a little further, they entered the coverage area of ​​the spiritual vein.

The vegetation is more lush, the branches of the old trees are tangled in the green, the shrubs are bearing red berries, and unknown wild flowers are blooming in all colors...

Just a little weird.

There were only a few little monsters in my perception, which was totally inconsistent with the spirit of this mountain.

Ding Lin continued to swim deeper and deeper, and the strange feeling became more and more obvious.

It would be fine if there were few monsters all over the mountain, but why are there not many ordinary small animals? It is midsummer and all things are growing, but this mountain is frighteningly quiet. Except for the occasional rustling of snakes and insects, there is no other movement, as if all the vitality of this mountain has been taken up by plants.

Ding Lin's eyes were leisurely as he continued to move forward. He was already approaching the core area of ​​the mountain's spiritual vein.

Finally, two monsters with cultivation levels that were decent enough appeared in my perception.

One green and one white.

They are two snake demons in the Dan realm. The green one exudes an aura that is about three hundred years old, which is just the level of someone who has just entered the Dan realm. The white one is much stronger, with a thick and solid aura, and it must have been cultivated for seven or eight hundred years. When it moves, golden light inadvertently leaks out from its eyes, which is a characteristic that only appears when the soul has become more than 70% yang.

Both snakes were in a state of half-transformed human form. Perhaps because females loved beauty, they put all their exquisiteness of transformation into their upper bodies. Their faces were delicate, and their figures were slender and curvy. Except for the scales that could not disappear, their upper bodies looked exactly like humans. Compared with their upper bodies, their lower bodies were quite different, with long tails dragging, and they looked completely original without any change.

The combination of humanity and animality, coupled with the scales dotted on the upper body, has a strange charm.

"Sister, I'm so bored. The mountains are so empty now. There's nothing fun to do."

The green snake looks innocent.

"Master has eaten almost everything edible." said the White Snake.

Ding Lin noticed that a hint of hidden worry flashed across the white snake's eyes.

But the green snake didn't seem to notice. She nodded in agreement.
"Yes, not to mention the monsters that have turned into demons, even ordinary animals have been eaten up by the master as blood food. Now I can't even find a pheasant to satisfy my hunger."

The green snake spread her hands and made a slightly exaggerated expression. Her upper body was covered with a suit of green armor, with only two slender arms sticking out. Most of her arms had turned into human skin, and only the joints of her wrists and elbows were still covered with dense green scales.

"Now, this mountain is full of trees, and only our snake tribe is left."

The green snake's voice was lazy, and it pointed at the trees with its hands.

"Snapped!"

The green snake suddenly stretched out her hand swiftly, hooked her five fingers like a snake head, and grabbed a dragonfly that flew by her. She stuffed the dragonfly into her mouth, chewing it while speaking incoherently.

"Now there are still some of these insects that can be eaten, but after a while, I'm afraid they will only be able to gnaw on the bark of the tree."

"We are the only ones left..." White Snake said, with a double meaning in her words. Worry appeared in her eyes. "Qing'er, do you think Master can succeed this time?"

"I'm not sure, but it should be possible. Master said that when she succeeds, she will lead us to drive away the magpie on the hill next to us and rename Lingque Peak to Snake Head Peak. By then..." The green snake's tone was a little excited, but then he hesitated and fell into depression. "However, this is the third time Master has tried to gather the Heavenly Soul. The first time she just tried it, the second time she used the blood of hundreds of animals as a guide, and this time she even used the blood sacrifice of all the creatures on the mountain. If she can't summon the Heavenly Soul back..."

"elder sister……"

The green snake finally realized something. She shook her body and stopped moving forward. It was not that she was unintelligent, but she had not thought in this direction before. After repeated instructions from the white snake, she finally realized, "You mean..."

The green snake stammered. "It should... not be possible."

"Your spiritual intelligence was awakened much later than mine. I started following my master eight hundred years ago. At that time, her soul had almost been transformed into the yang, but it still took her nearly three hundred and fifty years to find the opportunity and advance to the primordial spirit. Then you occupied this mountain. Three hundred years ago, I don't know if you still remember it. At that time, you had just developed spiritual intelligence. My master tried various methods but always failed." The white snake spoke slowly.

"Finally, she found the way to perform a blood sacrifice. That time, she successfully summoned the Earth Soul, and then used an immortal weapon as a support to successfully capture it."

The white snake continued.

"It took Master 350 years to perfect his life soul and break through his soul. The cultivation of the soul realm should be slower, but it only took Master 250 years from the initial entry into the soul to the collection of the earth soul. He cultivated so fast. Now, in just 300 years, Master is about to perfect his three souls. His progress is so fast. Maybe that sutra... can affect his mind... I still remember the way Master looked at me when I was a child. That feeling is completely different from now..."

"Sister, maybe you are overthinking it."

Green Snake Road.

"I hope so too. Otherwise, if Master fails again this time, after all, blood sacrifice requires intimacy. No matter how good the other creatures are, they can never compare to being in the same group. I hope Master can succeed this time..."

The White Snake sighed and looked up at the sky. Things had changed dramatically and were no longer the same as they used to be. Although she said so, she was actually about 60% sure in her heart. After all, they had been together for so many years. No matter how well she could hide her behavior on weekdays, the change in her eyes could not be concealed.

"No wonder, Master gave me the Dan Realm part of that sutra, but you didn't let me practice with my brothers. It turns out..." Green Snake suddenly realized, and then seemed to think of something, "Sister, you took me out for a walk whenever you had nothing to do these years. I thought you had reached a bottleneck in your practice. It turns out that you realized that there was something wrong with the sutra, and you were..."

"What a pity! I know nothing about formations. Master has sealed the mountain for a hundred years, and I have been searching for a hundred years, but I still can't find a loophole that allows us to leave. Master should be on guard against us, otherwise she wouldn't have forbidden us to leave for a hundred years."

The white snake smiled bitterly.

Ding Lin's eyes flashed. When he swam in, he did encounter a formation, and he easily found a loophole. After all, he was not like these two little snake demons, and his realm was at that level.

Furthermore, he had been imprisoned by Princess Halloween for decades, and the seal was inside his body. It was a seal cast by the Demon King of the True Fairyland. In addition, he was inspired by the loophole left by Princess Jade-faced. As the saying goes, long illness makes a doctor. He has been exploring from time to time, and although he dare not say that he has mastered it thoroughly over the decades, he is definitely not a novice in the art of formation and sealing.

"Do senior brothers know about this?" Green Snake asked.

The white snake shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Look at the eyes of Senior Brother and the others. Aren't they becoming more and more like Master's? How dare I tell him this? I didn't want to tell you this before. After all, it's always good to have one less person to worry about. But Master has been in seclusion for a long time this time. I feel that if there is any change, it should be in these few days..."

"Then let's..." Green Snake hesitated to speak.

"We can't get out, so we can only..." White Snake smiled bitterly, "I hope Master can succeed this time, or maybe I'm just overthinking it."

"Xiaoqing, watch the clouds with me for a while."

As the white snake spoke, it lay down in a patch of weeds not far from the stream.

"Can you still watch?"

The green snake smiled bitterly. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew and leaves fell down. She stretched out a finger to catch the leaf, and then it bounced away again. Under the influence of the evil spirit, the leaf became as sharp as a knife and shot into the stream in front of her and embedded in a blue stone at the bottom of the stream.

"what!"

The green snake suddenly leaned forward and rushed forward. Her long tail swept through the stream. Then, she made a lightning-fast move and grabbed Ding Lin in her hand. The sunlight fell and sprinkled on Ding Lin's scales, shining brightly. Countless water droplets splashed, creating ripples in the stream.

"Look, there are fish!"

The green snake turned her head and smiled, and all her worries seemed to be swept away.

"Whether it's true or not, we can't avoid it anyway, so let's not think about it for now. It just so happens that we haven't eaten fish for a long time, so let's fillet it up and try something new!"

As the green snake spoke, she turned her wrist and grasped a small curved knife in her palm. She opened her mouth and licked the blade lightly with her small lilac tongue.

Ding Lin swung his long tail with great force, hitting the green snake's wrist and freeing itself.

"What a strength."

The green snake exclaimed and was about to catch Ding Lin again.

There was a flash of contempt in Ding Lin's eyes. He was just pretending to be a pig, not a real pig. How could he allow himself to be controlled by a small snake? He was about to get angry.

at this time--

"Xiao Qing." The white snake stood up. She looked at the green snake gently, then looked at Ding Lin. The moment her eyes met Ding Lin, she was slightly stunned, then stopped the green snake, "Don't..."

"What's wrong, sis? Just eating a fish."

The green snake was puzzled.

"Xiaoqing, this carp must have gained intelligence and can be considered a monster."

White Snake explained.

Ding Lin was also stunned. His breath-concealing method was learned from Princess Wansheng, a secret tradition of the Qingqiu lineage. It was rare in all three realms. When he was still in the Dan realm, he could hide it from the Immortal Realm. Now, when he was using his Yuanshen cultivation to perform it, it was actually seen through by a small Dan realm snake?

He paused for a moment, without making any move, and let his body fall to the grass.

"Demon?"

Green Snake was also confused. She looked Ding Lin up and down, feeling his breath, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't sense any demonic energy.

"Xiaoqing, look at his eyes. They are so ignorant. How could he be a carp without intelligence? He should have developed intelligence, but no one has taught him. He has not formally started practicing. That is why there is no demonic aura on him."

The White Snake said, but she took the contempt that flashed in Ding Lin's eyes just now as ignorance.

This is normal. After all, no one would have thought that a little demon who hasn't even developed any demonic energy would show a look of disdain.

"Sister, you're such a bummer. Sometimes I really feel like you're not a monster. We monsters devour each other, big fish devour small fish, small fish eat shrimps, this is normal, but you're different, not only do you never eat monsters, you don't even eat meat, nine out of ten times you eat you're a vegetarian, it's fine if you don't eat yourself, but you also control me and don't let me eat."

Xiaoqing's face fell.

"My dear sister, we are monsters, not those idiots from the Zhengyi sect next to us. Besides, even those little Taoist priests occasionally make bloody offerings in the mountains. Sister, with our background, you wouldn't have dreamed of becoming an immortal and ascending to heaven for so many years, would you?"

"Xiao Qing, you don't understand. Cultivation is about cultivating the body. We are originally from different species, and all the masters in the world are from Buddhism and Taoism. If we don't keep ourselves clean and get stained with blood, even if the opportunity comes to us one day, it will pass by in vain and we won't be able to grasp it."

White Snake said seriously.

(End of this chapter)