My equipment is designed for cultivation; I started by slaughtering my way through a small world.

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As soon as Gu Qing finished speaking, a small ape about ninety centimeters tall walked out from the depths of this prison-like cave. It had red fur all over its body and flame-shaped mane growing along its spine.

The hair around the joints such as the knees, elbows, and shoulders is golden.

Dark golden mysterious spiritual patterns appeared on the inside of his arms.

Flames seemed to flicker in his eyes.

There are three raised bony ridges on the forehead, arranged in a "mountain" shape.

This spirit pet, according to its own description, is called the Burning Mountain Spirit Ape, an ancient mythical beast.

And this little guy is not even eight years old.

When Gu Qing met this guy five days ago, the two even had a fight, but the result was a draw.

This Burning Mountain Spirit Ape is even more advanced than Gu Qing in its understanding of the mysteries of fire and earth, having reached a terrifying level of 20.

It exhibits obvious atavistic characteristics.

In the end, Gu Qing used pills to lure and abduct it, and only then was it taken as a spirit pet.

Gu Qing named it Sun Huowang.

Sun Huowang guards the various strange beasts in the cave and receives a daily wage, which is one Tai Xuan Jade Dew Pill each day.

The jailer, Sun, was holding a whip, which was the spoils that Gu Qing had previously seized from the Tiger Fiend Sect disciples.

Sun Huowang went to the Fire Fiend Centipede that Gu Qing had specifically mentioned and started whipping it.

The fire-evil centipede was driven to run rampant throughout the stone chamber prison.

Sun Huowang glanced at the strange beasts in the cage, his eyes flashing with ferocity. But when he turned to face Gu Qing, his expression immediately changed to a fawning smile.

"Boss!!"

"You're catching more and more strange beasts, and my work is getting harder and harder. I don't even have time to sleep anymore."

"Look, how about increasing my food rations?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Qing couldn't help but roll her eyes: "I didn't even ask you to go out and catch any strange beasts, what are you working so hard for?"

"alright."

"The capture of the strange beasts is over. From now on, I will guard these beasts myself."

"You're currently unemployed, so your salary will be halved."

"One Tai Xuan Rain Dew Pill every two days."

"No--"

"Boss, you're too cruel."

The little monkey immediately slid to its knees, hugged Gu Qing's legs, and looked at him with pitiful eyes.

"Let me tell you the truth!"

"The Tai Xuan Jade Dew Pill you ate was leftover from my previous meals. Even the landlord's family doesn't have much surplus food these days."

"If you want to continue taking the pills, go outside and gather herbs."

"Your boss here is a Rank 3, Rank 3, Spirit Pattern Grand Alchemist. The pills I personally refine are many times better than the ones you eat."

"I won't cheat you. We'll split the profits 50/50 when we refine the pills."

Gu Qing's eyes lit up and she came up with a good idea.

He sent Sun Huowang to find the spiritual medicine, while he himself stayed here to refine the Hellfire.

"Boss, do you need those elixirs?"

"I'll go find it right now."

Sun Huowang scratched his head and looked at Gu Qing with a puzzled expression.

"That's easy."

"I'll give you a jade slip. Use the information inside to find the answer."

Gu Qing mixed the materials needed for the Tai Xuan Jade Dew Pill and the materials needed for the Foundation Establishment Pill together and entered them into the jade slip.

After obtaining the jade slip, Sun Huowang hurriedly left the cave.

Watching the little monkey disappear, Gu Qing shook his head slightly.

"That freakish monkey."

"The quality of his spiritual energy is terrifyingly high. He's only at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm, yet the quality of his spiritual energy is even higher than mine."

"I've consumed a bottle of Tai Xuan Jade Dew Pills over the past few days, but my spiritual power cultivation hasn't changed much."

If it weren't for the fact that its aura had become much stronger, Gu Qing would have suspected that he had bought a fake pill.

"Huowang, go gather some herbs for me."

"Well, I'll refine the hellfire here first."

Looking around, Gu Qing had completely transformed the lair of the Crimson Armored Centipede. A hundred stone cave cells had been carved out around the cave, and each cave was protected by a restriction formed by emerald green sword light, which restricted these strange beasts.

Gu Qing arrived in front of a dark red wolf-shaped beast. This beast was numbered 2 and was one of the first beasts Gu Qing had captured.

Upon seeing Gu Qing approach, the dark red fire wolf immediately tucked its tail between its legs and stayed obediently in the cave, not daring to move an inch.

Gu Qingchao threw in a second-grade Fire-Separating Pill.

Inside the grotto, a hint of longing and caution immediately appeared in the dark red eyes of the fire wolf. Wolves are highly intelligent animals, and after transforming into demons and gaining intelligence, they are smarter than ordinary demons.

Instinct told it that the pill was a good thing, but seeing Gu Qing beating it so badly, it was afraid that Gu Qing was plotting against it.

"This is a good thing; it can purify the fire-attribute spiritual energy within your bodies."

"Aren't you going to eat already?"

Upon hearing this, the dark red fire wolf immediately stuck out its tongue and scooped up the Fire Pill from the ground.

Its aura became more refined.

"roar--"

The dark red fire wolf let out a joyful howl.

"What are you yelling about?"

"Now that you've taken the pills, it's your turn to unleash your natal demonic fire to aid my cultivation."

Managing these strange beasts, Gu Qing did not harm their lives and even fed them Li Huo Pills, so these strange beasts did not rebel on a large scale.

Many strange beasts even began to envy Sun Huowang's life.

Mythical beasts will never be enslaved, unless they are provided with food and lodging!!

Under Gu Qing's coercion and enticement, the dark red fire wolf immediately opened its mouth and spat out a bluish-red demonic flame.

Gu Qing sat cross-legged in the center of the cave, using the Li Zi Fu Huo Dan Jue (a technique to control the fire of hell) to transform into the true form of a dragon and a tiger. He then used the Yin Yang Da Mo (a technique to temper the natal demonic fire of a dark red fire wolf) to integrate it into the fire of hell.

Gu Qing crushed his natal demonic fire, allowing its spirituality to merge with the hellfire, thus strengthening the hellfire's spiritual origin.

Half an hour later.

The dark red fire wolf let out a low, panting sound, its hind legs shaking uncontrollably. Feeling its natal demonic fire growing weaker and weaker, Gu Qing shook his head.

"Useless! Can't even last half an hour."

"There is only one Fire-Separating Pill."

"If you want to eat more, try to last longer next time."

"You're a male wolf, don't let people underestimate your stamina..."

This innate demonic fire isn't something you can just spew out whenever you want. It's intertwined with the demon's fate, like... well, it's all the essence refined from life energy and spiritual power.

As soon as Gu Qing finished speaking, a human-like embarrassed expression appeared on the face of the Foundation Establishment Realm dark red fire wolf in the cave.

Next.

Gu Qing then melted down the natal demonic flames of the other strange beasts one by one.

When Gu Qing was refining the natal demonic fire of the twentieth Foundation Establishment beast, the form of the Hellfire underwent a visible change.

At the heart of the dark red hellfire, the faint phantoms of ten thousand beasts galloping can be seen.

The hellfire once again split into the forms of a dragon and a tiger. At the boundary between the dragon and the tiger, the fire of civil and military affairs formed a yin-yang millstone. Inside the yin-yang millstone, twenty kinds of spiritual origins floated, transforming into twenty kinds of spiritual origin animals.

These spiritually aggregated animals attempted one last act of resistance, like a gesture to support the heavens, to resist the hellish karmic fire and the great millstone of yin and yang converging towards the center.

However, this is like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

As the Yin-Yang Millstone rotates, the spirituality of the demonic flames of these demonic beasts is ground into countless spiritual particles, forming a dazzling array of colors. Within the Yin-Yang Millstone constructed by the hellfire, these particles continuously rotate, collide, and merge.

Gradually, they lose their original spiritual form and merge with the hellfire to reorganize into new spiritual fire.

Gu Qing used the Li Zi Fu Huo Dan Jue (离字蕴火丹诀) to repeatedly refine the pill.

"Bang!!"

Inside the cave, the hellfire in Gu Qing's palm suddenly changed, and it seemed as if a hundred beasts were roaring within the flames.

Sensing the fluctuations emanating from the strange flames, the surrounding beasts all collapsed to the ground.

Shock was evident in his eyes.

Looking at the flame in Gu Qing's hand, they stared at it for a while before feeling as if they were trapped in a series of illusions. The prey they had killed in the past seemed to have come back to life and began to devour their flesh and blood.

"roar!"

"..."

The imprisoned beasts roared and fought fiercely against their prey in the illusion.

They noticed something unusual about their surroundings.

Gu Qing smiled slightly and retracted the strange flame into his body.

"Beastly Inferno!!"

"Second Rank, Seventh Grade"

"When we refined the Hellhound's magic crystal, the Hellhound was at the second rank, sixth level of cultivation."

"therefore."

"My Hellfire started as a second-grade, sixth-level weapon. Now, by fusing the natal demonic fires of twenty different beasts, the Hellfire has been upgraded to a second-grade, seventh-level weapon."

"Moreover, its form has changed, and its effects have become increasingly mysterious."

Looking at the other strange beasts in the cave, a glint of light flashed in Gu Qing's eyes.

The vast majority of the strange beasts in this cave are at the second-grade Foundation Establishment realm.

Their innate demonic fire and hellfire are both within the second rank, and for hellfire, they are a great tonic.

If you refine all the innate demonic flames of the strange beasts in the cave, they should be able to evolve and transform.

……

three days later.

Gu Qing sat upright in the center of the cave, while all the strange beasts around him spewed their innate demonic fire at him.

Around Gu Qing.

The beast's karmic fire transformed into a phantom image of a Yin-Yang millstone. Within Gu Qing's body, the two spiritual fires, one dragon and one tiger, circulated within and around his body with each breath.

The dragon and tiger conjured by the spirit fire suddenly opened their mouths, releasing two vast devouring forces.

In an instant.

The strange beasts, still absorbing their natal spirit fire, were horrified to discover that their natal demonic fire was out of control, involuntarily flying towards Gu Qing and being swallowed whole by the dragon and tiger.

"Fire of a Hundred Beasts!!"

"All demonic flames below my own grade are readily available and usable."

"Not only that..."

"This fire has another wonderful use!!"

After the Dragon-Tiger Spirit Fire devoured the natal demonic fires of all the strange beasts, it entered Gu Qing's body. The phantom images of hundreds of beasts surrounded Gu Qing, and waves of pressure emanated from his body.

This prevented the nearby beasts from even having the slightest thought of resistance.

What, what's going on?

These strange beasts, forcibly brought here by Gu Qing, looked at him in terror.

In their perception, Gu Qing was a terrifying demon king disguised in human skin.

"Boss!!"

"Boss, come quick, help me!"

Before Gu Qing could get up, Huo Wang's urgent cries for help suddenly came from outside the cave.

Gu Qing's expression changed slightly.