Btth: The Rise of Qingshan

"Young Master, I did it!"

Qing Ling fell into Yan Qingshan's arms, her tired face full of joy.

Yan Qingshan gently stroked her head, carefully holding the tired girl. "Alright, don't talk anymore, rest well."

Yan Qingshan fed her a Qi Nourishing Pill and carefully coaxed her. Qing Ling's eyes slowly closed, and she fell into a peaceful sleep.

After Qing Ling fell asleep, the Two-Headed Flame Spirit Serpent stood there foolishly. Whenever its gaze swept over Qing Ling on the ground, the ferocity and ferociousness in its eyes would involuntarily disappear, replaced by a docile look.

"Dawn, collect the Flame Spirit Serpent's specific data, try to deduce a cultivation plan..."

Qing Ling was fine for the time being, so Yan Qingshan held the sleeping beauty in his arms while also trying to direct the Rock Snake group to bring out the trapped Two-Headed Flame Spirit Serpent to collect intelligence materials.

Yan Qingshan's Dawn electronic auxiliary AI could analyze intelligence by collecting materials and then deduce feasible improvement plans.

Whether for humans or magical beasts, as long as there were enough intelligence materials, it could be used for target deduction.

Dawn had made the greatest contribution to Yan Qingshan's becoming an eight-star Dou Zhe in less than a year. The plans it calculated used all the means Yan Qingshan could use to the maximum extent, reaching the limit cultivation speed of the Dou Zhe stage.

Now, Yan Qingshan had to collect the Flame Spirit Serpent's samples and find a way to make this fourth-rank peak magical beast transform again.

If this idea succeeded, the fifth-rank Flame Spirit Serpent would become the biggest trump card in the early stage of cultivation.

Fifth-rank magical beasts were powerful existences even more difficult to deal with than Dou Kings. With super high intelligence, powerful beast bodies, strength and speed beyond humans, and supernatural abilities, ordinary Dou Kings couldn't compare to fifth-rank magical beasts.

Of course, ideals were full, but reality was skinny. It wasn't that easy for fourth-rank magical beasts to upgrade to the fifth rank. The difficulty for Yan Qingshan to achieve this goal was extraordinary.

Although Dawn could deduce and design advancement plans, it couldn't be comprehensive. Moreover, whether for humans or magical beasts, the specific data changed every moment.

Yan Qingshan himself was Dawn's main body, and he naturally understood his own changes and could fine-tune them.

But designing plans for other living beings couldn't achieve real-time fine-tuning, so more considerations were needed.

So far, he had only tried to collect and deduce plans for Qing Ling and Xiao Yi Xian. He didn't even dare to let Xiao Yi Xian practice them.

"Hiss hiss..."

The Two-Headed Flame Spirit Serpent was frozen in the ice pit, making it inconvenient to move, but its attitude towards Yan Qingshan, the guy who had tricked it, was definitely not good.

But unfortunately, after a long time, the effect of the Drunken Dragon Grass had almost reached its peak. It didn't have much resistance and was made into a soft noodle by Yan Qingshan, pulled out of the ice pit, and thrown to the ground. Yan Qingshan took out a series of collection tools.

He collected all of the Flame Spirit Serpent's fangs, blood, skin tissue, and snake scales. He even checked every part of the snake's body thoroughly.

Yan Qingshan didn't expect it to be a female snake, but whether a two-headed snake had two minds was a really tangled question!

When Qing Ling woke up, she found that she was still lying in Young Master's arms. She shook her dizzy little head, looked up, her little face slightly red, and rubbed her temples with her slender fingers. She suddenly whispered,

"Young Master, did we succeed!"

"You did very well!"

Yan Qingshan lowered his head and kissed Qing Ling's forehead lightly. The little girl's face was rosy and lovely. The Flame Spirit Serpent next to her became even more lifeless.

Its master had been subdued. What would happen to it when it fell into the hands of this big devil? What to do, what to do…

The Flame Spirit Serpent was very flustered. When it woke up, Yan Qingshan was exploring its whole body. It watched the other party take out small knives, tweezers, and other tools to cut and clip its body.

With its not-low intelligence, it was naturally flustered. But unfortunately, it was anesthetized by Yan Qingshan and could only watch helplessly, praying that its master could save it.

But what was the situation now? Its master had been subdued by the other party. How dark its snake life would be in the future!

"Young Master, the Flame Spirit Serpent is very afraid of you! It told me not to let you get close to it again!"

Qing Ling nestled in Yan Qingshan's arms and giggled. She found it very interesting that the Flame Spirit Serpent, which was so powerful before, had admitted defeat.

Yan Qingshan smiled and didn't reply. His blue eyes, flashing with electric light, swept over the Flame Spirit Serpent, and the big snake immediately felt worse.

Yan Qingshan glanced at the Flame Spirit Serpent and said, "The Flame Spirit Serpent has enough energy accumulation and a very deep foundation. Theoretically, if it is guided by a suitable plan, it can be promoted to a fifth-rank magical beast. However, there is also a possibility of failure. If it fails..."

"I'll listen to Young Master. Whatever Young Master wants to do!"

Qing Ling replied crisply, even before Yan Qingshan finished speaking.

"You!"

Yan Qingshan affectionately stroked Qing Ling's head. The little girl's trust in him was almost blind, making him not know what to say.

The Flame Spirit Serpent next to her subconsciously shrank its body.

After contracting with Qing Ling, it shared some information from its master. Although it didn't understand the conversation just now, it always felt that it wasn't a good thing!

At the end of the underground passage, two figures and dozens of snake shadows appeared again before the lava lake. The huge Two-Headed Flame Spirit Serpent slowly walked behind Yan Qingshan and Qing Ling like a guard. After arriving at the lava lake, it couldn't wait to plunge into it, making bursts of pleasant hissing sounds.

The lava lake was the Flame Spirit Serpent's breeding and living place. Here, it could quickly expel bad states and recover from injuries. At the same time, its combat power was off the charts here. Even fifth-rank magical beasts couldn't defeat it in the lava lake.

"Master, I asked the Flame Spirit Serpent to bring up the things it collected. See if they are useful..."

Qing Ling looked in the direction where the Flame Spirit Serpent disappeared, her emerald eyes shining with strange light.

The Flame Spirit Serpent was her first truly contracted snake magical beast. Unlike the previous Rock Snake group, she had only used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to communicate with the Rock Snakes and couldn't be considered a true contract.

After all, her current strength was still weak, and she couldn't contract and control too many snake-like magical beasts.

Yan Qingshan couldn't let her waste the precious contract slots in the early stage on the low-potential Desert Rock Snakes. The cost performance was too low.

Although the number of contracted snake-like magical beasts could increase with Qing Ling's cultivation, Yan Qingshan needed strong combat power in the early stage, and the first and second-rank Rock Snakes obviously didn't meet this condition.

After Qing Ling completely contracted with the snake-like magical beast, she could establish a connection and sense its thoughts. At the same time, she could use the snake-like magical beast's spiritual power to cultivate quickly.

When her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils grew to the advanced stage, she could also open up eye space to put the snake-like magical beasts in and carry a group of thugs with her.

If she was ruthless, she could completely refine and absorb the controlled snake-like magical beasts. The Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent Soul in the future was completely refined by her, achieving the six-star Dou Zun realm in one fell swoop.

Boom boom…

Not long after the Flame Spirit Serpent disappeared, its two heads broke through the lava and came out, holding some things in their mouths.

Yan Qingshan was ready to try to guide the Flame Spirit Serpent's energy to stimulate its advancement. But to do this, he definitely needed materials, especially precious fire attribute materials.

Yan Qingshan didn't have enough materials on hand, but this was a place where fire attribute spiritual energy was active.

There were generally many precious materials in the underground lava, and this area was almost entirely the Flame Spirit Serpent's territory.

Magical beasts had the habit of collecting good things, so it naturally collected many things in its lair.

"Fire Spirit Crystal, good quality, very pure. Volcano Vine, it's actually golden patterned. Earth Core Fire Marrow Paste sealed in the Earth Core Red Jade Pillar, it can refine the body, it's a good thing. Such a big piece of red jade, the value is not..."

Yan Qingshan really found a lot of good

Yan Qingshan really found a lot of good stuff from the pile of things the Flame Spirit Serpent brought back. However, most of them were fire attribute spiritual materials.

There weren't many spiritual herbs. Actually, it made sense. How many plants could survive in such extreme conditions?

Yan Qingshan didn't have many natural treasures that he could use, but he had a lot of things that could be used for the Flame Spirit Serpent.

"This thing is..."

Yan Qingshan held a section of jade-like lotus root-shaped plant in his hand. The warm and soft plant shimmered with blue light and fire energy.

It contained extremely abundant and high-quality fire attribute energy, but it also contained a strange wood attribute life energy.

Just by holding it, Yan Qingshan felt the Dou Qi in his body boiling, craving it.

"Young Master, the Flame Spirit Serpent said that this is a part of the root of a strange blue flame lotus in the lava lake."

The Flame Spirit Serpent opposite Qing Ling hissed, and Qing Ling translated,

"When the Flame Spirit Serpent found the flame lotus, it sensed the powerful energy contained in the lotus and instinctively opened its mouth to bite it.

But the blue flame of the lotus erupted and almost burned it to death.

But it wasn't without gains. It bit off this section of the lotus body. But the energy it contained was too pure, and it didn't dare to mess around after suffering a loss."

"This silly thing actually used its mouth to bite the Heavenly Flame. It's lucky it wasn't burned to death."

After hearing the description, Yan Qingshan knew what lotus the Flame Spirit Serpent was talking about. It must be the most precious treasure in this lava lake, the nineteenth Heavenly Flame on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Every Heavenly Flame contained terrifying energy. Even Dou Kings and Dou Emperor would die if a Heavenly Flame erupted.

However, the Flame Spirit Serpent and the Green Lotus Core Flame were both born from this lava lake, so they were from the same source.

The Flame Spirit Serpent had higher resistance to the Green Lotus Core Flame. Moreover, the Heavenly Flame reaction it caused was smaller, so it wasn't killed directly.

"Jade Lotus? Is it really a plant?"

After hearing Qing Ling's translation, Yan Qingshan held the section of the Jade Lotus's remains in his hand, his eyes seemingly filled with strange light.

Green Lotus Core Flame, a flame from the earth's core lava, born deep in the earth, tempered, fused, compressed, and carved countless times by the earth's fire... ten years to form a spirit, a hundred years to take shape, a thousand years to form a lotus.

When it's fully formed, its color is blue, and a cluster of blue fire grows in the lotus core, named Jade Lotus Flame, also known as Green Lotus Core Flame.

This fire's power is unpredictable. Near volcanic areas, it can even trigger volcanic eruptions! Forming the destructive power of nature!

Originally, Yan Qingshan thought that this Heavenly Flame, born from the earth's core and growing by absorbing lava energy, would be purely fire attribute.

But this Jade Lotus's remains, which had a physical form, also contained rich wood attribute life energy. It seemed... he could also absorb it...