Chapter 79 Demonic Inheritance, Spiritual Beast Foundation Building (2-in-1)
The leading whale beat the sea surface rhythmically with its flippers, splashing water still covered with ice crystals, and there were more beautiful sounds in it A hint of grievance.
Li Qing was unmoved and looked at the whales with interest. In some areas beyond the reach of the flippers, barnacles are growing dotted or in clusters.
These barnacles come in many varieties and vary in size. Some are only attached to the whales, while others are deeply rooted in their bodies, absorbing the essence of their flesh and blood to nourish themselves.
What caught Li Qing’s attention was a cluster of brown-yellow long-necked barnacles on the belly of the leading whale.
The lead whale saw Li Qing standing on top of his head. There was no movement for a long time. Suddenly, a tall water column spewed out from the breathing hole on the top.
Li Qing laughed and performed a water-repelling trick to divert the water flow: "I should have been on guard against this trick of yours!"
The tall water column sprayed high into the sky like this. , and then scattered into water splashes. The crystal water vapor fills the air, reflecting the warm winter sun, reflecting a dazzling rainbow bridge.
The leading whale shook its head and tail, trying to throw Li Qing off, but unexpectedly he had already used the "immovable as a mountain" technique and was not moved at all.
"Okay, okay! I won't tease you anymore." Li Qing smiled and patted the lead whale's horn, "I'll just ask someone to help me."
As he said that, he waved to Little Joel on the boat: "You, find some more sailors and come with rattan baskets to help clean the barnacles from these big whales."
Little Joel stood firm, After receiving Li Qing's instructions, he will lead a group of sailors to jump into the sea and swim over.
Ren quickly stopped him and gave each of the sailors half a bottle of potion refined from Hongya rice: "Let's move around for a while. After the heat dissipates, it won't be too late to get into the water."
Little Joel couldn't wait any longer, so he brought a rattan basket with him, stepped from the ship, leaped seven or eight feet, and jumped onto the top of a big whale.
His neither gentle nor heavy movements made the whale a little unhappy, and a spring of water spurted out of its breathing hole, drenching it.
Little Joel was not angry either. He went under the water with the rattan basket and pulled the barnacles off the big whale hard.
After he became Aoki Daobing, he had the power close to that of the Silver Warrior, so it was easy to clean up the barnacles.
When pulling out the "blood-sucking" barnacles stuck in the body of the whale, he even learned to use plant talismans as vitality to soothe the wound and stop the bleeding.
He worked as quickly as his father, and soon, he had cleaned all the barnacles on the big whale.
At this time, other sailors waited for the medicine to take effect, and jumped into the sea one after another with dumplings under the rattan basket.
Li Qing saw that they were all very familiar with their movements. He thought that they often cleaned the hull of the ship, so he stopped paying attention.
With a flick of his hand, Aoki's true energy turned into a wooden knife in his palm: "Big guy, stop wandering around, I'll help you clean up these annoying things."
The leading whale Weiwei Nodding, he obediently slowed down his swimming speed.
Li Qing patted its horn, jumped into the water, waved the wooden knife, and lightly dug out clusters of barnacles.
“These barnacles have absorbed its essence over the years, and have been tainted with some spiritual energy. The taste may be good.”
With this in mind, he used his true energy and Qingmu's small magical power to create a water plant, which intertwined and grew into a large bag.
"Clatter..." The barnacle shells rubbed against each other and fell into the bag. After a while, the bag was full.
In just one cup of tea, all the barnacles on the lead whale's body were reduced to a cluster of long-necked barnacles on its abdomen.
There are about fifty of these barnacles. They are brown-yellow in color, and their shells are as smooth as jade, with a faint shimmer. They are not as hideous and terrifying as ordinary barnacles.
In this cluster of barnacles, two are the largest, comparable to geoduck clams, while the others are much smaller, only comparable to king razor clams.
What concerned Li Qing was the group of long-necked barnacles, all of which exuded a faint earthy aura.
Although the aura is weak, it is only a first-order low-grade, and it has no benefit to Li Qing, but these are all animals impregnated with magic power!
And in Li Qing’s perception, there is an obvious kinship!
Li Qing threw the straw bag containing the barnacles hard and carried it to the ship with his true energy. Then he moved closer to observe the strange barnacles.
Suddenly, the largest one in the middle suddenly opened its mouth, revealing its tooth-like mouthparts, and bit fiercely towards Li Qing.
Li Qing moved his true energy into the palm of his hand and pinched it lightly, like pinching the seven inches of a poisonous snake: "This temperament is quite ferocious!"
The other barnacles seemed to sense that the leader had suffered a loss, and they were also nervous. He opened his sharp mouthparts and bit into Li Qing's direction in a chaotic manner.
Li Qing was impatient and fought with them. The surging green wood essence surged out, covering these barnacles, and then used wood to overcome the earth, directly fixing the earth spiritual energy in his body.
With just a few tricks, these barnacles seemed to be solidified in cyan amber, with their postures completely frozen, like lifelike ornaments.
“Come here!” Li Qing snorted and peeled off the cluster of earthy barnacles from the belly of the leading whale.
The "root" of this barnacle penetrated the flesh and blood of the whale nearly half a foot deep. Once it was pulled out, it waved wildly like an octopus's tentacles.
Li Qing was not used to it and wrapped it completely with Qingmu Zhenyuan and threw it into the spirit beast bag.
“Pfft——” After the parasitic barnacles were pulled away, purple blood gushed out from the wound left by the lead whale.
Li Qing did not waste anything. While collecting it in a jade bottle, he circulated the Aoki True Essence to stimulate vitality and repair the wounds of the leading whale.
After the most difficult "nail" was driven away, the leading whale above felt light all over.
It forgot Li Qing's instructions for a moment, and as soon as its huge tail fin slapped the water, the whole behemoth jumped up lightly.
It happily circled twice in the air before falling down like a comet hitting the land.
“What a stupid thing!” Li Qing Yufeng flew out of the water, with a roll of true energy, and threw the sailors who were still working on the boat together with the rattan basket behind them.
The next moment, the leading whale plunged into the water, creating huge waves that almost capsized the ship on Lettuce Island.
Little Joel, who was not sent away by Li Qing, was lucky enough to hide in the armpit of a big whale and escaped.
After the waves caused by the leading whale calmed down, Li Qing carried little Joel and returned to the ship.
"Sir, this is what the big fish gave me." Little Joel unloaded the barnacles on the deck and came over to offer the treasure to Li Qing.
Li Qing took a closer look and found that it was a flat and long stone-like object. It looked simple and unpretentious, but it exuded a faint aura and fragrance.
“This thing feels a bit like ambergris?” Li Qing thought of the cause and did not pick it up with his hands. “You can keep it. I will teach you how to combine incense another day... ”
The melodious music came from the whales again.
Li Qing looked back and saw more than twenty large whales, led by the leading whale, turning around and heading east.
"Sir, the barnacles on some whales have not been cleaned up." A sailor braved the situation and came over to report to Li Qing.
Li Qing smiled and waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. God has the virtue of good life. Helping the whale is to cherish life, so why not let those barnacles go?"
Sailor-like He nodded understandingly, and then Asked: "Then what should we do with these barnacles?"
Li Qing smiled and said: "We will cook them in separate meals according to everyone's appetite. In each pot, add two of the barnacles I brought. Pot..."
The sailor went about his business happily. After all, barnacles taste pretty good.
Li Qing didn’t care how they celebrated, standing on the bow of the boat and looking at the whale in the distance.
He keenly sensed that as the cluster of earthen barnacles was pulled out, the aura of the lead whale was rising little by little.
Under the guidance of the song, the entire group of whales formed a mysterious formation, instilling the aura of heaven and earth into the leading whale.
"At this moment, it is like a trapped dragon ascending to the sky, and its momentum has been achieved. Next time we meet, it can be regarded as half a fellow foundation builder..."
Chao Yin fell on his shoulder, shouting angrily: "Gu Ka Gu!" (Impolite!)
Li Qing laughed and nodded in agreement: "Well, what a rude and stingy person. I was reluctant to give away even a piece of ambergris. "The barnacles peeled off the lead whale are really delicious. Even if it wasn't a demon-tainted creature, Li Qing still ate a lot.
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In the simply furnished but spacious and bright cabin, Li Qing circulated his true energy to refine all the turbidity of ordinary food.
He took out a large jade basin and carefully arranged the cluster of long-necked barnacles according to their original position.
As the leading whale moved towards a higher level, Li Qing had a vague feeling.
If placed in the world of cultivation, the lead whale is equivalent to a peak first-order spiritual beast. It should be effortless to clean up these barnacles, which are only low-grade first-order ones.
But the "Warcraft" in this world do not have such power as arms and fingers, and can only use the superpowers obtained after being impregnated with magic power.
The leader whale's ability to call the tide is a great weapon against towns, ships, or enemies, but it is useless when used to pull out barnacles.
These barnacles are also very special. They are born in the water, but they belong to the earth genus. They also happened to be "planted" in the belly of the lead whale, which is difficult to reach. Unexpectedly, they use earth to overcome the water, and they have become a "serious problem" for the lead whale. ".
Without Li Qing's intervention, these barnacles would absorb the essence of the leading whale, gradually grow and expand, and eventually become another biological community analogous to foundation building.
Li Qing lowered his head and looked at the two largest barnacles: "You are its disaster, maybe I am your disaster too."
Two khaki barnacles, ignorant and helpless Sleeping peacefully in the jade basin.
Li Qing smiled, and his spiritual consciousness poured into Barnacle's body, exploring every organ with aura fluctuations bit by bit, looking for the key to their stable inheritance, not letting go of any clues.
In this world, animals imbued with magic like date snails cannot pass on their "superpowers" to their children.
Blue-backed baleen whales are known as the people of Poseidon. The only one that can really cause tides is this purple-backed narwhal.
But now, this law has been broken by these low-level barnacles!
However, no matter how Li Qing looked at it with his spiritual consciousness, these pair of long-necked barnacles were no different from the date palm snails and the organs of the three wind and thunder birds. They were ordinary magic-impregnated creatures.
"Maybe my cultivation is not enough." Li Qing shook his head and threw a handful of Qi-nourishing pills into the jade basin. "Since there are no big whales for you to feed on, try to be vegetarian in the future."
Fortunately, these barnacles are not picky about food, and even prefer pills that are full of spiritual energy. They dance their tentacles, open their mouths, and fight for them without any kindness from the same clan. The scene is unsightly.
Li Qing simply left them in the cabin, set up a restriction around them, and went back on the deck: "How long will it take to get to the main island of Iris?"
Ren happened to come from The captain came out of the cabin and looked up at the surrounding sea: "It will take about two hours."
In fact, with Li Qing's method, he took Ren with him alone, whether it was wind control or water escape, he would arrive at Iris early. Flower island.
It’s just that nobles pay attention to decency, and going on their own is obviously not something to be proud of.
Li Qing thought of the big shots in the world of cultivation who rode incense chariots and controlled spirit beasts, and he also expressed his understanding of this matter.
The two were chatting casually on the deck, and the mast of another ship loomed in the sea to the right.
Ren turned around at Li Qing's signal and saw the flag on the mast at a glance: "Sir, this is the Morning Glory family. In the archipelago, its heritage is second only to the extinct Jinmai family."< br>
Li Qing nodded slightly, and his spiritual consciousness swept over it. Understand the reality over there: "A golden warrior, a third-level wizard..."
Ren recalled for a while: "In the Morning Glory family, there is only one golden warrior in this generation, and that is Fran. Gram-Viscount Morning Glory”
"As for the wizard, he must have been looking for a backer. The destruction of Jinmai Island is really frightening."
Not long after, the two ships converged at one place.
"Hahaha, Baron Lettuce, long time no see. How about coming to my boat for a drink?" A hoarse voice came from the opposite boat.
Ren turned to look at Li Qing: "My lord, this is Viscount Frank Morning Glory. I have some respectable friendship with him."
Li Qing nodded slightly: " Just go. I have everything, don’t worry.”
With confidence in his heart, Ren used the flame rune to bless himself, jumped up, and boarded the Morning Glory family's ship.
"Friends over there, come over too." Another sinister voice sent an invitation to Li Qing.
Li Qing raised his brows, controlled his breath at the peak of his Qi training, and flew onto the opposite ship in the wind.
"Ren, have you broken through the Golden Warrior?" Frank's voice was a little unbelievable.
Ren smiled and nodded, and directly pointed out the topic: "Well, with the help of an adult, I made a lucky breakthrough, but I can't compare with the Viscount's outstanding talent."
Frank looked smug, but said modestly: "I just rely on witch medicine. The three elves at home are more than enough to support a golden warrior."
"Hey, this is the alchemy you inherited. The medicine technology is too backward." Behind Frank, a black-robed wizard said with disdain, "With so many witch medicines, I can cultivate at least three of them."
"That makes sense. "Li Qing got on the boat and agreed casually.
Lettuce Island has no tradition of making potions.
Before signing a legal deed of allegiance to Li Qing, his witch medicine was sent to Green Rose Castle or other pharmacists for processing.
As an alchemist, Li Qing naturally understood the tricks involved, so he took back the processing rights as soon as the legal deed was signed.
The refining technology for the potion supplied to the rune warriors was so rough that Li Qing could not stand it at all, so he directly changed it to a similar recipe and refined it every once in a while.
The wizard frowned and looked at Li Qing with a slightly fearful look: "I am a third-level wizard from the Dark Swamp, Donaldo. I wonder who you are?"
Li Qing was covered in blood. Exuding the aura of green wood, he confidently pretended: "I am from the Emerald Ring."
Donald was suddenly in awe, and his voice was two points louder: "The Emerald Ring, that belongs to our potion masters." Holy Land. I heard that you have tripled the utilization rate of witchcraft medicine recently..."
Magic potion is the finished product of witch medicine. Rune warriors are generally called potions directly.
Li Qing couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Even with his alchemy attainments and the small magical power of spiritual fire, he could only increase the utilization rate of spiritual plants by three times on the original basis.
If Jade Ring can achieve such a big breakthrough in technique without resorting to external forces, then it really shouldn’t be underestimated.
The thoughts in his mind were racing, but Li Qing was very calm: "I am not very proficient in refining magic medicine. I mainly specialize in the cultivation of witch medicine."
Donald Dou Wen After speaking, the respect on his face lost three points, and his voice became sinister again: "Witch medicine cultivation? Isn't it just a matter of having elves?"
"You're not another stupid...idealist who wants to use natural witchcraft to cultivate elf bugs, are you?"
Li Qing couldn't help being stunned, and thought to himself: "The Emerald Ring is still there. Is there anyone studying this? Unfortunately, they don’t have witch medicine that can be grown on a large scale without elf bugs. The experiment is probably very difficult.”
Frank burst out laughing before Li Qing could reply. Come, point at Lake and say: "I heard a rumor about Lettuce Island some time ago. It is said that there are several natural witchcraft medicines on your island, which can be planted on a large scale."
"Hahaha, If there is only one kind, I still believe it. How many kinds are there? It’s so ridiculous that you think I’m a fool!”
Li Qing and Ren En looked at each other and suddenly found themselves in a state of confusion.
"No wonder those traitors spread the news for a long time, but no one came to find fault. No one believed it at all!"
Ren laughed and laughed: "Our island is being reclaimed, I guess. There are rumors that are deliberately concocted by serfs who cannot bear the pain. How do you deal with the people who spread the rumors?"
Frank smiled disdainfully: "How dare you deceive me! Throw it into the sea to feed the sharks.”
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