Chapter 40: Little Demon Yaojing

  In front of the 'Hongmeng Creation Furnace', Lin Xiang was controlling the fire with his fingers, directing a group of Taoist priests in green robes to cast spells and collect the spiritual elixirs spewing out of the furnace.

  'Hong Meng Creation Furnace', this is a name that Yi Zhen Dao people racked their brains for a long time before giving it to the Dan furnace. The two words 'Hong Meng' give this top-grade treasure Dan furnace an extra hint of ancient mysterious aura, and also gave Yi Zhen Dao people's own face a thick layer of gold. The two words 'Creation', however, even got the nod of approval from a group of Daoist practitioners. After seeing Lin Xiao's grand scene of alchemy, this Dan furnace and Lin Xiao worked together, and didn't disappoint the name 'Creation'.

  The spiritual formula changed, Lin Xiao lifted the lid of the furnace, and was about to instruct those Taoist priests who were preparing to add the next batch of medicinal materials. Suddenly, a very fine green light flew in from the horizon and shot into a green jade leaf pendant hanging at his waist. With a soft hum, the leaf suddenly flew up, circled around Lin Xiao three times, and rapidly flew towards the direction where the green light came from.

  Lin Xiao let out a loud roar, his hands weaving a swift spell as he conjured up a beam of red light to chase after the fleeing jade shard.

  Those Daoist priests immediately panicked, and they didn't know what had happened to make Lin Xiao so flustered that he abandoned the six batches of elixirs that were still being refined in the crucible. To think that among the several elixirs being refined today, there was a particularly rare and precious spirit medicine called 'Golden Spirit Liquid', which could repair Golden Elixir injuries and was an excellent remedy. With Lin Xiao leaving like this, the six batches of spiritual elixirs in the crucible would certainly go wrong, and the loss of medicinal materials would not be small. The Daoist priests looked at each other, unsure of what to do as they surrounded the crucible that was gradually emitting a burnt smell.

  Lin Xiao drove the sword light to closely follow that rapidly flying green jade leaf, like a red meteor streaking across the sky. The sword galloped wildly, and Lin Xiao's heart gradually welled up with a thread of anger.

  He realized that the direction of Qing Yu's flying leaves was exactly Yuan Zong's Medicine Mountain! Although he didn't know how Qing Chu suddenly ran to Medicine Mountain, since the emergency letter he sent her was from there, it seemed she had encountered trouble there! Would someone in Medicine Mountain bully Qing Chu? The faces of Xiū Gōngzhǔ and others flashed before Lín Liù's eyes. "Hmph, do they think I, Lín Liù, won't kill anyone?" Lín Liù gritted his teeth tightly, his anger growing even more. Qing Chu was like the little dog he raised when he was young, how could he tolerate others bullying her?

  "Hmph~~~", Qing Yu Ye's leaves swept past the entrance of Yao Shan, directly throwing himself into the valley behind a dozen mountain peaks. Lin Xiao looked down at the ground in surprise, looking at the Yuan Zong Yao Shan disciples who were staring blankly at him, and furrowed his brow, thinking: "Why did Qing Chu run to such a remote place? Could it be that..."

  As soon as he thought of the two followers who had spoken ill of Qing Luo, Lin Xiao's eyes shot out a thread of purple-red lightning. The Shangqing Lei Huo Zhen jue that Jiang Zi gave to Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao has been constantly refining the elixir in front of the furnace these days, and the abundant spiritual energy in the furnace fire was absorbed into his body. The Lei Huo Zhen jue had some achievements, and the electric light in his eyes added a few points of overbearing prestige to his handsome face. As the leading Qing Yu Ye Pian brought up a green light and flew into a dark and secluded mountain valley, Lin Xiao also lowered his sword light with a gloomy face.

  Qing stood at the entrance of the cave, jumping up and down excitedly. Seeing a red light falling from the sky, she immediately shouted with joy: "Lin brother, come quickly to save us!"

  She pounced on Lin Xiao's body, Qing Huo grasped Lin Xiao's sleeve with one hand and pulled him fiercely towards the cave.

  Lin Xiao was taken aback, and suddenly saw a beautiful young girl jumping towards him. He instinctively almost slapped her, but luckily Qing Le's voice came in time, and Lin Xiao heard it and withdrew his right palm. He glanced at Qing Le's flawless face and nodded secretly: "Wonderful, the 'Yu Rou Xue' of Huayu Zushi is indeed extraordinary. Since Elder Yi is so interested in beauty pills, I suppose 'Yu Rou Gao' is also..."

  Qing Yun dragged Lin Xiao into the cave, and as soon as they entered, Lin Xiao violently rubbed his nose several times. The air was filled with a strong medicinal scent, and Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes to carefully distinguish the properties of the medicine. Suddenly, he loudly scolded: "Who is so reckless? In the cultivation world, there are tens of millions of types of commonly used, rarely used, and precious medicines. No one has ever dared to mix the medicinal powers of so many medicines together to refine a dan! Who would actually combine countless medicinal powers? This medicinal scent, I'm afraid it's...!"

  Qing dug at Lin Xiao's sleeve with force, crying out in a loud voice: "Brother Lin, something has happened to Little Qing! It's going to be burned to death, you have to save it!"

  ‘Hū’, half of the cave's green moss was simultaneously reduced to ashes in the flames, and the pool's purple-green moss was only left with a size of about half a finger. Now it was weakly spinning around in the pool. From time to time, a strange flame emerged from the moss, and at the same time, large areas of green moss on the ground were burned into black ash. The moss 'chirped' as if a small chicken frozen by the storm was making its last cry before death. Qingchu squatted by the pool, with tears dripping into the pond.

  Lin Xiao knelt on the ground, completely ignoring the flames that kept burning under him. He reached out to scoop up some of the strangely colored liquid from the pool and put it in his mouth, savoring it lightly. "Hmm!" Lin Xiao's face scrunched up fiercely, the taste of this pool water was extremely strange, with all five flavors - sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty - clearly and cleanly present, each one piercing through his tongue to his abdomen, almost making him vomit. Yet, these five flavors combined into an even stranger mixed flavor, which shot up Lin Xiao's forehead like a burning fire, causing his vision to blur and nearly fainting.

  "This is clearly a pool of poison!" With great effort, he spat out the medicinal liquid in his mouth. Lin Xiao hastily took out several detoxifying spirit pellets and tossed them into his mouth before calmly asking: "What kind of monster is this?"

  "Xiao Qing is not a monster!" Qing Gun looked at Lin Xiao with a pitiful expression, tapping his fingers on the ground and said: "Xiao Qing is a patch of moss in this medicine mountain, it absorbed the spiritual energy of various medicines and the dripping liquid when they were picked over thousands of years, that's how it gained intelligence... It's Qing Gun, it's Qing Gun's only friend besides Li Dage!"

  Apart from Li Le who has a deep affection for Qinggun, is this patch of green moss Qinggun's only friend?

  Lin Xiao's gaze flickered, and he looked at Qing Chui with a mixture of pity and tenderness. He could imagine that in the countless medicine mountains of Yuan Zong, a lonely and helpless little girl had coincidentally met a small patch of spiritually-aware cyan moss. The two equally naive little creatures had become friends, meeting on mountain ridges and chatting freely under the moonlight and cold wind. A small, ugly-faced little girl and a wriggling, "squeaky"-voiced cyan moss monster, taking turns speaking their minds, yet somehow understanding each other's meanings, and also able to make the other understand their own. This... should be friendship, right?

  He narrowed his eyes and said faintly, "Don't worry, it's just that the spiritual energy in his body is too strong due to the urgent need for spiritual medicine, but he doesn't know how to refine it. As a result, his body can't withstand the power of the medicine, and his body will be burned by the medicinal power."

  In his mind, countless records of the Great Luo Dan Jing rapidly flipped through, Lin Xiao softly said: "Although its true body is a piece of green moss, its innate talent is somewhat poor, and its intelligence will also be weaker. However, it can still be considered as a type of grass-wood spirit. One of my ancestors in the Great Luo Dan Dao, the venerable Master Wan Ye, was particularly fond of enlightening various grass-wood spirits for his own amusement. Here, there just so happens to be the 'Wood Spirit Incantation' that he used back then to enlighten those spirits. Although it's not some kind of profound and ingenious technique, it should still be suitable for this small, unformed monster."

  Qing Yue's eyes stared at Lin Xiao, constantly nodding.

  Xiao Qing, who was emitting faint flames, loudly shouted: "I'm not a monster~~~~~~~ Squeak~~~~~~~ I'm not a monster~~~~~~~ Squeak, it hurts so much~~~~~~~ I am a monster!"

  Lin Xiao shook his head and slowly recited the Wood Spirit Incantation, letting Little Qing comprehend it on her own.

  These flowers, grasses and trees that have transformed into spirits do not have any concept of meridians or acupoints. They simply instinctively accumulate various energies. If their luck is good, they can rely on the accumulated energy to transform into a demon; if their luck is bad, the energy that is too strong for their fragile bodies will either blow them to smithereens or bring about all sorts of heavenly disasters.

  And this Muling Jue is a shallow piece that teaches these little monsters how to control the spiritual energy inside their bodies and use it to refine their physical bodies.

  Xiao Qing let out a few 'squeaks' and suddenly dove into the water pool. For a moment, only the several square feet of water in the pool rapidly disappeared, all being absorbed by Xiao Qing's body. Xiao Qing's body swelled to the size of a water bucket, the fluffy green moss blocks rapidly squirming, waves of intense medicinal fragrance constantly spreading from its body, forcing Qing Chuan to continuously retreat backwards. The green grass on the ground and the green moss in the ditch also flew up thread by thread, merging into Xiao Qing's main body.

  Lin Xiao had his hands behind his back, gazing calmly at the small Qing who was refining the powerful medicinal energy within her body according to law. In a low voice, he said: "You are a demon, but your true form is just this one sprout of green grass. From now on, you will be called Yao Jing!"

  With his right hand raised to the sky, Lin Xiao activated the Upper Clear Thunder Fire True Technique. A thin, purple electric light descended from the sky, striking the small Qing that was rapidly crawling and emitting a high-pitched "zhi zhi" cry.

  Qing Chui shouted: "Lin Gege, don't hurt Xiao Qing!"

  Lin Xiao didn't make a sound.

  In the purple lightning, there was a thread of heavenly fire true yuan from Lin Xiao's body, which was extremely yang and strong. However, Xiao Qing was an extremely yin and cold moss demon. As the two energies of yin and yang combined, an extremely strange and wonderful change occurred instantly.

  Only seeing the lightning flashing on Xiao Qing's body, large pieces of moss were blown away and flew far away. A cloud of green smoke rolled out, and a slender figure slowly walked out of the smoke. This was a girl with pale green skin, ink-green hair, and eyes that shone like bright green gemstones, her features nine-tenths similar to those of Qing Chui.

  The little girl blinked her eyes and stared blankly at Lin Xiao, then smiled foolishly.

  Moss has become a monster, born with a very low talent, Lin Xiao calls it a small monster of Yao Jing, not very smart.

  Lin Xiao patted Yu Jing's head and said lightly: "Qing Chu, from now on, you'll be in charge of Yu Jing. Hurry up and teach her some things!"

  The little monster 'hehe' burst out laughing, pointing at her own nose and giggling repeatedly: "Yaojing! Yaojing! I have a new name! Hehe, it sounds better than Xiaoqing!"

  Qing Yue walked happily to the little monster's front, gently stroking the little monster's cheek, and lightly laughed: "Little Qing, from now on you are my little sister!"

  Two little girls looked at each other and suddenly burst out laughing 'hehehe'.