From Family Fisherman to Water Virtue True Immortal
Chapter 308 - 303: Demon Core Candidate

Chapter 308: Chapter 303: Demon Core Candidate

Li Quanqing held the Ice Profound Freeze Sky Mirror, with boundless cold air surging on its surface, slaughtering all around amidst the beast tide, invincible in every direction.

Crunch, crunch!

Only to see white rays streaming from the mirror, seemingly containing a world of ice and snow, releasing bone-chilling cold, freezing everything in its path.

The wind and snow howled; in the blink of an eye, the vast sea was frozen into ice blocks.

Ice shards flew about, a vast expanse of white, countless minor demons turned into ice sculptures, their life cut off in an instant.

This Nascent Soul Spiritual Treasure could definitely be called a weapon for clearing small troops, with its ice domain freezing everything, leaving no chance of escape.

The Golden Core Early Stage Golden Ring Octopus Great Demon, seeing the unfavorable situation, immediately chickened out, spewing a large mass of pitch-black, sticky ink, preparing to flee.

Whoosh!!

Silently, the Void Scissors tore through the void, leaving traces of silvery translucent silk threads in the seawater, both beautiful and deadly.

The body of the Golden Core Demon came to a sudden halt in its movement, and then was hacked into eight pieces, blood mixing with chunks of flesh scattering, like a puzzle shattered into pieces.

The sharpness of the Void Scissors could even cut open space, severing the void, to the extent that even Nascent Soul Demons had to fear it.

Killing a physically weak, ordinarily strong Third Rank Demon Beast was as simple as cutting down a chicken.

Li Quanqing followed closely, with a hand gesture, collecting all the Great Demon Flesh and removing the specifically left Third Rank Demon Core.

"Have I really become this strong now..."

Even with his prior anticipation, Li Quanqing was still somewhat shocked at the power of the Void Scissors.

Third Rank Great Demon, instant kill!

Recalling earlier times, he had fought fiercely, battling the Earth Flame Flood Dragon for days and nights, finally exhausting it with the environment.

This shows the terrifying nature of the Nascent Soul Spiritual Treasure.

It’s known that many Nascent Soul Cultivators only have one Lifebound Magical Treasure, which takes years of nurturing with blood essence to evolve into a Fourth Rank Spiritual Treasure during the Heavenly Tribulation, greatly enhancing its spirituality.

Li Quanqing, not yet having formed a Nascent Soul, already possessed three Spiritual Treasures, indeed wealthy beyond measure.

"No wonder recently, the Treasure Light Toad loves to perch on my head, turns out the treasure aura is too strong, almost bursting. I should probably let it try a Nascent Soul Spiritual Treasure later."

Li Quanqing carefully put away the Void Scissors. After he finished tidying up, the beast tide was already resolved.

Nearly eighty percent of the demon beasts were directly frozen to death, becoming ice sculptures, merging with the frozen sea surface, bone-chillingly cold and especially tragic.

Buzz! Buzz!

Amidst the hum of the array, patterns of the array quickly intertwined, opening an extremely narrow gap, followed by many Human Clan Cultivators pouring out from the island.

They looked at Li Quanqing with reverence, almost as if bowing to a deity, and then quickly cleaned the battlefield, handing over these demon beast corpses to the Li Family members responsible.

This beast tide had already lasted two days, with a grand scale and immense momentum.

Who would have thought now, relying on only one person, it could be quelled in just a few dozen breaths!

"Quanqing, it seems you’ve had quite the harvest."

Li Kunlun came out from the gap, eyeing the icy blue treasure mirror in his hand, thinking it was the harvest from this expedition.

Li Quanqing merely gave a slight smile, not explaining, following him into the array, back to the stationed island.

After this total annihilation, they even lost a Demon King.

The Demon Clan in this area, even if they wanted to regroup and launch another beast tide, would need quite a while.

Li Quanqing stepped into the void, specifically glancing at the Qi Refining cultivators guarding the array below, especially noting the Situ Family’s secret spies.

As per his prior arrangements, this group was indeed sent to the most dangerous areas.

This was just the first large-scale beast tide outbreak, and judging by the situation, many cultivators had already perished, unable to escape their doomed fate.

Returning to the palace in the core area of the Heavenly Ship, Li Quanqing finally relaxed completely, and then a long-lost fatigue swept over him.

Although this time of exploring the relic was short, he had expended quite a bit of energy, finally now able to rest for a moment.

The only regret was not being able to find Zhou Caimei’s whereabouts, her tracks remaining a mystery.

He released the furry Golden Flame Tiger, ordering the tiger cub to lie in the hall, stirring up flames, its fur dense and fluffy, extraordinarily warm.

Li Quanqing lazily lay on the tiger cub’s belly, tugging at its two round, furry ears, pondering how great it would be to peel off this tiger’s skin for a blanket to sleep on.

For no reason, the Golden Flame Tiger lay on the floor, shivering from the cold, a lingering fear in its heart.

Li Quanqing stroked the golden tabby cat until he completely relaxed from his tense state, only then having the mind to look at his harvest this time.

The most precious, of course, was the young Profound Nether Ice Phoenix, already at Golden Core at birth, destined to become Nascent Soul, surely with the potential of Divinity Transformation.

Li Quanqing took out the Hanhai Bowl, extending his Divine Sense, gazing inside.

The Profound Nether Ice Phoenix, although just born, could already fly in the sky, like a curious baby, observing the Green Bamboo Mountain on Fish-Dragon Island.

To it, everything before its eyes seemed so novel.

It flapped its wings, and because it had not yet completely mastered its powerful strength, a layer of frost spread among the plants wherever it passed.

Intimidated by the gap in strength and racial bloodline, all the spiritual beasts, except for two Golden Core demon beasts and the Dragon Flame Eagle, had shown their intent to submit.

"It seems we need to build an island solely for the Ice Phoenix..."

Looking at the spiritual medicine harmed by the frost, Li Quanqing stroked his chin and made a decision.

He had long planned to completely refine the former Foundation Establishment strange treasure, the Snow Dust Heavenly Robe, and open up an island of ice and snow in the north of Fish-Dragon Island.

Not only could he expand the Grotto Heaven world, but the water and fire integration of the southern and northern islands could also promote a large cycle of nature’s spiritual energy, nurturing vitality and creation.

Now that he had obtained the cute and beautiful little Xuanming Phoenix, this matter could naturally be put on the agenda.

Li Quanqing shifted his gaze to the second biggest acquisition, which was the deceased body of the Earth Flame Flood Dragon.

This demon beast was now lying on Volcano Island, with lava rolling and flowing between its scale armor, demon energy soaring to the sky, even in death, it still exuded a vast dragon might, its head and horns stood out prominently.

The Dragon Flame Eagle was guarding beside it, not leaving even an inch, its pair of golden eyes shining brightly, clearly having already considered this demon beast meat as part of its possessions.

However, without the master’s command.

The Dragon Sculpture absolutely did not dare to steal a bite, only secretly rubbing against it, refining the fire essence escaping from the Earth Flame Flood Dragon.

As these spiritual beasts grew stronger and increasingly intelligent, Li Quanqing was also intentionally cultivating his own majesty.

These were all changes influenced imperceptibly in daily interactions, coupled with various means of enslaving demon beasts through contracts.

All the demon beasts remained in absolute awe and submission to him.

The corpse of this fire attribute Flood Dragon, Li Quanqing planned to leave for the Dragon Flame Eagle to consume, the effect was no less than a Foundation Establishment spiritual item.

Whether it could break through the Core Formation bottleneck, it all depended on the Dragon Sculpture’s fortune.

He extended a finger, and the abdomen of the Earth Flame Flood Dragon split open immediately, from which flew out a fiery red demon core with the color of magma, glowing brilliantly.

This was the treasure he valued the most, a powerful demon core at the peak of the Golden Core Middle Stage, on the verge of breaking through to the Late-stage Golden Core.

If this demon core were used to refine the foundational basis of the Tao, to condense a fake core, it would definitely be much stronger than that counterfeit from the Nine Sword True Man.

Moreover, fire attribute cultivators boasted powerful combat capabilities, absolutely not weaker than a genuine Early-stage Golden Core.

Regarding who should refine it, Li Quanqing already had an answer in his mind.

Li Kunli.

The former master of the Artifact Refining Hall in the family, the wise and gallant Third Elder.

When Li Quanqing was weak, he could quickly stand out within the family, largely due to the assistance of this elder.

Moreover, with Li Kunli’s high-grade Fire Spirit Root, breaking through the Foundation Establishment stage at the brink of the sexagenary cycle life limit, the possibility of self-condensing a Golden Core was almost zero.

It’s better to offer him a stroke of fortune.

Now, after sixty years, Li Kunli had also reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage in recent times, enough to reach the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection before the age of 150.

He truly held the qualifications to refine this Flame Flood Dragon Demon Core into a fake core.

However, Li Quanqing did not rush to inform Li Kunlun about this matter, intending to wait a bit.

If the Dragon Flame Eagle consumed the blood and flesh and still could not break through, he would choose to feed this demon core to it.

After all, for a demon beast to advance to the Third Rank, it was guaranteed to reward the owner with treasures like a Nascent Soul Spiritual Treasure, far more worthwhile than merely having an additional fake core cultivator.

Regarding Li Kunli’s path, he could always seek out another demon king, kill it and take its core, though it was troublesome and required gathering lots of intelligence.

Li Quanqing toyed with the Flame Flood Dragon Demon Core, with the sharpness of his current spiritual treasure, there really wasn’t much pressure killing those Golden Core Demons.

Besides this, he had just harvested a second demon core, which was of the water attribute, deciding to keep it for himself for now.

The power of the Golden Ring Octopus Great Demon was not strong, only at the Early-stage Golden Core, and breaking through with this demon core would only position itself at the weakest tier.

Moreover, suitable water spirit root cultivators, such as Li Quanyi, who had teachings from an ancient array spirit and cultivated a mysterious heritage, had their own foundations.

Perhaps he could self-condense a core, becoming the third Golden Core cultivator for the Li Family, completely disregarding the method of fake core.

Li Quanshu also possessed a water spirit root, but cultivated ice attribute cultivation techniques, focusing on divine power Foundation Establishment, which meant her cultivation speed was not fast.

Moreover, the quality of this demon core was rather ordinary.

If the Li Family had a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator aiming to rely on demon cores to break through.

Li Quanqing was more inclined to go kill a few strong demon beasts at the Golden Core Middle Stage himself, which was most suitable.

Rather than waste it, it would be better to keep it, distributing it to those Foundation Establishment realm Green Horned Fish Dragons to consume, refining it into cultivation-enhancing dan bait.

Li Quanqing had not expected that the Shuihua Sword Sect, having gone through all measures back then, had painstakingly obtained a Third Rank demon core.

Finding it now in his hands, it seemed a bit superfluous, only to become akin to fish bait.