Btth: The Rise of Qingshan

Early the next morning, when Yan Qingshan came to the outer courtyard from Xiao Yi Xian's room, he saw Mister Yao with two large dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept well last night.

"Mister, good morning!"

Yan Qingshan, who had a good night's sleep, was refreshed and greeted Mister Yao with a cheerful smile. Who knew that Mister Yao, who was still very enthusiastic yesterday, didn't even look at him, gave him a stinky face, and turned to leave.

Yan Qingshan didn't care about Mister Yao's stinky face and started his morning practice alone in the courtyard.

After about breakfast time, more people began to gather around, and he could vaguely hear a series of discussions, interspersed with words like Southern City, Wolf Head Mercenary, and Mu She.

After wiping his sweat with a wet towel, Yan Qingshan strode towards the hall where Mister Yao was. When he entered the room, Mister Yao was talking to his men and seemed a little flustered when he saw him.

Mister Yao got up and spoke, his suspicious eyes constantly scanning Yan Qingshan, "Qingshan, what's the matter?"

Yan Qingshan went straight to the point, looking at Mister Yao's confidants on either side, "Mister, I have something I want to talk to you about, just the two of us!"

"Alright! You guys go out first!"

Mister Yao was silent for a moment, waved to the left and right, and his men filed out one by one.

"Speak! What is it!"

Mister Yao watched Yan Qingshan sit down on the rosewood chair on his left, his doubts deepened, and he seemed a little restless, like sitting on pins and needles.

"Hehe, Mister, don't be nervous, it's not like I'm going to do anything to you!"

Yan Qingshan smiled and took out two scrolls, one new and one old, from his arms. He first spread out the new white scroll, which listed precious materials, many of which were rare on the market,

"I hope Mister can help me collect all the things on this."

"You... did you write this wrong..."

Mister Yao frowned deeply after taking a look. Many of the items inside were still in his collection, and the rest could be gathered by using his network of contacts, but in this way, nearly ten years of profits from his Myriad Medicines Hall would be invested, not to mention his network of contacts.

Yan Qingshan pushed the other light blue scroll to him,

"This is the reward I prepared, a deposit. The rest is in a mansion in the Southern City, I believe Mister will be satisfied."

"This is... a low-rank Xuan class Dou Technique... Wind Blade Dance... the matter of Southern City... you..."

Mister Yao looked at this low-rank Xuan class Dou Qi skill, which was worth a fortune on the market, but this was not the root of his shock.

More importantly, when he connected it with the news from Southern City this morning, his face changed again and again, and his eyes were full of shock when he looked at Yan Qingshan.

Facing the smiling Yan Qingshan, Mister Yao felt a lot of pressure. He finally calmed himself down and said, "Don't worry, I will collect the things on this as soon as possible!"

Yan Qingshan got up leisurely, "That's good, I'll have to trouble Mister!"

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That morning, Yan Qingshan walked into the courtyard with a storage ring in his hand. Xiao Yi Xian was helping him clean the courtyard when suddenly a blur flashed before her eyes, and a monster the size of a calf and half a tail fell into the courtyard, startling her.

"Xian'er, go help me guard the door!"

Yan Qingshan whispered solemnly, and then began the processing of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast and the preparation for the Lion Heart Baptism.

"Ah, oh, oh..."

Although Xiao Yi Xian was very curious about what Yan Qingshan was going to do, she was very well-behaved and didn't ask at this time. Instead, she carefully peeked outside the door to prevent anyone from disturbing Yan Qingshan's affairs.

"Dawn, record the actual process and try to analyze and simplify..."

Yan Qingshan activated Dawn to prepare for the ritual. After all, deduction is just deduction. In actual operation, whether it is a combat plan or a configured medicine, it is impossible to be as perfect as the plan.

This requires him to record the process and try many times, and then modify some wrong methods and behaviors.

The Lion Heart Baptism requires a lot of preparation, some of which are quite precious. Some of the materials are in the cliff cave treasure, and the rest were finally gathered after Yan Qingshan almost emptied Mister Yao's collection and Mister Yao used his network of contacts.

A black-green medicine cauldron with a strong medicinal fragrance appeared in the courtyard. Although the predecessor in the cliff cave was not an alchemist, he was also a knowledgeable person with deep attainments in medicine and poison, so he naturally studied and prepared medicines.

This medicine cauldron may not be as good as the medicine cauldrons of some high-rank alchemists, but it is definitely more than enough for Yan Qingshan.

Pieces of black wood, as hard as stones, smashed on the ground, making a sound like bluestone bricks falling to the ground. Black locust wood, a kind of Yin wood, is hard and heavy.

The Yin fire produced by burning this wood has a high temperature and is easy to control. Although it is not a beast fire or Heavenly Flame, it is just right for Yan Qingshan, who is also of the wood attribute.

Black locust wood is Yin in nature, not as fiery and violent as Yang fire. The fire is more stable and lasts longer. A piece of black locust wood is enough to burn for more than half a day, and a long-lasting source of fire is very important to Yan Qingshan.

Pieces of black locust wood were neatly piled up by Yan Qingshan. After carefully placing the medicine cauldron upright, a small cluster of blue-black flames rose.

The blue-black flames did not burn as vigorously as ordinary flames, but instead heated and raised the temperature extremely steadily.

Yan Qingshan looked solemn at the moment, putting the prepared medicinal materials and other auxiliary materials into the medicine cauldron one by one.

He used wood attribute Dou Qi to activate the medicinal properties of each herb, which were at least intermediate-level, and then threw them into it.

Pure mountain spring and spiritual dew were poured into it, and wood attribute Dou Qi was used to stir the medicinal spring. The Yin fire slowly heated and refined it, and before long, the medicinal fragrance spread throughout the small courtyard.

The body of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast had been processed by Yan Qingshan. It was shining with blue light all over, and its fur and lion mane were even more lustrous than sky-blue silk.

Even after nearly a day, it had not changed much, lying on the ground like a lifelike sleeping lion.

The scorpion tail, which was longer than the lion's body, was also lying beside it, as bright and crystal clear as a blue gem, with a shimmering blue light.

However, the black-gold luster at the end of the tail made people aware of the endless killing intent beneath this beauty.

Under the warm fire of the black locust wood, the medicinal spring in the medicine cauldron boiled rapidly, and a refreshing and light medicinal fragrance permeated the surroundings.

The medicinal spring had turned into a lake green, like the most beautiful emerald green jadeite.

Yan Qingshan had torn open the body of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast along the opening of its neck. A light blue heart was still warm, as if it had just stopped beating.

Yan Qingshan lifted the body of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast and used Dou Qi to force all the available blood into the medicine cauldron, and finally threw the heart into the rolling medicinal spring.

The light blue lion blood mixed with the emerald green medicinal spring. At first, the two colors were distinct, but as time went by, they gradually merged.

The emerald green and blue glittering liquid faintly revealed wisps of purple light, which were a little dazzling in the sunlight.

This was the trace of high-rank bloodline from the ancient Thunder Lion in the bloodline of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast, which contained extremely pure thunder power.

After processing the lion's body, Yan Qingshan picked up the scorpion tail again, holding the end of the scorpion tail with the opening facing the medicine cauldron upside down.

As Dou Qi was injected, drops of blue blood were forced out. At the end, the blood actually carried wisps of green.

The Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast contained the bloodlines of two high-rank monsters, the ancient Thunder Lion and the Scorpion Dragon. This trace of green was the manifestation of the Scorpion Dragon bloodline, hidden in its scorpion tail, which symbolized the Scorpion Dragon clan.

Although the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast was only a third-rank monster, its bloodline sources, the ancient Thunder Lion and the Scorpion Dragon, were both high-rank monsters, at least fifth-rank monsters after adulthood.

The ancient Thunder Lion is now almost extinct, and the Scorpion Dragon clan is also very rare in the Dou Qi Continent, but there are still clans active.

One of the main materials Xiao Yi Xian will need in the future to condense her poison pill is the seventh-rank Sky Poison Dragon Scorpion Beast.

There is also the seventh-rank Illusionary Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast, which can obtain Illusionary Golden Flame from its eggshell remains. These are all extremely active and powerful magical beasts on the Dou Qi Continent.

After Yan Qingshan had taken all the blood from the lion's body and scorpion tail, the originally shining body of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast dimmed a lot.

After Yan Qingshan carefully took out the monster core of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast, this precious first-rank thunder attribute monster core was thrown into the medicinal spring by him.

The two most important things for a magical beast are its essence blood and monster core. After these two things are gone, although the fur, bones, flesh, and blood are still valuable, most of the benefits are gone.

The medicinal spring, which contains almost all the essence of the first-rank Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast, is undergoing a qualitative change.

The blue-green liquid is gradually becoming viscous and has a glazed color, and the blue-purple heart seems to be glowing.

Boom～～～

After Yan Qingshan held his breath and gathered his Qi, he came to the side of the medicine cauldron and poured his wood attribute Dou Qi into the burning black locust wood below.

Under the catalysis of the wood attribute, the fire suddenly rose. The stacked black locust wood, which was only partially burning, now had flames burning on every part of every root.

Fierce fire boils great medicine. The fire is very strong, the medicinal fragrance is very strong, and there are hidden blue flashes of lightning in the glazed liquid in the medicine cauldron, and there are also lion roars, like the unwilling roar of the Blue Mane Scorpion Lion Beast. The rising green Qi on the cauldron also seems to form a lion shape.

The appearance of this scene made Yan Qingshan understand that the heat of the baptismal medicinal spring had arrived.

"Xian'er, help me control the heat!"

Yan Qingshan turned his head solemnly and spoke. Xiao Yi Xian trotted over. Yan Qingshan jumped into the medicine cauldron, and the flowing medicinal liquid almost submerged his entire cross-legged body, leaving only his head and half of his body outside.

Xiao Yi Xian didn't dare to be careless. She came to the side of the medicine cauldron and carefully controlled the flames of the black locust wood according to Yan Qingshan's instructions.

The blue-green glazed medicinal liquid seemed to have life, slowly spreading up Yan Qingshan's exposed upper body along his body, gradually wrapping his whole body in a glazed brilliance, as if forming a big cocoon.

Yan Qingshan in the glazed medicinal cocoon closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, circulating his Dou Qi.

Wisps of lion blood essence were absorbed and circulated into his body by his Dou Qi, transforming and metamorphosing his body at a deep level. His heart slowly beat with a touch of glazed color, and there were hidden lion roars between the beats.

His muscles and bones shone brightly, and his bright red blood carried a little glazed divine light. There were hidden wisps of electric light between the blood flow, and his body shone and rumbled.

His internal organs glowed, and his flesh shone with rosy clouds, as if a celestial being was in the world.

Wave after wave of ripples fluctuated, Yan Qingshan's whole body's bones exploded, and his whole body's flesh moved. Amidst the crackling sound, his breath and cultivation rushed to a peak, and then with a puff, he broke through the barrier and continued another round of improvement.

Yan Qingshan, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and his hands forming seals, had a kind of solemn and unfathomable appearance at this moment, full of moving temperament and mystery.

At this moment, Xiao Yi Xian looked at him and smiled unconsciously, and her eyes seemed to be infatuated.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a blue light flashed across the courtyard, as if a void room generated electricity, making it impossible to look directly at. His breath also slowly changed and became stronger.