Chapter 688: The City Changes Hands

A gentle voice suddenly rang out, stopping Li Qing from burning the city.

"Stop."

Hearing this voice, Li Qing knew that his threat was successful. The mushroom sacrifice spirit would naturally not want to be completely reduced to ashes. This is common sense.

Li Qing temporarily suppressed the spiritual flame source that he had condensed, and his voice was still cold:

"Let go of your spiritual consciousness, don't resist at all, let me plant the spiritual consciousness mark and you will be able to survive!"

Listening to this extremely indifferent voice, the mushroom sacrifice spirit was silent for a long time, and then responded: "I want to negotiate conditions with you. I am unwilling to be bound for a lifetime and fail and exit too early."

Fail and exit too early?

Li Qing raised his eyebrows, not quite understanding the meaning of this sentence.

But in the current situation, he has already grasped the absolute initiative. To be honest, he doesn't want to negotiate any conditions with the mushroom sacrifice spirit at all.

"I think you haven't figured out what's going on yet? To negotiate, both parties must be on a relatively equal footing."

"Do you think you have the qualifications now?"

As he spoke, Li Qing showed the spiritual flame in his hand, which was definitely powerful enough to easily destroy it.

After another long silence, the Mushroom Sacrifice Spirit continued to speak: "Yes, you do have the power to easily destroy me, but you haven't done it yet, but you want to control me, which means I have something you need."

"If you don't even want to listen to my conditions, then you should do it."

After hearing this, Li Qing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He didn't expect that this sacrificial spirit was quite good at negotiation and could find Li Qing's weakness so quickly.

Yes, he really needed to subdue the other party, and then use the red moon spores and blood and flesh spores produced by it to strengthen himself.

"Okay, tell me what your conditions are." Li Qing's tone was still indifferent.

"I don't want to be controlled by you for the rest of my life. Set a deadline, and when the deadline is up, you will give me freedom." The mushroom sacrifice spirit said.

Set a deadline?

It's not impossible to consider it. Li Qing thought about it carefully.

Judging from the level of this mushroom sacrifice spirit, the red moon spores it can produce can only have some effect on the fourth-level alien beast at most.

When he becomes a god or becomes stronger one day, these red moon spores should not be so useful to him.

At that time, it's not impossible to let the other party go free.

After careful consideration, Li Qing said a number with some intention: "Three thousand years!"

"Submit to me for three thousand years, and when the three thousand years are up, I will let you go free."

This time is not something Li Qing mentioned casually, but it was proposed after careful consideration.

First of all, his life span is only a little over two thousand years. Even if he continues to forge magic weapons or Tongtian magic weapons in the future, his life span can probably increase to about three to five thousand years.

During these three thousand years, he can get a city that continuously produces high-level exotic blood for him.

If he still cannot advance to the God of Transformation, then his hope of breaking into the God of Transformation in this life will be very slim.

In addition, the lifespan of these exotic plants in the polar night world seems to be very long, but they are not really immortal, after all, there is still a limit.

If the deadline he proposed is too long, the other party may not accept it.

After all, three thousand years of life is long enough for any cultivator, and it is a very long period of time.

The mushroom sacrifice spirit was silent for a long time. The first sentence it said was not bargaining, but a somewhat surprised question:

"Three thousand years, are you sure you can live that long?"

Indeed, you must know that this world has changed and the time of sinking into darkness has not even been a thousand years. Li Qing actually asked to control himself for three thousand years, which surprised it.

"Don't worry about this matter. If I can't live that long, just consider it as you have gained freedom in advance." Li Qing said indifferently.

"Okay, then I will obey you for three thousand years as you said!"

"In addition, there is another condition. I can do things for you in these three thousand years, but you cannot over-exploit me and deplete my essence."

The mushroom sacrifice spirit finally agreed. Three thousand years is a long time, but it is still within its acceptable range.

After hearing the other party's agreement, Li Qing smiled slightly and said, "Then how can this promise take effect? ​​Do you want to rely on my self-awareness?"

"Of course not. You swear to the red moon with your own life. After you finish your oath, I will release my spiritual consciousness and let you plant the master mark." The mushroom sacrifice spirit replied.

Swear to the red moon? This is a bit novel. Could it be that this red moon in the sky also has restrictions similar to the oath of the heart demon?

If he violates this oath and then hides in the original world, can he avoid this restriction?

This idea flashed through Li Qing's mind, and he didn't think deeply about it.

Because it was unnecessary, for the sake of his own clear thoughts and a clear mind, he did not intend to do anything in this regard, nor did he intend to play any word games with the mushroom sacrifice spirit and exploit loopholes in the rules.

In this way, Li Qing swore to the red moon hanging high in the sky, promising to control the other party for only three thousand years, and once the three thousand years were up, he would let the other party go free.

After that, a small golden mushroom tree floated out of the castle below.

After Li Qing made a vow to the red moon, it also fulfilled its promise and released its spiritual consciousness to Li Qing.

In response, Li Qing did not hesitate or be polite, and directly spread out his powerful and condensed spiritual consciousness, and then planted a spiritual consciousness imprint in his spiritual consciousness.

Since he entered the Nascent Soul stage, the strength of his soul has increased a lot again.

In addition, he has practiced the strange skill "Soul Refining Sutra", and now the strength of his soul is close to that of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and he can bear more spiritual consciousness imprints.

After confirming that the spiritual consciousness of the mushroom sacrifice spirit was completely controlled by himself, Li Qing was satisfied to release the Fire Extreme Dharma Body, and then took back all the spiritual fires that were spreading and burning around, so that this sea of ​​fire went out.

It took a lot of trouble to subdue the mushroom sacrifice spirit.

His figure fell down and came to the front of the castle.

At this moment, Yang Gong knelt down in front of the gate of the castle, not daring to move.

Just at that moment, the mushroom sacrifice spirit he served recognized the tall young man in front of him as the master.

Now Li Qing's status and position are even more supreme, which has shattered his worldview.

Looking at this old charlatan, Li Qing gradually showed a playful smile on his face, and he said: "Stand up and slap yourself. When I come back, I want to see your cheeks and mouth swollen by yourself."

For this person, Li Qing is no longer interested in teaching him a lesson in person, so as not to dirty his hands.

After saying that, he brushed past Yang Gong, and then there were crisp slaps behind him.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

After successfully subduing the mushroom sacrifice spirit, Li Qing felt that he and the huge mushroom under his feet had a faint and wonderful connection.

With this wonderful feeling, Li Qing came to the deepest part of the castle with his original body. He still had a lot of questions to ask the other party.

This time, facing the mushroom sacrifice spirit, the other party dared not show any disrespect, but took the initiative to fly in front of Li Qing, with an extremely respectful attitude.

Quite tactful.

Li Qing nodded with satisfaction, and then asked:

"Tell me, you said before that you don't want to fail and leave too early, what does this mean?"

"Are you participating in some kind of trial now, and are you competing with other alien plants?"

He thought of the huge magic willow in the Black Wind Domain, and also thought of his own strange blood lotus.

Will there be such strange alien plants in other large domains, and are they undergoing some kind of trial, some kind of evolution test?

Li Qing wanted to figure out these questions, he suspected that this was related to the secrets of this world.

The mushroom sacrifice spirit, which had already recognized Li Qing as its master, naturally did not hide anything about this. It said leisurely:

"Since I was born, I have had this subconsciousness, and all my actions were based on this subconsciousness."

"I want to become stronger, constantly stronger, and finally surpass other similar beings."

"It's a pity that I was born too early and was discovered by a strange beast, resulting in congenital loss and trauma to my origin."

After hearing these words, Li Qing's eyes flickered slightly. He didn't expect that the existence of these strange plants really had some special meaning.

Li Qing had guessed at the beginning that this polar night world was really like a vast trial field, with all kinds of roads and strange creatures emerging in an endless stream.

The creatures competed with each other in this trial, and the one who survived in the end was the victorious Gu King.

Li Qing nodded slowly and asked:

"It seems that there is an invisible big hand behind this. What do you know about this?"

The mushroom sacrifice spirit replied:

"I don't know. I have no idea about what happened before I was born."

Li Qing was not surprised by this answer. In his opinion, the water in this world is getting deeper and deeper.

The existence hidden behind the scenes is too mysterious, even if he has formed a Nascent Soul, he is still afraid of it.

Using a plane as a trial field, this kind of hand is a bit too exaggerated.

Without further investigating this issue, Li Qing only knew that he had better keep a low profile in the future, and it would be better not to fall into the sight of that mysterious existence so quickly.

In short, it is better to keep a low profile.

Next, Li Qing briefly learned some basic information about the current mushroom sacrifice spirit.

Now in this huge mushroom city, a total of sixteen third-level beasts are imprisoned in various places for blood supply.

Every once in a while, the sacrifice spirit will produce a lot of blood and flesh spores to feed those powerful third-level beasts.

In addition, there are a number of second-level beasts raised in the city, which are all seeds for cultivating third-level beasts. The people in the city take very good care of them.

In addition, there are various strange spores. At present, the sacrifice spirit can produce five kinds of spores!

Red Moon Spores, Flesh and Blood Spores, and Corruption Spores are the types of spores that Li Qing already knows. The other two types of spores are called Yuling Spores and Jianjia Spores!

Yuling Spores are used to enslave others. For example, Yang Gong, who was slapping himself at the entrance of the castle, was planted with this Yuling Spore and became a servant of the Sacrifice Spirit. Li Qing's Spirit Flame Dao Body was also attacked by this Yuling Spore.

The effect of Jianjia Spores is much more useless. This spore can temporarily make anything hard, and its defense is extremely outstanding.

Let alone the word "short-lived", we can tell how useless this kind of hard armor spore is.

"I was born too early and was threatened by alien beasts. I had no choice but to give birth to this kind of spores for protection." The mushroom sacrifice spirit explained.

It can choose to give birth to some spores with strange functions as its strength increases and its life level changes.

Up to now, it has evolved to the point where it has chosen a kind of useless spores in the case of congenital damage in the early stage, which greatly increases the difficulty of the growth of the mushroom sacrifice spirit.

Fortunately, it has grown to this point by relying on the enslavement of the imperial spirit spores and coexisting with the human race in cooperation.

"Let's talk about the red moon spores. Can you produce red moon spores that can make the third-level alien beast break through to the fourth level?" This question is what Li Qing is more concerned about.

The mushroom spirit answered honestly: "Yes, it is possible, but the birth of a fourth-level alien beast is not that simple, and the probability of failure is extremely high!"

"And the fourth-level red moon spores have a lot of damage to me. Every time I cultivate some, I have to rest for a long time before I can recover."

In fact, not only the cultivation of fourth-level alien beasts has a failure rate, but the failure rate of cultivating second-level alien beasts into third-level alien beasts is actually not small.

This is why there are only sixteen third-level alien beasts still alive in the mushroom city now. This number is not small, but they are also carefully selected from many second-level alien beasts before they are cultivated!

Listening to the other party's story, Li Qing finally understood the existence of this mushroom city.

This is actually like a flow-through processing plant for alien beasts. Every alien beast brought to this city has its fate determined.

Either it fails to break through, is buried in the mycelium, is eroded by corrupt spores, and becomes the corpse of an alien beast to guard the peace of this city.

Either they succeed in breaking through and become a higher-level beast, and then they are imprisoned day and night as a blood supply tool for the sacrifice spirit, and in the end, they still die.

"Well, next I want you to produce the fourth-level red moon spores, and the blood and flesh spores cannot be cut off. There are sixteen beasts in the city, and I want to take the blood of the remaining six beasts!"

Hearing these requests from Li Qing, the mushroom sacrifice spirit had no choice but to agree.

The situation is stronger than people, and it has no room for resistance even if it doesn't want to do it.

The fourth-level red moon spores are naturally for the rice bucket, and Li Qing intends to use the blood of the remaining six beasts to feed his blood lotus and use the blood lotus to strengthen himself.

In this way, the mushroom city, which changed its owner, began to act for Li Qing's request.