The Heavenly Saber Novel - Chapter 378

Chapter 378 Golden-winged Roc
Li Qing transformed into a True Dragon and patrolled the wilderness for a short time. He was like an emperor traveling with great prestige. When all the demonic beasts sensed this dragon aura, they were all shocked and trembled.

Only after the sky darkened and he displayed enough might did he regain his original body and return to his cave that had just collapsed.

In fact, there was a limit to the time it took to transform. It was not to maintain the state of the transformation indefinitely. When the time came, it would naturally return to its original state.

In fact, the power of the True Dragon Transformation was not stronger than the Ancient God Transformation. However, after becoming a True Dragon, his appearance was simply too impressive and shocking, causing Li Qing to be overjoyed.

Looking at the collapsed cave, Li Qing didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He had to expend some effort to open another one. Fortunately, this kind of thing was very simple. In less than half a day, a new cave appeared.

“Fortunately, this stone egg wasn’t damaged!” He dug out the stone egg from the collapsed cave. It was completely unharmed and extremely hard.

After all, it was an egg that had survived countless years. Its vitality was indeed tenacious. How could it die so easily?

Li Qing took out the stone egg and placed it in the new cave. One could see that the Stone Egg’s life aura was getting stronger and stronger. It was not far from the day of its birth, and one could almost feel the life inside the egg beating.

He guessed that the date of the stone egg’s birth should be within these few months. Considering that the disturbance outside should not have subsided so quickly, he planned to stay here for a while longer and wait until the stone egg was born before leaving.

Taking advantage of this period of time, Li Qing took out a damaged inner armor and emitted the pressure of a spirit artifact.

This inner armor was precisely the one obtained from Saber King Chen Shifeng. It was damaged by the magnetic immortal light. Li Qing intended to take advantage of this period of time to repair it.

“Oh right, I just got a lot of Ancient Gods Clan’s books. Among them, there are methods of using the ancient god scripture. Why don’t I try it on the inner armor of this spirit artifact?” Li Qing’s mind flashed.

True ancient god texts possessed the power to transform decay into magic. Each character contained some kind of Grand Dao supreme principle, which was one of the supreme peerless techniques created by ancient gods.

Previously, he had fused the ancient god runes into the Yin Yang Spirit Formation, which had indeed greatly increased its power and did not disappoint him. Now that he had obtained Ancient Gods Clan’s book, it was even more like adding wings to a tiger.

He took out all those books and began to read them, wanting to find out the application of ancient god texts in artifact forging.

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Time passed quickly. Soon, a few months passed.

In the stone room, two pieces of equipment were placed in front of Li Qing. One of them was Chen Shifeng’s inner armor. At this moment, it had been completely repaired by Li Qing, and it was even stronger than the original one.

The surface of the inner armor was engraved with ancient god runes, and there was a faint mysterious connection between them. This was a method Li Qing had learned from ancient books, which greatly enhanced the defensive power of the inner armor.

The other was made from dragon scales. The dragon scale armor that Li Qing had worn earlier had already been shattered during the battle, so he refined another one.

What was shocking was that this armor was actually a spirit artifact!

In other words, Li Qing had refined a spirit artifact!

This was absolutely horrifying.

Being able to refine a spirit artifact was enough to be called a master artificer. Every artifact forging master in the world was over a hundred years old, and only by immersing themselves in the Dao of artifact forging could they achieve such a feat.

However, Li Qing was less than half a hundred years old, and he had already reached this astonishing achievement. If word of this spread out, it would definitely cause a huge uproar.

In fact, Li Qing’s ability to forge a spirit artifact was purely due to spiritual light and luck.

Because the materials of the dragon scales were too good, and using the power of the ancient god runes, under some kind of lucky coincidence, they had unknowingly succeeded. Even he didn’t know why he had refined a spirit artifact.

If he were to refine another spirit artifact, he would probably not be able to do so. After all, such luck would never happen again.

“Top-grade materials, along with the mysterious ancient god scripture, and that unfathomable luck, actually allowed me to forge a spirit artifact. Isn’t this really too miraculous?” Li Qing also found it hard to believe.

Could this be the power of the ancient god scripture?

Although he had several Dao Artifacts on him, they were all obtained because of heaven-defying opportunities. This did not mean that spirit artifacts were no longer precious. In fact, most Void Realm experts only had one or two spirit artifacts, and they were low-grade and middle-grade spirit artifacts.

In the end, only a small number of people were able to possess spirit artifacts in the Xiantian realm. All of them were from large factions. Ordinary people don’t have this chance.

He put these two spirit artifacts on his body, his inner armor on the inside, and the Dragon Scaled Armor on the outside. With two layers of defense and the powerful Myriad Demons True Body, Li Qing’s defense was simply invincible in the Xiantian realm.

“Relying on such a strong defense, I wonder if I can challenge an Earthly Rankings expert.” Li Qing thought to himself. All of the Earth Rankings experts were people who had cultivated for nearly a hundred years and had cultivated supreme techniques. If he could compete with these seniors, it would be enough for him to be proud of himself.

He went to another stone room, where there were stone eggs being nurtured.

“Eh, the stone egg has cracked! It’s about to be born!” Li Qing was shocked.

He waited quietly and saw that the energy in the Demon Ancestor Tree’s heart was constantly being absorbed into the stone egg. The surrounding spiritual energy poured into the Demon Ancestor Tree’s heart, replenishing its consumption and forming a perfect cycle.

After a while, Li Qing heard a cracking sound and the stone egg completely shattered. A small head popped out from inside and looked at the world around him curiously.

“Chip! Chip! Chip!” The newborn animal made a noise.

“Is this… a chick?” Li Qing was dumbfounded.

Judging from its appearance, it really looked like a newborn chick. However, Li Qing knew that this was definitely not a chicken. It was just that he couldn’t recognize the species for the time being.

After all, it hadn’t even grown its fur, so it couldn’t tell what it looked like, so it naturally couldn’t recognize it.

The chick bit the surrounding eggshells and ate them. Its originally weak appearance instantly made it much more energetic.

Li Qing held the chick in his palm and looked at it curiously, guessing what kind of creature it was. The chick, on the other hand, had an intimate appearance and used its head to arch Li Qing’s hand, as if it was looking for warmth.

Li Qing made a nest for it and fed it some food.

As the days went by, the chick grew bigger and bigger. Its feathers grew out, golden and brilliant.

“Golden feathers! Could this be some kind of special bird?” Li Qing was secretly shocked. Although he was still small, this chick was already quite handsome.

The relationship between this chick and Li Qing was actually very good. Every day, he climbed into his arms and slept. His little head was also arching hard, making his cultivation unstable and rather distressed.

When he was a month old, Li Qing could finally tell what was going on. This chick grew very fast. Recently, it actually began to eat meat. Moreover, it ate all the meat of demonic beasts. Its body became bigger and bigger. Yet such a big bird even ran into Li Qing’s arms every day.

When he took the bird outside, it flapped its wings and easily flew into the air. It seemed to have gone crazy and only landed after flying for half a day. Li Qing didn’t dare to let it fly randomly outside. After all, demonic beasts ran rampant in the wilderness. Perhaps it might be eaten if it wasn’t careful.

“This little bird’s golden feathers have grown so quickly. It definitely isn’t an ordinary creature. In addition, it was brought back from the Heavenspan Mountain. It has survived countless years. It probably has a great background.” Li Qing guessed to himself.

The golden feathers and handsome appearance reminded him of a legendary creature, “Could it be that this bird is the legendary Golden-winged Roc?”

The Golden-winged Roc was a mutant of the Primordial Era. It was hard to say if there was a Golden-winged Roc in this world. If this bird really was, its origins would be astonishing.

Li Qing couldn’t help but recall that there were eighteen Demon Saints under the Heaven Splitting Demon Emperor. Among them was a Demon Saint, known as the “Heavenly Roc Great Saint”. Its main body was a Golden-winged Great Roc.

All these coincidences were linked together. Xiaoniao was most likely the descendant of the Heavenly Roc Great Sage.

“This Heavenly Roc is obedient to me and is temporarily under my control. However, if it grows up in the future, I wonder if it will reveal its savage nature.” Li Qing was worried.

The Golden-winged Roc was a tyrannical creature. If its nature was ferocious and it was a calamity to the world, then Li Qing would become a sinner.

“Forget it. The growth of demonic beasts is very slow. Even if it is a mutant of the Primordial Era, it will take a long time to accumulate and increase its strength. I have enough time to slowly teach it.” Li Qing thought to himself.

Demonic beasts were different from humans. Humans cultivated extremely fast and could often become experts in a short period of time. However, demonic beasts were no longer able to do so. They had to rely on a long period of time to accumulate them.

Although there was a hint of doubt in his heart, Li Qing still loved this Heavenly Roc very much. He planned to teach it well, and every day, he would go out into the wilderness to walk the birds. It was quite a joy.

Li Qing named the Heavenly Roc Xiao Jin because its feathers were golden. After Tianpeng heard this name, he intimately cupped his head over Li Qing’s hand, seemingly acknowledging it.

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On this day, Li Qing walked in the wilderness like usual. After Xiao Jin came out, he flew into the sky and went to play somewhere.

Walking alone in the mountains, he unknowingly came to a small forest and discovered that smoke was rising from it.

Walking towards the smoke, it turned out that someone had built a fire here and was barbecuing meat. There was also a pot of wine next to it.

The man sat cross-legged, motionless, like a stone statue, cold and stiff.