The Legend of Qingpeng: Starting from the Costinus

As time passed, the day grew darker and darker, and night finally fell the next day.

Li Qing, who was sleeping on the ground, woke up on time and slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.

After taking a look at the cave, Li Qing made up his mind and immediately stood up, ready to complete the task of changing his body.

Now his energy and spirit are full, and he has made all the necessary preparations. With only this step, he can use his new body to safely cultivate to the third level of perfection.

By then, transformation will be just around the corner!

"The time has come, there is no time to lose!"

Thinking of this, Li Qing opened his spiritual eyes and did a final check.

Li Qing carefully checked the stone walls, formation patterns, formation flags, and dozens of miles outside the mountain, but he didn't find anything unusual and immediately took out the treasure bowl.

Looking at the copper basin in front of him, many concerns flashed through Li Qing's mind for a moment, but he just sneered in his heart, and with a thought, the copper basin fell beside him.

The time has come, but many distracting thoughts have just appeared in his mind, including the thought of failing to change his body and his soul being torn apart.

All necessary preparations have been made and safety issues have been carefully confirmed. Why should Li Qing worry about this and that?

This made him suspect that it might be the work of his inner demons.

After all, changing his body, awakening powerful magical powers, improving the quality of his demon pill, becoming invincible among opponents of the same level, and fighting across levels, these things have almost become his obsession.

But this made him more determined in his decision.

"But how can a mere inner demon stop me from completing the last step?"

"All in one go!"

A thought flashed through Li Qing's mind, and then he took out the formation plate.

Without any hesitation, after filling in five middle-grade spirit stones, he mobilized his demonic power and input it into the formation disk, and actually started to activate the formation directly.

The treasure bowl beside him was just placed there without being moved, and the body was still inside it without being taken out.

This was what Li Qing did on purpose.

He actually encountered a difficult problem these days. He brainstormed and had a lot of thoughts at the time. Looking back now, it was nothing but unnecessary trouble.

That is the problem of how to take over a new body and the dissipation of the vitality of the body.

Although the cornucopia possesses incredible powers, the living creatures copied from it cannot leave the cornucopia, otherwise they will lose their vitality in less than half an hour.

Although he can complete the physical possession within half an hour, his soul can return to its original place before his vitality is dissipated, thus retaining his life.

But after obtaining the Soul-Separation Formation, Li Qing has never actually used it.

Because it is too dangerous, it is not easy to try, and it can only be used when you really want to leave your soul.

Herein arises a problem.

He had no idea how long it would take to activate the formation, or how long it would take for the demon soul to leave the body after it was activated.

If the physical body is taken out in advance, and the time from activating the formation to the demon soul leaving the body exceeds half an hour, the new physical body will lose its vitality.

But if he takes out the body after activating the formation, the demon soul will leave the body at the moment the formation is activated, and he will not be able to take out the body with the help of the demon soul.

Moreover, he only has this one perfect second-level body. If he fails, he can only copy the current body. But how can he rebuild this body? There is no cost of trial and error.

But there was no other way. Li Qing had considered this problem at the time and thought about copying an extra body to be on the safe side.

If the original body can be replicated, then the first replica needs to be placed in the outside world, and its vitality will dissipate while waiting to be replicated.

And when you use the copied body to make copies, you need to take it out and put it back.

Li Qing had already tried this method, although this short period of time would not consume too much vitality.

But when you take it out again next time, the vitality will dissipate very quickly, and it will be completely gone in a cup of tea.

Li Qing had no idea why this happened, but it ruined his plan.

However, just a few days ago, looking at the body in the treasure bowl, he finally came up with a solution.

Since there are risks in taking out his physical body, he might as well not take it out. He can just let his demon soul enter the treasure bowl and take over the body directly. This way, these problems will not arise.

As soon as this thought came to mind, Li Qing realized that all his worries were unnecessary.

However, given his cautious nature, he still chose to find a subject to experiment with.

He had never tried to get his soul into the treasure bowl, so it was impossible for him to use this method directly.

As for experimental subjects, he had plenty.

The Jindan cultivator whom he killed before he obtained the Soul-Stirring Evil Spirit had a lot of human souls in his storage bag.

This was all thanks to his secret soul-devouring technique, which required storing human souls, so Li Qing had souls available.

As for ghosts, although they are still souls in essence, they are different and can be considered another kind of creature, so Li Qing did not consider them.

The results of the following experiments are predictable.

Li Qing opened a green gourd in the cornucopia and released a human soul as an experimental subject.

After waiting for a long time, everything is still safe and sound, with no abnormalities.

Afterwards, Li Qing was kind enough to send this man's soul into his newly acquired refining furnace to be roasted by the black flames.

This allowed him to be completely freed and escape from Qinghu's imprisonment.

In this way, Li Qing no longer had any worries.

Back to the present.

As the demonic power was input into the array disk, the array pattern flickered with a dark light.

After an unknown amount of time, a dark light suddenly enveloped Li Qing in the completely dark cave.

The light was soft, making his body transparent and every inch of his body filled with joy.

But it didn't take long before the jade-white bird's beak on his face opened and closed, his eyes drooped, and his gaze was dull.

Li Qing only felt his body shaking in his heart, and he felt as if he had taken off a layer of heavy armor. He could jump out at any time without being restrained.

Li Qing knew that this was the formation's soul-separating effect being fully activated.

So he didn't block out this strange feeling.

Instead, following this feeling, Li Qing jumped upwards, and a feeling of comfort and lightness suddenly emerged all over his body.

Li Qing, whose body was illusory and transparent, suddenly appeared in the dark cave.

This was exactly how Li Qing blasted open the barrier between the demon soul and the physical body, and the demon soul jumped out of the constraints of the physical body.

Li Qing opened his eyes wide and looked back. Behind him on the ground was his physical body, a huge blue-white wind roc.

However, he himself was countless times smaller, and his eyes and appearance were exactly the same as his physical body, but he was illusory, transparent, and light.

Suddenly, he felt a sinking sensation, or rather a suction force, which was slowly dragging him down.

This sudden change immediately startled Li Qing. After taking a closer look, he found that the suction force was coming from his physical body.

He didn't know the reason, but Li Qing knew that he could no longer be curious about the feeling of separation from his soul. He had to hurry up and take over another body!

The next moment, Li Qing flapped his illusory wings and rushed towards the treasure bowl.

Fortunately, the suction was very small and I was able to break free.