Chapter 114: Phantom Demonic Python
Several months later, in an underground cave.

Ji Chang stood quietly in front of a snake cave.

This is the place where he specially raises first-level spirit snakes, and spirit snakes of various shapes and colors swim around in it.

Ji Chang held an exquisite little jade bottle in his hand, which was filled with special spiritual liquid. This was the elixir he carefully prepared for these spiritual snakes.

He gently opened the bottle cap, and a strong medicinal fragrance immediately filled the air, attracting the surrounding spirit snakes to raise their heads and spit out their tongues, revealing eager looks.

Ji Chang looked calm and skillfully dripped the spiritual liquid into the snake cave.

In an instant, the snake cave seemed to be in an uproar. All the spirit snakes scrambled to swim towards the spiritual liquid, opening their mouths wide to swallow this rare delicacy.

Ji Chang looked deeply at the snake swimming in the cave.

The wildness of these first-level spirit snakes was fully aroused by the temptation of this special elixir.

As Ji Chang tilted the jade bottle in his hand, more and more spiritual liquid fell into the snake cave like crystal pearls.

As time goes by, the snake becomes more and more aggressive.

They were no longer satisfied with simply devouring the spiritual fluid, but began to look for opportunities to attack their own kind around them.

A colorful snake took the lead in attacking. It pounced on a smaller snake of its own and opened its mouth wide to swallow it.

However, at this moment, a pitch-black snake quickly jumped out from the side and bit the colorful snake's body. The two were immediately entangled with each other, rolling and fighting.

Seeing this, the surrounding spirit snakes also joined the melee.

They hovered, attacked, and entangled, using all sorts of means to try to fight for the limited spiritual fluid.

The snake cave suddenly became chaotic, with hissing and banging sounds one after another, as if a cruel survival game was being staged.

Ji Chang did not intervene, but just watched everything quietly.

Soon, as time passed, some weak snakes unfortunately became prey to the strong in the fight and were ruthlessly devoured.

However, those powerful spirit snakes stood out in this melee. Not only did they successfully snatch more spirit fluids, they were also gradually undergoing a transformation.

The strength of many spirit snakes has reached the late first stage, or even the peak first stage.

However, Ji Chang knew that although he used the secret method of refining Gu to raise these spirit snakes, it could quickly improve their strength.

However, their lifespan will also be drastically reduced, with most of the spirit snakes having less than a year left.

Some may only have two or three months to live.

But for Ji Chang, this is enough.

After all, they were just the materials for refining the second-level snake poison.

The melee lasted for a long time before it gradually subsided.

In the end, there were only a dozen sturdy and ferocious snakes left in the snake cave.

It seemed that the effect of the medicine had worn off, or they were full, and they lay limply on the ground, hardly moving.

Ji Chang quietly observed the movements of these spirit snakes, and suddenly a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"The quality of these Gu materials seems to have met the requirements."

After using his spiritual sense to observe carefully several times, Ji Chang's mind moved slightly.

He tapped the storage bag lightly, took out another bottle of spiritual liquid from it, and poured it into the snake cave in front of him again.

The next moment, the originally weak and powerless spirit snakes became crazy again, biting each other continuously, even more crazily than before.

Even, a few spirit snakes set their sights on Ji Chang and wanted to leave the snake cave, disregarding the contract and attacking Ji Chang.

However, at this moment, a ray of light appeared in the snake cave, and a formation barrier appeared, trapping them in the snake cave, and they could only fight each other.

Soon, in less than half an hour, the fight in the snake cave came to an end, leaving only a spirit snake crawling on the ground. This spirit snake was about ten feet long, as thick as a baby's arm, and black in color.

It seemed to have eaten too much, its belly was bloated, and it lay on the ground, motionless.

However, its bright yellow snake eyes still flashed with wild and ferocious light, revealing a strong wildness.

Ji Chang witnessed this scene and couldn't help but reveal an unconcealable joy in his eyes.

He gently patted the spirit beast bag at his side, and then a second-level demon python appeared in front of him.

This demon python is colorful and huge, as tall as a person.

It opened its ferocious mouth, as if it could swallow three or four adults in one gulp.

This demonic python is none other than the second-level demon beast, the Phantom Python, which Ji Chang had acquired at an auction in Baishuixian City not long ago.

At that time, Ji Chang successfully bid for it at a relatively low price.

This is mainly because the life span of this Phantom Python is almost over, so the starting price is not high and there are not many monks bidding.

For most cultivators, unless they are beast taming cultivators, the main purpose of purchasing a second-level monster is to be able to raise a spiritual beast to protect the family.

Therefore, the value of a monster with a limited lifespan like the Phantom Python is greatly reduced in their eyes.

It can even be said that the price of this Phantom Python is not as expensive as some second-level monster cubs.

But Ji Chang plans to use the Phantom Python to refine the second-level poisonous insect, so the lifespan of the Phantom Python is not very important.

In fact, according to the method of refining Gu in "Five Poison Fragments", when refining Gu worms, the corpses of monsters can be used instead of living monsters.

After all, high-level monsters are not so easy to tame, and during the process of refining the poisonous insects, the monsters will sometimes resist.

However, the effect of using the corpses of monsters to refine the poisonous insects is naturally much worse.

Therefore, even if the life span of the Phantom Python is almost over, the effect of using it to refine the Gu is still much better than using the corpse of the monster.

This is exactly why Ji Chang chose to bid for the Phantom Python.

Under Ji Chang's urging, the colorful phantom python slowly moved its huge body and swam towards the snake cave.

It opened its ferocious mouth, revealing its sharp fangs, and a strong fishy wind arose, filling the entire snake cave.

The inky black snake sensed the breath of the phantom python and immediately raised its head in horror, its bright yellow pupils filled with fear.

However, in front of the huge body of the Phantom Python, it seemed so small and helpless.

The phantom python swam to the side of the spirit snake, opened its mouth wide and swallowed the spirit snake whole without any hesitation.

During this process, the spirit snake's body twisted wildly in the mouth of the phantom python, trying to break free.

But the Phantom Python's fangs bit it tightly, making it unable to escape, and it soon became motionless.

As the Phantom Python swallowed, the snake's body gradually disappeared into the abyss-like mouth.

The whole process didn't take long.

Ji Chang stood aside, watching all this calmly, as if everything was under his control.

After swallowing the spirit snake, the body of the Phantom Python seemed to become a little bigger, but there was a hint of pain in its pupils.

It’s a pity that this old Phantom Python is only at the early second level of strength. Under the constraints of the contract, it is unable to resist Ji Chang’s control.

At this time, Ji Chang activated the first-level spirit beast bag in his arms and barely put away the second-level demon beast, the Phantom Python, with a satisfied smile on his face.

He knew that this time the Gu refining was halfway successful. All he had to do now was wait for the Phantom Python to completely digest the Spirit Snake before he could start the next step of refining.

(End of this chapter)