Sleeping for a second increases my blood energy. I become the strongest sky-swallowing snake

Itchy, so itchy, too itchy.

Ache, slight ache, feels tight.

"Oh my god! Uncomfortable!"

Xu Chengxian wriggled his body uneasily.

He felt his body was bound by something, very uncomfortable, and eager to break free.

This feeling was like wearing a shrunken, low-quality sweater, and inside out!

It was both strangling his neck and prickly.

The key was that he didn't have claws to scratch and relieve the itch.

Rolling around a few times, suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration, quickly swam to the cave wall, found a protruding stone, and began to rub against it like crazy.

"Woohoo! Haha! Comfortable!"

"I rub! I rub! I rub rub rub!"

Obeying the instincts of his bloodline, starting from his mouth and nose, he rubbed his snout and upper and lower jaws against the wall.

When the skin on his lower jaw was rubbed open, he immediately flipped his head up and rubbed his upper jaw.

Once the skin on both the upper and lower jaws was rubbed open, the keratin on his head was easy to shed, shaking his head, he brought his neck close to the stone and began to rub.

"Hmm?"

Turning his head, he found that not far from the mud platform where the snake eggs were, there were several cylindrical stones.

They were of different sizes and had many edges.

These things were just right!

Xu Chengxian's eyes lit up, he twisted his body, quickly darted over, and wrapped himself around the stones to scrape and rub.

After a busy time, he finally shed the skin on his body smoothly.

"Phew! That's a relief!"

He lay on his back on the ground, exhaling a long breath.

He felt refreshed in body and mind, and the whole snake was relaxed and happy.

He raised the tip of his tail and shook it, feeling like it had become thicker.

"I've gotten bigger?"

The thinnest tip of his tail was originally the thickness of a chopstick, but now it was the thickness of a finger.

He crawled up, swam around, and stretched out his body, estimating that he was at least half a meter long.

The thickest part was almost as thick as a rolling pin.

He had heard that snakes would grow bigger after shedding their skin, but he had never heard of growing so much at once?

Then he thought again, this was a world with demons, maybe his species of snake just grew like this.

He turned his head to look at his younger sister the Empress and his younger brother the Dao Lord.

The faint light on their bodies changed with the rhythm of their breathing, it was clear that they were still cultivating.

And they looked like they had grown a lot too.

Although they definitely hadn't grown as much as him.

Xu Chengxian was relieved.

"The commotion just now was so loud, but it didn't disturb them?" They were focused, worthy of being people who had been Empress and Dao Lord.

Then he glanced at the panel.

[Host: Xu Chengxian]

[Race: Waterskipping Snake]

[Rank: Third Rank (Blood Qi needs to break through 500,000 points to become a Fourth Rank demon beast)]

[Blood Qi: 412187]

[Physical Realm: Mortal Body Realm (298/10000)]

[Soul Realm: Mortal Soul Realm (261/10000)]

[Divine Power Combat Skill: Devouring Qi to Transform Blood (Divine Power)]

[Refining Points: 3/3]

"400,000 Blood Qi, did I sleep for five days?"

Then, he noticed that something was wrong on the panel.

"System, what's going on?"

"Why are there realms behind Physical and Soul?"

"And 3 Refining Points are missing."

The 3 points he got as a reward for completing the mission were gone!

"And the Spirit Seed."

[Refining points exceeding the retainable amount will be automatically allocated to refine Blood Qi, enhancing the host's physique and soul.]

[Blood Qi stimulation allows the host to grow rapidly and become larger. Snakes and pythons have the talent for shedding skin, allowing them to withstand it perfectly.]

[When the solidity of the soul and physique exceeds 100, the cultivation realm will be successfully opened.]

[Congratulations to the host for opening the cultivation realm! Becoming a member of the demons.]

[The rewarded Spirit Seed has been distributed. Please check beside you.]

"Isn't it only considered a demon when you transform into human form?" Xu Chengxian asked as he searched.

[A demon is something that is different from the ordinary.]

[Those who are different from the ordinary but have not yet gained intelligence are called demon beasts and demon plants.]

[Those who have gained intelligence and understand the methods of cultivation can be called demons. Among them, those who can transform into human form are now called the demon race.]

"Now?" Xu Chengxian asked, "Wasn't it like this before?"

The system didn't answer.

So he didn't ask any further, as it wasn't that important anyway.

It was better to take advantage of his clear mind and ask something more useful.

For example, judging from the system's automatic allocation of refining points and refining of Blood Qi, it seemed to be intentionally balancing the Physical Realm and the Soul Realm.

"System, do the two need to be balanced?"

[If the difference in realm between the physique and the soul is too great, it can lead to loss of control of the physical body, or the physical body may not be able to bear the soul.]

"So that's how it is." Xu Chengxian nodded.

To put it bluntly, it was a matter of compatibility.

"What about the Talent Divine Power [Devouring Qi to Transform Blood] that I obtained?"

[Devouring Qi to Transform Blood: Can directly refine all the energy the host consumes as Blood Qi, nourishing the soul and physique.]

"No wonder."

No wonder he seemed to have heard a notification that his soul and physique had increased before he fell asleep.

It was good to be able to refine it directly, but it was a bit too little.

Roughly calculating, one bird egg, digested for five days, only increased the total of the two realms by less than fifty points.

It was far less cost-effective than spending a refining point and consuming Blood Qi.

Mainly because Blood Qi was easy to come by, just a matter of sleeping for an hour.

"And to eat bird eggs, wouldn't I have to raid bird nests?"

Some birds can also eat snakes!

Moreover, this bird egg contains spiritual power, it must have a history, it seems to be called... a Snake-Catching Spirit Magpie egg?

Sure enough, there are birds that eat snakes!

It's not that he's useless.

It's that there's no need to work hard.

Since he can become stronger just by living, why not lie low until the end?

Xu Chengxian completely extinguished the thought of leaving the cave to find bird eggs to eat.

A skinny... chubby and weak little snake like him would definitely be very dangerous outside!

"System, what is this seed?" He turned his head back and found the randomly rewarded Spirit Seed.

It was beside the mud platform where the snake eggs were, very conspicuous because it had sprouted.

The two slender leaves were thin, and a faint wisp of mist gathered, you might think you were seeing things if you didn't pay attention.

[Spirit Gathering Grass.]

"What's it for?"

[Gathers spiritual energy, can gather spiritual energy, and helps with sleep.]

"Whoa! This is good!" Xu Chengxian was happy.

He swam over, pushed the eggshells aside, coiled up, brought his nose close to the grass, and prepared to continue sleeping.

Grumble!

But when he closed his eyes, he found that he couldn't fall asleep at all.

He was hungry.

Getting hungrier and hungrier!

It's not easy to fall asleep when you're hungry.

Looking at the green snake and the white snake again, they were still motionless.

Weren't they hungry?

"They might really not be hungry." The moment this doubt emerged, Xu Chengxian answered it himself.

"No matter how good the cultivation method is, can it compare to the [Devouring Qi to Transform Blood] Divine Power? Digestion must be slow."

The digestion speed and conversion rate are different.

Hmph, he eats fast and absorbs well!

"...But I get hungry fast too." o(╥﹏╥)o

Looking around, there was nothing in the cave except mud and walls.

Oh, there was one more thing.

"I can't eat the skin I just shed, can I?"

[Ding! The system has a new mission.]

[Wasting food is a shameful act. Snake skin can be eaten, please don't waste it.]

[Mission Content: Eat the snake skin. Reward: Refining Points * 2, Random Spirit Seed * 1]

"...System, where's your integrity?" Xu Chengxian glared.

Issuing this kind of mission, forcing me to eat my own shed skin?

[The system has no integrity.]

"...Heh." Xu Chengxian thought, a system that makes you stronger by sleeping, it's normal to have no integrity.

So, eat or not eat?

Speaking of which, he had never eaten snake skin before.

Try it?

What's there to be afraid of trying.

Hmm?

You know what?

It's quite chewy!

It has a texture a bit like beef jerky.

"Sure enough, no one can escape the True Fragrance Law of my Emperor Jingze." Xu Chengxian sighed as he chewed.

He quickly finished eating his snake skin.

Not full, but at least not hungry anymore.

Close his eyes, sleep, and sleep out the Blood Qi of the Fourth Rank first!

[Blood Qi + 1+1 + 1...]

[Devouring snake skin will grant Soul + 3, Physique + 5]

[Blood Qi + 1+1 + 1+1 + 1...]

...

[Congratulations to the host for becoming a Fourth Rank demon beast, Refining Points + 1.]

[Blood Qi + 1+1 + 1+1 + 1...]

...

"Hiss hiss!"

"Haha! This Emperor has broken through to the Second Rank!"

"Successive breakthroughs! Worthy of being this Emperor!"

Just as Xu Chengxian was sleeping soundly, the little green snake woke up from cultivation, a look of surprise bursting out in her eyes, very satisfied with the results of this cultivation.

Feeling the demon power in her body, and looking at a certain flower snake that had grown bigger and fatter, she couldn't help but think:

"Ugly flower snake! This Emperor will beat your snake gall out this time! Unless you haven't grown!"