Snake Demon

Argh, this paint is killing me!

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A year ago, I entered seclusion. I found everything needed for my retreat. Nice, secluded cave with a small clean lake inside. The lake is the home for some aquatic animals, especially fishes. Also, the outside is abundant with birds and other creatures. It's a perfect place for a retreat.

I have stayed there for almost a year. I can feel that my nucleus needs a bit more time, but lately, I have been in extreme pain.

I started to feel the pain two months ago. The pain is growing gradually. Now, I feel so much pain that I want to commit suicide. It's so unbearable! How can someone survive this pain?

"Sh, Sh, Sh (Argh)!"

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It has been a week, and the nucleus probably requires a bit more time to be fully formed. Unfortunately, the pain is killing me! I haven't closed my eyes for three days! The pain is keeping me awake all the time!

"SH, SH, SH (ARGH, ARGH, ARGH)"

The pain! It hurts so much! It's like being fried in oil! All cells in my body are screaming with pain. Every part of my body is being torn down. All kinds of wounds are one by one appearing on my body. I am bleeding so much that I could create a small pool from it.

The worst thing is that my wounds are getting healed immediately. I am getting injured, healed, injured, healed again and again. It's a never-ending circle.

"SH, SH, SH (ARGH, ARGH, ARGH)"

While I am busy with the pain, the core has finally formed. The pain slowly diminishes bit by bit. After an hour, the pain disappeared.

Looking around weakly, I can't find any spot that was not contaminated by me. You can find everything here.

Be it my blood, skin, scales or even shards of my bones are here. Real heaven for a yandere person, if you know what I mean.

Jokes aside, I am so thrilled by the results. I can see, feel and absorb qi. The method, to absorb qi, is already integrated into my brain. This is Heaven's Will gift to us, newly born demons.

No idea, why are they giving this to us, but who cares anyway. Heaven's Will should be fair and impartial anyway.

Enough with all these speculations. Honestly, I am quite curious about my appearance. I went to the pond, and I got quite a shock.

"This is me? HUH?!?"

I can speak!?! How can I speak?!? And for my appearance, I am at lost for words! I am so overwhelmed by everything.

Except for my length, everything is different. My eyes turned entirely red, crimson red. My scales are dark blue, and my horns are in all entirety black. On my back, I can find two wings. The feathers are black too.

Let's not forget about my voice. For some reason, I don't even need to open my mouth. My voice will automatically come out. I am not hallucinating. I am inside a cave, and the echo is pretty loud.

We can never forget about my nucleus. The source of my qi and strength. My beautiful nucleus. By destroying it, I will die. I need to protect it at all cost.

Even though I have a nucleus, I am not a demon cultivator yet. If I converted qi into units, I would need 1000 units of qi to become a low-level Disciple.

Even a human with the lowest Spiritual root would need a week to gather 1000 units of qi.

Anyway, I would at most need a week. Unfortunately, for a demon, absorbing qi is not enough. I need to devour bloodlines and nucleus from other demons.

By absorbing these, I will accelerate by cultivation speed and strength. I will also gain a variety of skills.

For example, if I devoured Flame Lion's bloodline, I will gain the power to manipulate flames. On the other hand, I can't be too willful.

From that moment, I would become a flame demon snake. The flame bloodline will turn my nucleus into a fire nucleus.

Absorbing water-related bloodlines or nucleus would from that moment become impossible for me. I can't mix other elements into my fire too. I would forever be a flame demon snake.

Forcing myself to devour other elements would result in my explosion. In the best scenario, I would damage my foundation and never be able to reach the King Stage. If I mess now, my future path will look bleak.

Nevertheless, everyone has an element. Be it bloodline, spiritual root, nucleus or ghost soul. Everyone! No one is without an element or is multi-elemental.

Anyway, the advantage of a demon is, that we have a choice. We can choose whatever element we want. Of course, we need to find it first. For a fish, who lives in water, would be extremely hard or almost impossible to find a flame bloodline or fire nucleus or fire elemental spiritual root.

Regrettably, we can't be without an element forever either. If we don't choose, we won't be able to reach the Expert stage.

Currently, I am without an element. I am not sure which to choose, but for now, I should become a low-level Disciple. I can search for it later.

And with qi, I don't need to eat anymore. I don't need to be worried that I will make a mistake. For now, I should absorb qi and think about all this stuff later.