txolops Chapter 3 is superfluous, causing the "Transformation into a Dragon" bug to occur!
Chapter 3 is superfluous, causing the "Transformation into a Dragon" bug to occur!
Lin Xuan let out a burp. His originally slender snake body did not become bloated; instead, a faint red light shone from his abdomen.
[Successfully devoured!]
[Obtained the complete essence of the 'Black-maned Boar King' (Elite).]
[Experience points gained: 500!]
[Plunder Talent: Iron Skin and Bones (Beginner) - Increases your scale defense by 30%.]
[Your level has increased to Lv6...Lv8...Lv10!]
"Cool!"
Lin Xuan felt the surging demonic power within his body, and his previously soft scales now shone with a metallic luster.
This is the advantage that demons have at the start: as long as they can eat, their leveling speed far exceeds that of human cultivators who toil away in meditation.
After dealing with the wild boar king, Lin Xuan wandered over to the corpses of the three unfortunate cultivators.
The tails deftly rolled up the storage bags at their waists, and the demonic power they had just acquired forcefully broke through the inferior restriction.
Splash!
A pile of miscellaneous items was dumped out.
A few low-grade spirit stones, a few low-level talismans, and two thread-bound books.
Lin Xuan used the tip of the book to turn the pages.
One of them is "The Green Sheep Sword Technique," which requires holding a weapon, so I'll pass on that.
The other book is "Basic Qi Induction Techniques", which is an introductory cultivation method for human cultivators.
[System notification: This cultivation technique is exclusive to the 'human race'. The meridian structure of the demon race is different; forcibly cultivating it will lead to qi deviation.]
"Has he gone mad from practicing qi cultivation?"
Lin Xuan looked at the red warning message from the system, and a mocking smile appeared on his snake-like face.
"For ordinary players, it's going mad; for high-end power levelers, it's called the meridian reversal bug."
In the previous life, some bored players discovered that if a demon race member forcibly reversed the flow of human cultivation techniques while in a state of near-death red health, the system would generate a temporary "last gasp" buff to prevent the character from dying instantly.
If you upgrade during this buff period, the cultivation technique running in this faulty state will be forcibly solidified into a [Demon Cultivation Technique]!
Lin Xuan glanced at his health bar, which was now at full health after he devoured the Wild Boar King.
"I need to hurt myself a little."
Without hesitation, he directly injected the deadly poison into his own tail!
sizzle...
My health bar started dropping rapidly.
90%...50%...10%!
Just as his health bar was about to reach zero, Lin Xuan suddenly activated the "Basic Qi Induction Technique" and read it backwards!
[Warning! Spiritual energy reversal!]
[Warning! Life in danger!]
[A large amount of undigested energy (Wild Boar King Essence) was detected in the body...]
[System logic conflict... currently being fixed...]
[Congratulations! You have mastered the mutated cultivation technique—"Black Water Profound Yin Technique" (High-Grade Yellow Rank)!]
Lin Xuan immediately stopped self-harming, and the originally violent spiritual energy instantly became cold and smooth, circulating along the snake's body for a full cycle.
Just a moment ago, this little demon was a novice, but now he finally has the foundation of a proper demon cultivator!
"Basic attributes met, cultivation technique acquired."
"Next, I should go to Hangzhou to see my adopted older sister."
"But before that..."
Lin Xuan turned his head and glanced at the traces of cultivators' blood on the snow behind him.
"I need to change this outfit; just being a snake is too slow for me."
……
After leaving Black Wind Forest, Lin Xuan headed east along the waterway.
Although he had cultivated his skills, he was still a snake.
Although snakes move quite fast in water, they are still inconvenient when they come ashore without hands and feet.
Especially if someone wants to make a living in Hangzhou, imagine a giant python swaggering into the city. It's likely that it would be captured by that bald monk Fahai before it even sees Bai Suzhen.
"It needs to evolve."
Lin Xuan stopped at a muddy riverbank.
According to the normal process, for a snake to transform into a dragon, it needs to cultivate for five hundred years and wait for a tribulation of lightning, facing nine deaths and one life before it can grow four claws.
But Lin Xuan did not live for five hundred years.
He only knows idioms and allusions.
"Adding feet to a snake" is superfluous.
Lin Xuan stared intently at the fine, wet mud on the riverbank.
This idiom is a derogatory term in elementary school textbooks, describing something that is superfluous or unnecessary.
However, in early versions of Mythology, this was a well-known texture bug.
When a player is in a "muddy" environment and uses "ink" or "blood" to draw limb patterns on their body, the system will mistakenly identify these patterns as part of the character's built-in model when refreshing the model.
If this is combined with a specific [Transformation] spell or advanced elixir, the system will force the character to grow this limb in order to match the model!
But only players who play snake games will trigger this bug.
"The materials are all readily available."
Lin Xuan spat out a mouthful of essence blood left over from devouring the cultivator, mixed it with the black mud on the riverbank, and made a viscous ink.
Then, controlling the tip of his flexible tail, he dipped it in ink and carefully drew four claws on the four spots where claws should have grown on his abdomen.
The drawing is terrible.
It looks like a kindergarten child's doodle.
But that's not important; what's important is the decision point.
After finishing the drawing, Lin Xuan took a deep breath, opened the attribute panel, and clicked on the only [Race Fine-tuning] opportunity given by the system when he leveled up to level 10.
Players typically use this feature to adjust scale color or eye shape.
But Lin Xuan immediately focused his adjustments on the limb detection.
[System notification: Player model detected as inconsistent with race settings...]
[Model self-check in progress...]
[Limb texture detected on the abdomen...]
[Attempted to clear... Clearing failed...]
[System logic correction in progress: This species has been determined to be a 'mutant individual'.]
[Adapting the skeleton to the model...]
Excruciating pain!
Excruciating pain!
Lin Xuan felt as if his abdomen had been forcibly cleaved open by four red-hot knives, with bones growing wildly inside his body, forcefully piercing through his flesh.
"hiss--!!!"
He rolled around wildly in the mud, splashing mud everywhere.
The pain of this forced evolution by exploiting a bug is ten times more painful than a normal tribulation, because it is a process that goes against common sense!
But he gritted his teeth and remained silent.
If you want to speedrun and surpass the gods, what's a little pain!
After a while.
The pain receded like the tide.
Lin Xuan lay weakly on the riverbank, panting heavily.
He tried to entertain the idea.
puff.
From the soil beneath it, four sharp claws covered in black scales slowly gripped the ground.
Although it is still very immature, with only three fingers, it doesn't look like a dragon's claw, but rather like a lizard's or crocodile's claw.
But those are definitely claws!
【Ding! 】
[Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement: Adding Feet to a Snake!]
[You have successfully exploited the species advancement bug.]
[Your race has changed from 'Black Scale Giant Python' to—'Black Water Poisonous Dragon (Fake)'!]
[Gain new skill: Wind Chaser (You can glide at low altitudes by grabbing air currents with your limbs).]
Movement speed increased by 200%.
Lin Xuan straightened up. Now, he was no longer a water snake crawling on the ground, but a nascent dragon standing tall!
He looked at his reflection in the water: the ferocious dragon head, the slender body, and the four powerful claws.
"Is this what it feels like to be a dragon...?"
Lin Xuan grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white fangs.
"Sister Bai, with my brother looking like this, he should be able to keep things under control for you in Hangzhou, right?"
"As for that weakling Xu Xian..."
"Hmph, in this life, your protector can only be me!"