Li Yan, however, said impatiently to the Snow Mosquito, "Are you going to obediently accept me as your master, or do you have to suffer for it?"
Upon hearing this, the Snow Mosquito's fierce nature erupted. It no longer spoke human language, but cold qi surged from its body, instantly freezing Li Yan's entire hand into a sizable block of ice.
Li Yan shook his head helplessly. Sure enough, taming any Demonic Beast required some effort... A crimson flame instantly rose from his hand, and the ice immediately melted and disintegrated.
A moment later, the Snow Mosquito was bound in mid-air by streaks of talismanic patterns. In its terrified yet still ferocious gaze, it let out continuous sharp cries, while Li Yan was already silently chanting the manual he had obtained from Spirit Insect Peak.
Then, with a flick of his finger, a drop of his own essence blood flew towards the Snow Mosquito. The moment the Snow Mosquito was touched by Li Yan's essence blood, it was as if it had touched a fiercely burning iron block, and a large amount of water vapor immediately rose from its body.
The Snow Mosquito felt as if its divine soul was about to be burned to ashes at this moment. The original sharp cry instantly turned into a mournful shriek.
But Li Yan paid it no mind, the incantation from his mouth becoming more urgent. His hands cooperated, continuously shooting out streaks of spiritual light. In the end, the Snow Mosquito's originally clear eyes had turned dull. Besides its body trembling constantly, it could no longer make any sound.
This Demonic Beast refining method was, of course, not a core cultivation method of the Spirit Insect Peak, but could only be considered an ordinary refining method.
It was a very domineering Blood God Calcination Grand Art. The technique was quite crude and brutal. A single mistake could cause the soul of the object being refined to be completely annihilated, but it could be refined successfully in the shortest possible time.
This was greatly different from the art Li Yan had used to refine the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant back then. The "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" only had one formation spirit left. Li Yan naturally had to be extremely careful. Otherwise, if something went wrong, he would regret it too late.
But for Li Yan, Snow Mosquitos were as numerous as ox hair. If this one died, Li Yan believed that a second and a third leader would soon be born in the "Earth-Spot" space, so he didn't care.
Moreover, he also wanted to use this opportunity to instill an eternal, unwavering thought in this Snow Mosquito from the depths of its soul. He wanted to control tens of thousands of other Snow Mosquitos through this one. Only by completely taming it could he command those Snow Mosquitos as he wished.
Li Yan didn't want this leader to have fear in its heart at a critical moment in a future battle, unable to be commanded, and cause him to be plunged into an eternal abyss and directly lose his life because of a single wrong decision.
Li Yan's crude and simple method made the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant, which was watching from the side, twitch its eyelids. Thinking back to the scene when Li Yan was refining it, it couldn't help but secretly feel lucky.
If this baleful star had used this method back then, although its divine soul was powerful, after a round of it, even if it didn't die, it would probably be a faint shadow, weak and exhausted.
At this time, looking at that Snow Mosquito, its eyes were suddenly filled with infinite sympathy, but at the same time, it was also extremely happy.
'If you're not refined to death, you should know your status in Master's heart in the future. Even the refining process is a hundred thousand li different from mine.'
'Serves you right. This baleful star even asked if you wanted to be refined obediently, yet you still put on a look of dying rather than submitting. Refine you to death...'
It had completely forgotten its own unwillingness to be refined back then.
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Two days later, Li Yan looked at the unconscious Snow Mosquito in the air in front of him, its aura weak. The hand seals he had been continuously forming slowly withdrew.
At this time, there was still a faint smell of blood on the Snow Mosquito's body. Its eyes were tightly closed, and its pair of crystalline wings hung limply at its sides, as if it were dead.
Back then, Li Yan had spent a full seven days refining the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" for the first time. It was only when he re-refined the small Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant the second time that he used very little time, and that was also on the basis of having fully refined the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" before, re-refining the formation spirit for compatibility.
This time, it only took less than two days to refine this Snow Mosquito. This speed could be said to be extremely fast.
"If you don't want to suffer anymore, you'd better stop pretending to be dead!" For the first time in two days, Li Yan's cold voice sounded in the cave.
The Snow Mosquito, which had been like a dead object, upon hearing Li Yan's emotionless tone, which was a thousand times colder than the first level of the Northern Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, its body immediately trembled slightly, and then it weakly opened its eyes.
At this time, its eyes had long lost their previous ferocity, replaced by a look of reverence towards Li Yan.
In these two days, the suffering it had endured was something it had never experienced in its entire life. Its soul was constantly in a state of calcination where it would rather die, but it had even lost the strength to commit suicide.
For any living being, this was a kind of torture, a torture where one wished for death but could not find it. At first, this Snow Mosquito could still let out sharp cries to resist, but in the end, it almost lost the strength to breathe.
And its divine soul had long been burned to a muddled state, losing the consciousness to think, not knowing where it was.
A day later, just as the Snow Mosquito felt that this torment had reached an end and the pain had lessened, the fine flames that had seeped into its soul formed streaks of black talismanic patterns, winding around its essence soul.
These talismanic patterns slowly began to take root, strangling into its essence soul. A pain that was dozens of times greater than before struck again, leaving it unable to live and unable to die.
This Snow Mosquito felt that it had already reached the time of its death. It felt that in the next moment, its soul would be scattered, as if every part, every inch of its soul was being strangled to pieces by those fine black talismanic patterns.
It wanted to beg for mercy, but it couldn't make a sound. It wanted to plead with its eyes, but it was too weak to open them.
It was not until those talismanic patterns, like a Maggot on the Bone, slowly sank into its soul, and as the continuous spiritual patterns outside fell, the black talismanic patterns in its soul finally merged with its soul, becoming inseparable, that the pain slowly receded like a tide.
And this Snow Mosquito's hatred for Li Yan began to turn into fear and obedience, and it was also mentally and physically exhausted, in a semi-conscious state.
The moment Li Yan withdrew his hand seals, all the pressure and pain immediately vanished, and the Snow Mosquito's whole body relaxed, as if it had returned to the human world.
In an instant, the Snow Mosquito's mind finally returned to clarity. But out of an instinctive fear of Li Yan, it did not want to open its eyes immediately and face this baleful star.
So it continued to pretend to be unconscious. But after hearing Li Yan's emotionless words, it immediately shivered and opened its eyes, looking cautiously at the green-robed youth in front of it.
The moment it saw Li Yan's expressionless face, this Snow Mosquito felt an unprecedented sense of pressure, as if the youth before it, at this moment, with just a thought, could let it live or let it die, and it would not have any chance to resist.
This was indeed the case. The refining methods of the cultivation world were just that domineering and strange. Including human cultivators who were refined as slaves, they could never escape the shackles of their masters for their entire lives.
Even due to the blood sacrifice, and the fact that the refining cultivator was extremely powerful, the descendants of the person or Demonic Beast being refined would be enslaved by this person or his descendants for generations to come, never able to escape the curse of the blood sacrifice, never to be free.
Only one day, when the cultivator who was the master voluntarily released the blood sacrifice chain, could they be exempted.
"M-Master..." the Snow Mosquito's timid voice finally sounded.
Before Li Yan could say anything, a soft "chi" laugh sounded beside him. The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant tilted its head, letting out a contemptuous laugh, and was looking up and down at this half-dead Snow Mosquito with a mocking gaze.
Being looked at by the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant with this expression and gaze, the Snow Mosquito couldn't help but be furious. It was also a creature born from Vicious Souls, its nature ferocious. How could it tolerate such a provocation?
But it was precisely because of this that the Snow Mosquito's soul also felt a suppression from the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's soul. That was because the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant was a pure divine soul body. In terms of bloodline inheritance, it was also a true ancient Demonic Beast, and it naturally had an absolute suppressive effect on Demonic Beasts with bloodlines lower than its own.
But the fierce qi in the Snow Mosquito's bones made it instinctively want to resist. Although its body was still very weak, a white light immediately flashed in its eyes, like a deathly sharp edge, and it stared fiercely at the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant.
"Yo yo yo, I say, you Mutt, what? Still not convinced? You have the guts to challenge Grandpa Elephant? I don't mind eating you in one bite to nourish my body."
The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant shook its large head and looked at the Snow Mosquito with a look of disdain.
It knew that this Snow Mosquito wouldn't be in a good state after being refined. And sure enough, it was so. It was many times more miserable than it had been back then. For this Snow Mosquito to be able to barely stand up now was already difficult for it.
The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's words not only stunned Li Yan, who was about to command the Snow Mosquito for a test, but also made the Snow Mosquito's expression freeze. It wasn't that it minded being threatened by the other party, but it was a bit confused by what the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant said. It couldn't understand, as if it wasn't talking about itself.
"Who is Mutt? Are there other Demonic Beasts here?" After a pause, the Snow Mosquito immediately looked around, but it did not find a fourth party.
"Are you talking about me? I am the Mosquito King!" the Snow Mosquito couldn't help but be furious.
When it was in the pagoda, it was considered one of the stronger ones among the younger generation of the Snow Mosquito colony, but it was just strong. To become the king of a colony, with its abilities, its hopes were clearly extremely slim on that snow plain.
By accident, because it had attacked Li Yan, it became one of the thousand Snow Mosquitos taken into the "Earth-Spot" space by Li Yan.
At first, it was as terrified as the other Snow Mosquitos, not knowing how it had come to a strange space. And the earth spiritual energy there was too rich, and the temperature was extremely high for them.
In just one hour, nearly a thousand of them were on the verge of death. This Snow Mosquito, like the other Snow Mosquitos, searched everywhere for a possible escape from the space.
But in the end, it helplessly discovered that the place was a completely enclosed space. Only the top of a high mountain was slightly cool. Helpless, they could only take shelter in the caves on the mountain top and wait for death. If Li Yan hadn't discovered them in time, they would probably have been a pile of dead mosquitos long ago.
Not long after, when these Snow Mosquitos were about to reach the end of their lives, they felt a divine sense descend upon this space. Then, the entire mountain top turned into a world of ice and snow, which was how they finally survived.