Just as Jiang Li was about to grab hold, Xiao Long suddenly sprang up, lunging at Jiang Li like lightning. Caught off guard, Jiang Li was bitten on the hand.

  Jiang Li quickly activated his protective True Qi, but even so, a rge wound ened, and blood gushed out.

  "A fourth-tier demo with the power of a sixth-tier one, and such rapid recovery from injuries—what kind of monster is this!"

  Gng at the wound on his hand, Jiang Li's gaze turned serious. He chased after Xiao Long with his bde, no longer holding back. The Spiritual Qi within him quickly gathered in his palm, turning a faint crimson, the hallmark of the Fire Cloud Sect's Profound-level lrade martial art, the Eighteen Bzing Bde Strikes.

  The temperature gradually rose as violent energy gathered wildly. In the face of such a crisis, Xiao Long did not flee. A strange look fshed in his eyes, and then, to everyone's astonishment, he pounced on a piece of braised meat on the ground nearby.

  "Gulp!"

  Xiao Long swallowed it ie.

  "You ed meat and gained 5 experience points! You need 18 more experience points to level up!"

  He took another bite, swallowing a wild boar's hoof nearby.

  "You ed a level 1 demo and gained 17 experience points! You need 1 more experience point to level up!"

  Jiang Li was baffled. Fag death, he still had the mind to eat?

  Though fused, Jiang Li didn't stop his bde.

  Eighteen Bzing Bde Strikes! The first strike, Bzing Fire Splits the Mountain!

  A scorg wave swept out, carrying intense Inner Qi fmes, sshing toward Xiao Long. Xiao Long used Fish-Dragon Shifting to its fullest, dodging the direct strike, but was still grazed by the edge of the bde, blood spttering as a deep cut appeared on his body, nearly severing him.

  Xiao Long immediately activated the Azure Dragon Tome, and a scab formed over the wound, stopping the bleeding.

  However, the powerful Inner Qi from the Eighteen Bzing Bde Strikes rampaged within him, nearly causing him to explode.

  Xiao Long could no longer move an inch.

  "Eighteen Bzing Bde Strikes, sed strike, Bzing Fire Burns the City!"

  As the sed strike approached, fag almost certaih, Xiao Long remained exceptionally calm. He had faced death tless times in his past life, long since developing a steady mind in the face of danger.

  If this strike truly nded, he would risk further soul damage to forcibly use Soul trol, even if it meant mutual destru.

  At that moment, he suddenly noticed a few peanuts on the ground nearby.

  "Just in time!"

  Xiao Long opened his mouth and inhaled, sug all the peanuts into his stomach.

  "You ed peanuts and gained 1 experience point!"

  "Ding! gratutions on reag level 5, you need 2000 experience points for the level!"

  Xiao Long stared ahead, his eyes filled with fierce determination.

  "You want me dead? You'll die first!"

  Midas Touch, activate!

  Jiang Li's bde was raised high, about to strike down, but suddenly he froze.

  Everyone saw Jiang Li's body solidify there, and before their eyes, he turned into a golden statue, shining brightly.

  "g!"

  Jiang Li's bde fell powerlessly to the ground, along with his clothes and ste spirit ring, his body vanished.

  "You killed a level 10 wild creature, gaining 2000 experience points! Over-level challenge experience bonus 100%!"

  "Ding! gratutions on reag level 6, you need 4000 experience points for the level!"

  "You gained 883 gold s, current bance is 2180, Midas Touch is now on cooldown."

  Xiao Long breathed a sigh of relief, just in time!

  Such a clever and powerful person was ierrifying, leaving him alive would have been a disaster, but fortunately, he had the even more formidable Midas Touo matter how smart someone was, they couldn't predict he had a system!

  Meanwhile, on the sed floor of the inn, an eerie silence prevailed, everyone wearing expressions as if they'd seen a ghost.

  A living person had just turned into gold and vanished before their eyes!

  They had never heard of any martial art capable of su effect.

  "Whoosh!"

  A signal fre shot out from Jiang Li's clothes, exploding outside the window, f a fiery "fire" character in the sky. This was Jiang Li's tingen; as soon as he died, the signal fre ected to his soul would automatically unch, announg his death.

  Xiao Long eechless. This person was iroublesome, causing problems even ih. Though he had leveled up twice, reag the sixth-tier demo level, his injuries hadn't healed, especially with a remnant of True Qi from the Eighteen Bzing Bde Strikes still within him, suppressed by his Azure Dragon True Qi. If he started moving, that True Qi would wreak havo his body, leaving him temporarily uo act.

  He looked at the ste ring on the ground.

  System prompt: You picked up a "lrade ste spirit ring."

  He opehe ste ring, finding a rge number of lrade spirit stones, a total of fifty thousand, and to his surprise, two hundred middle-grade spirit stones, along with numerous herbs.

  "Your spirit stones have reached the amount o upgrade your cultivation teique. Would you like to upgrade?"

  The system prompt sounded, and Xiao Long was slightly stuhen immediately clicked "upgrade."

  "Ding! Your 'Azure Dragon Tome' has reached the sed level, ing thirty thousand lrade spirit stones!"

  Xiao Long hadn't expected that spirit stones could be used to upgrade teiques, and it was so simple, just a cliplete.

  If he had to cultivate slowly, it would likely take him at least a week to reach the sed level of the Azure Dragon Tome.

  This system is truly amazing!

  With the sed level of Azure Dragon True Qi, the remnant Bzing Fire True Qi was quickly destroyed, and Xiao Long's injuries healed by half in a very short time, allowing him to move freely.

  He looked around, notig most people had fled, with only a few hiding in ers, watg him with curious eyes.

  "This pce is not safe to stay!"

  Xiao Long immediately dashed out of the inn.

  Activating Fish-Dragon Shifting, Xiao Long's figure turned into a bck lightning bolt, swiftly darting through Qingyang Town, reag the town's outskirts in the blink of an eye.

  "Not good!"

  Xiao Long suddenly felt he was being watched, an overwhelming sense of danger enveloping him.

  Whoosh!

  A bck arrow shot from afar, pierg the sky, aiming straight for his forehead.

  It was an arrow!

  With his energy locked, dodging was impossible. Xiao Long turned around, fully activating the Azure Dragon Tome, his tail swinging fiercely, exeg a Divine Dragon Tail Whip, striking the arrorecisely.

  Spt!

  Blood spttered as Xiao Long's tail was shattered into pieces by the powerful force, exposing white bohe arrow lost its momentum, embedding itself in the ground at an angle.

  Xiao Long's cold gaze fixed on the distance, where a Qi densing Realm warrior with a silver longbow stood on the inn's rooftop, staring back at him.

  "I'll remember this arrow, and one day, I'll repay it tenfold!"

  Fish-Dragon Shifting fshed tinuously, and in the blink of an eye, Xiao Long disappeared from outside Qingyang Town.