"What a powerful Qi blood! Even fiercer than Guan the Second!"

The green Divine Soul felt like it had been through a cauldron of oil, shrinking several sizes, with the gathered thoughts becoming illusory like smoke, nearly collapsing.

When facing Guan Xingmiao with his Third Skin Training Great Success, he never felt such terror!

"Who are you...?"

Helian Hu's Divine Soul trembled as he watched the young man walk in leisurely, poised and spirited, yet an unfamiliar face.

"This piece of land in Black River County is under my care. Just call me Master Qi, I can handle it."

Bai Qi's eyes gleamed brightly, as if containing the brilliance of stars, giving Helian Hu a strange illusion of being pierced.

"Master Qi? At a mere Second Training Level, you think you're worthy?! Do you really consider yourself the Hong the Dragon Head of Pai Bang!"

Helian Hu, accustomed to deciding life and death, was still unyielding even in this position.

Seeing this young figure at the Second Training Level, Helian Hu's Divine Soul thoughts suddenly quivered, morphing once again into a wild Dharma Aspect, activating the Ghost-slaying and Soul-capturing Technique.

A sudden gust of sinister wind enveloped Bai Qi!

An intense coldness abruptly crushed the roaring furnace-like boiling Qi blood!

"This Daoist Skill is formidable, capable of extracting souls and absorbing vitality at will, but it's strenuous against enemies of equal strength, let alone those with sturdy foundations and robust Qi blood.

It's a low-level trickery, easily countered and insignificant."

Bai Qi had already experienced it once through the [Dragon Strategy] Divine Seed, and now was adept at controlling it, quickly operating the "Yellow Springs Flood Dragon Scripture" to reflect the vast mind sea around him.

Helian Hu's Ghost-slaying and Soul-capturing Technique stirred chaotic thoughts, like fierce evil flood dragons causing havoc, disturbing the mind.

Before it could take effect, they were all eradicated!

The "Yellow Springs Flood Dragon Scripture" specializes in cultivating "calmness."

It emphasizes a constantly calm mind, never wavering, not afraid of such minor tricks.

"Dual Cultivation of Dao and Martial Arts!"

Helian Hu's Ghost-slaying and Soul-capturing Technique felt like punching a copper wall, instead causing himself great pain.

His Divine Soul trembled, surrounded by illusions!

Fighting with Daoist Skills is often more perilous than practitioners clashing hands!

When one's technique is broken, they suffer backlash!

The Dao is one foot high, the demon ten feet higher.

This is the fundamental truth of the path of Dao Skills.

Cultivating Dao involves honing one's Divine Soul and mind.

Once frustrated, it breeds demonic thoughts and destroys one's Dao path!

Thus Helian Hu, whenever pulling souls, needed to act unexpectedly, creating opportunities, or else unable to execute successfully.

He didn't expect Bai Qi, a seemingly immature youth, to possess a more solid, unshakable mind than Guan Xingmiao!

"Ahhh! Save me... someone, please save me! I am the Hall Master of Pai Bang!"

Helian Hu screamed in agony, almost mad, the green Divine Soul burning with a sinister ghostly flame.

The once solidified thoughts melted like wax, dropping and evaporating, turning into thin smoke.

"So fragile! No wonder the major sects of Taoist Sect look down on these Heterodox Loose Cultivators. With such a temperament, even given the legacy of the saints and immortal pathways, would you maintain control?"

Bai Qi's eyes shone brightly, seeing through Helian Hu's strengths and weaknesses. The souls he had extracted, the vitality he had absorbed, were like mixed turbulent torrents, instantly devouring and backfiring, stripping away those feeble thoughts.

"Let me send you off."

He stepped forward, passing the stunned Tao Yun, his five fingers closed and crushed Helian Hu, mastering the Three Realms of Dao Skill effortlessly.

A thick wisp of blue smoke rose from his palm, blown out by the night wind.

The soul scattered!

"Brother Python, let's make a deal: this land is under my charge."

Having effortlessly dealt with Helian Hu, Bai Qi approached the Wuyan Python, keeping a steady distance of fifty paces, speaking calmly:

"I know a friend, Sister Jiao, and since you're a python, both of dragon lineage, for its sake, once we obtain the treasure, I'll split it with you half and half."

As his master Ninghai Zen described, he was refined and gentle, not one for killing.

While eager to stretch his muscles, given the heavens' benevolent nature, if the python knew better, tonight's treasure hunt could end here.

"Weak..."

Unfortunately, this Wuyan Python showed no favor, merely at the stage of refining its bones, revealing a word with its tongue flickering.

"Stupid beast indeed."

Bai Qi sighed helplessly:

"Don't you know, human geniuses fight across one or two realms as a norm? Not to mention someone of my unparalleled talent."

He didn't wait for the Wuyan Python to speak further, the ink talisman in his mind quivered, and the Divine Seed atop it shone brilliantly, like a star ignited.

Nine Oxen and Two Tigers' Power!

Initiate!

Boom!

Bai Qi's body lowered, taking a fighting stance, the ground beneath his feet sinking an inch as if bearing immense weight!

The abundant reserve of ten blood changes erupted instantly, upholding the [Nine Oxen and Two Tigers] Ultimate Skill.

The powerful physique, advancing to a superior level, no longer groans in agony as if bones are shattering.

From limbs to torso, solid muscles, consolidated by the dragon spine, entwined like pythons, nearly melded into one.

An overwhelming force, like waves successively surging, infused Bai Qi's every fiber, pervading his entire being. Such astonishing momentum made him take a deep breath, curbing the mania swelling to its peak in his chest—

Were there a handle on the earth, I could lift it!

"..."

The millennia-aged Wuyan Python widened its vertical pupils in confusion and dread.

It witnessed this previously frail human, seemingly consuming some Divine Pill and Immortal Medicine, releasing an immensely fierce aura within mere moments!

Through its acute perception, it vaguely glimpsed the ferocious tiger demons looming at his feet, the nine powerful ox demons appearing behind, like a supreme Demon Emperor that dominates the vast ten-thousand mountains!

"But..."

Recalling the conditions proposed earlier, the Wuyan Python's vertical pupils expanded, forcing out a single word with great difficulty and speed.

"Too late."

The imposing body, reforged ten times, was instantly emptied, as the rolling air currents surged like a vast river, along with Bai Qi's hand raised, fist clenched.

A thunderous percussion reverberated across a hundred miles, like iron balls clanging in a grand cauldron.

A heavy hum, deafening!

Ultimately.

This punch, he indeed couldn't hold back.

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"What thunder..."

Far away in Black River County, Bai Ming propped his chin with his hands, gazing at the sparse starry night sky, sitting at the doorstep, waiting for Brother to return.

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"This is the Second Training Level?"

Covered in dirt, Guan Xingmiao was oblivious, utterly dumbstruck as if frightened senseless.

"The notorious Ninghai Zen, even at the same level, might not match this young man!

To kill a Demon King with one punch... truly inhuman!"

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After ten cycles of blood change, the uncontainable exuberant energy was entirely consumed by the Nine Oxen and Two Tigers' Power, Bai Qi exhaled deeply:

"Comfortable!"

Billowing smoke and dust spread, as this Master Bai Qi pondered what pose would best demonstrate his peerless demeanor.

Suddenly furrowing his brow, as if recalling something:

"Oh no! I was so caught up in the moment, I forgot to save the Demon Pill!"

He hurriedly adjusted his pose, quickly moving towards the exploded and shredded Great Python Demon's body, and began digging inside.

Qi Yan and Lv Nan, the pair of brothers, arrived late, staring at the hillside partially cut away, and the wide open path carved through the forest:

The latter scratching his head asked:

"Senior Brother, are all martial practitioners as brave as Brother Bai?"

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ps: Every unexpected bonus chapter is brought by staying up all night, I really put a lot of effort into writing~