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Rustle rustle rustle

In the forest, a gentle breeze blew, and a thick stench of blood and foul odor permeated the air.

On the ground lay scattered chunks of flesh still wriggling, and decapitated heads that surprisingly were still blinking, not completely devoid of life.

A silhouette suddenly darted out of the dense forest, arriving in front of the broken corpses.

"Luckily that person's strength wasn't very strong, otherwise, I would have been caught off guard this time."

Lin Zheyu felt a pang of lingering fear in his heart.

After using the Blood Burning Saber Skill and just managing to kill the formidable Demon Martial Artist who had transformed into a half-demon, his Life Essence was nearly burned up.

He almost had his efforts go in vain.

He scanned the bodies on the ground and saw the head, still filled with savage and murderous intent.

The head was astonishingly not completely dead yet.

"Such strong life force."

Lin Zheyu couldn't help but exclaim.

The life force of the half-demon was even stronger than that of the Demon Martial Artist.

These wicked creatures were not only incredibly resilient in life force, but their defenses were equally astonishing.

Before transforming into a half-demon, Lin Zheyu's full strike struggle to even cut it in half completely.

After transforming, he could only rely on the Blood Burning Saber Skill, employing the might unleashed by burning his life force to kill it.

If it were a pure demon, it would probably be even more monstrous.

Rustle~~

Lin Zheyu stepped towards the head on the ground, walking on fallen leaves, producing a rustling sound.

Thud—

The flash of a saber, and the head with residual life was split into two with a crack, completely dead.

Lin Zheyu didn't stay at the scene long, swiftly searched the opponent's belongings, then vanished into the mountain forest.

He rushed tens of kilometers before stopping by a clean stream.

After cleaning his clothes dirtied in battle, Lin Zheyu examined the items he obtained from that middle-aged man and the Demon Martial Artist by the stream.

That unknown Martial Artist, incidentally wealthy, carried more than 500,000 silver notes, plus five bottles of Spiritual Liquid.

And various miscellaneous powders and elixirs.

"This guy's Spiritual Liquid seems not as pure as the ones I acquired before."

Lin Zheyu was a bit puzzled.

He checked again and confirmed they weren't as pure as the Spiritual Liquid he had acquired from his sisters, Gu Ye and Wang Shuxian, before.

The five bottles of Spiritual Liquid obtained this time were filled with Yin Sha power and all sorts of filthy energy, much more intense.

Even Lin Zheyu could sense it.

"Carrying over 500,000 in silver but using such low-grade Spiritual Liquid, this guy's background mustn't be good."

Lin Zheyu contemplated internally.

Currently, he felt a bit wary of this world's variety of mysterious tracking methods.

If the Martial Artist he killed had significant standing and happened to have special means to trace to him, it would have been troublesome.

Fortunately, it seemed that person wasn't well-backed; otherwise, he wouldn't be in such a sorry state.

A Martial Artist with Transforming Force, being this poor is excusable—claiming all silver taels were for purchasing cultivation resources, but using such low-quality Spiritual Liquid indicates the person didn't fare well.

Putting away the items obtained from that Transforming Force Martial Artist, Lin Zheyu started studying the items from the Demon Martial Artist.

He picked up a black compass made of some kind of jade from the ground.

Qi Blood surged, poured into the compass, and no response followed.

He extracted Spiritual Liquid and poured a drop on it, resulting in a light point on the Ink Jade Disc.

"Is this how that Demon Martial Artist found my location?"

Lin Zheyu was immensely intrigued.

He placed the Ink Jade Disc on the ground, walked a few steps away, and noticed the light point split into two.

Just now, when holding the Ink Jade Disc, the two light points overlapped, manifesting only one.

"Such a mysterious item, useable with just Spiritual Liquid?"

Lin Zheyu toyed with the Ink Jade Disc; this was the first item he had acquired most resembling the legends of Magical Artifacts.

"I wonder what the maximum range of this thing is?"

"How does it locate someone's position? How to set the target for tracking?"

Lin Zheyu was filled with curiosity.

He studied it for a while but made no discoveries.

Looking closely, he could see densely packed mysterious symbols full of aesthetic that were carved into complex arrays on the Ink Jade Disc.

"Are Magical Artifacts so worthless that even a Transforming Force Martial Artist can possess one?" Such a thought crossed Lin Zheyu's mind.

He pondered for a while, swiftly disappeared from the spot, and returned a few seconds later, catching a passing beast.

He cut a slit on the beast and let the blood drip onto the Ink Jade Disc, soon absorbed by it.

Then, Lin Zheyu released the beast.

Picking up rocks from the ground, he flung them at the lingering beast to drive it further away.

"Strange, does it not work?"

"Could it be set using this method?"

Lin Zheyu muttered to himself, studied it again, and finding nothing, he put it away.

Once back, he planned to ask Mr. Yang and others if they knew the origin of this Ink Jade Disc.

Lin Zheyu continued sorting the remaining items and, overlooking some worthless items and elixirs, powders, found a total of over 20,000 silver taels and three purple, egg-sized stones on the Demon Martial Artist.

Those three stones were Spirit Stones.

"Three Spirit Stones, the Source Power spent this time was worth it."

Lin Zheyu grinned.

He felt these three Spirit Stones seemed to contain much more energy than the two he had gotten last time.