"Senior, this is not Gang Qi transformation. If you want to compete with me in endurance, no matter how strong you are, you will lose."

Tang Ming smiled faintly and suddenly stomped his foot, causing the number of swords bursting out from the water to increase sharply again.

"This kid actually modified and enhanced the Huaxia Secret Technique, how did he do it?"

Excitement flashed in Li Xiaoli’s eyes. She then withdrew, moving her body away from Tang Ming to avoid a depletion battle.

No matter how strong she was before, now she’s fighting by borrowing Li Xiaoli’s body, and her condition is not good, unable to maintain for long, unable to exert even a tenth of her peak battle power.

Next, Tang Ming used the methods he comprehended from the Innate Power in recent times to engage in a great battle with the mutated Li Xiaoli.

This time, Tang Ming was no longer being beaten as before. Relying on what he had learned, he actually suppressed Li Xiaoli.

After a while, Li Xiaoli clasped her hands together and suddenly struck towards Tang Ming from a distance, a huge invisible energy over ten meters long and two meters wide slamming towards Tang Ming’s head.

"I know this move too."

Tang Ming got excited and made the same move, resulting in...

Winds howled over the sea surface, a huge wave over three meters high surged from Tang Ming, which after swirling transformed into a gigantic seawater sword, carrying waves like a strait, heading towards Li Xiaoli’s attack.

"Boom."

A deep collision sound arose, crushing Li Xiaoli’s attack.

"How is this possible?"

Li Xiaoli slid rapidly towards the shore, feeling as if she was facing not Tang Ming, but the vast sea and fierce tsunami.

Manpower, no matter how strong, cannot contend against heaven and earth. This was Li Xiaoli’s thought at the moment, yet she couldn’t understand how Tang Ming could unleash such a terrifying technique.

"Haha, I won."

Tang Ming appeared at the peak of the giant wave, smugly looking at Li Xiaoli on the shore.

"You... stop quickly, or everything on the shore will be wiped out."

Li Xiaoli quickly reminded.

"Huh? Stop, stop, can’t take it back."

The fight was too exhilarating, and now the giant wave was already sweeping towards the shore, and Tang Ming had no way to stop it.

"Idiot."

Li Xiaoli cursed and quickly ran towards the shed, picking up Mu Zixin and running towards the island.

"Boom!"

After a loud crash, the several-meter-high wave slammed hard onto the beach.

Tang Ming landed with the force of the wave, turned his head, and nearly cried.

When the wave receded, almost all the trees on the shore were broken, and the sunshade shed and salt-drying pool he built were gone. Had Mu Zixin not been taken away in time, who knows where the wave would have washed her away. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Though the fight was exhilarating, now half of the island was destroyed. It was simply a disaster!

You should know the three of us live on this island, relying on its resources to get by, but now we have to rebuild again.

"Where did you learn this martial arts, powerful but can’t retract, with such might?"

As Tang Ming was dumbfounded, Li Xiaoli returned, glaring at Tang Ming angrily.

"I... I learned from heaven and earth, studied the ocean, and comprehended myself."

Tang Ming swallowed and replied truthfully.

"Learned from heaven and earth?"

Li Xiaoli was slightly surprised, truly shocked.

"Enough nonsense! Senior, the battle today has already determined the winner, and I won."

Tang Ming calmed himself, looking proudly at Li Xiaoli, "Please don’t interfere in matters between me and Li Xiaoli in the future. We are in love with each other..."

"Shut up. Your mind is full of lecherous thoughts, such talent wasted."

Li Xiaoli impatiently interrupted Tang Ming’s words.

"I..."

"Li Xiaoli’s body must remain intact."

Li Xiaoli’s tone softened, "I am no longer your opponent now, and your mastery of the Huaxia Secret Technique is now more... exquisite than mine, plus I’m using this child’s body to fight you, indeed I am not your match. However, you cannot touch this girl’s body."

"Why not?"

Tang Ming became displeased.

"Because the reason I can control her body is that I have long been dead."

Li Xiaoli sighed, sitting cross-legged on the ground.

"This..."

Seeing Li Xiaoli sitting cross-legged solemnly, lit by two big lamps, the scene... Tang Ming couldn’t help but react again.

"Ahem!"

Tang Ming hurriedly covered his embarrassment, sitting opposite Li Xiaoli honestly, "Senior, since you’re dead, how can you still live in Li Xiaoli’s body? And also show such decent combat power?"

"Have you ever heard of a Soul Body? My cultivation in life reached a certain level, but ultimately I couldn’t resist the Heavenly Dao, and after my lifespan was exhausted, my body decayed, but my soul survived."

Li Xiaoli spoke indifferently, gazing deeply at the sky, "Strictly speaking, I don’t even know how long I’ve been alive."

"Senior, are you telling ghost stories?"

Tang Ming looked at Li Xiaoli skeptically, "Who exactly are you?"

"You wouldn’t know even if I told you my name, but the Huaxia Secret Technique you practice... I created that."

"Cough cough... that’s a bit of a boast, that such a powerful martial art like the Huaxia Secret Technique was created by you?"

Tang Ming almost choked on his own saliva, it seemed he really did run into a ghost this time!

"Do I need to boast? Even your master, Yun Potian, would have to call me grandmaster."

Li Xiaoli gave Tang Ming a side glance.

"You even know my master?"

Tang Ming was even more surprised.

"Hehe, Yun Potian is the seventh generation inheritor of the Huaxia Secret Technique, and the most unremarkable, most exasperating guy."

Li Xiaoli vented with great indignation, "Each generation’s inheritors of the Huaxia Secret Technique would carefully keep the Sacrificial Spirit Jade Ring, as it’s the container of my soul. Yet, Yun Potian lost it after inheriting the Huaxia Secret Technique, causing me to become a masterless wandering soul."

"Uh, so how did you end up in Li Xiaoli’s body?"

Tang Ming was even more confused.

"Because back then, Li Xiaoli’s parents found the Sacrificial Spirit Jade Ring, and they accidentally shattered it. With no other choice, I could only fuse with the baby in Li Xiaoli’s mother’s womb. And it was because of this that Li Xiaoli’s mother died in childbirth back then, and her father was taken away because of the Jade Ring."

"That’s a lot of information to digest at once."

Tang Ming looked at Li Xiaoli with a bewildered expression. Since knowing her, he had never seen Li Xiaoli’s parents, only knowing she had a brother. He didn’t expect her parents to be so legendary!

"You don’t need to understand! In short, Li Xiaoli and I share a body, and currently, Li Xiaoli is my host. She must stay intact, relying on the Innate Energy in her body to nourish my soul. Once she loses her innocence, if the Jade breaks, the Innate Energy will dissipate, and my soul will gradually disappear, vanishing forever."

Li Xiaoli gave Tang Ming a sideways glance, patiently explaining.