Celestial Demon Starting from Attribute Points-Chapter 60: Tiger Demon Taisui

With "Mist-Covered Malicious Leopard" demon blood infused, Li Xuan’s agility soared to as high as 46 points, rendering him practically invisible to ordinary people. Even if he dashed past them, they would only feel a gust of wind and only realize he’s gone once he’s at a distance.

Regarding reactions, Li Xuan’s 46 points of agility, coupled with "Listening Sword" from the Secret Martial Arts "Midday Fertile Fields Pastoral Elementary Diagram," allows him to promptly notice any anomalies.

Swish, swish, swish!

The forest shadows quickly retreated.

Li Xuan followed behind Liu Yingyi and the others unnoticed.

The hundred or so mansion soldiers descended the mountain and changed horses.

The sky had turned dark, and a bright moon had risen from the eastern sky, gradually climbing higher.

But Liu Yingyi and the others did not plan to stop and continued northward.

The man-tall demon’s charred corpse was packed in a pre-prepared iron box, thrown onto a carriage, with the driver at the reins, while Liu Yingyi sat on the side, coldly observing the surroundings.

With the darkening light, tracking became easier for Li Xuan. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

He followed for half the night, somewhat winded, and planned to use illusion skill to swap identities when the squad rested.

Directly confronting the hundred-plus mansion soldiers and Liu Yingyi was unwise.

With this thought in mind, Liu Yingyi finally halted at dawn.

The moonlight fell from the sky, the urgent sound of hooves slowed, and then stopped.

The night wind roared, shadows of trees, horses, and people moved in chaos, intertwining.

Liu Yingyi guarded the box while the soldiers proficiently set camp, erecting tents to rest.

Li Xuan observed closely and intended to effortlessly grab an unlucky person, kill them, and then replace them to infiltrate.

He turned his back to the campfire, his back pressed to the trees, quietly moving toward them, seeing a soldier patrolling far away and planning to act... However, at the last moment, he suddenly stopped.

Because, an extremely eerie and uneasy feeling emerged in his heart.

With a slight discernment, he confirmed the source of this unease.

Waves of coughing erupted irregularly, becoming increasingly audible; when Li Xuan approached, it was faint, but moments later, it grew conspicuously louder.

Increasingly piercing in the quiet woods.

Li Xuan frowned slightly, retreated slowly to a tall tree’s top, stretched out his body against a large branch, and, under the moonlight, gazed toward the camp’s direction.

...

The coughing grew heavier, prompting many soldiers who had already entered their tents to rest to rush out.

After quite a while...

Suddenly, a soldier pointed at a comrade opposite him, "You... you’re bleeding from your nose."

His comrade stared at him in shock, "Your neck... your neck..."

"What’s wrong with my neck? What’s wrong?!" The soldier anxiously reached to touch his neck and felt a swelling he hadn’t noticed before.

Not touching was fine, but the moment he touched it, it became intensely itchy.

The soldier urgently scratched it.

The camp descended into chaos everywhere.

Liu Yingyi had been thinking about resting, deliberating whether to return directly to the State City or head to the royal capital.

Though a mansion person, he held an official position and couldn’t return to the capital without the Monarch’s summons.

But being from the mansion, who cares about the Monarch? Just dress up and return.

Once in the capital, with his mansion waist badge displayed, who would dare question him?

As for the rogue Secret Martial artist earlier, he had long forgotten.

Secret Martial Arts isn’t systematic; practicing it is courting death. Dual cultivation is a natural talent, luck is favorably saved... just like that.

As Liu Yingyi was pondering, his peripheral vision suddenly caught two red lines.

His pupils constricted sharply, he wiped his nose with his hand, and upon looking at it, saw blood on the back of his hand.

He... was bleeding from his nose too!!

"What’s going on?"

"What’s actually happening?"

Before he could think it through, Liu Yingyi suddenly felt extremely itchy, especially under his arms, and at his inner thighs.

He resisted the itch, activated his qi and blood.

Qi and blood circulated around his body, under such circulation, Secret Martial artists are immune to illnesses, even toxins can be expelled swiftly.

If not expelled, they could still resist with their robust bodies and qi and blood, which would render toxins lethal to ordinary people mere illnesses.

Liu Yingyi sat cross-legged on the ground, repeatedly circulating qi and blood.

From his pores, white vapor emerged like steam dissipating.

After one incense burn...

"Ah!!"

The State City’s envoy suddenly screamed and crazily tore off his clothes, feverishly scratching under his arms, revealing large red swellings.

Qi and blood were useless, and he couldn’t endure the itch anymore.

He tore off his pants, even inner pants, in total disregard, baring his legs, where similar red swellings were found.

Liu Yingyi scratched himself all night, hollering continuously, ignoring everything else.

...

By dawn, as the sunlight pierced the horizon, refracting through dew on wide leaves...

The entire forest gradually brightened.

Yet Liu Yingyi and the others who planned to leave early that morning did not move.

A few soldiers who remained unaffected watched in shock.

To them, the most severely affected was undoubtedly the envoy from the State City.

That adult... hardly resembles a human anymore?

If anyone has trypophobia, they would probably be scared to death here.

Liu Yingyi was so itchy that he stripped off his clothes. His exposed body was undeniably strong, but his skin, bulging from muscle, was covered with dense red spots, all over.

He seemed not only itchy but also very thirsty; however, his mind was already very confused, just shouting: "Water, water, I need water!!"

He stumbled as he walked.

Among the undisturbed mansion guards, someone still wanted to fetch water, but was pulled back by the person beside them.

Two mansion guards exchanged glances, and saw nothing but endless fear in each other’s eyes.

"Water!!"

"Water!!!"

Liu Yingyi wailed, painfully in a voice unlike a human.

Suddenly, his skin seemed to have been drained of moisture and began to shrivel.

He howled painfully and ran, his entire body rapidly shriveling under the peaceful sunlight of the morning forest.

Liu Yingyi didn’t run far before he turned into a dried corpse, then collided with an ancient tree and collapsed limply, never to rise again.

The mansion guards were petrified with fear, hardly caring about anything else, hurriedly leading their horses away.

At a high place...

Li Xuan watched, his Adam’s apple moving, his hands and feet turning cold, almost forgetting how to breathe.

He dared not wait here any longer, quickly putting distance and heading to a farther place.

...

By evening, Li Xuan approached again for a look.

Aside from the few who escaped earlier, the remaining hundred mansion guards had all followed Liu Yingyi’s footsteps, even dying in the same way.

All were dried corpses, sprawled out, resembling hell paved in Xiaolin under the twilight.

Li Xuan watched the terrifying death scene with a dry mouth and tongue, knowing... it must be the work of that Red Shadow Demon Fiend.

Immediately, a belated sense of fear surged up.

If he were touched by that Red Shadow Demon Fiend, would he meet the same fate?

No!

Not just touched, but if he agreed to Cao Shuda’s proposal and went to the site together.

Wait!

Suddenly, Li Xuan remembered that Liu Yingyi wasn’t the only one bitten by the shadow; several mansion guards were also bitten, and those guards returned to Hundred Flowers Mansion with Cao Shuda!!

These hundred mansion guards were infected by Liu Yingyi.

Then...

"Oh damn..."

Unable to hold back, he cursed, feeling a chill in his heart.

The fear of being dominated by demons returned abruptly.

’This is a plague, it can’t spread to Xiongshan County!’

As for Cao Shuda, Li Xuan couldn’t really manage it, nor had time to, and could only hope he fends for himself.

...

Li Xuan started quickly searching for a carriage.

The horses had been frightened before and scattered, but the plague... could infect not only people but horses too.

The horses had also turned into "dried corpse horses", so after running a short distance, they all collapsed.

The iron chest carrying the demon blood was thrown near the original campsite by the two dried corpse horses.

Li Xuan held his breath, stringing ten silver thread rings together to form a cutting line over twenty zhang long.

He swayed slowly high above, trying many times until finally hooking the line onto the iron chest and securing it.

Li Xuan dared not approach, dragging the iron chest to a distant place, then catching some rabbits and field mice that hadn’t slept by nightfall nearby, tossing them over.

He then quietly observed for a long time, seeing no abnormality with the rabbits and field mice, he quickly tore his clothes into gloves and shoe covers.

Then, holding his breath, he approached swiftly.

Bang!

A palm!

The iron chest was smashed open.

Li Xuan threw away the "gloves", then kicked the iron chest over with a "clang" and discarded the "shoe covers".

He watched as the demon blood flowed from the charred corpse, trickling far away.

Li Xuan stood at a distance, watching where the demon blood was about to reach.

Suddenly, his fingertip heated up.

A sensation of absorbing demon blood came.

Soon after...

Li Xuan’s status panel changed.

[Li Xuan]

[Realm: First Realm]

[Demon Points: 12]

[Nine-slot Blood Bar]

The dim third blood slot revealed something like a flesh lump rooted in the Tiger Demon’s corpse.

On one side appeared the words: Tiger Demon Taisui (Mutated Young Demon)

Injecting the complete blood of the Mutated Young Demon Tiger Demon Taisui can provide an extra 22 spirit points and grasp the Demon Technique [Ghost Creation].