Xiao Long was now penniless, with only a few herbs left in his iory and not a single spirit stone. Even the soul power he had painstakingly recovered had reverted to its inal state in an instant.

  With a helpless sigh, he crawled out of the formation to absorb spiritual qi aore his stamina.

  Under Xiao Long's oppressive aura, the demos watched from afar, not daring to take a step closer. Eveh and ninth-level demos didn't dare to approach.

  Time flew by, and before he k, a day had passed.

  Xiao Long g the rge pit. The energy of the formation inside was nearly exhausted, and the Soul-Reviving Pill had long siurned into nourishment. Yet, the white fox showed no signs of waking up.

  "What a pity!" Xiao Lo a twinge ret. If she still couldn't wake up after all this, it was likely hopeless. He regretted wasting so many resources on her.

  At this moment, Xiao Long looked into the distance.

  "Haha! Finally here!"

  "There's a big pit ahead. The phenomenon from yesterday happehere. Maybe some incredible treasure appeared!"

  "Let's go check it out!"

  Xiao Long saw a group of people rushing towards him from afar, about ten of them, all wearing fiery red cloud-patterned robes. They were disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect.

  This pce was closest to the Fire Cloud Sect, and given the magnitude of yesterday's phenomenon, it wasn't surprising they found their way here.

  Xiao Long cealed his aura and used the Breath cealment Teique, burying himself beh the sand and dirt.

  "Huh? There's another formation here." As the group approached, the leading man’s eyes lit up.

  "This formation is set up so skillfully that I 't see through it."

  "If even Senior Brother Fang 't see through it, could the one who set it up be a Qi densing Realm formation master?"

  "Very likely."

  Xiao Long sneered inwardly. It would be strange if they could see through it. This formation was his unique creation, using soul power as a bridge to ect with the power of the stars. Not even a Martial Emperor could necessarily set it up!

  "Let's go in and see what's ihe man named Fang stepped in first, pletely unaware that he was stepping on Xiao Long.

  At that moment, Xiao Long moved instantly. He burst out from the sand, activating his Fish-Dragon Shifting teique. Before anyone could react, he smmed into Fang's abdomen, his inner qi pierg like steel needles, instantly crippling Fang's dantian.

  "Ugh!"

  Fang spewed blood and was sent flying, crashing headfirst into the ground.

  "My dantian!" He clutched his abdomen, his face turnihly pale. With his dantiaroyed, he was reduced to a cripple, a fate worse thah.

  "The Bck Spine Snake!"

  Only then did everyone realize that the attacker was the infamous Bck Spine She one causing such a stir in the Fire Cloud Sect!

  Initially, people didn't think much of it, not uanding why the sect leader would offer such a high bounty for a snake. But now it was clear that this was no ordinary matter.

  A snake smart enough to ceal its aura, ambush humans, and cripple their dantians—had it bee a spirit?

  "Kill!"

  The remaining people charged forward. Having made it through the rugged mountains to the depths of the forest, they were no weaklings. Even the weakest among them was at the seventh level of the Body Refining Realm, with most at the eighth or ninth level, and two at the peak of the tenth level.

  Fag the assault of ten people, Xiao Long's figure flickered as he swiftly moved to the right. His tail struck the ground, propelling him forward like an arrow, pierg through Fang's throat, whose dantian had beeroyed.

  Even ih, Fang couldn't uand why he was the first to be killed when he was already crippled and posed no threat.

  "You have killed an 8th-level wild monster, gaining 600 experience!"

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

  Killing was the only way to gain experiend level up.

  Without time to ihe ste ring, Xiao Long immediately dodged away. A barrage of chaotic martial arts attacks struck the spot where he had just been, and had he been a moment slower, he might have been obliterated.

  "Quickly notify the sect! This snake demon is extremely ing and fast. If it escapes, it will be a disaster!"

  With that, they unched signal fres into the sky, exploding like fireworks. It wouldn't be long before experts from the Fire Cloud Sect arrived.

  Xiao Long dared not dey. He charged forward, his body flickering tinuously. His tail transformed into a bck whip, sweeping across, apanied by the sound of bones crag. Several people's legs were broken, and they fell to the ground, wailing.

  "I'll finish you all in three minutes!"

  Xiao Long was furious. He tacked unless provoked. Sihe Fire Cloud Sect wanted him dead, he would kill every single one of them!

  "Senior Brother Liu, Senior Brother Zhou, kill him! Kill him!" The ones with broken legs cried out for help, but it was too te...

  With a bde in his mouth, Xiao Long became a bck phantom, weaving through them. Blood spttered wherever he passed, and blood marks appeared on their necks, gushing like fountains, leaving them all dead.

  "You have killed an 8th-level wild monster, gaining 600 experience!"

  "You have killed a 7th-level wild monster, gaining 400 experience!"

  "You have killed an 8th-level wild monster, gaining 600 experience!"

  "You have killed a 9th-level wild monster, gaining 960 experience (20% bonus for challenging higher levels)!"

  Xiao Long's eyes were blood-red. After killing four more, he charged bato the crowd, moving as fast as lightning, like a reaper harvesting wheat. Screams echoed, and blood sprayed into the sky like it was free.

  As ah-level demo, Xiao Long was only half a meter long, yet faster than ahe Fire Cloud Sect disciples unleashed all their martial arts in a frenzy, but they couldn't touch him.

  Even Liu Ming and Zhou Hong, at the peak of the tenth level, couldn't do anything to Xiao Loe using their most powerful teiques.

  They were geniuses of the sect, always defeating demos of higher levels, never having been killed by one. Yet now, they couldn't even touch the fur of ah-level demo. As gehey had never entered such a situation.

  As time went on, their mental state began to colpse.

  "He's not ah-level demo! He's a Demon General hiding his strength!"

  "That must be it, or he couldn't be this powerful!"

  "Run!"

  Someoook the lead, and the rest began to flee.

  As disciples of one of the four major sects in Tianfeng Kingdom, they were revered wherever they went. They were too proud to accept their defeat, choosing io deceive themselves into believing Xiao Long was hiding his true strength.

  Xiao Long found it amusing. What right did this rabble have to be his enemies?

  The system was right; these people were just wild monsters, delivering experience points!