Xiao Long moved with lightning speed, each fsh g a life.

  "You killed a level 8 wild beast, gaining 600 experience!"

  "You killed a level 9 wild beast, gaining 960 experience! (20% bonus for challenging a higher level)!"

  ...

  One by ohe wild beasts fell, turning into a wave of experience. Initially, Xiao Long had to gh some trouble to kill them, but now, as they only focused on esg, it saved him a lot of hassle.

  Unknowingly, the dozen or so people who came were all sughtered, leaving only two of the stro at the peak of the tenth level of the Body Refining Realm.

  The two stood back to back, each holding a rge bde, trembling as they looked at Xiao Long.

  They khat Xiao Long's speed was far superior to theirs, and esg held no hope of survival.

  "Senior, we were just passing by a no offense. Please five us!" Zhou Hong had no other choice. It was said that this snake could uand human speech, so he could only try his luck.

  Xiao Long sneered, his inner Qi simuting a human voice that spread out: "Five you? Isn't your Fire Cloud Sect a bounty to kill me? If you want my life, you should be prepared to be killed!"

  Zhou Hong's mouth twitched violently. As rumored, this s only uood human speech but could also speak it!

  He gritted his teeth and said, "That was a foolish act by the Fire Cloud Seothing to do with us!"

  "I assure you, Senior, that once I return, I will leave the Fire Cloud Sect. I only ask for a ce to live." Liu Ming quickly added, though he was already pnning to spread the word once he got back. The Beast Tami had always been ied in strange demos and would surely e to capture this one.

  Xiao Long stared at the two: "In that case, I'll let you go."

  The two were overjoyed, simultaneously breathing a sigh of relief.

  But in the moment, Xiao Long suddenly vanished from his spot, and Liu Ming's hair stood on end.

  "Poof!"

  "You killed a level 10 wild beast, gaining 1500 experience! (50% bonus for challenging a higher level)!"

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

  A cold gleam fshed, and Liu Ming spat a mouthful of blood skyward, his body colpsing powerlessly. Zhou Hong quickly retreated to a distaaring ily at Xiao Long.

  Xiao Long found it amusing; a casual remark had tricked them into letting their guard dowhe disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect really so inpetent?

  Zhou Hong gritted his teeth and said, "Senior, aren't you afraid of diviribution for breaking your word like this?"

  "Diviribution? I am the heavens!"

  Xiao Long couldn't be bothered to waste words, his figure shot fain, enveloped in a violent inner Qi, his aura s into the sky.

  Zhou Hong's face turned ashen, despair rising in his heart.

  Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and shouted hoarsely, "Brother Song, save me!"

  A silver arrow shot from the sky, tearing through the air, aimed straight at Xiao Long.

  "Hmph!"

  Xiao Long snorted coldly, his tail hooking Zhou Hong's leg, pulling him in front as a shield.

  The silver arrow did not slow, seemingly accelerating, shooting straight ahead.

  "No!" Zhou Hong screamed in despair.

  Swoosh!

  The arrow pierced through Zhou Hong's body, its momentum unabated, grazing Xiao Long's scales, causing a burst of blood light on Xiao Long's body.

  "What ruthless tactics, willing to kill a fellow disciple just to injure me."

  Xiao Long nded on the ground, quietly looking into the distance, where a young man with a silver longbow stood, staring back at him.

  This was her than Song Yu, a Qi densing Realm warrior, whom Xiao Long had entered once before, known as the "Soul Chasing Arrow."

  Beside Song Yu stood two others, both core disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect, one carrying a mace, the other wielding a mountain-splitting bde, both renowned figures.

  "Three Qi densing Realm warriors, two at the first level, o the third level."

  Xiao Long's gaze grew serious. With his current strength, dealing with the three was quite challenging.

  Song Yu, at the third level of the Qi densing Realm, couldn't be killed without the Midas Touch. The release range of the Midas Touch was teers, and they were over a kilometer apart now. He had to find a way to close the distance.

  "This archer must die; leaving him alive would be a disaster," Xiao Long calcuted in his mind.

  Charging in head-on was unrealistic; the oppo wasn't foolish. Unless he could lure them...

  At this moment, Xiao Long suddenly felt a tingling on his scalp. Turning his gaze, he saw three arrows carrying fiery inner Qi shooting toward him simultaneously.

  He hadn't even noticed when Song Yu made his move!

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Three explosions shook the ground, fmes s, bricks flying, and amidst the smoke and dust, a bake was bsted away, like a piece of charred coal.

  In a single exge, Xiao Long was severely injured!

  "Brother Song, with those three explosive fme arrows, that snake should be nothing but charcoal by now," ughed Zhu Gang, the burly man carrying the mace.

  "Brother Song's explosive fme arrows once killed a fifth-level Demon General; a mere eighth-level demo probably didn't even leave a trace," added Suhe young man with the rge bde.

  Song Yu shook his head slowly and said, "That snake is probably not dead yet."

  "What!" The two were shocked.

  Song Yu's expression was grave. The explosive fme arrows bore his soul imprint, allowing him to clearly sehe snake's life force, albeit very faint.

  Since he was tricked st time, causing harm to the sect master's soul, he khis snake was not to be uimated.

  Ah-level demo surviving his three explosive fme arrows was, in itself, an incredible feat!

  "Let's go! Check it out; it should only have one breath left." Song Yu was highly focused, cautiously moving forward, his steps extremely slow to prevent any sudden is.

  The two exged gnces, muttering to themselves, wasn't it just ah-level demo, was there really a o be so cautious?

  In their eyes, Song Yu's behavior seemed cowardly, and they secretly looked down on such timidity.

  Song Yu offered no expnation for their ptuous looks. Even a lion uses all its strength to catch a rabbit; he wouldn't allow himself to fail against this snake demon!

  Xiao Long used the Breath cealment Teique, burying himself in the sand, his aura pletely hidden.

  At this moment, his entire body was in tatters, most of it charred and carbonized. If not for ing his vital ans with Azure Dragon inner Qi, he might have perished from that attack.

  Xiao Long guessed that the archer must be a genius capable of challenging higher levels, appearing to be at the third level of the Qi densing Realm, but actually possessing the strength to tend with the fifth level.

  However, it was all meaningless, as the system still rated his level as 13, only five levels higher than Xiao Long.

  No matter what kind of genius, uhe power of the Midas Touch, even the most talented would meet the same fate—death.

  Xiao Long khat a soul imprint had bee on his body, but he didn't remove it, pretending not to notice. He didn't tend to his injuries, lying motionless in the soil, his aura lowered to the minimum, his heart temporarily ceasing to beat, as if he were dead.