The girl was not truly straightforward. After hearing these words, her face showed a bit of solemnity. She turned her head to nod at the old man, then bent over, supported herself with her hands on the ground, and flipped her body over with exceptional agility.

With her hands on the ground and legs in the air, her large eyes closed.

At this moment, the six Loose Cultivators beside her stood still, not daring to make the slightest noise. However, the eyes of two young Loose Cultivators were fixed rather inappropriately on the girl's graceful waist.

As her body was inverted, her dress slid down, revealing her snow-white delicate waist.

Noticing those lewd gazes, the Sloppy Old Man showed a face full of fury and swept his gaze over, scaring the two Loose Cultivators into immediately turning their heads away.

About ten breaths later, the girl suddenly opened her eyes, leaped up, flipped back, and said nonchalantly, "Dad, there's not a single person within a hundred miles."

"You're sure...?" the old man stared intently at the girl with a serious expression.

"Sure..." the girl nodded.

Upon hearing this, including the five men, all quietly breathed a sigh of relief and simultaneously turned their gaze toward Wang Xiaoqiang up in the tree, their faces filled with a sense of anger after being insulted.

The old man sneered at Wang Xiaoqiang, who was feigning sleep and said to the tall Loose Cultivator beside him who had reached the Sixth Transformation of the Immortal, "Luoo Ge, leave this kid to you!"

Called Luoo Ge, the tall Loose Cultivator respectfully nodded to the Old Man, and when his gaze shifted back to Wang Xiaoqiang, a sinister smile passed over his face, his deep, dark eyes looking like those of a predator eyeing its trapped prey.

However, a person without any cultivation base, weaker even than a tri-horned sheep, did not require his personal action. At this moment, he looked around, his gaze sliding over four brothers, finally resting on the shortest, Zhongzi. Zhongzi, just called Zhongzi, had no other name. Among these five brothers, although Zhongzi had also broken through to the Fifth Turn of the Immortal, his spell skills were slightly inferior and he was the weakest among them.

"Zhongzi... you have five minutes to deal with this kid." Luoo Ge commanded. Clearly, among these five brothers, they regarded him as their leader.

"Me…?!"

Zhongzi made a sour face. Everyone knew that a mortal without any cultivation was easiest to kill, but they also understood that a Loose Cultivator at the Fifth Transformation killing a mortal was the most humiliating thing and it would definitely lower their status in their circle. Seeing the other three brothers looking at him with amusement, Zhongzi grew more reluctant and complained, "Why is it always me?"

"What's the matter?" Luoo Ge raised his brows and barked angrily, "Do you want me to do it myself?"

Seeing this, Zhongzi dared not decline any further. He rushed to the tree, looked up at Wang Xiaoqiang, and yelled, "You little brat, come down quick, I'll leave you a whole corpse, otherwise, I'll chop you into pieces."

Zhongzi shouted furiously, trying to vent all the resentment in his heart on Wang Xiaoqiang.

Wang Xiaoqiang had noticed the movements of this group of Loose Cultivators early on. His eyes slightly squinted, he had been observing the actions of these seven people. When the girl suddenly assumed that strange inverted posture, his heart sank, faintly feeling that something was amiss. Then, when he heard the girl mention that there was no one within a hundred miles, he was sure she had used the Observational Technique to expose his lie.

Realizing this, he decisively took off the Sumeru from his ring finger and discreetly hid it in his robe.

At that moment, seeing the short Loose Cultivator wildly threatening beneath the tree didn't surprise or upset him.

In fact, the moment he was discovered by the other party, he had no hope of escaping. Because those were not seven fools, but Loose Cultivators.

Lying was merely the last struggle before despair.

"Hmm... well then..." Wang Xiaoqiang tried to maintain his composure, stretched lazily, and said, "Then I might as well come down. I'd like to be reincarnated as a human in my next life. If I'm chopped into pieces, I'd be disabled in the next life, wouldn't I!"

As soon as he said this, the girl burst out laughing.

Zhongzi was taken aback. In his mind, he thought, does this kid not take it seriously, thinking I was joking?

The four Loose Cultivators beside him shook their heads and smiled bitterly, as if they had heard a bad joke.

The old man then squinted his eyes and continued to look at Wang Xiaoqiang, as if trying to dig out some cultivation from this mortal, but still ended up bitterly disappointed.

Speaking of death came so naturally from his lips.

This young man's resilience was indeed rare!

Under everyone's gaze, Wang Xiaoqiang awkwardly, like a big clumsy bear, hugged the trunk and slid down the tree.

As soon as he hit the ground, he was grabbed by Zhongzi. Held up by the left hand, Zhongzi slapped him on the head with his right, venting some of his frustration and resentment, then he slid a gloomy, skull-carved bell out of his sleeve into his right hand, terrifying to behold.

Zhongzi's eyes bulged as he raised the bell, about to end Wang Xiaoqiang's life with a strike when the Sloppy Old Man suddenly shouted, "Wait a moment…."

The gloomy bell head stopped abruptly. Zhongzi turned his face, looking at the old man in astonishment.

The old man glanced at the girl frozen next to him, raised an eyebrow, and commanded, "Better take him somewhere else…, to keep this place untainted…."

"Yes, Elder Jin…," Zhongzi acknowledged.

Honestly, striking a person without any cultivation base in front of so many was quite embarrassing, and the old man's decision relieved him. He immediately dragged Wang Xiaoqiang out of the woods like pulling a small chicken.

Wang Xiaoqiang was dragged out of the woods by Zhongzi, his thoughts racing all the way.

With great danger imminent, his only option now was to risk absorbing the Spiritual Spring into his body and kill Zhongzi.

Loose Cultivators were ruthless and lawless. They not only killed people but also spirited away the souls of the deceased to practice transformation, dooming the victims' souls to eternal unrest. Revealing one's cultivation base near Loose Cultivators was extremely dangerous; once noticed, the outcome could be eternal suffering, a fate far worse than death.

However, this fellow named Zhongzi just tightened his grip on his robes, treating him like a caught prey, merely rushing forward without looking back once. Importantly, they were now quite a distance away from that group of Loose Cultivators.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaoqiang hesitated no more and absorbed all 7,800 Spiritual Springs outside his body into himself.

Zhongzi, holding onto Wang Xiaoqiang's body, kept moving forward, paying him no attention—after all, he was a mortal with no cultivation at all, who couldn't escape anyway. For someone about to die, what was there to care about? Elder Jin, seasoned by many years in the Martial World and countless killings, had a heart of stone. He wouldn't even flinch at killing a child.

However, unbeknownst to him, the person he was about to slaughter had undergone a change, feeling significantly heavier, as if suddenly unable to move, entirely dependent on his strength to be dragged along.

What's going on…?

Just as he noticed this anomaly and fiercely turned back, he was met with a sight that utterly terrified him. Wang Xiaoqiang had transformed from a cultivation-less mortal into someone in the Solidification Realm, wielding an Immortal Sword in his hand.

This sight shocked him to his core, his body trembling violently, and he immediately let go of Wang Xiaoqiang and leaped back.

But it was already too late….

Wang Xiaoqiang, with the Penglai Immortal Sword in hand, struck at Zhongzi…

"Ah!"

Accompanied by a scream of agony, Zhongzi's body was sent flying by the Penglai Immortal Sword, spewing fresh blood and dying.

Wang Xiaoqiang immediately released 300 Spiritual Springs and absorbed all the Spiritual Power and True Yuan spilled from Zhongzi's body to the last bit.

After absorbing Zhongzi's True Yuan and power, the 300 Spiritual Springs inside Wang Xiaoqiang's body expanded and contracted, finally emitting a slight cracking sound…

…puff puff puff puff puff puff puff puff puff puff puff…..

The 300 Spiritual Springs split into two, becoming 600 Spiritual Springs, bringing the total in Wang Xiaoqiang's body to 9,100.

His Spiritual Power surged tumultuously…, taking a huge step toward the First Transformation of the Immortal....(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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