The cultivation of Elixirs and Feng Shui will stop here for the time being.

This is a bottleneck, mainly because the current Skill Level is somewhat low. To solve this, Xu Guang currently has two ideas.

One is to acquire new Professional Skills, but the Star and Wind Technique that Master Fuqing Zhenren obtained for him from the Shen Family has yet to appear on his panel. This might require more in-depth research by him.

The second is to raise his Professional Level, but it requires too many Experience Points.

He plans to reserve some experience points for emergencies.

It's already mid-January, and in the next half month, he plans to make a trip to Wangdang Mountain.

Xu Guang is quite curious about Wangdang Mountain, a perilous place rumored throughout Zouchuan Dao to be teeming with Fierce Ghosts. Half of Zouchuan Dao's Spirit Crystals come from there, along with more than thirty percent of the above Sixth Grade Treasure Medicine and Refining Materials.

For a Martial Artist, this is truly a treasure trove.

But it is also filled with danger.

The day for the Celestial Register to be positioned is approaching, and having tasted the benefits of True Blood, both General Wei and Xu Guang are extremely covetous of it.

He needs to slay more Fierce Ghosts to raise his Heavenly Talisman Level as much as possible.

Although the chances for this year's positioning seem slim, Xu Guang still wants to make a final effort.

General Wei, after consuming True Blood, can enhance his bloodline in both the Dragon and Elephant areas. Xu Guang suspects that he can also consume True Blood, which might improve his own aptitude.

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Dark World.

Small town.

Two figures are running at high speed. His body is full of various scars, and he is wearing only a ragged waistcloth, with a fat head, big ears, and his body covered in strange fat.

A ghostly shadow flies past, but the fat figure leaps into the air, grabbing the ghostly figure and opening his bloody mouth wide.

Swallowed it in one bite.

"Old Pig, you really are a talent, these ghostly things are so hard to swallow, yet you can eat them?"

The sheep-headed humanoid figure fleeing alongside him spoke.

These two, although standing on two legs like humans, are filled with an aura akin to Fierce Barbarians, covered in signs of wild animals.

With a pig's head, four legs in hoof form, its bristles stood sharp as needles.

Hanshang hid underground, with her hands tightly covering her mouth, as if she had seen something unbelievable.

This is… what thing?

Demon?

She was trembling all over, like a broken rag doll.

Suddenly, a terrifying rumbling sound came from afar, and the ground seemed to be shaken by some horrifying presence.

The hidden Fierce Ghosts in the town seemed to boil over in an instant, and sounds like wailing echoed throughout the town.

The two figures resembling demons shivered all over when they heard the rumbling from the distant ground, a trickle of cold sweat ran down their temples.

"Venerable!"

Suddenly, a black vine as thick as a normal person's thigh extended along with the spreading white mist, instantly entering the town.

The two pig-headed demons shot away trembling, intending to flee desperately.

"Venerable, spare us!"

But those vines, as if not hearing their plea, charged towards the two demons with a frightening thunder-like force.

Splurt!~~~

Blood spouted, instantly driving the Fierce Ghosts in the town into a frenzy of howls, as if they had seen some great supplement.

Ghostly figures darted out.

An indifferent voice, indistinguishably male or female, suddenly exploded.

"Courting death!"

With a roar, the Fierce Ghosts that Hanshang and her group could not avoid exploded like steamed buns, filling the air with black gas.

In the sky, an invisible pulling force seemed to absorb all that black gas.

A voice of utmost satisfaction sighed.

Hanshang tightly covered her mouth, silently chanting in her heart 'True Monarch protect us.'

But just then.

"Venerable, there… is someone! Tender-skinned people!"

A voice of extreme excitement suddenly shouted.

Immediately followed by a noise in the next room, like a pig being slaughtered, howling desperately.

Her face changed dramatically; she remembered this voice as one of the first people who followed the mayor.

What happened to him?

Difficult to imagine.

The shrill howl lasted for a long time.

Hanshang's body trembled, the offerings prepared for True Monarch also slowly fell to the ground amid the earth's tremors.

"There really is someone!"

"Blessed! Who'd have thought these two traitors would have led us to a treasure trove? Just don't know how many people there are."

The voices of demons began to echo in the place where Hanshang and others lived.

Soon, there were strange figures storming the ground, as if to dig three feet to find any hidden humans.

Hanshang was completely in despair; she never thought there were such demons in this world, consuming humans alive and eating Fierce Ghosts.

How are humans to live in this world?

In utter despair, she clutched the divine statue of the True Monarch to her chest, as her only solace in despair.

Bam!

That terrifying vine dashed out of the white mist again, crushing the man-eating demon into minced meat.

The white mist flickered.

Hanshang finally saw the demon hidden within the white mist.

A giant over thirty meters tall, just like the demons seen before, stood erect with a pig's head, its body covered in white fat.

Only this one was wrapped in vines, which clung to it like obedient little pets.

Whiz~!!

A peculiar noise sounded, as the ground seemed to be easily pierced by the talon-like vine tendrils.

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