Ling Mo Xie took out the Balao Blade from his backpack and charged towards the fish beast, which was still recovering from the ice needles. With a swing of his long knife, he unleashed the Nine Waves Long Wave Blade Technique, sending a wave of blade energy accompanied by fierce winds towards the fish beast! Following that, eight successive waves of even stronger blade energy surged forth!
The fish beast was not foolish either; it pushed off the ground with its two fin-like feet and leaped one or two yards high, lunging at Ling Mo Xie. As it swung its feet, transparent ice blades slashed towards him!
"Hmph! A beast is just a beast!" Ling Mo Xie sneered, launching a pre-prepared Fireball directly at the fish beast. The heat wave scorched the grass leaves in its path to a dry yellow!
With no leverage in the air, the Fireball collided with the fish beast's abdomen, creating a large crater as its insides spilled out messily. Finally, with a loud crash, the fish beast slammed into the ground, creating another large pit in the muddy earth!
Almost simultaneously, a sound rang out: "Ding! You have gained 1500 Experience points. Congratulations! You leveled up!"
"Ah? I leveled up?" This voice momentarily stunned Ling Mo Xie. He had only been thinking about how this spirit beast wanted his life, so he had to kill it! He never expected that defeating it would yield over a thousand Experience points and a level up!
"Hehe!" Once he regained his composure, Ling Mo Xie chuckled slyly. Leveling up by defeating monsters and collecting loot was inseparable! This time he wasn't just killing some pigs or chickens; this was a second-level spirit beast! He wondered what kind of loot it would drop for him!
Filled with excitement, Ling Mo Xie quickly ran to the pit where the fish beast's corpse lay, fervently praying for a big drop! Peering into the pit, he saw not only the corpse but also a glowing yellow talisman, a pair of blue boots, and several small red and blue bottles scattered around.
"Haha! Compared to killing pigs before, this is truly a big drop!" Ling Mo Xie laughed heartily and hurriedly collected everything, leaving not even a single Small Blood Bottle behind. He had no idea if these items would vanish like in games if not picked up within a certain time frame. That would be a huge loss!
After gathering everything, Ling Mo Xie carefully examined his spoils.
Chasing Wind Lightning Boots: Quality (Orange) Equipment Attributes: Increases speed by 5%, comes with skill: Wall Running
Ling Mo Xie curled his lip; orange equipment wasn't particularly impressive. He had learned that in this world, spiritual artifacts were classified by the System into seven levels: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. Orange quality was roughly equivalent to upper yellow grade—better than the Pig Slaughtering Knife he had obtained from killing pigs before.
Although not very satisfied, Ling Mo Xie quickly put on the boots, took a couple of steps, and immediately felt as light as a swallow. However, the increase in speed by five percent was not very noticeable.
After examining the boots, Ling Mo Xie looked at the talisman in his hand that emitted a yellowish glow.
Earth Escape Talisman: Yellow item, single-use item. Effect: After use, randomly appears two thousand meters away!
"Good stuff!" Ling Mo Xie put the Earth Escape Talisman into his backpack; this was a lifesaving tool! The randomness of its appearance added an element of surprise—what if he escaped from a wolf's den only to fall into a tiger's lair?
Having tasted the sweetness of killing a second-level spirit beast, Ling Mo Xie's expression changed from reluctance to joy. He had been worried about being forced to stay here and unable to improve his cultivation, which would lead to being brutally defeated by Tian Wuxin in the competition! Now he no longer had to worry!
With that, Ling Mo Xie began searching for traces of spirit beasts.
Before long, he found another spirit beast. There were indeed quite a few spirit beasts in this Chengqi Valley; no wonder it was where the Ling family's predecessors trained the Death Warriors!
As the moon rose and the sun set, night quickly fell. In just a few hours, Ling Mo Xie had already reached level twenty, collecting dozens of small red and blue potions, as well as obtaining an Orange Ring that increased accuracy by three points and a yellow armor equivalent to a mid-grade spiritual artifact in this world.
These gains made Ling Mo Xie very happy, but he was not blinded by excitement. Nighttime was when many powerful spirit beasts were active, and he would not take that risk. He found a tree so large that several people could embrace it and slept on one of its branches, preparing to continue hunting spirit beasts the next day.
In the darkness, not far from where Ling Mo Xie slept on the tree trunk, a figure appeared under the moonlight—a spirit sword sent by Ling Siwen to protect Ling Mo Xie!
At this moment, the spirit sword furrowed its brow in confusion as it looked at Ling Mo Xie. Everything that had happened today truly astonished it!
Wasn't this Ling Mo Xie supposed to be useless? Wasn't he only brought back because his cultivation had improved enough to catch up with his peers? Why did it see a Ling Mo Xie at the initial stage of enlightenment? A Ling Mo Xie who could slay spirit beasts equivalent to those at the mid-stage of enlightenment? A relentless killing machine!
Throughout the day, he saw Ling Mo Xie almost continuously battling Spirit Beasts! Strangely, Ling Mo Xie seemed to have endless energy. Every time he thought that Ling Mo Xie must be tired and in need of a break, he would see Ling Mo Xie suddenly invigorated and ready to engage another Spirit Beast!
He naturally did not know that every time Ling Mo Xie leveled up, his status was fully restored! And this afternoon, Ling Mo Xie had leveled up three times in total!
What surprised Spirit Sword even more was why Ling Mo Xie could keep fighting and killing while appearing so excited! Repeated battles and killings should be tedious! Moreover, it wouldn't enhance his strength; at most, it would only improve some combat experience!
Spirit Sword ultimately found no answers because no matter how hard he thought, he could never imagine that Ling Mo Xie had the existence of a system!
The warm sunlight filtered through the dense leaves, casting fragmented light on the ground covered with fallen leaves, also illuminating Ling Mo Xie's face. Ling Mo Xie slowly opened his eyes, stretched lazily, rubbed his eyes, and yawned awake.
Muttering to himself, "Who opened the curtains again? So annoying!"
"Boom!" The tree where Ling Mo Xie was sleeping shook violently, startling him into full wakefulness.
Damn it! He realized he was no longer on Earth! He quickly got up and looked down to see a massive Spotted Tiger-like Spirit Beast, which seemed to have caught a whiff of Ling Mo Xie's scent. It was standing on its hind legs, repeatedly slapping the trees, causing many leaves to fall!
Damn it! Ling Mo Xie cursed under his breath. Fortunately, although the tiger had two wings, they were only palm-sized. If it had grown large wings, Ling Mo Xie would probably have already turned into a pile of tiger dung!
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