142: Half-term

Poof!

Xiao Shi flicked his finger.

A stream of Taiyin Qi Strength immediately shot out from his fingertip.

It directly struck Lin Xiaocheng's knee, instantly shattering it and causing him to kneel on the ground.

He had lost his ability to move.

Xiao Shi then ignored Lin Xiaocheng.

He began to pick up the items dropped by the deceased.

Since these six Qi Warrior Realm Great Perfection individuals were not on the leaderboard, the items they dropped after death were all medium-grade resources.

However, this time, in addition to medium-grade resources, high-quality items were also dropped.

Xiao Shi immediately used the high-quality items in his hand to expand the last Qi Vortex.

It was just that the difficulty of expanding the last Qi Vortex was too immense.

Even though Xiao Shi used three high-quality items in his hand for expansion, he couldn't expand the last Qi Vortex to its limit.

However, it wasn't a complete lack of progress.

At the very least, after the expansion with these three high-quality items, the last Qi Vortex successfully expanded significantly.

As for the remaining three medium-grade resources, Xiao Shi used them all to enhance his Blood Beast.

However, he soon discovered that after the Crimson Tiger Blood Beast grew into its juvenile stage, the enhancements brought by medium-grade resources had become much smaller.

It was far less significant than when it was in its nascent stage.

Especially in terms of Blood Source formation.

Even with the cornerstone formed by the [Blood Soul Fire], it was still quite far from the complete formation of the Blood Source.

This also made Xiao Shi realize that to form the Blood Source as quickly as possible, he would still need high-grade resources.

Immediately, Xiao Shi headed towards the locations of the two high-grade resources.

Although he didn't know the situation here before Lin Xiaocheng set up the domain, he could imagine that before this, the path to those two high-grade resources must have been extremely difficult.

Lin Xiaocheng forming a path with his domain could effectively avoid those dangers.

It was just that Lin Xiaocheng never expected such a result in the end!

Soon, Xiao Shi arrived at the location of these two resources unimpeded.

Before him, a triangular crystal was suspended.

And near this triangular crystal, there were two huge rocks.

These two huge rocks were both thirty to forty meters in size.

The rocks had many large and small holes.

Upon Xiao Shi's arrival, his gaze first focused on these two huge rocks.

He hadn't seen them clearly from a distance before, but now, up close, he could clearly see that some emerald green gas was constantly emanating from the holes in these two huge rocks.

These emerald green gases were also a type of resource, but only low-grade resources.

"High-grade resources that can continuously produce low-grade resources?"

Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

Such high-grade resources must be rare.

After all, under normal circumstances, most high-grade resources do not have such an effect.

Xiao Shi pondered that perhaps such high-grade resources, after use, could also bring continuous enhancements to the Blood Beast, though the enhancement might not be significant.

But it could also achieve the effect of accumulating small amounts into a large one.

Xiao Shi first let his Blood Beast, the Crimson Tiger, absorb these two huge rocks.

Since the size of these two huge rocks was larger than the Crimson Tiger's body, the Crimson Tiger couldn't devour them when absorbing them.

It could only refine them.

Fortunately, with the cornerstone of the Blood Source, the Crimson Tiger now possessed refining capabilities.

After some refining, it successfully refined these two huge rocks.

In an instant, the internal Blood Source structure of the Crimson Tiger underwent another huge change.

There were more threads within its body, and the entire structure became more complex.

The flame, enveloped by numerous threads, had become much more vigorous; it was no longer a mere flame, but had formed a one-meter-long fire.

The entire flame burned continuously.

At the bottom of the flame, numerous streams of Qi constantly appeared.

These streams of Qi were like new fuel, making the entire flame burn brighter and brighter.

This greatly assisted the formation of the Crimson Tiger's Blood Source.

At the same time, the entire Crimson Tiger's body size also increased again.

Xiao Shi's eyes gleamed with surprise.

He once again felt the tremendous enhancement brought by high-grade resources.

This kind of enhancement… obviously far exceeded the enhancement from medium-grade resources.

Especially in terms of Blood Source formation, the impetus was enormous.

This made Xiao Shi, in his excitement, focus his gaze on the suspended triangular crystal.

After absorbing it, a triangular crystal suddenly appeared within the Crimson Tiger's body.

This crystal enveloped the flame within its body, causing the entire flame to burn continuously within the triangular crystal.

However, the biggest change was that after the Crimson Tiger absorbed this triangular crystal, a triangular mark also appeared on its forehead.

This mark caused a huge transformation in the entire Crimson Tiger's aura.

Its presence became more sharp and domineering!

By now, the entire Crimson Tiger's body size had reached that of a normal adult tiger.

However, this was still not its limit; it could still continue to grow to an even larger size.

In addition to this, after continuously absorbing four high-grade resources, Xiao Shi's Crimson Tiger successfully advanced from the nascent stage to the third stage, the semi-adult stage.

After this, it would be the goal of everyone in this game: the mature stage!

This also made Xiao Shi even more certain that the sign of the mature stage primarily lay in the formation of the Blood Source.

Only when a complete Blood Source was formed would it reach the mature stage.

Currently, after absorbing four high-grade resources, the Crimson Tiger's Blood Source had partially formed, but it was still some distance from its final completion.

Xiao Shi glanced at the leaderboard.

Currently, the Blood Beasts on the leaderboard were still in the juvenile stage.

Even the one at the top of the list had not yet reached the nascent stage.

His current lead was incredibly vast.

After obtaining these two high-grade resources, Xiao Shi returned to Lin Xiaocheng's location.

By now, he no longer had to worry that killing him would prevent him from obtaining those two high-grade resources due to changes in the domain.

Poof!

Immediately, Xiao Shi decisively struck without hesitation.

He directly killed Lin Xiaocheng!

At the same time, he also paid attention to the entire domain.

If the domain changed in any way, he would leave here at the fastest speed.

Fortunately, the entire domain did not change due to Lin Xiaocheng's death.

It remained consistent with before.

Xiao Shi's eyes narrowed slightly.

He didn't know much about domains.

He only knew that this domain was set up by Lin Xiaocheng.

He had thought that with Lin Xiaocheng's death, this domain would change somewhat, but he didn't expect it to remain as usual.

While picking up the items Lin Xiaocheng dropped after his death, Xiao Shi also searched through the many items on his person.

He wanted to see if he could find the key to controlling the domain.

However, the control of the domain was not achieved through a specific item.

Nevertheless, in Lin Xiaocheng's storage bag, Xiao Shi found some valuable treasures.

He immediately used these treasures, along with the items Lin Xiaocheng dropped after his death, to continue expanding his last Qi Vortex.

After some expansion, his last Qi Vortex had expanded considerably again.

"It's a pity I can't conduct in-depth research on this domain..."

Xiao Shi felt deeply regretful about this.

As an advanced technique, domains were extremely difficult to involve during the Qi Martial Realm.

It was precisely because of this that Xiao Shi knew too little about domains.

Even after killing Lin Xiaocheng, he couldn't grasp more information related to the domain from him.

He could only leave.

However, not long after leaving the domain, Xiao Shi received a sound transmission from the traitor Liang Su.

Liang Su indicated that he had currently grasped the locations of several participants on the leaderboard.

Xiao Shi immediately sensed Liang Su's location through the Extreme Seal on his body.

After successfully sensing his location, he immediately took the Crimson Tiger and rushed over.

When he arrived at Liang Su's location, the scene before him made his expression peculiar.

At this moment, surrounding Liang Su were three individuals from the Demonic Path forces, all of whom were on the leaderboard.

They had Liang Su surrounded, intending to kill him there.

Liang Su, who was surrounded, was currently encircled by a dazzling fire ring, preventing the three individuals from the Demonic Path forces from getting close in a short period.

However, the fire ring was also growing dimmer under their siege; although it could hold on for a while, it couldn't last long.

Yet, Liang Su, who was under siege, showed no signs of anxiety.

Instead, he had an excited and anticipating expression, as if he wasn't worried about any danger to himself at all.

This scene made Xiao Shi somewhat exasperated.

It was obvious… Liang Su was using himself as bait to hold back these individuals from the Demonic Path forces.

It was just that he was clearly the one being besieged, yet he showed such an excited and anticipating expression, which was truly asking for a beating.

It was as if he was the one doing the besieging.

This also made the three individuals from the Demonic Path forces, with their grim expressions, think that this person probably had a problem with his brain, and their attacks became even more ruthless.

Xiao Shi shook his head.

Whoosh!

His figure flickered.

He directly appeared in the battlefield between the three Demonic Path forces individuals and Liang Su.

"Hmm?"

The three individuals from the Demonic Path forces, who were continuously attacking, all froze, their gazes converging on Xiao Shi.

Liang Su also saw Xiao Shi.

His eyes immediately lit up.

The excitement on his face grew even stronger.

He couldn't help but wave at Xiao Shi, saying, "Boss! I'm here."

Xiao Shi ignored him.

His gaze directly focused on the three individuals from the Demonic Path forces, his eyes as deep as a cold pool.

This made all three individuals from the Demonic Path forces feel a shiver down their spines.

Swish!

Xiao Shi's figure flickered in place.

In a flash, he directly arrived in front of one of the individuals from the Demonic Path forces.

He threw a punch.

The moment they saw Xiao Shi, these three individuals from the Demonic Path forces had already secretly become vigilant and prepared.

Although Xiao Shi's attack was incredibly swift, they were all able to react.

The individual from the Demonic Path forces targeted by Xiao Shi immediately struck out to block.

Black mist coiled around his hand; the entire black mist was very strange, a power Xiao Shi had never seen before, not the Qi Strength of ordinary Qi Martial Realm cultivators.

Especially within this black mist, there was also a ferocious ghost face.

As Xiao Shi's fist roared down, this ghost face opened its mouth wide and bit towards Xiao Shi's fist.

However, the moment this ghost face touched Xiao Shi's fist, a golden light suddenly erupted from Xiao Shi's fist.

Furthermore, Taiyin Qi Strength burst forth from Xiao Shi's fist, causing the ghost face to collapse with a rumble.

However, the black mist coiled around the hand of the Demonic Path forces individual not only contained this ghost face but also other powers, which hindered Xiao Shi's descending punch.

At the same time, the other two individuals from the Demonic Path forces also took this opportunity to attack Xiao Shi.

However, they hadn't even gotten close to Xiao Shi yet.

Swish!

Swish!

On the ground, numerous black branches, extremely difficult to detect with the naked eye, burst forth from the ground, sweeping towards these two individuals from the Demonic Path forces.

These black branches all carried Taiyin Qi Strength, making them quite formidable.

Although these two individuals from the Demonic Path forces did not see them with their naked eyes, they clearly sensed the approaching danger.

The eyes of one of the Demonic Path forces individuals even glowed with a dark red eerie light, allowing him to clearly see the numerous sweeping black branches.

And he not only saw these sweeping branches but also several branches that had escaped into the Taiyin under the Taiyin Qi Strength.

This caused his eyes to narrow, and a strong sense of danger arose in his heart.

He slammed both his hands towards the ground.

A colossal black ghost hand instantly emerged from his back, fiercely colliding with the numerous branches.

His black ghost hand was also extraordinary.

With a grip, it crushed many branches.

However, these branches also pierced through his black ghost hand, leaving alarming holes all over the ghost hand.

Especially those branches that had escaped into the Taiyin, their power was far greater than that of ordinary branches.

"Is this the difference of the Demonic Path forces...?"

Xiao Shi could clearly feel the difference between these individuals from the Demonic Path forces and the Orthodox Faction Qi Martial Realm cultivators.

Although he had killed individuals from the Demonic Path forces before this, at that time, he hadn't given the opponent a chance to attack, directly killing them.

Now... he wanted to see how great the difference between the Demonic Path forces and the Orthodox Faction truly was.

From the current exchange, both sides were completely different systems.

At this moment, although many of the emerging branches were neutralized by the Demonic Path forces individuals, Xiao Shi's Tree Shadow was no longer the sapling it once was.

At least in terms of branches, they were far from as sparse as they were initially.

Swish!

Swish!

After some branches were crushed, another patch of branches immediately emerged from beneath the ground.

The Taiyin Qi Strength on these branches was not only greater, but this Taiyin Qi Strength also converged on the branches to form black eyes.

These were... Taiyin Eyes!

Now, Xiao Shi could not only use Tree Shadow to unleash Taiyin Escape from the Taiyin Arts, but he could also use Tree Shadow to unleash the Taiyin Eye!