Future Plans

The Horned Horse Carriages were parked at a small waystation, where quite a few more carriages bearing the same banner were stationed. Carriages like these did not operate independently; they all belonged to the same faction, merely traveling along different routes and linking the towns around Black Rock City like a spiderweb.

Ling Li readily pulled out a few Gold Coins and tossed them to the old man. Amid the latter's thanks, he called into the carriage, "Time to get out. Stop thinking about running away. There are plenty of people here. If you're not afraid, neither am I."

Hearing Ling Li's words, Little Doctor Fairy hurried out of the Horned Horse Carriage. In her panic, she nearly tripped as she stepped down. She said nothing, merely blushing as she glared at Ling Li with humiliation and indignation.

Originally, Ling Li had not intended to bring Little Doctor Fairy along. After all, he had merely wanted to vent the negative emotions in his heart. Prolonged slaughter could not create a strong man; it would only produce a butcher.

However, after he had fucked Little Doctor Fairy once, his bloodline had unexpectedly gained 1,000 experience points at once, rising from Grade One to Grade Two!

After several days of research, the information under Ling Li's bloodline column had changed to: Bloodline: Devouring Spirit Clan (Grade Two: 90/2000).

This experience was not a one-time thing. Although it could only be gained once a day afterward, and each time only yielded 10 experience points, he at least had a method to improve his bloodline.

What? The Calamity Poison Body was covered in deadly poison? Ling Li did not feel anything of the sort. Moreover, he could confidently tell his fellow transmigrators: this bitch wasn't poisonous!

When he saw Little Doctor Fairy follow him, Ling Li found a decent inn and booked a room. Then, he ordered a whole table of dishes at a restaurant, savoring the food of this world while listening to the chatter of the other diners.

A bustling restaurant was an excellent place to gather information. Even certain secrets might become after-dinner gossip in a place like this. Of course, one had to judge the truth of such free intelligence for oneself.

"Burp~" Ling Li let out a completely unrefined belch, then contentedly picked at his teeth with his chopsticks. He looked at Little Doctor Fairy across from him, whose face was full of disgust, and pointed at a plate of papaya-like fruit and a bowl of demonic beast milk before her. "You're not eating? The scenery here seems pretty nice. Do you want to do something else?"

Little Doctor Fairy was terrified out of her wits. She immediately began dealing with the food in front of her. She had no desire to verify whether Ling Li meant what he said, because she had already tried once on the road. She had intended to summon her First Rank Flying Demonic Beast pet and escape, but that pet had become dinner that very night. As for her, Ling Li had stripped her naked by the roadside and fucked her in the wild.

Fortunately, no one had passed by then. Even so, whenever Little Doctor Fairy recalled it, she was so ashamed and furious that she wished she could die. Sadly, facing the powerful Ling Li, she had no options whatsoever. Other than death, she could only resign herself to fate.

Seeing Little Doctor Fairy's obedient appearance, Ling Li nodded in satisfaction. Because of her constitution, Little Doctor Fairy had a somewhat submissive temperament. As long as he did not go too far, she probably would not commit suicide. Besides, her waist was very slim—said to be the slimmest waist in the world—but unfortunately, she was flat-chested, which made things a little uncomfortable. He had to help make up for that flaw, or it would affect the experience in the future.

Ling Li had not been especially fond of food in his previous life. After arriving in this world, perhaps because of his bloodline, he had also earned the title of foodie. Moreover, as his strength increased, Ling Li's appetite kept growing as well.

The food at this restaurant was fairly good overall. At the very least, it looked appetizing. Unlike the roasted meat and strong liquor of Qingshan Town, which retained a wild flavor, the food here lacked overly harsh seasonings. Precisely because of that, the ingredients' natural flavors had been preserved.

After finishing a fairly good table of food and drinking a bottle of fruit wine brewed from crimson berries, Ling Li contentedly left behind fifteen Gold Coins and departed the restaurant with Little Doctor Fairy.

After leaving the restaurant, Ling Li wandered around Black Rock City for quite some time. Back in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, he had lived almost like a savage. Even the clothes he wore had been replaced with the pelts of Second Rank Demonic Beasts, meant to warn low-rank demonic beasts not to bother him and waste his time. Now that he had escaped that savage life, Ling Li naturally intended to improve every aspect of his food, lodging, and daily needs.

Men were generally straightforward when shopping. If they liked something, they bought it immediately and never wasted time. Half an hour later, when Ling Li returned to the inn, he had changed into a Black Tunic resembling a long coat. Golden thread embroidered cloud patterns around its cuffs and waist, drawing it in slightly. Its simple decorations carried a hint of luxury without being ostentatious.

After entering the room, Ling Li placed all the items he had purchased into the System Space. As he took stock of them, he also considered what he had yet to buy. A change of clothes, food for Little Doctor Fairy and me on the road, a route map for the Gamma Empire Aerial Transport Team, a map of the Gamma Empire, a ring to disguise the Storage Ring...

On the way to Black Rock City, Ling Li had already planned out his journey through the Gamma Empire. First, he would travel through the empire's major cities, experiencing the customs and culture of different places. Then he would arrive at the imperial capital and take the Aerial Transport Team from there to Desert City, where he would pay Hai Bodong a visit.

Ling Li had actually wanted to meet Hai Bodong, one of the former Gamma Top Ten Experts, for quite some time. It was not only for the quarter piece of the Remnant Map of the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame in Hai Bodong's possession, but also because he wanted to fight him. Growing stronger through battle with powerful opponents was undoubtedly life's best seasoning.

I'll stay in Black Rock City for a few days. I probably won't be able to enter the Alchemist Guild, but I definitely have to visit the Mitel Auction House. It would be best if I could find a dark-attribute cultivation method. An ordinary Mysterious Tier High Grade cultivation method can sell for five hundred thousand Gold Coins. Dark-attribute cultivation methods are rarer, so even one million Gold Coins might not be enough. But I still have three decent Dou Techniques. As for the medicinal ingredients from the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, I can swallow them directly. There's no need to exchange them for Gold Coins, Ling Li thought.

In this world, aside from cultivation, there were three ways to grow stronger: medicinal pills, cultivation methods, and Dou Techniques. As for weapons, top-tier weapons like Dark Night and the Black Heavy Ruler were too rare, while ordinary weapons were not worth mentioning. Thus, weapons were not included.

Medicinal pills were easy to understand. Take a pill, and you rose straight to the heavens. The higher the grade of the pill, the better its effect. However, most pills came with certain restrictions. For example, some could only be taken at a certain level of strength, while others could only be taken a limited number of times in one's life. Some pills also had side effects that would affect future development. Even so, countless cultivators seeking shortcuts still flocked to medicinal pills, keeping their prices high and making them scarce despite their value.

Cultivation methods and Dou Techniques looked somewhat similar, but they were actually quite different. Dou Techniques were skills for using Dou Qi, while cultivation methods accelerated cultivation and allowed one to contain more Dou Qi while also permanently fixing an attribute for the Dou Qi within one's body, determining the direction of future cultivation. Take the water attribute, for example. Different cultivation methods could lead it in many directions. Would the manifested Dou Qi be liquid or gas? Or would it develop toward the ice element and become solid? Would one become a healing support or a poison-wielding healer? Or perhaps simply become a tsunami warrior? Though there were few Dou Qi attributes, each could branch into many paths, and the paths differed greatly from one another. Therefore, a person could only cultivate one type of cultivation method in their lifetime. Even if they switched to a higher-grade method midway, the two had to be compatible in nature.

Few people possessed the dark attribute, which made dark-attribute cultivation methods very rare. Ling Li could think of many ways to use the dark attribute. The simplest were the various abilities developed from Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit. Slightly cooler options included Yin Five Thunder, Water-Filthy Thunder, and so on. Ling Li had considered and attempted all these ideas, but when it came to putting them into practice, they were difficult to achieve.

Therefore, Ling Li's current use of Dou Qi remained limited to the Dou Qi coating gained at the Dou Master level, namely the derived skill Venom.

Perhaps after cultivating a dark-attribute cultivation method, the ideas in my mind can be realized. Even if they cannot be fully realized, I should still be able to develop something, Ling Li thought. At present, his means of self-preservation consisted only of Yellow Grade High Rank Dark Night and his proficient blade techniques. That was far from enough.

I hope the Mitel Auction House doesn't disappoint me. But for now, I have time to do something else.

The ten experience points every day were indispensable.