Hey, hey! Aren't you a little too weak?!

Wind Blade!

A pale golden Spiritual Light flashed across Lin Li's palm, and a blue, semicircular Wind Blade fourteen or fifteen centimeters in diameter instantly condensed into shape.

"Go!"

With a whoosh, the blue, semicircular Wind Blade cleaved through the air and shot toward the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast, which had assumed an attacking stance.

The blue, semicircular Wind Blade was simply too fast. The elderly Gray Wolf Exotic Beast could not react in time.

Pfft.

Bang.

The Wind Blade struck the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast's body, cutting a wound so deep that bone could be seen and knocking it sideways to the ground.

"This...? Hey, hey! Aren't you a little too weak?! You went down in one hit. I was only trying to test you!"

When Lin Li saw that his Azure Wind Blade had severely wounded the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast in a single strike, he could not help complaining about it inwardly. A happy expression then spread across his face.

Through that real battle just now, he had gained a deeper understanding of the might of his newly acquired supernatural ability. At the same time, he also knew that this elderly Gray Wolf Exotic Beast before him would never escape his grasp.

"Awooo..."

The Gray Wolf Exotic Beast had originally wanted to take down the human before it and enjoy a hearty meal. But after suffering severe injuries, it struggled to climb to its feet. After letting out a mournful howl, it looked at Lin Li again, its eyes filled with fear.

"Oh? You really aren't much of an Exotic Beast, are you? You're already scared by that one attack?"

Reading the fear in the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast's gaze, Lin Li burst into laughter and said, "You came knocking on my door yourself. It wasn't me who went looking for you. So just stay obediently and become fertilizer for the Miracle Small Tree!"

"Awooo..." The Gray Wolf Exotic Beast roared at the laughing Lin Li in a show of bravado, then turned and tried to flee.

If it had not been injured, the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast would have had a very good chance of escaping Lin Li with its speed.

But now? With its severe injuries, its chances of getting away were exceedingly slim.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

Just as the heavily wounded Gray Wolf Exotic Beast turned its head and prepared to run, several sounds of something tearing through the air came from behind it.

Several blue, semicircular Wind Blades shot over at extreme speed and landed on the heavily wounded Gray Wolf Exotic Beast in the blink of an eye.

Pfft, pfft, pfft...

Some of the blue, semicircular Wind Blades struck the heavily wounded Gray Wolf Exotic Beast's neck, while others hit its legs. Most of them landed on vital areas of its body.

"Awooo..."

After suffering one grievous blow after another, the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast let out a shrill howl and crashed heavily to the ground.

Its body kept twitching as a large amount of blood gushed from the wounds cut open by the Azure Wind Blades.

Pfft.

After the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast fell, a figure appeared beside it. The Spirit Artifact Longsword, glowing with pale golden Spiritual Light, stabbed into the beast's head just as it lifted it, swift as lightning.

One strike, and it was dead.

Lin Li withdrew his Spirit Artifact Longsword, crouched down, and reached out to put the Gray Wolf Exotic Beast into the Mysterious Small Island.

Just as he was about to form the thought, his hand paused.

"One packet of instant noodles probably won't fill me up. I should roast some meat too! I'll have the strength to work this afternoon once I'm full!"

With a thought from Lin Li, a dagger appeared in his hand.

This was the same dagger as before—the Spirit Artifact dagger that had been plunged into the White Ape Exotic Beast's chest.

After the White Ape Exotic Beast's flesh and blood turned into white mist and became fertilizer for the Miracle Small Tree, the Spirit Artifact dagger had fallen onto the grass.

At the time, Lin Li had not known that this dagger was a Spiritual Energy weapon. He had only thought it was an ordinary little dagger. It was not until he picked it up that he discovered how light it was.

Compared to an ordinary dagger of the same size on the market, this dagger weighed perhaps only one-third, or even one-fourth, as much. In any case, it was absurdly light.

Considering how light the dagger was and recalling that the middle-aged man had been a Beast Hunter, Lin Li immediately realized that the dagger in his hand was most likely a Spirit Artifact dagger.

The result was exactly as Lin Li had thought. When he mobilized the Spiritual Energy within his body and infused it into the Spirit Artifact dagger, the dagger accepted the infusion extremely smoothly and instantly began to shine with pale golden Spiritual Light.

The difference between Spiritual Energy weapons and ordinary weapons lay in the materials used to forge them.

One type was forged from Spiritual Energy materials, while the other was forged from ordinary materials. The former could be infused very smoothly with Spiritual Energy by a Cultivator, while the latter was somewhat sluggish.

Moreover, although weapons forged from ordinary materials could also be infused with Spiritual Energy by a Cultivator, using such a weapon and infusing it with Spiritual Energy during battle would result in extremely massive Spiritual Energy consumption.

Therefore, when Cultivators bought weapons, they basically chose Spiritual Energy weapons, which consumed less Spiritual Energy.

Looking at the Spirit Artifact dagger he had obtained by picking up a bargain, Lin Li could not help smiling happily when he thought of its official price.

Using a photo taken with his phone to conduct an image search online, he learned the official selling price of the Spirit Artifact dagger after only a short while.

1.2 million!!!

That was right. He had not misread it. The official selling price of this Spirit Artifact dagger was 1.2 million.

Lin Li had been completely stunned when he saw the search results.

His Spirit Artifact Longsword, which had cost half his savings, had only been 499,999 yuan. Yet the official selling price of this Spirit Artifact dagger was more than twice the price of the Spirit Artifact Longsword he had bought.

When Lin Li learned that the Spirit Artifact dagger in his hand was officially priced at 1.2 million, the first thought that surfaced in his excited mind was actually to sell it and turn it into cash, filling his somewhat deflated wallet.

However, he quickly calmed down, because every Spiritual Energy weapon sold by the Weapon Shops on the market had to be registered.

To resell one secondhand, the seller had to possess a proper receipt proving that the item being sold belonged to them...

He had obtained this Spirit Artifact dagger by picking up a bargain, so he certainly had no proper receipt or anything of the sort. If he wanted to sell it, he could only do so through some noncompliant channels.

However, the authorities cracked down harshly on such irregular transactions. If he were caught, he would not only be fined but also placed on a blacklist. If the amount involved were large, he would even be arrested and spend several days in jail.

Lin Li had always been a good, law-abiding citizen. He did not want a blemish left on his life record.

Following his current plan and moving forward step by step, making money in the future would be as easy as drinking water. There was no need to take a risk for a mere million or so yuan.