"This pill's actually pretty good-looking."
Picking up the pill he'd left outside and holding it before his eyes for a closer look, Lin Yiqing found it rather amusing that it looked a lot like the candy he'd eaten before.
The pink pill looked appetizing, but the immense Yuan force it contained was enough to make anyone's heart skip a beat.
After examining it for a moment, he gently popped it into his mouth. At once, the Realm-Breaking Pellet melted into a warm current and slid down into his stomach.
"Mm..."
Before he could react, a surging medicinal force rushed through his limbs and bones. Its power was so great that his face turned red from the strain.
Lin Yiqing had anticipated this reaction, so he hurriedly activated his cultivation technique and guided the medicinal force to circulate through his body, before finally channeling it in an endless stream into his dantian.
Sensing the Yuan force being absorbed into his body, the Supreme Origin Pellet began spinning rapidly, like a bottomless pit, swallowing and refining all the medicinal force.
As it refined the energy, the aura around Lin Yiqing grew stronger and stronger. Finally, when the last drop of energy had been refined, a powerful aura burst from him.
Origin Pellet Realm, Minor Perfection!
"Roar!"
A furious beast's roar suddenly rang out from the dense forest. Then a massive shadow shot past like a cannonball.
It smashed through countless towering trees along the way, forcibly carving a bright passage through the dark forest.
Seeing that the giant beast couldn't get back up, Lin Yiqing couldn't help smiling. He drew back his right fist and collected the Third-Grade Spirit Herb in front of him.
Though he had never practiced body-tempering martial arts, the constant tempering from the Supreme Origin Pellet had steadily improved his physique.
Take the Magic Armor Rhino before him, for example. Even a cultivator at the Great Perfection of Yuan Dan Realm would be in for a hard fight against one. Its strength and speed were far beyond those of an ordinary cultivator.
But against Lin Yiqing, it had died with a single punch.
His Yuan force and physical body had been tempered by Greater Yin Qi and Sun Qi. Later, he had obtained the unprecedented Supreme Origin Pellet. He had long since undergone a transformation beyond description.
It was nearly impossible to gauge his combat strength against cultivators of the same realm, so he didn't know what kind of opponents he could take on.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Lin Yiqing furrowed his brows. A wisp of spiritual power quickly seeped out from his Mud Pill Palace, then spread in every direction.
"Hmph! You little beast, prepare to die..."
"You're the one who should die!"
As his spiritual power spread, Lin Yiqing's expression soon shifted. His deep-set gaze turned toward the northern part of the forest.
After a brief moment's thought, he lightly pushed off with his toes and sped toward the source of the voice, his figure darting like a hawk.
"Bang!"
At that moment, in a clearing in the forest, a round-bodied figure swung a silver spear, smashing one of the men surrounding him flying.
Then he roared, "If you're not afraid to die, come on!"
"Don't be scared, everyone! This fatso's already at the end of his rope. Don't let him intimidate you!"
At the back of the clearing, a young man in white clutched a longsword, watching the besieged Little Fatty with burning eyes.
Little Fatty was in a wretched state. His hair hung loose, and his face was deathly pale. One sleeve of his purple robe had been torn off, and his body was marked with cuts from sharp weapons. Even just standing there, he was dripping blood.
"Hand over the spirit herb from that cave, and I'll at least let you keep your corpse intact!"
A crowd surrounded the young man in white. It was clear that he held a high status, and the people around him had tacitly formed a ring, keeping him protected in the middle.
"Pah! Putting aside the fact that I didn't take it, even if I had, I wouldn't give it to a dead sissy like you!"
Little Fatty clenched his teeth, enduring the agony that coursed through his body as he spoke with a chilling gaze.
"Hmph! You're still mouthing off with death staring you in the face? Get him!"
The young man in white's expression changed at his words. His eyes turned dark as he waved his hand.
"So this is it, huh? That bastard who screwed me over... In my next life... I'll fucking kill you!"
Little Fatty gasped heavily. Feeling the Yuan force in his body had run completely dry, he couldn't help cursing bitterly to himself.
"Whoosh!"
Just as Little Fatty was about to give up resisting in despair, a white sword beam more than a dozen zhang long cleaved across the battlefield, cutting toward the people in the clearing.
"Who's there?" "You're asking for death!"
As the sword beam came at them, two experts at the Great Perfection of Yuan Dan Realm immediately reacted. They shouted angrily and struck out together, their mighty Yuan force crashing into the sword beam.
"Bang!"
The instant they collided, the two men's expressions changed drastically. Yuan force surged wildly from their bodies as they struggled to resist the unstoppable sword beam.
The moment they made contact, they clearly felt the terrifying power contained in the sword beam—a force far beyond what anyone at the Great Perfection stage could withstand.
A fierce shockwave erupted on impact, snapping the surrounding trees in two. The two experts at the Great Perfection of Yuan Dan Realm were sent flying, crashing heavily to the ground.
"Pfft!"
Seeing that the two experts at the Great Perfection of Yuan Dan Realm couldn't even withstand a single move from their assailant, everyone present was too shocked to speak.
"Thousand River Moon Reflection Sword!"
Just then, an even brighter sword beam swept past like a crescent moon. Before anyone in the clearing could react, it cut down the two experts at the Great Perfection of Yuan Dan Realm, along with several others.
"Who are you? How dare you make an enemy of the Liu Family of Qingping City!"
At the sight of this, the young man in white went pale with fright. He hurriedly raised his sword and pointed it at the black-robed figure emerging from the trees, demanding in a sharp voice.
"Fatso, I didn't expect you to make it out alive."
Ignoring the young man in white, Lin Yiqing looked at Little Fatty and spoke softly.
Seeing the hundreds of wounds of every size covering the other man's body, Lin Yiqing couldn't help admiring him.
To fight his way out of the Storm Fierce Tiger's lair, then escape right under the nose of a Form-Shaping Realm expert—Little Fatty was a legend.
Little Fatty looked at the slightly short black-robed figure, his feelings a tangled mess. Just when he'd thought he was going to die, the person who had screwed him over had unexpectedly come to his rescue.
"Hmph, this is all your fault! And you've got the nerve to say that!"
Little Fatty couldn't help rubbing his eyes and turning his head slightly as he spoke, his voice full of resentment.
He'd almost thought his time was up right there.
"Why, you've even got an accomplice!"
Seeing that the two seemed to know each other, the young man in white was furious and alarmed. He fixed his gaze on Lin Yiqing, while secretly taking a bamboo-tube-shaped object from his right hand.
"Heh."
Lin Yiqing's gaze turned cold. He raised his right hand and swept it across the clearing. Six short swords shot out of his Universe Bag. In an instant, several streaks of silver flashed past, piercing the men's brows and killing them on the spot.
Origin Pellet Realm cultivators were nothing but weeds—no better than clay chickens and pottery dogs.
"Trying to sneakily send a signal? Who'd waste their time jawing with you?" Lin Yiqing grumbled to himself.
Then, under Little Fatty's complicated gaze, he went over and collected the Universe Bags from the bodies. Only then did he turn and ask, "Can you still walk?"
"I can. You..."
Little Fatty hesitated, but in the end swallowed the rest of his words. He quickly followed Lin Yiqing and hurried away from the scene.
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