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Lin Xin lightly rested his hand on the Red Flower Sword. He had only just refined this third-grade divine weapon and had yet to truly test its power.

Red runes slowly surfaced along the blade, and amid the densely packed symbols, dark gold patterns faintly emerged.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

Streams of gray-black vines burst from the ground like gray-black fountains, viciously wrapping around the charging One-Legged People one after another.

The vines bound them from bottom to top, winding around them in circles like ropes.

The sizzling sound of flesh being constricted rang out continuously. The flower vines were covered in savage barbs, yet they could not pierce the One-Legged People's skin at all. Many of the spikes even snapped and flew away at once.

The One-Legged People began struggling, but they were never able to break free.

The flower vines' strength gradually reached a stalemate with the One-Legged People.

Not long after.

Bang!

All of a sudden, one One-Legged Person was crushed by the vines until it exploded, turning into a spray of white slurry.

This was immediately followed by a chain of explosions. One One-Legged Person after another was crushed into clumps of white slurry.

Lin Xin frowned slightly. He sensed Yin Manto swiftly absorb the slurry, as though it were deeply satisfied, before retracting underground.

He simply did not call it back. Instead, he planted the Red Flower Sword into the ground beside him, half-sat by the campfire, and quietly began dropping the meat cakes he had brought into the pot of boiling water bit by bit.

Threads of faint warm currents flowed from the Red Flower Sword into his body, and Lin Xin froze slightly.

"Do these One-Legged People have it too?"

He glanced at his cultivation level.

``` 'Returning Origin Art—Qi Refining Stage Second Layer.