After catching the Black-Clad Woman in his arms, Liu Xing had no time to savor the warm, fragrant softness nestled against him. Instead, he lowered his head to look at the leader.
With his head crushed into a puddle of blood, even a cultivator couldn't still be alive, could he?
Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief. His sudden attack had successfully finished off the leader, putting an end to the immediate danger, at least for now.
Drained of all life, the leader's corpse lay limp on the ground. Disgust welled up in Liu Xing's heart, and he raised his foot and kicked it aside.
Liu Xing had managed to kill the leader partly because he had played the pig to devour the tiger, but also because his luck had been exceptionally good. Otherwise, for a mortal to deal with a cultivator-even one as badly wounded as this leader-would never have been so easy.
As peripheral slaves of the Heavenly Demon Sect, the Five Uglies of Meng Mountain ranked, at best, in the lower-middle reaches of the Cultivation World. They could barely glimpse the threshold of the foundation establishment realm and hovered on the verge of a breakthrough.
Without reaching the foundation establishment realm, cultivators could not refine their primordial spirits within themselves, granting them consciousness and advancing toward higher realms.
As long as their primordial spirits survived, even if their physical bodies were destroyed, they could be reborn by possessing another body. Such a feat required, at the very least, a cultivator in the foundation establishment realm.
The leader of the Five Uglies of Meng Mountain had the highest cultivation among the five brothers. He had only just succeeded in foundation establishment and had not yet had time to condense his primordial spirit. Once his physical body was destroyed, his soul naturally scattered into oblivion. He could not have been more thoroughly dead.
Otherwise, as long as the leader's primordial spirit retained consciousness, he could simply have possessed Liu Xing and been reborn through him.
Of course, although Liu Xing had never cultivated, he was born with powerful Divine Sense and a firm will. It would not have been easy for an ordinary cultivator to possess his body.
Whatever the case, the leader, a cultivator who had just achieved foundation establishment, had ultimately fallen at the hands of Liu Xing, a mortal. He was also the first cultivator Liu Xing had ever killed.
After witnessing the battle between the Black-Clad Woman and the Five Uglies of Meng Mountain, Liu Xing had briefly believed that cultivators were so powerful he could not even hope to glimpse the backs of their necks. But with the leader dead at his feet, he felt differently.
"Hmph! So cultivators aren't truly perched so high above us that we can only look up at them, forever out of reach. They aren't immortal and indestructible after all!"
Standing in the puddle of blood and looking at the leader's headless corpse nearby, Liu Xing could not help giving a cold snort.
Only after confirming that the leader was dead did Liu Xing turn his attention to the Black-Clad Woman in his arms.
When he had thrown the Black-Clad Woman earlier, Liu Xing had already felt that something was amiss. Now, after examining her closely, he finally confirmed that she still had a faint, almost imperceptible breath.
Could it be that the Black-Clad Woman's primordial spirit hadn't dissipated after her desperate final strike, as the leader had claimed?
Although Liu Xing could not cultivate, he had heard from the old man that once a cultivator's primordial spirit was destroyed, that cultivator was effectively dead, even if their physical body remained!
Was the Black-Clad Woman dead or alive?
Liu Xing could not tell yet. After giving it some thought, he decided to carry her back into the cave first. After all, he had never had any contact with the Cultivation World. As far as he understood, as long as someone was still breathing, their life had not yet faded away!
Once inside the cave, Liu Xing went straight to the stone bed and laid the Black-Clad Woman on it.
Back when the old man had still been alive, he had often fallen unconscious during the final stretch of his life. Liu Xing was no novice when it came to caring for an unconscious person. But could the Black-Clad Woman's present condition really be considered unconsciousness?
Whatever the case, he might as well treat a dead horse as though it were still alive!
Liu Xing carefully checked the Black-Clad Woman's mouth and nose, confirming that she did indeed still have a faint breath. Then, after examining her body, he felt that her black leather outfit hugged her too tightly and might impede her breathing. Without a second thought, he reached out to undo her clothes.
Liu Xing had no ulterior motive in doing so. He had always done the same when the old man fell unconscious. But women's clothes were different from men's. Though the black leather outfit looked simple, its finer details took quite some effort to undo.
After finally managing to open the Black-Clad Woman's outer garment, Liu Xing found himself gazing at an expanse of flesh as pure and fair as white mutton-fat jade. Coupled with the faint, delicate fragrance reaching his nose, it made his heart pound wildly for reasons he could not explain.
The Black-Clad Woman had a voluptuous figure, and her skin was a honey-smooth wheat color, brimming with health and beauty that gave it the lustrous smoothness of jade.
Beneath her black leather outfit was a tiny black leather bikini, its pieces no bigger than a small child's palm, barely covering her most intimate parts. More enticing still, even lying flat, the Black-Clad Woman's breasts remained full and proud as mountain peaks, far more than a single hand could hold. Together with her smooth belly and long, straight thighs, even calling it a devil's figure could not do justice to her alluring beauty.
Liu Xing was a hot-blooded youth. Faced with the greatest temptation under heaven, his heart naturally stirred and his senses reeled. Though no one had taught him about relations between men and women, an innate instinct was slowly awakening within his body.
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