Name: Wei Fan Cultivation Arts: "Tiger's Breath Art" True Intent Level "Iron Ridge Art" True Intent Peak "Three Yuan Battle Art" True Intent Level "Silver Light Saber Art" Entering the Hall and Entering the Room (Upgradeable) "Ghost Locking Seal" (Can undergo Extreme Breakthrough!) "Chasing Wind Nine Steps" (Can undergo Extreme Breakthrough!) "Qi Explosion Fist" (Not yet initiated) "Tiger's Fierce Fist" (Not yet initiated) "Cicada Catching Steps" (Not yet initiated) "Fire Toxin Palm" (Not yet initiated) Energy: 30
"The Ghost Locking Seal can actually undergo Extreme Breakthrough too?" Wei Fan was delighted.
"Extreme Breakthrough, Ghost Locking Seal!" Wei Fan said without hesitation.
Boom!
As soon as his words fell, Wei Fan felt his palm grow scorching hot. The strange rune changed once more, turning from gray to dark red, while its pattern became even more ancient and intricate.
"Tsk, tsk, it actually consumed 20 Energy Points just to complete the Extreme Breakthrough!" Wei Fan was somewhat surprised.
Then, Wei Fan drove the upgraded ghost seal into the monstrous bird once more.
Buzz!
The monstrous bird's eyes immediately became sharp and fierce. A powerful aura and pressure radiated from its entire body, surpassing what it had displayed before.
Moreover, Wei Fan felt a telepathic connection form between them.
It was as though the monstrous bird were his own arm, something he could control as he pleased.
At this moment, Wei Fan also noticed that the monstrous bird's feathers were blue-black, each one like a steel needle, while its beak was exceptionally sharp, like a cone.
"Go!" With a thought from Wei Fan, the monstrous bird shot into the sky and vanished from his sight in an instant.
"What speed!" Wei Fan could not help clicking his tongue.
This monstrous bird's speed was likely already supersonic.
Against an impact at such speed, only Wei Fan's upgraded Iron Ridge Art could withstand it.
Whoosh!
The monstrous bird swiftly flew back and landed precisely in Wei Fan's palm.
"You're so fast that you vanish in the blink of an eye. I'll call you Little Shadow." Wei Fan casually gave it a name.
The Ghost Locking Seal could only control one monstrosity. At present, Little Shadow was Wei Fan's only monstrous pet.
"Unfortunately, if Little Shadow kills a monstrosity, I can't gain Energy Points." Wei Fan shook his head.
Little Shadow had just flown out and rammed a monstrosity to death at high speed, yet Wei Fan had received no increase in energy.
Creak, creak!
Just then, a disturbance came from behind him.
The two Night Watchers who had originally been lying on the ground suddenly stood up and lunged at Wei Fan.
"Corpse Transformation?" Wei Fan swung his saber, cleaving one of them in two.
Pfft!
Little Shadow instantly pierced through the other Corpse-Transformed Night Watcher.
But such injuries were not fatal to a Corpse-Transformed Night Watcher.
So Little Shadow became like a flying shuttle, darting back and forth until the Corpse-Transformed Night Watcher was riddled into a sieve.
Seeing this, Wei Fan nodded.
With Little Shadow's combat strength, it could practically instantly kill ordinary Divine Strength Realm warriors.
Even Blood Rage Realm warriors might be instantly killed if caught off guard.
Little Shadow was simply too fast; ordinary people could not react at all.
"Someone's coming?" Wei Fan sensed something.
"Little Shadow, come back!" Wei Fan called.
Then he saw a streak of black light drill into Wei Fan's palm, after which that special rune slowly disappeared as well.
Everything now looked normal, aside from the corpse that had been pierced into a sieve.
"Xiaofan, are you all right?" Shi Meng appeared atop the city wall.
Clearly, he had also seen the distress signal and come over to investigate.
"I'm fine!" Wei Fan nodded.
After the two used the Monstrosity Detection Talisman to confirm that they were fine, Shi Meng looked at the two corpses with a face full of shock.
"These wounds... hiss!" Shi Meng sucked in a breath of cold air.
"What, did you recognize something?" Wei Fan asked.
"If I remember correctly, this is a Blood Ghost-level monstrosity called a Ghost Sparrow. It's incredibly fast, like an arrow loosed from the bow. Only Blood Rage Realm martial artists have any chance of fighting it."
Still shaken, Shi Meng said, "It seems that after killing the two Night Watchers, the Ghost Sparrow left. But why does the other one have so many extra wounds?"
"When I arrived, they were already dead. One of them underwent Corpse Transformation, so I split him in two with one slash. As for the other, I don't know." Wei Fan muddled through.
Hearing this, Shi Meng nodded and did not pursue the matter further.
Then Shi Meng dealt with the corpses and brought them back to the village.
The night quickly passed, and dawn rose from the horizon.
Wei Fan also returned to the garrison. After announcing the deaths of the two team members and issuing compensation to their families, he returned home.
The large number of Night Watcher deaths also gave Wei Fan a faint sense of unease.
According to Shi Meng, this was a sign that a Calamity of Strangeness was about to occur.
Wei Fan did not have much attachment to Wushan Village. Aside from his younger sister, Wei Yingying, there was no one else important to him.
If a disaster they could not resist truly occurred, Wei Fan planned to take Wei Yingying and leave Wushan Village.
But heading into the wilderness meant facing many unknown dangers.
Yet in Wei Fan's view, since the Luoyuan Merchant Caravan could conduct trade in the wilderness, there had to be relatively safe routes through it. It was not necessarily a hopeless dead end.
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