Immortal Martial Saint, something's wrong with my entry.

Looking at the small plus sign after "The Legend of the Snake," Li Youan felt as if he had discovered a new path.

"Cultivation techniques can be upgraded?"

"Then upgrade 'Snake Transformation'."

Li Youan originally wanted to improve his cultivation level, but after consideration, he decided that improving his cultivation technique would be more practical and would allow him to acquire the essence of demonic beasts more quickly.

[Cultivation Technique: Spirit Serpent Transformation - Yellow Rank, Intermediate+]

"Don't tell me there are higher-grade and superior grades, this is too classic."

Li Youan silently complained to himself.

Having come from an orphanage, Li Youan had no way of knowing about these things and could only guess at the moment.

After all that commotion, the night was about to end.

The entire Demon Forest was still asleep. The cold morning breeze brushed against Li Youan's cheeks, taking away some of his drowsiness.

A touch of gold quietly sliced ​​through the dim sky.

In an instant, thousands of golden swords shot through the sky.

Breathing in the first breath of morning air, the fatigue of last night has completely dissipated.

Li Youan spread his arms and jumped off the mountaintop.

A gust of wind swept past my ears, creating a sonic boom.

With his fingers spread wide, Li Youan felt the flow of the wind throughout his body.

After descending to a certain height, Li Youan occasionally relied on the bone whip to slow down by using the cliff face for leverage.

"prick."

Before the sleeping pig demon at the foot of the mountain could even open its eyes, it was pierced by a bone whip that fell from the sky.

No need to wail, no need to feel pain, life is lost in sleep.

"So decisive and efficient, I'm still too kind."

"This feeling is so amazing, I really, really love this kind of life. I..."

"ah."

Before Li Youan could finish his sigh, Bai Ze had already appeared on the pig demon's corpse, mouth agape, begging for food.

"You'll eat me out of house and home sooner or later."

Despite his complaints, Li Youan's hands remained unaffected, and he was already making preparations for grilling the meat.

"If you don't eat your fill, how will you hunt monsters? I'm helping you establish a regular routine."

Li Youan, who was processing pork, rolled his eyes when he heard this.

Soon a fire was lit, the pork sizzled on the flames, and its aroma wafted through the woods.

Bai Ze was getting impatient waiting and tried to enjoy the meal ahead of time several times, but Li Youan stopped him each time.

After eating and drinking his fill, Li Youan glanced at the map on his terminal, quickly determined the direction, and set off from a place where monsters gathered.

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There aren't many newborns like Li Youan who are still in the Forest of Ten Thousand Demons.

These new recruits were either searching for herbs or conducting combat training, but most of them chose to stay near the front-line base and dared not go far.

The rest of the team arrived at the front-line base as quickly as possible to adjust their condition and prepare for the arena battle.

At this moment, the front-line base, besides the demon hunters and veterans who are here every day, consists of the new students who have been arriving one after another in the past few days.

These new recruits brought some life to this otherwise somber frontline base.

The freshmen strolled around this war fortress, which they had only ever seen in books before, in small groups.

This war fortress exists entirely because of the war. Besides military facilities, it also has a martial arts school, a medical clinic, and some supporting living facilities such as a restaurant.

As for entertainment activities, the only permitted and popular activity here is arena battles.

Some new students arrived very quickly, on the first day. Others were in twos and threes, supporting each other, their clothes torn and worn, clearly having been through a major battle.

On a street, Pingyu and his two companions were selecting suitable weapons at the Oriental Treasure Pavilion.

"Still no news about that kid?"

Pingyu drew his sword and examined the inscriptions engraved on it.

"Young Master Ping, we've assigned people to every gate, but we haven't seen that kid enter the city."

"He might not even be able to get here smoothly."

Hearing this, Pingyu was both happy and unhappy, and forcefully shoved the longsword back into its sheath.

Grin.

"No, we can't let this kid get away with it."

"Although the Feng and Chen families are like rocks in a dry latrine, smelly and hard, but..."

"New students can be injured or disabled, but if they die, then they are voluntarily handing over their weaknesses to us."

"Young Master Ping, from this perspective, no matter what this kid does, it's in our best interest."

"If he comes back alive, we'll deal with him; if he doesn't, we can take this opportunity to deal with the Feng and Chen families. Ping Shao is quick to think things through."

"It's Ping Shao who can spot the key points; I still have a lot to learn from you."

"Heh, don't you know who the young master is? I'll take this sword, no need to book it. You two pick a couple of weapons that suit you, the young master has the whole place to himself today."

Pingyu let out a soft chuckle and hung the longsword directly on his waist.

"Young masters have excellent taste. Although this sword is only of the high-grade Yellow rank, with the enhancement of the inscriptions on the blade, its sharpness is comparable to that of a top-grade Yellow rank sword. It is a rare and precious weapon."

When the sales associate saw that a big customer had arrived, she became visibly happy, and she started showering him with compliments as if they were free.

"Alright, I know I have a good eye, no need for further praise. We have things to do, let's get to it."

After paying, Pingyu led Yu Fei and Ruan Huai'an toward another one.

In a private room on the top floor of the Oriental Treasure Pavilion, Dongfang Jinghong watched the three people walking away through the crack in the window.

"Is everything arranged?"

"Young Master, everything is arranged."

"Aunt Zhou, you watched me grow up, there's no need for that."

"Young Master, this is the Oriental Treasure Pavilion, not at home. Etiquette must not be disregarded."

"Sigh, then you can go now. Don't let anyone bother me."

"Yes."

Aunt Zhou bowed respectfully, walked backwards out of the private room, closed the door, and then got up and went downstairs.

The other men on the way greeted Aunt Zhou.

"Sect Master."

"Okay, just go about your own business."

"Give the order not to go to the rooftop and disturb the distinguished guests in the private room."

"yes!"

If Pingyu and his two companions were here, they would realize that this Master Zhou is the same salesperson from earlier.

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Looking at the fallen tiger demon before him, Li Youan was still shaken. Looking at the wound on his chest left by the tiger's claws, he knew that if he had been just an inch closer, he would have been disemboweled.

Today, Li Youan fought against various demonic beasts, and the smell of blood on his body was not cleaned off in time, which attracted this tiger demon at the eighth level of the Body Tempering Realm.

At first, the tiger demon may have thought the same as Li Youan, that they were just testing each other, but soon the two of them really got into a fight and unleashed their full power.

Li Youan, through his role in "The Legend of the Snake," puts the tiger demon to a standstill.

After a dozen or so moves, Li Youan discovered that his vital energy was being depleted much faster than before.

After carefully sensing it, Li Youan was shocked by the amount of vital energy consumed by "Spirit Snake Transformation".

After fully utilizing all ten transformations in the battle, Li Youan discovered that about one-tenth of his internal energy had been depleted.

It should be noted that the "Spirit Serpent Transformation" is a technique created by Li Youan himself, and the consumption of vital energy when he uses it is the lowest.

If it were someone else, they would need to mobilize even more energy.

Moreover, Li Youan's body had been strengthened after consuming the green snail grass.

Based solely on his physical attributes, it's not an exaggeration to call Li Youan a "genius".

As the battle dragged on, Li Youan worried that the noise and the smell of blood would attract more monsters, so he deliberately created an opening.

He deliberately exposed his chest, sacrificing his life to kill the tiger demon, which led to the scene just now.

After collecting the useful parts of the tiger demon, Li Youan quickly left with Bai Ze.

An incense stick later, a tiger demon of even greater size arrived at the scene.

Seeing the tiger skinned and dismembered, its death a gruesome sight, it roared to the sky.

Roar!

Li Youan washed up briefly by the river and rubbed some herbal juice on his body to mask the smell before feeling much more at ease.

Li Youan also heard the tiger's roar just now, and felt a sense of relief.

"Luckily, I ran fast."

Without a fire to roast the meat, Li Youan and Bai Ze hid in a cave and ate wild fruits they had picked along the way.

Although the wild berries were sweet and juicy, Li Youan's attention was not on them.

"This isn't a solution either. It seems that cultivation level and technique need to be synchronized."

"If the technique is powerful but the cultivation level is insufficient, it's like a child wielding a large sword—it's easy to injure oneself."

"High cultivation level without powerful techniques is like fighting a tiger with bare fists; one's strength is reduced to less than one-tenth."

Li Youan's plan for a quick way to gain access to the source failed as soon as it was implemented.

"Sigh, we still need to improve in tandem."

With a long sigh, Li Youan looked at the source energy that had accumulated to 87.54%, picked up the bone whip, and walked towards the cave entrance.

"Forget it, I'd better be content. If those corporate slaves knew, they'd be green with envy."

Thinking about her colleagues in the same office in her previous life, Li Youan felt relieved about everything.

"Let me suffer this hardship."