Vampire Cultivation Notes

In front of.

On top of another tilted stone pillar, only ten feet away from the stone pillar where the demon tiger stood, Li Jieqing's thoughtful figure was revealed, deliberately exposing himself to the tiger's eyes.

"...You beast, don't be in such a hurry to attack."

Li Jieqing reached out, signaling the white tiger, which was growling and poised to pounce, to stop for the time being.

"You've been lingering around here for years; you should be able to understand a few words of human language, right?"

"A long time ago, you ate a blue spiritual object. You've been wandering around Moon Gazing Valley all these years, surely you're searching for that thing, aren't you?"

"I can take you there!" Li Jieqing held his sword behind his back with one hand and pointed with the other towards the stone cave in the gorge below the peak outside Wangyue Valley.

The white tiger looked in the direction the other was pointing.

Countless days and nights ago, it snatched a green lotus seed from the hands of two humans, seemingly from over there.

When I turned around again, the white tiger's growl had stopped, and its outstretched claws had been retracted.

Upon seeing this, Li Jieqing couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Come with me! Remember to be alert later, don't embarrass yourself!"

Li Jieqing, having encountered this demonic tiger again after ten years, was momentarily unable to assess the difference in their strength. As a result, the originally confident male disciple of the Ruyi Sect was knocked into submission by a single claw attack and eventually fled.

Upon seeing such combat strength and this situation, an idea immediately popped into Li Jieqing's mind.

How can we let others feel good about suffering such a great loss for no reason?

I should send some local specialties to my niece Ping'er, who has been away from home since she was a child!

Outside Wangyue Valley.

Below the peak, in the gorge.

The place where the moon-gazing eel lingers.

"roar--"

With a tiger's roar, all the moon-gazing eels on the ground shrank into the soil and disappeared, proving that this white tiger had indeed been a formidable force around Moon-gazing Valley for more than a decade.

Li Jieqing arrived first amidst the tiger's roar, landing in front of the cave.

Upon landing, a quick glance revealed the corpses of the one-horned old Taoist and Chengming Taoist scattered all over the ground, along with the severed body of a dead demon snake hanging from a southeast branch on the rock wall—a truly bloody and terrifying scene, and no one had bothered to clean it up.

"Alas! You two have led the way for me today, and your merits have been fulfilled..."

Li Jieqing was not saddened by the deaths of the One-Horned Taoist and Chengming Taoist, but was surprised by how quickly they had fallen.

Judging from the signs of fighting around them, everyone was instantly killed with a single sword strike?!

My niece is truly remarkable; I'm so glad I ran away quickly.

Otherwise, facing two disciples of the Ruyi Sect who had reached the peak of Qi Refining, he might already be another corpse lying in front of the grotto.

Since vampires aren't so easy to kill, they'll probably... have to take a couple more sword strikes?

After sighing, seeing that no one had picked up the storage bags of the One-Horned Taoist and Cheng Ming Taoist on the ground, Li Jieqing quickly took care of his teammates' funeral arrangements and accepted the storage bags as funeral expenses in advance.

Just as they finished collecting the scattered magical artifacts, the white tiger came riding the wind from the top of the canyon, climbing up the rock wall and squeezing down.

The enormous body, over ten feet long, blocked the entrance to the cave, creating quite a crowd.

The white tiger sniffed its surroundings for a while, then its pillar-like tail unconsciously rose and slapped the ground.

Just as he was about to force his way into the cave, suddenly, the white tiger turned its head and stared at Li Jieqing again, a fierce and brutal look slowly creeping back onto its face.

"ha……"

Li Jieqing was not surprised that he was being targeted again. His figure slowly rose from the ground, and a high-grade levitation talisman flashed above his head.

"You beast! Humans have their weaknesses, and beasts have their strengths. Let's see if you can kill me!"

As long as he could withstand one wave of attacks and create some distance, Li Jieqing was confident he could escape Baihu's pursuit.

Compared to the Ruyi Sect members who possess numerous magical artifacts and spells, this demonic tiger is stronger in every other aspect except for its slow speed, something it has long since mastered over the years.

"You bastard!"

Just then, a furious roar descended from the sky.

The senior brother Yang, who had escaped earlier, rushed after him and landed in front of the cave. Without hesitation, he launched a sword technique at the white tiger.

"You scoundrel, how dare you let this demon ruin your junior sister's plans!" While attacking the white tiger, Senior Brother Yang didn't forget to interrogate him.

"???"

Your junior sister wants to kill me, so why shouldn't I dare to ruin her plans?

Li Jieqing couldn't understand what nonsense his senior brother Yang was spouting. He thought to himself that there was no cure for such a brain-dead person, and immediately activated his Cloud-Riding Boots to prepare to run away.

This time he's really going to run away.

The water has already been stirred up enough; let these demons fight over this precious cave for now!

In front of the grotto, the white tiger squeezed to the ground and withstood several sword strikes from Senior Brother Yang. Blood gushed from its fur three feet deep, but it still retained its ferocity.

However, seeing that more and more cultivators were gathering, and that it might encounter the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator from before, it did not kill Senior Brother Yang. Instead, it rolled over and burrowed into the cave, abandoning the entanglement, and quickly disappeared.

"you!"

Yang Shixiong's sword technique missed its mark. Looking up, he saw Li Jieqing about to leave the canyon and rush out of the peak. Enraged, he switched to a flying sword and rushed up, abandoning the demon tiger to kill Li Jieqing.

"Save your breath! What are you waiting for if you're not going to save Jiang Ping'er now?!"

Li Jieqing didn't resist, but just kept flying forward, then transmitted his voice, "Aren't you curious about what's inside that cave? You should know that the Ruyi Sect opened up this place back then precisely for the cave dwelling hidden inside this cave!"

Two voice transmissions emanated from the mountaintop and were heard by Senior Brother Yang, who had been chasing after them.

The first approach was to appeal to emotions. Li Jieqing wasn't blind, so he could naturally tell who had feelings for his good niece.

The next approach, however, is to persuade people with reason.

Having been in the cultivation world for so many years, Li Jieqing had never seen a cultivator who remained unmoved upon encountering a treasure.

At the summit, Senior Brother Yang, who had rushed out, saw Li Jieqing already flying to the horizon. After gritting his teeth and hesitating for a while, he finally gave up the chase.

"What a treacherous villain! Just as I thought, you cunning mountain hermit! If it weren't for my concern for my junior sister, I would have killed you!"

After uttering that curse, Senior Brother Yang turned around, re-entered the canyon, hurriedly rushed into the cave, and disappeared into the depths.

……

"——Crack!"

Above Wangyue Valley, a low murmur and a long howl swept across the sky as Li Jieqing freely rode his magical artifact, thoroughly enjoying himself.

He was questioned on the spot by two disciples from the upper sects. What a prestigious reputation he had, yet he had completely manipulated them.

And the fact that he was able to escape unscathed in the end shows that his cultivation has become increasingly advanced!

"Hmph, arrogance truly is a great sin."

In the center of Wangyue Valley, there is a forest of stone pillars.

Li Jieqing lowered his body, looked back at the direction of the stone cave outside Wangyue Valley, and shook his head with a cold laugh for a while.

If those two hadn't been so arrogant and looked down on Taipingfang City, and hadn't casually brought Chengming Daoist and Dujiao Laodao together to silence them, they wouldn't have had a chance to escape.

"Exploring this treasure land is no easy task. Even the Jiang couple spent years there years without finding much. Now, with a demonic tiger causing trouble, my niece is in for a rough time. The choice is now in my hands, stuck outside: either a win-win situation... or a lose-lose one!"