Martial Arts: Starting with Bajiquan, I will prove my divine power through the ultimate path!

"You deserve to die!"

Shi Wen casually picked up the bag from the other person's waist from the mud.

He walked expressionlessly toward the deserted temple on the mountain.

He ignored the line of people he had passed earlier.

After all, he was just an ordinary person who wanted to protect his peaceful life, not some bloodthirsty demon. How could he possibly attack this group of people for no reason?

Although he admitted that he had just passed by this group of people.

A murderous impulse surfaced in his mind, but he believed it was because Zhao Mingde's random shout had made him mistakenly believe that these people were his accomplices.

Rather than being a truly bloodthirsty person.

"These Taoist priests deserve to die. They have strongholds both inside and outside the city. What exactly are they trying to do?"

"So this is the True Immortal Temple..."

"To have such an ethereal name yet commit such devilish acts is truly hypocritical."

Stone temperature controls the contraction of the body's muscles and bones.

His height gradually decreased to 1.8 meters, with well-proportioned muscles. The rain poured down from the sky, washing away the bloodstains on his body.

When body size returns to the normal range.

The murderous intent in Shi Wen's heart seemed to have dissipated, and his handsome, angular face gradually softened.

If it weren't for appearing in the desolate forest in the middle of the night.

No one would associate the boy in the present with the previously bloodthirsty "monster".

Boom!

Razer snakes danced in the sky.

The rain intensified under the dark clouds.

The torrential rain turned the world into a vast white expanse. Shi Wen simply let his hair down and walked expressionlessly into the desolate temple.

"Let's go back to the Taoist temple and collect the spoils first, so as not to waste them."

Shi Wen walked through the courtyard, searching for spoils among the broken limbs on the ground.

Then, they searched every house.

When he reached the main hall, his bags were stuffed full, even his business bag, which could hold a lot of things, was full.

"A three-headed, six-armed stone statue, it's that guy again!"

Shi Wen immediately spotted the stone statue sitting upright on the offering platform in the darkness.

boom!

Shi Wen picked up a blue brick from the courtyard and smashed the head of the middle-aged man in the middle. He then smashed the remaining two heads and six arms one by one before daring to touch the broken stone statue.

"it works!"

When you see an extra (+) symbol on the polarity mark.

Shi Wen was overjoyed and immediately used all his points on the Rotten Flesh of the Ice-Silent Death Lord.

[Skill points successfully added. The current remaining time for the Frozen Flesh of the Icebound Death Lord is 1 month and 04 days!]

"Does it really need that long?"

Shi Wen was quite taken aback.

The eyeball he snatched from the Black Crow Army had shortened the time required to upgrade several items significantly, but the energy he obtained from this guy couldn't even upgrade the decaying flesh of the Ice-Silent Death Lord in one go.

"Is there really a big difference between them?"

"Why is there such a big difference? I thought I could successfully evolve the Rotten Flesh in one go. It seems I'll have to wait."

"Another source..."

"We still have the path of the Otherworldly Source to choose from. We must evolve the Rotten Flesh as soon as possible in order to deal with these Taoists from the True Immortal Temple!"

"Fortunately, my strength has increased considerably now. When I activate all my abilities, I can maintain 100 times the burning power for 10 seconds. That should be enough to deal with some minor troubles, right?"

"I never expected that after swallowing that dragon meat, even my normal burning intent would be more than ten times stronger than before, and my physical functions would also be much stronger than before. But in this state, my temper seems to be getting more and more volatile, and I want to kill at the drop of a hat. This state is very wrong, and I must be careful."

"I'm just someone who wants to live a peaceful life in chaotic times, not someone who's inherently bloodthirsty..."

Shi Wen used his feet to crush the broken stone statue bit by bit.

He searched the main hall thoroughly but found nothing of value.

I just grabbed an umbrella from inside the house.

It disappeared into the rainy night.

Boom...

Thunder rumbled in the dead of night, and lightning bolts occasionally tore through the darkness.

Shi Wen walked back to the city with an umbrella, the muddy and difficult mountain road under his feet as if it were flat ground.

He was walking along when he suddenly stopped.

His gaze was fixed intently on a hazy, gray forest not far away, a hint of suspicion in his heart.

"With such heavy rain, is it possible for dense fog to form in the mountains?"

"Perhaps it's a natural phenomenon. The collision of cold and warm air currents can easily create a foggy environment."

Shi Wen didn't think that much about it.

Holding an umbrella, he disappeared into the gray fog.

But to his surprise, the moment he stepped into the hazy fog, the scene before him suddenly changed to something else!

On a dilapidated street with a Western style, a few scattered pedestrians walked by. Their clothing style was very similar to that of the Westerners he had seen before. The gray sun hung high in the sky, and he, holding an umbrella and soaking wet, seemed particularly out of place as he entered this place.

"What's going on?"

"Have I fallen for this again? Who has bewitched me?"

"Have the Taoist priests from Zhenxian Temple come looking for us?!"

Shi Wen's expression was extremely calm, but a huge killing intent gradually welled up in his heart. He stood there, his breathing becoming more and more rapid, and smoke with the smell of sulfur spewed from his nostrils.

Thump, thump thump~

A clumsy little boy wearing a hat was kicking a ball, which rolled right to Shi Wen's feet.

Shi Wen looked down and, to his surprise, the ball spun around, revealing a bloodied face—his own!

As the little boy approached, he raised his empty face to meet his gaze, and suddenly his mouth split open to his ears, dripping dark red blood from his mouth.

"hehe."

Shi Wen also revealed a bright smile.

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Beneath the gray, misty mountains.

Xiang Ju moved with incredible speed, rushing back to the foot of Xuan Yin Mountain, covered in dust, and hurriedly heading up the mountain.

A joyful smile occasionally appeared on that old face.

"Elder Xiang, you're back so soon?"

"Greetings, Elder Xiang."

"Hehe, Elder Xiang's return so quickly this time, you must have encountered some good news, right? Congratulations..."

Xiang Ju exchanged a few words with someone he knew.

He hurriedly arrived at the black temple on the mountaintop, bowed to the figure sitting cross-legged on a prayer mat inside, and said joyfully, "Holy Son! I have discovered someone in Black Cloud County who is qualified to receive imperial decrees. Do you think we should report this to the temple?"

Are you sure you're not seeing things?

The man's voice was calm, not as agitated as Xiang Ju had imagined.

His words betrayed a hint of displeasure.

"Holy Son, I used my methods to detect that person does indeed possess the aptitude for summoning decrees!" Xiang Ju exclaimed excitedly. "If this person can truly pass the summoning ceremony, your status within the temple will be even higher!"

"Misjudgments are common in these kinds of situations, but I sent you to Heiyun County to preside over the ceremony, and you ran back without explanation. How should that be handled?"

The man's tone was calm, yet it contained an overwhelming rage.

Xiang Ju was stunned, and cold sweat poured down his forehead.

This……

Could it be that something's wrong in Heiyun County?