Chapter 32: Killing and Arson for a Golden Belt

"Thirty yuan stones!"

When the pale-faced man saw Ding Hao use the medium-grade vine armor grass, his expression first changed, but then turned to greed. "To actually use a medium-grade vine armor grass worth thirty yuan stones, you really are a fat sheep! May Fairy Wu bless me, today's luck is good!"

Ding Hao laughed heartily, "Fairy Wu blesses me, and I have my eye on your superior crossbow too!"

"Let's see who Fairy Wu truly blesses." The pale-faced man unhesitatingly pulled the trigger, and an arrow shot out like a locust, firmly nailing itself to the purple hard vine outside Ding Hao's body.

"Is it useful against me?" Ding Hao pulled out the arrow and threw it aside.

"Medium-grade vine armor grass, it really is a good thing." The pale-faced man's face was gloomy.

However, the pale-faced man also had a侥幸心理 (lucky mentality). He knew that these seeds had a time limit, and the medium-grade seeds should last for half an hour. As long as he could hold out for half an hour, when Ding Hao's vine armor grass effect wore off, he would have a sure victory!

"Die! Roaring Tiger Mountain River!" He put away his crossbow and summoned the Tiger Ben Fist, trying to buy time.

"Just you?" Ding Hao sneered, then his eyes narrowed, and he roared, "Triple Fire Palm! Explode, explode, explode!"

With his combat experience growing richer, he could now easily use double or triple layers. When he knew he might miss, he used double layers to save spirit energy. When facing a tough opponent, he used triple layers to deplete the opponent's spirit energy!

The vine armor grass was indeed a good thing. It looked clumsy when wrapped around the body, but it didn't affect movement at all. Wearing it, it felt like his hands were in thick gloves, making his palm strikes even stronger!

Ding Hao's face was hidden behind the vine armor, his eyes sharp as he looked at the pale-faced man. This battle didn't make him feel bored; instead, it made him abnormally excited! He loved fighting! Lord Ling and the others weren't wrong; there seemed to be a fighting impulse lurking in Ding Hao's mind and blood. He practiced martial arts on Earth, but there were few opportunities to fight.

Now, he could finally have a full-blown fight, and he was eager for it!

The tall grass around them was ignited by the flames, the fire rising to the sky, and Ding Hao's fighting spirit soared!

"Brother, if I'm not mistaken, you're also wearing armor, right?" Ding Hao's punches landed on the pale-faced man, but the man seemed unharmed, indicating he was also wearing armor. Ding Hao waved his hand, "What are you afraid of? Come on!"

"What are you being so arrogant about?" The pale-faced man sneered, suddenly throwing a small bottle and laughing sinisterly, "Do you know what's in this bottle? Fool, feel your spirit energy being drained!"

Ding Hao's heart tightened as he sensed his spirit energy in his dantian. He was shocked to find it almost depleted! He had always been calculating his spirit energy consumption, and it shouldn't have been this fast!

"How is this possible!"

The pale-faced man laughed loudly, "Fool, you thought your spirit energy was strong, so I used spirit poison to help you drain it, hahaha!"

Spirit poison was a colorless and odorless poison. Once poisoned, the biggest consequence was a massive depletion of spirit energy! During the battle, the pale-faced man had secretly released the spirit poison. Ding Hao, lacking combat experience, had no defense and inhaled a large amount of spirit poison, causing his spirit energy to be drained!

The pale-faced man said smugly, "This bottle of spirit poison isn't cheap! Three yuan stones! To kill you, I really spent a lot! Now that your spirit energy is depleted, how can you fight me?"

Indeed, without spirit energy, Ding Hao couldn't use the Nine-Fold Fire Fist at all!

His punches had no power at all!

"How is this possible?" Behind the vine armor, Ding Hao's eyes shot out fear.

"Ha, what's impossible? It shows you're too inexperienced!" The pale-faced man laughed loudly, "Kid! You have plenty of spirit energy! You're rich! And you have good potential, learning and improving quickly! But unfortunately, you don't know when to die and came alone to the outer domain!" The pale-faced man walked over smugly. Although Ding Hao was still protected by the vine armor, without spirit energy, he was just a cripple!

He planned to capture Ding Hao, take him to a secluded spot in the forest, wait for half an hour, and then kill him.

"Kid! Don't blame me, the path of cultivation is like this, I can only climb higher by stepping on others' corpses!"

"You, will be my stepping stone!"

The pale-faced man had already walked to the powerless Ding Hao, but at this moment, Ding Hao's eyes brightened, and he sneered, "Then you'll be my stumbling block!"

"How do you still have spirit energy!" The pale-faced man's face turned even paler!

"How do I still have spirit energy?" Ding Hao's eyes changed from fear to mockery, and he roared, "This is my secret! You don't deserve to know! Four-Fold Fire Palm... Die!"

Actually, after inhaling the spirit poison, most of it was absorbed by the Star Absorbing Stone, so it didn't have much effect on him.

The Four-Fold Fire Palm, with its power quadrupled!

First time using it!

"Bang!"

This punch hit the pale-faced man's chest. Even with his armor, the Four-Fold Fire Palm was too powerful. It sent him flying backward, spitting out blood, and he fell into the burnt grass, spitting out more blood.

At this point, he knew it was hopeless and tried to stand up and escape.

Woof! Da Huang jumped out from somewhere and pounced on him again.

"You dog, you're good at taking heads!" Ding Hao cursed, then followed up with several punches to the back of the pale-faced man's head, causing him to bleed and die.

"Not everyone can be your stepping stone!" Ding Hao coldly snorted, then delivered another punch, breaking the pale-faced man's skull, ensuring he was dead.

This was the first time Ding Hao had killed someone in this world, but he didn't feel much. In this cruel world of cultivation, not killing meant being killed, and he was prepared!

He had learned from his conversation with Liu Yunkun that the disciples of the Nine Provinces Academy had to go out for trials at the third level of Qi Cultivation. They had to kill evil cultivators, demons, ghosts, and blood cultists in the outer domain, at least one, to become true inner disciples!

"Killing to enter, this is how the righteous cultivators do it! Looks like I've also entered!"

Ding Hao immediately took off the pale-faced man's storage pouch and stripped off his inner armor. To his excitement, the man was wearing a medium-grade armor!

"It should be a Snow Silkworm Armor, worth at least two hundred yuan stones!"

Then, Ding Hao took the man's identity badge and kicked the body into the fire, which would soon burn it beyond recognition.

With the fire raging, it could attract others at any moment. Ding Hao looked around and called to Da Huang, "Grass dog, follow me into the forest!"

"Woof woof!" Da Huang was very unhappy with the "grass dog" name.

Later, by a mountain stream in the forest.

Ding Hao's vine armor grass had started to wear off, so he tore it off and sat on a large rock by the stream.

Many black insects were crawling around on the ground, and Ding Hao kicked them away. He then turned the pale-faced man's storage pouch inside out, dumping out its contents.

The pale-faced man was in the black cloak business, and his medium-grade storage pouch was filled with black cloaks. Ding Hao noticed that a few of the black cloaks were wrapped around jade talismans, clearly indicating they had been tampered with.

The black cloaks weren't very valuable, but Ding Hao didn't throw them away, stuffing them into his own storage pouch.

Next, he picked up the superior crossbow.

"Very nice!" Ding Hao's eyes lit up. This crossbow was very exquisite, capable of holding five arrows at a time, with good power! Unfortunately, the pale-faced man used a lower-quality type of arrow, which dulled after one shot.

"If these arrows were more powerful, my medium-grade vine armor grass might not have been able to withstand it!"

The superior crossbow, along with thirty arrows, became another weapon for Ding Hao.

Additionally, the man's storage pouch contained fifty yuan stones, two small bottles, two small boxes, and a human skin mask.

"Good guy, carrying a human skin mask, looks like he often kills and robs, but I wonder why he didn't wear it when he tried to kill me."

The man usually wore a human skin mask when doing such things, but this time, Ding Hao's cultivation was too low, so he didn't take it seriously and didn't wear the mask.

"This thing will be very useful for me!"

Then he opened the two small boxes, which contained Green Jade Awakening Pills, the items the pale-faced man used for selling.

Finally, what interested Ding Hao were the two small bottles, labeled "Eye-Washing Spirit Liquid!"

"What is Eye-Washing Spirit Liquid?" Ding Hao checked the "Chronicles of the Outer Domain" and nodded, "It turns out that using Eye-Washing Spirit Liquid to rinse your eyes allows you to see the cultivation level of others without practicing any eye-opening techniques. The higher the grade of the Eye-Washing Spirit Liquid, the higher the cultivation level you can see."

"So that's why I couldn't see others' cultivation levels."

Ding Hao was delighted. No wonder these people often killed and robbed; the man was right, killing was the best business!

"Da Huang, open your eyes."

Ding Hao was quite shameless, not daring to use the Eye-Washing Spirit Liquid himself, he first experimented on Da Huang. Once he confirmed Da Huang was fine, Ding Hao used a bottle to rinse his own eyes, allowing him to see cultivation levels up to the Seventh Stage of Innate.

The other bottle could be sold or given away later.

"This time, I made a big profit."

Ding Hao spent thirty yuan stones on the medium-grade vine armor grass, but he obtained armor worth two hundred yuan stones, a crossbow worth one hundred and fifty yuan stones, fifty yuan stones in cash, Eye-Washing Spirit Liquid, Green Jade Awakening Pills, and a human skin mask, making a profit of three to four hundred yuan stones!

He put everything into his own storage pouch and threw away the pale-faced man's storage pouch. After all, with his cultivation level, carrying two medium-grade storage pouches would definitely attract trouble!

After doing this, he put the man's human skin mask on his face, transforming into a yellow-faced man. Then, he hung the pale-faced man's identity badge on his waist, "Miyun Jing, quite a unique name."

Then, Ding Hao looked at the map in his hand.

Actually, he had some confidence in going to the native city alone because it wasn't far, just a day's walk, and he had already covered half the distance.

"Native City, here I come!"

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End of Chapter 32