Lin Xue slowly awoke from her daze, realizing it was already afternoon.
She sat up with a start from the ground, finding herself still in the forest where she had fought with Yang Yuting.
Not far away, Yang Yuting still wore that crazed expression, his face twisted and eyes glaring, but there was no longer any breath in him.
His hand was still clutching her ankle, now cold and devoid of strength.
Lin Xue kicked away his icy hand.
She stood up and noticed she was tightly gripping something round in her hand.
Lowering her head for a look, she found a red pill in her palm.
The pill’s surface was flawless and smooth, its medicinal fragrance rich, crystal-clear like water, brimming with spiritual energy.
A Foundation-building Pill!
It was for this little thing that she nearly got blown up together with Yang Yuting.
Lin Xue was filled with excitement.
This was truly a treasure.
It must be worth a fortune.
Even a lower-grade Barrier-breaking Pill for breaking through from the early stage of Refining Qi to the middle stage could drive people to fight desperately for it.
How much more precious must this Foundation-building Pill be?
I’ve struck it rich, I’ve struck it rich!
Lin Xue carefully stored the pill inside her Teleportation Ring.
She felt a bit puzzled about the small Hei Qiu she had thrown before Yang Yuting self-destructed—what exactly was that?
The moment it exploded, she passed out.
But after checking herself thoroughly, she found no injuries anywhere.
Yang Yuting’s half-corpse was also intact, showing no signs of an explosion.
After pondering for a long time, she could only guess that the little Hei Qiu was something like a stun grenade used for anti-terror purposes on Blue Star, capable of knocking people out for a time, robbing them of movement but not causing injury.
Thankfully, it was this thing that knocked out Yang Yuting just as he was about to self-destruct, letting her avoid being dragged to death with him.
Recalling that dangerous scene, Lin Xue still felt lingering fear.
She had managed to defeat her opponent with great effort, but if she had perished at the last moment in a one-for-one exchange, it would have been a huge loss.
After such a thrilling battle, she wondered how much experience the System had given her.
Lin Xue opened her panel and checked her stats.
Name: Lin Xue
Race: Snake
Experience: 470 points.
Previously, she had 170 experience points.
Killing Yang Yuting had netted her a full 300 points of experience.
As expected, Lianqi Dayuanman gave a lot of experience.
She had gained a good chunk of experience, but she wondered if anything good had dropped.
Lin Xue began searching Yang Yuting’s corpse with high hopes.
On Yang Yuting’s waist hung a small pouch that didn’t quite look like a Storage Pouch, with the character “Beast” written on it.
Lin Xue yanked it off and used a Break Talisman to open it, finding that its space was quite small and empty inside.
However, the inside of this pouch was clearly different from a Storage Pouch.
The Storage Pouch always felt dead and cold inside, like a chilly warehouse.
But this pouch exuded a sense of vitality, as if something alive had once lived inside—it was full of energy.
Lin Xue thought, this was probably a bag for holding Beast Pets.
Though she didn’t have a Beast Pet yet, who knew—she might have one in the future.
Can a Demon also take other Yao Shou as Beast Pets?
Whatever, I’ll keep it for now. If I don’t use it, I can sell it.
She stashed the pouch into her Storage Pouch.
She had long discovered that empty Storage Pouches could be put inside other storage spaces.
But a Storage Pouch with items inside couldn’t be nested like that.
This Ling Shou Dai was empty, so it could be stored in the Storage Pouch.
There were no other Storage Pouches on Yang Yuting’s waist.
Lin Xue remembered that his Fei Zhen had come from his sleeve.
She pulled open Yang Yuting’s sleeve and, sure enough, found a pouch inside.
Using another Break Talisman to open the Storage Pouch hidden in the sleeve, Lin Xue rummaged through it and pulled out Spirit Stones and money, a palm-sized Flying Boat, a bundle of Fei Zhen, and a Jade Slip.
After killing three of the Yu Zibei descendants from the Yang family, her Storage Pouch was now overflowing with all sizes of Spirit Stones, Jin Ding, and Yin Ding.
Lin Xue looked at the pile of wealth, thinking that with so much money, she was practically financially free.
If she were still in her original male body, she could now go find some scenic, peaceful place, buy a big house, purchase hundreds of acres of land, marry three wives and four concubines, buy a few maidservants and helpers, hire a steward, and live a life of luxury, surrounded by beauties.
Every day, she could set a lounge chair under a big tree, lie back, with servants fanning her, a maid kneeling to massage her legs, a pretty concubine rubbing her shoulders from behind, and a gentle, beautiful wife feeding her pastries and tea by her side—what a life of comfort and ease that would be.
Just imagining that scene filled Lin Xue with joy.
Unfortunately, now that she was in a female body, there was no hope of hugging three wives and four concubines on the left and right.
Such a scene of lavish indulgence could only remain in her imagination.
Lin Xue sighed with regret.
If only there were a way to change back to being male.
While she mourned her “little brother,” she turned her attention to the rest of the spoils.
Her gaze landed on the palm-sized Flying Boat.
She recognized it as Yang Yuting’s flying artifact: beautifully crafted and emanating an air of nobility, it was clearly on a whole different level compared to Yu Changfeng’s rather shabby paper crane.
The two were as different as an Audi and an Alto.
She tried channeling her demon power into it.
The Flying Boat instantly enlarged to the size of a small boat, hovering about a foot above the ground.
Lin Xue cautiously climbed aboard, using her mind to control the Flying Boat as it slowly rose into the air.
The Flying Boat lifted her steadily four or five meters up.
Lin Xue was ecstatic.
I can finally fly!
Traveling anywhere would be so much more convenient now.
Zhang Zongnian had mentioned that flying artifacts needed the user’s own spiritual power to drive them.
But she noticed that driving this Flying Boat didn’t consume her demon power at all.
She noticed a slot on the Flying Boat, with a Spirit Stone inserted inside.
So this Flying Boat was powered by Spirit Stones.
Truly something only the rich could afford.
Someone like Zhang Zongnian, a lowly official, earned just five lower-grade Spirit Stones a month—there was no way he could afford such a flying artifact.
People like him could only use wooden donkeys or wooden horses—transportation artifacts powered by their own spiritual energy.
Just like on Blue Star, it was the difference between a car and a bicycle.
Lin Xue put away the Flying Boat and picked up the bundle of Fei Zhen.
During their fight, Yang Yuting had unleashed a storm of flying needles, and their power had left a deep impression on her.
But she had no idea how to use these Fei Zhen herself.
After using a Break Talisman to remove the restriction on the Fei Zhen, Lin Xue still found herself at a loss, unable to control them.
Seeing how few Break Talismans she had left in her Storage Pouch, she felt a pang of regret.
If I’d known, I wouldn’t have wasted a Break Talisman on these Fei Zhen.
Among the spoils, there was also a Jade Slip.
With anticipation, Lin Xue picked up the Jade Slip.
A prompt immediately appeared on her panel: “New cultivation method detected: Qian Ji Zhi Meng. Please read to record into the System. Once recorded, you may use experience points to study it.”