Chapter 111: Please Stay Alive, Mr. Xu

It was as if she had grown up in a short moment.

The childish aura on the girl suddenly diminished, no longer naive and carefree, replaced by a slightly heavy sense of loneliness.

She was leaving.

Carrying only her long spear and a bundle, she set off alone on her journey back.

“……”

Tonight’s moonlight was bright, the stars twinkling, forming a dazzling pattern in the sky, as if a grand gaze was watching over the girl’s growth.

Wu Yingxue looked up at the night sky, her eyes glistening, and asked Xu Xi one last question.

“Sir, how many stars are there in the Milky Way?”

“Probably thousands of millions, or maybe even more.”

So many?

The girl was clearly shocked by this number.

“If I had the time, I’d really like to count them one by one…” she said, sounding a bit silly, smacking her lips, and tightening her long spear and bundle to prevent them from falling.

With a light leap, her heroic figure jumped onto the rooftop.

Her cloth shoes made the tiles on the roof creak.

Under Xu Xi’s gaze.

The girl suddenly turned back, giving him a bright, beautiful smile, so radiant that it lit up the night sky, dispelling the previous heaviness.

Her eyes were as clear as crescent moons, her voice as pure as flowing water.

Her hands were clasped behind her back.

Standing on tiptoe.

“Mr. Xu, please live well in this world where good and bad are indistinguishable.”

The girl’s farewell was peculiar, and after saying it, she immediately used her qinggong, quickly disappearing into the thick night.

Such a farewell was something Xu Xi had never seen before—so bright and lively.

Had the girl suddenly changed her nature?

No.

Xu Xi thought it was more accurate to say that the 16-year-old girl had finally shed her disguise, revealing her true self.

“Now that she’s gone, it’s time to return to the hot-blooded script of battling the heavens and the earth.”

Xu Xi gazed at the night sky for a long time.

Suddenly, he chuckled softly and turned back into the house.

Wu Yingxue’s arrival was just an accident, and he believed that after this, there would be little intersection between them.

Xu Xi prepared to return to his previous life, gradually delving deeper into the Ten Thousand Mountains, relying on life-and-death battles and real combat to continuously refine his martial path and techniques.

In addition.

The annual spring and winter demon tides in Qingniu Town were also targets he needed to take seriously, as they were beneficial for honing his group combat skills.

…

[Time passed, and after her injuries healed, Wu Yingxue, who had been staying at your house, left]

[The young princess bore a strange accusation, which she deeply cared about and was determined to investigate]

[You watched her disappear into the night, silently blessing her]

[Your life returned to peace, back to the martial rhythm you had before the girl appeared]

[Training, combat, more training, more combat]

[Your life was a two-point line, though the process was painful and torturous, your perseverance was effective, and your strength improved every day, greatly boosting your confidence and creating a positive cycle]

Gathering strength, charging forward, throwing punches, forcefully suppressing and killing!

Near the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Xu Xi’s figure flashed, his feet stomping on the ground, charging at an uncatchable speed towards a tiger demon.

His five fingers spread, from top to bottom.

“Boom,” his palm pressed the tiger demon’s head, forcefully smashing it into the ground, creating a crater, causing dust to fly and leaves to fall.

“Roar!!!”

The heavily struck tiger demon roared in anger, struggling to get up, but the figure suppressing it erupted with even fiercer qi and blood, wielding a saber that burst with thunderous roars, cleanly severing the tiger demon’s head.

The battle ended.

Xu Xi emerged victorious.

He stood still, his eyes slightly closed, constantly recalling the previous battle:

“Whether it’s fist techniques or saber techniques, under the dual effects of perseverance and martial practice, they have all transformed from their original martial arts.”

“Qi and Blood Long Fist has become Qi and Blood Tyrant Fist.”

“Five Thunder Saber has become Nine Thunder Saber.”

“But—”

Xu Xi shook his head: “It’s too low, the martial arts techniques I obtained from the real world have a starting point that’s just too low.”

“There aren’t many martial arts experts in the real world, and powerful manuals are even rarer.”

“Even with the help of martial practice, the evolution of these techniques is of extremely low cost-effectiveness.”

“If I could find decent martial arts techniques and supplement them with the evolutionary effects of martial practice, that would be true invincibility.”

The question is.

Where can I find martial arts techniques that are excellent and advanced enough?

The only path Xu Xi could think of.

Was the already departed Wu Yingxue.

But he had already asked, and the techniques the girl practiced were all special types limited to royal bloodlines, and all incomplete.

Royal descendants like Wu Yingxue could only obtain further content of their techniques after breaking through to new realms.

This was one of the Great Qian Dynasty’s measures to prevent the leakage of techniques.

“Forget it, it’s not a big problem.”

“Martial arts techniques are just external methods, qi, blood, and the body are the core principles.”

“Time will bring the answers I want, even if I can’t obtain advanced martial arts techniques, relying on perseverance and martial practice, I can still achieve further martial progress.”

“In the future, when my own realm improves, creating my own martial arts isn’t impossible.”

Xu Xi shook the tiger blood off his palm and took a few steps back.

With one hand, he grabbed the striped tiger demon’s thick tail.

He slung it over his shoulder and, step by step, dragged the heavy tiger demon corpse back to Qingniu Town, leaving a long, dark trail behind.

Most demon flesh is inedible, but this tiger demon happened to be in the edible category.

“Ah, Brother Xi is back!”

“This kid is so good, A Niu, go help your Brother Xu.”

“Alright, Mom, I’m going!”

The autumn and winter seasons had arrived.

The weather turned cold, and food became scarce.

Xu Xi entered the Ten Thousand Mountains, and while honing his martial skills, he would kill to obtain large amounts of demon flesh.

These demons, somehow, were all robust in size, many as large as houses.

Xu Xi killed demons every day.

Every day, he obtained new demon flesh.

Naturally, one person couldn’t eat it all, so Xu Xi often shared the demon meat with the people of Qingniu Town.

After all, when he first came to Qingniu Town, many people had helped him.

“The situation in Qingniu Town is getting worse every year.”

“This year’s winter demon tide hasn’t truly started yet, but it’s already on the scale of last year’s, it’s hard to imagine what will happen if this continues.”

Xu Xi sighed, handing the tiger demon’s corpse to A Niu to cut.

He looked towards the Ten Thousand Mountains, even in the desolate and bleak autumn and winter, the deep, terrifying blackness, the endless mountain ranges, still brought a chilling and horrifying sense of oppression.

Pressing down on the Great Qian Dynasty.

Pressing down on countless Qingniu Towns.

Pressing down on everyone living on the border.

Xu Xi had a premonition that perhaps, not too long from now, a great storm would come crashing down.