The roars of beasts echoed continuously through the withered leaf forest.

Accompanied by a mournful howl, the corpse of a massive monster slowly collapsed to the ground.

A young boy appeared on the monster's corpse, holding a short blade that he plunged into the monster's head, causing a torrent of monster blood to gush out.

Without hesitation, the boy's qi and blood suddenly surged, and the abundant essence of the demonic beast was rapidly absorbed under the circulation of his cultivation technique.

After a long while, the boy slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, opened his eyes, and his eyes revealed a look of regret.

The young man was Qin Xin, who was returning to the Eastern Wilderness Academy. Along the way, in order to try to advance his Martial Spirit to six stars, he killed dozens of level four demonic beasts and devoured their essences through the Spirit Devouring Stone.

However, for Qin Xin's current martial spirit, the energy transformed from these demonic beast essences is like a drop in the ocean, far from enough to enable Qin Xin's martial spirit to advance. He may need even stronger power, which makes Qin Xin somewhat regretful.

However, through the cultivation of demon beast essence blood, Qin Xin's Desolate God Battle Body has now reached the peak of the second level, and he has the opportunity to step into the third level at any time. His physical body is much stronger than before.

Having made some gains, Qin Xin slowly stood up.

With a flick of his fingertips, fragments of the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff appeared in his hand. Under Qin Yi's attack, the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff had shattered into six pieces. Qin Xin was somewhat reluctant to part with them, so he did not discard them.

Before Danqing fell into a deep sleep, he took a good look at the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, which was broken into six pieces. He was somewhat surprised by the materials used to make it, but after studying it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out what they were.

After sighing, Qin Xin was just about to put the fragments of the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff into his spatial ring.

Inside the Niwan Palace, the mysterious fragment of the map began to move.

Upon seeing this, Qin Xin seemed to understand something and channeled his spiritual sense into the mysterious fragment of the map.

In an instant, the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, broken into six pieces, slowly floated in mid-air. Within the mysterious fragmented diagram, several strands of cyan energy wrapped around the six fragments.

As mysterious power radiated outwards, the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff began to undergo wondrous changes.

The six fragments seemed to merge together as if they had become fluid, constantly changing shape in the void.

"bite!"

With a crisp sound, the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, which was originally in the shape of a stick, transformed directly into a three-foot-long sword.

Seeing that the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, which had transformed into a long sword, was about to break through the air as soon as it took shape, Qin Xin did not hesitate and grabbed it in his hand.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a message entered Qin Xin's mind.

In that message, a warrior wielding a long sword was covered in golden blood, which came from a group of high-ranking enemies.

As enemies fell one by one, golden blood continuously gathered on the longsword in his hand, forming mysterious and powerful patterns.

The scene then abruptly ends.

Qin Xin stared in astonishment at the longsword in his hand. When he saw the "Nine Flames" inscription on the blade, he immediately felt an endless killing intent rushing into his mind.

Fortunately, the Spirit Devouring Stone was there, and the sweeping killing intent was instantly dissipated.

"Is this a sword?" Qin Xin's doubts deepened as he brandished the three-foot-long sword in his hand. What had previously been an ancient-looking long staff had now transformed into a long sword due to the changes in the mysterious fragment of the map.

"go!"

With a thought, Qin Xin swung his sword, unleashing a powerful surge of true energy that cleaved a large tree, several people thick, in half in front of him.

"What a sharp sword!" Qin Xin exclaimed in surprise.

"Nine Flames Battle Immortal, moving at will."

After a message was sent from the sword, Qin Xin finally understood that the shape of this object could be freely changed by the martial artist.

Previously, Qin Xin's martial spirit was the Black Stick Martial Spirit, which is why it transformed into the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Stick. However, the sudden transformation into the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Sword left Qin Xin somewhat bewildered.

Based on the message emanating from the Nine Flames Immortal Sword, Qin Xin slowly closed his eyes, relying on his intuition about the sword.

"Click! Click!"

With two crisp sounds, the sword, which had been in the shape of a longsword, suddenly transformed back into the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff.

"Haha, it really is a wonderful treasure!"

Qin Xin couldn't help but laugh. Now, thanks to the modification of the mysterious fragment, the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff can switch freely between sword and staff forms. When fighting an opponent, it can be transformed into sword form for more powerful attacks, while the staff form makes the attacks even more potent.

Holding the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, Qin Xin could still sense that something was missing, and that something was extremely important to him.

After studying it for a long time, Qin Xin still couldn't figure it out.

However, now that the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff has been recovered and even undergone some changes, Qin Xin was already satisfied. After storing it in his spatial ring, he got up and left.

Now that Qin Xin has lingered in this withered forest for quite some time, it is time for him to return to the inner courtyard of the Eastern Wilderness Academy.

Previously, on his way back to Tianyuan City, Qin Xin was attacked by Xia Qi and others, and it is likely that the main peak of Kunmen will also be affected.

Moreover, Han Yao, who died at the hands of Ruan Xiaoman, had a brother named Han Sui, who was one of the elders of the inner courtyard. He would not let the matter rest. However, with Hua Jin around, there was not much to worry about regarding Qin Xue and the others' safety.

Along the way, Qin Xin quickened his pace.

Of course, he would also try to find some spiritual herbs through his spiritual sense, but unfortunately, spiritual herbs that nourish the spiritual body are too rare, and Qin Xin did not find any.

After sensing the sleeping Danqing within the mysterious fragment of the map, Qin Xin felt a slight pang of guilt.

Qin Xin has now entered the ninth level of the Aperture Opening Realm, and his body has opened nine true apertures. If he wants to enter the Qi Sea Realm next, he needs to merge the nine apertures into one and integrate them with the true meridians to transform them into the eyes of the Qi Sea. This step is extremely important. If he fails, he will have to start all over again. In fact, the failure to break through may even cause the true apertures to collapse and his cultivation level to decrease.

Therefore, martial artists in the Qi Sea Realm need to be fully prepared before breaking through to the Qi Opening Realm. Of course, many martial artists in the Qi Opening Realm never manage to enter the Qi Sea Realm in their entire lives. This is mainly because the fusion of meridians and acupoints is extremely dangerous, and if disturbed by the outside world, they may fail at the last minute.

Qin Xin still needs to accumulate more power now, because after the Qi Sea evolves within the Martial Core, the larger the Qi Sea Eye that can be condensed, the stronger the martial artist will be at the same level. Moreover, the success rate of condensing the Yuan Mansion and turning the Qi Sea Eye into a seed of Yuan Power will also be higher.

The two days passed quickly as they traveled, and Qin Xin wasted a lot of time searching for the medicinal herbs.

Soon, the walls of a massive city standing in a forest came into Qin Xin's view. Looking at the three large characters "Black Dragon City" above the city gate, Qin Xin changed out of his tattered clothes and stepped straight in.