With a gleam of cold light, the rat claws, each as long as a chopstick, snapped off. The powerful and fierce crushing force sent the rat beast's body crashing backward onto the ground.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Xiaofei pressed his advantage, delivering a powerful slash followed by another, continuously swinging his sword. The power of his leg strength was rapidly channeled, causing his upper body to explode with power.

puff!

The eleventh strike was very effective, severing one of the rat beast's thighs directly from its body, causing blood to gush out.

However, the rat-beast was very resilient and did not die from having one of its legs severed. In the blink of an eye, it forcefully propped up its other hind leg and stood upright.

At this moment, the rat-beast's upright body swayed unsteadily, as if it would fall over at any moment, looking like a drunken madman.

The rat-beast's eyes darted around, its fur bristling with terror. It quickly turned and ran towards the outside of the chicken coop fence, trying to break through and escape.

However, just as it lunged forward with one leg and approached the fence, its body swayed, it fell, and leaned against the fence. Instantly, its body was covered in powder, causing it to yelp in pain. It quickly retreated, not daring to touch the fence covered in powder.

Near the ground of the fence, there was a lot of loose powder, which was the loose powder that Lin Xiaofei had scattered on the rat beasts earlier.

Even when the rat beast was unharmed, it was afraid of the powder. Now that it is seriously injured, it is even more afraid of the powder. The powder causes it pain all over its body and causes it to bleed. It is terrified and quickly retreats.

At this moment, it fell to the ground, looking like it was in a hurry to crawl away, but its body was still bleeding profusely, and it looked very weak and powerless, as if it might die at any moment.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

The rat-beast was terrified and quickly turned around, retreating while staring into Lin Xiaofei's eyes. It squeaked three times and once again released the silver coin temptation technique, trying to make Lin Xiaofei show a greedy look and thus lose his mind.

Little did it know that Lin Xiaofei's earlier display of greed was merely a ploy to get closer to it, a calculated move by Lin Xiaofei.

At this moment, the rat beast looked extremely weak, and Lin Xiaofei was no longer as afraid as before, so there was no need for him to pretend to get closer again.

Therefore, Lin Xiaofei's eyes flashed with a fierce light. He smiled slightly, pushed off the ground with both legs, and increased his speed and strength. The long knife in his hand was fast and ruthless as he slashed down.

The rat-beast panicked, and suddenly a fierce glint flashed in its eyes. It quickly threw out a black collar around its neck.

The black collar seemed to possess a special power; just as Lin Xiaofei slashed out with his longsword, the collar violently struck the longsword.

The long sword snapped in two with a crack, forcing Lin Xiaofei to retreat five steps.

At the same time, the rat-beast trembled slightly, forcefully propped itself up, raised its rat claws, causing the sharp claws to quickly lengthen, and pounced towards Lin Xiaofei.

Lin Xiaofei was shocked. His expression changed, and the power of his legs surged forth as he unleashed the perfected Qingfeng Leg, slamming his leg against the ground.

The blood flow in the body changes rapidly, the power in the whole body surges, and the power in the legs is transmitted to the upper body and directly to the arms.

He gripped the knife with both hands and swung the broken blade.

Power and speed explode simultaneously.

The broken blade slashed down, severing the sharp rat claws. The broken blade then plunged downwards, piercing the rat's chest in an instant.

squeak!

A scream rang out.

The rat-beast collapsed to the ground, motionless and silent, blood flowing freely.

Nothing's happening?

Lin Xiaofei stared blankly at the incomplete rat-beast for a moment, then stepped forward and kicked it. When it still didn't move, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

The rat beast is finally dead.

"This rat-beast has many tricks up its sleeve and is very powerful. If it weren't for its fear of the powder, it would probably be stronger than me, or even I would be no match for it."

Lin Xiaofei calmed himself down and thought about the strength of the rat beast.

After this encounter, he was able to make some general analysis. This rat-beast knew some low-level spells. If an ordinary martial artist encountered this rat-beast, they would not be able to recognize these low-level spells, nor would they be able to deal with them. They might even be harmed by the rat-beast.

Therefore, based on his estimation of the strength of this martial artist who had never been exposed to immortal techniques, he concluded that the rat beast's strength was equivalent to that of an ordinary martial artist.

"This rat-beast has quite a few tricks up its sleeve. It actually knows three low-level spells. If it weren't for my mental perception being far superior to that of ordinary people, I probably would have been harmed by this rat-beast."

This time, he made preparations based on his cultivation records and insights from the Dewdrop True God Method; otherwise, he would have truly suffered a loss.

Of course, he has a spatial bead that he can enter and hide in at any time, but with his second uncle by his side, and not wanting anyone to know his secret, he naturally has to hide it.

However, this encounter allowed him to personally experience a fight and understand the dangers of the beasts, thus gaining some combat experience.

Furthermore, if it weren't for his strength, which is more than twice that of an average adult, he might not have been able to deal with this rat-beast.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiaofei glanced at the chicken coop and found that several chickens that were originally alive had died at some point without him noticing. He figured it must have been the rat beast that did it.

Without thinking much, Lin Xiaofei looked down at the ground and saw a black collar, slightly larger than a palm, lying quietly in the chicken coop.

Previously, when the rat beast counterattacked, it used this collar, which actually managed to withstand his full-force attack and break his longsword.

At that time, he showed no mercy whatsoever, and the force with which he swung his knife was immense, indicating that this black collar was no ordinary object.

Thinking about how the collar had broken his longsword, Lin Xiaofei felt quite curious.

Could the creature on the rat-beast's body, due to its death, also generate an unknown power, causing it to fly towards him again and injure him?

However, this black collar cannot remain here. This is his second uncle's house. What if it hurts his second uncle?

So, Lin Xiaofei slowly approached, squatted down, held the broken knife in his hand, and gently touched the collar with the broken knife. Seeing that there was no reaction, he picked it up.

Picking up the collar, Lin Xiaofei examined it and found that it was indeed different. Not only was it shiny black, but when he touched it, he could feel a slight coolness. There were also some lines carved on it, like some kind of symbol, which looked powerful and vigorous. It was definitely an extraordinary item, but he didn't know what it was.

Moreover, this collar, despite being forcefully slashed, showed no trace of its contents.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xiaofei put the black collar into the spatial bead.

This ring is quite magical; how could it withstand his attack? At this moment, his second uncle was still unconscious in the chicken coop, so he couldn't observe it closely. He then put the rat beast's corpse into the spatial bead, tidied up the chicken coop briefly, and then went to his second uncle's side to wake him up.

"Xiao Fei, there's a huge beast! Run!"

Lin Yiying opened her eyes, looking tense. Remembering the tall, black rat-like beast she had seen earlier, she panicked and quickly called out to Lin Xiaofei.

Then, Lin Yiying quickly got up, without even looking, and grabbed Lin Xiaofei, ready to run away.