Lin Xiaofei, a late-stage ordinary martial artist, possessed tough skin and flesh. Combined with the effects of the Body Protection Pill, his physical defense was greatly enhanced.

The giant rat's claw, which pounced, only left a shallow mark on his body, causing no harm whatsoever.

"Let me show you what I'm made of!"

As Lin Xiaofei brushed past, he muttered to himself, a poisonous beast pill appeared in his hand, and he flicked it into the giant rat's mouth.

In an instant, the giant rat's eyes lit up, it stopped its attack, smacked its lips as if it were enjoying delicious food, and seemed to be a little excited.

The giant rat paused for less than a second before reacting. It quickly waved its two front paws, opened its mouth wide, revealing its fangs, and pounced, looking like it was going to eat someone.

"court death!"

With a cold snort, Lin Xiaofei turned around, reached into the spatial bead, took out two beast-repelling pills, aimed them at the giant rat's open mouth, and launched them into the bead.

"Creak!"

Suddenly, the giant beast let out a strange roar, its attack slowed down, and it trembled all over, scratching its ears and cheeks.

Once a beast swallows a Poisonous Beast Pill, it's equivalent to ingesting a deadly poison, which will wantonly destroy its body. On the other hand, a Beast-Driving Pill is specifically designed to interfere with exotic beasts or cause them to lose their minds.

One Poisonous Beast Pill and two Beast-Repelling Pills quickly inflicted great damage on the giant rat, causing it to bleed continuously, feel pain, and tremble.

Soon, it rolled to the ground, struggling incessantly, completely powerless to fight.

Just then, the speed of the longsword in Lin Xiaofei's hand suddenly increased, like lightning, and the Eighteen Swift Wind Swords actually broke through to the Great Perfection realm.

During this period, under Master Li's guidance, he unexpectedly made great progress in his swordsmanship in today's battle.

With a single slash, the sword light followed.

This sword strike is still a move from the Eighteen Swift Wind Swords.

However, the power of this sword strike was the combined force of six consecutive strikes, all surging with immense power. A terrifying force emanated from the blade as it hurtled towards the giant rat.

puff!

A sword slashed across the giant rat's forelimbs, blood splattered, and the two forelegs fell to the ground.

puff!

With another swift strike, half of the giant rat's chest was instantly severed, blood gushing forth and a pungent, metallic stench of beastly blood filling the air.

puff!

"Die!"

Lin Xiaofei's eyes were icy cold as he casually slashed down with his sword.

The giant rat's body was split in two at the chest.

Soon, the giant rat stopped struggling.

"That troublesome giant rat is finally dead."

Lin Xiaofei said in a low voice, then turned his gaze to Zhang Yugui, who was seriously injured. He was holding his bleeding abdomen with one hand and slowly moving through the woods, preparing to escape.

Zhang Yugui turned his head and glanced at the dead giant rat. A look of shock flashed in his eyes, and his face showed fear.

The giant rat he raised originally possessed the strength of a late-stage ordinary martial artist. Even if Lin Xiaofei gained the upper hand for a time, it wouldn't be so easy to kill it.

Furthermore, the giant rat is tall and has a strong defensive structure. Even if Lin Xiaofei has the strength of a late-stage ordinary martial artist, it would still take him a while to fight it.

However, Lin Xiaofei used a pill he didn't know about, and with his sudden, fierce swordsmanship, he killed the giant rat completely with just three sword strikes.

He saw Lin Xiaofei rushing towards him, and the two exchanged a glance. His cold eyes were as if he were looking at a dead man.

Zhang Yugui was greatly alarmed, his expression panicked. He endured the pain and shouted:

"What do you want? I'm Zhang Xianshi's son, everyone in Qingshan Town knows that. If you kill me, can you withstand the pursuit of a cultivator?"

What happened today is known only to you and me; no third party knows.

Therefore, your threats are useless against me.

Lin Xiaofei gave a cold snort, circulated his internal energy, gripped the sword hilt with both hands, and swiftly slashed through the air with the sword's shadow.

"Oh, and I should tell you a secret: I've destroyed the alien collar in the small package."

As he spoke, Lin Xiaofei slowly wiped the blood-dripping sword from his hand.

At this moment, Zhang Yugui, who was standing next to him, fell to the ground with his body tilted to the side. A deep and long sword wound pierced through his chest and heart, and blood gushed out.

"ah!"

A scream rang out, blood trickled from Zhang Yugui's mouth, and his eyes showed terror as he died.

This operation was somewhat risky, but fortunately Zhang Yugui looked down on him, which allowed Lin Xiaofei's initial sneak attack to succeed.

Of course, even if the sneak attack fails, he will fight Zhang Yugui to the death. If he really can't beat the opponent, he can hide in the spatial bead and then deal with Zhang Yugui. He will have a great chance of winning.

Furthermore, the other party kidnapped his second uncle and even threatened to break his uncle's legs, which angered him greatly.

Moreover, he had already destroyed the alien collar that the other party cared about so much. If the other party found out, he would be in mortal danger. Therefore, rather than be killed by the other party, it was better to strike first.

However, this life-or-death battle went very smoothly, without any obstacles.

"Night is about to fall, and we should not stay here any longer. I need to hurry up and deal with the situation here."

After glancing at Zhang Yugui's corpse, Lin Xiaofei squatted down and took the small bronze bell hanging on the man's chest, as well as the large package on his shoulder, and put them all into the spatial bead.

Then, after glancing at the ditch pool not far away, Lin Xiaofei thought for a moment and had an idea. Just as he was about to throw Zhang Yugui's corpse and the corpses of several rat-like beasts into the ditch pool, he stopped.

According to the information he had previously gathered, there was a powerful beast in this ditch that had been killed many years ago. However, this was all information provided by the government, not something witnessed by the people themselves. Therefore, Lin Xiaofei had some suspicion that the beast might not have died and might still be in the pool. Otherwise, why would no one dare to approach Xiaonanshan?

If he were to throw Zhang Yugui's body into the pool, and a powerful beast suddenly emerged from it, he would be no match for it. In fact, one of the government's top experts had been killed by that beast when he fought against it.

After hesitating for a moment and thinking it over, to avoid causing another accident by throwing a few corpses into the pool, he decided again and again to bury the corpses in the soil beneath the spatial bead.

After all, the Space Bead was a place only he knew about. Burying the body under the Space Bead was the safest option for him. If someone came to search the place, they wouldn't find anything.

Next, he sent all the blood-stained dirt on the ground into the spatial bead.

After checking several times to make sure the ground was clean, I scattered some dry leaves on it so that even if someone passed by, no one would notice anything.

On his way back, Lin Xiaofei reached into the spatial bead and searched the package he had taken from Zhang Yugui.

Suddenly, Lin Xiaofei's eyes lit up.

"It's actually a book."

He took a thick book out of the package.

Lin Xiaofei turned to the first page and glanced at it. He was surprised to find that the book was filled with dense text.

He then flipped through a few pages and found that they contained Zhang Yugui's cultivation experiences and insights, including records of his process of raising exotic beasts and his insights on teaching them low-level spells.

After a quick glance, Lin Xiaofei's knowledge was broadened; the contents were things that were completely unknown within the gang.

He glanced at the contents of the book a few times, then put it into his spatial bead and hurried back. Only after returning to his room did he intend to read it carefully.