This winter seems colder than usual. The mountains and trees of the Endless Mountains are covered with a thick layer of ice crystals. As far as the eye can see, it is a world of ice and snow, beautiful and dreamlike.
It wasn't until March of the following year, when the ice and snow melted and new buds sprouted from the grass and trees, that a boy wearing loose clothes and ill-fitting boots crawled out of a narrow hole in the ground.
The boy had skin as smooth as cream, lips as red as rouge, and eyebrows as delicate as a painting. If you didn't look at his Adam's apple, you could easily mistake him for a young girl.
However, the boy himself was not satisfied. He was holding a mirror, looking at his face while frowning.
The mirror was found in the storage bags of the two demon soldiers, and the clothes and boots also belonged to those two demon soldiers; they were several sizes too big for him.
"Why is he so delicate-looking again? He's not tall and imposing at all!" Li Ze muttered. His face, like the body he had condensed last time, was pretty and delicate, lacking the robustness and grandeur of a man.
"Looks like I still need to practice." In his previous life, he practiced for many years before finally developing a thin layer of muscle.
Li Ze now has a physical body, but his strength is only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he is still quite a distance away from Foundation Establishment.
Unable to fly on a sword during the Qi Refining stage, Li Ze had no choice but to walk to leave the Endless Mountains. However, he had barely reached the ground when wild beasts, starving all winter, surrounded him.
It's a pack of wolves!
This is a pack of gray wolves, each with dull fur and green eyes, indicating that they did not have a good winter.
"Compared to the snow wolves, these wolves are far inferior." Li Ze glanced at the wolf pack, only the alpha wolf was somewhat worthy of his attention.
The snow wolf is still in his sea of consciousness; it's time to find it a body.
However, the lifespans of these wild beasts were too short, so Li Ze ruled them out first. He wanted to find a demonic beast, preferably one that looked similar to a snow wolf, pure white, and majestic.
"Get out of the way!" Li Ze shouted coldly, his dark eyes devoid of any warmth, making him even more terrifying than the pack of wolves.
The seemingly harmless words startled the wolves, causing them to freeze for a moment before turning and running away.
Such is the hierarchy and suppression in the cultivation world—brutal and barbaric.
Li Ze checked the storage bags of the two demon soldiers and found that they only contained magic crystals, not spirit stones. Without spirit stones on him after leaving the Endless Mountains, he couldn't afford to stay in an inn, couldn't afford food, and couldn't even change into a set of clothes that fit him.
His immediate priority is to earn some spirit stones.
Currently, he only has two ways to earn spirit stones: hunting monsters or picking spirit herbs.
Fortunately, the Endless Mountains are not lacking in spiritual herbs or demonic beasts. Li Ze released his divine sense and soon found a second-tier demonic beast ten miles ahead.
It was a red-eyed fox-rabbit.
The red-eyed fox rabbit has the appearance of both a fox and a rabbit, with long ears, a pointed snout, and thick, very soft fur.
"What a pity, it's a mixed breed." Li Ze sighed as he looked at the red-eyed fox-rabbit in the grass. "It would be more valuable if it had solid-colored fur."
The red-eyed fox-rabbit seemed to understand Li Ze's words, baring its teeth and revealing a fierce expression. Before Li Ze could even make a move, the fox-rabbit pounced on him.
Its sharp claws gleamed coldly, and it struck Li Ze's neck with lightning speed and ferocity.
If Li Ze were only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, dodging this claw attack would be nothing short of a pipe dream. But Li Ze was no ordinary Qi Refining cultivator; the seemingly fast and fierce attack from the Crimson-Eyed Fox Rabbit was full of flaws in his eyes.
He didn't even use a weapon; he simply used magic to create a blade and slashed the red-eyed fox-rabbit's neck before it could get close.
A second-tier demonic beast perished.
Oh--
Li Ze raised his hand to support himself against a large tree, and slowly sat down against it, a bitter smile appearing on his lips. It was just a second-tier demon beast, yet its magic core was already empty!
Qi Refining stage cultivators are indeed not very resilient.
After resting for a while and recovering his strength, Li Ze got up and walked towards the corpse of the red-eyed fox-rabbit.
He first skinned the red-eyed fox-rabbit, then dug out its inner core, and finally cleaned the meat before starting a fire on the spot.
Having not eaten for a long time, he couldn't wait to taste the food.
The two demon soldiers' storage bags contained no food, but there were a few bottles of fasting pills. Li Ze continued to search through them, but he didn't find any seasonings or anything like that, not even salt!
Li Ze couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Although the meat of monsters was usually delicious, it was lacking in flavor because it was without salt.
However, just then, several voices were approaching him from afar.
"There's a fire over there; he must be a cultivator. We can ask him for help."
"We don't even know who they are yet. If they're unreliable, it's better not to look for them at all."
"If your strength is too low, it won't work; then it won't be helping, it will be dragging you down."
......
As the sound drew closer, Li Ze immediately suppressed his demonic energy and covered it with a faint aura of malevolence.
Soon, three tall, handsome men came into Li Ze's view.
The three men's eyes flashed with amazement when they saw Li Ze, but their expressions quickly changed.
"Sigh, just a Qi Refining stage cultivator." A man's face fell.
“Jingyuan, you can’t be so rude,” another man scolded.
"I am a little disappointed." The man walking at the back shook his head.
Li Ze glanced at them, said nothing, and then turned his attention back to his grilled meat.
"Are you alone, fellow Daoist?" The man named Jingyuan sat down next to Li Ze without asking.
Li Ze hummed in agreement and asked, "Do you have any seasonings?"
"Yes," Jingyuan replied, taking out several small jars from his storage bag. "I'll give you the seasonings, and you'll send us some roast meat?"
"Deal." Li Ze agreed readily. The red-eyed fox rabbit was as big as a small calf, and he couldn't finish it all by himself.
"Fellow Daoist, you're so generous!" Jingyuan laughed, then beckoned to his two teammates, "Fifth Senior Brother, Sixth Senior Brother, come and sit down. Let's eat something before we set off."
The other two men exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with helplessness, but they ultimately did not refuse.
"I am Lin Jingyuan, from the Crimson Pill Sect. This is my fifth senior brother, Gu Junyu, and my sixth senior brother, Liang Chen," Lin Jingyuan introduced.
“My name is…” The name he was about to say suddenly stopped, and Li Ze lowered his eyes. “My name is He Yu, and I am a rogue cultivator.”
Upon hearing the words "rogue cultivator," Lin Jingyuan and the other two exchanged glances, their enthusiasm waning considerably.
Only those with poor talent, whom no sect is willing to accept, will become rogue cultivators. After all, rogue cultivators lack cultivation techniques and elixirs, and have no one to guide them, so they are destined not to go far on the path of cultivation.
The He Yu in front of me looks young, not like he's twenty years old. He's only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, which is not bad. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have been rejected by the sect.
Did he do something wrong and get expelled from the sect?
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