"I haven't even got on the horse yet!" Shalai shouted from behind.

The Pink Nightmare showed no intention of stopping. Li Xiu rushed towards the two evil spirits with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other.

When the two evil spirits were still seven or eight meters away from the pink nightmare, they jumped up and pounced towards Li Xiu.

Li Xiu fired two shots with the forbidden gun in his left hand, and the bullets, which were shining with blood and frost, pierced the bodies of the two evil spirits.

Li Xiu attached Ice Ashes and Super Stimulation skills to the bullets. The dual effects of freezing and electric paralysis made the two monsters stiff in the air for a moment.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the pink nightmare also jumped up and passed between the two evil spirits.

The two symbiotic contracts and Li Xiu's own light energy were activated at the same time and injected into the Fire Lotus Sword. The body of the Fire Lotus Sword became like a transparent red crystal, and the burning flame turned into a transparent red and blue color, flashing twice in the air like lightning.

The two evil spirits and the pink nightmare landed on the ground almost at the same time. The Fire Lotus Sword had returned to Li Xiu's waist. The pink nightmare landed as steady as a rock, but the two evil spirits took two steps forward after landing. Then, there was a click, and the evil spirits' heads separated from their bodies and fell to the ground, followed by their bodies falling to the ground with a bang.

From a distance, Shalai only saw Li Xiu riding the pink nightmare into the air, crossing paths with two evil spirits, and then the sword flashed twice, and the two evil spirits were beheaded after falling to the ground.

"It's so damn cool. Such a cool thing should be done by me, Sha Lai." Sha Lai muttered enviously.

Although the demigod Setsuna and the Jedi Knight were not as clean and neat as Li Xiu, they still had the upper hand when outnumbered two.

Under their powerful attack, the demons were chopped and screamed in pain.

The demigod crossed his spear and sword, forced back one demon with one spear, and killed the other with the sword.

The Jedi Knight's sword slashed out crescent-shaped rays of light, chopping the demons into pieces.

Shalai's blood boiled as he watched, and he wished he could go up and fight the evil spirit himself.

Li Xiu only fired two shots and did not shoot at the other four colorful demons.

He has tested it out during this period and found that one non-kill bullet can be restored every 24 hours, but it is not always available.

There is no need to waste so many bullets against these colorful monsters. Save some bullets and you may encounter monsters of higher quality.

Maybe it was because of bad luck, the two non-lethal bombs did not produce anything, only condensed into magic cores.

The other four colorful monsters had not been dealt with yet, and two more monsters rushed up. These two monsters were of poor quality, but their levels should be relatively high, probably D or C level, and they ran faster than those other E-level monsters.

"Leave one little guy to me, and the other one is yours." Shalai rushed up at some point and faced one of the demons.

Li Xiu wanted to call him, but after thinking about it, he gave up and rushed towards the other demon and killed it with one sword.

"Kill!" Shalai roared, his boxing gloves gleaming with light. He dodged the attack of the demon and punched it on the head.

The demon spirit shook its head and collided with the boxing gloves.

Shalai only felt a huge force surging, and he involuntarily took seven or eight steps back and sat down on the ground.

"Damn, how can it be so powerful!" Shalai was shocked to see Li Xiu killing the Liucai Demon Spirit as if he was cutting melons and vegetables. He did not expect that this low-quality demon spirit could be so powerful.

The evil spirit over there pounced directly over and pressed Shalai under it.

"Li Xiu, help me!" Shalai blocked one of the demon's claws with one hand, but the demon's bloody mouth bit down, scaring him so much that he shouted for help.

Li Xiu has been observing the situation on Shalai's side, not wanting him to suffer any loss. This guy thought the evil spirit was so easy to kill. If he doesn't suffer a small loss now, he will suffer a big loss in the future.

Seeing that Shalai was about to be bitten, Li Xiu grabbed the brim of his gentleman's hat and threw it directly at Shalai.

The gentleman's hat fell exactly on Shalai's head.

After putting on the gentleman's hat, Shalai suddenly felt a force injected into his body, making him full of strength.

He exerted force with both arms and actually flipped the demon spirit out.

Shalai was overjoyed. He pounced on the demon and rode on it. He used his boxing gloves to hit the demon's head. With the last punch, he blew the demon's head apart.

As the battle of Shalai was getting underway, he saw another demon spirit rushing up from behind, and he rushed forward wearing a gentleman's hat.

Li Xiu did not rush forward. He had no interest in those E-level cuties. With the blessing of the gentleman's hat, even though there were many E-level monsters, Shalai should not suffer any serious loss.

By the time the demigod Setsuna and the Jedi Knight had dealt with the four demons, they still only had the demon cores and not even a talent gem.

Li Xiu's appetite has been spoiled by the Blood Moon, Black Death City and the Forbidden Spear, and he has forgotten what is normal.

Fortunately, the level of these flowing colorful magic cores is not low, there are both A-level and B-level, which are just right for raising demigods Setsuna and Jedi Knights.

After thinking about it, Li Xiu gave all six magic cores to the Jedi Knight. The resources required for the Demigod Setsuna to upgrade to a higher level are at least two or three times that of the Jedi Knight. He should first raise the level of the Jedi Knight, and then slowly support the Demigod Setsuna.

After the Jedi Knight ate five magic cores, blazing red flames began to burn on his body. It was obvious that he was about to advance again, and his innate skills were also awakened.

After the red flames subsided, the armor on the Jedi Knight's body became as if stained with blood, no longer as dark as before. The fluorescence of the Jedi sword in his hand also became stronger, rising from C-level to B-level.

Li Xiu sensed that the Jedi Knight had a new skill called "Martial Soul". As expected, a skill was awakened every time he leveled up. The parasitic effect of evil was really abnormal.

It's a pity that we only found two evil spirits. Otherwise, we could have one of them for all the monsters and have a full-skill army of monsters. That would be awesome.

The remaining colorful demon was fed to the Jedi Knight, who quickly upgraded it to S-level, so that he wouldn't have to worry so much in the trial area in the future.

Shalai over there had gone crazy with killing, charging left and right among the group of demons like a human-shaped ferocious beast.

The tyrant's boxing gloves were shining, and there was a green halo above his head. He killed every little cutie with one punch, making Shalai fly with joy.

Li Xiu put away the demon spirit and sat aside watching Shalai killing everyone. Shalai's fighting ability was indeed very strong, and his fighting style was extremely brutal and fierce. He especially liked headshots. There was not a single demon spirit corpse with an intact head on the ground.

It was unknown how much time had passed before more than a hundred demons were hammered to death by Shalai. Shalai stepped on the body of the last fallen demon and shouted arrogantly, "How come they are gone so quickly? Give me another dozen demons. I will beat ten."

Li Xiu stretched out his hand and the gentleman's hat automatically flew back into his hand.

Shalai, who was full of energy just now, suddenly felt a wave of fatigue. All the muscles in his body began to ache, and he seemed to be wilting all of a sudden. His energy and spirit were much worse than before.

The gentleman's hat can stimulate potential, but using potential also has the risk of overdraft. Shalai has been fighting there intensively for more than an hour, and his physical strength has long been overdrawn.

"Well...can you lend me your hat again? There might be some evil spirits in the ancient desert city..." Shalai ran to Li Xiu and said with a smile on his face.

"You should clean up the battlefield first. The spoils of the monsters you killed belong to you. Check to see if there are any talent gems, skill rings, or monster rings." Li Xiu did not give it to him. If he continued to overdraw, Shalai would have difficulty standing up later.

Shalai was so engrossed in killing that he had forgotten about this matter. Only after Li Xiu reminded him did he remember it and ran over happily to pick up the spoils.

He rummaged around and came back cursing for a while, "What's going on? I killed so many demons, but all I got are magic cores. Not to mention demon rings, there's not even a talent gemstone. Are they targeting me?"

"You've only killed a little over a hundred ordinary E-level monsters. It's a miracle that anything can be dropped." Li Xiu thought to himself, but said, "It's possible. There probably weren't many new trialists as fierce as you. You must have been targeted."

"There's nothing I can do about it. I'm so strong." Shalai laughed.

"You take a rest first. I'll go to the ancient desert city to see if there are any more evil spirits." Li Xiu came to the top of the sand dune again, looked at the abandoned ancient city below, and summoned out the White Night Demon again.

The female demon of White Night stood there for a long time, but no demon spirit came out of the abandoned ancient city, so Li Xiu went down.

From a close distance, the ancient city was even more dilapidated. Although it was made of rocks, it was badly weathered. Li Xiu wanted to grab a brick, but when he used a little force, the brick fell apart like crispy candy.

Li Xiu searched the city carefully, but found nothing along the way.

It was not until he arrived in front of the huge demon statue that Li Xiu discovered that the demon statue was a bit strange.

This is a statue of a reclining demon. It lies on the ground with its mouth half open, as if it is dozing off and unconsciously opening its mouth, or as if it is snoring with its fangs showing.

When Li Xiu walked to its mouth, he found that there was a golden flame burning inside its mouth. It looked like the mouth of the statue was connected to the underground fire.

Li Xiu saw that the fire was very big and he didn't know how many years it had been burning. It had forged the rock inside the statue's mouth into something as crystal clear as glass.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly felt the Fire Lotus Sword at his waist tremble, and then it automatically flew out from Li Xiu's waist and fell into the mouth of the statue.

Li Xiu was shocked at first, then he was overjoyed.

In order to upgrade the level of Parasitic Contract, some opportunities are needed. Now it seems that the opportunity of Fire Lotus Sword has come.

After the Fire Lotus Sword flew into the flames, the flames suddenly became fiercer. The golden flame that was originally burning only in the statue's mouth suddenly increased in size and came out of the mouth.

The blazing golden flames spurted out several meters away, forcing Li Xiu to retreat some distance.

Li Xiu still had some expectations for the promotion of the Fire Lotus Sword.

Although the Fire Lotus Sword is only of shining quality, the quality of its original embryo is as high as 0.9.

There is no necessary correlation between the quality of the original embryo and the quality. It does not mean that the better the quality, the higher the quality of the original embryo. The original embryo quality of the Dark Mirror of Brilliant Quality is only 0.7.

Quality only determines the strength of light energy. The quality of the original embryo is the quality of the contract itself. The two are different.

No matter how good the quality of the embryo is, it will not work if the light energy is not strong enough. Only when both are high can it be considered top quality.

However, ever since he discovered the lights in the buildings outside the Black Death City that could improve the quality of the symbiotic contract, Li Xiu has been wondering if he could improve the quality of the Fire Lotus Sword as well.

If the quality of the Fire Lotus Sword can also be upgraded to Brilliance, combined with its 0.9 original quality, it will be quite powerful.

It’s a pity that those lights are hard to come by and it may be difficult to get them in a short time.

After waiting for more than an hour, the flames were still burning. Shalai ran over, looked at the flames and said, "I thought something happened to you. It turns out you were playing with fire. What's going on?"

"I don't know either. The statue's mouth seems to be connected to the underground fire. One of my parasitic contracts went in by itself. Maybe it wants to use the underground fire here to temper the embryo, improve its quality and advance to the next level." Li Xiu said.

"Is this possible? Then I'll try it too." Shalai took off his boxing gloves and was about to throw them into the fire.

But the Naha boxing gloves seemed to be stuck on his hands, and Shalai couldn't throw them out despite trying several times.

"Don't mess around. Different deeds require different opportunities for promotion. This earth fire may not be suitable for your deed." Li Xiu was a little amused. Shalai was really a tiger sometimes.

Shalai had no choice but to give up and put away his boxing gloves, but he still didn't give up and went to search other places in the ancient city. After a round of searching, he came back with nothing.

"What a shabby place! There's nothing good here except this flaming statue." Shalai muttered in frustration.

Li Xiu smiled and said nothing. Shalai was a chatterbox. When Li Xiu joined the football team, he was the first one to criticize Li Xiu.

"Old Sha, I have something to ask you." Since he was free anyway, Li Xiu looked at Sha Lai and said.

"What's the matter?" Shalai looked at Li Xiu warily. He always felt that when Li Xiu spoke to him in this tone, it must be something bad.

"I think you are a good person, why do you have a bad reputation?" Li Xiu actually wanted to know why everyone said that Sha Lai was a vicious murderer.

Shalai sighed and said, "I don't want to kill anyone, but I really can't survive. There was no other way. That year, my hometown was hit by a locust plague. Not only the crops, but even the bark of trees was gone. My parents and several brothers and sisters starved to death. I was really hungry, so I went to steal food from my neighbor's house. The man of the neighbor's house was doing business outside. Although he was not rich, he could still make ends meet. He was much better off than those of us who only relied on farming. At least he could eat."

Li Xiu was silent, not knowing what to say. When people are extremely hungry, they can sometimes do anything.

But who knew that Sha Lai punched Li Xiu in the chest and scolded him with a smile: "I am not like what you think. I didn't kill anyone from that family."

"I was so hungry that I had no strength left. It was my first time doing that, so I was inevitably very nervous. My hands and feet were not very flexible, so I was caught by that family. But that family didn't beat me, and they gave me a bowl of rice. I will always remember the feeling when the couple asked their daughter to pass the bowl of rice to me... The rice... was so damn delicious..."

"Later, every now and then, when I was really hungry, I would sneak into his house to steal some food. Every time, I would be able to find some food in his kitchen cabinet. Although it wasn't much, it kept me alive. I knew that they left it for me on purpose."

At this point, Shalai's face turned grim. "Then one night, I went to his house to steal food again, and then I saw the three of them lying in a pool of blood, and all the things in the house were robbed."

"Later, I secretly inquired and found out that a few bastards had robbed his family of food and killed the three members of that family. I planned for more than half a month, sneaked into one of their homes in the middle of the night, ate his food, and then stabbed him a few times while he was still asleep, gagged him and tied him up. I didn't kill him, he bled to death... None of those guys escaped... I killed them all with my own hands..." Shalai sighed, "Then I escaped and risked my life to enter the trial field. My life has gotten better, but now, let alone eating, even the most delicious food doesn't taste good anymore."

Li Xiu had never experienced that kind of life, so naturally he couldn't empathize with him, but he remained silent as he listened.

"I don't believe in any morality now. I will follow whoever gives me money. Do you need people? As long as the money is in place, I will kick Kunsha out and follow you." Shalai said with a smile.

"You should have heard something about my current situation. The situation in City of Light is pretty good. You're welcome to come anytime. But I'm short of money right now, so I can't offer you a high salary." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"That's easy. As for the salary, just take me to the trial ground a few more times and I'll have everything." Shalai said with a laugh.

As the two were talking, they discovered that the flame in the mouth of the demon statue began to weaken. After a moment, the flame retreated into the statue's mouth and continued to shrink inside.

After a while, the flame became lower and lower, and finally disappeared completely.

Li Xiu and Sha Lai walked to the mouth of the statue and looked down, only to see a pitch-black hole. They didn't know how deep it was, and there was no light at all inside.

Suddenly, a red light flashed out from the darkness below, passed by Li Xiu, circled in the air several times, and finally stopped in front of Li Xiu.

At this time, the blade of the Fire Lotus Sword became thinner and the blade was glowing with a faint red light, with a hint of gold in the red light.

Looking closely, I found that the sword seemed to be covered with fine scales. Originally, there were thin lines of light golden light covering the entire sword body. It looked a bit like scales, and like lotus petals overlapping on the sword body.

After sensing the information from the Fire Lotus Sword, he found that he had indeed been promoted from E-level to D-level, and had gained an additional talent skill.

Fire Lotus Sword: Parasitic Contract.

Quality: Shining.

Grade: D.

Embryo quality: 1.9.

Innate skills: Fire Lotus Sword Spirit, Fire Lotus Life.