Insufficient balance

  Looking at Li Yi's weak appearance, a hint of playfulness flashed across She Zun's face, and he said in a low voice: "What are you afraid of? This injury will take at most half a month to recover from, you won't die."

  Li Yi spat out another mouthful of blood, then said in a low voice: "Nonsense, I also know that this injury won't kill me. But since someone has come to take my life, do you think only these two people will come? Probably after a while, if these two don't return, someone else will come looking for trouble with me. At that time, do you think I can still handle several people in my current state?"

  The snake revered one chuckled and said: "When that time comes, I will naturally take action. They want to move a single hair on you, it's impossible."

  Li Yi slumped his mouth and didn't bother to compete with the Snake Respecter, but instead struggled to get up and walked towards the direction where Li Nana was. He stretched out his hand under her nose, feeling her faint breathing, and Li Yi's heart finally settled a little. If Li Nana still died after such a great cost, then it would be really heartbreaking.

  "What's wrong? Worried about her?" Snake尊者 showed a playful smile, "This little girl won't die, don't worry, the assassin earlier was lenient and only stunned her. It seems that these two assassins have a deep connection with your Li family."

  "What's the relationship with the Li family, just take a look and you'll know." Li Yi hummed a sound, slowly walked to the front of the two corpses, pulled off their masks, after seeing clearly those two faces, Li Yi couldn't help but let out a cold laugh, saying: "It turns out they're outsiders from my Li family, it seems that the ones who made the move are indeed those old undead."

  These two deceased killers, Li Yi and others, had a faint impression, as if they had seen these two people vaguely at the clan meeting.

  And judging from the performance of these two people just now, it is likely that both are strong masters at the Dou Zhe level. Those old undying sects sent two Dou Zhe to deal with themselves, which is really generous.

  The snake respected Li Yit's ugly face and smiled lightly: "Young man, what are you going to do next?"

  Li Yi shook his head and said, "What else can we do? Are we going to wait for death here? Old ghost, do you have any way to quickly deal with the injury? In my current state, even if I want to run, I won't be able to."

  The Venerable Snake shook his head and said, "To treat your injury, it can't be done in less than ten days or half a month. Do you think I'm one of those gods from the Fighting God Temple who uses auxiliary skills? So don't even think about quickly treating your injury... however..."

  At this point, She Zun's words suddenly changed direction, his eyes fell on Li Yi's body, and his face was filled with an extremely strange expression: "However, although I have no way to quickly treat your injuries, you do have a way, though..."

  "Me?" Li Yi let out a bitter laugh, and sat back down on the ground. He rubbed his sore chest, muttering under his breath: "Old ghost, if I really had a way to deal with my own injuries, would I still be here wasting words with you?"

  "How can that be?" The expression on the face of the Snake Deity became increasingly sinister. "As long as you can advance to the rank of Dou Zhe now, and condense a Dou Qi vortex in your body, then this injury of yours will naturally heal immediately."

  "Bullshit!" Li Yi cursed in a low voice, "If it's that easy to advance to the Dou Zhe level, why did I get beaten so badly today? I would have already beaten these two guys to a pulp! Moreover, I've never heard of anyone being able to recover from injuries just by advancing to the Dou Zhe level!"

  The snake deity chuckled and his gaze fell on the two corpses on the ground, saying lightly: "When others cultivate their martial arts to advance to the next level, they naturally can't recover from their injuries. However, you are cultivating the Tianmo Jiubian! Based on my understanding of the Tianmo Jiubian, as long as you successfully advance, there is a high probability that your physical injuries will be recovered... As long as your Tianmo Jiubian can evolve successfully..."

  "Evolution?" Li Yi's face was shocked.

  The snake deity said calmly: "What? Can't I even deceive you?"

  "No... it's not..." Li Yi's face was dull and stupid, "Old ghost, you mean that the Tianmo Nine Changes can evolve?"

  "Yes," the Snake Deity nodded slightly, "the Tianmo Nine Transformations, as the name suggests, this set of martial arts has nine transformations. Every time you advance a level, it's one transformation... As long as you can make the martial art evolve while advancing in rank and reach the first transformation of Tianmo, not only will your injuries recover instantly, but also, the Tianmo Nine Transformations will evolve into the lower-level Zhuque martial art... Young master, even the highest martial art of the Li family is only at the middle level of Zhuque. I suppose you understand what benefits this lower-level Zhuque martial art has..."

  "Tianmo Nine Transformations, can it still evolve? The first transformation is just the low-level technique of Zhuque?" Li Yi's face was strange, "Old ghost, you're not fooling me, are you? I've never heard of any technique that can still evolve."

  "Why must I deceive you?" The Snake Deity rolled his eyes, "Whether or not you can evolve, just try it yourself and see..."

  "I'd like to," Li Yi hummed, "but what can I use to speed up my cultivation now? Or do you think I should just close myself off here for a few months? By the time I'm done cultivating, those old codgers will have probably killed me who-knows-how-many times."

  The snake revered one carefully looked at Li Yi for a moment before saying lightly: "Little ghost, are you really unaware or just pretending to be?"

  "What does it mean?" Li Yi frowned, and when he saw the gaze of the Snake Zun falling on the two corpses in front of him, he couldn't help but say, "Old ghost, you're not going to make me..."

  "It's all set." The Snake Deity casually waved his hand, and two strands of red energy shot out from his fingertips, circling around the two corpses on the ground. In an instant, a small white flame appeared from the dantian and qihai of each corpse.

  These two white flames fell onto the palm of the Snake Deity, making his originally illusory face even more eerie.

  Looking at the two flames in his palm, Snake Respecter said faintly: "It is said that on the Dou Sheng Continent, after a person dies, a soul fire will form inside their body. Inside this soul fire, there are usually the seeds of Dou Qi obtained through cultivation during their lifetime. This soul fire can only stay within the human body for three days. Within these three days, if someone finds this soul fire, it can be used in many ways. Therefore, on the Dou Sheng Continent, there is a saying that every strong corpse is itself a huge treasure trove..."

  "Kid, with your current state, if you can successfully refine the internal Qi nucleus of these two Soul Fires, not only will you be able to advance to the rank of a Fighter, and step into the threshold of becoming a strong warrior, but even triggering the first transformation of the Heavenly Devil won't be a difficult task... do you want to give it a try?"

  Li Yi's expression changed unpredictably, and when his eyes finally fell on the corpse on the ground, he gritted his teeth and said: "Fine! I'll give it a try... Anyway, if I can't advance to the Dou Zhe level, then my next move is to run away. But if I can advance to the Dou Zhe level, I must make those four old guys laugh harder than cry!"

  "Very well," the Snake Deity nodded, "If you don't even have this bit of heart, then there's no need for you to practice the Heavenly Demon Nine Transformations... However, since you've agreed, I'll lend you a helping hand!"

  As soon as the voice fell, Snake Zun's two hands slightly pinched together, and the flames of the two soul fires slowly went out, leaving only two small whirlwinds spinning in mid-air. These two whirlwinds quickly merged into one, forming a slightly larger whirlwind. With a flick of Snake Zun's finger, it floated gently to Li Yi's face.

  "The master has already helped you extract the seed of Dou Qi from the Soul Fire, which can save you a lot of time. As for whether you can succeed next, it depends on yourself."

  Li Yi looked at the rarely serious Snake Zun with a glance, he slowly exhaled, and without caring about the chaos around him, he sat down cross-legged, his hands forming an eerie hand seal.

  "What should I do next?"

  The Snake Respecter glanced at Li Yi faintly and said, "Swallow it down. You currently don't have any fighting energy in your body, so you can't directly refine this fighting energy seed. The only way is to swallow this fighting energy seed and then use the primordial energy inside your body to refine it. Remember, this step is extremely perilous, one misstep and it's a place of no return for ten thousand calamities. At that time, even I won't be able to help you."

  "What's the use of saying this now, old ghost?" Li Yi hummed and a cluster of black yuanqi emerged from his fingertips, slowly wrapping around the Dou Qi seed in front of him. Although he gritted his teeth, he threw the Dou Qi seed into his mouth.

  As the Dou Qi seed entered his abdomen, Li Yi's entire body shook, and the half of his body that had been frozen also slowly regained its sensation. The Tian Mo Nine Changes inside his body quickly began to circulate, and clusters of black Yuan Qi suddenly rushed towards the Dou Qi seed in his Dan Tian.

  "Hmm......" Li Yi let out a low, muffled groan, and large drops of cold sweat continuously emerged from his forehead. The Dou Qi seed in his body was like an endless darkness, silently devouring the Yuan Qi within him.

  The original yuanqi that was supposed to go to the Dou Qi seed often got swallowed into the vortex formed by the seed as soon as it reached the vicinity of the Dou Qi seed.

  Li Yi only felt a wave of dizziness in front of his eyes, the severe loss of yuanqi just now could not withstand such extraction at all. He could only let out a low growl, and the running route of Tianmo Jiubian changed suddenly. In an instant, the air around him was stirred up, and the faint heavenly yuanqi slowly entered his body with his breathing...