After finishing his martial arts training, Xiao Long arrived in Qingyang Town three days ter.

  Now that he had broken through to the fourth level of a demo, bined with the Azure Dragon Tome and Fish-Dragon Shifting, anyone below the seventh level of the Body Refining Realm was no match for him. If he focused solely on esg, even those at the ninth level couldn't catch up with him.

  Moreover, he possessed the invincible artifact, the Midas Touch. As long as he didn't enter a human at the peak of the tenth level of the Body Refining Realm, no one could threaten him.

  The streets of Qingyang Town were narrow, with buildings closely packed together. Xiao Long activated the Breath cealment Teique and swiftly moved through the roadside bushes. When he entered open areas without cover, he used the Fish-Dragon Shifting teique to quickly dash across. Unless a Qi densing Realm martial artist was watg him closely, he would remain ued.

  Whoosh!

  Xiao Long slipped into the backyard of a tavern named Qiavern, the rgest establishment in Qingyang Town.

  Taverhe best pces to gather information. Since Xiao Long couldn't use the Soul trol teique for now, he had to think of a way here.

  Passing by the kit in the backyard, the aroma of food filled the air. Xiao Long swallowed his saliva, suddenly feeling an urge to eat.

  Ever since he stopped eating grains, he hadn't touched food for a long time and had fotten what it tasted like. Reborn in the body of a demo, that long-lost appetite returned!

  Humans, after reag the sixth level of the Body Refining Realm, could pletely stop eating and cultivate with Spiritual Qi. However, demos couldn't absorb Spiritual Qi before practig cultivation teiques; they could only devour food and refi to enhaheir cultivation. This was a biological instinct that couldn't be avoided.

  Xiao Long thought for a moment, then darted into the kit. Seeing a delicious roast chi oable, he leapt up like lightning, bit into it, and swallowed it in one smooth motion before disappearing.

  "That was amazing!" Xiao Lo unusually excited.

  He hadn't realized food could taste so good!

  ["You have devoured poultry and gained 9 experience points!"]

  The system notification startled Xiao Loing food could increase experience?

  With this in mind, he dashed bato the kit. Taking advantage of the absence of people, he devoured all the dishes oable, whether meat, vegetables, sweet, or spicy, leaving nothing behind.

  ["You have devoured vegetation and gained 3 experience points!"]

  ["You have devoured a level 3 demo and gained 37 experience points!"]

  ["You have devoured a level 1 demo and gained 19 experience points!"]

  ["You have devoured sweets and gained 5 experience points!"]

  Xiao Long moved quickly, eating everything cooked and even raw, including many unprocessed foods, leaving nothing untouched.

  Strangely, despite eating things rger than his own size, Xiao Long didn't grow and remained only half a meter long.

  ["You have devoured a level 3 demo and gained 67 experience points! You need 23 more experience points to level up!"]

  Xiao Long noticed that his experience bar was nearly full, but the food i was all gone.

  [(System Notification: A level 3 wild creature is located 20 meters to the southwest.)]

  "Someone's ing, time to go!" Xiao Long swiftly left the kit.

  When the innkeeper's assistant came to the kit to serve the dishes, he found it empty. The table full of dishes had turned into a heap of empty ptes, with a few ptes on the ground spinning around.

  "That was amazing! So amazing! Hahaha!" Xiao Long was extremely excited in the woodshed. Since his rebirth, he hadn't been this happy.

  He realized he was being addicted to eating.

  Besides the woodshed and kit, the backyard had many rooms where demos were kept. These beasts had tender meat and were beneficial for cultivation.

  Most demos were between the first and third levels, with the occasional fourth-level beast being very rare.

  These demos watched as a snake slithered past, staring at Xiao Long with wide eyes, pleading for him to rescue them.

  Xiao Long shook his head, ign these creatures. Being captured by humans was their own fault for being too weak. If they were strong enough, they could eat humans too.

  Xiao Loered the tavern from the back door and quietly crawled up to the sed floor, curling up under a ter.

  "Have you heard? Retly, the Fire Cloud Sect has been a bounty for killing Bck Spine Snakes. Killing one and bringing the body to the Fire Cloud Sect earn you spirit stones. A first-level Bck Spine Snake be exged for five lrade spirit stones."

  "Is that true? Five lrade spirit stones are worth five thousand taels of silver. Normally, a first-level Bck Spine Snake is worth a few huaels at most. Now it's almost ten times that!"

  "I heard that the daughter of the w enfort elder, Xue Wuqing, was killed by a Bck Spine Snake, so he wants revenge."

  "Nonse was clearly a mysterious expert trolling snake demos who killed her. A Miaojiang family trolling snakes in Fire Cloud City was exterminated because of it."

  "Xue Wuqing is ruthless! I heard the Ask Sword Sect was also implicated and had to peh many spiritual treasures, emptying their sect's assets."

  "There's nothing they do; they're not as powerful. The Fire Cloud Sect is one of the four major sects in Tianfeng Kingdom. What is the Ask Sword Separed to that?"

  "Xue Wuqing's daughter was a major troublemaker. It's good that she's dead!"

  "Keep your voice down, or you'll lose your head if someone hears you!"

  Xiao Long y uhe ter, listening for about an hour. The most discussed topic was the murder of Xue Wuqing's daughter from the Fire Cloud Sect.

  The timing was three days ago, the exact day he killed that chubby girl. Could she have been Xue Wuqing's daughter?

  If so, his use of the Midas Touch had triggered a of events, leading to tless deaths, and even making him a wanted criminal.

  "What kind of nonsense is the Fire Cloud Sect?" Xiao Long uzzled.

  One of the four major sects in Tianfeng Kingdom? It's probably just a oar sect. In his past life, he could have wiped out such a trashy force with a flip of his hand. Now they dared to offer a bounty to kill him, truly a case of a tiger falling to the pins and being bullied by dogs.

  Another question lingered: he remembered no one being around at the time. How was he discovered? The cowardly man had bee an idiot; it couldn't have been him who revealed it. The girl lying on the ground was indeed unscious.

  He opehe system's iory and threw two spirit stones outside, pg them in a er of the ter.

  Then, using his Inner Qi, he transformed his voito that of a strong middle-aged man and transmitted it into the ears of a lone drinker.

  "Young friend, I've pced two spirit stones in the er of the ter as a greeting gift. I want to ask you a few questions. If you aruthfully, I'll reward you with ten more spirit stones."

  The passerby looked around, finding no one paying attention to him, and couldn't locate the source of the voice. He g the ter's er and indeed saw two spirit stones on the ground.

  He walked over, carefully picked up the spirit stones, returo his seat, and smiled, "Senior, feel free to ask. I will answer everything I know."

  To transmit sound through Inner Qi without beied, he must have cultivated aremely powerful cealment teique. Such a person couldn't be easily offended, and besides, no one would refuse spirit stones.

  "Why do they say the killer was a Bck Spine Snake?" Xiao Long asked.

  This was his biggest question. He hadn't left any traces, so how did the Fire Cloud Seow the killer was a snake?