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  "Take another punch!"

  Xiao Yan rapidly circuted the Fme Mantra. The Dou Qi within his body surged like an unbridled wild horse. Seizing the moment, he stepped forward swiftly and threw another punch.

  This time, his fist was engulfed in a mass of blood?red fmes. His Dou Qi deransf his fist into a miniature Eight?Winged Fme Demon Tiger. The muscles and veins on his right arm bulged promily as he smashed forward.

  Xiao Yan even locked onto the little girl in white with his Spiritual Strength. No matter how fast she moved or where she tried to escape, his gaze was fixed on her.

  The little girl giggled, revealing adorable dimples. Steeling herself, she let out a long howl. Aremely faint purple light shimmered from her body as her blood and Qi surged, and she met Xiao Yan's punch with one of her own.

  A thunderous g resounded. It could be said that Xiao Yan attacked with his full strength this time. His physical power erupted to its peak as he not only utilized the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge but also employed the Ten Thousa Fme.

  One must know that this was a Heavenly Fme, an unparalleled treasure. Yet, uhe little girl's all?out punch, even with the hidden force of the Oe Bst erupting, he still couldn't withstand the terrifying, immense ford was uo break through her punch.

  Boom!

  The hidden force of the Oe Bst bined with the eruption of the Ten Thousa Fme to produce a tremendous explosion. Terrifying fmes swept outward.

  Although Xiao Yan had terattacked using a Dou Teique, his entire body was sent flying like a fallieor, crashing heavily into a pile of rocks and creating a crater.

  Amidst the ctter of flying debris, he waved his hand to clear away the stones and crawled out from the rubble. At this point, he was in quite a sorry state. There was no doubt that he was no match for the mysterious little girl in close?bat exges.

  When he saw that the little girl had not even taken a step bad was still standing in her inal spot, he couldn't help but sigh wistfully. 'I thought that after obtaining the Ten Thousa Fme, my physical strength would be unshakable by a the same stage or even higher. Only today did I realize I've been a frog at the bottom of a well.'

  Xiao Yan's current physical strength certainly surpassed that of many Rank 5 magical beasts. With the Ten Thousa Fme, he was never afraid to engage in physical bat with magical beasts, let alone while using Dou Teiques as he did now.

  As a result, he learned a lesson today.

  His eyes focused as he looked at the mysterious little girl and said, "Little sister, you're not human, are you?"

  Although his words carried a note of impoliteness, the little girl did not get angry. Instead, she pced her hands on her hips and ughed, "That's right, I'm a magical beast."

  "You're only at the Dou King realm, yet you take human form?" Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes and asked.

  Magical beasts could indeed rely on their own strength to transform, but even someone like Medusa, who had evolved her bloodline and possessed an exceptionally high lineage, o reach the Dou Aor realm to achieve transformation.

  "I just actally ate aremely rare Body Transformation Grass, and then I became like this and o longer ge back." The little girl frowned, her expression dispying dishearte as she spoke; her mouth pouted, and she looked very unhappy.

  "Body Transformation Grass? No wonder..." Xiao Ya a bit enlightened upon hearing this. Body Transformation Grass was the main ingredient for refining Body Transformation Pills, so it naturally had some effects simir to the pill. However, if oe it directly without refining, suplete transformation problems would occur.

  "Where are your parents?" Xiao Yan asked casually.

  "Don't have any."

  The little girl replied impatiently, "Are you going to keep fighting or not? Stop asking so many questions!"

  Xiao Yan smiled slightly. With a f expression, he lightly tapped his ste ring, and the Heavy Xuan Ruler appeared in his hand. "Of course we'll fight! Just don't bme me for g martial virtue."

  The little girl giggled and assumed a fighting stance. "My body is my on. I'm not afraid even if you use one."

  Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan used Exploding Steps te forward once again. With the Heavy Xuan Ruler in hand, he executed a sweeping strike.

  The pitch?bck Heavy Xuan Ruler drew a semicircur arc as it swept out mightily.

  Even though he didn't employ the Fme Splitting Tsunami, the Heavy Xuan Ruler itself was astonishingly heavy, akin to a t mountain bearing down. This sweep produced a soni, and although it was more than a meter above the ground, it geed a whirlwind below.

  In the face of Xiao Yan's offehe little girl decided not to csh head on again. As the Heavy Xuan Ruler swept toward her, she lightly pressed her hands against it, borrowing its force to spin gracefully in the air and effortlessly evade his attack.

  Her movements were nimble. As she spun, she shed out with a kick toward Xiao Yan's fa a fluid motion, like a true dragon leaping into the sky and then swinging its tail.

  However, Xiao Yan's powerful Spiritual Strength sehe attack, and he swiftly bent backward to dodge the kick.

  g! g! g! g!!!

  In an instant, the two were locked in intense bat. Xiao Yan did not hold back simply because the little girl appeared small and cute. Each swing of the Heavy Xuan Ruler was a heavy strike, smashing crater after crater into the ground.

  Meanwhile, every punch from the little girl was like a ndmine exploding. Each pund kick resounded with the booming power of her strikes.

  The collisioween the ruler's might and her fist force echoed throughout the forest.

  With a massive boom, the little girl's punch finally met the Heavy Xuan Ruler head-on.

  This time, she was actually forced back several steps, her feet thudding against the ground. With the Heavy Xuan Ruler's enha and his keen spiritual perception, Xiao Yan had finally found a slight fw and seized the opportunity to terattack.

  The Heavy Xuan Ruler sang through the air with a resonating g. Not letting up after pushing her back, Xiao Yan tinued his relentless assault, utilizing Exploding Steps as he swung, swept, and thrust without giving the little girl a ce to recover her breath.

  Fme Splitting Tsunami!

  Xiao Yan halted his pursuit when he saw the little girl evade his attacks and then forcefully retreat. The Heavy Xuan Ruler turned an intense blood?red as he prepared to use this move to decide the oute!

  An unusual and violent energy fluctuation suddenly rippled through the forest.

  Streams of nearly tangible, violent red energy poured tinuously into the Heavy Xuan Ruler as Xiao Ya out a low shout.

  A massive dark?red ruler light, several meters long, shot forth with unstoppable momentum! Within the blood?red fmes, it appeared as if hordes of magical beasts were charging forward.

  A solemn look appeared itle girl's eyes when she saw Xiao Yan unleash a Di Css Dou Teique. An intense purple light slowly surged from her body, and that beautiful purple glow rendered her appeararemely mysterious.

  The little girl's hands turned into cws as she let out a long cry. Fag the ferocious Di Css Dou Teique, she showed no fear; with a motion like twin dragons emerging from the sea, purple light flickered, and Xiao Yan's seemingly unstoppable Fme Splitting Tsunami actually halted in mid?air!

  It was as if the Fme Splitting Tsunami was locked by an unseen force, pletely immobilized.

  Xiao Yan's expression ged dramatically as his pupils tracted. He realized what was happening.

  "Spatial Strength! Dou Vee realm?!"

  He was utterly stuhe little girl had not used any Dou Teique, but rather had maniputed Spatial Strength to seal his Fme Splitting Tsunami!

  Even a Dou Aor could only move through the air and roughly utilize Spatial Strength. Oe experts at the Dou Vee realm could manipute it freely.

  With a grave expression, Xiao Ya his Spiritual Perception over her. He discovered that this was not a Dou Teique but a bloodli Teique; a racial ialent possessed by the little girl.

  As the saying goes, 'The cub of a rat knows how to dig holes.' A magical beast's strength was greatly reted to its bloodline.

  Magical beasts were born with certain teiques embedded in their bloodlihat naturally ma upon reag a certain level.

  This was why Medusa was desperately striving to evolve. Her seven-colored light was the bloodli Teique of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and it was extremely formidable.

  "What exactly is this girl's true form? Her bloodlirength actually manipute Spatial Strength!" Xiao Yan's heart trembled. Her physical strength surpassed that of ordinary Rank 5 magical beasts, and she could even manipute Spatial Strength!

  Only now did Xiao Yan recall that at the very beginning, when he had used a Dou Qi protective shield to defend himself, the little girl had directly peed his shield a him flying with a punch.

  At that time, he had thought she had used some kind of Dou Teique. But now, it seemed she had maniputed Spatial Strength to punch through empty spad attack!

  Under his astonished gaze, the little girl flipped her hands and pushed forward. The ruler light from the Fme Splitting Tsunami suddenly distorted, or more precisely, the surrounding space distorted.

  In the moment, she revealed a slightly proud smile and said, "Hee hee, you dummy! Take it back!"

  Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

  The instant, Xiao Yan experienced firsthand the feeling of those who had been attacked by his Fme Splitting Tsunami before!

  The blood?red ruler light reversed instantly, and the Ten Thousa Fme within surged toward him like ten thousand galloping horses.

  'Holy shit…?!'

  Xiao Yan's mind reeled as he saw the Fme Splitting Tsunami surge toward him like a tsunami.

  Hesitating only for a split sed, he abandoned defense and forced himself to circute the Three Thousand Lightning Movement at his fastest speed!

  Xiao Yan always had his methods for dealing with magical beasts. But this time, battling the little girl was not about defeating her. He inteo use actual bat to temper himself.

  He rarely entered such a powerful oppo.

  At this critical moment, his foot nded, silver light fshed, and his body suddenly exhibited a strange, illusory sensation. If someoh sharp eyesight were present, they would have seen a bck line fsh through space the instant his body became illusory.

  With a boom, the Ten Thousa Fme engulfed the spot where 'Xiao Yan' had stood.

  But the little girl's gaze shifted to a spot about twenty meters away.

  On the grass, a figure quietly emerged like a ghost.

  Upon revealing himself, the first thing Xiao Yan did was urgently turn around. Seeing the faint bck, illusory afterimage being engulfed by the Fme Splitting Tsunami twenty meters behind him, he couldn't tain his joy!

  "Success! Lightning Fsh!!!"

  A surge of wild excitement appeared on Xiao Yan's face as he looked at the bck shadow being engulfed.

  In just seven days, he had mao execute 'Lightning Fsh' from the Low Di Css agility-type Dou Teique, Three Thousand Lightning Movement! Although he could not say it was fully mastered, as perhaps it was just a lucky execution, this was like alchemy. Once you succeeded the first time and remembered that feeling, you could quickly and truly ehe gate!

  This was absolutely a miracle. With talent, tenacity, hard work, and most importantly, the daring spirit to take risks, ath was there for him besides success?