"Pretty alert, huh? Do yourself a favor! Hand over your storage bag!"
"Iâll make it quick for you!"
As soon as Changâsheng finished speaking, a tall, skinny middle-aged cultivator with a sinister look, dressed in a blue robe and wielding a middle grade steel fork magical artifact, strode up from thirty yards away.
The corners of his mouth curled into a cold-blooded smirk.
He looked like he had Changâsheng all figured out.
Magical power surged around the steel fork in his hand, glowing with deadly intent.
"Die!"
A murderous glint flashed in Changâshengâs eyes. He flicked his wrist and sent an egg-sized fireball straight into the chest of the steel fork-wielding cultivator!
In an instant, the manâs upper body caught fire, flames roaring across his robes!
"Aargh!!"
The middle-aged cultivator howled in pain, eyes bulging in terror. "Y-you... your cultivation!"
He hadnât expected this.
This guy wasnât actually the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer he appeared to be!
He had to be at least Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer or more!
Thought he found an easy mark, but got a wolf. Too late for regret now.
The cultivator felt a heavy blow land atop his head, his vision darkened, and his mind went blank!
"A measly Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer dares to be out here murdering for loot?"
Changâsheng glanced at the middle-aged cultivator, snatched his storage bag, tossed another fireball to reduce his corpse to ashes, tidied up the remains, wiped away any evidence, and sped off.
Changâsheng rushed all the way for nearly fifty miles before finally probing the storage bag with his divine sense. The moment he saw inside, his eyes went wide with shock. "Holy crap, how many cultivators has this guy robbed??"
What Changâsheng hadnât expected: this guy was loaded.
His storage bag had over six hundred spirit stones!
More than a hundred spirit storage pills.
Over twenty lower grade magical artifacts, one middle grade magical artifact, the pill formula for the spirit storage pill, plus the pill formula for the dragon and tiger pill, three hundred-year-old reishi mushrooms, five centennial spirit grass, a pile of other herbs, and all sorts of demon beast materials.
Ice Arrow Technique, Fireball Technique, Fire Bomb Technique, and a dozen other low tier spell manuals!
The real surprise for Changâsheng: there was even a Transformation Technique manual inside!
"Nice, another disguise technique for my collection!"
Changâsheng gave the Transformation Technique a cursory read, and his eyes instantly lit up.
This manual was actually a secret technique for masking oneâs identity.
Heâd already gotten Transformation Technique, Face Changing Technique, Bone Shrinking Skill, and now with this one, thatâs fourâplus his own cultivated disguise technique. Once he merged them all, heâd have an even more powerful Transformation Technique!
With an upgraded technique, he wouldnât have to worry about anyone uncovering who he was.
Changâsheng continued to stealth his way toward the mountain cave where the Little White Fox hid.
......
"Ying ying ying!"
When Changâsheng showed up at the cave entrance, the Little White Fox pounced and wagged its tail. Changâsheng noticed that its second tail was now just as long as the first, and the little guy looked more lively and spirited than ever.
"Xiaobai, what kind of strength do you even have??"
Changâsheng looked at the Little White Fox, scratched its head, and asked.
"Ying ying ying!"
The Little White Fox looked up at Changâsheng with those big eyes, blinked, then shook its head.
"That instant teleport thing you used to save me before was pretty neat. Can you teach me?"
Changâsheng asked again.
That Instant Teleportation Technique was definitely a life-saver. If only he could learn it!
"Ying ying ying~~~"
Xiaobai looked at Changâsheng, pointed at itself, then at Changâsheng, and shook its head again.
"Itâs fine if I canât learn it."
Changâsheng got the message and figured it was probably Xiaobaiâs natural talent technique. He pulled some food out of his storage bag, tossed it to Xiaobai, checked the cave, and reopened the storage bag.
First thing he took out was that Transformation Technique manual and started reading . .
[Transformation Technique detected at entry level. You may spend 3 spirit stones to simplify it. Simplify?]
After reading the Transformation Technique ten times, a red prompt popped up on his panel.
"Simplify!"
Changâsheng clicked confirm without hesitation.
[Great Dao is Simple: Simplifying Transformation Technique . . . Success . . . Transformation Technique == Twisting Water Snake Waist]
Changâsheng clicked confirm. Less than ten breaths later, a red notification popped up on the panel.
"Wait, Transformation Technique got simplified to âTwisting Water Snake Waistâ?"
"Uh..."
Changâsheng stared at the simplified result, totally baffled.
âTwisting Water Snake Waistââsure, thatâs something women do best. But he was a guy. How the hell was he supposed to twist his waist like a water snake?
After a bit of thought, Changâsheng decided, screw it, heâs gonna twist.
He stood up, shrugged his shoulders, imagined his waist moving like a water snake, and started twisting, then looked at the panel.
Transformation Technique experience points +1!
Transformation Technique experience points +1!
......
"Uh... Looks like my twisting is actually working!"
Seeing the prompt, Changâshengâs eyes gleamed. As long as he could rack up experience points, thatâs all that mattered. Since no one else was around, he immediately pulled out his manuals for Transformation Technique, Face Changing Technique, and Bone Shrinking Skill and got back to studying.
As he read, his shoulders gyrated, his waist twisted like a snake, and his feet glided in a moonwalk, trying to get his water snake twist as smooth as possible!
"Ying ying ying!"
At that moment, the Little White Fox sat off to the side, holding a pear between its paws, gnawing away while looking at Changâsheng with a look of clear disdain.
"What do you know, Xiaobai? This is called working out, got it?"
"Look at you, stuffing your face like that! Youâll never land yourself a vixen at this rate!"
Changâsheng threw Xiaobai a look, but kept right on twisting his water snake waist.
"......."
The Little White Fox peered at its own body, said nothing, put down the half-eaten pear, its big eyes blinking with deep thoughtâseemed like it was wondering if it needed to go on a diet?