“Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden mission [Punish Evil and Eliminate Villainy], obtaining 500 contribution points.”

“Ding! Sect contribution points: 780/1000!”

This was the system notification sound that came while Jun Changxiao was on the mountain descent road after setting fire to Black Eagle Hall.

Previously, exterminating Black Wind Stronghold completed a mission to eliminate harm for the people. Today, exterminating Black Eagle Hall completed a mission to punish evil and eliminate villainy.

It seemed the system wanted him to be someone who acts on behalf of heaven.

Act on behalf of heaven?

He wondered if there was a hidden mission for that too.

On the road returning to Qingyang Commandery, Jun Changxiao kept thinking about idioms, like “waiting by a stump for rabbits” or “pulling up seedlings to help them grow,” and such.

However, there were too many idioms—who knew which one was a mission, and how to complete it.

“Sigh.”

He sighed and thought: “No clue at all.”

The system said: “Hidden missions are based on fate. Host doesn’t need to fixate on them.”

“Alright then.”

Jun Changxiao said: “After returning, I can only rely on recruiting disciples to earn contribution points.”

Without a moment’s rest, he led his disciples back to Qingyang Commandery through the night.

After they had been walking for two or three hours, Ghost Elder came pursuing from a thousand miles away, having obtained everything from Dai Lü’s memories.

His disciple was killed, his sect exterminated.

All of this was related to Tiegu Sect, so he pursued in killing intent, secretly swearing to exact a thousandfold revenge.

However.

What Ghost Elder didn’t expect was that the martial cultivator from whom he had extracted memories, who was like an ant, actually hadn’t died but miraculously survived.

When his life force became vigorous again, Dai Lü, lying on the ground, wore a dazed expression.

He truly didn’t understand why he could still be alive.

Could it be that his misery and unwillingness had deeply moved the heavens?

Dai Lü gently raised his hand and discovered his skin had changed from green back to normal. He couldn’t help but think: “What was that green flowing light just now?”

“Swish!”

He jumped up, confirming he was safe and sound, then hurriedly left Black Eagle Mountain. On the road, he secretly swore: “Jun Changxiao, and that guy who’s like a ghost—just you wait!”

“Whoosh!”

Just at this moment, Ghost Elder appeared before him again without warning, rather surprised: “Under my Soul Extraction Technique, you’re still alive. Little fellow, you’re not simple.”

Dai Lü’s expression changed dramatically. The next second, he turned and fled.

Unfortunately, just as he turned his head, Ghost Elder had already reached out his hand.

This time he didn’t grab his neck, but instead grasped his head, saying sinisterly: “This old man wants to take a good look at what secret you’re hiding.”

“Whoosh! Whoosh!”

The Soul Extraction Technique was executed, instantly surging into his sea of consciousness.

Having experienced it once before, Dai Lü begged for mercy in terror: “Sen… senior… don’t kill…”

“Ahhh!”

Screams echoed through the night sky, making one’s hair stand on end.

“Thud!”

Both knees hit the ground, then collapsed.

The one who fell to the ground wasn’t Dai Lü, but Ghost Elder!

He lay on the ground with eyes wide open, his body enveloped by masses of green light. His limbs began to rapidly shrink until only skin and bones remained.

“Swoosh—”

The green light flew up and rapidly merged into Dai Lü’s body.

“Whoosh! Whoosh!”

In an instant, wisps of pure spiritual energy gathered in his dantian. Not only did it rapidly break through his eleventh and twelfth meridians, it also helped him condense a qi spiral, breaking through to Seventh Rank Wutu in one leap!

The entire process occurred in an extremely short time.

When everything ended, Dai Lü, who had clearly still been begging for mercy, saw that old fellow dead before him like a dried corpse. He was so frightened he sat paralyzed on the spot.

“What… what’s going on…”

Sensing that powerful force gathering within his body, his entire person was dumbfounded on the spot.

After a long while, when Dai Lü had completely adapted, he could finally confirm he had suddenly become stronger—and not just by a little bit!

“Hm?”

Suddenly, he discovered his hands had turned green again. In the area his palms pressed, flowers and grass were rapidly withering, as if losing their life force!

At the same time, wisps of weak spiritual power from his palms were merging into his body. Although there wasn’t much significant effect, he could clearly detect it.

Dai Lü understood in an instant—could that faint spiritual power be coming from the flowers and grass?

When he came into contact with them, could he be extracting the spiritual power within?

Looking again at the old man lying beside him like a dried corpse, his gaze gradually shifted from dazed to wildly joyful. Finally, he couldn’t suppress the thought: “I can devour other people’s spiritual power?”

To confirm his guess, Dai Lü hurriedly stood up, came to a large tree, and pressed his palm against the bark.

Sure enough!

The instant his green palm touched the tree, it rapidly extracted the life force within.

The originally very vigorous towering tree rapidly withered, and yellowing leaves fell in sheets.

At the same time, the extracted spiritual power transformed into energy and merged into Dai Lü’s body, making his qi spiral increase by just a tiny bit.

At this point, even an idiot could understand what was happening, so in the dark night, extremely excited laughter immediately rang out.

Ahahaha!

Ahahahaha!

Dai Lü, who had thought he would surely die, miraculously extracted Ghost Elder’s power and obtained his energy, breaking through in one leap from the tenth stage of Meridian Opening to Seventh Rank Wutu!

Using professional xuanhuan novel terminology, this was absolutely a devourer!

Screech.

The laughter suddenly stopped.

The green light on Dai Lü’s palm disappeared, and no matter how he tried to activate it, it was difficult to make it appear again.

“Why is it gone!”

“Could it only appear when encountering danger?”

Although dejected, with such substantial advancement in cultivation, Dai Lü still couldn’t hide his excitement.

He clenched his fist and said coldly: “Jun Changxiao, sooner or later, I will have my revenge!”

With that, he got up to leave.

Just as he took a step, his speed was surprisingly fast—so fast he was like a ghost’s shadow.

From this, it could be seen that Green Scarf Brother had not only extracted Ghost Elder’s cultivation but had also independently comprehended his Blood Explosion Steps. Although it couldn’t compare to the original, at the Wutu level, it was already quite formidable!

Awesome.

Super awesome!

At that moment, speeding through the mountain wilderness, Dai Lü had a feeling of being supreme in heaven and earth, sole and unrivaled. He wanted nothing more than to catch up with Tiegu Sect and ruthlessly crush them.

Calm down, calm down.

That guy and his disciples were too powerful!

Although he had obtained powerful strength, two fists couldn’t fight many fists. He should first return to Shengquan Sect, thoroughly research the green light, advance to even higher cultivation, then come back for revenge!

Two fists can’t fight many fists?

This fellow was overestimating himself a bit.

He had merely devoured someone else’s power and advanced in realm.

Even if he entered Wushi now, facing an outer disciple like Long Ziyang, he could still be beaten until he doubted life itself.

…

Extracting a powerful person’s strength, advancing in one leap from the tenth stage of Meridian Opening to Seventh Rank Wutu.

Dai Lü had absolutely received a cheat, and was absolutely an inspirational story of a minor character’s counterattack.

But Ghost Elder was extremely tragic.

He was the “old one” in “beat up the young one, and the old one comes”—usually the BOSS. Yet before even seeing Tiegu Sect’s people, he was killed by an ant.

Speaking of which.

Sect Master Jun really should properly thank Dai Lü.

If he hadn’t intercepted midway and killed Ghost Elder, facing a Wuzong who appeared and disappeared like a ghost would definitely be quite a headache.

However.

One dangerous person died, achieving one ant.

Whether this would bring even greater trouble in the future was really hard to say.

Thud!

“Ow…”

Dai Lü, carried away, ran at full speed and accidentally crashed into a boulder.

From the current perspective, even though Green Scarf Brother was a devourer, with his intelligence level, he couldn’t pose any substantial threat to system holders, trash-turned-genius types, or reincarnators.

Therefore, although this minor character had achieved a counterattack, if he wanted to continue his counterattack against several protagonist-fated individuals, he had a long and arduous road ahead.