THUMP—

Lu Yuan landed steadily. Falling from a height of over ten meters, his gigantic body was unable to maintain balance even with fourteen points of agility.

His thick legs directly crushed the top layer of dry, crusty soil of the hayfield, sinking deeply into the slightly moist Black Soil underneath.

By the time Lu Yuan pulled his feet out of the pit, his pair of black sneakers were already caked in wet mud.

CREAK CREAK CREAK—

A series of crisp bone-cracking sounds echoed as his body, which had swelled up due to [Special Burst], rapidly shrank to its normal size.

Since he always wore a T-shirt and athletic shorts with good elasticity, he luckily avoided the awkward situation of his clothes ripping and finding himself naked. His clothes were just stretched a little.

That's good. I don't need to cover up my footprints anymore, Lu Yuan thought, looking at the two deep pits in the ground, like holes left after pulling out stakes.

But he quickly dismissed the thought. What can they do even if they find out it was me?

He had killed a Crow God's Servant, not innocent people. Even if Yellow Bear didn't give him an award, what fault could they find?

Regarding the exposure of his strength, he had indeed used skills from [Death Teller (Extraordinary)].

But his [Circulation of Death Qi] skill level was so low that the summoned Black Qi was just a thin layer; who could see it clearly in the dark of night?

Even if a surveillance camera did capture him, he could blame the Crow God's Servant—claim it was the Servant's Death Qi that had actively entangled his arm.

He had no reservations. This was one of the reasons Lu Yuan dared to charge in and ambush this Crow God's Servant.

A gentle night breeze swept by, chilling his face, arms, and body.

Lu Yuan wiped his face with his hand. Looking down, he noticed a faint pink color in his palm.

It was a mixture of the copious sweat his body had excreted from the sudden exertion and the blood mist from the Crow God's Servant that had settled on him.

Lu Yuan even felt something soft between his fingers, unsure if it was a shred of flesh or something else.

He shook his hand in disgust.

Lu Yuan shook his body vigorously, then turned his attention to the Crow God's Servant he had blasted into fragments.

All his abilities activated, plus the Sure-kill Skill, [Spirit Crane Skill: Crane Shadow Floating in the Air].

The three tons of Fist Strength exploded inside the Crow God's Servant like a time bomb; such an outcome was only natural.

It was utterly dead.

It was just that looting the corpse would be troublesome.

Lu Yuan spread his Spiritual Power around.

After his Intelligence increased to 15 points, his Spiritual Power could extend about ten meters, and its intensity had also increased.

Lu Yuan had gauged this increase in intensity himself.

At 13 Intelligence points, his Spiritual Power had just awakened. Aside from detection, he couldn't even flip a book page.

After it rose to 14 points, he could turn pages telekinetically.

Now, with 15 Intelligence points, he could use his Spiritual Power to slightly nudge small, lightweight objects like pebbles.

With this ability, even if I don't practice martial arts or study, I could make a living as a street magician and not starve...

Lu Yuan watched as the scattered pieces of the Crow God's Servant's flesh and blood, along with grass, small stones, and clods of earth, rustled under the influence of his Spiritual Power. He felt that searching this way was still too troublesome and there was a high chance of missing something.

He simply activated [Crow Language] and summoned all the surrounding Crows. With the Crow God's Servant dead, the Crows it had brought naturally obeyed Lu Yuan.

KAW KAW!—

Hundreds of Crows descended from the night sky. Following Lu Yuan's command, they began to search for valuable items amidst the corpse fragments.

In just a few seconds, Lu Yuan had results. Two Crows, arriving almost simultaneously, brought him items: one carried a string of silver keys, and the other held a photo in its beak.

Lu Yuan frowned slightly but still took the two items to examine them.

The keys were nothing special, just an ordinary keychain with many different types of keys, most of them rusty.

Only a nail clipper was polished to a shine.

The other item was a photo of a young man and woman, smiling brightly.

However, their facial features didn't resemble those of people from Sum Country.

Lu Yuan casually flipped the photo over. On the back, a note was scrawled: "Happy Orange-Vanilla Day!"

The script was Havel, and Orange-Vanilla Day was a traditional Havel festival...

This is probably what he looked like before joining the Crow God Sect... Lu Yuan glanced at the chunks of flesh scattered on the ground and thought calmly.

He nonchalantly tossed the two items aside for the Crows to dispose of, then continued his search using his Spiritual Power.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan's expression flickered. He directed a Crow to bring him an object from the ground.

It was a black, hard object about the size of a ping-pong ball, covered with some flesh, fascia, and bone debris. It looked like it had grown inside the Crow God's Servant's body and had been blasted out by his Fist Strength.

Lu Yuan pinched the small, hard object and could clearly sense the rich Death Qi contained within it.

He applied a little force and easily broke it apart.

Immediately, a visible stream of Black Qi poured out. Like a living thing, it actively drilled into Lu Yuan's palm.

"Fuck!"

Lu Yuan was startled and hurriedly tried to fling the unknown hard object from his hand.

But he flung only air.

After he broke it, the object instantly turned into Black Qi, transforming from solid to gas hundreds of times faster than ice vaporizing from heat.

In the blink of an eye, all the Black Qi had been absorbed by Lu Yuan's palm.

Lu Yuan was both surprised and skeptical. He repeatedly examined his right hand but felt no changes or abnormalities.

He instinctively summoned his class panel to check.

When he scanned the panel for [Death Teller (Extraordinary)], he discovered that the Experience Points for [Circulation of Death Qi] Lv. 1 had unexpectedly increased significantly.

Gaining Experience Points for the [Circulation of Death Qi] skill primarily depended on usage duration.

After all this time, Lu Yuan had only managed to increase its Experience Points to (45/100).

But now, the Experience Points had suddenly skyrocketed from (45/100) to (67/100).

It had increased by more than twenty Experience Points at once.

Was it because of that black, hard object...?

Lu Yuan suddenly remembered something. He had previously entered the body of a Crow God's Servant in his Consciousness Space and discovered that their bodily malformations were mainly because they stored Death Qi internally.

That black, hard object might be a Death Qi Nodule, a kind of Death Qi seed that had almost solidified inside the Crow God's Servant's body... I didn't expect that [Circulation of Death Qi] could actually gain experience by absorbing this kind of Death Qi.

Lu Yuan was astonished, but more so, delighted.

He immediately ordered the Crows to search for more Death Qi Nodules.

Previously, Lu Yuan had told them to "look for valuable things." What counted as valuable?

Even Lu Yuan himself wasn't entirely clear, let alone the Crows.

He had only specifically emphasized "a Red Bead, like a crow's eye," and then let them search freely.

Now that they had a clear target, the Crows' efficiency increased severalfold.

Soon, Death Qi Nodules were collected one by one and brought to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan shattered each one and absorbed the Death Qi.

Then he watched as the Experience Points for [Circulation of Death Qi] on the panel increased rapidly, breaking through to Lv. 2 in the blink of an eye.

It was now progressing toward Lv. 3.

By the time Lu Yuan had absorbed all the Death Qi Nodules collected by the Crows, [Circulation of Death Qi] had reached Lv. 2 (178/200).

A total of eight Death Qi Nodules were found, providing Lu Yuan with exactly two hundred thirty-three Experience Points.

If Lu Yuan's punch that killed the Crow God's Servant hadn't shattered some of the Death Qi Nodules, he might have been able to reach Lv. 3.

...That Strong Divine Servant from before probably had even more Death Qi Nodules, and of higher quality too.

It's a pity my [Death Teller (Extraordinary)] panel hadn't been activated back then, so I didn't notice these things at all...

As Lu Yuan was feeling regretful, a Crow suddenly flew over his head.

A flash of crimson flitted through Lu Yuan's vision.

A glint sparked in Lu Yuan's eyes, and he discreetly secured the tiny crimson object.

He then ordered the flock of Crows to thoroughly dispose of the Crow God's Servant's corpse and quietly withdrew.

Hundreds of Crows fed on the single corpse.

By the next morning, not a single trace of the Crow God's Servant would be left in this area.

Lu Yuan took off his shoes and ran along the field ridges.

As he neared the farmland close to the main road, he stopped.

He found a nearby fishpond and meticulously washed off the bloodstains from his body and the mud from his legs and shoes.

Then he retraced his steps.

He had run more than ten kilometers to get there, fought a major battle, and now faced a return journey of several tens of kilometers.

After all that exertion, it was almost eleven o'clock by the time Lu Yuan arrived home.

The night wind had swept away the faint smell of blood and fish from Lu Yuan's body; no one would guess he had just "killed someone" and returned.

Lu Yuan even helped his mom, Zheng Qiuling, close up the shop before he went upstairs.

After taking a bath, he closed the window and drew the curtains.

The air conditioner, set to 24 degrees, hummed as it blew out cold air.

Lu Yuan, his hair still damp, wearing a tank top and shorts, sat down at his desk.

Only then did he take out the last item the Crow had found for him.

It was a bead.

A crimson bead.

In its center was a black line, surrounded by a faintly radiating pallor.

Just like a crow's eye.

It was almost identical to the bead Lu Yuan had previously acquired from the Strong Divine Servant of the Crow God Sect.

The only difference was its size. This one was much smaller.

The previous one had been about the size of a glass marble; the one in his hand now was only the size of a mung bean.

So there really are Experience Pills...

Lu Yuan took a deep breath, his heart filled with a mix of indescribable emotions.

He gently crushed the mung bean-sized Red Bead.

Just like last time, upon being crushed, the Red Bead immediately turned into a sticky red liquid that flowed down from Lu Yuan's fingertip.

Before the liquid could reach the third knuckle of his finger, it was completely absorbed by Lu Yuan.

Then...

HUM—

The familiar Crow Dreamscape arrived as expected.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.