"Ding, congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for killing Pang Bao, successfully pretending to be cool, and gaining ten points of pretending."
"Ding, congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for killing Pang Bao and gaining 400 experience points."
The system beep sounded in my mind.
Xu Que was stunned.
Damn it, I...killed someone?
Xu Que was a little stunned. He just wanted to try the power of the Nine Transformations of Dragon Soaring, but he didn't expect that only the first transformation would kill Pang Bao, who was born with supernatural power, with one punch.
"Dragon...this...this is a dragon!"
Suddenly, a fearful voice came tremblingly.
Immediately afterwards, the people in Beishui Village all knelt on the ground, their faces full of fear, their whole bodies trembling, and they kowtowed to Xu Que and begged for mercy:
"Ah! Immortal, please forgive me, Immortal!"
"It's because we are blind, please ask the gods to spare our lives..."
Well? What's going on?
Xu Que was stunned.
"Plop!" "Plop!"
Before he could figure out the situation, there were several muffled sounds coming from behind him.
Xu Que turned his head and looked dumbfounded.
Several villagers from Panshan Village knelt down to him and begged for mercy, regardless of their injuries, with the same panic on their faces.
Looking at Xiaorou again, she also stayed where she was, her eyes filled with fear.
how so?
Xu Que couldn't accept it all of a sudden. The group of people in Beishui Village knelt down and worshiped him, but he didn't think it was anything.
But he couldn't bear the fact that these simple villagers in Panshan Village knelt down and worshiped him.
Especially when he saw Xiaorou's fearful eyes, Xu Que felt as if someone had pinched his heart.
"Folks, what are you doing? Get up! I'm only going to deal with these bad guys, and I won't hurt you?"
He hurriedly dispersed his spiritual energy, the dragon-shaped glow on his body suddenly disappeared, and shouted to the villagers in Panshan Village.
But the villagers' faces were still full of fear, and they knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word.
Xu Que became anxious and looked at Xiaoju: "Xiaorou, what... what's going on? Please wake up the folks! I don't mean any harm."
Xiaorou came back to her senses at this time, looked at Xu Que in panic and said: "You... you are an immortal..."
"What an immortal! I am a human being just like you!"
Xu Que was surprised. Are immortal cultivators so scary? Why are they all so awe-inspiring as if they were seeing gods?
"Xiaorou, don't be afraid. I really won't hurt you. Please tell me what is going on?"
"Really?" Xiaorou said timidly.
"Of course it's true!" Xu Que nodded heavily.
Seeing this, Xiaorou regained some color and managed to calm down.
Later, she told Xu Que about the immortal.
It turns out that there is a sect of cultivating immortals to the east of Panshan Village and Beishui Village, which turns out to be the Tianwuzong.
Panshan Village and Beishui Village, including other villages within a radius of a hundred miles, have always been protected by the Tianwuzong.
But every other month, each village needs to pay tribute to Tianwuzong with food. If a village kills a beast, it can use the demon core in the beast to replace the food.
But once there is no demon core and there is insufficient food, the village will be punished.
People from the Tianwuzong would capture some strong men in the village and take them to the mountains. From then on, there was no news about those strong men, and their lives and deaths were unknown.
That's why the villagers are so afraid of immortal cultivators.
After Xu Que heard this, his heart suddenly became furious.
The Tianwuzong was simply bullying people too much, relying on their success in cultivation to exploit ordinary people like this, causing the villagers to become so panic-stricken.
"Didn't you resist?"
Xu Que couldn't help but ask.
But after he asked the question, he wanted to slap himself.
Because this question is idiotic. No matter how weak the Tianwuzong people are, they are at least in the Qi training stage and possess magic skills. How can these villagers be opponents?
"We don't dare..." Xiaorou didn't think Xu Que was an idiot and shook her head and replied.
Xu Que was silent for a moment, leaned towards Xiaorou, and whispered: "Xiaorou, I'm going home first. You can explain to the villagers that I am different from the people of Tianwuzong. You tell them not to kneel down and not to be afraid."
I, I will not harm the people in our village."
"Well, I believe you!" Xiaorou nodded heavily, finally not so scared anymore.
This made Xu Que couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He raised his head and glanced at the group of people in Beishui Village, and then said: "By the way, Xiaorou, the people in Beishui Village asked them to continue kneeling and told them not to leave until the sun goes down."
After giving the instructions, Xu Que walked towards the village.
On the way, he met Da Zhuang and others, who were belatedly arriving with other villagers.
When everyone saw him, they hurriedly asked: "Brother, are you not injured? Where are Pang Bao's group?"
Xu Que hurriedly stopped them and said, "Folks, there's no need to go. I've already taught Pang Bao and the others a lesson. Now I'm going to let them kneel at the entrance of the village and reflect."
"Ah! Really?" Everyone was suddenly surprised.
"Of course it's true. I can fight wild beasts, let alone Pang Bao!" Xu Que said with a smile.
The villagers were immediately delighted and shouted, "Well done, little brother."
"Oh! It's a prize, it's a prize." Xu Que also smiled and narrowed his eyes. He liked this kind of pretentiousness.
…
After returning to Xiaorou's home, Xu Que lay down directly on the small wooden bed, looking up to the sky and letting out a long sigh.
He knew that after Da Zhuang and the others learned about his identity, they would probably only be afraid. Even if they were not afraid, they would definitely not chat with him as easily and happily as they did just now.
"Oh, forget it, I can't stay here forever anyway. After I help them settle the tribute payment, it's time for me to leave. The world is so big, I must go and see it."
Xu Que cheered up again and sat up from the bed.
He rolled his eyes and summoned the system with his consciousness.
Immediately, the personal information interface popped up in front of you:
"Host: Xu Que
Realm: First level of foundation building stage (slightly successful)
Experience value:600/2000
Pretending value: 15 points
Kung Fu: Preliminary Chapter of "The Ancient Five Elements Jue"
Skill: Nine Transformations of Soaring Dragon (Progress 0.1%, the first transformation has been mastered)
Occupation: None
Status: Consort of the Huo Yuan Kingdom in the Eastern Barren Continent
…”
"Hey, the progress of the Nine Transformations of Soaring Dragon has become 0.1? Is it because I just used it once?"
Xu Que exclaimed in surprise. It seemed that the magic formula could also increase the progress by using the number of times, but the speed seemed a bit slow.
He was very dissatisfied with this speed. After pondering for a moment, he directly opened the storage space and glanced at the pile of magic weapons and magic formulas stolen from the Tianwuzong Treasure Pavilion.
"Just try the recycling function first."
Xu Que muttered to himself and began to look at the introductions to the techniques.
"Light Body Technique, eh, it seems you can use it yourself, keep it for now." The first magic formula that came into his eyes was the Tianwu Sect's basic magic formula "Light Body Technique". Xu Que thought that he had not practiced the body technique yet.
I suddenly became interested in the magic tricks of this kind.
Then his eyes continued to scan, and various Tianwu Sect techniques came into his eyes.
"Fire Cloud Fist, Liyan Saber Technique, Dark Fire Sword Technique...are all useless!"
After running through dozens of magic formulas in a row, Xu Que shook his head, really looking down on him.
After all, in the Huo Yuan Kingdom, almost all monks have fire-attribute spiritual roots, and they all practice fire-related techniques.
But Xu Que felt that these techniques looked a bit too ordinary and were not really precious techniques of Tianwu Sect. He simply left only one copy of the Light Body Technique and the rest were recycled by the system.
"Ding, the recovery of "Fire Cloud Fist" was successful, and three points of skill essence were obtained."
"Ding, the "Leaving Flame Knife Technique" was successfully recovered, and five points of skill essence were obtained."
"Ding, the "Dark Fire Sword Technique" was successfully recovered and eight points of skill essence were obtained."