Li Qing lightly tapped Xiao Bai’s forehead. “You know the dangers of the outside world now, don’t you? Not all humans are good people. You must be careful when meeting strangers in the future.”

“Yes, I will remember!” Xiao Bai nodded vigorously.

“You just woke up, you should rest. I refined a bottle of pills that can strengthen your foundation and strengthen your vitality. Remember to take one every three hours…”

After he finished his explanation, Li Qing walked out of Xiao Bai’s room and entered the Yin Yang Chaos Bottle.

“Senior, please spare our lives. We’ve already explained everything clearly. Just let us go like farts.” Inside the bottle, five disciples of Cloud Water Peak were shouting and crying.

“Such a treacherous person, what’s the use of keeping you? Die, all of you.” Li Qing waved his hand and crushed the five disciples of Cloud Water Peak into ashes.

He walked over to Ji Bai and said coldly, “Ghost-Faced Scholar, we’ve seen him again.”

“Han Tie, how could you capture me here? What kind of demonic technique did you use?” Ji Bai said in horror. He originally thought that he was in control of a grand mountain protection formation and should be in an invincible position, but in the end, he was caught in a strange bottle without even the slightest bit of resistance. This was truly beyond his imagination.

Li Qing smiled faintly and said, “Why are you asking so many questions when you’re about to die?”

“What do you want to do to me?” “I am a disciple of Daoist Harmonious Wind. If you dare to kill me, my master will definitely not let you off!” Ji Bai said cowardly.

“Your master and Adept Feng are only at the third level of the Void Realm. They may not be my opponents, so what are you afraid of?” Li Qing chuckled, “I’ve killed more than one Void Realm expert!”

“Impossible! How can a Xiantian expert like you do this? Unless you are the reincarnation of the Extreme Emperor!” Ji Bai refused to believe it.

“The reincarnation of the Extreme Emperor? Many people used to call me that. Now it’s almost a reality.” Li Qing whispered to himself.

Ji Bai’s mind flashed, and he cried out in alarm, “Could it be that you … killed the Void Realm expert who inexplicably disappeared from the Spirit Sea?”

“That’s right!”

Hearing Li Qing’s words, Ji Bai fell into the ice cellar and felt his entire body turn cold. There was no trace of luck left in his heart.

Li Qing said, “Alright, I won’t talk too much nonsense to you. It’s time to send you on your way.”

“Wait! Speak properly if you have something to say!” Ji Bai hurriedly waved his hand and said, “Brother Han, at least we know each other. Why fight and kill each other? If you let me go, I can tell you a great secret.”

“Oh? What secret?”

“An inheritance of the Dao of Killing in the Ancient Era!” Ji Bai said mysteriously.

“Ancient Slaughter Dao Inheritance?” Li Qing narrowed his eyes and sneered, “There’s no need for you to tell me. I’ll take it myself.”

With a wave of his hand, Ji Bai suppressed the Yin Yang Grinding Wheel in the center.

“What do you want? If you kill me, you’ll never get this secret!” Ji Bai shouted loudly, his face filled with horror.

Li Qing was too lazy to talk nonsense with him anymore. He stretched out his hand and pressed it on Ji Bai’s forehead, using the Soul Searching Technique on him.

“Ah–” Ji Bai screamed miserably.

After two hours of soul searching, Li Qing finally finished checking all the secrets in Ji Bai’s mind.

“So that’s how it is. The Ancient Slaughter Dao Inheritance … Five Kills Society!” Li Qing’s eyes lit up.

The Five Kills Society was also considered a very famous organization in ancient times. It was divided into five branches: Heaven, Earth, Man, God, and Ghost. The inheritance Ji Bai obtained was the Ghost Kill branch.

Ji Bai’s nickname was Ghost-Faced Scholar. This didn’t come out of thin air, it was precisely because he had obtained the inheritance of the Ghost Slaughter Bloodline.

The inheritance of the Ghost Slaughter bloodline did not have much attraction for Li Qing, because the cultivation methods cultivated by this bloodline were not very brilliant. The sword moved off the peak and pursued extremely strange assassination techniques, not orthodox martial arts.

Li Qing had the Demon Ancestor’s inheritance and had a long history. Naturally, he didn’t pay much attention to this Ghost Slaughter inheritance.

However, there was one secret technique that was quite rewarding. It was called the Ghost Shadow Steps, and it was a very superb concealment and life-saving technique. Ji Bai tried his best to find the blood of the Cloud Demon to refine the Cloud Soul Pill precisely because he wanted to cultivate the Ghost Shadow Steps.

It could be said that this secret technique was actually the core inheritance of the Ghost Slaughter Bloodline. Its strange assassination techniques were all based on the Ghost Shadow Steps. If Ji Bai was able to successfully cultivate it, then he would truly be a very difficult enemy to deal with.

Li Qing was curious and carefully read the Ghost Shadow Steps. He couldn’t help but wonder in his heart, “Why is this secret art a little similar to the Devil Shadow Steps?”

The Devil Shadow Disappearance was created by the Devil Ancestor. It had never been passed down in the world. Why did a similar secret art suddenly appear?

Li Qing suddenly remembered that the Demon Ancestor would often change some of the secret arts he cultivated into short versions and give them to his subordinates to cultivate. Could this be the reason?

From this, one could infer that someone had obtained a brief version of the Phantom Shadow without a trace, and on this basis, modified it to form this Ghost Shadow Step.

The improved Ghost Shadow Steps were similar to the Devil Shadow Steps, but each of them had its own unique advantages.

The focus of the shadowless demon was concealment. When one cultivated to the Great Perfection Stage, one’s entire body could transform into a demon shadow. It was almost invisible and boundless, fleeing into the void. It could even conceal the divine sense of an expert at the Void Stage.

As for the Ghost Shadow Steps, they were focused on preserving their lives. Their speed was extremely fast, and their movements were unpredictable. Moreover, they would leave behind ghosts in the void, unable to discern where their true bodies were.

Generally speaking, although the Shadowless Devil was strong, the Ghost Shadow Steps did not seem weak either.

“The Demon Ancestor is not omnipotent, and his descendants are not useless. Even if they have not reached the level of the Demon Ancestor, they can sometimes create something unique.” Li Qing thought to himself.

‘”After comprehending this Ghost Shadow Step, I feel refreshed and inspired. Why don’t I just combine these two secret arts and take their advantages, and then create a secret art that belongs to me?”

Thinking of this, Li Qing immediately sat cross-legged in the Yin Yang Chaos Bottle and began to comprehend it carefully.

However, three days later, he gave up on this plan. It seemed very easy to say, but it was not easy to do. After all, he hadn’t even cultivated to the Great Perfection Realm, so how could he create a new secret art?

He was like a half-baked student, who had learned a little from a book, and then hurriedly ran to write a book. What could he write?

Li Qing did not receive too much of a blow. He knew that this kind of thing was indeed very difficult and could not succeed overnight. If secret arts were so easy to create, then the entire world would be filled with incomparably powerful secret arts.

He came out of the Yin Yang Chaos Bottle and saw that Xiao Bai had completely recovered.

“Big brother, where have you been these past few days?” Xiao Bai said with slight dissatisfaction.

“I’m going to interrogate the prisoner. I’ve already killed the culprit. I’ll avenge you.” Li Qing smiled.

Xiao Bai knew that Li Qing possessed a Yin Yang Wet Chaos Bottle, so it was no wonder. He asked, “What did that person drain my blood for?”

Li Qing said, “Your blood can be used to refine a pill called the Cloud Soul Pill. This pill can be used to cultivate some concealment techniques, so it is very precious.”

“That’s why!” Xiao Bai suddenly understood.

“That’s right. Speaking of which, after Ji Bai extracted your blood that day, he was caught by me before he could refine it.” Li Qing took out a basin of white blood. “Since this blood has already been extracted, it’s a waste anyway. I want to refine it into a Cloud Soul Pill. May I?”

“Does Big Brother also want to cultivate some kind of secret art?” A strange expression appeared on Xiao Bai’s face.

Li Qing nodded, “That’s right, if you feel uncomfortable in your heart, then I won’t refine the pills anymore and will directly destroy them.”

“No, you misunderstood me. I know you won’t harm me. If Big Brother wants to cultivate a secret art and this blood isn’t enough, you can extract it from me again. Anyway, as long as I don’t drain my blood, I won’t die.” Xiao Bai said.

Li Qing shook his head and laughed, “Silly child, where did you think you were? If I really did this, what difference would there be between me and someone as evil as Ji Bai? Don’t bring this up again.”

“Alright then, if there really isn’t enough blood, you must tell me.” Xiao Bai smiled brightly.

Li Qing returned to his room, took out the Sun Moon Pill Furnace, and began to try to refine the Cloud Soul Pill.

Speaking of which, it had been such a long time since he had refined pills, and he felt that it was somewhat abandoned. Fortunately, this pill furnace was a top-grade spirit artifact. It could be said to be one of the best pill furnaces in the world. The success rate of refining pills was extremely high, so there shouldn’t be too much of a problem in refining the Cloud Soul Pill.

He first refined a few ordinary pills and warmed up, then took out all the ingredients of the Cloud Soul Pill and checked them one by one.

Ji Bai had already prepared all these materials, but he didn’t expect that Li Qing would be cheated for nothing.

According to the process above the pill recipe, Li Qing added the medicinal ingredients into the pill furnace. This top-grade spirit artifact was indeed extraordinary. He didn’t need to control it, so the entire process was smooth and natural.

Half a day later, a porcelain bottle appeared in Li Qing’s hand. It was filled with the Cloud Soul Pills that had already been refined. There were a total of thirty-six of them.

“With these 36 Cloud Soul Pills in my hands, if I can cultivate both the Shadowless Devil and the Ghost Shadow Steps to the Great Perfection Stage, wouldn’t I have the chance to combine the advantages of these two secret arts and create a new secret art?” Li Qing’s heart trembled.

He consumed a Cloud Soul Pill and then used the Shadow of the Devil without a trace. His entire body gradually faded away, as if he had completely disappeared, and not a trace of his aura leaked out.

Using the Ghost Shadow Steps, he instantly crossed a large distance, leaving behind countless afterimages in the void.

He seemed to have transformed into a ghost, walking in the void, comprehending his current state. Combined with the fact that the demon shadow disappeared and the ghost shadow step constantly reflected each other, he became more and more familiar with the principles of these two secret arts.