Jiang Ming gently pinched, and the bead shattered.
This bead was the Extreme Yang Essence produced after the evil spirit was burned. As the saying goes, Yin and Yang oppose and complement each other, and when an extremely yin entity like an evil spirit is burned by Qi and Blood, it instead gives birth to this beneficial Extreme Yang Essence.
However, for Jiang Ming, this Extreme Yang Essence was merely something to exchange for Spirit Points.
Li Er thanked profusely, even picking up ribs to show his gratitude to Jiang Ming. Jiang Ming, looking at Li Er covered in slime, and the mixture of slime and dust on the ribs, felt a bit disgusted.
"Alright, head back quickly." Jiang Ming waved, signaling Li Er to leave.
Jiang Ming looked at that pile of ashes.
Evil spirits fear Qi and Blood; encountering it is like meeting a flame, and the Qi and Blood flame will burn them to ashes just like a real fire.
This was an evil spirit capable of masquerading as a human, similar to the Painted Skin, known as the Painted Snake Lizard.
This kind of creature doesn't possess strong strength, but its masquerade ability is top-notch.
Unlike other Painted Skin evil spirits, the Painted Snake Lizard doesn't possess a human skin for disguise; instead, it can change its skin like a chameleon to masquerade as a human. At the cost of its movement ability, it gains highly adept disguise, and the Painted Snake Lizard has no internal organs; its body is a space used to digest prey.
Much like a snake, it can consume a prey and not eat for a long time.
Its prolonged crime intervals and superb disguise skills have troubled many martial artists.
Once, a Painted Snake Lizard sneaked into the home of a powerful martial artist, and unknowingly, it ate the martial artist's entire family within five years, shocking Evergreen City when discovered.
Jiang Ming was also lucky, encountering the Painted Snake Lizard during its most vulnerable moment while walking at night.
As for why Jiang Ming was out walking at night, naturally, it was to hunt evil spirits within Evergreen City for Spirit Points.
Moreover, Jiang Ming discovered that he gained Simulation Points from killing evil spirits, which wasn't the case when he killed the Black Monkey before. Perhaps it's because Jiang Ming hadn't passed the first simulation at that time.
No matter what, Jiang Ming developed a great interest in taking walks at night.
A month had passed since the conflict between Chang Fang and Qian Changgong.
In this month, Jiang Ming encountered three evil spirit incidents, a fairly high frequency, of course, related to his behavior of wandering around Evergreen City every night.
He had already accumulated 1.1 Spirit Points and 120 Simulation Points.
"In that case, the Simulation Points are ample now."
Jiang Ming intended to exchange for the Nameless Calming Heart Method and Celestial Demon Heart Devouring Technique; these two items complement each other, practicing only the Celestial Demon Heart Devouring Technique made Jiang Ming fear going berserk.
Jiang Ming had already exchanged for the Nameless Calming Heart Method.
However, in daily life it has little effect, its only use is achieving near-instantaneous sleep by operating this technique before bed.
From a certain perspective, it could be deemed a Divine Skill.
Jiang Ming stretched lazily, then surged his Inner Strength into his legs, leaping high onto the rooftop.
"Stop hiding, I've found you."
Jiang Ming, arms around his long knife, stood on the rooftop, looking fixedly at a location.
A figure appeared from behind.
Dressed in black clothing, wearing an iron mask that wasn't too ugly, with two small white dots on the forehead of the mask, seemingly resembling two petals.
"Jiang Ming, member of Jiang Family Village under Evergreen City, currently an instructor at Lion Roar Martial Arts Hall, arrived in Evergreen City thirty-four days ago, later exhibiting a strong Qi-Blood cultivation, defeated two First-class Guardians of the Chang Family and four Second-class Guardians single-handedly thirty-one days ago, and in thirty days, killed one Long-tongued White Silk Ghost, one Black Paper Monster, one Painted Snake Lizard in Evergreen City…"
"Jiang Ming, am I right…"
A pair of sharp eyes gazed straight at Jiang Ming through the mask.
The speech had no distinctive trait, not revealing whether it was male or female, a sensation Jiang Ming was familiar with, much like a mechanically processed voice from his previous life.
Jiang Ming chuckled, remarked, "Someone from the City Lord's Mansion, no need to scare people here."
"Moreover, you must have just checked this information."
Jiang Ming pointed at the mask.
Jiang Ming had used half a bottle of Netherworld Ice Spring, his vision was gradually surpassing the human realm.
For an evil spirit to survive in Evergreen City, it certainly had to be hard to find; Jiang Ming used these eyes to locate the two guys before.
And at this moment, Jiang Ming could see this person's eyes reflecting lines of nearly invisible tiny text.
Unless this person had some special talent, it would be a special tool he carried, with some tiny font in his eyes, likely not talent, it seemed more like some special tool, and this mask appeared to be such a tool.
"Ah?"
Jiang Ming's words immediately startled the masked person, but judging by his attitude, Jiang Ming realized his guess was correct.
Didn't expect the City Lord's Mansion people to have such a wonderful tool.
"Didn't think the City Lord's Mansion had such a good tool."
"Hey, masked fellow, since I helped you kill this demon, shouldn't I get some reward?"
The masked person remained silent for a long time.
Then, with a bit of helplessness in his tone, said, "You stole my achievement, I have been tracking this Painted Snake Lizard for a month…"
"Oh? Could it be that your mask or something on you has a recording function?"
Jiang Ming touched his chin, seeing the masked person not pursuing the Extreme Yang Essence dropped by the Painted Snake Lizard or the ashes left after it was killed to submit a task, his mind began to imagine, and he queried.
The masked person remained silent again.
Finally, just clasped fists, said, "You have great skill, until we meet again!"
"Wait! Don't just say goodbye, how about letting me join your City Lord's Mansion? Or let's cooperate a little, at worst I'll let you finish the job, and the Extreme Yang Essence is mine!"
"Don't go!"
"Actually, I'm naturally suited for this!"
"Is there some entry exam, I can take part!"
The masked person walked ahead, Jiang Ming chased behind him along the way.
Finally, the masked person couldn't stand it, said, "Forget it, unless you have the Martial Arts Hall Master as a guarantor, you can't join!"
"Stop following, keep going and you'll reach the City Lord's Mansion!"
Jiang Ming finally stopped, watching helplessly as the masked person flew away.
Working alone had been too inefficient; a month to accumulate one Spirit Point would take ages.
Unless he went into the wilderness at night to start a killing spree, but Jiang Ming wasn't that reckless yet.
Seeing that City Lord's Mansion person seemed to have some special tools on him, coupled with intelligence advantages, hunting evil spirits wouldn't be like being headless and clueless as he was.
"But how could the City Lord's Mansion have such clear information on me, or maybe all martial artists are in their intelligence database…"
"Never mind, tomorrow I'll go find Old Qian."
"Before that, I'll redeem the Celestial Demon Heart Devouring Technique."
Jiang Ming's silhouette drifted into the darkness, completely merging into the night.