Immortal Martial Saint, something's wrong with my entry.

Two days have passed since Dongfang Jinghong left.

Aside from resting, Li Youan spent his time hunting monsters, watching as his monster essence on the panel reached 127.34%.

Besides joy, Li Youan was more concerned with how to best utilize these resources.

It is now confirmed that killing a monster of the same level will grant 0.01% of the monster's essence. For each level increase in the monster's strength, the amount of essence gained will increase tenfold.

Li Youan felt a pang of heartache when he thought about how he needed 100% of the demon beast's essence each time.

"This is a demonic beast that I hunted myself, and I'm just wasting it like that."

Although Li Youan can now suppress demonic beasts of the same cultivation level by relying on the advantages of his vocabulary and weapons, he still needs to expend a lot of effort to kill demonic beasts with a higher cultivation level than himself.

This was Li Youan's biggest takeaway from his battles with demonic beasts after raising his cultivation to the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm.

This shows that simply improving one's cultivation level is unwise and will make it more difficult to obtain the essence of demonic beasts.

Monsters have their own bloodline inheritance, and their strength leaps dramatically as their cultivation level increases.

Now that Li Youan has no cultivation technique, it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to kill demonic beasts beyond his current cultivation level.

Without the new player benefits, obtaining certain terms has become a matter of probability.

Li Youan didn't believe that as someone with bad luck, he could draw a good affix every time he spent his demon beast essence.

While cultivation level is important, the most crucial factor is how much strength one can unleash.

Facing demonic beasts now, simply increasing Li Youan's cultivation level would be the most foolish thing to do.

At present, time is the most precious thing for Li Youan. He must improve his strength to a sufficient level before the arena battle, so even 0.01% cannot be wasted.

"Optimal choice".

"Optimal choice".

……

Although he was muttering to himself, Li Youan was constantly thinking about the best method.

Li Youan felt like he had found something, but he was just one thin layer of paper away from understanding it and couldn't break through it no matter what he did.

"Forget it, let's meditate and recover first. We'll continue hunting monsters when it gets light. We'll store these essences for later use."

An hour later, Li Youan, who had recovered to his best condition, cleared his mind, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the fireflies flying in the air like Bai Ze.

Li Youan did not blindly choose to hunt monsters at night. The reason he was able to escape those three was simply because Ping Yu and the others had been pampered for too long and had no way to use their strength.

The monsters that can appear at night are mostly natural predators, and Li Youan has no confidence that he will not get injured.

As vision blurred, the fireflies in the field of vision began to show trails, tracing their movement paths in the air.

Li Youan felt that these trajectories were extremely similar to the trajectories of his own when he wielded the bone whip, but with an added touch of spirituality.

"Yes, that's it."

"I see."

Looking at the bone whip placed beside him, Li Youan took a deep breath and stood up excitedly.

Holding the bone whip in his hand, Li Youan closed his eyes to calm himself down and felt the texture on the handle with his palm.

A gentle breeze swept across the mountaintop, and Li Youan felt the vital energy flowing in the air through the acupoints of his body.

Whoosh.

Without warning, the bone whip lashed out with a piercing whooshing sound, leaving eerie trails in the air like a serpent hunting its prey.

Snapped.

With a crisp crack, a rock in front of Li Youan was shattered by the bone whip, and tiny fragments flew in all directions.

"The first transformation of 'The Serpent Transformation': Drawing."

Li Youan suddenly pulled back his arm, the bone whip wrapped around the largest piece of gravel, and with the power of his waist, he spun the stone a few times before throwing it into the forest below the mountain.

"Second Transformation: Roll".

With a flick of Li Youan's wrist, the bone whip changed direction again, wrapping around a tree.

squeak.

The bone whip wrapped around the tree trunk, and the bone spikes on it pierced into the trunk. As Li Youan exerted force with his arm, the bone spikes cut into the trunk like small knives. If it were a demon beast, it would already be covered in blood by now.

The third transformation: Entanglement.

I saw a stone falling from the sky, just like the monkey demon that attacked me from the tree during the day, but I just dodged it.

But after observing the flight path of fireflies and combining it with actual combat, Li Youan gritted his teeth, exerted force with his right arm, and directly tore the tree trunk off. The bone whip followed his arm as he swept away the falling rubble.

"The fourth transformation: flirting."

The huge boulder was shattered into many fragments that flew down the mountain, and Li Youan took the opportunity to perform a bridge maneuver, his bone whip piercing straight through the tree trunk behind him.

"Fifth Transformation: Thorn."

Seemingly dissatisfied with the power of the move, Li Youan kept rotating his wrist, and the entire bone whip was like a rapidly spinning top. After piercing the tree trunk, it drilled a large pit in the ground, and the soil inside the pit had spiral patterns.

"Sixth Transformation: Cone".

Looking at the huge crater in front of him, the power had basically met Li Youan's expectations.

"Not enough, not enough. It needs to be even more powerful before I can be absolutely certain."

Li Youan kept repeating these six variations: pull, roll, entwine, flick, stab, and cone.

Once, twice...

Li Youan did not adhere to any particular routine, but rather freely combined his moves, creating an endless variety of combinations.

Every now and then, flying pebbles were deflected by the barrier in front of Bai Ze. Bai Ze watched Li Youan practicing martial arts from afar, his eyes showing some understanding.

"That's what gives me peace of mind. Otherwise, I'd wonder why it chose you in the first place!"

Li Youan, who was already immersed in creating martial arts techniques, only thought about making the techniques more powerful.

"Yes, that's it."

Li Youan recalled that when he faced the Crimson-Eyed Bull Chieftain, even with the help of the "One Shot, One Kill" technique, he could hardly break through its defenses with a single burst of power.

With another flick of the whip, Li Youan sought out a familiar feeling.

"If one effort isn't enough, then try two."

"That should be it..."

With a flick of the whip, just as the whip's end was about to strike the stone, Li Youan's arm erupted with an immense force, like a thunderclap, which traveled rapidly forward along the bone whip.

The force of the two strikes was far more than just one plus one equals two; the boulder was pierced through by the force and turned into dust.

"Seventh Transformation: Stacking".

Watching the stone dust scattered by the wind, Li Youan swung his bone whip to form a barrier in front of him.

"I don't want to inhale it; let's keep it outside."

Before he finished speaking, the barrier had already transformed into a bell shape, completely protecting Li Youan without leaving a single gap.

"Eighth Transformation: Guarding".

Once the stone dust had completely dissipated, Li Youan stopped wielding the bone whip and stood still, contemplating further optimization.

Looking at the leaves dancing in the wind, Li Youan narrowed his eyes and shot out his bone whip again, thinking about how the snake demon had sucked him and the dog demon into its belly.

Li Youan's movements also began to change, and the bone whip gradually transformed into a vortex, sucking all the leaves into it.

"Ninth Transformation: Inhale."

Li Youan leaped up and flipped the vortex over onto the ground. He then landed with a somersault, the leaves now cut into thin strips, filling the previous deep pit.

"Tenth Transformation: Shattered".

"call."

Li Youan exhaled a breath of stale air and stood still, the story of "The Transformation of the Serpent" replaying in his mind again and again.

Name: Li Youan

[Original Source: 127.34%]

[Entry: Military Training Model Soldier, One Shot Kills, Steel Bladder]

[Cultivation Level: Body Tempering Realm Level 7+]

[Technique: Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission, Spirit Serpent Transformation - Yellow Rank, Beginner+]

[Magic Item: None]

Looking at the panel in front of him, Li Youan made a choice.

"All of the origin... um?"