I can equip strange items

"Whoosh—Bang!!"

The shrill sound of the cyan-gold bamboo stick slicing through the air and the muffled thud of it striking a solid object exploded almost simultaneously.

Just as the bamboo stick struck the phantom—

A visible golden light pattern spread out from the point of impact, spreading like wildfire and quickly covering the entire body of the humanoid phantom.

"Ughhhhh!!"

A scream ten times louder than before suddenly rang out.

The phantom seemed to be branded with a scorching hot iron, its body twisting and burning violently.

Its body tumbled and flew backward like a tattered sack, golden flames blazing all over it.

Having landed a successful blow, Li Yuan didn't stop moving. He pushed off with his feet and leaped out like a cheetah, closing in on the burning phantom before it even hit the ground.

The humanoid phantom looked horrified and terrified, and tried to run away.

However, being scorched by the golden flames, it seemed to be paralyzed, its movements becoming sluggish.

Just then, Li Yuan swung his staff with all his might toward its head.

"laugh--"

There was no loud thud; the bamboo stick seemed to have been cleaved into a thick mass of asphalt.

The humanoid phantom's head appeared to have been cleaved open by a red-hot blade, the cleaved area a golden-red color.

The screams abruptly stopped, and its body vanished directly in the golden flames.

The chilling feeling vanished instantly.

It sounds slow, but it all happened in the blink of an eye, lasting only two seconds.

Only then did the pedestrians nearby, who had been startled by the screams and the sound of bamboo sticks piercing the air, finally turn around.

However, all they saw was a figure wearing a mask, holding a bluish-gold bamboo stick, standing in place, with nothing on the ground.

"What's going on?"

What was that sound just now?

"I think I saw something burning..."

Passersby looked around blankly, discussing amongst themselves.

Li Yuan slowly put away the bamboo stick, breathing slightly heavily.

"They chased me all the way here, and this is all they do?"

He sneered inwardly, the frustration and irritability he had felt from being chased all the way vanished instantly.

Seeing that passersby were about to gather around and take pictures, he quickly turned around and left, leaving this troublesome place as fast as possible.

At the same time, more than ten kilometers away from this place.

Inside a private car parked on the side of the road, a middle-aged man suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"My divine shadow has been killed?! Damn it!"

He flew into a rage and slammed his hand on the steering wheel: "Don't let me find out who you are, or you'll regret ever being born!"

"Divine Shadows" are protectors who are only high-ranking members of their faction. In essence, they are a kind of evil spirit known as "Barbarian Ghosts".

As special protectors, "Divine Shadows" cannot always follow the people they protect; they will temporarily leave in special circumstances.

Therefore, the middle-aged man didn't even know who had killed his own shadow.

He couldn't help but think of the man he had met at an intersection before.

Although the death of his own divine shadow may not be related to the other party, that man was the only martial artist he had encountered today.

"Someone has to take responsibility for Shenying's death; you're just unlucky!"

He immediately began investigating the man's identity.

The sudden death of Shenying had driven him beyond anger, leaving him with no desire to distinguish right from wrong.

……

After walking quite a distance and confirming that he was not being followed, Li Yuan finally stopped.

He immediately checked the blue-patterned bamboo staff, worried that the weapon he had just acquired might be damaged.

Fortunately, the bamboo knife was not damaged at all.

This might be the result of him sacrificing 40% of his own energy and spirit to enhance the toughness of the bamboo stick.

Otherwise, with his current strength, if he were to strike with all his might, even a steel pipe would deform under normal circumstances.

"So tired... Is this what it feels like after sacrificing forty percent of your energy and spirit?"

After relaxing, Li Yuan felt exhausted from the inside out.

This feeling of fatigue is so intense, it's as if I've returned to the time when I was an ordinary person in poor health.

Feeling listless and constantly drowsy.

This feeling is absolutely awful.

Fortunately, he could clearly feel that his energy and spirit were slowly recovering as time went by.

It seems that the energy and spirit that have been sacrificed can be restored through rest.

"That's not bad. I knew it; it's a blue-level keyword, after all, it couldn't have such a fatal flaw."

Li Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Um?"

Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he looked at the equipment panel in his mind.

Name: Li Yuan

[Realm: Level 2, Ominous Sign]

[Current Equipment: Jade Pendant for Health and Protection]

[Temporary keyword acquired: Equivalent Evolution (Blue)]

[Permanent fix condition: Maintain the equipment's status and perform one hundred good deeds, including but not limited to punishing evil and helping others (1/100)]

[Permanent entries: Sports Enthusiast (Green), Escape Expert (White)]

【Friendly Reminder 1: ……】

……

【Friendly Reminder 4: Permanent attributes can be copied by consuming essence and spirit, and bestowed upon all things.】

The completion rate for the "Equivalent Evolution" modifier's solidification task has actually reached one percent?

Li Yuan's eyes lit up: "Does that count too?"

That makes sense; the monster's inexplicable attack must be an act of evil.

Since you killed the monster yourself, it can be considered as punishing evil and doing a good deed, so it counts in the mission.

"That's equivalent to doing ninety-nine more good deeds..."

Suddenly, Li Yuan no longer felt tired. His eyes kept scanning his surroundings, looking for a good deed he could do.

Before he could find a good deed to do, he suddenly sensed something in the bamboo stick in his hand, and felt a chill in the alley to his right.

"Could it be another demon or monster?"

His eyes lit up, and he strode over there.

He quickly arrived in the alley and immediately locked onto his target.

It was a pet dog, because it had a dog tag around its neck.

However, at this moment, there was blood on the corner of the dog's mouth, as if it had just bitten someone.

The moment it saw Li Yuan, the dog's eyes suddenly turned red, but perhaps out of fear, it turned and tried to run away.

Li Yuan's eyes turned cold, and he suddenly rushed forward and slapped him with a stick.

"Bang!"

Golden light patterns appeared directly at the spot where the pet dog's head was hit. Its head split open under the violent impact, and its body flew out.

The moment it landed, its corpse was instantly incinerated by the golden light patterns, shriveling up at a visible speed.

In the blink of an eye, the dog's corpse turned into a dried-up corpse, and the eerie feeling disappeared.

At the same time, Li Yuan discovered that the progress of the task in his mind had reached two percent.

He smirked slightly, leaned over and touched the dog's corpse. Seeing that there was no information displayed on the equipment panel, he strode away.

However, before they had gone very far, they suddenly heard police sirens outside.

And the sound was coming from this direction.

Puzzled, Li Yuan leaped up suddenly, dodging the surveillance cameras and scaling the wall to the other side.

"Quick... don't let that dog hurt anyone else..."

"Huh? What's that? A mummified corpse? It looks like a dog's carcass, how scary..."

"Could this be our target? We seem to be too late."

Such a sound came from behind.

Li Yuan paused: "So the police were dispatched because of that dog?"

He couldn't help but think of the white dog he had sensed in the night market, and also of the stray dog ​​he had killed in his own neighborhood.

However, those two dogs had given him a special feeling.

This time, however, it was sensed through the bamboo stick, and the two seemed to be different things.

Is it that all animals are starting to mutate, or is it just a coincidence?

He narrowed his eyes slightly and couldn't help but quicken his pace, striding towards the south of the city.

Throughout this process, he continued to use the bamboo stick to sense and search for any possible evil spirits, so that he could continue to do good deeds.

Unfortunately, on their way back to the south of the city, they encountered no more demons or evil spirits, nor did they find any other good deeds they could do.

Around 5 p.m., Li Yuan arrived again outside the electronics store that wasn't too far from his home.

From afar, he saw several people standing under the "late-night television" he had his eye on, and his heart tightened immediately. He quickly went inside.