Chapter 25: An Unexpected Visitor At Night

Inside the cultivation room of the Tower Of Nine Heavens, Lin Xiao experienced a surge of energy flowing through his body. It was the sign that he was about to breakthrough.

Soon after, with a booming sound, he brokethrough successfully!

3rd Level Ancestor Qi Realm!

He opened his eyes and took a deep breath. At his stage, the increase in strength with every breakthrough is substantial.

"Almost three days... previously, it only took one day." Lin Xiao muttered. Naturally, as his level rose, so did the requirement for the next breakthrough.

"Now, let's try that."

Lin Xiao closed his eyes again.

As he willed, the first of the seven secret gates that he acquired after becoming Heretic God's Inheritor opened. The moment it did, the energy present inside his body started becoming rampant.

Instantly, he felt his strength rising. The stream of energy flowing through him became more condensed and lethal. Lin Xiao felt like even if he fought against a 4th Level or even 5th Level Ancestor Qi Realm expert, he could defeat them!

Right after he opened the first secret gate, information about a technique from [Heavenly Secret Art] entered his mind. This was called [Paragon Strike], a formidable sword art.

Lin Xiao didn't stop. He went ahead and opened the second secret gate. A slight discomfort arose in his heart which he quickly suppressed. He could keep the second gate open for at most a day.

With the increase in strength, a new piece of information arrived. This technique was called [Divine Protection]. It could protect him from enemies far above his level for a minute. By the end of this technique, all of his energy will be depleted.

Out of curiosity, he tried to open the third gate. Suddenly, he experienced a heart-wrenching pain lancing through him! Seeing the situation, he instantly closed it! His face was already pale.

"I could open it for a minute at most..." He concluded. At the same time, he was excited.

Although he only opened the third gate slightly, the surge in his strength was much more than the first and second combined! He felt like when he reached Saint Qi Realm, he could open it without experiencing any pain.

After experiencing several boons, Lin Xiao was happy. Right when he was planning to go to the library, he felt a disturbance in the real world. His body flashed out of the Tower Of Nine Realms.

Standing up from the bed, he stepped out of the room and began walking towards the kitchen. He has stayed in Tower Of Nine Heavens for almost seven hours and it was about three o'clock in night right now.

A woman in her twenties wearing tight-fitted latex trousers was sitting in his living room with crossed legs, watching him silently. Lin Xiao pretended not to see her. Or rather, he shouldn't be able to see her, that is, if he was an average human.

She was a cultivator in the 1st Level of Earth Qi Realm. At Earth Qi Realm, a cultivator can hide from non-cultivators if they wish to. Lin Xiao noticed that she was trying to conceal her presence, so he acted accordingly.

Lin Xiao acted as if he came here to drink water. He went to the kitchen and began filling the glass with water. He wanted to know what she'd do.

Xia Xianxia, on the other hand, was stunned by the charm of the man she came to kill.

'Damn it! Such a fine specimen! I wish I didn't have to kill him so I could take him back to the sect and perform experiments on him with my poisons.'

Xia Xianxia was granted the title of 'First Genius' in Hundred Poison Valley due to her exceptional talent in developing poison. And obviously, you need test subjects for developing poison. Humans were the ones she liked to work with most.

Somewhere along the line, she began to enjoy torturing her guinea pigs. It turned into her fetish. She enjoyed killing, but strictly with her poison—the number of people she has killed with her poison amounts to hundreds.

This was the first time she had ventured outside the perimeter of Hundred Poison Valley, and there was a reason for this.

Disciples of Hundred Poison Valley had to go through a strict ritual once in their lifetime. It was to kill a human using poison.

A strange ritual for sure, but when one considers Hundred Poison Valley notorious reputation in the cultivation world, it seems almost... natural.

Obviously, Xia Xianxia has already killed before. But it was in secret. No one other than her father knew. As the sect master's daughter, she can't not follow the ritual.

With some regret, Xia Xianxia stood up. Seeing that Lin Xiao was casually drinking water without noticing her, she walked up behind him. Then she took out the dagger hanging around her pliable waist. It was already coated with poison.

'Whatever, since you are handsome, I'll give you a painless death.' Thinking so, she swung the dagger to stab Lin Xiao's neck.

Clang!

As if her iron dagger met an invisible resistance, it stopped centimeters away from Lin Xiao's neck. Her eyes widened witnessing this.

At that moment, the seemingly 'oblivious' Lin Xiao turned around, and looked deep into her eyes with a subtle smile hanging around the corner on his lips. His lips then moved. Although no sound came out of his mouth, she understood what he said.

'I can see you.'

She felt a chill run down her spine as she jumped back in fright.

'He can see me? How? Since when? I should be invisible right now! Can he be a cultivator in Earth Qi Realm too? No! Impossible! He is not even in his twenties! But then... why can't I see his cultivation?!' A series of questions popped inside Xia Xianxia's brain one after another.

After some time, she finally calmed down. 'There's no way he's stronger than me; he must've used some treasure to see through my invisibility... As for why I can't see through his cultivation, I'll simply ask himself after beating him.'

Lin Xiao was looking at her up and down. Although she was black-hearted, her beauty can't be denied.

A tall figure, sexy long legs that any man would drool for, raven-black hair as if blessed by the color of the moonless night, ruby-like eyes, and rosy lips, there were her features. She was a captivating beauty from all angles.

"You... you can see me?" Xia Xianxia asked for confirmation.

Lin Xiao ignored her question and smirked lightly. "Coming at a lone man's house this late in the night, what nefarious plans are you cooking?"

A tacit confirmation.

Xia Xianxan has calmed down by now. She looked at him coldly and said: "Why do you care? You are going to die anyway."

After saying that, she charged at him with the dagger in hand and the energy of Earth Qi Realm cultivation assisting her. She reached Lin Xiao in the blink of an eye.

Lin Xiao casually moved out of her way. Xia Xianxia changed the direction and swung the dagger again, only to miss it once again. No matter what she did, Lin Xiao would escape her by a hair's width.

Furious at the fact that she was being played around with, she scowled: "Is running the only thing you know?"

"Is swinging the dagger the only thing you know?"Lin Xiao shot back instantly.

"Humph." She snorted coldly and started making hand gestures rapidly. Moments later, a large amount of energy diffused out of her body, forming the silhouette of a giant green snake.

"Let's see how you escape this."

Like a tiger reaching out for prey, the giant green snake shot out towards Lin Xiao, destroying everything in its path.

"I don't need to." Lin Xiao replied lightly, somewhat annoyed that his newly bought place was being wrecked.

Right when the giant snake was about to bite him, he slapped it. Like a wisp of smoke, it burst apart and disappeared into thin air.

"What?!" Xia Xianxia was dumbfounded.

Without any hesitation, she immediately tried to run away. If she doesn't understand that she wasn't his opponent now, that she would be too stupid.

She had to escape!