Grinding EXP From Fireball Skill

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Li Wei’s right hand transformed into a flaming blade.

With a horizontal sweep, he severed the scorpion tail impaling his abdomen.

The searing blade sliced through the incredibly tough scorpion tail like a hot knife through butter.

It severed it in two with ease.

Locks staggered back two steps.

Li Wei advanced on him, one step at a time.

"Aside from cheap tricks and sneak attacks, have you forgotten how to fight?"

"Damn it! Don’t you underestimate me!"

Locks roared, twisting his body and stomping his right foot hard on the ground.

BANG!

The ground cracked beneath his foot as he shot toward Li Wei with terrifying speed.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Countless yellowish-white bandages covered in Magic Runes unraveled from what was once Erica’s body.

The bandages turned into white serpents, coiling around Li Wei.

Sealing runes were inscribed on the Magic Bandages.

They could seal even Extraordinary Power.

The Magic Bandages wrapped around Li Wei’s limbs, extinguishing the flames on his body and suppressing them back within him.

Locks yanked hard on the Magic Bandages, pulling Li Wei right in front of him.

Erica’s right hand transformed into a blackish-green Dragon Claw, clawing for Li Wei’s heart.

A sharp, cyan aura swirled around its sharp fingertips.

"Useless. You’re too weak!"

Li Wei watched him with a blank expression, raising his left hand to catch the Dragon Claw.

His left hand was like an iron vise, preventing Locks from moving an inch.

The Magic Bandages coiled around him burst into golden flames, turning to ash that scattered on the wind.

Locks let out a ferocious roar. "Damn it, damn it, damn it..."

"Why are you so strong? Why!!!"

Faced with the terrifying power Li Wei displayed, Locks felt a sense of despair.

He had already used every trick he had.

He had even prohibited Li Wei’s most powerful Fire Element Magic.

But he was still no match for Li Wei.

He was still being completely crushed.

It was something he couldn’t accept.

Locks stared daggers at Li Wei, screaming in fury, "Next time! Next time, I’ll definitely kill you!"

Li Wei stared back at him, looking at Erica’s face, and said softly, "There won’t be a next time. Erica, rest in peace..."

"Soul Splitting Technique!"

Unlike the soul-splitting procedure he had performed on Monice, this time, the Soul Splitting Technique was brutally crude.

In an instant, it tore Locks’s soul to shreds.

To ensure Locks was completely annihilated, Li Wei cast the Soul Splitting Technique repeatedly until his soul was utterly pulverized.

Sensing that Locks’s soul had completely dissipated, Li Wei finally stopped.

After he stopped, Li Wei perceived that the Elements in the surrounding world had returned to normal.

He glanced at Punk, who was not far away.

Punk lay on the ground with a vacant stare, foaming at the mouth, his limbs twitching uncontrollably.

He had been caught in the crossfire when Li Wei used the Soul Splitting Technique on Locks.

A piece of his soul had been accidentally sliced away, leaving him in a half-dead, vegetative state.

The Elements returned.

A great volley of Ice Spears immediately rained down from the sky.

Countless Ice Spears fell like rain, engulfing the enemies surrounding Saint Xi.

Gu Sewei had arrived as backup.

She had arrived long ago but couldn’t use her power because of Punk’s Magic Prohibition Array.

The moment the Magic Prohibition Array disappeared, Gu Sewei cast her Magic to break Saint Xi free.

She also felt a pang of guilt.

She had thought she was bringing saviors to Fred City.

She never expected they would turn out to be enemies of Li Wei and Saint Xi.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The Demon Dragon King’s Armor of Sighs was incredibly durable.

Gu Sewei’s attacks could only break their encirclement of Saint Xi; she couldn’t kill them.

The Ice Spears couldn’t pierce the tough Armor.

Not only was the Armor incredibly durable, but it also possessed extremely high Magic Resistance.

Locks, Erica, and Punk were all dead.

Seeing that the situation had turned against them, the remaining enemies charged at Saint Xi, hoping to capture her and use her as a hostage to threaten Li Wei and escape Fred City safely.

"Li Wei."

Saint Xi gazed at Li Wei’s back, sensing the sorrow in his heart.

An enemy appeared before her.

An oppressive aura, carrying the presence of the Demon Dragon King, washed over her.

In an instant, the image of her mother being killed by the Demon Dragon King flashed through Saint Xi’s mind.

She felt as if she were facing the Demon Dragon King himself, about to die at his hands.

CLANG!

The next second, the sharp sword thrusting toward Saint Xi stopped in midair.

Saint Xi’s seemingly slender, weak fingers gripped the blade tightly, preventing the Longsword from advancing another inch.

The enemy holding the Longsword’s expression changed, and he instinctively tried to pull the sword from Saint Xi’s grasp.

But unexpectedly, the Longsword seemed fixed in Saint Xi’s hand.

He couldn’t budge it in the slightest.

Trying to match strength with an adult Legendary Giant Dragon—even Li Wei had to commend his courage.

CRACK!

Saint Xi snapped the blade.

The enemy’s face filled with horror.

Saint Xi slowly raised her head, a light gradually igniting in her eyes.

"Demon Dragon King... I... will... never... be afraid... again!"

Saint Xi said slowly.

Having overcome the fear in her heart, the dormant power within Saint Xi began to awaken.

Under the pressure of the Demon Dragon King’s aura, her Holy Giant Dragon bloodline seemed to grow even stronger.

The power of her bloodline was fighting back against the Demon Dragon King.

Saint Xi could feel it—the inherited power from the depths of her bloodline.

It was the legacy of the Saint Dragon King.

The Saint Dragon King was the true king of the Dragon Race.

The Demon Dragon King was merely a usurper of the Dragon Race’s throne!

What Saint Xi had to do was reclaim the throne that belonged to the Holy Dragon Race.

HMMMM! HMMMM! HMMMM!

The Power of the Holy Dragon erupted from within Saint Xi.

Golden ripples of power spread out, enveloping all the enemies wearing the Demon Dragon King’s Armor of Sighs.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Cracks actually began to appear on their incredibly durable Armor.

Immediately after, all the Armor shattered.

The Demon Dragon King’s power vanished.

The oppressive presence that had enveloped Saint Xi also disappeared completely.

The clouds in Saint Xi’s mind parted. Her will broke through her fear, reaching a new height.

She could faintly sense the untapped potential within her Holy Dragon bloodline.

If her Holy Dragon bloodline could awaken, she would possess the great power needed to defeat the Demon Dragon King.

Saint Xi was no longer lost, no longer hesitant.

She had found a way to fight the incomparably powerful Demon Dragon King.

Before this, Saint Xi could only pin her hopes on her own growth, waiting for the Demon Dragon King to weaken and fall from his Peak Stage.

This was all due to a lack of confidence in her own strength and potential.

Because she was afraid of the Demon Dragon King’s power, she could only think of growing slowly, waiting until her own power reached the Complete Stage, waiting until the Demon Dragon King fell from his Peak Stage.

That way, she would have a hope of avenging her mother.

But now, things were different. Saint Xi had found the immense potential hidden within her Holy Dragon bloodline.

By unlocking this potential, she had the confidence to defeat the Demon Dragon King even at his Peak Stage.

She no longer thought about waiting for the Demon Dragon King to grow weaker.

Instead, she thought about becoming stronger herself—stronger than the Demon Dragon King.

To use superior power to defeat the incomparably mighty Demon Dragon King.

This reshaped Saint Xi’s beliefs and strengthened her will.

After the Demon Dragon King’s Armor of Sighs was shattered by the Power of the Holy Dragon, the threat posed by the enemies dropped drastically.

Soon, they were either killed or had surrendered.

Gu Sewei had her people take the surrendered enemies into custody.

She walked over to Li Wei.

Li Wei stood motionless before the dead Erica, lost in thought.

Gu Sewei looked at Erica lying on the ground. Her body was still relatively intact.

Li Wei had used the Soul Splitting Technique to kill Locks’s soul without harming Erica’s body.

However, Erica was truly dead.

Even if she hadn’t died when Locks took over her body, her soul would have inevitably shattered when Locks was killed by the Soul Splitting Technique.

In any case, Erica was dead.

Gu Sewei said, "I’m sorry. I didn’t know they were your enemies."

Li Wei shook his head. "You don’t need to apologize. This had nothing to do with you."

"Locks has been looking for me and Saint Xi."

Hearing this, Gu Sewei was silent for a moment before asking, "Did you know her?"

Li Wei said, "Her name was Erica. She was a good girl."

"If she hadn’t run into Locks, maybe she wouldn’t have had to suffer so much."

"Can we bury her on the back mountain?" Li Wei asked.

There was only one grave on the back mountain.

The unmarked monument of the Ice Queen.

It didn’t even contain a body.

The Ice Queen had dissipated completely.

Gu Sewei nodded. "Of course."

Li Wei used the Crystal Coffin Sealing Technique to completely freeze Erica’s body, then erected a gravestone for her on the back mountain.

In the wind and snow of the night, the two lonely gravestones stood together, keeping each other company.