Chapter 180: The Beast Hidden Within

Before leaving, Kai Xin instructed him, saying he would leave Luoyang City in three days and asked him to come here again after that to hand over more Jade Dew Pills. For future transactions, they could either pay a deposit in advance or conduct deals through a pawnshop. Only after Yu Zi nodded in agreement did he leave the pawnshop.
After storing the Jade Dew Pills, Kai Xin checked his money—there wasn’t much left. He immediately bought some pills from a nearby pharmacy, summoned his jujube-red horse, and galloped out of Luoyang City at full speed, amid the astonished cries of numerous players.
“Damn it.”
“Does this kid really think Luoyang City is his backyard?!”
“Boss! How can we just let this kid act recklessly on our territory? We’re the biggest gang in Luoyang City!”
In a tavern corner, a group of young men watched Zhang Yang’s retreating figure, furious. They stood up, shouting that they wanted to teach Kai Xin a lesson and curb his arrogance.
“Those who want to fight one-on-one should go after him themselves. Those who aren’t capable shouldn’t get involved. If you had the skills, why not hurry up and level up? Don’t think just two days of training makes you an expert…”
The only man who didn’t stand up continued eating and drinking, talking nonstop:
“When he was fighting over a hundred experts, you guys were still wearing open-crotch pants…”
“Boss!”
“Stop talking nonsense. Drink!”
…
After calming down, Xiao Bei excitedly returned to the game, bringing his two zombie pets to continue searching for zombies in the graveyard. One or two weren’t enough—he needed three or more to train against at the same time.
Since separating from Kai Xin over a day ago, he had been constantly thinking about how to deal with three zombies. Now he had some ideas and was no longer at a loss. He could use clever tactics to distract two zombies while focusing his attacks to destroy them one by one.
Although it took time, as his skills improved and his mastery of the “Ten Thousand Poisons Palm” grew, Xiao Bei gradually became fascinated by this fighting style and gained more confidence in achieving Kai Xin’s goal within three days.
But that day!
Xiao Bei noticed that the number of zombies in the vicinity had sharply decreased…
It took him half a mile to lure just two zombies.
What was going on?
Confused, he sent out his zombie puppets to search the area extensively. Finally, in the distance ahead, he spotted signs of a large group of zombies.
Oh no… not signs…
It was corpses!

In this area, seven or eight zombies lay fallen;
“Damn it.”
After examining the scene for a while, Xiao Bei came to a conclusion: these zombies seemed to have been deliberately lured together and killed at the same time… The fist marks and footprints on them were chaotic and dense, looking somewhat like…
Uh, Shadow Wind Leg!
At the thought of a possibility, Xiao Bei suddenly gasped in shock, his eyes widening. The next moment, he leaped forward, accelerating rapidly toward the distance ahead…
Powerful, solid striking sounds came continuously from afar, at an astonishing speed. The dense flurry of punches and kicks seemed to cause the air around to vibrate, wave after wave, circle after circle, making it especially noticeable to Xiao Bei as he approached. The closer he got, the more he felt a faint force resisting his progress.
This unusual phenomenon piqued Xiao Bei’s curiosity even more!
Soon!
The dark figures of seven or eight zombies appeared in Xiao Bei’s vision.
“I’m here!”
His eyes lit up, but among those zombies, he saw streaks of grayish-white light, representing the powerful punch winds of a high level of martial arts mastery.
However…
The day before yesterday, what Xiao Bei saw were just beams of light. Now, from afar, he could clearly see the outlines of punches and kicks, as if they were solid objects, each trailing behind it a grayish-white light streak.
Inside Happy’s lively and frenzied body seemed to lurk a fierce and brutal monster!
In an instant, punches and kicks were unleashed simultaneously.
Their super-fast speed made it seem as though they were all struck at the same time, creating a terrifying momentum. The subsequent punches and kicks tore through the air around, their sharp howls also seeming very different from usual.
Normally,
these punch winds and such were just illusory, serving to enhance the dramatic effect.
But now, they seemed to come to life, cutting powerfully through the air in arcs and striking several zombies directly ahead, creating a clear sense of them being pushed back;
Xiao Bei’s face immediately showed a look of surprise and confirmation:
As expected, Happy’s “Shadow Wind Leg” had reached the level of a master.
What puzzled him, however, was why such a high-level martial art would become so terrifying—could even punches and kicks attack nearby targets at the same time?
While still in shock, several zombies behind Happy struck his body from different directions at the same time…
Although he wasn’t directly hit by the stinky claws of the zombies, the black palm winds still grazed his body sharply.
“Ah!!”

Xiao Bei took a deep breath, his eyes filled with shock. Being hit by multiple zombies at once would deal severe damage to even the strongest person. In the past, Happy never gave zombies many chances to hit him. With so many zombies, was it really difficult to maintain control of the situation? Just as Xiao Bei was about to lead his two zombie companions to rescue Happy, he quickly noticed that Happy, despite being hit repeatedly, had no intention of breaking free from the swarm. Moreover, after suffering multiple injuries, his body only swayed slightly—he paid no attention to the attacks from behind and continued to pummel the zombies in front of him with his fists and feet, leaving his back exposed to attacks. This wild and unrestrained scene sent chills down Xiao Bei’s spine; it felt as though countless caterpillars were crawling inside his heart… As time passed and Happy still showed no signs of defeat or injury, Xiao Bei suddenly realized that Happy’s equipment seemed different from usual. Normally, he wore a blue shirt and an old, outdated giant wolf fur coat, looking no different from ordinary players. When asked, he said he didn’t need very good equipment yet. But today, his plain yellow archer’s outfit was magnificent; the plain yellow wristguards and boots also appeared to be extraordinary equipment. Combined with their protective effects, they seemed capable of deflecting many zombie attacks. The fierce plain yellow Yellow Dragon set, combined with Happy’s agile movements, made him resemble a dragon soaring through the clouds, roaring like thunder. Ignoring the attacks from behind, he frantically attacked the zombies in front, displaying incredible power! The process seemed simple and insane, but only Happy understood the danger involved… However! Only Happy knew the tremendous rewards he had gained. Over more than a day, not only did “Wind Spirit Spin” leap wildly to absorb experience for leveling up, but “Black Sand Fortitude” also advanced from the ninth layer to the later stages of the tenth layer, thanks to the support of the pills. Although the lethality of the Mysterious Realm zombies was reduced somewhat by the Yellow Dragon Archer’s outfit and the enhanced strength from the Fate Realm, it still posed a severe challenge to “Black Sand Fortitude.” With each attack, it absorbed complete experience, and the higher the frequency of attacks, the faster the level-up. However, in just one day, Happy consumed over a thousand pills and more than twenty Jade Dew Pills, amounting to nearly 300,000 silver coins…

Such consumption is unacceptable to any player at this stage! But Happy doesn’t care at all; for him, as long as he can quickly meet the requirements to practice the “Golden Bell Shield,” it’s all worth it!