Chapter 137

Seeing this scene, Li Hao and the others were all stunned, including Feng Feng Bo Ping, who also showed a look of surprise.

After seeing the woman's face clearly, Li Hao was stunned for a moment, then immediately taken aback.

The other party was none other than that glutton from the cold pool, the Water Qilin Song Qiumo.

How did she come here?

Li Hao remembered that she seemed to have promised the first Palace Master of the Tan Palace, the ancestor of the Song family, that she would guard the Tan Palace and not leave easily.

But right now.

This was Liangzhou, ten thousand miles away.

At this moment, under the gaze of several people, Song Qiumo dragged two hill-sized demons behind her and walked slowly to the front of the pass.

She saw Li Hao's stunned appearance in the camp and smiled, and the surrounding cold wind seemed to become warm and bright.

"What, an old friend has come over, and you're not going to welcome me?"

Song Qiumo said with a light smile.

The pleasant voice, like clear spring water, brought everyone back to their senses.

Li Hongzhuang and Li He both looked at Li Hao in shock. As members of the Li Clan who grew up in Qingzhou City, how could they not recognize this great demon king of the Tan Palace Academy! But, this Qilin demon king had actually come for Li Hao?

As far as they knew, this Qilin demon king basically never came down from the mountain.

Li Hao came back to his senses and immediately laughed: "Wait until I finish dealing with this one, then I'll come to receive you."

He was still holding that giant frog demon in his hand.

However, previously this giant frog had been struggling to crawl outside the camp, but Song Qiumo's arrival had blocked its path of escape. Its fat, huge body was now lying on the ground, trembling and shivering, not daring to struggle anymore.

With two Four Standing Realm experts nearby, even if it could break free from the little brat's hand, it wouldn't be able to escape the attacks of the Four Standing Realm experts.

The giant frog felt grief and despair in its heart, hating Li Hao immensely. Its only hope at this moment was to hope that by working for these humans, it could get them to spare its life...

"Do you need help?"

Song Qiumo glanced at the giant frog. This casual question made the giant frog's fat tremble all over, and sweat like syrup broke out all over its body. It shivered and said, "Se, Senior, I was wrong, spare my life, I am willing to be a beast of burden, I will do whatever you want me to do, I..."

Before it could finish speaking, Li Hao had already retracted the line, pulling its body back.

The giant strength of ten thousand jin in his arms was enough to pull the giant frog's body.

The giant frog's mood was very complex and contradictory at this moment.

Should it struggle, or not struggle? If it struggled, it meant it still had the heart to resist.

Not struggling... but it felt like it would die! Finally, after intense internal struggle, its body maintained a prostrate, motionless posture, letting Li Hao drag it back, leaving an extremely long friction mark on the ground.

"Young man, I meant no offense, it was all forced by that old dragon. I have cultivated for thousands of years, I am kind and charitable, I help others, I..."

The giant frog was dragged in front of Li Hao. It vaguely saw that its life and death were all in the hands of the young man before it, so it hurriedly begged.

Li Hao smiled: "Do you have any cultivation techniques?"

"?"

The giant frog was stunned, then said: "I have them, but our demon cultivation techniques are only suitable for ourselves, and the techniques of each race are somewhat different. Like me, I became a spirit by breathing in the essence of the sun and moon, and I also absorbed the power of the earth and swamps..."

"If you have them, let me see."

Li Hao interrupted it and said.

The giant frog looked at Li Hao suspiciously, somewhat hesitant: "I don't have the technique on me, you can follow me to my home..."

"Give it to me now." Li Hao said calmly.

The giant frog trembled all over, sensing the young man's killing intent. It felt immense resentment in its heart, but on the surface, it only hesitated slightly before smirking: "Just remembered, I seem to have a scroll on me."

As it spoke, it opened its mouth and rolled out its tongue; inside was a huge scroll of a cultivation technique, covered in mucus.

Li Hao waved his hand casually, driving it with the power of object manipulation, stripping away the mucus, and then taking the technique to the side.

After doing this, he smiled, then picked up the Pig Tooth Sword and charged violently toward the opponent.

The fishing experience had just been harvested, and even if he released the opponent now and fished for it again, it wouldn't have much effect.

For the same prey, the experience from repeated fishing is negligible.

Seeing Li Hao rise to kill, the giant frog also showed ferocity and anger in its eyes, roaring: "It's all your fault, even if I die, I'll eat you!"

It knew it had no hope of escape, and when it was being dragged, it had also harbored the intention of taking the opportunity to counter-kill Li Hao.

At this moment, it suddenly opened its mouth, and a large amount of poison mist was spat out, but this poison mist was blocked by a stream of water light; it was Song Qiumo who had made a move.

Immediately following, a small stream of water flowed into the giant frog's mouth. In the blink of an eye, the giant frog's body suddenly swelled and expanded.

Afterward, it let out a scream, blood shooting out of its eyeballs like sharp arrows, and all other parts of its body also sprayed blood, its swollen body quickly shriveling up amidst the spraying.

Li Hao avoided getting stained and dirtying his clothes, stopping in time.

Not long after, the giant frog's body completely shriveled up, its eyeballs withered and wrinkled, as if it had been soaked in water for months.

Li Hao looked at Song Qiumo, feeling both moved and helpless, and said: "I could have solved it myself."

"Look at what you're saying, you're blaming me?" Song Qiumo couldn't help but smile.

Li Hao scratched his head, also feeling that this didn't make sense, and said: "It was my slip of the tongue, thank you very much for today."

"There's no need for apologies. Even if I hadn't come today, you would have been fine."

Song Qiumo glanced at Feng Feng Bo Ping on the clouds and said: "I thought you were living quite hard, I didn't expect you to have others looking after you. I don't seem to have come so timely."

Li Hongzhuang and Li He both secretly thought, as expected, this great demon king had indeed come for Li Hao.

Li Hao hurriedly laughed: "What are you saying? If it weren't for you, these great demons would have run away. Speaking of which, why did you come over? Were you fighting that Dragon Lord just now?"

"That old dragon was peeking from the side. I wanted to sneak attack him, but he was still too vigilant."

Song Qiumo's expression was somewhat regretful, and she said: "But that old dragon's strength is not inferior to mine, so it's hard to keep him. If there hadn't been another one here, he would have probably had a good fight with me."

Feng Feng Bo Ping smiled indifferently and said: "You are too modest."

Song Qiumo glanced at him, suddenly recognizing Feng Feng Bo Ping's identity. A look of surprise appeared in her eyes, and she looked at Li Hao again, unable to help but purse her lips and smile.

This guy really dares to associate with anyone.

"I came here to deliver a sword technique to you."

Song Qiumo said.

"Deliver a sword technique?" Li Hao was surprised. "Have you forgotten? You are a registered teacher at the Tan Palace Academy. According to the previous agreement, after you complete your teaching, you can obtain the unique skills of the Tan Palace."

Song Qiumo's figure drifted over and landed in front of Li Hao.

A faint, orchid-like fragrance wafted into his nose, as if clear fruit fragrance was drifting all around.

Li Hongzhuang and Li He felt a slight shock in their hearts, sensing a bit of pressure, their bodies involuntarily tensing up, but knowing the other party had no malice, they immediately controlled their bodies to relax.

"But I only taught two classes..." Li Hao said.

Before he could finish, Song Qiumo's palm had already flipped out, and he didn't know where she had taken it from, but in her hand was a sword manual.

Li Hao looked at the name; it was indeed that unique skill of the Tan Palace, the Taiji Qiankun Sword.

"The Palace Master said, the remaining classes will be recorded for you first, and you can go back to teach when you have time in the future." Song Qiumo said with a smile.

Li Hao looked at the sword manual and was silent for a moment.

When he was teaching at the Tan Palace, he was still the peerless genius famous throughout the world in Qingzhou City, but the Tan Palace had instead set many conditions.

Now that he had fallen into trouble outside the Tianmen Pass, the other party had traveled ten thousand miles to present it.

"Thank you."

Li Hao said, taking the sword manual.

Li Hongzhuang and Li He's eyes narrowed slightly. They could understand Song Qiumo's words; it seemed she was deliberately saying them for them to hear, meaning that this gift of the sword manual did not represent any private friendship between the Tan Palace Academy and Li Hao, but was purely because of the registered teacher status.

Now that Li Hao's relationship with the Li Clan was extremely poor, helping Li Hao would not be flattering the Li Clan, but rather easily hitting the horse's leg.

However, risking offending the Li Clan to present a unique skill showed the Tan Palace's intentions and attitude toward Li Hao.

Li Hongzhuang looked at Li Hao. She had guarded this Tianmen Pass for many years but couldn't wait for powerful reinforcements. Her nephew had only arrived for less than two days, and two Four Standing Realm experts had appeared one after another to protect him.

She couldn't recognize the Feng Feng Bo Ping on the clouds, guessing that the other party had likely hidden his true appearance.

But this Tan Palace Water Qilin would not leave the mountain unless it was a major event, yet she had actually traveled ten thousand miles to come here, which was simply incredible.

What kind of magic did this child have that could make these two value him so much? Was it because of the Li Clan?

She vaguely felt it wasn't.

Li He stood to the side with a solemn expression, silently noting these things down to send a letter to the Duke later.

Since the end of the Battle of Yanbei, Li Tiangang had been promoted two levels from a Second-Rank Hou Jue to a Third-Rank Duke, with a higher status.

In the Li Clan, only the older generation had accumulated the status of Duke.

And basically, reaching a First-Rank Duke was considered the peak, which was extremely difficult to be conferred.

Even higher divine titles were even more impossible; except for the founding divine generals, they were basically not conferred.

Li Junye, who saved the fallen Cangzhou and the common people of hundreds of cities more than a decade ago, was only promoted from a Captain to a Hou Jue at once, which was already an unprecedentedly large-scale cross-rank conferment in history.

If Li Junye had been a Hou Jue at the time, he could have been conferred a Duke, but his starting point was too low, belonging to the type that shocked everyone at once.

Looking at the two Four Standing Realm existences before him, Li He suddenly felt that he was somewhat conspicuous and redundant.

Moreover, having witnessed Li Hao's combat power, he felt that the protective effect he provided was really not obvious.

"Isn't there a city here?"

Song Qiumo carried her hands behind her back, looked around, and asked with some curiosity.

Li Hao put away the sword manual and said with a wry smile: "The city was destroyed."

While speaking, he saw the peacock that was on the verge of death and still had a breath left. His eyes moved, and he quickly condensed his True Power into a fishhook and threw it out, hanging it on the opponent's head, and pulled it over violently.

【Fishing Experience +2820】

Whoa, there's still so much.

Li Hao couldn't help but exclaim in his heart.

Just dragging the giant frog over was basically considered fishing it ashore, and he had obtained about eight thousand experience points.

At this moment, this peacock demon had been beaten to a pulp by Song Qiumo, so fishing was effortless, and he could still get one-third of the experience, which was already quite considerable.

If he were to fish for it alone, a Three Imperishable great demon could provide him with a total experience of about ten thousand.

His original twenty thousand plus fishing experience had now reached about thirty-five thousand.

Fishing for one more Three Imperishable would bring him close to upgrading to Level Six.

"You brat..." Feng Feng Bo Ping saw Li Hao fishing even for those that were about to die, and couldn't help but be speechless.

Li Hao smiled sheepishly. If it weren't for the experience, as a fisherman, he would also feel somewhat ashamed of this act.

"Find some paper later, make do with it. The corpse of this great demon cannot be wasted, it must be painted."

Li Hao thought to himself.

The conditions here were simple and not suitable for painting, but the corpse of a Three Imperishable great demon could accumulate quite a bit of painting experience, which was rare and not to be wasted.

"So tragic."

Song Qiumo heard Li Hao's words, raised her eyebrows slightly, but didn't say anything.

"You traveled such a long way, are you hungry?" Li Hao asked.

Song Qiumo smiled: "There are no small crispy cakes here."

"I can make them for you."

Li Hao smiled, but then thought of something and said: "However, there are no materials here, so I need you to help purchase some."

"I see you're just taking the opportunity to let me help you purchase a batch, and taking advantage of it yourself." Song Qiumo had already seen that the conditions here were simple, and eating and drinking could only rely on demon corpses.

With his intention exposed, Li Hao's old face couldn't help but turn red: "We share the blessings!"

"And what about the hardships?"

"I'll take them."

Li Hao said with a smile.

Song Qiumo stared at him, then laughed, as pleasant as silver bells.

(End of chapter)