With only 8 years to live at the start, I'm going all in.

Chapter 21 I am invincible within 7 steps

"you!!"

Seeing the approaching cold light, Qingyunzi was furious. He swung his longsword up and down, knocking the two cold lights aside with two crisp sounds.

I wanted to keep you here...

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Before Qingyunzi could finish speaking, he saw several more flashes of fire before his eyes. He instinctively parried with his sword, but this time he was forced to retreat step by step by the strange hidden weapon, so much so that his right hand ached and he was unable to block the last hidden weapon.

"Forehead!"

Qingyunzi felt a sharp pain in his chest and couldn't help but look down, only to find a small hole in his clothes, revealing slightly reddened flesh underneath.

At that moment, a strangely shaped hidden weapon was embedded in his chest, only half of it was in, with half of his body still sticking out.

"Hehehe, I've already reached the Embryonic Realm. Mere hidden weapons, ahhhhhh...!!!"

Qingyunzi was laughing strangely at Ding Yi, who was staring in disbelief, when suddenly his face contorted and he let out a shrill scream.

The next moment, he shrank his neck, his eyes widened, and then he staggered backward, but managed to prop himself up with his sword so that he wouldn't fall to the ground.

"It's done!"

Ding Yi, holding the Demon-Slaying Spear not far away, was overjoyed at the sight. But just as he was about to deliver another blow to Chang Qingzi, he suddenly noticed that Qing Yunzi had straightened up and was giving him a strange smile.

Ding Yi had been on guard against Qing Yunzi, after all, this guy was a demonic Taoist marked with a small red cross by the Flowing Sand Map. If he died so easily, it would be a real shame to have that red cross mark on him.

Without thinking, Ding Yi lunged to the side, then felt something flash past his eyes, and at the same time felt a burning pain in his shoulder.

But Ding Yi still managed to hit Qing Yunzi's head twice in mid-air before crashing heavily to the ground.

At this moment, Qingyunzi seemed to have no strength left to defend himself against Ding Yi's two shots. His head trembled slightly, and then two bullet holes appeared on his forehead.

"Grass!!"

After landing, Ding Yi rolled into the light of the lamp, but at that moment, the eerie claws had already pounced into the house and rushed towards Ding Yi on the ground.

[Slaying the Shadow Claw increases lifespan by 0.1 days]

[Slaying the Shadow Claw increases lifespan by 0.1 days]

[Kill the demonic cultivator Qingyunzi of the Blood and Flesh Temple, lifespan increased by 16 years and 76 days.]

...

A series of prompts flashed in Ding Yi's vision, but one of them, which was noticeably longer, made Ding Yi's eyes widen in surprise.

"Holy crap!!"

Ding Yi rubbed his eyes and realized that it was indeed such a notification, so he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

16 years!

Suddenly I feel like I've lived to be a hundred!

In his excitement, Ding Yi forgot all about the eerie shadow claws and sat up straight, his face showing excitement.

But the next moment, a sharp pain returned to his shoulder, which reminded Ding Yi that he seemed to have been attacked by something.

He turned his head and saw a bloody, mangled gash on his shoulder, from which a large amount of blood gushed, making the ghostly claws outside even more frenzied.

"hiss!!"

Ding Yi had been in a state of extreme excitement, but now that he had relaxed, he immediately realized the seriousness of the injury on his shoulder.

"What attacked us just now?"

Ding Yi dared not be careless. He picked up the lamp with his left hand, went to the wooden beam, pulled out the long knife from it, and then walked towards Qing Yunzi while braving the attacks of the Ghost Shadow Claw.

It wasn't until he got close to Qingyunzi that he realized what had attacked him.

It was a scarlet, thin strip of meat, like a ribbon.

Now the strip of meat is lying limply on the ground, and its end is connected to Qingyunzi's chest, looking as if it was shot out from Qingyunzi's chest.

"Is it poisonous?"

Ding Yi looked at the disgusting strip of meat with some fear in his heart. He then took his long knife and poked at the strip of meat a few times. Seeing that it did not react, he then slashed at it with his knife.

"Oh!"

With a muffled thud, the strip of meat was not cut in half by the long knife. Instead, it just wobbled a few times on the ground, appearing extremely tough.

However, this also proves that the meat strip had lost its ability to move after Qingyunzi's death, and Ding Yi breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, Ding Yi came to Qing Yunzi's side. Looking at the Taoist priest with wide-open eyes and two empty holes on his forehead, he felt a little scared.

To be honest, Ding Yi knew that Qing Yunzi was much stronger than him. If Qing Yunzi hadn't been so determined to get him to reveal the secret of the lamp, Ding Yi would probably have died in a single exchange.

However, this exposed lamp was part of Ding Yi's plan.

In warfare, winning hearts and minds is of paramount importance.

When facing a formidable enemy, first use lamps to distract him, then drop a pre-prepared coarse cloth net to lower Qingyunzi's expectations of him.

Then, taking advantage of the opportunity, they let Qingyunzi enter the attack range of the crossbow, and finally killed him with the Demon-Slaying Spear.

It can be said that every step of the process was extremely dangerous, and Ding Yi would never be willing to go through it again.

"Luckily, I won."

Ding Yi murmured.

At this moment, the eerie shadowy claws that were circling Ding Yi seemed to sense something was wrong and began to slowly retreat towards the door. Ding Yi did not stop them; he was more interested in Qing Yunzi in front of him.

He first used his long sword to pry open Qingyunzi's robe, revealing Qingyunzi's upper body, and then he could see clearly what the blood-red strip of flesh shooting out from his chest was.

It's a tongue!!

On Qingyunzi's chest, there was clearly the outline of a human face.

However, apart from a mouth, the other facial features of this person are extremely blurry, as if they have not been formed.

And that tongue is sticking out of the mouth of the human face!

"As expected of a demonic cultivator, I have no idea how this thing even grew!"

Ding Yi frowned as he looked at the scene before him, then turned his gaze to the bullet hole in Qing Yunzi's chest.

At this moment, fine black threads have begun to radiate out from around the bullet hole, like meridians growing on Qingyunzi's chest.

"It seems that the enhanced rune has taken effect, otherwise Qingyunzi would not have lost his fighting ability so quickly."

Upon seeing this, Ding Yi immediately recalled the mysterious pattern on the lamp, and then pressed the tip of his knife against Qing Yunzi's chest.

"It takes ordinary strength to break the skin, and only with all one's might can one draw blood. What kind of monster is Qingyunzi, and why is his body so strong?"

Feeling the tough, leather-like resilience emanating from Qingyunzi, Ding Yi felt even heavier in his heart.

If Qingyunzi is already so difficult to deal with, how much more difficult would it be if there is another Baiyunzi in the Taoist temple?

Ding Yi, who had originally planned to challenge Bai Yunzi, had completely lost interest in the matter and hurriedly returned to his room to retrieve the Flowing Sand Map and begin to examine it.

Fortunately, Baiyunzi in the Taoist temple seemed to have no reaction to Qingyunzi's death, and the red cross pattern remained on the mountain, which made Ding Yi breathe a sigh of relief.

"There's still a chance. If we can break through the barrier at the village entrance, then..."

Thinking of this, Ding Yi suddenly turned his gaze to Qing Yunzi's corpse.

"If this guy hadn't run into me in Xiaotan Village this time, would he have left the village? If he wanted to leave, how would he have done it?"

Once Ding Yi had a sudden inspiration, he returned to Qing Yunzi's corpse and began to ponder.