When system cheat becomes rampant!

The Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage was actually not afraid of flames; they only feared the flames produced by Xiang Beifei.

To be more precise, it seemed like they were afraid of Xiang Beifei's Spiritual Power!

However, the treants in this withered forest were strange; they seemed to be able to absorb Spiritual Power, rendering all skill-based attacks useless against them; even the flames of Xiang Beifei could be devoured by them.

This time, even the branches stained with stream water seemed to have gained the ability to devour his Spiritual Power!

What is the relationship between these streams and the treants?

"Now, your biggest reliance has been taken away,"

Shi Renmei, through the remnants of the Ghost Mustache burnt by Xiang Beifei's flames, understood the uniqueness of Xiang Beifei and attempted to deal with him using the stream water from the withered forest.

As expected, her idea was correct!

Shi Renmei chuckled lightly, immediately charging at Xiang Beifei with the water-soaked branch in her hand!

Whoosh!

Xiang Beifei punched again, but when his fist struck the branch, it was met with an absorbing force that quickly devoured his Spiritual Power, instantly extinguishing his flames.

Meanwhile, the branch in Shi Renmei's hand, carrying a formidable force, whipped towards Xiang Beifei. Her speed was very fast, even several degrees faster than Xiang Beifei; he had hardly reacted when the branch hit his arm!

A nimble force immediately surged on Xiang Beifei's body!

Professor Guo's defense skills, Counter-Blade!

He intended to counter the force from the branch, but a bizarre absorbing force emerged again from the branch, swallowing up the Counter-Blade power that had just risen in Xiang Beifei!

[Counter-Blade]utilized Spiritual Power to turn the force into one's own, repelling the opponent's attack back at them.

Its essence was still Spiritual Power!

Bang!

Xiang Beifei staggered back, crashing into a tree, knocking it down. The once green tree withered instantly upon impact, with broken branches and fallen leaves scattering all around.

He got up, looked at his arm – a scorching scar remained. Without the protection of Spiritual Power, even his sturdy body suffered from the blow!

Shi Renmei's strength was exceedingly fierce. Judging from the aura she exuded and the speed of her attacks, this creature was at the level of a desolate beast in the later stages of Meridian Opening!

Desolate beasts of the later Meridian Opening stage were very powerful. When Xiang Beifei followed Elder Luo on a training expedition last time, he was chased all over by such a beast. Even though he could see the beast's weaknesses, he was frustrated by the inability to break through its defenses.

Shi Renmei was even more fierce than those desolate beasts. With Xiang Beifei's only advantage over her nullified, she had nothing to fear.

"Do desolate beasts also practice cultivation?"

Xiang Beifei pondered to himself.

In his memory, the cultivation levels of desolate beasts actually had a ceiling; that is to say, a desolate beast, once mature, would remain at whatever cultivation level it had reached.

Take the Triangular Thunder Krait, for instance; they might not be formidable when born, but once they mature, they would naturally grow to the later stages of Qi-Controlling, unable to further advance.

Only through encountering fortuitous opportunities leading to mutations could they potentially break through to the Meridian Opening phase. However, such mutations were rare, with only a select few special desolate beasts possibly undergoing such transformations.

And the Ghostly Visages around here varied in strength. The crybaby they encountered in the City of the Old Days was only at the early Meridian Opening stage, not very strong, but the Ghost Mustaches here were different. Judging by the aura of their attacks, some tentacles were close to rivalling the middle stage of Meridian Opening!

And the power displayed by Shi Renmei's attacks was a massive leap above that of the other Ghost Mustaches, exuding the terrifying presence only possessed by desolate beasts in the later stages of Meridian Opening!

Does this imply that intelligent desolate beasts could also break through their own limits by cultivating?

At that moment, Shi Renmei charged over again, the branch whistling through the air and slashing toward Xiang Beifei.

Xiang Beifei, having been at a disadvantage from the first hit, immediately leapt backward.

Whiz! Whiz!

With shrill cries emanating through the air, Shi Renmei's attacks came swiftly, hardly giving Xiang Beifei a moment's rest. The branch, in her grasp, was like a nimble serpent, relentlessly tearing at Xiang Beifei.

Xiang Beifei recollected the burning breath soil, it transformed into a powerful force striking directly at the branch!

Crack!

The branch was instantly shattered by his formidable force!

"Eh?"

Xiang Beifei was somewhat surprised.

Was this section of the branch actually so fragile?

Shi Renmei had not protected this section of the branch with her demonic power!

If it had been him, and he wanted to use a branch as a weapon, he would also need to consider the branch's capacity to endure. The first thing he would do, then, would be to cover the branch with Spiritual Power, enhancing its hardness so that it wouldn't be so easily broken by an enemy's slash.

Shi Renmei was a desolate beast, emanating a strange and formidable demonic power, but as an intelligent beast, she should also understand that the branch could easily break, unlikely to be unaware of the need to cover the branch with demonic power.

In an instant, Xiang Beifei understood the reason!

"Unless, this creature also fears that water!"

That is to say, the stream was extremely strange, not only could it devour his Spiritual Power, but it could also devour Shi Renmei's demonic power!

This was why Shi Renmei hadn't used her late-stage Meridian Opening demonic power to protect the branches.

And the branches, lacking the enhancement of Spiritual Power and demonic power, were still just ordinary branches, extremely fragile, just like those tree-men who could be chopped into firewood by powerful force!

At this moment, numerous tentacles had emerged from Shi Renmei's back, each tentacle breaking off a branch, then coiling around the end of the branch, dipping the front of the branch in the stream, and then all aiming at Xiang Beifei.

This guy seemed to care a lot about his appearance; even though he fought with his tentacles, he still looked like a normal person in the front, as if he was reluctant to destroy his frontal skin.

At this moment, Shi Renmei looked like a bizarre fox monster with numerous tails, each tail mixed with countless branches, extremely odd.

Whizz! Whizz! Whizz!

Numerous branches flashed through the air, emitting shrill whistling sounds, lashing towards Xiang Beifei from all directions.

Xiang Beifei held his breath and focused on these branches, his body rapidly dodging, while in his hand the breath soil transformed into a series of sharp long blades.

Breath soil was special; although he nurtured it with Spiritual Power every day, it was not a system item, nor was it soil condensed from Spiritual Power, so it wasn't afraid of the stream's devouring, therefore it was more than enough to cut off these branches.

Crack! Crack!

The sharp blades made from breath soil swiftly sliced through the air, leaving behind trails of yellow afterimages, chopping all the branches into pieces.

But Shi Renmei's speed and strength were both superior to Xiang Beifei's. She had countless tentacles; if one coiled branch was cut off, she immediately coiled up another one to dip in the stream. The forest here was full of branches, so there was never a shortage.

Even though Xiang Beifei dodged quickly, he still got hit quite a few times.

"This way of passively taking hits won't do."

Xiang Beifei chopped off the oncoming branches in front of him, tilted his body, and turned his gaze towards the stream. He immediately rushed towards it.

The stream water was very peculiar; even spiritual power that fell on it would be devoured, so Xiang Beifei didn't dare to touch the water with his hands directly. However, his breath soil could change into various shapes and wasn't afraid of the water, which meant that the breath soil could be used to scoop water!

Swoosh!

The breath soil fell into the water, instantly becoming a big ladle, which then quickly closed up. It scooped up the water, Xiang Beifei crossed over the stream, hovered in the air, and then splashed the water from the breath soil directly out!

Splash!

Shi Renmei was coiling branches to meet him when she didn't expect Xiang Beifei to pull such a move. With too many tentacles to dodge, she got splashed squarely with the stream water!

"Ah!"

Shi Renmei's face lost its color as the tentacles touched by the stream water quickly emitted puffs of smoke. The water was like some strong corrosive substance, corroding large holes into her tentacles!

She quickly retracted the corroded tentacles, looking at Xiang Beifei in shock and anger.

"I should have thought of this earlier. If this stream water doesn't affect you, why wouldn't you roll in it?" Xiang Beifei said.

The Ghost Whiskers tentacles were easily ignited by Xiang Beifei's flames, but since the stream water here could suppress Xiang Beifei's flames, it would make sense for Shi Renmei to take a dip in the stream earlier, soaking her tentacles first, and then they would no longer fear Xiang Beifei's flames.

But she only picked up a branch to dip in the water to deal with Xiang Beifei's flames.

Shi Renmei had thought of this, but she also dared not touch the stream water!

Xiang Beifei once again stretched the ladle made of breath soil into the stream, scooped up a large ladle of water, and then calmly asked, "Ever heard of the Water-Splashing Festival?" Enjoy new tales from My Virtual Library Empire

Splash!

He splashed the stream water at Shi Renmei!

Because he couldn't use Spiritual Power, he had no way to control the direction of the splashes, but as long as the force of the splash was strong enough, the water would disperse into fine mist, moving at high speed and covering a wide area!

"Damn it!"

Shi Renmei saw the sudden spray of mist flying towards her and her complexion drastically changed, quickly retracting her tentacles.

But she had deployed too many tentacles and still hadn't completely dodged; one segment of tentacles got too drenched with stream water and was directly corroded through!

Looking very annoyed, Shi Renmei immediately severed that segment of tentacle, and her tentacles quickly grew back out.

She finally dared not be negligent any longer since the current situation seemed more like shooting herself in the foot.

Shi Renmei had previously collected quite a bit of information on Xiang Beifei, knowing that his flames were difficult to deal with, so she planned to use the stream water here against him. At first, it had indeed worked out very well, but she hadn't anticipated that Xiang Beifei would catch on to this and also directly use the stream water against her.

Especially considering that Xiang Beifei's peculiar breath soil wouldn't be devoured by the stream water; instead, it could become a large ladle. A ladle scooping water was much more efficient than using branches to dip water, resulting in a significantly larger quantity!

"Let me think, what's the structure of a gun?"

Xiang Beifei recalled the system of Lu Zhiwei. Lu Zhiwei awakened the "Super Police System," a firearm expert, who once taught him about firearms knowledge.

"Learn by Analogy" quickly made him aware of the structure of various firearms, including—water guns!

Whoosh!

The breath soil rapidly transformed, turning into a large water gun. The end of the gun morphed, turning into a large cauldron which sank into the stream. Then it closed up again, enveloping the stream water and directly converting into a big bag of water.

Xiang Beifei held the breath soil gun in his arms, aimed it at Shi Renmei, and asked with utmost seriousness, "How about a water fight?"