Chapter 1202: The Unkillable Lei Xiao, She Wants to Go Home, She Wants to Return to Great Han!

Blood mist exploded as Grandma Qin's Spiritual Energy scattered into the air.

Lu Ding raised his hand and gathered it.

Her lifelong cultivation of Spiritual Energy was transformed entirely into spirit stones and stored away.

Then, facing the old man who had grabbed the young woman, he stomped down with one foot and crushed him directly!!!!

Boom!!!!!!!

The very earth trembled.

Shen Lingfeng and the others quickly flew into the pit and began packing up whatever spoils might have been left behind in Huang'er Village.

They never imagined Lu Ding's strength could be this absurdly exaggerated.

They had assumed his current state was merely a Divine Ability illusion, or that his physical body had grown but not enough, at most doubling his size.

As it turned out.

Even an existence like Grandma Qin had been killed by a single palm strike!!!

From the looks of it, his sheer size was driving the increase in combat power, and it was nowhere near just a twofold or threefold improvement.

This kind of thing was way too insane.

No wonder he was a direct disciple of Lü Mountain.

The young woman paid no attention to Shen Lingfeng and the others. Watching Lu Ding, who was so incredibly powerful, she flew straight over: "Big guy, I can tell you're a decent person, and you've got the strength to back it up. How about we team up and storm Thunder Roar Hall together?"

Lu Ding watched her fly up to hover beside his face.

She wasn't like those spoiled, willful supporting female characters in novels who'd immediately plop down on someone's shoulder without any sense of personal space or being annoying.

He felt she was alright.

Had some manners.

Although she kept calling him "big guy," Lu Ding figured that was fair enough - he really was pretty big now, and since she didn't know his name, calling him "big guy" was no big deal.

"My name is Lu Ding. What's this Thunder Roar Hall you just mentioned?"

The young woman was surprised: "Oh, you actually have a name! Then I feel a bit embarrassed for calling you big guy. My name is Lei Xiao, twenty years old, a genius, a future peerless prodigy who will suppress the ages. Lei as in thunder, Xiao as in valiant. Where I'm from, I won't tell you."

"Because it's inconvenient. I'm telling you this much now because I'm afraid that once we get familiar, you'll say I'm not being straight with you, not even telling you where my home is."

"But I used to make a name for myself in the Lost Outer Realms of Demon Province, got a bit of a reputation."

"As for Thunder Roar Hall, it's one of Demon Province's ancient inheritances, even older than Lü Mountain. It's full of opportunities and treasures. With your strength, plus my specialness, we're guaranteed to come out loaded!"

Lu Ding understood!

A secret realm!!

In all his time cultivating from the very beginning until now, he hadn't explored many secret realms.

He could count them on one hand.

Looking at the protagonists in those novels, one secret realm after another. Lu Ding, by contrast, was purely about combat, fighting his way up the entire time.

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Now hearing about a powerful secret realm.

Lu Ding was somewhat tempted, sure.

But......

"I don't lack anything. Going to Thunder Roar Hall has no meaning for me."

Lei Xiao was stunned. This was the first time she'd met someone so arrogant. What kind of background did he have, what kind of origins, to claim he lacked nothing?

But since he'd refused.

Lei Xiao wasn't the type to be pushy: "Alright then, I'll go by myself. I was saying it'd be lively there, and going together would mean I'm not alone."

"Wait a moment."

Lu Ding called out: "You said it's lively?"

"You mean lots of people?"

Lei Xiao didn't understand what he was getting at, but she nodded anyway: "Yeah, lots of people, and they're all pretty powerful."

Lu Ding smiled.

He truly didn't lack anything.

Techniques, Divine Abilities, spells, resources - he had everything. Besides, why bother learning things himself when the Golden Finger could just hand him everything so conveniently?

Straight to max level!

He'd already fully cultivated the True Method of Feeding the Divine and strengthened his Sin Dragon Bone Seal, which was more than enough.

But if there were lots of people there.

Then Lu Ding would be interested.

Lots of people meant lots of demonic creatures among them, which meant a higher probability of people who opposed Lü Mountain.

He could kill them one by one.

Extract their Spiritual Energy to refine into spirit stones, and make them drop Divine Abilities and spells.

Thunder Roar Hall was their secret realm, but to Lu Ding, they were wild, untapped treasures!

"I'll go, but not right now. I still need to make a trip to Guan Family Grave."

Lei Xiao's happiness was undisguised: "Great, then we'll go together when the time comes. Anyway, Thunder Roar Hall hasn't opened yet, so there's no rush."

Hearing her say that.

Lu Ding, wanting to verify her allegiance, asked a question: "You know of Lü Mountain?"

Lei Xiao nodded: "Lü Mountain's great name - in all of Demon Province, who doesn't know it, who hasn't heard of it?"

Lu Ding: "Then what do you think of Lü Mountain?"

Lei Xiao answered without a moment's hesitation: "I've never even met anyone from Lü Mountain. How old am I? How could I... have an opinion?"

"Then what have you heard?"

Lei Xiao: "Heard... things heard secondhand aren't worth referencing. My reputation in the Lost Outer Realms isn't good either, but I don't feel like I'm a bad person."

Lu Ding was satisfied. For now, her allegiance seemed to have no issues.

He strode off toward his next destination, Guan Family Grave.

At his side.

Lei Xiao flew alongside, muttering: "Hey Lu Ding, can we find time to fight to the death? The kind where you have to kill me for it to count?"

Such a bizarre statement.

It left Lu Ding speechless.

"We don't have any grudge between us. Why would I fight you to the death?"

Lei Xiao crossed her arms: "This is my cultivation method. Rebirth through blood-soaked battle. If I'm killed, I can revive, and when I revive, I grow stronger."

"It's just that back where I'm from, nobody wants to fight me to the death anymore, so that's why I came out here."

Lu Ding finally understood why that palm strike earlier had killed her yet she could still revive, and why she didn't hold a grudge. Turns out she was used to it.

But......

"You're revealing your trump card this easily?"

"Aren't you afraid someone will specifically target you, capture you, and lock you up?"

Lei Xiao was unconcerned: "This isn't any secret. I've appeared in this region, so this information will eventually reach the local people anyway."

"Besides, capturing me wouldn't work either. One day, just one day. After a day passes, no array, no treasure, can hold me. I've tested it many times, been captured many times."

"And if worse comes to worst, I can still self-destruct. Then whoever caught me would have their treasures blown apart, their spells backfire, their arrays blossom into destruction."

Lu Ding didn't understand: "If you can self-destruct, why not just blow yourself up on purpose, then revive? And get stronger that way?"

Lei Xiao laughed: "It's not that simple. To grow stronger, I have to fight with everything I have, burn myself out, and die only after giving my absolute all and still being outmatched. Only then can I revive after death and become stronger."

Lu Ding listened.

Although he'd already mentally prepared himself, knowing that Demon Province produced monsters.

Each one exceeding normal standards in ridiculous ways.

He never expected there could be an existence as absurd as Lei Xiao.

Can't be killed. Gets stronger when killed. Then keeps fighting after getting stronger.

An absolute monster.

How was anyone supposed to play against that?

Why couldn't this kind of cheat have been installed on himself? Thank goodness he hadn't activated the Black Prison of Death's Body against someone like her, otherwise that would've been truly disgusting!

Suddenly.

A thought occurred to Lu Ding.

He raised his hand and unleashed a single Way of the Jinche slash, cleaving flat a mountain to the side: "What do you think?"

Lei Xiao's expression visibly shifted to one of terror.

"You... this slash of yours... it's not normal!!!!!"

The instant that slash erupted, Lei Xiao's hair instinctively stood on end, as if she'd encountered a natural enemy. This was fear etched deep in her soul and ingrained in her instincts.

Although she hadn't personally endured it.

She had a feeling that if she ever got hit by it, she wouldn't survive.

In that moment.

Lei Xiao stared at the mountain that had been sheared flat in the distance, and tears slowly welled up in her eyes.

Memories of the past surged into her mind.

She wasn't a native of Demon Province. Her home was in the distant Great Han, located who knows where. Originally, he had been just an ordinary senior high school student, waiting for his university admission letter. Back then, Lei Xiao's family had been struggling. His mother was bedridden with illness, and his father, having lost a kidney, wasn't highly educated.

He couldn't do manual labor to earn money and support the family.

Fortunately, Uncle Luo Anping had helped them out, allowing Lei Xiao to study properly.

He was about to start university when he went with his uncle to the countryside to try buying some antiques to sell for money. His uncle said that if they could get money, he could send gifts and pull some strings. He knew a big shot who could hook them up with a small construction site, and life would get better.

But then!

While collecting antiques, they got into a conflict with the locals. They'd already agreed on a price, the items were in hand, but then the seller changed their mind and tried to jack up the price on the spot.

During the struggle, Lei Xiao got hit on the nose, and blood dripped onto the yin-yang fish jade pendant they'd just purchased.

Everything went black before his eyes. When he woke up again, he was in Demon Province, in this unfamiliar ancient place. And not only that - it had transformed him from a male into a female.

His grades had always been excellent. He was about to attend a great university and start living a good life, but then!!!

He transmigrated!!

His father was still waiting for him back in the village. They'd been discussing that once the admission letter arrived, if his grades were good, they'd throw a grand banquet, collect some gift money, and use it for his tuition and living expenses.

His mother was still on the bed, urging him not to feel embarrassed. Their family was poor and had no choice, so this was the only way.

He still had a future. He could have attended a good university, earned a good degree, obtained a good ticket into society. He knew that a degree didn't represent everything, but it was one of the few opportunities poor people had!

But then he transmigrated, he transmigrated!

He didn't dare imagine how devastated his parents would be without him, or how guilty his uncle, who had taken him along to collect antiques, would feel.

So, Lei Xiao wanted to go back.

Wanted to go back no matter what!!

And it was because she wanted to go back that, in a moment of extreme emotion, she'd lost her head and tried to kill herself. Only to discover that she couldn't die.

By continuously exploring the peculiarities of her own body.

Lei Xiao kept advancing her cultivation.

Stumbling her way through the path of cultivation. Perhaps, once she became powerful enough, she could go back.

Now.

Seeing Lu Ding's slash that posed such a threat to her, Lei Xiao felt the flames of seeking death ignite once more.

So many years had passed. Although her cultivation level and strength had grown rapidly, her family at home was probably already a world apart. She didn't dare imagine what her family's situation would be like by the time she cultivated enough power to return......

At this moment, Lei Xiao had once again walked into a dead end. She hesitated before speaking: "Lu Ding, can you kill me?"

"Use that slash of yours. Kill me. Right now, kill me!!!!"

Lu Ding: ??????

"You... having some kind of episode?"

Lei Xiao was extremely agitated: "I'm not having an episode, I'm being completely serious. I want release, I want to go home!!!!"

"I miss my mom!!!! I miss my dad, I miss my uncle!!!!"

Lu Ding stopped walking: "If you want to go home, then just go home. You..."

Suddenly, he felt like Lei Xiao's state seemed a bit off, like she wasn't a local.

After forming some guesses in his mind, he asked: "Where is your home?"

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I originally wanted to do an extra chapter today, but ran out of time, so I just posted a big 3,200-word chapter instead. Not counting as extra, just treating my dear readers to it.