[Host has died. Remaining challenge attempts today: 2]
"Holy crap! You're telling me that was a juvenile Tang San?"
That juvenile Tang San not only had strength comparable to his own, but his movement technique was also strange and his speed incredibly fast.
From a distance, he could even throw iron arrows he had forged himself to inflict damage on Li Minghong.
"How am I supposed to fight this!"
Although he had awakened his Spirit, his innate spirit power was only at level one, providing almost no amplification to his physical qualities!
"So, the gap between people was already this wide even before awakening one's Spirit."
Li Minghong felt very melancholic.
"Thankfully, I have this golden finger! Otherwise, I might just be another ordinary person in the future."
He scratched his head and thought for a moment.
"System, can I bring weapons in?"
[No.]
Hearing this, Li Minghong sighed, gritted his teeth, "One more try!"
[Instance activated]
Li Minghong, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, instantly fell onto the bed and fell asleep.
Whoosh.
Li Minghong arrived at this place again.
Tang San had his back to Li Minghong, absorbing purple energy on the hillside to cultivate his Purple Demon Eye.
The first time, Li Minghong was too careless and rushed straight up.
This time, Li Minghong planned to sneak up quietly and deliver a heavy blow from behind!
Picking up a wooden stick from the ground, Li Minghong lowered his center of gravity, bent his legs slightly, and crept closer to Tang San with a cat-like posture.
Ten meters, seven meters, five meters, three meters.
"Who's there!"
Tang San suddenly turned around and threw an iron arrow.
Unable to dodge in time, the iron arrow pierced into Li Minghong's flesh.
"Damn it!"
Seeing that he was discovered, Li Minghong simply charged forward, raising his stick and rushing fiercely.
Pfft.
Tang San easily dodged Li Minghong's attack using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, moved behind him, and plunged another iron arrow hidden in his hand into Li Minghong's temple.
[Host died]
"Sigh."
Li Minghong slowly opened his eyes on the bed, his expression melancholic.
He had completely calmed down.
"Before acquiring the first spirit ring, the Blue Silver Grass Spirit is basically useless, and I can't control spirit power right now either."
From the current situation, he had no hope of breaking the deadlock.
[In the first instance, the NPC is in peaceful mode and will not actively attack the host.]
Just as Li Minghong was troubled, the system suddenly spoke.
"He won't actively attack me. What does that mean?"
Li Minghong propped his chin with his hand and pondered seriously.
"Peaceful mode definitely doesn't mean that the two will treat each other with respect, after all, the mechanism of the space is to kill the designated character to drop items."
"And peaceful mode means that Tang San will not actively attack me, and I can use this buffer time to find a way to break the deadlock in the instance!"
Li Minghong felt he had discovered a crucial point.
"Again!"
[Instance activated]
Whoosh.
Arriving at this familiar place again, Li Minghong did not immediately attack Tang San.
He first looked around to see if there was anything he could use.
After searching and searching, apart from a wooden stick, there was nothing else.
"Then I'll go look somewhere else."
Li Minghong walked into what seemed like a forest, only to find a transparent barrier blocking him.
"It seems the instance has a limited range."
Helpless, he could only turn around and walk towards Saint Spirit Village.
On the way, he met a few villagers who had already woken up and were working in the fields.
"Little Hong! You're up so early!"
Hmm?
They know him?
He suddenly realized that this was probably an identity assigned to him within the instance.
"Yes, Uncle!"
Not knowing their names, he could only grin, trying to muddle through.
They rubbed Li Minghong's head and left.
"I have an identity within Saint Spirit Village, how can I use it?"
The system shouldn't be aimless; since he has this identity, it must have some purpose.
He walked along the road, thinking, when he looked up and suddenly saw a dilapidated house in front of him.
There was a chimney on the roof, and looking through the window, several large and small hammers were neatly arranged in a corner against the wall inside the house, along with a furnace with a hole at the top and a bellows connected at the bottom.
"This is a blacksmith shop."
Looking at the house in front of him, Li Minghong stood in front of it for a while.
"It seems Tang Hao is the only blacksmith in all of Saint Spirit Village."
"If I ask him to forge a weapon, the probability of killing Tang San will greatly increase!"
Thinking of this, Li Minghong couldn't help but smile.
"Killing Tang San with a weapon forged by Tang Hao, how interesting."
He didn't linger too long and continued walking forward, Li Minghong realized that he didn't even know where his own home was!
Seeing an uncle walking towards him, Li Minghong had an idea.
"Oh no! I fell down!"
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Li Minghong deliberately fell onto a relatively sharp stone, scraping a large bloody mark.
"Little Hong! Are you alright!"
"Uncle, I might not be able to walk anymore, could you carry me home!"
Li Minghong looked at the uncle in front of him with teary eyes, a pouting expression of grievance that made the uncle unable to refuse.
"Alright, Little Hong, hold onto Uncle's neck! Uncle will take you home."
He carried Li Minghong on his back and walked towards his home.
Li Minghong memorized the way home on the uncle's back, so he could walk back himself next time.
Upon arriving home, the uncle placed Li Minghong on the bed and left.
"Does this identity not have parents?"
There were only traces of his own life throughout the house.
"This is good too, convenient."
Li Minghong began to search the house for any extra money.
"I have a few silver coins!"
Li Minghong found three silver coins in the cracks of the bricks under the bed.
Clutching the silver coins, he walked towards the blacksmith shop.
"Uncle Hao! Help me forge a short sword!"
Hearing this, Tang Hao walked out. The moment he stepped out, Li Minghong noticed Tang Hao staring at the location of the silver coins in his pants pocket.
"Three silver coins."
It was exactly all of Li Minghong's money.
"Damn you, Tang Hao!"
Li Minghong cursed silently in his heart, but still took out all his money.
"Uncle, I want to go hunting, please make the blade a bit sharper for me."
Li Minghong instructed, and Tang Hao merely grunted in response.
An orphan with no food going hunting would most likely die outside, but Tang Hao did not dissuade him at all, because their lives and deaths had nothing to do with him.
"You go back first, I'll have Tang San deliver it to you this afternoon."
"Alright."
Li Minghong suppressed his inner ecstasy and turned to leave.
At home, he was so excited he couldn't eat or sleep, and finally, it was afternoon.
"Li Minghong, Dad asked me to bring you the short sword."
Tang San knocked on the door and walked in.
"Ah! Okay! Thank you!"
Whether it was an illusion or not, Tang San found Li Minghong's expression very strange.
Li Minghong took the short sword from Tang San's hand.
Just as Tang San was about to leave, Li Minghong suddenly spoke.
"Tang San, do you see if there's something wrong with this knife!"
"What?"
Tang San felt a little angry; he wouldn't allow anyone to say that something his father forged was bad!
"Where?"
Tang San looked at the short sword in Li Minghong's hand, unsure where the problem was.
"Oh! Get a little closer and look!"
Tang San leaned in close, and Li Minghong suddenly attacked.
"Ugh!"
Li Minghong sliced open Tang San's neck, and blood gushed out from his throat.
Tang San, meanwhile, looked at Li Minghong with horror.
"Die!"
He couldn't be sure if Tang San was completely dead, and his hand, holding the knife, trembled as he continuously stabbed at Tang San's head.
Pfft.
Pfft.
Red and white matter splattered everywhere.
"You brat! You're courting death!"
Before he could react, Li Minghong was directly shattered into a mist of blood by a powerful surge of energy.
[Successfully killed juvenile Tang San, dropped Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.]