Fiona stood in front of the window, letting the night breeze blow through her hair.

The cold light of the moon sprinkled on her pretty face, which seemed to make the night more beautiful.

Looking at the starry void, Fiona sighed faintly.

And on that pretty face, for some reason, there is a little loneliness.

The tightened fingers were slightly white, and the small porcelain bottle in his palm, which originally contained essence blood, was already empty.

It's been forty-nine days since she last returned from Hearthstone.

After she returned, she couldn't wait to absorb the essence blood in the bottle, and then she worked hard for forty-nine days, quickly refining the dark power in it.

Just the day before yesterday, when she vaguely touched the barrier from the fourth order to the fifth order, the refined essence blood in her body was also exhausted.

His eyes stared at the porcelain vase in his hand, and his heart was slightly bitter.

She could only wait for the next time the Grand Duke distributed the essence blood and resources, and then made a breakthrough.

It's not that Grand Duke Vlad Kimir is mean to their Bloody Guards, on the contrary, the Duke treats the Bloody Guards and his people much better than the other dukes under the Prince's command.

In Vla's Kimir family, the Bloodcoat Guards are treated the same as the noble children of the lineage, as long as you have the ability to continuously break through the ranks, then the Grand Duke can give you enough blood and resources to break through on the day of distribution.

Let's put it this way, although Fiona is only of collateral blood, Grand Duke Vlad Kimir has never treated her badly.

The reason why the essence blood she received was not enough to break through was actually related to her family.

If you want to talk about this incident, you must talk about the way the resources of these fiefdom lords of the Dark Empire are allocated.

Take the Vlad Kimir family as an example to get a rough idea of the rules of the food chain at this interface.

The Vlad Kimir family has strict family rules, and there is a strict process for the distribution of blood and resources.

The lords below the Grand Duke are all self-reliant in their own fiefdoms, and the resources in the fiefs are also their own, so they can build their own blood pools to hunt and kill demonic beasts to refine their blood. After having sufficient resources, they will be able to win over the world's best people.

And they belong to the Vlad Kimir family, so they are naturally under the orders of the Grand Duke, and each of them has to hand over a certain amount of worship to Vlad Kimir's main city Hearthstone every year.

In fact, the offering is just a sign of loyalty, and most of the remaining resources and essence blood will be distributed to their subordinates and clansmen.

Although Grand Duke Vlad Kimir is at the top of the food chain, he is not the master of the Dark Empire, and above him, there is Prince Erec.

Every year he also has to hand over a certain amount of worship to the prince to whom he belongs, and the remaining resources are distributed to his own people and subordinates, which is the system of the Dark Empire.

However, in this system, Li Yanbei is an exception.

He didn't have to pay an offering to anyone, and he didn't have any subordinates who could distribute resources.

Just because he was a baron in name only.

As a Baron of Dark Power Level 0, he is the only one in the world, and his essence and resources are distributed by Grand Duke Vlad Kimir, including the silver coins given to him every month.

It can be said that the other lords all make their own money and hand over some of it to the grand duke. And the lord who asked the grand duke to pay for it was only Li Yanbei.

The Bloody Guards belong to the direct command of the Grand Duke, and the natural essence blood and resources are allocated by the Grand Duke.

But then again, why didn't Fiona receive the essence blood that could meet her cultivation needs every time?

This brings us to her family.

Her family is only a branch of blood, and the talent in the family has withered, and she can open a silver merchant in Hearthstone, because the family has a few children who work as errands in the Grand Duke's mansion.

And of all these people, Fiona is the best one.

Because she joined the Bloody Guard.

As a member of the Bloody Guard, he naturally wants to rely on this identity to make profits for the family. And in order to repay her uncle for raising her over the years, whenever she received the resources and essence blood from the Bloody Guard, she would send them back to her family, and after the deployment of her uncle and the family elders, she would finally distribute them to her.

In this way, the resources that really came to her hands in the end were not as good as six or seven out of ten of the resources and essence blood she originally received.

This is the reason why although she can touch the fifth-order barrier now, she has no extra resources in her hands.

But she was no stranger to such things.

Fiona didn't complain from the beginning to the end.

Although she has received a lot of unfair treatment in the family, she also knows that the grace of parenting is greater than the truth.

With a faint sigh, Fiona leaned on the windowsill and propped her face with her hands.

There is no resentment, there is no resentment, but is she really willing?

Naturally not.

She was not reconciled.

With her talent, she may have already become a fifth-order master by now.

Looking at the cold moonlight, Fiona smiled.

In the smile, there is a slight bitterness.

She tossed the vase into the night sky and watched it fall and disappear.

After quietly looking at the night sky for a long time, Fiona slowly shook her head.

She seemed to want to banish all the worries and worries from her head, but it backfired.

Because the more she tried to calm herself, the more troubled she found in her heart.

Reaching out and taking out a white porcelain vial from her bosom, Fiona rubbed it carefully in her palm.

She seemed to feel a hint of warmth.

Looking at the essence blood given to her by Li Yanbei, Fiona's eyes swelled with heat.

The essence blood of this tooth-loving leopard seemed to be her key to the fifth-order gate.

However, she was very hesitant, because she knew very well that with her current fourth-order strength, this bottle of essence blood was poison.

Looking at the night sky, the stars seemed to shine in her heart.

The thirst for power in his chest seems to be irrepressible.

Who wants to be mediocre for life?

Who wants to live for the rest of their lives?

No one.

So some people take risks, so some people give it a go.

And these are the ultimate reasons for going astray.

That is what Li Yanbei and their Taoists say, the heart demon.

Strength.

The power of longing.

Fiona bit her lip fiercely, her mind filled with the desire to chase power.

......

Seventy-seven forty-nine, the great success will be done.

These days, Li Yanbei has concentrated on refining his spirit sword and counterfeit Xingtian Shield.

Seeing the spiritual sword in the furnace and the fake Xingtian Shield aura getting stronger and stronger, he was extremely happy in his heart.

He knew that if he had this hole card in his hand, then in this unfamiliar interface, he would also have an extra layer of self-preservation.

Since surviving the Tribulation and meeting Snake, he'd learned that it wasn't that safe in the interface.

Especially the owner of that dark curtain, Snake, his threat is unique in Li Yanbei's encounters in the past thousand years.

It's not because of anything else, it's just because he's too strong for the current Li Yanbei.

Powerful made Li Yanbei uneasy.

Very unsettling.

Although Snake's strength was just a joke in the eyes of Li Yanbei in the past, reality is reality.

The reality is that he, Li Yanbei, is now just a monk in the foundation building period of the Great Perfection.

It's hard to be reborn again, and he doesn't want to hang up in a daze.

So now he tries as much as he can, to make himself strong.

The spiritual energy in the underground practice room became more and more abundant, and the spiritual sword and shield in the furnace gradually changed color.

Looking at the spirit sword and shield that the aura was slowly forming, the corners of Li Yanbei's mouth raised a smug smile.

"The human level is high-grade, close to the ground level. ”

In the cultivation realm, the blades are divided into three levels: heaven, earth and man.

Although this human-level is the lowest level, the human-level inferior grade is no longer a mortal thing, let alone this human-level high-grade spirit sword.

He was very confident that the combined power of this spirit sword and the counterfeit Heavenly Shield should not be weaker than the fire bat seal.

Li Yanbei was very happy, after all, it was about to be completed. But the glint of excitement in his eyes had not flickered for a few moments before it suddenly dimmed again.

"Cut. ”

I don't know what I remembered, Li Yanbei pursed his lips.

"Li Yanbei, Li Yanbei, you are really promising. ”

Rolled his eyes fiercely.

"Is it worth your excitement to refine a blade of this level?"

snorted coldly, Li Yanbei seemed to hate himself who was a little excited just now.

Thinking of the heaven-level divine soldier Candle Xi in his hand back then, he was quite disdainful of the two spirit swords in front of him.

"Candle Xi, Candle Xi, you are there now. Brother, I miss you so much. ”

Shaking his head lightly, Li Yanbei slowly withdrew his aura.

He looked at the spirit sword and shield in the Dan furnace and let out a long sigh.

"Alas, forget it, if you go down to the spirit, I'm afraid these rags made of this rotten material will burst. ”

After mastering the distribution of heat and aura, Li Yanbei knew that this was already the best quality that the existing materials could cast.

He slowly extinguished the true fire in the furnace, waiting for the flying sword and shield aura to stabilize.

A moment later, the brilliance of the flying sword and shield dissipated.

Li Yanbei stretched out his hand and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"The purity of this water attribute purple stone is low, and it is completely suppressed by the wind attribute Yuebai stone, and I originally wanted to refine the ice attribute neutralized by the feng shui attribute, but it had no choice but to become a cloud attribute. ”

"But that's it, this cloud attribute is the main manifestation of the wind disease, and it must be like flowing water with a sword. ”

"Let's call it Liuyun. ”

After saying this, Li Yanbei picked up another sword in the furnace and used the tip of the sword to carve the word Liuyun on the spine of the Liuyun Sword.

After carving the words, Li Yanbei looked at the handful in his hand again.

"This guy is different from Liuyun, the wind attribute is completely suppressed by the water attribute, but it is a pure water genus that doesn't have the slightest wind genus. ”

"That's it, let's call it Bishui. ”

After that, Li Yanbei carved the word blue water on the spine of the sword according to the gourd painting.

"Flowing clouds and clear water, follow me in the future. ”

Looking at the two spirit swords, the unhappiness in Li Yanbei's chest slowly dissipated.

After all, life has an extra layer of security, and the head is more stable on the shoulders.

"Let's take a look at your fake Xingtian Shield ......"

Li Yanbei stretched out his hand to get the shield, but suddenly there was a turmoil in the sea.

He was slightly startled, but saw that the door of the practice room was instantly broken through by the force.

"Boom!"

Li Yanbei threw the sword into the furnace and turned around and retreated, and all the aura around him was also transported.

"Who!"

He stared at the door, his alertness at the highest.

"Click, click, click......"

A crisp sound of footsteps came, and the slender body appeared in his sight.

"Fiona!"

Li Yanbei was slightly stunned, and then his body tightened.

He felt an aura of danger.

Fiona's body was filled with murderous aura, and her charming eyes were also filled with blood red.

She stared at Li Yanbei quietly, and the majestic dark power around her body had been transported to the extreme!

"Let's go... Walk ......"

Looking at Fiona with such a look, Li Yanbei swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely.

He suddenly realized what state Fiona was in now!

"Go mad!"