One Person: I, the Dragon Tiger Stall King! I Won!

9: The Qi liquid enters the throat, and a mortal steps on the master?Before dawn, the morning light was firmly pressed beneath the horizon by thick clouds, unable to emit a single ray.

In front of Crippled Chen’s ruined house, Zhang Xuanyi’s figure was outlined by the night, like a ghost.

His face was ashen, like paper; last night, he had forcibly deduced the compass, defying heaven to rewrite a certain death situation, almost draining the last trace of Qi power from his Dantian Qi Sea.

At this moment, he was weaker than any mortal, and a gust of mountain wind made his body sway slightly.

However, his fingertips tightly clutched a test tube.

Inside the test tube, a quietblue liquid emitted a ghostly glow, as if imprisoning an entire deep night sky.

The small print on the label was still clear and dazzling in the darkness: ”Pseudo-Three Caverns True Qi Liquid. Effect: Forcibly raises the user’s Qi power to the Zongsheng Realm, duration unknown. Limited to 1 use, side effects unknown.”

This was his last trump card, and also a bomb that could explode at any moment.

The Grandmaster Realm – that was a realm only inner elders of the Tianshi Mansion possessed!

Once he chose to swallow this potion, the immense Qi aura that would instantly erupt would be like a scorching sun in the dark night, immediately alarming all the old monsters in seclusion on Mount Longhu.

At that time, Li Wujiu’s pursuit might be temporarily halted, but what would follow would be the Tianshi Mansion’s all-out encirclement.

But if he didn’t swallow it, with his current state of depleted Qi Sea, let alone Li Wujiu’s return, even any disciple from the Hall of Law Enforcement could easily apprehend him.

A dead end, or a desperate path?

Zhang Xuanyi’s gaze repeatedly darted over the quietblue liquid, a fierce inner struggle raging within him.

Just then, from the pile of rubble behind the ruins, a dark figure crawled out on all fours, like a startled rat.

His face was covered in soot, his hair was as messy as a bird’s nest, and it was none other than the street ruffian, Zhao Sanpao.

”Daoist Master... Daoist Master, you’re still alive!” Zhao Sanpao, seeing Zhang Xuanyi, seemed to have found a relative and scrambled over, his voice choked with tears, ”I... I’ve been hiding in this broken place for three days, haven’t even had a sip of water... Can I have some food?”

Zhang Xuanyi frowned slightly, about to send him away, but his gaze suddenly froze.

He saw that on the palm of Zhao Sanpao’s outstretched, dirty hand, a faint golden light, even weaker than a firefly, was subtly glowing!

Though the light was fleeting, what it contained was clearly a wisp of faint Qi sensation!

It was that ”fist soul candy” from last night!

It was originally a thought-form creation containing a trace of a martial arts grandmaster’s fist intent, merely a snack for entertainment for an Awakened, but for an ordinary person who had never encountered Qi, this trace of intent was like a seed, forcibly sprouting a tender shoot in his barren ”mortal” soil!

Zhang Xuanyi’s heart was violently shaken, and a revolutionary thought surged through him: ”Ordinary people... can also awaken?!”

He had always thought that his street stall treasures were merely clever tricks within the existing Awakened system, but now it seemed, this was clearly forging a brand new path!

”Stop!”

A cold shout interrupted his thoughts.

Li Songyang, leading dozens of black-robed Hall of Law Enforcement disciples, advanced like a dark cloud from the other end of the long street, completely surrounding the small ruins.

Li Songyang’s gaze was colder than the night; the standard-issue magic sword in his hand hummed, pointing directly at Zhang Xuanyi: ”Zhang Xuanyi, the Hall of Law Enforcement, in conjunction with the Pill and Medicine Hall and the Talisman Pavilion, has jointly determined that the ’street stall rare treasures’ you sell are forbidden items that undermine the foundation of our Tianshi Mansion! You are ordered to immediately hand over all items and return with me to the Hall of Law Enforcement for investigation!”

”Investigation?” Zhang Xuanyi laughed, his laughter carrying a bone-chilling coldness and a weary hoarseness, ”Alright, can you investigate why Li Wujiu was able to use the Five Thunder Talisman against me within the mountain gate? Can you investigate why Crippled Chen, this innocent old man, had his home destroyed and family killed, struck by so-called ’heavenly wrath’ and turned into charcoal?”