Li Minghong had no intention of returning immediately.
He first settled into Lin Yanran's coffee shop, planning to activate the young Ma Hongjun's instance after completing Oscar's instance before leaving.
"This is my room. You can rest for a bit. I'm going out to watch the shop."
Lin Yanran ruffled Li Minghong's hair.
After watching Lin Yanran leave, Li Minghong's consciousness sank into the instance space.
"Activate the young Oscar instance."
Instance activated.
Whoosh.
The world spun, and as the dizziness faded, Li Minghong found himself back at Shrek Academy.
He looked at Oscar, who was exuding killing intent, and summoned his Martial Soul.
Oscar's aura was only slightly weaker than that of the young Xiao Wu.
'Oscar should be above thirty spirit power now.'
Li Minghong stared intently at Oscar, guessing in his mind.
"I want to fly with a Flying Mushroom Sausage!"
Oscar directly used his third Spirit Ability, Flying Mushroom Sausage.
'Indeed!'
As Oscar swallowed the Mushroom Sausage, a pair of silver-white glowing wings appeared behind him.
'Not good!'
Feeling a great sense of unease, Li Minghong quickly wrapped his Blue Silver Grass around a distant pillar, creating distance.
The very next second after Li Minghong disappeared, Oscar appeared with a short knife at the spot where Li Minghong had just been standing.
'So fast!'
The speed of the Millennium Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Snake should not be underestimated!
Under Oscar's incredibly high speed, coupled with inertia, every one of his attacks became extremely threatening.
Li Minghong could only rely on his Blue Silver Grass to repeatedly create distance, barely dodging Oscar's attacks.
'Damn it, you dog system, you won't let me bring anything from the outside. If I had Hidden Weapons, would I be in such a sorry state?!'
Soon, a minute passed, and Oscar's Flying Mushroom Sausage duration ended; he landed on the ground.
"I want to fly with a Flying Mushroom Sausage!"
He chanted the Spirit incantation again, starting a new round of pursuit.
Li Minghong fled while contemplating the key to breaking the situation before him: what should he do?
'Just stall for now.'
But this was a very foolish idea.
Li Minghong's spirit power was only at level sixteen, and his physical quality was only at the level of a high-level Great Soul Master. How could he compare in stamina and spirit power with a Spirit Elder?
"I'm going to die!"
Li Minghong felt his spirit power was already at rock bottom, and he could only watch helplessly as the short knife in Oscar's hand pierced into his chest.
The host has died. Remaining challenge attempts today: 2.
"Tsk, how foolish. How could I have had such a thought?"
Li Minghong slapped his forehead, extremely annoyed. How dared he try to compete with a Spirit Elder in spirit power?
"Even if my Eight Extraordinary Meridians were opened, it wouldn't work. But with only level sixteen spirit power, no matter how fast it recovers, I can't compare to a Spirit Elder."
After a moment of silence, he recalled some details of the recent battle in his mind.
"When Oscar lands and chants his Spirit incantation, can I seize that gap to counterattack?"
Thinking this, Li Minghong opened the instance again.
Instance activated.
Next, Li Minghong opened the instance twice consecutively, verifying that his internal hypothesis was feasible.
However, the distance he created each time couldn't be too far, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to seize the opportunity.
And in Oscar's first four uses of his third Spirit Ability, his spirit power was abundant, and the time it took to create the Mushroom Sausage was very short, making it impossible for Li Minghong to seize the opportunity with his current strength.
Only from the fifth time onwards would Oscar show signs of fatigue, and that would be Li Minghong's chance.
Having used up all three attempts for the day, Li Minghong had no choice but to wait for the count to refresh tomorrow.
After lying in bed for a long time, Li Minghong walked out of the room, intending to stretch his muscles and bones, and saw Lin Yanran moving things. He quickly went forward to lend a hand.
"Oh, you're awake."
Lin Yanran wiped sweat from the back of her hand and smiled in surprise.
"Yes, I can't let big sister get tired."
Li Minghong responded cheerfully.
He helped manage Lin Yanran's shop for a while, then learned how to make coffee to relax his mind, and finally returned to his room to cultivate.
Early the next morning, Li Minghong, who was cultivating in Lin Yanran's arms, opened his eyes.
'Instance attempts have refreshed.'
'Activate the young Oscar instance.'
Instance activated.
Upon re-entering the instance, Li Minghong looked at the young Oscar, feeling a sense of confidence.
For the first five minutes, he continuously used his Martial Soul to create distance, neither of them touching the other, only their internal spirit power continuously depleting.
"You sly little brat!"
Oscar gritted his teeth and said angrily, his bloodshot eyes staring fiercely at Li Minghong.
While creating distance, Li Minghong gave Oscar, who was behind him, the middle finger.
Although Oscar didn't understand what it meant, he knew it was an insult, which made him even more furious.
The Flying Mushroom Sausage's time limit was up again, and this time, Li Minghong didn't create a very long distance from Oscar.
While Oscar was creating the Mushroom Sausage, Li Minghong directly used his first Spirit Ability, and the Blue Silver Grass quickly coiled around Oscar's body.
Due to the tough and flexible properties that the Mystic Iron Vine imparted to the Blue Silver Grass, Oscar, a Spirit Elder, was unable to break free in a short amount of time.
Li Minghong seized the opportunity directly.
Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track! Profound Jade Hand!
He rapidly approached Oscar, and just as Oscar was about to break free, Li Minghong struck through his chest, crushing his heart.
Successfully killed young Oscar. Dropped Oscar's third Spirit Ability, Flying Mushroom Sausage.
Hearing this, Li Minghong suddenly sat up.
This time, it wasn't a spirit power increase or physical quality enhancement!
"Hmm, what's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Lin Yanran rubbed her blurry eyes, looking at Li Minghong, who had sat up, in a daze.
"It's nothing, nothing. I'm going to the restroom."
Li Minghong walked out of the room and squatted in the coffee shop's restroom, checking the item that had dropped this time.
'Whether it's Yu Xiaogang's dropped Soul Entity or Ma Hongjun's dropped Super Potency, they aren't just simple rewards.'
Li Minghong thought this.
'The abilities given by the system are actually like an Introduction, and there are still potential values that I need to discover myself.'
As the dropped item merged with Li Minghong, it appeared within him as a self-created Spirit Ability.
'Self-created Spirit Ability, Flying Mushroom Sausage: Chanting the Spirit incantation "I want to fly with a Flying Mushroom Sausage" can create a Sausage that flies at the speed of a Millennium Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Snake for one minute.'
Undoubtedly, it was a very useful skill.
On Douluo Continent, besides Title Douluo and those Soul Masters whose Martial Souls inherently allowed flight, very few other Soul Masters possessed flying Spirit abilities.
With the ability to fly, both combat ability and survival ability would experience a leap forward.
"I want to fly with a Flying Mushroom Sausage."
After Li Minghong created a Mushroom Sausage, he felt the consumption of spirit power within his body.
"With my current spirit power, I can create three before exhausting it."
He then swallowed the Mushroom Sausage, and two blue-white light wings appeared behind him.
"It feels so wonderful, as if these two wings were naturally there."
Li Minghong tried it briefly inside the coffee shop; it felt completely natural to use.
A minute passed, and the wings disappeared.
'This is a very good ability, but the focus of acquiring this ability is...'
'Self-created Spirit Ability.'