"Blood Demon Cult?"
Hearing about this sect, Su Hao couldn't help but recall what he knew about the Blood Demon Cult.
The Blood Demon Cult was a southern heterodox sect with extremely vast power. It seemed they also had a secret branch in the Northwest Prefecture, but it had never been discovered.
"How could Wang Tong's death be related to the Blood Demon Cult?"
Su Hao couldn't help but frown.
Getting involved with the Blood Demon Cult was indeed dangerous. Those people were truly ruthless, usually wiping out entire families when they killed.
"It's not clear yet. We're still investigating, but you must not get involved in this matter," Gu Xi'er warned.
"I understand. When it comes to dangerous situations, I'm definitely going to stay as far away as possible!" Su Hao agreed, but because he had a task at hand, he still needed to understand. After all, although the task could be canceled, the reward was quite good, and he still hoped to complete it.
"If you have any progress on your end, remember to let me know. After all, I've taken over Wang Tong's position. If anything happens, I can avoid it in advance," Su Hao said very seriously.
"Alright!"
Gu Xi'er, seeing Su Hao's serious expression, couldn't help but look at him a bit longer.
She suddenly realized that Su Hao seemed to have changed, but she couldn't pinpoint exactly what had changed.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Am I that good-looking?" Su Hao felt a bit uneasy being stared at by Gu Xi'er and said cheekily.
"What's wrong with looking at you? I came back, and you didn't even come to see me. I had to come see you, and then you took advantage of me."
As Gu Xi'er said this, her face turned red.
Last time when they were drunk, she and Su Hao had kissed and even slept in the same bed, but that was different because they were drunk and didn't feel anything. Today was different; she was extremely sober.
"Took advantage of you? Did I?" Su Hao would never admit it, immediately playing dumb.
"You... you're really infuriating me. It seems I really need to beat you up again."
Gu Xi'er immediately got angry and prepared to beat Su Hao up.
But as she was about to act, she suddenly remembered something her senior sister in the sect had said:
"Men need to be treated gently. Otherwise, you won't be able to win them over."
"Hmph, I'll let you off this time. I have other matters to attend to. When I'm done, I'll come back to deal with you!"
Gu Xi'er lowered her fist, gave a glance at the trembling Su Hao, and quickly left. She came fast and left just as quickly.
"She's gone already? Has the little miss changed her ways today?" Su Hao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, muttering to himself.
He had already prepared himself for another beating, but unexpectedly, this girl had stopped.
After thinking for a while without reaching a conclusion, Su Hao opened the system interface.
[Name]: Su Hao
[Sign-in Value]: 160
[Inventory]: 2 Bronze Draw Cards, 1 Li Xunhuan Limited Time Possession Card, 1 One-Week Double Sign-in Card
"Now I have two tasks left, both related to Wang Tong. But with my current strength, I'm too weak. I should use the sign-in value to exchange for skill points and improve my strength a bit." Su Hao thought to himself and directly exchanged the 160 sign-in points for 16 skill points, preparing to enhance his strength. After all, in his skill list, all the skills were only at the entry level.
Entry level meant what? It meant he had just learned them.
"The life-saving skill seems to be only this Golden Bell Shield!"
Su Hao looked at the few martial arts in his skill list. The Golden Bell Shield was a technique for cultivating the physical body and enhancing defense.
"Wang Tong's death seems to be related to the Blood Demon Cult, which is a bit dangerous. I now have 16 skill points, which can only upgrade the Golden Bell Shield and the Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand to the first level."
[Upgrading Golden Bell Shield!]
[Host consumes 10 points, upgrading skill Golden Bell Shield. Golden Bell Shield upgraded to the first level]
"Whoosh"
When the Golden Bell Shield was upgraded to the first level, Su Hao felt that some memories about the Golden Bell Shield instantly appeared in his mind. These memories were all about the methods of cultivating and using the Golden Bell Shield.
The Golden Bell Shield had twelve levels. When cultivated to the 12th level, one could become indestructible like a vajra, impervious to water and fire, with an endless source of energy.
"This is quite powerful, but at the first level, it can only help me endure a bit more beating!" Su Hao felt the changes in his body and sighed.
The first level of the Golden Bell Shield could only protect the cultivator from ordinary punches and kicks.
[Upgrading Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand!]
"Host spends 5 skill points to upgrade Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand to the first level!"
"Whoosh!"
The information about the Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand also quickly entered Su Hao's mind, as if he was born with these memories.
The Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand had only four levels in total. Compared to the Golden Bell Shield, it was just an ordinary hand technique, but when used in conjunction with the Golden Bell Shield, its power could be doubled.
Now, Su Hao could break stones with one palm. If an ordinary person were hit by his palm, their ribs would probably all be broken.
"Not bad!"
Su Hao felt the changes in his palms and arms, noticing the increased strength in his hands, and felt excited.
Having a cheat system was indeed good; he didn't even need to cultivate himself.
There were still two Bronze Draw Cards left, so he used them all at once.
Su Hao currently only had one trump card, so he directly used the two Bronze Draw Cards he had just obtained from the task.
[Consuming 2 Bronze Draw Cards, draw in progress]
[Congratulations to the host, you've drawn one Single-Use Lower-class Ninja 3-Person Team Card, stored in inventory]
[Congratulations to the host, you've drawn one hand grenade, stored in inventory.]
Drawing a character card and a hand grenade, Su Hao was quite pleased with the character card, but what was up with the hand grenade? The system was truly omnipotent.
Su Hao quickly checked the situation in his inventory.
In addition to the previous Li Xunhuan Limited Time Card, there was now an additional card and a hand grenade.
Su Hao hurriedly checked the information on the Lower-class Ninja 3-Person Team Card and the hand grenade.
[Single-Use Lower-class Ninja 3-Person Team Card]: From the ninja world. When the host uses this card, they can summon 3 lower-class ninjas, lasting for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, the characters disappear.
[Hand Grenade]: From the mysterious Earth. Pull the pin and throw it; can kill cultivators below the 6th level of the Human Realm, injure cultivators at the 9th level of the Human Realm.
After reading the descriptions, Su Hao's eyes were full of excitement, especially for the ninja card. It was exactly what he needed recently. He wanted to investigate Wang Tong's cause of death, but he couldn't act himself, so he needed manpower.
This ninja card solved his most urgent problem.
As for the hand grenade, he could only keep it as a backup plan, after all, there was only one.
However, he was very curious about what it would feel like to blow someone up with a hand grenade.
"This is the Su family mansion, it's not quite suitable. When I go out tomorrow, I'll summon those three ninjas and have them help me investigate Wang Tong's cause of death!"
The strength of the three ninjas wasn't great, and there were some expert guards in the Su family mansion. To avoid any accidents, he planned to find a suitable place tomorrow to summon them.
Su Hao seemed a bit excited.
He couldn't help but check his own information again:
[Name]: Su Hao
[Realm]: Human Realm Third Level
[Skills]: Golden Bell Shield: (First Level) (Can be upgraded, consumes 50 skill points to upgrade to the second level)
Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand: (First Level) (Can be upgraded, consumes 25 skill points to upgrade to the second level)
Brahma Raging Flame Technique: (Entry Level) (Can be upgraded, consumes 20 skill points to upgrade to the first level)
"The second level of cultivation for the Golden Bell Shield and Great Strength Stone-Breaking Hand actually requires 75 skill points. With my few skill points, it's really not enough. It seems I really need to lay low and accumulate sign-in value!"
Su Hao only gained 127 skill points per week, and just one skill's second level cultivation required so many skill points. The skill points consumed later would be even more.