Liu Xing realized this strange feeling didn't belong to him and fought against it. He'd experienced something similar in his first month after being transported into Liu Xing's body. Now, he had goals, aspirations, and a desire to move forward, to advance, and to become a legendary figure.

Liu Xing sat and tried to scrape the moss off his back with his lightning blade again. The position was awkward, and it was difficult to do, so Liu Xing decided to use the normal version of the Lightning Palm Technique, where his palm was coated with lightning. He grabbed a handful of moss and pulled it from his back.

When he pulled, the moss latched onto his body like there was an anchor inside his skin. It wriggled harder, injecting many things that made Liu Xing feel despair, anxiety, even joy, trying to distract him. But Liu Xing pulled as hard as he could, pulling his skin and muscle, and then tearing it apart. Blood gushed from his back, and the remaining green moss bathed in his blood, wriggling like a happy maggot finding fresh blood. Then, it surged into his wound.

Liu Xing was horrified to realize that he had made a mistake. He should have used the Lightning Blade. Why the hell did he think that forcibly pulling the moss off his back was a good idea? Now the moss has a way to invade his body.

In a desperate attempt to remove it, he grabbed at the moss, but it had turned into a liquid, making it feel like he was trying to hold onto water from a leaky bucket.

After a moment, the liquid finally inserted itself into Liu Xing's body, and a strange feeling filled his body. It felt like his heart suddenly stopped beating and his lungs stopped pumping air, but he was still alive and knew something was wrong with his body.

Liu Xing's mind worked hard to understand this situation. The moss was now trying to take over his body, and when he realized there wasn't much he could do, anxiety spread throughout his body.

What if the moss successfully took over his body? Would he die here while his body was used by a spirit beast? He gritted his teeth and refused to die, but this fight was beyond his expectations, and he needed to find a solution to this moss possession, and fast.

When a sharp pain suddenly felt around his back, Liu Xing grimaced. The pain was strange and unusual, as if his soul, rather than his body, was being attacked. Liu Xing tried to rationalize that his soul was alright. There weren't many beings that could directly touch a soul, and while the moss was formidable, Liu Xing doubted it could touch his soul.

After trying to feel it for a moment, Liu Xing realized he was right. The moss wasn't touching his soul, even his consciousness was untouched. It was just touching the qi in his body, trying to inject itself into his meridians, turning itself into qi and taking control of his whole qi.

Realizing this, Liu Xing panicked for a moment. Without qi, he couldn't perform many superhuman feats, and losing control over his qi was the sure way to lose. But Liu Xing suddenly had an idea that could win this strange fight in one move, and what he needed to do was wait a moment.

The strange pain from the moss trying to inject itself into his qi was becoming greater, and Liu Xing felt his body becoming heavier each moment, as if his blood had turned into mercury and was taking a long time to circulate throughout his body.

His heart pounded with anxiety, his face was pale, his lips turning white, and Liu Xing looked sickly. But he endured. He needed to wait until the moss truly turned its whole being into qi before he could deal with it.

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Liu Xing inhaled deeply and waited. The green liquid settled in his spine, slowly changing itself into qi while it incessantly tried to flood his heart with a wide range of emotions, making him see the world spinning around, distracting him. But he endured, and after several more minutes passed, Liu Xing finally felt that the qi in his whole body felt so foreign, as if his whole body was replaced by prosthetics, and Liu Xing felt numb all over his body.

Liu Xing knew this feeling wouldn't last long.

"Alright, moss, the fight is over when you try to seep into my qi."

Inhaling deeply, Liu Xing tried to cycle this foreign qi. His qi was now diluted by the green qi inside his body. It moved so sluggish, as if the qi that could move like water was now dirty mud. Still, there was a movement, and Liu Xing tried to use the most basic cycling method to activate the most basic lightning technique he had ever learned before he could do a Lightning Palm, a little lightning technique that shot a thread of lightning weakly. It was an exercise technique, but nonetheless, it still served its purpose and could be a bit dangerous to use.

When the little cycling method was complete, he willed the gun to absorb his qi, and the gun did so gladly. The qi inside his body suddenly moved so fast, like water sucked into a hole. Liu Xing realized some of it was actually trying to cling inside his body, but like a cloth that was blown away by the wind, it couldn't resist the absorption of the gun. When this qi was sucked out of his meridians, it felt so disgusting, as if his blood was made of slime, but he resisted.

Not long after, after almost half of his qi was absorbed by the gun, the gun decided it was enough and created six bullets inside it. Liu Xing could feel the bullets in his perception, and there was no difference from the usual. The only difference was the amount of qi he needed to create six bullets. Usually, the qi needed was very little. As a fifth-stage Lock Opening realm cultivator, he could create around a hundred bullets, but now, almost half of his qi, diluted with the moss, could only make six bullets.

Liu Xing could feel the foreign movement of his qi, as if it had a mind of its own and wanted to hide. Liu Xing shot the six bullets and absorbed all the remaining qi in his body.

As the gun did its job wonderfully, Liu Xing wondered if this was the main way for the moss to possess other beings. Wasn't this method too easy to counter? After all, all he needed to do was drain this diluted qi from his body, and he would be free from its possession.

As Liu Xing felt the moss trying to cling inside his body and his gun absorbing it like a hungry black hole, Liu Xing realized that perhaps it wasn't that easy to counter. Most people wouldn't have a method to forcefully suck out the qi inside their body. Instead, most people would probably try to expel the qi by cycling it or channeling it into a technique. But since the moss diluted the qi and could move it around freely, it could resist being expelled or channeled. Moreover, even if someone could expel the qi, the moss was still alive, and a cultivator who had no qi couldn't win against this moss. It's a different story if the moss is transformed into bullets.

As all of his qi was absorbed by the gun, Liu Xing felt weak, as if he were a mortal who hadn't eaten for a month straight. His body trembled, his lips cracked, and his skin looked pale like a sickly man. Even holding a gun was so straining for him and made his hand tremble.

Feeling his empty meridians, Liu Xing smiled weakly. His body and his qi now belonged to him again. There was no foreign thing that had seeped into his body and tried to control him.

Liu Xing glanced at the side of the gun, and he could see six green strips that glowed slightly. Seeing this, Liu Xing realized he had won the fight.

The climax of this fight was out of his expectation, and he won because he was lucky, but still, a win's a win, and he got a prize for it. So, he was still glad.

The world suddenly blurred, blackness trying to invade his eyes and engulf him.

This blackness felt so comfortable, so welcoming, and Liu Xing couldn't resist it. He closed his eyelids and let his body fall, and promptly fainted.