Xiao Lin couldn't go far in the direction that he was moving in when the officer chasing after him with murderous intent erupting from his eyes suddenly accelerated and instantly appeared before him.

Bang!

Xiao Lin who wasn't expecting the officer to appear before him suddenly collided into him and then fell to the ground with a heavy thud.

He however didn't feel pain from the heavy collision.

Once he thought of standing to his feet, his body elevated itself above the ground to make him stand back firmly on his feet.

The officer saw this spectacle and became intensely surprised.

He then coldly said to Xiao Lin "There is nowhere for you to run to, boy. Surrender now and let me take you with me to receive your punishment"

"So that you can submit me to some people that would use me for series of experiments?" Xiao Lin unexpectedly asked with coldness in his beastly growling voice.

Haha!!

The officer laughed raucously.

"Well, if you think that's the truth. Then it's the truth." He answered with narrowed frigid eyes.

As they were talking, Xiao Lin was busy looking in his memory for a easily-comprehended battle technique from the plethoric battle techniques mentioned in the Way of the Demonic Blade battle art that he hadn't tried to take his time to study, due to being carried away by what his Blood Wolf God said about the immense benefits that would be obtained upon becoming a true Vampire.

Now, he was frantically searching for a battle technique which he could use to engage the officer in a duel to the death, but he understood that it might probably result in his death, since the officer had a higher cultivation base, and would have possibly mastered myriad lower, higher or transcendent-grade Mortal Spiritual-level battle techniques since he was a government officer. But still, thinking of his death dreaded him very much because he had so many things to do and accomplish.

Not hearing Xiao Lin's response, the officer asked again and in a fierce tone this time around.

"Do you surrender now and will follow me willingly on your own?" He asked.

Xiao Lin unhappily nodded his head.

"Good!" The officer said with a cold light glowing in his eyes.

But before the officer could approach Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin quickly recalled the Sorrowful Sea blade to his hand and dashed towards the cultivator using his Super Speed ability and then moved at the the highest speed possible.

Once he arrived before the officer at the highest velocity that he could achieve, he quickly sent out a fast horizontal slash to the man's waist to ruthlessly cut him into two.

The officer who had a smirk expression in his face expertly dodged the horizontal blade slash that Xiao Lin sent out at him and then adeptly knocked off the Sorrowful Sea blade from his hand.

He was a heavily-trained combatant that Xiao Lin would not be able to really match in terms of fighting prowess.

Immediately he did this, he grabbed intensely shocked Xiao Lin by the neck and lifted him many feet above the ground using purely the physical strength granted to him by his Animal Spirit in their fused state.

"You seriously wanted to kill me? So you thought that a sudden attack would work for me?" The officer asked and then applied pressure on Xiao Lin's neck like he wanted to crush it. This then caused Xiao Lin to feel that he was suffocating.

Xiao Lin at the moment was in a dilemma, as he didn't know what to do to kill this cautious officer who also seemed to be able to predict his every move.

As he was thinking hard of what to do as the officer spoke to him, he suddenly recalled the vision of where he saw a matured version of himself in that ultimate vampiric form.

In that vision, apart from using his fangs to suck blood from the neck of his adversaries, he could also use his thick claws which he pierced deep into any part of their exceedingly tough bodies to rapidly drain out their blood and life essences and turn turn them into heavily dried-up corpses.

Once he remembered the inherent, quick blood-drinking ability of his claws from that vision that he suddenly recalled, he prepared himself.

Suddenly, a dazzling red light that illuminated the entire street appeared and dyed everything with it intense red color.

Then immediately this happened, the officer who still actually tightly grasped Xiao Lin by the neck, abruptly turned around in fear to see what had suddenly appeared in the street and produced that blinding red light.

When he quickly turned around to see what brought about the red-colored brilliance that illuminated the entire street and produced a strong feeling of ominousness in his heart, and also induced an overwhelming stygian atmosphere around him and in his mind, he saw Xiao Lin's colossal Animal Spirit which then roared ragingly at him, producing numerous sound waves that were actually visible in appearance and then shot towards him at furious speeds to impact him with the intent to shred him apart.

But the adept officer quickly expelled a large stream of Spiritual Energy from his palm which then rapidly condensed into a large dome that enclosed both he and Xiao Lin.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound waves heavily blasted into the dome, but it couldn't rip it apart or penetrate through the dome, since Xiao Lin's Animal Spirit wasn't powerful enough yet to be able to contend with a Mortal Spiritual stage cultivator. It would grow alongside Xiao Lin in power, however in leaps and bounds since it was no common-grade Animal Spirit like the others. It was a rare, divinity-grade Beast Battle Spirit.

Seeing that the officer was now distracted by the sound-bound attacks rampantly unleashed by his Animal Spirit as it roared unceasingly, Xiao Lin quickly got to work.

Very quickly, he lifted both his arms and sent his thick metal-like claws deep into the arm that the officer used to grab his neck.

Arghh!!

The officer screamed out from the intense agonizing pain that suddenly afflicted him.

Then he felt himself becoming weaker, and that his skin was rapidly visibly aging, giving him the feeling that he was quickly losing his vitality and the very essences that constituted his body.

Gnashing his teeth really hard because of the continuous pain that Xiao Lin inflicted upon him, he then turned his head away from the corporeal Blood Wolf God that was sending out attacks at him to look at his arm which Xiao Lin had burrowed his razor-sharp claws deep into.

He then saw how blood and grain-sized, solid lumps of white light quickly moved into Xiao Lin's body from his arms, through the claws that Xiao Lin pierced deep into them.

'He is draining away my blood and my body and life essences?' He asked in shock inwardly.

'This demonic bastard!!'

Then in the next instant, a type of anger erupted in his heart like a massive explosion took place.

Ignoring the Blood Wolf God that had now drawn closer to the dome that enclosed both him and Xiao Lin to attack it and possibly rip it to shreds, he clenched his other hand into a fist and sent it really hard at Xiao Lin's chest.

Bang!

Xiao Lin was tyrannically hurled out of the dome and into the far distance of about twenty feet away because of the tremendous amount of force that the fist of the frenzied officer heavily struck him with.

The officer then abruptly terminated the solid form of the Dome of Spiritual Energy which he quickly produced to protect himself from the physical attacks of Xiao Lin's Animal Spirit, and then rushed to where Xiao Lin's body weakly laid in with boundlessly towering anger in his eyes.

Immediately he got to where Xiao Lin was at a furious speed, he grabbed him by the neck once again and lifted him into the air.

"This is the price you will pay for doing that to me, you filthy Demon" The officer said and applied a lot of force to crush Xiao Lin's neck.

Snap!

Xiao Lin's neck made a loud snap sound due to the enormous crushing force that the officer applied on his neck.

Seeing that he had killed Xiao Lin, he dropped Xiao Lin's lifeless body to the ground.

And at this moment, Xiao Lin's Animal Spirit rapidly vanished away due to Xiao Lin's death. So, nothing could attack him again.

The officer then fell with his knees to the ground, with his eyes giving off strong hints of extreme exhaustion, and a feeling that if he didn't regain some energy few instances later, he could die. But it was not that he was intensely exhausted from the fight, it was just because both his blood and vitality had been sucked away by Xiao Lin's claws which burrowed deep into his arm and began to drain away the blood that circulated in his body, and the very essences that composed both his body and the fire of his life.

Then when he looked at the skin of the arm where Xiao Lin's claws deeply burrowed into, he saw to his shock and horror that the arm had greatly wrinkled, giving him the feeling that his arm had become the arm of a hundred-and-eighty year-old mortal, and that it was rapidly decaying, since pus formed on it and dripped to the ground, while giving off a strongly repulsing rotting smell at the same time.

Immediately the officer saw this which caused him to feel dread, he quickly looked into his spatial ring to produce healing pills.

He then swallowed all the pills at once with hope in his heart that the emaciation, wrinkling, and rapid decomposition of his arm would stop.

***

A few moments later, Xiao Lin's eyelids began to tremble before it snapped fully open.

'I can still come back to life?' He asked with shock inwardly.

He couldn't help but be amazed that he could come back from the dead.

He then recalled that he wasn't a mortal anymore. He had become something that was similar to True Immortals who lived in the Spirit Continent, or False Immortals that lived in the Holy Continent.

'So, being a Vampire would allow me to resist death, like the type if my neck was fully crushed by stronger cultivators? Haha! Good.' He said inwardly with his heart exploding with unbounded excitement.

His eyes then furrowed in the next instant when a particular thought struck him 'Since I am now a vampire, the first of it kind, I don't think it should be possible for me to get killed by any other means. Except probably by beheading or by ripping me apart from the head down into halves or from the waist into two.'

He then agreed with himself on this and tried standing back to his feet.

As soon as he thought of standing, his body elevated itself from his lying position on the ground to make him stand back to his feet.

The officer who still remained where he was with burning hope in his heart that the strange decaying wound that Xiao Lin afflicted upon him would heal, didn't know that Xiao Lin's dead body which laid behind him had woken and risen back to it feet.

Puchi!

ARGHH!!

The officer screamed in pain when Xiao Lin's claws suddenly pierced from his back into his body. Also, the claws of one of his hands pierced through from behind directly into his heart.

This instantly rendered the officer powerless and immobile, since Xiao Lin's claws had penetrated into his heart. Then his blood and some of his life essences began to flow into Xiao Lin's body from the claws that had pierced deep into his body.

After a pretty long time, like fifteen minutes later, the officer became emaciated. He simply looked like a mortal that had been badly starved for more many months. He then fell to the ground extremely weak. He didn't even have an ounce of energy to stand back to his feet.

Xiao Lin then recalled one of the ancient blades residing in his dantian to his hand and used it to behead the officer.