Chapter 289: Escape
After Lu Yuanfeng discussed with everyone, he immediately wrote a letter back to Wu Xiang on the mountain, agreeing to his request, but requiring them to open the formation tomorrow night.
At midnight on the second day, Song Qingming and others who had prepared in advance at the foot of the mountain saw a sudden commotion on the Eagle Nest Ridge, followed by the mountain protection formation that had blocked them for half a month flashing in the air a few times and then disappeared.
"The mountain protection formation has been closed. It seems that Wu Xiang has succeeded. Everyone, follow me and kill them. Except for those with white ribbons tied around their waists, no one will be left alive." With Lu Yuanfeng's order, more than a hundred cultivators hiding at the foot of the mountain, led by Song Qingming and other foundation-building cultivators, went straight to Eagle Nest Ridge.
In this attack on the mountain, except for a dozen people left to guard the foot of the mountain, all the monks were divided into four teams, and they went up in four different directions. The distance between the teams was not far. As long as a battle broke out in one side, the other directions could quickly come to support. With such an arrangement, if nothing unexpected happened, not even a mouse on the mountain could run down, let alone a person.
Not long after running up the mountain, Gao Jinhe and Gao Yubai led a team of monks, and suddenly saw a dozen monks running down the mountain in a hurry. Seeing that these people had white ribbons tied around their waists, Gao Jinhe stepped forward to stop them, but did not choose to fight with them. Lu Yuanfeng had already agreed with Wu Xiang that those with white ribbons tied around their waists were his men.
"Where is your boss Wu Xiang, and what is the situation up there now?" After stopping these people, seeing that these dozen people were all Qi Refining cultivators, Gao Jinhe asked in a stern voice.
"Boss Wu is behind us. The people on the mountain have already chased us down. Please help us get down the mountain quickly."
After being stopped, these people were very panicked, fearing that Gao Jinhe and his men would attack them, and they just wanted to get away from here.
"No one is allowed to go down the mountain casually. Wait for your boss to confirm his identity first." Gao Jinhe said and asked his men to take care of these people.
Not long after, two sword lights suddenly flew down from the mountain. The leading man was wearing a bamboo hat and a white ribbon around his waist. He held his waist and seemed to be running away and was injured. The person chasing him not far behind him was Cheng Yilong from Yingchao Ridge.
"Wu Xiang, you idiot who stabbed your brother in the back, see where you can run." At this moment, Cheng Yilong looked gritting his teeth and was furious. He wanted to catch up with Wu Xiang in front of him and crush him to ashes.
Wu Xiang's injury greatly affected his speed of escape. He had not moved far when Cheng Yilong caught up with him. The two sides fought for dozens of rounds in the air.
Seeing that the injured Wu Xiang had been beaten back by Cheng Yilong and was about to suffer a great loss, Gao Jinhe and Gao Yubai hurried forward to help stop Cheng Yilong.
"My two Taoist friends, this guy is Cheng Yilong. Most of the goods robbed from Qinghefang this time are on him. Don't let him go." Wu Xiang saw someone helping him, so he quickly hid behind Gao Jinhe and shouted at Cheng Yilong who was chasing him.
His shouting instantly focused the attention of the two Gao family members on Cheng Yilong.
In such a moment of distraction, Wu Xiang, who was already seriously injured, suddenly showed a strange smile, and directly used a golden talisman at close range to trap the two Gao family members in it.
"Damn! This man is not Wu Xiang."
Gao Jinhe was also very surprised to see Wu Xiang behind him suddenly attack. They were so eager to save people that they didn't notice that the man under the bamboo hat was not Wu Xiang at all, but Chen Zicong pretending to be him.
The two Gao family members were suddenly enveloped by a golden light. They quickly used their own magic tools to quickly break the golden light, but found that the magic they used was like a drop in the ocean, and did not produce much effect.
Seeing that he succeeded in one blow, Chen Zicong smiled at Cheng Yilong who came over and said, "Boss Cheng, my acting skills are not bad, otherwise it would not be easy to trap them at such a close distance."
"Don't be happy too early. It's not certain whether we can escape successfully. The purple light talisman can't hold them for too long. Let's retreat quickly!" After Cheng Yilong said this, he and Chen Zicong directly commanded a large number of cultivators who followed behind them and ran straight down the mountain quickly.
After discovering that Wu Xiang had betrayed them and contacted the people down the mountain, Cheng Yilong and Chen Zicong secretly discussed and came up with such a plan to escape.
Taking advantage of Wu Xiang's surrender, they deliberately opened the formation and pretended to be captured by Wu Xiang, and then performed the play just now and successfully borrowed a second-level middle-grade spiritual talisman to pass the Gao family. As for the real Wu Xiang and his subordinates, they had already been killed directly on the mountain.
The team of cultivators brought by the Gao family was obviously no match for so many cultivators in Eagle Nest Ridge, and they were quickly dispersed.
Not long after Cheng Yilong and nearly a hundred men rushed down the mountain, people from other directions had also discovered the movement here and came to support the Gao family.
Seeing the Eagle Nest Ridge robbers swarming down, Song Qingming and others turned pale in an instant. They didn't expect that the Gao family would be controlled by the other party so quickly. This made the encirclement and suppression strategy that everyone had formulated at the beginning instantly vanish.
Now that things have come to this, there is no time to explore the reasons. After helping the two Gao family members escape, everyone quickly directed their subordinates to chase after the many bandits not far away.
Because everyone brought elite cultivators above the late stage of Qi Refining this time, the strength of the cultivators themselves is much higher than that of Eagle Nest Ridge, and the speed of pursuit is naturally faster than their escape speed. If nothing unexpected happens, even if these bandits can escape down the mountain now, it will be difficult to get rid of their pursuit.
It is not difficult to deal with these Qi Refining bandits below. Some of the more difficult ones are Cheng Yilong and Chen Zicong, the two leading foundation-building cultivators. Once these two people escape, even if they flatten Eagle Nest Ridge today, it is difficult to say that they have completely won. As long as they are still alive, they can gather a group of bandits in another place after a long time. This leaves a big hidden danger for Qinghefang. Maybe Qinghefang will be attacked again in the future.
After seeing Cheng Yilong and Chen Zicong running in front, Lu Yuanfeng quickly assigned their respective pursuit tasks to everyone.
The two people from the Gao family, Lu Xingde, and the foundation-building cultivator from the Cao family were responsible for intercepting Chen Zicong. The two people from the Huang family, Lu Yuanfeng, and Song Qingming chased after Cheng Yilong.