Chapter 358 Retreat
After seeing that there were no Jindan-level strongmen among the people who came, Song Qingming, who was hiding beside a pile of rocks, slowly put his mind at ease.
A few days ago, when Du Yucheng came to Black Stone Valley, he was about to destroy the seal formation at the entrance of the cave when he happened to meet several Xiaoyao Sect Qi-refining disciples who came here for inspection.
After Du Yucheng killed these people, he soon alarmed Xu Youlong, a foundation-building cultivator of the Xiaoyao Sect stationed in Tenglongfang. He went to Black Stone Valley to investigate the matter and fought with Du Yucheng.
Although Xu Youlong had been building his foundation for nearly 20 years, he owed a lot of debts to the sect for building his foundation, and he has not paid it off yet. Therefore, he usually has a very tight budget for cultivation, and his cultivation level is only the third level of foundation building.
Although his opponent Du Yucheng has not fallen into the devil's way for a long time, with the help of the great devil Xiao Huang, he got a lot of treasures hidden by Xiao Huang after leaving Weiguo. His cultivation level has reached the fifth level of foundation building, and he has many powerful magic weapons in his hands.
It stands to reason that it would not be difficult for Du Yucheng to keep Xu Youlong in the fight between the two. The reason why Du Yucheng let him escape was to deliberately hide his strength. This did affect the judgment made by the Law Enforcement Hall of Xiaoyao Sect after receiving Xu Youlong's letter for help.
Xiaoyao Sect would not panic too much because they only found an ordinary foundation-building demon cultivator and directly dispatched Jindan cultivators to deal with it.
Du Yucheng had been in Xiaoyao Sect for decades, and he was also familiar with the style of the Law Enforcement Hall. If Du Yucheng killed Xu Youlong directly, the Law Enforcement Hall would not be able to figure out the situation in the Black Stone Valley at once, and it might really alarm those Jindan elders who often retreated. After all, the big demon Xiao Huang was still suppressed in the Black Stone Valley.
Seeing the Xiaoyao Sect's people attacking, Du Yucheng and the other two who had just fought each other immediately put aside their temporary grudges and chose to join forces against the enemy.
On the side of the demon cultivators, the red-clothed man and Du Yucheng are both very powerful among the foundation-building cultivators. Even the weakest old man with a long beard is a demon cultivator who has reached the fifth level of the foundation-building stage. They are all difficult to deal with.
There are a total of five people from the Xiaoyao Sect this time. Although they are all at the foundation-building stage or above, except for Li Yungong, a strong man who has cultivated to the peak of the foundation-building stage, the strength of the others does not seem to be very strong. The strongest is Bai Yunhua, who has just broken through the fourth level of the foundation-building stage.
After the two sides met, Li Yungong took the lead and used a thunder and fire to rush directly towards the red-clothed man with the highest cultivation level on the demon cultivator side.
Seeing that Li Yungong's cultivation level is not bad, and he has cultivated some thunder methods that can restrain demon cultivators, the red-clothed man did not dare to underestimate him. He pulled the long-bearded old man and the two of them went forward together to stop Li Yungong.
The other Xiaoyao Sect cultivators, led by Bai Yunhua, faced Du Yucheng and the huge ghost head on his head.
Song Qingming had seen Li Yungong when he participated in the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm. At that time, he was already one of the best masters in the Xiaoyao Sect who entered the secret realm. Now his strength seems to be even better than before.
After practicing for many years, Li Yungong's path has been smooth. When he entered the Xiaoyao Sect when he was young, he became a disciple of a Jindan elder. The Sky Fire Thunder Art he practiced was a very powerful technique. Facing the red-clothed man and the long-bearded old man, he not only did not retreat a step but also had a slight advantage.
Bai Yunhua and his four people fought against Du Yucheng. At the beginning, the Xiaoyao Sect was somewhat defeated. Several people were beaten by the strange wind of Du Yucheng and the ghost head. Fortunately, Bai Yunhua, the formation master, took out a set of formation flags in time and gathered several people together. With the help of the formation in his hand, he slowly stabilized the bodies of several people.
After the two sides fought for a while, to everyone's surprise, the first to collapse were the red-clothed man and the long-bearded old man who had joined forces to fight against Li Yungong.
Li Yungong is a very rare thunder root cultivator in the world of immortal cultivation. Thunder root belongs to a kind of special root. The cultivation talent of this kind of root cultivator is second only to the single heavenly root. There are no more than ten special root cultivators among the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Xiaoyao Sect. Without exception, they are all the key training objects of the sect.
Thunder magic is naturally restrained by magic power. In addition, Li Yungong's cultivation has reached the peak of foundation building. When the blood mist secret technique of the red-clothed man encounters these blazing lightning, most of them turn into smoke and disappear in the lightning, which is difficult to pose any threat to Li Yungong.
The long-bearded old man was already injured in the previous battle. At this moment, he can only barely exert 60% to 70% of his strength to assist the red-clothed man in fighting Li Yungong.
Seeing that Li Yungong was really difficult to deal with, the red-clothed man and the long-bearded old man did not want to fight him to the death here. After the two exchanged glances, the red-clothed man suddenly used a red jade tripod and cast a spell to cover Li Yungong.
After trapping Li Yungong, the red-clothed man did not choose to continue attacking. Instead, he turned into a ball of blood mist and ran straight to the cave entrance with the long-bearded old man beside him.
Demon cultivators are different from righteous cultivators. Once they encounter a difficult opponent, they rarely choose to fight to the end. Facing an opponent like Li Yungong who can endanger his life, it is not surprising that the red-clothed man chose to escape.
"Don't leave, demon, and fight with me again."
As soon as the two demons left, Li Yungong had already broken free from the red jade tripod. He was a little angry and shouted at the place where the man in red and the old man with long beard left, and then he chased after them.
Du Yucheng saw that the man in red and the old man with long beard had already escaped. He took a look at the Demon Suppression Tower not far away, which was still full of seals, and ran straight to the cave entrance with the ghost head, wanting to escape.
The battle between Bai Yunhua and Du Yucheng could only rely on the formation to draw, and there was no way to stop him.
After taking a look at Du Yucheng's disappearing back, Bai Yunhua hurried to the Demon Suppression Tower deep in the cave and carefully checked the seals here.
Seeing that the seal of the Demon Tower was intact and Xiao Huang's soul had not escaped from here, Bai Yunhua was relieved, because he was a little worried that Li Yungong, who was chasing the demon cultivators, would be besieged by the escaped demon cultivators. After confirming that there was nothing unusual on the Demon Tower side, Bai Yunhua quickly left here with several Xiaoyao Sect cultivators.
After all these people left, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew in the cave that had been quiet, and a group of black smoke, like the ghost head that had escaped with Du Yucheng before, suddenly drilled in from the cave entrance.
When this group of black fog flew a few feet in front of the Demon Tower, it suddenly squeezed together and let out a burst of cold laughter.
"Haha! After being locked up for so many years, I finally have a chance to see the light of day again."