Chapter 378 Can't Run Away

After the four of them had distributed the spiritual objects, they boarded Duan Xueyi's flying boat again, left the swamp and headed south quickly.

On the way back this time, although there were still occasional flying monsters harassing them, because they were much more familiar with the road than when they came, the speed of the flying boat was also much faster, and it only took seven days to completely leave the Floating Cloud Mountains.

This trip to the Floating Cloud Mountains not only harvested a lot of spiritual objects, but also did not encounter particularly powerful monsters. It was very smooth, so after leaving the Floating Cloud Mountains, everyone's face began to be filled with smiles.

As foundation-building cultivators, although they are much richer than Qi-refining cultivators, the consumption required for daily cultivation is also several times more than that of ordinary Qi-refining cultivators. How can they not be happy to earn thousands of spirit stones by going on a long journey?

After arriving at a place more than ten miles away from Guiyunfang, Duan Xueyi took the initiative to stop the flying boat under his feet, and Song Qingming and Fang Wuqian jumped directly from it.

"My two Taoist friends, the market is just ahead. There are many people there, so we will drop you off here."

"Haha! Fairy Duan is too polite. Have a nice journey, and we will meet again someday."

"Have a nice journey!"

Song Qingming and Fang Wuqian bowed to Duan Xueyi and Gao Yuyao above the flying boat, and the flying boat turned into a beam of white light and quickly disappeared in the air.

After the two fairies left, Fang Wuqian turned to Song Qingming and asked, "Fellow Daoist Song, I still have to go to Guiyunfang to deal with these monster corpses. You must come with me!"

Faced with Fang Wuqian's active invitation, Song Qingming shook his head without hesitation and said, "When I went out this time, I told my clan that I would be back in half a month at most. Now that the day is almost here, I won't delay here too much.

Next time, if Fellow Daoist Fang has the opportunity to come to Qinghe County, you must come to my Funiushan Mountain to sit down, and I will do my best to be a good host."

"Okay! Then Fellow Daoist Song, take care of yourself. I will go first." Fang Wuqian smiled and bowed to Song Qingming, then stepped on his flying sword and went straight to Guiyunfang.

After seeing Fang Wuqian disappear in front of his eyes as a green light, Song Qingming took out the green robe and hat he had worn when he came here before, and put them on himself, carefully covering his face. Then he summoned a dark red flying sword and left here with the sword light.

Strangely, the direction Song Qingming left this time was not the direction of Qinghe County as he had just told Fang Wuqian, but he went all the way north and entered the Floating Cloud Mountains again.

After flying north for two days, Song Qingming came to a relatively desolate hill, found a remote place, and simply arranged a magic circle. He planned to rest here for a while, recover some mana, and then set off again.

Half an hour later, when Song Qingming was concentrating on closing his eyes and meditating to recover his mana, several fast-moving spiritual lights suddenly appeared in the originally very quiet sky, approaching the hill where Song Qingming was.

The colors of these spiritual lights were different. The red light flew the fastest. It stopped immediately after it arrived not far from where Song Qingming was, revealing a charming man in red clothes holding a folding fan.

Not far behind him, there were two spiritual lights, one yellow and one white. After flying to the side of the man in red, they immediately turned into an old man in yellow and a scholar in white robes with a somewhat handsome appearance.

After the man in red stopped, he quickly circled the sky above the hill and returned to the other two.

The old man in yellow stepped forward and said to the man in red, "Brother Hong, how is it? Didn't you find that kid?"

"Hmph! The place shown by the spiritual bead just now is here. It should be hidden near this hill, but this kid seems to have used some hiding method to hide. It seems that it will take some effort." After the man in red finished speaking, he took out a emerald green bead from his waist and looked at it carefully.

"Since he is here, he can't run away. Let's split up and search carefully. We may not fail to find him." After the old man in yellow finished speaking, he flew down to the side of the hill first and began to search slowly at a close distance.

The red-clothed man and the white-robed scholar in the sky exchanged glances, and each chose a direction to fall to the hill.

All that happened in the air just now also fell into the eyes of Song Qingming who was hiding on the side of the hill. At this moment, when he saw these people appear, his face was full of doubts.

Song Qingming had actually seen the red-clothed man and the yellow-clothed old man who had just arrived here before. These two people were none other than the demon cultivators who fought against Li Yungong and other Xiaoyao Sect cultivators in the chaotic battle in the underground cave of Black Stone Valley a year ago.

Only the other white-clothed scholar, Song Qingming should not have seen him. He looked thinner and smaller, and he didn't look like the third demon cultivator who escaped that day.

Although he did not hear what these demon cultivators said in mid-air, Song Qingming knew very well in his mind that the appearance of three men in red on this deserted hill where monsters were rampant was most likely meant for him. He just didn't know when he had revealed his whereabouts and been targeted by them.

This time, Song Qingming entered the Floating Cloud Mountains alone. Not only did he cover his face, but he also walked very carefully. Even if he saw a Qi Refining cultivator passing by, he tried his best to avoid attracting their attention. It was impossible for him to be targeted by a demon cultivator by chance.

After quickly recalling his whereabouts along the way, Song Qingming still couldn't find a trace of why he was targeted, and he couldn't help but frown.

Fortunately, he had long been accustomed to setting up a magic array to conceal his breath when resting in the wild, otherwise when the man in red found this hill just now, Song Qingming would have exposed his hiding place.

Although Song Qingming's cultivation has reached the seventh level of foundation building, this time the opponent suddenly came with three demon cultivators in the foundation building stage. In addition to the man in red who had the peak cultivation of the ninth level of foundation building, the old man in yellow and the scholar in white had the cultivation of the fifth and sixth levels of foundation building. Once surrounded by these three people, Song Qingming would inevitably find it difficult to escape.

At present, he could still rely on the magic circle to cover up his aura, but facing the three demon cultivators who were approaching step by step, Song Qingming also knew that it was only a matter of time before he was exposed, and he had to think of a good way to get away quickly.

The white-clothed scholar who was searching on the east side of the hill and closest to Song Qingming was named Ye Shujie. This demon, like Yang Wuqi who was killed by Chen Xuanxin decades ago, was a native demon cultivator in Weiguo, not a fellow disciple of the man in red.

Ye Shujie was born in a foundation-building family in Cangbai County in the north of Weiguo in his early years. After his ancestor passed away more than a hundred years ago, he lost the greatest protection because the inheritance of foundation-building cultivators was cut off. In addition, the newly appointed patriarch was a cowardly and indecisive person, so soon their family was targeted by other nearby immortal cultivation families.

In just less than a dozen years, the Ye family went from a foundation-building immortal family to an object that the nearby Qi-refining families dared to bully.

Therefore, many of the Ye family cultivators with good morale could not stand this gap and chose to leave the family and join other forces, or become independent cultivators and leave Cangbai County. Ye Shujie was one of them.

Ye Shujie left Cangbai County for more than ten years. I don’t know what kind of opportunity he encountered outside. When he returned to the Ye family more than ten years later, he not only switched to practicing magic, but also successfully established his foundation.

After this demon established his foundation, he was very low-key at first, always pretending to be an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator, and rarely used the evil magic to harm people, so that among the dozens of cultivators of the Ye family, no one knew that this seemingly plain-looking cultivator of the same clan was actually a horrifying demon cultivator.

However, after a long time, Ye Shujie accidentally revealed his flaws, and a cultivator of the Ye family discovered that something was wrong with him, and secretly notified other members of the clan to prepare to take him down.

Seeing that his identity had been exposed, Ye Shujie also exposed his true face of cruelty and ruthlessness, and was merciless to his own bloodline. Overnight, this foundation-building demon killed more than a dozen Ye family cultivators who came to arrest him and fled directly.

His disturbance soon attracted the attention of Xiaoyao Sect. Since then, Ye Shujie has also become a foundation-building demon on the wanted list of Xiaoyao Sect of Weiguo.

However, Ye Shujie also knew the power of Xiaoyao Sect. He has been hiding outside for these years and has also lived in seclusion, and did not dare to attract the attention of Xiaoyao Sect at will.

A year ago, the two men in red fled from the Black Stone Valley after being injured by the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators led by Li Yungong, but the two demon cultivators did not leave Weiguo immediately, but hid in a place to heal their wounds secretly.

Once, when the man in red was out looking for healing items, he happened to meet Ye Shujie who was secretly catching prey on the road. In order to have an extra helper in Weiguo, the man in red took the initiative to find him, promised Ye Shujie a lot of benefits, and successfully recruited him.

This time, Ye Shujie followed the man in red to the depths of the Floating Cloud Mountains. He only knew that he was going to deal with a late-stage foundation-building cultivator. After following him all the way, several people had to act separately in order to find Song Qingming as soon as possible.

After so many years of hiding, Ye Shujie had long been accustomed to acting carefully. While he was slowly and carefully scanning the surroundings, he secretly prayed in his heart that he had better not run into Song Qingming.

Although Ye Shujie also broke through to the foundation-building stage very early, he had been building the foundation for nearly a hundred years and his cultivation had not yet broken through to the late stage of the foundation-building stage. It can be seen that his talent in practicing the magic skills is far less than Yang Wuqi, whom Song Qingming had seen that year. If it really comes to fighting alone, he is far from Song Qingming's opponent.

But often, what you fear will come true. When Ye Shujie came to a mountain wall, a white light suddenly flashed in front of him, and a green figure rushed out from an empty place beside him, and a black silver knife in his hand quickly chopped towards Ye Shujie's neck.

Seeing this sudden sneak attack, Ye Shujie, who had been on guard for a long time, hurriedly raised a green jade ruler in his hand above his head and opened a green shield to block in front of him.

After the black silver knife in Song Qingming's hand chopped on the green shield, although it showed a crack on the shield, it failed to directly cut it, and a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

Unexpectedly, this white-clothed scholar was not only cautious in character, but also had a good defensive magic weapon on him, which could actually block his swift attack that he had prepared for a long time.

However, just when Song Qingming was about to praise Ye Shujie, the jade ruler in his hand suddenly broke into two pieces with a bang, and the green shield slowly dissipated in the air.

Fortunately, the jade ruler helped to block Song Qingming's fatal blow, and also bought some time for Ye Shujie, allowing him to retreat smoothly and avoid the residual power of Song Qingming's black silver knife that shattered the green shield.

"Fellow Daoist Hong, he is here, hurry up."

After dodging Song Qingming's attack, Ye Shujie hurriedly shouted to the distance, but before he could finish his words, Song Qingming's second attack had already arrived in front of him, forcing him to bite the bullet and fight with Song Qingming again.

Although Ye Shujie has practiced for many years, he does not have a magical weapon as powerful as the magic knife refined by Yang Wuqi. The only and most powerful piece of green jade ruler was just destroyed by Song Qingming's knife.

In order to win the battle quickly, Song Qingming, who was facing him, immediately used his two most powerful magic weapons, the Black Silver Knife and the Green Water Bell, and soon beat Ye Shujie to retreat step by step without any chance to fight back.

After only fighting for a dozen moves, Ye Shujie was directly knocked aside by the Green Water Bell operated by Song Qingming, and there was no way to stop him.

After beating Ye Shujie back, Song Qingming heard the angry shouts of the man in red coming from far away, and hurriedly took out his flying sword and flew away without looking back.

When the man in red and the old man in yellow arrived at the battlefield, Ye Shujie, who was lying on the ground, slowly stood up and spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth. It seemed that he was seriously injured.

"Chase! He can't run away." The man in red looked at the direction where Song Qingming left, looked at Song Qingming escaping in the air with a playful look, and chased him first.

The old man in yellow threw a pill to Ye Shujie, who still looked a little unhappy. After he took it, the two followed him with magic tools.

Looking at the man in red who had caught up not far behind him, Song Qingming quickly increased the magic power on the wind-controlling boots under his feet, and flew with the sword at full speed, always maintaining the fastest speed.

The man in red turned into a ball of red light. Although his speed was faster than Song Qingming at the beginning, his speed slowly dropped when he caught up not far behind Song Qingming, but he always kept it close.

"This guy dares to go north. He really doesn't know how to live or die. I wonder how far you can run!"

Seeing that Song Qingming did not choose to go south and continued to walk to the north where high-level monsters were rampant, the man in red couldn't help but laugh at the corner of his mouth. In his opinion, Song Qingming would definitely not be able to hold on for long if he desperately used his magic power to hurry on. As long as he kept the speed of pursuit, it should only be a matter of time to capture the other party.

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