Chapter 490: Chasing and Blocking

As soon as the Fierce Wind Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King commanded the demon beast army to move, the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators in Cuiyunfang immediately noticed something was wrong. After Guangling Zhenren confirmed that the demon beast army had retreated northward, he immediately passed the news to Bai Yuxian and others in Guiyunfang.

The thousands of demon beasts in Gaoyun County retreated all the way north, and it would take at least twenty days to reach Guiyunfang thousands of miles away.

In addition, Zixingfang had been occupied by Song Qingming and others. If they wanted to bypass it, they had to cross a very steep and huge mountain range in the west, which would add another seven or eight days. The desperate running along the way was enough to make the whole demon beast army tired.

Facing this demon beast army that wanted to escape back to the north, the Xiaoyao Sect would naturally not let them escape so easily. Under the arrangement and dispatch of Bai Yuxian, Guangling Zhenren led the cultivators guarding Cuiyunfang in the south to follow and pursue them all the way, killing and wounding many slow-running low-level demon beasts and aggravating the overall fatigue of the demon beast army.

When the monster army finally crossed the mountain range west of Zixingfang, the monks of Zixingfang, who had been waiting here for a long time, immediately rushed towards the low-spirited and exhausted monster army.

Seeing that the morale of the human monks was high and the low-spirited monster army under their command was simply unable to resist, the Fierce Wind Demon King and the Nine-headed Demon King realized that the momentum was a bit wrong, so they decisively left the monster army, abandoned the low-level monsters under their command and fled north alone.

However, before they ran far, several shield lights suddenly appeared in front of them and stopped the two monster kings. They were Li Xianyun, Song Qingming and Guangling Zhenren who had rushed here to support them not long ago.

In addition, Wu Wenhai and his men who controlled the "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" puppet beasts, although their escape speed was slightly slower than everyone else, soon appeared on one side of the battlefield. Obviously, the people of Xiaoyao Sect did not intend to let these two monster kings who had been causing trouble for Gaoyun County for several months escape from Weiguo.

Faced with the sudden appearance of four human Jindan warriors, the Fierce Wind Demon King and the Nine-headed Demon King were immediately panicked and had no intention of fighting with Song Qingming and others.

The two demon kings turned around and began to flee separately, speeding up their escape speed while using secret methods to urge several demon kings from Guiyunfang to come to support them.

However, it was not so easy for them to get away smoothly. As soon as the Fierce Wind Demon King and the Nine-headed Demon King moved, Song Qingming and others immediately divided into two groups to chase and fight with each other.

Guangling Zhenren and "Golden Wing Flying Tiger" joined forces to fight against the weaker Fierce Wind Demon King, while Song Qingming assisted Li Xianyun in stopping the Nine-headed Demon King, who had a higher cultivation level and had reached the middle stage of Jindan.

Although the Nine-headed Demon King was also a middle-stage Jindan demon king, this demon did not have any powerful magical skills. His strength was average among the many middle-stage Jindan demon kings, and was not as good as the Nine-patterned Dragon and Fire Leopard Demon King who had originally occupied Zixingfang.

Li Xianyun's strength alone far surpassed that of the Nine-headed Demon King. With Song Qingming's help, the Nine-headed Demon King, who was unlucky enough to be targeted by Li Xianyun, fought hard for a long time, but was eventually defeated by the two and died tragically under Li Xianyun's sword.

Song Qingming, who assisted Li Xianyun in the attack, also witnessed the magical powers of this genius cultivator who had been famous in Weiguo for hundreds of years through this battle, and also had a new estimate of Li Xianyun's strength in his heart.

Unexpectedly, Li Xianyun, like Chen Xuanxin, another Jindan elder of Xiaoyao Sect, was also a sword cultivator who specialized in swordsmanship. No wonder he was so powerful. Song Qingming estimated that among all the Jindan cultivators in the entire Xiaoyao Sect, except for the master Yao Qianshu who was in full swing, no one should be sure to defeat Li Xianyun now.

After putting away a set of flying swords in the air, Li Xianyun landed beside the corpse of the Nine-headed Demon King and took away the demon pill in the demon king's body in front of Song Qingming.

Then Li Xianyun took out a white porcelain bottle from his body and used the soul-collecting secret technique to collect the nine-headed demon king's spirit that had turned into a ball into the porcelain bottle.

Seeing Li Xianyun collecting the nine-headed demon king's spirit, Song Qingming's face suddenly showed a trace of surprise. He couldn't help but stepped forward and asked: "Daoyou Li, may I ask what use you want to take this demon king's spirit?"

"This time I promised Senior Li to help you deal with the monster beasts, and I also agreed in advance that I could take away a few monster beast materials I wanted. You should know this, Daoyou Song!" Li Xianyun replied with a cold face.

"Daoyou Li, you misunderstood. The secret technique I practiced just needs a demon king's soul to break through the realm. I just want to ask Daoyou if you can transfer this demon king's soul to me. I am willing to exchange it with other spiritual objects.

Of course, if this object is also very important to Daoyou, then let's leave it at that. Daoyou, just pretend that I didn't ask, and I will find another way in the future." Seeing that Li Xianyun seemed to have misunderstood him, Song Qingming hurriedly smiled and explained.

Song Qingming wanted the soul of the nine-headed demon king because he wanted to use it to practice the "Soul Devouring Art". Since breaking through the Jindan, Song Qingming's soul has been stronger than that of ordinary Jindan cultivators, but compared with Jindan late cultivators like Li Xianyun, there is still some gap.

If the Soul Devouring Art can be broken through to the third level of the Golden Core Realm, Song Qingming's spirit should be strengthened immediately, and he should be able to rival a late Golden Core cultivator like Li Xianyun.

However, although Song Qingming had a good idea, it was not so easy to break through the Soul Devouring Art to the third level. Song Qingming had tried several times in the past few years to refine the spirits of the foundation-building monsters, but failed several times because the spirits he refined were too weak. If he wanted to break through to the third level quickly, Song Qingming needed to absorb the spirits of more powerful Golden Core monsters.

However, the spirits of the third-level monster kings were something that few people would deliberately collect. Even the Good Deeds Pavilion of the Xiaoyao Sect did not have such spiritual objects. If Song Qingming wanted to get this, he would either leave Weiguo and try his luck elsewhere, or take the risk of hunting the monster king and collecting it himself.

Going to the depths of the Floating Cloud Mountains to hunt down those powerful Jindan demon kings is naturally not an easy task for Song Qingming, who has just broken through the Jindan stage. He has not dared to have this idea in recent years, but this time the demon beast turmoil has given him some good opportunities to collect the demon king's soul.

Last time in Jinshanfang, Song Qingming killed the White Lion Demon King, and later successfully collected and refined the demon king's soul, but the White Lion Demon King's soul was still a little short, so Song Qingming did not successfully break through the "Soul Devouring Art" to the third level at once.

Now seeing the Nine-headed Demon King's soul in Li Xianyun's hand, Song Qingming was really tempted. If he could successfully refine the soul of this Jindan mid-stage demon king, Song Qingming would be very confident that he could successfully break through at once.

After hearing Song Qingming's explanation, Li Xianyun shook his head slightly and said, "This demon beast spirit is of no use to me. I just happened to meet a good friend outside who might need it, so I kept it for now.

If you want this, it's not impossible. Anyway, I have already collected one when I was in Zixingfang. It's okay to give you this demon king spirit. But if you want to exchange, you need to take out a spiritual object that can be useful to me."

"Take a look at this thing, Li Daoyou, and see if you can exchange it for this demon king spirit." Song Qingming said, and took out a smaller black porcelain bottle from the jade pendant hanging on his waist and threw it directly into Li Xianyun's hand.

Li Xianyun calmly opened the porcelain bottle and took a look. A hint of surprise appeared on his face, and then he threw the nine-headed demon king spirit he had just collected directly to Song Qingming.

"This thing is really useful to me, Fellow Daoist Song, I'll give you this demon king's soul!"

After completing the transaction with Li Xianyun, Song Qingming's face immediately showed a hint of surprise. After thanking him, the two of them did not delay too much and immediately turned into a beam of light and left here together.

When Song Qingming and Li Xianyun arrived dozens of miles away and reunited with Guangling Zhenren and his group, the Fierce Wind Demon King had already disappeared.

After the Fierce Wind Demon King and the Nine-headed Demon King fled separately, they were strangled by Guangling Zhenren and the "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" for a while. Although they were seriously injured and lost the power to fight back, they still managed to escape to the north with their powerful speed of escape. They met another demon king who came to pick it up, which made Guangling Zhenren and his group reluctantly give up the pursuit.

The Fierce Wind Demon King was relatively lucky. He met Guangling Zhenren, who was not good at fighting, and the puppet beast "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" with a weaker escape speed.

Even though the Fierce Wind Demon King's own fighting ability was not strong, this demon king had a powerful escape speed ability, which saved its life at the critical moment, and it did not end up being killed on the spot by human cultivators like the Nine-headed Demon King.

Seeing that the Fierce Wind Demon King had already escaped, Song Qingming and several other Jindan cultivators had to return to the battlefield first. Before they could rush over to help, the unprepared demon beast army on the main battlefield had already been disrupted by the cultivators of the Xiaoyao Sect, and they were defeated and fled everywhere.

These demon beasts had been anxious to travel, and they had just crossed the steep mountain behind them, so they were already a tired army. In addition, the two leading demon kings abandoned them and fled alone as soon as the battle started, which made them completely lose their fighting spirit. Not long after the battle, many demon beasts had already taken advantage of the chaos and fled.

There was no suspense in this battle, and it almost turned into a one-sided massacre from the very beginning. Of the thousands of low-level monsters that the Fierce Wind Demon King and the Nine-headed Demon King brought back from Gaoyun County, only a small number of them escaped back to Guiyunfang in the north, and the vast majority of them died tragically at the hands of the Xiaoyao Sect.