Chapter 490: Chasing and intercepting
As soon as the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King commanded the demon beast army to move, the Xiaoyao Sect monks in Cuiyunfang immediately noticed something was wrong. After Guangling Master confirmed that the demon beast army had withdrawn to the north, he immediately passed on the news. Bai Yuxian and others were killed in Guiyunfang.
The army of thousands of monster beasts in Gaoyun County retreated all the way north, and it would take at least twenty days to reach Guiyunfang, which was thousands of miles away.
In addition, Zixingfang has been occupied by Song Qingming and others. If they want to bypass it, they have to climb a very steep and huge mountain range in the west, which will add another seven or eight days. Just running hard along this way will be enough. It was enough to make this army of monsters become exhausted.
Faced with this army of monsters that wanted to escape back to the north, Xiaoyao Sect would naturally not let them escape so easily. Under Bai Yuxian's arrangement, Guangling Zhenren led the monks guarding Cuiyunfang in the south all the way. The following and pursuit not only killed many slow-running low-level monsters, but also aggravated the overall fatigue of this army of monsters.
When this army of monster beasts finally crossed the large mountain range to the west of Purple Star Square, the army of monks from Purple Star Square, who had been waiting here for a long time, immediately rushed towards this army of monster beasts, which was low in morale and exhausted.
Seeing that the morale of the human monks was high and the low-level demon beast army under their command was difficult to resist, the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King sensed that something was wrong with the momentum, so they decisively left the demon beast army and directly gave up on these low-level demon beasts under their command. Fleeed north alone.
However, before the two of them ran far, several shield lights suddenly appeared in front of them and stopped the two demon kings. It was Li Xianyun, Song Qingming and Guangling Zhenren who had arrived here not long ago for support.
In addition, Wu Wenhai and others, who controlled the "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" puppet beast, although their escape speed was slightly slower than everyone else, they quickly appeared on the side of the battlefield. Obviously, everyone in the Xiaoyao Sect did not intend to let this person escape. The two demon kings, who had been causing harm to Gaoyun County for several months, fled the country without a trace.
Faced with the sudden appearance of the four human Jindan warriors who were chasing and intercepting them, the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King suddenly panicked and had no intention of fighting with Song Qingming and others.
The two demon kings immediately changed directions and began to escape separately. While speeding up their escape, they used secret techniques to urge several demon kings from Guiyunfang to come over for support.
However, it is not so easy for them to escape smoothly. As soon as the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King moved, Song Qingming and others immediately divided into two groups and chased after each other to fight with each other.
Master Guangling and the "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" worked together to fight against the weaker Gale 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 the Golden Core.
Although the Nine-Headed Demon King is also a middle-stage Golden Core Demon King, this demon does not have any powerful magical powers and secret techniques. Its strength is relatively average among the many demon kings in the middle-stage Golden Core. and the Fire Leopard Demon King.
Li Xianyun alone was far more powerful than the Nine-Headed Demon King, and with Song Qingming helping him, this Nine-Headed Demon King was unlucky enough to be targeted by Li Xianyun. Although he resisted for a long time, In the end, they were defeated and died tragically under Li Xianyun's sword.
Song Qingming, who was assisting Li Xianyun in the attack, had seen through this battle the magical powers of this genius who had been famous for defending the country for hundreds of years, and he also had a new estimate of Li Xianyun's strength.
Unexpectedly, Li Xianyun, like Chen Xuanxin, another golden elixir elder of the Xiaoyao Sect, is also a swordsman who specializes in swordsmanship. No wonder he is so strong. Song Qingming estimates that all the golden elixir monks in the entire Xiaoyao Sect, except Except for the master Yao Qianshu who was in his prime, no one should be sure to beat the current Li Xianyun.
After putting away a set of flying swords in mid-air, Li Xianyun landed next to the body of the nine-headed demon king and directly took away the demon elixir from the demon king's body in front of Song Qingming.
Then Li Xianyun took out a white porcelain vase from himself and used the secret soul collecting technique to collect the spirit of the nine-headed demon king that had turned into a ball into the porcelain vase.
Seeing Li Xianyun collecting the nine-headed demon king's soul, Song Qingming suddenly showed a hint of surprise on his face. He couldn't help but stepped forward and asked: "Fellow Daoist Li, I dare to ask, do you want to take this demon king's soul?" What's the use?"
"I promised Senior Li this time to help you deal with the monsters. I also made an appointment in advance to take away some of the monster materials I wanted. You should be aware of this, Fellow Daoist Song!" Li Xianyun replied with a cold expression. One sentence.
"Fellow Daoist Li has misunderstood. The secret technique I practice requires a demon king soul to break through the realm. I just want to ask fellow Taoist friend if you can transfer this demon king soul to me. I am willing to use other spiritual objects and Taoism. Friends exchange.
Of course, if this thing is also very important to fellow Taoists, then let this matter go. Fellow Taoists, just pretend that I have not asked about it, and I will find another way in the future. Seeing that Li Xianyun seemed to have misunderstood him, Song Qingming quickly explained with a smile.
Song Qingming wanted the soul of the nine-headed demon king precisely because he wanted to use it to practice the "Soul-Eating Art". Since breaking through the golden elixir, although Song Qingming's soul has become somewhat stronger than ordinary golden elixir monks, it is not as good as Li Xianyun. Compared with the late-stage Jindan monks, there is still some gap.
If he can break through the "Soul-Eating Art" to the third level of the Golden Core realm, the soul in Song Qingming's body should be immediately strengthened a lot, and by then he should be able to compete with late-stage Golden Core monks like Li Xianyun.
However, although Song Qingming has a good idea, it is not so easy to break through the "Soul-Eating Art" to the third level. Song Qingming has also tried several times in the past few years to refine the souls of foundation-building monsters. , but failed several times because the power of the refined soul was too weak. If he wanted to break through to the third level quickly, Song Qingming still needed to absorb the more powerful golden elixir monster souls.
However, few people would go out of their way to collect the soul of the third-level demon king. Even the Xiaoyao Sect’s Shanggong Pavilion did not have such a spiritual object. If he wanted to get this, Song Qingming would have to leave Weiguo to try his luck elsewhere. , or you can only take the risk of hunting the Demon King and collect this thing yourself.
Going to the depths of the Fuyun Mountains to hunt down those powerful Golden Elixir Demon Kings is naturally not an easy thing for Song Qingming, who has just broken through the Golden Elixir. He has not dared to have this idea in these years, but This time the turmoil of monsters allowed him to find some good opportunities to collect the spirit of the monster king.
The last time in Jinshanfang, Song Qingming killed the White Lion Demon King, and later successfully collected and refined the demon king's soul. However, the soul of the White Lion Demon King was still a little short of the mark, which did not allow Song Qingming to successfully complete the "Soul-Eating Demon King". "Decision" breaks through to the third level in one go.
Now seeing the nine-headed demon king's soul in Li Xianyun's hand, Song Qingming was really moved. If he could successfully refine the soul of the demon king in the middle stage of the golden elixir, Song Qingming would be very sure that he would be able to achieve a breakthrough in one go.
After hearing Song Qingming's explanation, Li Xianyun shook his head slightly and said: "This monster spirit is of no use to me. I just happen to know a friend outside. She may be able to use this thing, so I will keep it first." .
If Fellow Daoist Song wants this, it's not impossible. Anyway, I already collected one when I was in Zixingfang. It doesn't matter if I give this Demon King Soul to you, but if you want to exchange it, you still need to come up with one. Only spiritual things that can be useful to me. "
"Friend Daoist Li, let's take a look at this thing first and see if we can exchange it for this demon king soul." After Song Qingming finished speaking, he took out a smaller black porcelain bottle from the jade pendant hanging around his waist and threw it directly into Li Xianyun's hand.
Li Xianyun calmly opened the porcelain bottle and took a look, with a hint of surprise on his face. Then he threw the nine-headed demon king soul he had just collected directly to Song Qingming.
"This thing is indeed useful to me. Fellow Daoist Song, I will give this demon king soul to you!"
After completing the transaction with Li Xianyun, a look of surprise immediately appeared on Song Qingming's face. After thanking him, the two of them did not delay too much and immediately turned into a ray of light and left together.
By the time Song Qingming and Li Xianyun arrived dozens of miles away to meet up with Guangling Zhenren and the others, the Gale Demon King had already disappeared.
After the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King escaped separately, they were strangled for a while by Guangling Zhenren and the "Golden Winged Flying Tiger". Although they were seriously injured and lost their ability to fight back, in the end they still relied on their powerful escape speed. Shen Tong successfully escaped to the north and met another demon king who came to rescue it, which made Guangling Zhenren and others reluctantly give up the pursuit.
The Gale Demon King had better luck. He encountered the Guangling master who was not good at fighting and the "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" puppet beast with weak escape speed.
Even though the Gale Demon King's own fighting ability is not strong, this demon king has a powerful speed and magical power, and finally saved his life at the critical moment. He did not end up like the nine-headed demon king and was killed by the human monks on the spot. The result of beheading.
Seeing that the Gale Demon King had escaped, Song Qingming and several other Jindan monks had no choice but to return to the battlefield. Before they could rush over to help, the unprepared army of demon beasts on the main battlefield had already been rushed by the Xiaoyao Sect monks. They lost their formation and fled in all directions.
These monsters were already a tired force because they had been anxiously on their way, and they had just crossed the steep mountain range behind them. In addition, the two leading monster kings abandoned them and ran away alone as soon as the battle started, which made them even more frustrated. They completely lost their fighting spirit. Not long after the battle, many monsters had already taken advantage of the chaos and fled.
There was no doubt that this battle almost turned into a one-sided massacre from the beginning. Only a small part of the thousands of low-level monsters brought back by the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King from Gaoyun County finally escaped back to the north. In Guiyunfang, most of them died tragically at the hands of Xiaoyao Sect members.