Chapter 795: Suoyuan Soul-Calming, Check the Harvest (asking for monthly votes)
Hearing Ma Wuchen's plea for mercy from the "Zuoyuan Soul-Calming Talisman", Song Qingming remained calm and unmoved, and directly took out a bowl magic weapon that was specially used to imprison the soul of a cultivator.
Then he cast a spell to retrieve the talisman in the distance, and ignored Ma Wuchen's plea for mercy, and threw the "Zuoyuan Soul-Calming Talisman" into the magic weapon.
Magic cultivators above the Jindan level usually leave a backup plan for themselves. If they don't completely kill their souls, it will still be easy for them to escape and take over their bodies to cultivate again.
After catching Ma Wuchen's soul that escaped from his body, Song Qingming slowly breathed a sigh of relief and completely put his mind at ease.
Facing Ma Wuchen, a high-level magic cultivator who had reached the peak of the Jindan level, Song Qingming was not very sure that he could kill him at first, and did not want to fight him to the death.
However, Ma Wuchen's greed for the "Tongtian Order" made Song Qingming lose the last bit of luck in his heart. He had no choice but to take the risk of exposing his identity and decisively kill him here.
If Ma Wuchen escaped from this battle, the secret of the "Tongtian Order" would be spread by him, or his master "Red Blood Demon" would know about it.
This is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger for Song Qingming and the entire Song family. After all, the Song family is just a small Jindan fairy clan and it is impossible for them to compete with Yuanying cultivators like "Red Blood Demon".
Fortunately, after a big battle, Ma Wuchen still failed to escape and was successfully killed and suppressed by Song Qingming. This made Song Qingming put down a little worry in his heart.
After capturing Ma Wuchen's soul, Song Qingming released his powerful consciousness and scanned the surroundings to prevent any negligence and omissions.
After making sure that there was nothing missing in the surrounding area, Song Qingming burned all the traces of Ma Wuchen on the battlefield and the "blood corpse puppets" with real fire, and then quickly returned to the sky above the deserted island.
These "blood corpse puppets" were made by extracting the souls of living people. Although Song Qingming did not know their specific identities when they were alive, he also knew that they should all be righteous monks who died in the hands of Ma Wuchen in recent years.
They unfortunately fell into the hands of the demon cultivators before their death, and their bodies were refined into "blood corpse puppets" after their death. Even their souls could not get rid of the control of the other party and could not reincarnate. It was indeed a bit sad and lamentable!
However, all these disappeared with Song Qingming's fire. Since then, they have been freed from the shackles of the demon cultivators and can be reincarnated as humans again.
After returning to the deserted island battlefield, Song Qingming looked around and did not see Song Qingyu's figure. He hurried to the cave below and saw Li Xiuning and Song Qingyu inside.
Song Qingyu was injured by the self-explosion of a "blood corpse puppet" in the end. In addition, due to excessive consumption of mana, the blood poison in her body was no longer suppressed. Not long after she fell from mid-air, she fell into a coma.
Li Xiuning, who had been hiding in the cave, saw this and hurriedly took Song Qingyu back to the cave and helped her take a few healing pills.
However, Li Xiuning did not have any high-level pills, and the help to Song Qingyu's injuries was very limited, so she has not improved yet.
Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly stepped forward to check and found that Song Qingyu's blood poison had invaded her heart veins. He immediately took out a third-level detoxification pill from his body and put it into her mouth.
Most of these high-level detoxification pills on Song Qingming were made by Huang Siyuan.
Thanks to her, a third-level alchemist, almost all the cultivators in the Song family have more elixirs than other cultivators in the surrounding area. Sometimes, even disciples from the "Xiaoyao Sect" come to Funiu Mountain to ask for elixirs.
After helping Song Qingyu take a third-level detoxification pill, Song Qingming slowly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his complexion was gradually getting better.
After instructing Li Xiuning to take care of Song Qingyu who was still unconscious, Song Qingming got up and went outside the cave to find the "Golden Wind" that had been embedded in a mountain wall.
In the previous battle, "Golden Wind" was severely injured by Ma Wuchen, and his chest collapsed, revealing a huge hole, and one of his legs was broken into two.
Although this degree of injury is not fatal to a corpse puppet, Song Qingming can still slowly repair it as long as he collects the materials.
But seeing the miserable state of "Golden Wind" who had followed him for many years, Song Qingming felt a little bit reluctant. He sighed and hurriedly put it back into the spirit beast bag.
When Song Qingming dealt with the traces of the battlefield and returned to the cave, Song Qingyu had already woken up. After refining the detoxification pill, his face slowly returned to normal.
Seeing Song Qingming return to the cave, Song Qingyu quickly stood up and asked:
"Seventh brother, has the old devil escaped? Should we leave here quickly?"
"Don't worry! He won't appear again, but the noise just now was too loud. I'm afraid it has alarmed the nearby monks. It's not safe for us here. Let's go to another place to help you heal your wounds!"
Seeing that Song Qingyu's injuries had improved a lot, Song Qingming gradually felt relieved. After nodding and responding to her, he took her and Li Xiuning out of the cave together.
A moment later, the three people who were already standing on the "Phantom Boat" turned into a white light and left the deserted island to the south.
About an hour later, two beams of light, one blue and one white, flew over the sky above the deserted island, which had been very quiet. They turned into two figures standing in mid-air.
One of the women in blue looked at the battlefield below the deserted island, which had been beaten to pieces, and frowned slightly and said:
"Brother Chen, there is such a big commotion here, could it be that someone is hunting the demon king?"
The man in white beside him heard this, but shook his head slightly with a serious expression and said:
"Hunting the demon king! I don't think it's likely. If it was hunting an ordinary demon king, it wouldn't be beaten like this. The person who appeared here must be a master above the late Jindan stage."
"A late Jindan cultivator? Who dares to make trouble here so blatantly? Could this person be a casual cultivator from outside?
Brother Chen, should we inform the sect about this in advance!"
Hearing that a late Jindan cultivator might appear nearby, the woman in blue showed a hint of surprise on her face, and then asked again.
The man in white looked around with a serious expression, and did not directly answer the woman in blue's question, but cast a spell to take out a golden talisman and threw it into the air.
This talisman instantly turned into a ball of golden light in the air, and then the golden ball automatically flew to the battlefield below.
When the golden ball turned around on the battlefield and returned to the hands of the man in white, there were several thin black lights on it.
"This is...demon energy. Could it be that the one here is a Jindan demon cultivator!"
Seeing the black light appearing on the golden ball in the hands of the man in white, the blue-clothed woman was surprised and couldn't help shouting out.
Seeing this, the man in white sighed slightly and said, "Alas! Before, I have always heard that there were cultivators missing inexplicably nearby, and I always thought it was the work of monsters.
I just felt a hint of demon energy when I arrived here. It seems that a Jindan demon should have appeared nearby.
There are only you and me in this matter. I am afraid it is difficult to find it. We need to go back to discuss with the uncle and others before making a decision!"
After the two of them agreed in mid-air, they quickly turned into two escape lights and disappeared over the deserted island.
At the same time, in the air thousands of miles away from the deserted island,
Song Qingming, Song Qingyu and the other two were standing on the "Phantom Boat", looking at an island that was getting closer and closer in the distance, and all three of them showed a bit of relief on their faces.
After more than an hour of rapid travel, Song Qingming and the other two had successfully left the location of the deserted island and entered the territory controlled by a small country around Song State.
Because this country was affiliated with the Wu State in the south, it had a relatively ordinary relationship with the "Hunyuan Sect" of Song State. Under normal circumstances, the "Hunyuan Sect" cultivators could not easily enter here.
Having left the sphere of influence of Song State, the few people did not have to worry about bumping into the "Hunyuan Sect" cultivators all the time, and they landed on this island not far from the lakeshore with confidence.
On this island called "Xufeng Island", there is a second-level middle-grade spiritual vein, and a small market with a size similar to Qinghefang has been built on it.
Because there are many monsters in "Taiyue Lake", many cultivators in the surrounding countries like to go deep into the lake to hunt monsters. This place is not far from the lakeshore, and many cultivators who come and go to hunt monsters like to stop here to rest.
When Li Xiuning was in Song State, he had come here several times with his friends and was quite familiar with the situation here.
When he heard Song Qingming asking about finding a small market to rest so that Song Qingyu could heal his wounds, Li Xiuning thought of this place immediately.
After the flying boat arrived not far from "Xufeng Island", Song Qingming deliberately slowed down, and then used the illusion technique that "Longfeng" gave him that year to disguise his appearance and cultivation.
Although this technique Song Qingming practiced was not as powerful as "Longfeng" and could deceive cultivators of the same level as him, it was still no big problem to deal with the low-level cultivators of the foundation-building and Qi-refining levels on "Xufeng Island" in front of him.
After the flying boat landed at the port on the west side of the island, Li Xiuning, who was familiar with the situation here, immediately jumped down first and threw a wooden sign that could prove his identity to the guard of the market who came up to greet him.
Seeing the familiar wooden sign in front of him, the young cultivator who was only at the seventh level of Qi Refining hurried forward and nodded to Li Xiuning.
After asking Li Xiuning about the identities of Song Qingming and the other two behind him, he quickly returned the wooden sign in his hand to them and respectfully invited the three people into the market.
This small market on "Xufeng Island" is similar to "Qinghefang".
However, because it is located near "Taiyue Lake" and is full of cultivators who come and go to hunt monsters, their cultivation is still significantly higher than that of the cultivators in "Qinghefang".
Not long after entering the market, Song Qingming saw several foundation-building cultivators with a cultivation level similar to Li Xiuning, which is rare in the "Qinghefang" of the same size.
The cultivators coming and going on the street only looked a little curious when they saw Song Qingming and the other two unfamiliar foundation-building cultivators coming in, but they didn't look too surprised.
With the help of Li Xiuning, who was familiar with the situation, Song Qingming and the other two rented a few caves with good spiritual energy in the market without much effort.
After taking the third-level detoxification pill, Song Qingyu's injuries were suppressed, but the blood poison in her body had not been cleared out.
If this is delayed for a long time, once the blood poison penetrates into the cultivator's internal organs, it will be a bit troublesome to clear it out at that time, and it may also leave some hidden dangers in the body.
It was precisely because of this worry that Song Qingming did not choose to rush back to Weiguo, but first looked for a safe place to retreat nearby, so that Song Qingyu could remove the blood poison in his body first.
After handing all the elixirs that could assist in healing to Song Qingyu, Song Qingming carefully instructed him again before leaving the cave where Song Qingyu was retreating.
Then Song Qingming personally arranged a set of protective magic arrays outside, and told Li Xiuning to take good care of Song Qingyu's retreat cave.
Li Xiuning came to help find the "Heaven and Earth Divine Thunder" this time. In addition to the "Barrier Breaking Pill" that Song Qingming promised her before, she also received some extra rewards from Song Qingming. She had already been grateful to Song Qingming in her heart.
Moreover, after experiencing the battle on the deserted island, she also saw the powerful magical powers of these Jindan cultivators, and at this moment, she dared not have any thoughts about Song Qingming's instructions.
After making these precautions, Song Qingming returned to his cave at ease and took out the storage magic weapon he had found from Ma Wuchen.
This time, in order to deal with the big devil Ma Wuchen, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu suffered huge losses.
In order to delay Ma Wuchen and buy time for Song Qingming to refine the "Heaven and Earth Thunder" in his body, Song Qingyu was not only poisoned by the opponent's blood in the battle, but also injured the meridians in her body.
Even if she can successfully remove the blood poison in her body this time, it will probably take at least several years to fully recover.
In addition, in the battle, several third-level talismans and a defensive magic weapon on Song Qingyu were lost in the battle.
Afterwards, Song Qingming fought with Ma Wuchen, and the white scroll magic weapon that had just been repaired was forcibly broken by Ma Wuchen, which damaged this third-level top-grade magic weapon again.
The worst was the corpse puppet "Golden Wind" that had followed Song Qingming for many years. It was severely damaged in this battle, and it was unknown how much time and materials would be needed to repair it.
Adding these things together, Song Qingming and his companions lost at least nearly 100,000 spirit stones in this battle.
Although Song Qingming has become more and more wealthy in recent years since he formed the elixir, he has many high-level magic weapons and spiritual objects on him, and even more than one fourth-level magic weapon.
But he had been running around for a few spirit stones since he was a child, and he had long been used to frugality in his heart. The loss of so many spirit stones at a time still made Song Qingming feel painful for a long time after the battle.
He didn't know whether the storage magic weapon of Ma Wuchen that he finally got could give him some surprises to compensate for some of Song Qingming's losses in the previous battle.
The storage magic weapon on Ma Wuchen's body had very complicated restrictions. Even if Song Qingming, a third-level middle-grade formation master, took action, it took a full three days to erase all the restrictions on it.
After opening Ma Wuchen's storage magic tool, Song Qingming, with a somewhat nervous mood, slowly probed his spiritual sense into it and took out all the spiritual objects in the storage magic tool.
"No way! After all, he is a great demon at the peak of the golden elixir, but he is so poor!"
Before opening Ma Wuchen's storage magic tool, Song Qingming also thought that the other party was a demon cultivator after all, and he would not have too many good things that he could have.
But after seeing the pitiful things he had just taken out of the storage magic tool on the table, Song Qingming couldn't help showing a very disappointed expression on his face.
In addition to the "black gourd" that Song Qingming had seen before, there were only two low-quality third-level magic weapons and several low-level spiritual talismans of even lower quality.
There were also a few magic cultivation manuals and elixirs that Song Qingming didn't even bother to look at, and then there was nothing else.
Most of the magic weapons used by demon cultivators are already contaminated with demonic energy, and their value in the market is far less than that of normal magic weapons.
The value of the two third-level magic weapons combined may not even be exchanged for 10,000 spirit stones.
The best of the magic weapons, the "black gourd", although its magical power is not weak and its grade has reached the fourth level, it is also a high-level magic weapon contaminated with demonic energy.
Moreover, this fourth-level magic weapon was damaged by Song Qingming's spell in the previous battle, and the spirit of the natal demon beast inside was lost. It is unknown how many spirit stones it will take to repair it.
If Song Qingming directly took it to the market to sell, the value would definitely not be too high. It would be considered good luck to exchange it for 20,000 or 30,000 spirit stones.
The things on Ma Wuchen's body, added together, did not even have 50,000 spirit stones, which really disappointed Song Qingming. In his mind, he couldn't help but think of Du Yucheng, who was as poor as him at the beginning.
"I thought Du Yucheng, as a disciple, was poor enough, but I didn't expect that his master Ma Wuchen was not much better than him.
He is so poor, and I don't know how he dares to say that he has a chance to condense the Nascent Soul.
These demon cultivators can really say all kinds of nonsense."
After putting away the things on the table with a disappointed look, Song Qingming set up a soul-locking formation in the cave and took out the bowl magic weapon that sealed Ma Wuchen's soul.
Since killing Du Yucheng and forming a grudge with him, Song Qingming has often worried that Ma Wuchen and the "Red Blood Demon" behind him will come to him.
After killing the opponent a few days ago, the reason why Song Qingming did not directly kill Ma Wuchen's soul was that he wanted to try soul searching to see how much this guy knew about him.
Also, these high-level demon cultivators have always been cunning and have three burrows. After capturing the other party's soul, they can also find the hiding place behind him through soul searching.
Maybe I can find some extra treasures from it to make up for my losses.
After opening the magic weapon that sealed the soul, the talisman that imprisoned "Ma Wuchen"'s soul immediately floated out automatically, and then Song Qingming cast a spell to open the talisman and release his soul.
Ma Wuchen, who had just escaped, immediately turned into a ball of black smoke and wanted to escape, but before he could escape far, the surroundings of the cave immediately shone with spiritual light and formed a golden light that locked his soul in mid-air.
"My fellow Taoist! Please be kind enough to let me go. I really know a technique that can help cultivators condense their Nascent Soul. As long as you can let me go, I will definitely give you this technique.
I am also willing to stay and be your servant in the future. With my cultivation and ability, I can definitely help you a lot.
As long as you agree, I can worship you as my master, or worship you for loyalty..."
"You talk too much nonsense!"
Song Qingming, who had not found anything good from him just now, was already a little unhappy with him in his heart. Hearing Ma Wuchen's constant chatter, he became even more impatient and immediately cast a spell with his hand to use the soul-searching secret technique on him.
As the secret technique was cast, Ma Wuchen's unfinished words immediately stopped.
Because Song Qingming had used the soul-searching secret technique when he killed the ghost cultivator Wen Tianyang in Yunwu Mountain that year, he was already familiar with it when he used it again.
However, compared to the ghost cultivator Wen Tianyang who had lost some of his memories, Ma Wuchen's soul was obviously much stronger, which made Song Qingming's soul-searching secret method more laborious.
It took more than half an hour for Song Qingming's consciousness to slowly penetrate into Ma Wuchen's sea of consciousness and began to try to search his memory.
Watching the many memory fragments flying quickly in the other party's sea of consciousness, Song Qingming immediately began to search for the memory fragments closest to the present, trying to find useful information for himself.
Soon, figures that Song Qingming was more familiar with appeared in front of him.
Among them were Ma Wuchen's master "Red Blood Demon", Du Yucheng, who Song Qingming had dealt with many times before, and other disciples and fellow apprentices of Ma Wuchen.
By searching Ma Wuchen's memory, Song Qingming thought he had discovered a secret that he didn't know back then.
That is, "Red Blood Demon" and Xiao Huang, the golden elixir demon who was suppressed in the "Demon Sealing Valley" back then, were actually brothers.
After Song Qingming and Feng He teamed up to kill Xiao Huang, Ma Wuchen and his junior brother went to Fuyun Mountain to look for Song Qingming.
But they were stopped by Longfeng and Huofeng in the end, which inadvertently helped Song Qingming to avoid the disaster.
Knowing these secrets, Song Qingming was a little scared. If he hadn't been lucky at the time and had just gone to Huofeng, he might have fallen into the hands of this person.
As Ma Wuchen's memory fragments continued to flow, some secrets about him continued to emerge in front of Song Qingming.
After a full stick of incense, Song Qingming finally searched his soul thoroughly, and his consciousness slowly withdrew from Ma Wuchen's sea of consciousness.
At this time, although Song Qingming was still digesting the information in his mind, his face looked much better than before.
"There really is a cave hidden nearby. I hope you won't let me down again this time!" (End of this chapter)