Chapter 186 Return
Three days later, at the border of the Floating Cloud Mountains, Long Feng in mid-air looked at Song Qingming standing on a flying sword not far away, and said softly: "Song Xiaoyou, this place is not far from the place controlled by your human cultivators. I will take you here. After crossing the mountain in front, you should be able to meet your fellow cultivators in a few hundred miles to the south."
"Okay! Thank you, Senior Long Feng, for taking the trouble to help me get here. I will take my leave first." Song Qingming bowed to Long Feng, saluted, and quickly went south on the flying sword.
After watching Song Qingming disappear in front of him, Long Feng turned his head, flapped his wings, and quickly disappeared on the spot.
After walking hundreds of miles to the south, Song Qingming looked at the mountains and rivers under his feet, which were becoming more and more familiar. Song Qingming finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. It was estimated that there were only a few hundred miles left from here to Guiyunfang. According to his own pace, he could reach there in half a day at most.
After arriving here, he had already left the depths of the Floating Cloud Mountains. Along the way, Song Qingming also saw several groups of low-level cultivators who came out to hunt monsters. Until now, there was still no movement behind, and Long Feng basically would not chase after him.
The Jindan-level monsters near Weiguo, except for the once-in-a-century monster riots, basically would not appear within a thousand miles of Guiyunfang. This was also the default boundary between the two sides. Once someone on one side rashly crossed the boundary, it would easily attract the encirclement and suppression of the other side with the same level of combat power. Even the Jindan-level ancestors or monster kings might also fall in the battle.
After leaving the secret realm that day, Huo Feng finally kept her promise. Not only did she release him, but she also let Long Feng send him out from the dangerous depths of the Floating Cloud Mountains. Song Qingming was really grateful for her arrangement.
In a place where Jindan demon kings are common, Song Qingming, a small foundation-building cultivator, is indeed not strong enough. Two powerful second-level demon beasts can easily send Song Qingming into reincarnation. It is estimated that His Highness Huofeng must have thought of this and specially asked the demon king Longfeng to escort him personally.
In the past, Song Qingming had not come into contact with high-level demon beasts. In his eyes, most demon beasts were as ferocious and casual as the white lion demon king back then. Humans were just blood food in their eyes.
Unexpectedly, there were demon kings like Huofeng who talked about morality with low-level cultivators in this world. It really opened Song Qingming's eyes and changed his previous views on demon beasts.
Just as Song Qingming was thinking about his magical experience during this period, he suddenly found that several cultivators were fighting at a place under his feet. After Song Qingming turned his eyes and looked at them, his face sank and he fell directly from the sky.
"Everyone, this is the place where my Fire Wolf Gang has set its sights on hunting monsters. If you know what's good for you, leave quickly. Don't wait for our support. If you can't leave, you'll say that my Fire Wolf Gang didn't give you a chance." Three fierce-looking Fire Wolf Gang monks smiled and threatened the five casual cultivators in front of them who were dressed differently.
Although the casual cultivators had two more people, their overall strength was only slightly stronger than that of the Fire Wolf Gang.
After a few rounds, although they didn't gain much advantage, they still insisted on standing still and were not scared by the words of the Fire Wolf Gang.
"If you want to hunt monsters here, we can give it to you, but you have to wait until we take away the blue bull beast we just killed. Do you think this is okay?" The speaker was a middle-aged scholar who was not young, holding a folding fan in his hand. He was also the leader of this group of casual cultivators and the only late-stage Qi Refining cultivator among them.
"What a joke! This is already our Fire Wolf Gang's hunting ground. The prey on the ground is naturally ours. Don't even think about taking this monster away." Among the three members of the Fire Wolf Gang, a bald man with a scar on his face laughed with disdain.
"Your Fire Wolf Gang has been on the Guiyunfang bounty order for many years. Now you are so blatantly coming out to intercept the prey. You really don't take the market seriously at all. Don't you plan to give us casual cultivators a way out?" The middle-aged scholar shook his hand and put away his folding fan, preparing to continue the attack.
Unexpectedly, at this time, a strange man wearing a bamboo hat suddenly walked towards the place where they were fighting, which made both sides at the scene a little nervous. They didn't know whether this person was an enemy or a friend.
"Hey, stop! Whose subordinates are you, kid? Why don't you seem to have seen you before?" The bald man of the Fire Wolf Gang quickly asked the man in the bamboo hat.
The man in the bamboo hat was silent for a moment after hearing the voice, and suddenly said: "Everyone, you are from the Fire Wolf Gang, right?"
"Who are you and why are you here?"
"Of course I'm here to make money."
As soon as the bald man finished speaking, the man in the bamboo hat took out a blue flying sword from his storage bag. He saw the flying sword in his hand lightly swung, and it flew across the sky, turning into a blue sword light and stabbing at one of the three Fire Wolf Gang cultivators in the late Qi training stage.
Facing the sudden attack of the monk in the bamboo hat, a Fire Wolf Gang cultivator in the seventh Qi training stage also reacted immediately and raised his shield magic weapon to block the attack.
What surprised him and everyone else was that as a blue light passed through, a huge palm-sized hole immediately appeared on the chest of the Fire Wolf Gang monk, along with the golden shield in his hand.
The man looked at the hole in his chest, shook a few times unwillingly, and fell to the ground.
Seeing their companion being killed by the monk in the bamboo hat, the remaining two were shocked and guessed that the mysterious man in the bamboo hat should be a foundation-building monk with a high level of cultivation. They looked at each other in panic and fled into the woods next to them.
"We were hunting monsters here just now. How come you are running away again?"
The man in the bamboo hat muttered to himself, and threw the flying sword in his hand directly at the bald man who had just slipped.
The green sword was like a flash of lightning, and it easily crossed a distance of dozens of feet again and caught up with the bald man.
Compared to the man who was killed by a sword without any reaction, the bald man's cultivation is still higher, and his reaction will naturally be faster.
He immediately sacrificed a long sword magic weapon, and used both hands to activate the magic weapon to block in front. Then, several talismans flew out of his hands, and directly gathered into dozens of fireballs, trying to stop the chasing man in the bamboo hat.
Unexpectedly, such a beautiful attack did not affect the progress of the man in the bamboo hat at all. He directly used a burst of green light armor to protect his whole body, and quickly forced through the middle of the man's talisman. With the scream of the bald man, the man in the bamboo hat quickly killed another person. Although the last person ran a little far, he still couldn't escape the bad luck and was directly beheaded by him with a sword.