Chapter 280: Bitter Battle

As a leader, Song Song Qingyu had always stood at the highest point in the center of the market, observing the changes in the entire battlefield. She stood in such a conspicuous position also to let all the cultivators participating in the defense of the market see her, knowing that she, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, had always been here, which could also strengthen everyone's confidence.

"Senior Song, except for the few who were beheaded on the spot, the remaining bandit cultivators who infiltrated to make trouble have already been controlled."

Lu Feng's third disciple, Hu Maocai, led people to arrive in front of Song Song Qingyu after a battle, asking her how to deal with these people.

Hu Maocai had once been used by Gao family cultivators because of greed back then and had even been reported to Lu Feng by Song Song Qingming. Over these years, he actually had some grudges against the Song family cultivators.

However, fortunately, besides some small problems of greed, he was quite reliable in doing things. After Song Song Qingyu's order was passed down, he led the law enforcement team below to solve the bandit cultivators who infiltrated to create chaos in the market after a bloody battle.

"Don't kill them yet. Abolish their cultivation and let two people watch them. Others follow me to the small gate in the south to see if we can find an opportunity to break through their blockade from there."

Hearing Song Song Qingyu's arrangement, Hu Maocai's face was somewhat puzzled, but he still nodded and commanded the cultivators below to quickly follow Song Song Qingming to the south of the market.

On the east side of the market, dozens of cultivators wearing all kinds of clothes were desperately injecting the magic power in their bodies into the formation to block the positions that were about to be damaged.

Standing in the front, Song Song Changze looked at these temporarily assembled cultivators and then at the ferocious bandits with hideous expressions outside the formation. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart: relying on cultivators to use magic power to maintain the formation like this will not last long after all. If no one comes to support, it is only a matter of time before their formation is broken.

And once the formation was broken, the magic power of these people outside would be consumed too much when maintaining the formation, so they would be even less of an opponent for these people outside. But facing this crisis at this moment, this was also the only choice.

After arriving at the south of the market, Song Song Qingyu led Hu Maocai and other twenty law enforcement team cultivators to pass through the formation from a small gate on the side of the city wall, and found that the bandit cultivators arranged to surround this place were not many, only seven or eight people. It should be that most of the people had been transferred to the east side to attack the formation.

Seeing this situation, Song Song Qingyu did not hesitate anymore, directly leading the crowd to rush toward that side, directly cleaning up these unlucky ghosts who were left alone here.

"Boss... Boss, someone ran out from the south. It seems there is a woman who is a Foundation Establishment cultivator. The brothers over there can't hold on anymore."

Song Song Qingyu had just killed a few people there, and soon discovered the movement here by other bandit cultivators, hurriedly reporting the matter to the leader, Cheng Cheng Yilong.

Cheng Cheng Yilong, who was attacking with all his strength, saw that it would take a little more effort to break the formation head-on, but suddenly heard the news that Song Song Qingyu had taken the initiative to run out, and felt somewhat strange.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator who was cooperating with him, named Wu Xiang, heard this news and directly stopped the attack, coming to Cheng Cheng Yilong and saying, "Brother! That woman is the only Foundation Establishment cultivator in this market. She brought people out to escape, estimating that it is possible she wants to take away most of the precious spiritual items in the market. We absolutely cannot let them escape."

Cheng Cheng Yilong looked at this partner of his, feeling that what he said seemed to make some sense, but letting him go to pursue Song Song Qingyu and the others alone made him somewhat uneasy, so he could only call another Foundation Establishment cultivator, Chen Chen Zicong, and let the two of them go to pursue together.

The other side was only a second-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator. With the two of them together, they could absolutely block Song Song Qingyu and those people. It was just that this way, the frontal battlefield would lack two Foundation Establishment cultivators and dozens of Qi Refining cultivators to help, and the time to break the formation would have to be delayed first.

Song Song Qingyu led the crowd to kill the few bandit cultivators who blocked the way, and the others who saw that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had killed them immediately scattered and fled.

"These talismans, each of you take two for self-protection. It is estimated that it will be a bitter battle later. I don't ask everyone to resist to the death. As long as you can attract the other party's attention and hold on for a stick of incense, I won't blame you whether you return to the market or flee separately in the future. Do you all understand?"

After killing these people, just as Hu Maocai thought Song Song Qingyu was going to choose to flee immediately, she did not have this intention, but wanted to lead them to kill directly toward the east gate.

Seeing that the commander Song Song Qingyu was not cowardly and wanted to take the initiative to contain the bandit cultivators on the east side, Hu Maocai and these people naturally did not want to be looked down upon by the people beside them, and all nodded firmly.

Anyway, it's not like they are being sent to their deaths. If they can't win later, the big deal is to hide back in the market formation first. Song Song Qingyu's purpose is just to help Song Song Changze on the east side share some pressure. As long as the mountain-protecting formation holds up until reinforcements arrive, they will naturally be saved.

By comparison, if Song Song Qingyu chose to take the lead and flee directly, these people would be in a dilemma. If they followed, their chances of survival under the other party's pursuit were not high. If they hid back in the market formation, without Song Song Qingyu, the backbone, they would likely not be able to hold on for long, and once the formation was broken, it would be the same fate of being doomed.

Just like that, Song Song Qingyu led the crowd and bumped into Wu Xiang and Chen Chen Zicong, who came to pursue her, head-on.

"Truly bold, actually daring to come this way."

Seeing that Song Song Qingyu did not choose to flee directly, Wu Xiang and the two also had a flash of surprise on their faces, not knowing what she wanted to do with just these few people?

Song Song Qingyu did not say any nonsense after meeting, directly gathered her magic power, and shot an arrow rain spell toward them head-on.

Seeing that the other party had already taken action, Wu Xiang hurriedly released a barrier to block this attack, and Chen Chen Zicong's hand instantly had a short blade, directly stabbing toward Song Song Qingyu.

Compared to Song Song Qingyu's second-layer Foundation Establishment cultivation, Wu Xiang's cultivation had already reached the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment, plus Chen Chen Zicong's second-layer Foundation Establishment. With the two joining forces to deal with a Song Song Qingyu, there was definitely no big problem.

The battle here was joined, and the Qi Refining cultivators below were also not idle, and the two sides soon fell into a chaotic battle.

Hu Maocai's side, although smaller in number than the other party, were also elite cultivators selected from the market to enter the law enforcement team. Plus, Song Song Qingyu temporarily distributed a batch of talismans to help them improve their combat power, and the two sides maintained a balance of power for a time.

Song Song Qingyu, although courageous, was actually fighting a cultivator of the same rank for the first time. Facing the siege of Wu Xiang and the two, she fell into a disadvantage after only a moment. If it were not for using a second-tier talisman to temporarily force the two back, she would probably not be able to hold on.

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