Chapter 291: Facing the Enemy

Huang Shengxin, who had injured half of his arm, took a healing elixir, and the injury on his hand quickly improved a bit. After getting up, he frowned and looked around.

"He is injured and can't run far. He must be hiding in this forest. Everyone search together. Don't let this person go." Just after Huang Shengxin finished speaking, he had already taken the lead and rushed into the forest ahead.

Just now, he also felt that the injury the other party suffered was no lighter than his own. Seeing that Cheng Yilong was already a merit point in his hand, Huang Shengxin could not let him have a chance to escape.

This forest was only five or six miles in radius. The four Song Qingming people were divided into two teams and turned around several times in it. The strange thing was that they didn't see Cheng Yilong's shadow at all.

Seeing that there was no shadow, Huang Shengxin became a bit anxious and went to search on a small mountain not far from the forest with Huang Shengyue.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you search here again. I'll go see how Fellow Daoist Gao is doing, and by the way, call some Qi Refining cultivators over to turn this place over completely again. I don't believe I can't find this guy's trace."

Lu Yuanfeng saw that Cheng Yilong could not be found in this forest and needed to expand the search range. Relying on just the few of them, there was really not enough manpower, so he discussed with Song Qingming to go and mobilize manpower to help. Song Qingming had no objections to this.

Unexpectedly, this person had been seriously injured, but he had hidden himself again. Although Song Qingming and the others had searched several times and hadn't found Cheng Yilong's trace, everyone believed that this guy definitely hadn't had time to escape and was hiding somewhere nearby. It was just that it was not easy to search in the middle of the night, which gave him a chance to hide. Once dawn broke, Lu Yuanfeng would bring people to conduct a dragnet search, and he would definitely be able to ferret this guy out quickly.

After Lu Yuanfeng left, Song Qingming turned around above the forest again and still didn't find any clues, so he wanted to find a higher position where he could easily see the surroundings, waiting for Lu Yuanfeng to bring support.

Just when Song Qingming wanted to find a place to rest for a moment, he suddenly felt a trace of spiritual power fluctuation coming from the lower left side. This fluctuation was only a very light one. If it weren't for Song Qingming practicing the Soul Forging Technique, making his spiritual sense three times stronger than ordinary people, he would have found it very difficult to capture this trace of change.

After turning and landing on the ground, Song Qingming took out the Fire Pattern Sword and looked around cautiously.

In front, there was a big tree that three people could hug. The lush branches and leaves covered the surroundings, covering this area under its branches. The area under the big tree was very empty with no cover. When searching earlier, Song Qingming had also passed by here. At that time, he had even checked the tree carefully and didn't see anything unusual.

"Could it be that some demonic beast is hiding nearby." Song Qingming walked close to the big tree and checked it again, but still didn't find anything unusual. He also felt that he might have sensed it wrong just now.

Just when Song Qingming shook his head and turned to leave, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a root extending outward beside the big tree, and he noticed something wrong.

"This is... a concealment formation."

Unexpectedly, Cheng Yilong was also a high-level formation master. In such a short time, he had actually set up a formation to hide himself. The level of this formation seemed to be higher than his own. Coupled with the cover of night, no wonder they hadn't noticed it when they passed by earlier. If he hadn't made a movement inside just now, Song Qingming really wouldn't have discovered this place.

After discovering Cheng Yilong's hiding place, Song Qingming didn't intend to step forward to do it. Although Cheng Yilong was injured, this person's cultivation was much higher than his own, and he had many life-saving spiritual items on him. If he rushed up rashly, he would likely suffer like Huang Shengxin.

Anyway, this guy couldn't run away for a while, so there was no need for him to take this risk. To be safe, Song Qingming still intended to pretend that he hadn't discovered anything unusual and leave here first to notify the two Huang family members nearby. By then, the three of them dealing with Cheng Yilong together would be a sure thing.

Song Qingming looked around calmly and deliberately, then walked forward steadily, wanting to pass through this big tree to search ahead.

Just when Song Qingming was about to leave the area under the big tree, he suddenly felt a cold killing intent coming from his body. Having been prepared, he hurriedly used his strongest defensive magic tool, the Clear Water Bell, and covered his whole body inside.

After a bang, Cheng Yilong revealed his figure, holding a sharp black long knife in his hand, looking viciously at Song Qingming hiding inside the Clear Water Bell.

Cheng Yilong was worthy of being an old fox who had cultivated for more than a hundred years. Although Song Qingming had performed very naturally just now, he still couldn't escape his sharp eyes.

Previously, when fighting with several people, Cheng Yilong was forced to a point where he had no choice but to harden his heart and use the Heavenly Heart Thunder to fight Huang Shengxin to a draw, temporarily hiding in the forest and using the formation to hide himself. He thought he had obtained this glimmer of life, but he didn't expect that Song Qingming and the others had searched for so long and still hadn't moved away from here. He himself also understood that if he didn't find a way to escape before dawn, he would also be exposed.

Just when he thought there was no one nearby and wanted to leave the formation to escape secretly, he was still found by Song Qingming who was patrolling nearby.

Seeing that it was only Song Qingming, who had the lowest cultivation among the few, Cheng Yilong thought he wouldn't be exposed. He didn't expect that Song Qingming's formation level was not low either. After some checking, he still found clues. Seeing that he had been exposed, Cheng Yilong decisively walked out of the formation to attack Song Qingming.

Fortunately, Song Qingming was also prepared, and his purpose of sneak attack did not succeed. Both of them had their own calculations.

Failing in one blow, Cheng Yilong did not give up, ignoring his injuries and concentrating his magic power on the black knife magic tool in his hand, slashing more than a dozen times with all his might, wanting to force open Song Qingming's defense with his higher cultivation.

It was just that the Clear Water Bell in Song Qingming's hand was indeed not an ordinary item. Facing Cheng Yilong's fierce attack like raindrops, although it shook a bit because Song Qingming's magic power was not as good as Cheng Yilong's, it was always firmly covered on top of Song Qingming's head.

Seeing that the defensive magic tool on Song Qingming was extraordinary and he couldn't break through it, Cheng Yilong suddenly stopped attacking, took out a jade box from his body and threw it aside, saying to Song Qingming: "Yi and fellow Daoist have no deep hatred, there is really no need to fight to the death. There is a third-tier spiritual medicine in this jade box. I give it to fellow Daoist, please don't force me anymore. What do you think?"

Song Qingming glanced at the jade box thrown aside, not knowing what was inside, and immediately turned his eyes away, not moved by this item. He didn't believe that Cheng Yilong at this moment really wanted to use a third-tier spiritual medicine to buy his life.

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