Chapter 319: Battle Ends

Seeing that Song Qingming had already escaped, the black-clad cultivator, in addition to being surprised, quickly came to his senses and hurriedly launched a high-tier Earth Spike Technique directly toward Song Qingming, who had not yet landed and stood firm.

Facing this very sharp spell attack, Song Qingming took out a black and white long saber without panic, raised his hand and slashed, directly cutting all the earth spikes under his feet into two halves. Afterward, Song Qingming borrowed force from the earth mound with his right leg and charged directly toward the black-clad cultivator, who had not yet retracted his strength.

He did not expect this guy's reaction speed to be also very fast. Relying on the Wind-Riding Boots under his feet, he quickly changed his position in advance, making Song Qingming's strike hit empty air. The black-clad cultivator flexibly changed direction in the air, released several low-tier spirit talismans to attract Song Qingming's attention, and then the flying sword in his hand quickly stabbed toward Song Qingming's throat again.

However, when this strike reached three feet away from Song Qingming, it was blocked by a white copper bell again. No matter how much strength he used, he could not advance even a step further. A moment later, instead, he was forced back by several water arrows released from the white copper bell.

Seeing that Song Qingming had excellent magic tools and that he really had no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation, the black-clad cultivator could only put away his magic tools, step on the flying sword again, and choose to flee directly.

It was just that after this burst of full-force fleeing, coupled with this battle of wits with Song Qingming, the magic power in the black-clad cultivator's body had long since bottomed out. Although he took several more elixirs to barely support himself for a stretch of the road, in the end, he still lacked magic power and was caught up by Song Qingming more than ten miles away, and had his life ended by a slash from him.

After killing the black-clad cultivator, Song Qingming collected his storage bag and then took off the Wind-Riding Boots under his feet. After putting them on and trying them out, he discovered that his movement speed had indeed increased by about twenty percent compared to usual. It was just that after using this item, Song Qingming also clearly felt that the consumption speed of the magic power in his body had suddenly accelerated a lot. It seemed that this item could not be worn under his feet at any time like a flying boat; it could only be taken out at critical moments.

Auxiliary spirit items like Wind-Riding Boots, although they were also considered a type of magic tool, had much lower usage requirements than normal magic tools. Even if a Qi Refining cultivator obtained one, they could use it normally, it was just that the effect would not be as good as that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Wearing this item in a battle with an enemy, the increase in movement speed in a short time could strengthen a cultivator's ability to dodge and attack quite a bit; it was still a good auxiliary spirit item.

However, although this kind of auxiliary spirit item could also help a cultivator increase their movement speed in a short time, compared to magic tools like flying boats that only Foundation Establishment cultivators could use, the shortcomings were also very obvious: it was neither as fast as the opponent, nor could it be used persistently for a long time. When used to escape, once you encountered a cultivator whose cultivation and magic power were much higher than yours, you could not shake off the opponent in a short time, and instead, you were easily worn to death by the opponent.

In the previous pursuit, this black-clad cultivator actually had a very good hope of escaping at the very beginning. It was just that at the beginning, in order to preserve the magic power in his body as much as possible, he did not dare to cast spells with full force to hurry on his way. According to his calculations, Song Qingming would at most chase for dozens of miles, and the magic power in his body should also be consumed by more than half, and he would slowly be shaken off.

It was just that he did not expect that after Song Qingming practiced the Jade Profound Scripture, the magic power in his body was three parts stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. After a burst of pursuit, it was his magic power that failed first, and he unknowingly slowed down his movement speed. By the time he reacted and took an elixir to recover his magic power, he had long since been seen through by Song Qingming. The moment Song Qingming took out the Millennium Spirit Milk, he was already destined not to be able to run away.

After burning the black-clad man's corpse with a Fireball Technique, Song Qingming returned to the forest where they had just fought and found the substitute puppet that had been discarded by the black-clad man earlier.

The result made him somewhat surprised: this puppet was damaged very severely and could no longer be used normally. No wonder the black-clad cultivator did not control this puppet beast to attack together earlier, but only took it out to use as bait to ambush him once.

A normal second-tier substitute puppet beast was worth at least two or three thousand spirit stones on the market. He had thought that he would make a big fortune by getting this puppet beast, but he did not expect that he had been happy for nothing.

Looking at the degree of damage to this substitute puppet beast, repairing it was not something an ordinary person could do. Even if he could find someone to repair it, he would still have to pay a sum of spirit stones to purchase materials. No matter how you calculated it, the value of this thing would not be very high.

Song Qingming sighed, threw this substitute puppet beast into his storage bag, sat in meditation on the spot for a while to recover some of the magic power in his body, and only then slowly left here.

By the time he returned to Green Ox Ridge, the battle here had long since ended. Except for the batch of cultivators who had escaped earlier, the remaining Heaven Sea Alliance cultivators who had been blocked here had all been beheaded on the spot.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you have finally returned! How was it? Did you intercept the opponent?" As soon as Song Qingming's sword light landed, Cao Rongxue, Wei Tianhe, and the others, who had already returned here, saw him and hurriedly walked over.

The Heaven Sea Alliance cultivator that Cao Rongxue had been eyeing earlier had not escaped very far before he was caught up by her, and a beheading with a sword became the merit on this woman. At this moment, her face was full of glory, having just finished enjoying the flattery of the surrounding cultivators.

"Fortunately, I did not fail the mission; I had some gains on this trip!" Song Qingming smiled and cupped his hands toward the three people who had come along, and then threw the head of the black-clad cultivator he had just beheaded directly onto the ground.

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Song!"

Seeing the head that Song Qingming took out, the cultivators on the side also gathered around. These people's faces were filled with a trace of envy, and they all opened their mouths to congratulate Song Qingming.

You must know that in this kind of battle, being able to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the opponent alone was a great merit. Song Qingming being able to do this was enough to make them somewhat jealous.

When Song Qingming returned, the cultivators who had gone together to pursue had basically all returned here. Most of them returned empty-handed and had no battle results.

Those who had caught up and killed the opponent's cultivators and had gains, including Song Qingming and Cao Rongxue, were only fewer than five people. There were still three people on their side who had not returned until now; it was estimated that they might already be inauspicious.

Fang Ziquan and Li Yuxia were directing the cultivators to search Green Ox Ridge comprehensively to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net hiding on the mountain. The two Jin Dan elders' faces were very ugly; it seemed that they were not very satisfied with the current battle results.

After asking Cao Rongxue, who had returned the earliest, Song Qingming learned that the Heaven Sea Alliance Core Formation elder who had been blocked by the two of them earlier, in the subsequent battle, had directly chosen to self-detonate his own natal magic treasure and escaped from the two people with heavy injuries.

Hearing this shocking news, Song Qingming was also startled. He did not expect that the red-clad man would be so decisive that he could even abandon his own natal magic treasure.

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