Chapter 320: Ambush

You must know that once a Core Formation cultivator's natal magic treasure is refined, it is firmly bound to the cultivator himself. The red-clad man self-detonated his own natal magic treasure, which was equivalent to self-destructing his own Dao path.

Once a high-tier cultivator loses their natal magic treasure, not only will their vitality be greatly damaged, but the cultivator's own cultivation base without the natal magic treasure will also be greatly affected, and it will be very difficult to advance even half a step further.

Even if he could re-refine his own natal magic treasure in a short time, it would still take a long time of nourishment to keep up with his cultivation. By the time he could recover as before, he would have already spent a lot of time, and even if he wanted to go further, he would not have much lifespan left.

Whether it is a high-tier cultivator or a low-tier cultivator, if they want to cultivate to the end and ascend to the Dao, almost every realm has to face the biggest problem of insufficient lifespan.

If a Qi Refining cultivator cannot break through to the Foundation Establishment realm before the age of sixty, basically they have already lost the chance for Foundation Establishment. Even if you really are a late bloomer and can succeed in Foundation Establishment at the age of seventy, your Dao path can only stop here, and the remaining lifespan is not enough to give you a chance to go further to Core Formation.

It was precisely relying on the occasional guidance of this old senior that Song Qingming could always successfully avoid those most powerful experts among the Foundation Establishment cultivators sent by the Heaven Sea Alliance who were hiding in the crowd, and survived with relatively good luck in the eyes of others.

The cultivation realm is just like this; once the first step is slow, it will be very difficult to keep up with every step later, and there are not many chances and time for you to choose.

However, if it really comes to a life-and-death moment, compared to the Dao path, the cultivator's own life is obviously more important. After all, not every Core Formation cultivator can have the chance to form a Nascent Soul. If you can cultivate to a higher level but lose your life, it will all be in vain in the end.

Like this red-clad man of the Heaven Sea Alliance, using such an extreme method as self-detonating his natal magic treasure, although he self-destructed his Dao path, he finally created a glimmer of a chance for himself to escape.

Although he was injured in vitality and his strength was greatly damaged this time, as long as he could preserve his life, after recovering from his injuries, he would still be a high-and-mighty Core Formation cultivator, and he would still have several hundred years of lifespan to enjoy well. The higher the tier of the cultivator, the more they are afraid that they will instantly lose everything they currently have.

Once he fell on the battlefield this time, the beautiful wives and concubines at home would never have a chance to see him again, and the disciples and clansmen under his sect would all lose their status overnight because they suddenly lost his protection. This kind of thing, he, who had cultivated for more than two hundred years, had long since seen a lot of.

After cleaning up the battlefield at Green Ox Ridge and confirming that there were no fish that had slipped through the net, Fang Ziquan and Li Yuxia left this place and handed over all the aftermath affairs here to Wang Liangping.

After another day had passed, Song Qingming and the others received the instruction from Wang Liangping that this mission had ended, and began to lead the Qi Refining cultivators who had come together to return to Huanglong Market.

This time, both he and Cao Rongxue had gains, and having such a chance to distinguish themselves later, they also earned some of the merits they wanted. They could be considered to have not made this trip in vain.

Just as the few of them had just set off, Cao Rongxue, who was leading this operation, suddenly received a sound transmission from the market side: Huanglong Market had been attacked by enemy cultivators, and they were requested to return to support quickly.

Upon receiving this news, Song Qingming and the others were shocked. They did not expect that Wu Wenlong and the others, who had just fled from Green Ox Ridge two days ago, would actually dare to attack Huanglong Market, which was only a little over a hundred miles away from Green Ox Ridge.

After discussing for a while, the few of them decided to first send a few Qi Refining cultivators to Green Ox Ridge to report the news, and then the four of them would take the first step and hurry to the market to support.

After leaving the Qi Refining cultivators below, the few people riding swords arrived near Huanglong Market in just over an hour.

Looking from afar, the entire market was already filled with flames and plunged into a sea of fire. Song Qingming and the others felt a tightness in their hearts, secretly saying that this was over; they had hurried and hurried, but in the end, they were still a step late.

After the few people carefully approached the market, they discovered that there were almost no living people inside, and there were raging flames running wild everywhere, which had already ignited more than half of the market.

After searching around in the market, Song Qingming and the others, besides discovering a pile of corpses of the cultivators guarding the market, did not see a single living person. For a time, the few people looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Although this person's cultivation was ranked behind in the Xiaoyao Sect, he was also a rare third-tier alchemist. His alchemy level was second only to Elder Wu Tong, who was ranked third in the Xiaoyao Sect. And this elder's lifespan was already over five hundred years, and he had at most a few decades of lifespan left. After he sat down, there would only be this one third-tier alchemist, Chu Fengping, left in the Xiaoyao Sect, which also destined that his status in the future should not be worse than any other elder.

When receiving this mission, Zhao Mengzhen had sought stability and did not go with them, choosing to stay behind to be responsible for guarding the safety of the market. He did not expect that man proposes, God disposes; Wu Wenlong's group, after being pursued, not only did not leave here, but instead unexpectedly attacked Huanglong Market and killed Zhao Mengzhen here as well.

The Zhao family in Pingyang County only had this one Foundation Establishment cultivator, Zhao Mengzhen. Losing the family's only Foundation Establishment cultivator all at once could be considered the sky falling for the Zhao family. Next, even if the Xiaoyao Sect issued a pension to the Zhao family, it would be very difficult for them to recover to their original level in a short time.

In the cultivation world, all cultivation families are almost like this, rising and falling. There will be families like the Song family that slowly rise, and there will also be families like the Zhao family that suddenly decline, and there will also be families like the Huang family that can last for a long time.

After using water-attribute spells to extinguish the big fire in the market, just as the few people were preparing to leave here first, an old man wearing a Daoist robe hurried over here on a flying sword.

"It is Fellow Daoist Liu. Brother Liu, what exactly happened here? Where are the other fellow Daoists?"

Liu Wenguan, with a face full of sorrow, shook his head and said: "Two hours ago, a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators suddenly attacked the market. The opponent not only had formation-breaking beads in their hands but also spirit items that gave people headaches, like talisman treasures.

In just a moment, Fellow Daoist Gu was the first to be killed by the talisman treasure used by the opponent, and Fellow Daoist Zhao and Fellow Daoist He also met with misfortune one after another. I fought to the death to escape, and after shaking off the few people who were chasing and killing me, I found a place to hide. Only now did I dare to come out to see. Did you fellow Daoists not encounter that group of people?"

"When we arrived, this place had already been burned into a ruin. Fellow Daoist Liu is the first living person we have seen. From the current point of view, this group of people who ambushed the market is likely the ones we besieged and fled from at Green Ox Ridge a few days ago." Cao Rongxue replied to Liu Wenguan somewhat heavily.

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