Chapter 342: Uninvited Guest

Seeing Song Qingming finish speaking and staring tightly at the traces on the ground, lost in thought, Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu showed a trace of doubt on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist Song, since this person didn't kill the Fire-Scaled Leopard but only drove it away from this place, I guess he is either an expert who doesn't want people to know, or his cultivation is just not much different from ours, and he only defeated this demonic beast and didn't have the ability to kill the Fire-Scaled Leopard. Since that's the case, we don't need to worry too much."

"Hmm! Seventh Brother, Fellow Daoist Huang's analysis is not bad. As long as this person doesn't have any malice toward us, we don't need to care who he is."

Song Qingming turned around and nodded to Huang Sipo with a smile, saying: "What you said also makes some sense, but being more vigilant is always right. We still need to be careful recently. You two go to other places to see again. This rock cave is full of dark caves everywhere, so be careful. I will collect some materials on the ground and go to Qinghe Market to ask Fellow Daoist Feng later to see if he will know the origin of this person."

Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu saw this and immediately responded, then left this rock cave and went to other locations to check.

After the two left, Song Qingming took out a sound-insulation talisman to cover himself and asked the empty rock cave softly: "Senior Feng He, can you see what the cultivation of this person hiding here is?"

"I say, you kid really think too highly of me. How long has this person been gone? How can I be sure of his cultivation? Do you really think I can open the Heavenly Eye to distinguish all things?"

Hearing Feng He say this, Song Qingming hurriedly apologized: "Senior, don't blame me. The junior just feels that the person hiding here is not very simple, and I feel some unease in my heart. I'm afraid that if this person is a Jin Dan or Nascent Soul cultivator, it won't be very safe for you to keep following me."

"Don't worry, although I have no way to determine this person's cultivation, it is absolutely impossible for him to be a cultivator above the Jin Dan stage. However, your feeling is not wrong. Just now, I used my spiritual sense to investigate carefully and found a trace of residual demonic energy. The person hiding here may be one of those sneaky demonic cultivators."

"What? It's actually a demonic cultivator." Hearing that it might be a Foundation Establishment demonic head hiding here, Song Qingming's face suddenly changed greatly.

He had personally experienced the battle to wipe out the demonic head Yang Wuqi back then and had also seen the scene of destruction caused by these Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators for the sake of cultivating demonic techniques. A good spiritual mountain didn't need a few months to be turned into a hellish scene of corpses everywhere and blood flowing into rivers by these demonic cultivators.

"Hehe! What are you panicking about? It's also possible that this person is carrying the aura left by a demonic weapon; it's not necessarily a real demonic cultivator.

Even if it is really a demonic cultivator, his cultivation cannot exceed the Jin Dan realm. I have also dealt with those high-tier demonic cultivators back then, and I have ways to deal with them. As long as this demon dares to appear in front of you, hehe, I guarantee he won't be able to leave." Feng He said with great confidence.

"In that case, if I really encounter this demon in the future, I will have to rely on you, Senior!" A happy smile appeared on Song Qingming's face.

After collecting some residual refining materials on the ground, Song Qingming got up and left this place. After walking dozens of zhang into the depths of the rock cave, he bumped into Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu, who were returning from inside.

"Seventh Brother, we have checked inside, and only found a few spiritual herbs, and didn't see anything else." Seeing Song Qingming, Song Qingyu nodded slightly to him.

"Since that's the case, let's leave here first! Although this place is a good second-tier spiritual vein, it's a pity that its location is deep in Mount Yunwu and it's of no great use. This time we have found the reason for the demonic beast invasion of Qinghe County, so we can be considered not to have made a wasted trip."

After Song Qingming finished speaking, he took Song Qingyu and the other two and retraced their steps out of this rock cave.

However, just after walking out of the cave entrance, what made the three of them somewhat surprised was that a red light suddenly appeared in the sky in the distance, and it was flying toward this mountain.

"Seventh Brother! This is a second-tier demonic beast, it seems to be the original Fire-Scaled Leopard."

"Hmph! It should be wanting to take back its old lair. Quickly hide in the cave." Hearing Song Qingyu say this, Song Qingming was overjoyed in his heart and hurriedly took the two of them back into the rock cave to hide their figures.

A moment later, a leopard with red light all over its body entered this rock cave, probing its head and being very careful.

This Fire-Scaled Leopard had occupied this second-tier spiritual vein for nearly a hundred years. A few months ago, a strange human cultivator came here, defeated it, and drove it away from this place.

The Fire-Scaled Leopard wandered outside with a group of low-tier demonic beasts for several months and never found a stable place to settle down. Although this Fire-Scaled Leopard lost several head-on fights to that person, it still kept thinking about its old lair and would secretly run back every once in a while to see if there was a chance to take back its spiritual mountain and territory.

It just didn't know that although the person who drove it out of its lair had long since left this place, there were other people waiting for it in the rock cave at this moment.

Not long after the Fire-Scaled Leopard entered the cave, seeing that the person who drove it out of its lair didn't appear this time, it thought that this person was not in the cave now and couldn't help but feel somewhat happy.

However, before it could be happy for long, two cultivators, a man and a woman, suddenly attacked it from the depths of the cave. In this rock cave filled with fire-attribute spiritual energy, the Fire-Scaled Leopard's strength would also increase by a few points. Seeing that there was an ambush inside, the Fire-Scaled Leopard, which had already become vigilant, immediately ran toward the outside of the rock cave with wind under its feet.

However, just as the Fire-Scaled Leopard was about to escape to the cave entrance, a tall figure was already standing at the cave entrance, blocking its way.

At the cave entrance, after seeing the Fire-Scaled Leopard coming this way from afar, Song Qingming let Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu hide in the depths of the rock cave, and he himself hid near the cave entrance with the help of the Hidden Spirit Shirt to hide his aura.

After the Fire-Scaled Leopard walked into the rock cave, Song Qingming and the three of them attacked from front and back, and at this moment, they blocked it in the middle without any effort.

This Fire-Scaled Leopard was only a demonic beast at the early Foundation Establishment stage. Its combat power outside didn't necessarily mean it could beat Song Qingyu. Now facing the siege of three Foundation Establishment cultivators whose strength was not lower than it, it was soon unable to hold on and was killed by Song Qingming and the others in its former lair.

Song Qingming and the few of them didn't expect that they didn't find this demonic beast in the rock cave before, but when they were about to leave, the Fire-Scaled Leopard came uninvited and fell directly into their encirclement, thus losing its life.

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