Chapter 358: Retreat

Seeing that there was no powerhouse at the Jin Dan level among the few people who came, Li Mu, who was hiding beside a pile of chaotic stones, also slowly set his mind at ease.

A few days ago, after Du Yucheng arrived at Black Stone Valley, he was just preparing to destroy the sealing great formation at the cave entrance when he happened to bump into a few Xiaoyao Sect Qi Condensation disciples who came here to patrol.

After Du Yucheng killed these few people, he soon alarmed the Xiaoyao Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator Xu Youlong stationed at Tenglongfang. He went to Black Stone Valley to investigate this matter and fought a battle with Du Yucheng.

Although Xu Youlong had been at Foundation Establishment for nearly twenty years, he owed the sect quite a lot of debt in order to reach Foundation Establishment back then, and he still hasn't paid it off until now. Therefore, his cultivation was very tight, and his cultivation base was only at the third layer of Foundation Establishment until now.

And his opponent Du Yucheng, although he had not fallen into the demon path for long, under the guidance of the great demon Xiao Huang, obtained quite a few treasures that Xiao Huang had hidden back then after leaving the Wei State, and his cultivation base had already reached the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, and there were quite a few powerful magic tools in his hands.

Logically speaking, it would not be a difficult thing for Du Yucheng to want to leave Xu Youlong behind in the battle between the two. The reason why Du Yucheng let him escape was also to deliberately hide his strength, which indeed affected the judgment made by the Xiaoyao Sect Law Enforcement Hall after receiving Xu Youlong's request for help letter later.

Only discovering an ordinary Foundation Establishment demon, the Xiaoyao Sect naturally would not be too panicked because of this and directly dispatch Jin Dan cultivators to deal with it.

Du Yucheng had been in the Xiaoyao Sect for decades, and he also knew some of the styles of the Law Enforcement Hall. If Du Yucheng had directly killed Xu Youlong, the Law Enforcement Hall would not have been able to figure out the situation in Black Stone Valley, and it might have really alarmed those Jin Dan elders who often went into seclusion. After all, Xiao Huang, the great demon, was still suppressed in Black Stone Valley.

Seeing the Xiaoyao Sect crowd attacking, Du Yucheng and the three, who had been fighting together just now, looked at each other and immediately put aside their temporary grievances and chose to join forces to fight the enemy.

On the demon cultivator side, the red-clothed man and Du Yucheng were both very powerful existences among Foundation Establishment cultivators, and even the weakest old man with the long beard was a demon cultivator whose cultivation base had reached the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment. They were all characters who were not easy to deal with.

The Xiaoyao Sect side sent a total of five people this time. Although they were all at the Foundation Establishment stage or above, except for Li Yungong, a powerhouse who had already cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment, the strength of the other few people did not look very strong. The one with the highest cultivation base was Bai Yunhua, who had just broken through to the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment not long ago.

After the two sides met, Li Yungong took the lead and used a thunder fire to rush directly toward the red-clothed man with the highest cultivation base on the demon cultivator side.

Seeing that Li Yungong's cultivation base was not bad and what he cultivated was a thunder method that somewhat restrained demon cultivators, the red-clothed man did not dare to underestimate him and pulled the old man with the long beard to come forward together to intercept Li Yungong.

The other few Xiaoyao Sect cultivators, under the leadership of Bai Yunhua, faced Du Yucheng and the huge ghost head above his head.

Li Mu had seen Li Yungong when he participated in the Taiyue Lake secret realm back then. He was already one of the top experts sent into the secret realm by the Xiaoyao Sect at that time, and now this person's strength looked even better than back then.

Having entered the Dao and cultivated for many years, Li Yungong's Dao path had always been very smooth. When he was young, he entered the Xiaoyao Sect and worshiped under a Jin Dan elder. The Heavenly Fire Startling Thunder Art he cultivated was a very powerful cultivation method. Facing the joint attack of the red-clothed man and the old man with the long beard, he not only did not retreat a step but also occupied the upper hand.

Bai Yunhua and the four fought against Du Yucheng's side. At first, the Xiaoyao Sect side was somewhat unable to match. A few people were thrown into chaos by the strange yin wind of Du Yucheng and that ghost head. Fortunately, Bai Yunhua, this formation master, took out a set of formation flags in time, gathered a few people into one place, and relied on the formation in his hands to slowly stabilize the figures of the few people.

After the two sides fought for a while, what made everyone somewhat surprised was that the first to be unable to support was actually the red-clothed man and the old man with the long beard who were fighting against Li Yungong.

Li Yungong is a thunder spirit root cultivator who is very rare in the cultivation world. Thunder spirit roots belong to a type of variant spirit root. The cultivation talent of this type of spirit root cultivator is second only to the single heavenly spirit root. Among the tens of thousands of cultivators in the entire Xiaoyao Sect, there are no more than ten variant spirit root cultivators, and without exception, they are all key cultivation objects of the sect.

Thunder methods are naturally somewhat restraining to demon path supernatural powers. Combined with Li Yungong's cultivation base already being a powerhouse at the peak of Foundation Establishment, the red-clothed man's blood mist secret technique mostly turned into smoke and disappeared in the thunder light upon touching these scorching thunder lights, making it very difficult to pose any threat to Li Yungong.

The old man with the long beard had already been injured in the previous battle. At this moment, he could only barely exert 60% or 70% of his strength and assisted the red-clothed man to fight against Li Yungong on the side.

The red-clothed man and the old man with the long beard saw that Li Yungong was really not easy to deal with and did not want to fight him to the death here. After the two secretly exchanged a look, the red-clothed man suddenly used a red jade tripod and cast a spell to cover Li Yungong in it.

After trapping Li Yungong, the red-clothed man did not choose to continue the attack, but turned into a mass of blood mist and rushed directly toward the cave entrance outside with the old man with the long beard on the side.

Demon cultivators are different from righteous cultivators. Once they encounter opponents that are difficult to deal with, they rarely choose to fight to the end. Facing an opponent like Li Yungong who could endanger their lives, it was not a strange thing for the red-clothed man to choose to flee.

"Demons, don't go, fight me to the death again."

Just after the two demons left, Li Yungong had already broken free from the red jade tripod. Somewhat angry, he shouted loudly at the position where the red-clothed man and the old man with the long beard left, and then chased after them directly.

Du Yucheng's side, seeing that the red-clothed man and the old man with the long beard on that side had already fled one step ahead, looked at the Demon-Suppressing Tower, which was still full of seals, not far away, and took the ghost head with him to rush directly to the cave entrance, also wanting to flee outside.

Bai Yunhua and the few people's battle with Du Yucheng could only rely on the formation to fight to a draw and had no way to intercept him.

After looking at Du Yucheng's disappearing back, Bai Yunhua hurriedly came to the Demon-Suppressing Tower deep in the cave and carefully checked the seal here.

Seeing that the seal of the Demon Tower was still intact and Xiao Huang's primordial spirit had not been able to escape from here, Bai Yunhua's heart also relaxed. Because he was somewhat worried that Li Yungong, who was chasing the demon cultivators, would be besieged by the fleeing demon cultivators, Bai Yunhua confirmed that there was no abnormality on the Demon-Suppressing Tower side and hurriedly took a few Xiaoyao Sect cultivators to leave here together.

After these people had all left, in the cave that had already quieted down, a burst of yin wind suddenly blew, and a mass of pitch-black smoke, the same as the ghost head that had followed Du Yucheng and fled, suddenly drilled in from the cave entrance.

This mass of black mist flew to a few zhang away in front of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, suddenly squeezed into a mass, and issued a burst of laughter with yin wind blowing.

"Haha! Old man has been locked up for so many years, and finally has the opportunity to see the sun again."

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