Chapter 388: Spirit Mine Battle

After a wave of surprise attacks, the cultivators inside Gufeng Mountain finally reacted and began to organize strength to resist the Minghe Sect's attack.

"Hmph! Minghe Sect's rats, still dare to come and die." With a sharp shout, a black-clad man with a full beard, carrying a giant sword, killed his way out from the mountain and intercepted Tao Hede and the others who wanted to go and destroy the formation eyes everywhere.

This black-clad man's cultivation had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and his strength was also very extraordinary. He alone intercepted several Minghe Sect cultivators including Tao Hede, and the remaining Minghe Sect cultivators were also quickly blocked at the entrance of the formation by the companions who followed closely behind the black-clad man.

Tao Hede saw that the other party reacted so quickly, hurriedly shouted loudly to Song Qingyu and the others behind him: "Everyone, the formation-breaking beads can only maintain the time of half a stick of incense. Hope you can quickly go and destroy the five-element formation eyes. Leave these people to us."

Since they had already accepted the benefits of the Minghe Sect, everyone came here naturally to contribute. The one with the highest cultivation, Mulong Shangren, had already charged to the very front, arrived at a position shining with cyan light, and with a wave of his hand, knocked the few Qi Refining stage cultivators guarding this place flying five or six zhang away.

Following closely, Mulong Shangren's palm suddenly turned into a silver-white color, as if it had become a silver iron hand, and he smashed the protective shield protecting the cyan light into pieces with one grab, destroying this formation eye.

This Mulong Shangren was originally a loose cultivator with very outstanding fame in the State of Zheng. This person relied only on his own talent to cultivate to this point today, and could also be considered a rare strange person among many loose cultivators in the State of Zheng. It was just that this person's temperament was very casual and he didn't like being restrained by sect rules. Otherwise, if he casually joined a large sect, he would also have a few points of hope to form a core.

Seeing that a formation eye had been damaged by the other party, the black-clad man's side was suddenly shocked, hurriedly ordered the Qi Refining cultivators below to blow a very dull horn, summoning cultivators who were still in other places on the mountain to hurry here to support.

The black-clad cultivator side guarding Gufeng Mountain, although there were nearly a hundred cultivators, there were only six whose cultivation reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Facing the attack of more than twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Minghe Sect, under the desperate resistance led by the black-clad man, they were still quickly beaten back steadily. However, after only the time of a stick of incense, four formation eyes had already been destroyed.

"Senior Brother Xu, let's withdraw first. The other party sent all Foundation Establishment cultivators, and we have too few people. If we continue to fight, we won't be able to beat the other party." Seeing that the battle situation was becoming more and more unfavorable, a woman in the late stage of Foundation Establishment beside the black-clad man hurriedly persuaded.

This second-tier five-element formation only had five formation eyes. Now that four had been destroyed, its power had been greatly reduced, and it could no longer produce much restraint on the Foundation Establishment cultivators entering the formation. If they continued to fight like this, when the last formation eye was destroyed by the other party and the formation faded, everyone could only listen to fate.

Watching the last formation eye also couldn't be kept, and the black-clad man was entangled by multiple Minghe Sect cultivators and couldn't get away, he could only sigh with gritted teeth. Just when he wanted to issue a retreat order, a gray flying boat suddenly drifted over quickly on one side of the sky in the distance, and there were some blurry figures standing on the flying boat.

"It's Ancestor Qian who came. Everyone hold on, don't panic, reinforcements are coming soon." Seeing the figure of this flying boat, all the cultivators on the black-clad man's side were suddenly overjoyed and began to use all kinds of powerful supernatural powers to resist the enemy more vigorously.

Standing together on the gray flying boat were seven or eight cultivators who were at or above the Foundation Establishment stage. Standing at the very front was an old man with a crane-like appearance and a kind and benevolent face.

However, this flying boat had just flown to a position ten miles away from Gufeng Mountain. Before Song Qingyu and the others could see clearly, a huge white cloud rolled over from the other side of the sky, swallowing the gray flying boat into it all at once.

"Old Ghost Qian, knew you would definitely hide nearby. Since this old man came here today, you just stay in the sky well. Leave the things below to these juniors."

Old Man Qian in the white cloud group looked at the white-clad youth who suddenly appeared in front, and his face instantly became somewhat solemn. He secretly transmitted sound to the few Foundation Establishment cultivators on the flying boat: "You go help Qiulong and the others first. Remember not to linger in the battle. After destroying the mineral vein, retreat directly to Mount Nanyun."

As soon as Old Man Qian finished saying this, he quickly took out a golden small sword from his hand. This gold sword grew with the wind and suddenly turned into a giant sword four or five zhang high. Following closely, the giant sword swung fiercely toward the side of Old Man Qian. This white cloud group that had already wrapped the flying boat was instantly cut open with a huge gap.

"Hurry go!"

Hearing this sound enter their ears, the few people standing on the flying boat hurriedly jumped toward the gap, turned into a few spiritual lights, and flew out from the white cloud group directly. After escaping this prison, these few people didn't dare to stay too long and hurriedly stepped on their respective magic tools and headed straight for Gufeng Mountain.

Everyone still fighting on the mountain only saw that white cloud group suddenly cover the flying boat that came to help, and didn't know what happened over there. They only saw five or six figures pass through the cloud layer and fly toward this side quickly.

These few figures were all wearing black attire, and at a glance, they were in the same group as the black-clad man and the others. After arriving at Gufeng Mountain, these people also quickly began to help them restrain the Minghe Sect side cultivators.

Song Qingyu and He Mengxin joined forces to deal with a black-clad cultivator and had already beaten the other party to the point of being unable to parry. Didn't want to, at this time, a middle-aged man with a cultivation of the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment suddenly stepped forward to intercept the two of them.

This middle-aged man was obviously much more powerful than the previous one. Relying on a quite sharp big knife in his hand, he fought back and forth with He Mengxin and did not fall into a disadvantage.

Seeing that the other party's cultivation was quite high, He Mengxin hurriedly secretly transmitted sound to Song Qingyu: "This person's cultivation is not low, Qingyu, be careful, don't be careless."

He Mengxin was fighting with the middle-aged man while reminding Song Qingyu, but didn't want Song Qingyu to seem to have not heard what she said, and was standing in mid-air, blankly looking at a battlefield not far away.

In that position, three Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Minghe Sect were besieging two people. Among them, one horse-faced old man had relatively high cultivation and had already reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, being the main force on the battlefield. The other was a woman with a half-covered veil, who looked not old, and her cultivation was not high, only at the third layer of Foundation Establishment, obviously not having established her foundation for long.

That horse-faced old man forced back the few people of the Minghe Sect, saw that the leader Xu Qiulong here was being besieged by a few people of the Minghe Sect, and hurriedly came to his side to help him share a part of the pressure.

"Junior Brother Wang, why don't you see the ancestor coming?"

The black-clad man saw that the reinforcements who came to help were only a few Foundation Establishment cultivators, and felt somewhat surprised. Just now, he clearly saw the flying boat used by that ancestor, didn't want the ones who came to help to be just a few Foundation Establishment cultivators under his hand.

The horse-faced old man didn't directly open his mouth to answer the question Xu Qiulong asked, but secretly transmitted sound: "The ancestor has an order for us to start the formation arranged in the spiritual vein before, blow up the spirit mine, and retreat to Mount Nanyun."

"What! Want to blow up this mineral vein now?"

Xu Qiulong, who was still very excited in the battle just now, heard the words spoken by this horse-faced old man after he approached him, and his face changed drastically, somewhat unable to believe the order he heard.

"Junior Brother Xu, the ancestor has already been entangled by the Core Formation ancestor of the Minghe Sect and cannot get away for the time being. Relying only on us today, we cannot keep this place. It is better to make a decision early. If the mineral vein is lost to the Minghe Sect in the future, it will not be easy to explain if the ancestor blames us."

Seeing that the black-clad man was still somewhat hesitant, the horse-faced old man's voice suddenly increased by a few points, hurriedly urging him to follow the order. Just as the two were talking, several more Qi Refining cultivators and a Foundation Establishment companion fell into the hands of the other party.

"Fine! Notify everyone immediately, prepare to retreat."

Xu Qiulong's giant sword quickly forced back the two Minghe Sect cultivators besieging him, suddenly put away the giant sword in his hand, took out a golden spiritual talisman from his storage bag, and began to chant words in his mouth.

"Not good, this is the Gold-Shaking Talisman, hurry and stop him!" As soon as the golden spiritual talisman appeared in Xu Qiulong's hand, everyone on the Minghe Sect side suddenly changed their faces, having already recognized the power of this talisman. Tao Hede shouted loudly, ordering everyone to go and stop the other party from casting the spell.

However, the black-clad cultivator side was naturally also well-prepared. Very quickly, four or five Foundation Establishment cultivators closest to the black-clad man had already leaned toward him, and very quickly formed several defenses together, protecting him in the middle.

When this spirit stone mine was snatched from the Minghe Sect by them a year ago, they had already arranged some backhands in the spiritual vein below. As long as the black-clad man activated this third-tier spiritual talisman bestowed by the ancestor, let alone the spirit stone mine below, even the spiritual vein of Gufeng Mountain would be severely damaged, and the spiritual vein grade would at least fall by one level.

Although the Minghe Sect side had many people and great strength, wanting to break through the defense of these few people in a short time was also somewhat difficult. Although everyone used all their means and supernatural powers, they still failed to stop the black-clad man from shooting the spiritual talisman in his hand directly into the ground.

Only heard a heaven-shaking loud noise, the entire Gufeng Mountain immediately began to shake violently. Those Qi Refining stage cultivators who hadn't had time to escape on the mountain suddenly couldn't even stand still, and Foundation Establishment cultivators like Song Qingyu also immediately stopped fighting and began to fly to the high sky far away.

The Gold-Shaking Talisman used by the black-clad man was a third-tier spiritual talisman with relatively average effect. This talisman didn't have much power against ordinary cultivators, but it was very useful for destroying spiritual veins.

Gufeng Mountain was originally a second-tier top-quality spiritual vein. Under the effect of that Gold-Shaking Talisman, the spiritual energy on the mountain had gradually become chaotic. The spiritual energy in various spiritual veins had begun to leak out of the ground violently, bringing those Qi Refining cultivators who fell to the ground, some of whom were washed to the foot of the mountain by this uncontrollable spiritual energy.

In a mine cave beside the Gufeng Mountain spiritual vein, there were still thousands of mortals hiding and mining the spirit stone mine. These people were originally arranged by the Minghe Sect to mine spirit stones here. A year ago, after the black-clad man and the others drove away the Minghe Sect's stationed cultivators and took the mineral vein, they didn't make things difficult for these mortals and still let them mine spirit stones according to before.

This time, these mortals hiding in the mine cave originally thought they could avoid the great battle between immortals outside. Didn't expect that after a violent vibration in the cave, the top of the entire mine cave began to have collapsing rubble, falling into the mine cave like raindrops. This time, the mortals hiding inside were instantly killed and injured heavily.

In the struggle between cultivators, both sides generally would not proactively anger mortals, but sometimes it was just a high-tier cultivator's temporary decision, and an unintentional move would cause a large number of mortals to suffer innocently. This was also something that was very difficult to control in the cultivation world. After all, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator with not high cultivation, thousands of mortals were too fragile in his eyes.

Seeing the mineral vein that was just obtained instantly become a ruin, Tao Hede and other Minghe Sect cultivators were instantly furious. Looking at those black-clad cultivators who were dispersing and fleeing, they said loudly:

"These scum of the Star Gate actually dare to destroy the spirit stone mineral vein, truly looking for death. Hope fellow daoists can help take action. As long as you can behead the head of a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the other party, our Minghe Sect is willing to pay three thousand spirit stones as a reward, and will never break our promise."

Originally, they had already helped the Minghe Sect take down this spirit stone mine, which could be considered fulfilling the previous agreement, and they had no obligation to help the Minghe Sect pursue the fleeing cultivators. But now hearing Tao Hede say this, the Foundation Establishment cultivators invited by him were suddenly moved. Very quickly, a few spiritual lights followed the Minghe Sect cultivators and chased out.

He Mengxin came here this time originally just for the Jade Dragon Pill. Since the elixir was already in hand and she had already fulfilled the agreement with the other party, she naturally didn't want to continue to wade into this muddy water. Just when she was looking for Song Qingyu in the crowd, she found that she had already targeted a cultivator of the other party and chased after her.

"Didn't we already agree not to get deeply involved in this matter before? This girl, what is wrong with her today? For spirit stones, she doesn't want her life, and I didn't hear her say she was short of spirit stones recently." Although there was some confusion on her face, He Mengxin was still worried about Song Qingyu's safety in her heart and hurriedly chased after her.

After Song Qingyu chased out for more than twenty miles, she also slowly got closer and closer to her target. The cultivator fleeing not far in front of her was precisely the woman with a half-covered veil she had been staring at tightly before.

The veiled woman looked back at Song Qingyu who was chasing closely behind her, and a trace of surprise also appeared in her eyes. After a moment, a trace of emotion flashed in the woman's eyes, and finally, she proactively stopped on a flat ground in front.

Not long after, the galloping Song Qingyu also quickly stood in front of her. Seeing that the other party didn't seem to have any intention of making a move, Song Qingyu looked at the other party tightly and slowly said:

"This fellow daoist, don't know if you still recognize me?"

The veiled woman looked at Song Qingyu with a blank face, and then slowly took off the veil on her face.

"Hmm! After many years of parting, didn't expect to meet you here today. Truly fated."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 389 =====