Chapter 50: Flame Rat

Song Qingming pondered slightly and decided to participate in this operation, agreeing to Feng Laogui.

Feng Laogui saw that he had agreed, so he let him wait here for a while, walked out of the tent full of joy, and sent a sound transmission talisman. Before long, a white-clothed man wearing Confucian attire came into the tent.

The white-clothed man was named Jia Sixing, in his thirties, and like Song Qingming, he hadn't joined the Flying Cloud Guards for long. He had known Feng Laogui in Guiyunfang for many years, and it was also through Feng Laogui's introduction that he was able to join the Flying Cloud Guards.

Jia Sixing saw that there was another person in Feng Laogui's tent, which was also somewhat surprising. After nodding and greeting Song Qingming, he opened his mouth to Feng Laogui and said, "I was just saying, Brother Feng, how could you be so anxious to go and pick that spirit herb just after coming out of seclusion? So you found another helper. It seems Brother Feng is determined to succeed this time."

Feng Laogui smiled and nodded, saying, "Fellow Daoist Song and I also have some friendship. He has already agreed to take action together just now. With one more person, our hope of success this time will be greater. Anyway, after the event, I only want the Bai Yu Flower, and the materials of the demonic beast killed will all belong to you two."

Jia Sixing nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then it's agreed beforehand. I don't care about other things, but the fur on the Flame Rat must belong to me. I want to ask someone to refine a top-grade magic treasure, and this thing is very useful to me. If Fellow Daoist Song agrees, then I have no problem on my side."

Flame Rat, this kind of demonic beast, didn't have many valuable places on its body. The best was the outer skin on this demonic rat. The fur of a high-tier Flame Rat was a good material for refining magic treasures, and its value was higher than all other items on its body combined. Jia Sixing saying this was obviously wanting to take advantage.

"Good, then it's agreed. You take the Flame Rat fur, and the remaining demonic beast materials belong to me."

Although Song Qingming knew that he would suffer some losses, he didn't argue with Jia Sixing. He also knew in his heart that although the cultivation of these two people was the same as his, both of them were cultivators who had advanced to the sixth layer of Qi Refining for many years, and their fighting ability should be higher than his. After all, he was a newcomer to the Flying Cloud Guards, and being too calculating might make the other party dissatisfied.

Regarding the Flame Rat to be dealt with this time, Song Qingming also knew from Feng Laogui that this Flame Rat had at most the cultivation of the seventh or eighth layer of Qi Refining. Although it was already a high-tier demonic beast, among the many high-tier demonic beasts at the Qi Refining stage, the Flame Rat's divine abilities were average and it was not a difficult demonic beast to deal with.

Otherwise, if they were dealing with those difficult high-tier demonic beasts, even if Feng Laogui could speak eloquently and offer a sky-high price, Song Qingming could only be helpless. After all, although spirit stones were good, one had to have a life to spend them. If it really didn't work, he would just go to the market to inquire about the news of Bai Long Mountain. As long as he was willing to spend time, there would always be a way.

This time, taking action to deal with a high-tier demonic beast, although there was also a great risk, being able to get half of the demonic beast materials would also mean twenty or thirty spirit stones, and he could save a few spirit talismans, and by the way, get familiar with the two teammates and understand the divine abilities of these two. For Song Qingming, no matter how he calculated it, it was very cost-effective. This little risk of going out for training was something he still had to experience.

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The place where the Bai Yu Flower was located was no more than fifty miles away from the camp. After the three of Song Qingming agreed, early the next morning, they left the camp one after another.

The time and speed of the Flying Cloud Guards completing tasks were generally not pursued too tightly from above, and the distribution of rewards was also based on the quality of each person's completion of tasks. As long as they didn't bring disaster to the camp, Lu Yunfei was also too lazy to care where they went.

After meeting at the foot of the mountain, under the leadership of Feng Laogui, the three spent more than half an hour on the road and arrived at a small mountain with many rocks.

"The Flame Rat is in the cave in front. This demonic beast has a particularly sensitive nose. As long as someone approaches the cave, it will immediately be attacked by this beast. Even if you use an Invisibility Talisman, it will have no effect."

Feng Laogui pointed his finger at a small rocky cave dozens of feet in front of the three and said to Jia and Song beside him.

"Just follow the plan agreed on the road. Brother Feng will use the puppet to lure the demonic beast out first. After the demonic beast comes out, Fellow Daoist Song will block its retreat to prevent this guy from retreating back into the cave."

Jia Sixing repeated the action plan that the three had studied yesterday.

Subsequently, Feng Laogui patted the storage bag at his waist, and a white puppet beast three inches in size was released by him. The puppet beast flashed with golden light and soon turned into a white tiger seven feet in size. This white tiger was shining with spirit light and looked majestic.

Feng Laogui hit a prohibition spell with both hands, the white giant tiger puppet flashed with spirit light, its eyes shone with a white light, and it quickly rushed toward the cave where the Flame Rat was hiding.

When it was still four or five feet away from the cave entrance, the white tiger puppet opened its mouth wide, and a thunder light was instantly sprayed from its mouth. After a loud noise, the chaotic stones flew into the sky, and this cave entrance, which was more than half a person high, was almost completely buried by the exploded gravel.

Looking at this white tiger puppet, Song Qingming's eyes also lit up. Feng Laogui's mid-tier white tiger puppet was actually a relatively rare puppet beast that could use thunder-type spells.

First-tier puppets were not rare, and many large sects had such inheritances. There were also many cultivators in the Xiaoyao Sect of Song Guo who could refine first-tier puppet beasts, but second-tier Foundation Establishment puppet beasts were very rare. No one in the entire Song Guo could refine them. It was estimated that even if all the Golden Core cultivators in Song Guo were added together, there wouldn't be a few.

Thunder-type spells had always had the strongest attack ability among many attribute spells. If Feng Laogui's white tiger puppet beast was used properly, it could be equivalent to a cultivator at the fifth layer of Qi Refining.

Puppet beasts generally only had about half the power of cultivators or demonic beasts of the same tier. Normally, ordinary cultivators could control at most one or two puppets of the same tier. If there were more, they wouldn't be able to exert the full strength of the puppets.

Only some cultivators who practiced special techniques and had relatively strong spiritual sense could control more puppet beasts.

In the west of the East Phoenix Immortal Continent, there was a Zijin Kingdom that was several times larger than Song Kingdom. In Zijin Kingdom, there was a large sect that specifically practiced puppet arts, named the Golden Puppet Sect.

Within the Golden Puppet Sect, there was a secret technique that specifically cultivated cultivators' spiritual sense, which could make cultivators who practiced this technique have a spiritual sense several times stronger than cultivators of the same tier. Within the Golden Puppet Sect, there had even been powerful cultivators who could control more than a dozen puppets at the same time.

Relying on the help of many puppet beasts, disciples of the Golden Puppet Sect often occupied the upper hand in fighting with cultivators of the same tier. For this reason, when Golden Puppet Sect cultivators walked outside, they had always been feared by cultivators of other sects.

Although the Golden Puppet Sect only had three Nascent Soul cultivators, relying on several Nascent Soul-level puppets passed down from generation to generation within the sect, it had dominated the cultivation world of Zijin Kingdom for thousands of years. Other major Nascent Soul sects in Zijin Kingdom rose and fell, only the Golden Puppet Sect, relying on this skill of puppets, had always stood firm for thousands of years.

Feng Laogui was operating the white tiger puppet and was about to attack again. At this moment, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the gravel at the cave entrance. With a strange squeaking sound, a red demonic rat three feet in size rushed out from the gravel pile.

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