Chapter 56: Fighting Demonic Cultivators

Itinerant cultivators going to the Fuyun Mountain Range to hunt demonic beasts basically choose to go to the hunting list of Guiyunfang first to accept tasks, select targets, and make preparations before heading out.

The various rewarded demonic beast tasks they received were all investigated by these Flying Cloud Guards like Song Qingming, and were released after being summarized and concluded.

Those unknown areas that the Flying Cloud Guards had not yet explored, the demonic beasts here had not been released to the hunting list, so naturally, no one would accept tasks to hunt demonic beasts here and specifically come to these places.

The Flying Cloud Guards were established by the Golden Core cultivators stationed in Guiyunfang by the Xiaoyao Sect for hundreds of years, in order to better deal with the demonic beasts in the Fuyun Mountain Range.

For hundreds of years, this area near Song Guo in the Fuyun Mountain Range, although it was tens of thousands of miles in size, had already been explored several times by the Flying Cloud Guards.

However, after the Flying Cloud Guards explored an area, it would take at least a hundred years to explore it again.

In these hundred years, the demonic beasts on the hunting list would gradually be killed by the cultivators who accepted the tasks, and new demonic beasts would also slowly migrate to this area.

After a few decades, the demonic beasts here had basically been replaced. Without the demonic beast tasks on the hunting list, naturally, no cultivators would specifically come here to hunt demonic beasts.

This area would also slowly become a new unknown area, until the Flying Cloud Guards finished re-exploring it a hundred years later, would cultivators slowly come here.

This group of demonic cultivators led by Yang Wuqi took advantage of this loophole and hid in an unknown area. For several years, they had avoided several waves of cultivators sent by Guiyunfang to search for their whereabouts.

Until half a month ago, the Flying Cloud Guard team of Lu Yunfei happened to be assigned the task of exploring this area and came here.

The Flying Cloud Guard who was killed by Yang Wuqi earlier was named Luo Ping, who had joined the Flying Cloud Guards for several years. He had never had any major incidents while performing tasks and was considered a relatively mature cultivator.

This time, he could be considered unlucky. The place he was assigned to explore happened to be near Yang Wuqi's cave dwelling.

Having already known that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had scanned it once in the air, the news was that there were fewer second-tier demonic beasts in this area. He originally thought it was a relatively safe unknown area, but he didn't expect that there was a group of demonic cultivators hiding in this deep mountain.

Luo Ping, who didn't know the situation, stumbled into it. When he discovered this group of demonic cultivators led by Yang Wuqi, he originally wanted to hide in place and wait for the demonic cultivators to finish refining and leave before quietly going back to report, but he didn't expect that there was also a high-cultivation Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator hidden inside.

Although he was considered careful and cautious, he encountered Yang Wuqi, whose cultivation far exceeded his, and accidentally exposed his whereabouts, losing his life in vain.

The investigation areas of the Flying Cloud Guards were generally carried out secretly. This group of demonic cultivators led by Yang Wuqi didn't know this situation either. Gu Liangshan and the others discovered that the Flame Rat was killed, and although they were somewhat suspicious, they also thought it was done by a hunting team nearby. They also didn't know that a large number of Flying Cloud Guards had come near their cave dwelling.

It wasn't until after killing Luo Ping that the cautious Yang Wuqi vaguely felt that something was wrong. If this person who suddenly broke in was really a Flying Cloud Guard of Guiyunfang, their cave dwelling would definitely be exposed sooner or later.

Yang Wuqi, who had been mixing in Song Guo for many years, naturally had also heard of the Flying Cloud Guards in Guiyunfang, and also knew that the Flying Cloud Guards were specifically responsible for investigating demonic beast information in the Fuyun Mountain Range for Guiyunfang.

"Today, cultivators have discovered this place. This place is afraid that it is not very safe. Let Liangshan and the others hurry up and prepare for the refining matter. After this refining is completed, we will look for another cave dwelling."

Yang Wuqi, sitting in the cave dwelling, pondered for a while and seemed to have made up his mind, and gave a few instructions to the disciples standing below.

In a dense forest a few miles away from the altar, a cultivator with a somewhat panicked face hurriedly said to the crowd in the forest.

"Captain, I have already found the place where Fellow Daoist Luo sent the rescue talisman. It is at the foot of the mountain in front. That place also found an altar, and there is a group of people on it, as if they are about to hold some ceremony. It looks like Fellow Daoist Luo seems to have fallen into trouble."

"Altar, blood sacrifice, could it be that this group of people are demonic cultivators." Lu Yunfei said with a face full of shock after listening.

"What, the one who killed Fellow Daoist Luo is actually a demonic cultivator? How could there be demonic cultivators here?" Everyone heard that the ones in front were a group of demonic cultivators, and their faces also changed for a while.

Demonic cultivators had always been cruel in their actions. Many people present knew very well that Luo Ping falling into the hands of demonic cultivators would definitely be more ominous than auspicious.

Song Qingming, who had been somewhat uneasy, heard the news of demonic cultivators and was also very surprised. Demonic cultivators had cruel means and many strange techniques, which were much more difficult to deal with than ordinary demonic beasts. If they were to take action later, he must be careful.

"About how many people are they, and what is their strength?" Lu Yunfei thought for a while and asked another question.

"There are about five or six people, all of whom are Qi Refining cultivation. Among them, two have already reached the late stage of Qi Refining, and their strength is estimated to be no weaker than the captain. The others have low cultivation, and all are at the mid-stage of Qi Refining." The person who reported the news hurriedly replied.

Lu Yunfei looked at the dozen or so cultivators beside him and secretly made a resolution in his heart.

"Fellow Daoists, since we have encountered this group of demonic cultivators, no matter whether Fellow Daoist Luo is alive or dead, we all have the obligation to eliminate demons and defend the Dao. We don't have to be afraid. The ones in front are just a group of Qi Refining demonic cultivators, and their strength is not strong. Follow me to eliminate demons and avenge Fellow Daoist Luo."

Gu Liangshan and the others were currently on the altar, anxiously preparing various sacrificial materials. The pillars around the altar were also already tied with a few cultivators who had fallen into a coma.

Refining this magic knife not only required the essence souls of cultivators but also needed to prepare many other materials and some cumbersome rituals.

"A few junior brothers, hurry up. The blood sacrifice will begin in a while. Master just passed down the word to guard the altar well. Ninth Junior Brother, you go to the mountain pass and guard it first. A cultivator has already broken into this place. We still have to be careful, so as not to affect Master's refining of the magic knife."

A middle-aged demonic cultivator was stunned for a moment, cupped his hands at Gu Liangshan somewhat unhappily, and walked slowly toward the outside of the mountain.

The relationship between demonic cultivators was even more cruel than that of righteous cultivators. When performing tasks, they generally didn't care about the other party's life or death.

This unlucky demonic cultivator had only walked half a mile when suddenly a burst of spirit light flashed, magic treasures danced in the sky, and more than a dozen cultivators on both sides killed out at the same time. This demonic cultivator saw more than a dozen magic treasures flying from all around, and his face was full of disbelief and revealed a look of horror.

A desperate scream sounded. This demonic cultivator's cultivation was not high, only at the sixth layer of Qi Refining. Encountering a sneak attack by more than a dozen cultivators whose cultivation was higher than his, before he could take out his magic treasure, he was beaten to death by Song Qingming and the others.

"Not good, someone is attacking. Fellow junior brothers, quickly block them together. You must not let them destroy the altar. Ninth Junior Brother, you hurry to notify Master."

Gu Liangshan saw a large number of cultivators attacking from afar, hurriedly let one person go to notify Yang Wuqi first, and then he took the few demonic cultivators below the altar and bit the bullet and rushed up.

"Fellow Daoists, these demonic cubs are really performing blood sacrifice. Everyone don't hold back. Any fellow Daoist who can kill demonic cultivators, I will report this matter to the sect, and there will definitely be no lack of benefits for everyone."

Lu Yunfei saw that Gu Liangshan and the others only had a few people, and took the lead to kill toward the altar.

"Kill to avenge Fellow Daoist Luo."

Several experts at the late stage of Qi Refining who were eager to make contributions heard Gu Liangshan's words and also rushed to the front, shouting loudly that they wanted to kill these demonic cultivators and avenge Luo Ping.

Once they saw that the demonic cultivators on the opposite side really only had a few people, everyone had a few more points of confidence. Their number was more than twice that of the opposite side. If there were no accidents, these demonic cultivators would all be stepping stones for their contributions.

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