Chapter 576: Keeping Secrets

Hearing Du Yucheng's aggressive words, Song Qingming took the small wooden box in his hand and looked at it slightly, took out a cloth bag from his body to pack it, threw it on the empty ground beside him, and looked at Du Yucheng calmly.

"Fellow Daoist Du, the thing is here. If you want it, come and take it!"

Seeing Song Qingming so sensible to hand over the wooden box, Du Yucheng was overjoyed and waved a black wind with one hand, wanting to roll up the wooden box on the ground.

Just when Du Yucheng was slightly distracted, Song Qingming's hands moved lightly, and five copper mirrors of different colors suddenly flew to Du Yucheng's surroundings, shooting out a Five-Elements Light Formation to surround him within.

Seeing this sudden scene, although there was a trace of anger on Du Yucheng's face, he was not too surprised. In his hand, he had long been prepared and quickly appeared a black copper staff three feet long, propping up a gray shield beside him.

"Fellow Daoist Song, what is the meaning of this? You don't think that just by relying on your current cultivation, you have a chance to kill me here, right!"

"Fellow Daoist Du is right. Even if I could defeat you normally, I definitely wouldn't be able to kill you. However, so many years have passed, and you have probably already forgotten what other skills I have!"

As soon as Song Qingming's words fell, several formation flags had already shot out from his hand, flying toward several places on the ground beside Du Yucheng. Soon, several streaks of spiritual light converged from all sides, forming a semi-circular light layer in mid-air, covering both Song Qingming and Du Yucheng within.

Before, when Song Qingming was studying the teleportation formation beside him, to be on the safe side, he still left a hand ready and laid out a formation around the teleportation formation first.

Although it was only an ordinary third-tier grand formation, under the control of Song Qingming, a third-tier formation master, the formation's power was enough to trap a cultivator below the late Jin Dan stage for a short time.

Although Song Qingming was not a narrow-minded person, he was not so magnanimous toward someone who had the intention to fix him. Back then, when he successfully established his foundation, if it weren't for Du Yucheng's status as an inner disciple of the Xiaoyao Sect, Song Qingming would have long wanted to go to his door to find trouble.

With this grand formation, even if the other party came with one or two more Jin Dan cultivators, it could resist for a period of time, enough to win time for Song Qingming to take the teleportation formation and escape from here.

Leaving such a demon in the world was not a small hidden danger for either the Xiaoyao Sect or the Song family. Once Du Yucheng cultivated to the late Jin Dan or Nascent Soul realm in the future, I'm afraid the entire Qinghe County and even the Wei Kingdom might face his revenge at any time.

Whether it was the family that raised him or the sect that supported him, for Du Yucheng, they were all things that could be taken out and sold at any time.

What made Song Qingming not want to let him go the most was that when he was forming a team with him to hunt demons back then, he was almost intentionally harmed by this person and died at the hands of demon beasts.

Turning around to look, he discovered that Song Qingming, who was just not far in front of him, had already disappeared without a trace. On this empty ground, only the cloth bag containing the wooden box that Song Qingming had just thrown on the ground remained on the spot.

Having dealt with Du Yucheng a few times, Song Qingming's impression of his sinister and vicious nature was also very deep. Back then, in order to achieve the goal he wanted, this person's actions could be said to be without any bottom line.

Du Yucheng in mid-air, while speaking, carefully observed the surroundings. The black copper staff in his hand had also been placed in front of him, ready to deal with Song Qingming who might appear at any time.

After releasing a few black light blades and trying to attack the shield, Du Yucheng discovered that his attacks were like mud cows entering the sea, completely unable to open a gap. It could be seen that the power of this grand formation was indeed not ordinary.

The reason Du Yucheng kept threatening verbally and wanted him to hand over the wooden box actively was actually because he didn't have the confidence to defeat Song Qingming in his heart, so he wanted to try to see if he could bluff him. Otherwise, if a person like him really had the confidence to leave him behind, he would definitely not let him leave so easily.

It was precisely because of this confidence that when Du Yucheng chased here and entered the range of the grand formation, Song Qingming moved the thought of beheading him in his heart.

"However, what is the use of trapping me with a formation? My master will be here soon. He is a late-stage Jin Dan cultivator. Do you think the formation in your hand can stop him?"

"Fellow Daoist Song, what good methods. I didn't expect that your formation level, which was only ordinary back then, has already become a third-tier formation master. It seems I still underestimated you."

Just when Song Qingming began to activate the grand formation, Du Yucheng, who had already discovered something was wrong, had a burst of black light erupt from the black copper staff in his hand, struggling to break free from the control of the "Five-Elements Divine Light Mirror." However, it was still one step too late and he didn't escape in time.

Song Qingming, hiding on one side of the formation, didn't care at all about Du Yucheng's threatening words. Through the news constantly sent back by the "Golden Illusion Butterfly" he placed at the hall entrance, Song Qingming already knew that the three people in the hall were still fighting to the death and couldn't get away at all in a short time.

Now that Du Yucheng had fallen into his trap, regardless of whether third brother Song Qingze was really killed by the other party, even if it was to avenge himself back then, Song Qingming would never let him go easily this time.

Just when Du Yucheng was looking for Song Qingming's figure everywhere, a huge copper mirror suddenly appeared on the ground below, emitting a burst of dazzling white light that made Du Yucheng's eyes somewhat unable to open. He could only release a burst of thick black mist, wanting to block the strong light below.

Just after recovering his sight, a figure holding a short sword had already arrived in front of Du Yucheng and stabbed a sword toward his chest.

Seeing this, Du Yucheng didn't think and blocked this blow head-on with the black copper staff in his hand. When he saw the other party's appearance clearly, he was slightly startled.

This person attacking him was not Song Qingming as Du Yucheng imagined, but a face he had never seen before. Looking closely, Du Yucheng discovered that the aura on the other party was somewhat wrong.

"Not good, this is a Jin Dan corpse puppet!"

Before Du Yucheng could put away the look of surprise on his face, Song Qingming, holding the "Mo Bai Sword," had already killed his way out from one side and slashed over head-on with all his might.

Caught off guard, Du Yucheng could only bite the bullet and prop up a shield for defense, being slashed by Song Qingming and falling directly to the ground, raising a burst of smoke and dust.

Before Du Yucheng could condense his defense, Song Qingming had already chased down from the sky with Jin Feng. While still halfway, the two had already separated and launched an attack on Du Yucheng again from two different directions.

Seeing Song Qingming coming aggressively and not wanting to give himself a chance to catch his breath, Du Yucheng also began to panic somewhat. He hurriedly transformed into a black crow, waving his black wings to release a burst of sharp black feathers, shooting directly toward Song Qingming and Jin Feng.

Seeing this, Song Qingming did not retreat to defend and directly took out a green spiritual talisman and attached it to his body. It was precisely a very rare third-tier low-grade defensive spiritual talisman.

Although he knew that Du Yucheng's so-called master hadn't chased over yet, Song Qingming, to prevent long delays leading to trouble, still wanted to finish the battle quickly and didn't want to entangle with the other party for too long here.

Just as he was about to make a move, Song Qingming had already used his full strength. Even if it was a third-tier spiritual talisman worth a lot of money, as long as it could help him speed up the beheading of his opponent, Song Qingming didn't even blink his eyes at this moment and used it directly.

With the light shield formed by the third-tier defensive spiritual talisman protecting his body, Song Qingming's offensive didn't decrease and he directly hit the other party's attack head-on, rushing in front of Du Yucheng and slashing down with another sword.

This time, because Du Yucheng had transformed into a black crow, his reaction and escape speed were much faster than before, and he directly dodged Song Qingming's attack with a flash, turning around to escape to the other side of the sky.

However, just after flying into mid-air, Jin Feng, who appeared ahead, intercepted him again. This time, Song Qingming had already made up his mind to use unscrupulous means to behead the other party. Jin Feng, facing Du Yucheng's attack just now, also didn't retreat a single step even though he had several wounds slashed on his body.

After transforming into a black crow, although Du Yucheng's escape speed accelerated quite a bit, because he was trapped in a relatively small space by the grand formation, all his divine abilities were useless. Just after escaping for a moment, he was surrounded by Song Qingming and Jin Feng again.

"Fellow Daoist Song, Qingze really didn't die at my hands. You don't need to fight me to the death here. As long as you are willing to hand over the thing to me, I can exchange it with a third-tier spiritual object. How about that?"

After being fiercely attacked by Song Qingming and Jin Feng for only a dozen rounds, Du Yucheng was already somewhat unable to handle it and began to transmit sound to Song Qingming to make peace again.

However, the magic treasure in Song Qingming's hand never stopped attacking, and the rhythm of the attack became more and more fierce. Not long after, one of Du Yucheng's wings was directly slashed into two pieces by Song Qingming on the spot.

"Fellow Daoist Song, stop fighting. You take that thing. Don't worry, I won't mention this matter to my master and will absolutely not tell others about you."

Du Yucheng, who had transformed back into human form, had one of his left arms already fallen to the ground, and dark black blood couldn't stop flowing out. Just like this, he knelt on the ground with a miserable face and begged Song Qingming in front of him for mercy, completely without a trace of his previous arrogant expression.

"Hmph! Since fellow daoist is so kind to keep secrets for me, how can I not let you get your wish!"

Facing Du Yucheng, who had no ability to handle it anymore, Song Qingming, who had long since seen his acting level, did not show mercy and soon slashed off his head with one sword.

The Du Yucheng who had just died, not long after, his primordial spirit soon emerged from the top of his corpse's head and flew outward, wanting to escape from this place. However, just when he wanted to pass through the grand formation outside, a copper mirror suddenly appeared in front of him and shot a colorful light at him, fixing Du Yucheng's primordial spirit in mid-air.

Immediately following this, two iron chains shot out from a crimson-yellow spiritual talisman in Song Qingming's hand, directly locking his primordial spirit and pulling him directly into the spiritual talisman.

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