Chapter 678

Just as Huang Siyuan's expression sank and she controlled her magic treasure, preparing to counterattack the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" that was approaching again, a familiar sound transmission suddenly entered her ears.

Seeing this, Huang Siyuan immediately gave up on counterattacking the opponent, directly taking her natal magic treasure, the "Purple Jin Yin," which she used for attacks, into her body; then, she focused on controlling the golden jade tripod before her, which turned into a red spiritual light shield to block before her, used to defend against the opponent's attack.

This golden jade tripod magic treasure in Huang Siyuan's hand was something she had exchanged for from the "Heavenly Elixir Alliance" headquarters more than a decade ago using her merits and some spirit stones in order to impact the rank of third-tier alchemist.

This golden jade tripod could not only be used to refine elixirs, but it was also a third-tier low-quality magic treasure with decent defensive capabilities, very suitable for a high-tier alchemist like Huang Siyuan to refine and use.

Seeing that she had cast several powerful spell attacks in succession and Huang Siyuan only cared about defense, seemingly unable to counterattack him anymore, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was overjoyed and cast spells to intensify his attack on Huang Siyuan, soon gaining the upper hand.

After trading dozens more rounds with the opponent, Huang Siyuan retreated as she fought, soon approaching the northeast corner outside the market.

The "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," which was casting spells to attack in a group, saw that Huang Siyuan was gradually losing to him and thought she wanted to take the opportunity to flee back into the mountain-protecting formation; his escape light flashed, and he flew to Huang Siyuan's front a step ahead, blocking her path of retreat.

Just as the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was somewhat proud of himself for blocking his opponent, five dazzling golden lights suddenly appeared not far from him, shining so brightly that his eyes could not even open.

Immediately after, five mirrors of different colors appeared beside the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," and before he could fully react, he was already firmly trapped in the middle.

Seeing Song Qingming casting spells not far away, Huang Siyuan, who had been chased somewhat miserably by the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" just now, immediately had a smile appear on her face.

The reason Song Qingming had not struck during Huang Siyuan's previous battle with the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was not only because he wanted to give Huang Siyuan some opportunities to fight a high-tier demon king, but also because he was guarding against the possibility that there might be more than one demon king hidden in the demon beast army, which was why he had not appeared from the beginning.

It was not until shortly before that Song Qingming, who had been scanning the entire battlefield, had confirmed that there were no other demon kings in the demon beast army, that he locked his gaze back onto the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon."

The demon beast army heading south was mainly driven by demon kings of the third tier or above; since only the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" had come here, as long as they found an opportunity to kill this demon, the demon beast army would inevitably collapse quickly once it was left without a leader.

After making up his mind, Song Qingming took the opportunity to send a sound transmission to Huang Siyuan, asking her to pretend to be defeated and lure the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" to the east of the market, while he himself used the Illusion Boat to hide his figure and had long been lying in ambush here.

Song Qingming had also dealt with the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" demon king back at "Purple Star Market" and knew well that this demon's personality was relatively cunning and cautious, not as easy to deal with as the "White Lion demon king" of those years.

If Song Qingming had appeared directly to strike the opponent with Huang Siyuan, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" would definitely have fled immediately and would not have given Song Qingming and the others many opportunities to entangle him.

At that time, if the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" hid in the demon beast army and retreated under the cover of so many demon beasts, even if Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan had strong divine abilities, it would be difficult for them to keep him.

To find an opportunity to kill this demon king here, they had to find a way to separate the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" from the demon beast army under his command to cut off his path of retreat.

Suddenly trapped by Song Qingming's natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," realizing he had been ambushed, did not panic and immediately swung his huge dragon tail, wanting to use brute force to break this magic treasure that trapped him.

However, what surprised the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was that with his powerful physical body as a mid-stage Jin Dan demon beast, crashing into Song Qingming's natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," did not shake the opponent in the slightest, and he was even shaken by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" until his body felt a bit numb.

Back when Song Qingming first fought the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" at "Purple Star Market," his cultivation was only at the first layer of Jin Dan, and his natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," was struggling even to block the opponent's attacks, let alone trap the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" like it was doing now.

However, times had changed; after a hundred years of cultivation, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" cultivation strength had not improved much, but Song Qingming's cultivation had already risen from the first layer of Jin Dan when he had just formed his core to the peak of the sixth layer of Jin Dan, and his strength had already surpassed the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon."

Added to the fact that Song Qingming had refined his natal magic treasure using the "Green Jade Treasure Refining Art," a cultivation method he had just created while at the "Grand Void Gate" in recent years, which greatly enhanced its power, Song Qingming's natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," now had power equivalent to a very formidable third-tier top-quality magic treasure; using it now to trap a mid-stage Jin Dan demon king with average strength like the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was not a major pressure at all.

After trying several times in succession and seeing that he could not break free for a while, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," trapped in the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," was suddenly somewhat panicked and let out a series of fierce roars, wanting to summon the nearby demon beast army to come and help him out of the siege.

"Siyuan, don't worry about the other demon beasts outside for now; let's make a quick decision and kill this scoundrel first."

Seeing that a dozen second-tier demon beasts nearby had taken the lead and were rushing toward this side, Song Qingming released "Golden Wind" to guard the side, and then he and Huang Siyuan directly entered the cage formed by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

The "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," which had just taken out a curved blade magic treasure from his body and was about to continue attacking this cage that trapped him, suddenly saw two figures appear not far before him; discovering that it was Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan who had come, he hurriedly shifted his attack target and took the initiative to kill toward the two of them.

After meeting, Song Qingming did not want to give the opponent a chance to delay time; with a flicker of spiritual light in his hand, the "Golden Radiance Treasure Light Ring" had already flown out directly toward the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon."

Seeing this aggressive third-tier top-quality magic treasure attacking, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" did not dare to be careless and quickly gathered a thick water wall before him to block the "Golden Radiance Treasure Light Ring's" attack.

Just as the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" blocked Song Qingming's attack, a golden jade seal the size of several zhang square above his head had already smashed down, forcing the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" to exert all his strength to control the curved blade magic treasure beside him to step forward and deal with it.

Most high-tier cultivators on the demon clan side were not good at cultivation skills, so demon kings generally rarely held magic treasures; this curved blade magic treasure on the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was not refined by himself either, but was bestowed by the newly arrived "Brother Molong Demon Emperor."

Although this curved blade magic treasure was not of high grade, only third-tier low-quality, its attributes were very compatible with the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," and it exerted considerable power in his hands, helping him temporarily withstand Huang Siyuan's powerful attack.

However, the good times did not last long; before the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" could catch his breath, the "Golden Radiance Treasure Light Ring" controlled by Song Qingming split into two after being blocked by the water wall, and taking advantage of the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" distraction in dealing with Huang Siyuan's attack, it bypassed the water wall and locked onto his neck and tail.

At this moment, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," locked by the "Golden Radiance Treasure Light Ring," instantly had his magic power flow speed slow down, and the power of controlling his magic treasure weakened all at once; he could only watch helplessly as the "Purple Jin Yin" above his head slowly fell down.

Seeing this, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," who had been forced into a desperate situation by the two of them, roared angrily and directly spat out his natal inner core, repelling Huang Siyuan's attack from above.

After temporarily getting rid of the danger above his head, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" immediately controlled his natal inner core to shoot rapidly to the side, wanting to directly break through the cage formed by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" on the side.

Besides their own spell divine abilities and powerful physical bodies, the most formidable attack method of a Jin Dan demon king was the natal inner core within their bodies; once used, its power was even three points more formidable than magic treasures of the same tier.

Seeing that he was trapped and the low-tier demon beasts outside had failed to approach and help for a long time, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" also knew that it was difficult to escape by this, so he could only try the final attack of his natal inner core.

"Hmph! You still want to run now? It's not that easy!"

Seeing that the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was still putting up a desperate fight, a trace of contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of Song Qingming's mouth.

After mocking the opponent with a sentence, the spiritual light on Song Qingming's body flickered, and several purple lights suddenly shot out from the huge "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" located outside, directly imprisoning the inner core that the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" had just released in mid-air, making it difficult to move even an inch.

Seeing that his natal inner core was actually imprisoned by the divine ability used by the opponent, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" also showed an expression of disbelief and hurriedly exerted all his strength to control the inner core, wanting to make it break free from the control of the purple spiritual light.

However, Huang Siyuan on the side clearly did not want to give him this opportunity; the "Purple Jin Yin" descended from the sky rapidly again, forcing the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" to have to use all his spirit to deal with the opponent's powerful attack.

But this time, without the help of his natal inner core and relying only on the curved blade magic treasure on his body to help, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," whose magic power had been sealed by the "Golden Radiance Treasure Light Ring," was simply unable to parry and was soon smashed by the "Purple Jin Yin," letting out a painful cry.

After heavily wounding the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" with one blow, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan did not give the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" any more time to delay, and they continuously unleashed their magic treasures.

In less than half an incense stick of time, the two of them joined forces and soon forced the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," whose inner core was imprisoned, into a state of being unable to cope; the wounds on his huge body became more and more numerous, and the power of the spells he cast was far less than before.

The "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," forced into a desperate situation, also knew well that he was doomed today; he spat out a large cloud of white mist from his mouth, shrouding his entire body, and then his huge figure disappeared before Song Qingming and the two of them.

"Hmph! You still want to use this trick? Today is your death day!"

Seeing the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" spit out his specialty poisonous mist again to hide his figure with illusion arts.

Song Qingming, whose spiritual sense had already spread throughout the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," gave a contemptuous smile, and the golden flying sword in his hand immediately headed straight for the mid-air not far from the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" natal inner core, forcing out the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," who wanted to reclaim his inner core.

Song Qingming, who had cultivated the "Soul-Devouring Art" to the Jin Dan stage, now had a spiritual sense within his body comparable to a peak Jin Dan cultivator like Bai Yuxian, and he was no longer someone who could be mentioned in the same breath as the one from a hundred years ago.

At this moment, in this space wrapped by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," it was clearly impossible for the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" to rely on illusion arts to dodge Song Qingming's spiritual sense detection.

Facing the siege of two Jin Dan cultivators, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, and with his most powerful illusion divine ability suppressed by Song Qingming's strong spiritual sense, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" no longer had any means to turn the tables.

Even if the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" finally exerted all his strength to control his natal inner core to break free from the entanglement of the purple spiritual light, he had already lost most of his combat power due to his severe injuries and ultimately failed to break through the cage set by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror." After another cry of unwillingness, Song Qingming, holding a golden flying sword, exerted all his strength to break through the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" final defensive shield with one sword, decapitating a huge dragon head and finally killing this mid-stage Jin Dan demon king outside "Jin Shan Market."

Seeing that this Jin Dan demon king, which had wreaked havoc in the north of Wei Kingdom for hundreds of years, had finally died at their hands today, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan were also filled with surprise.

After the two collected the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" natal inner core and the magic treasure on his body, Song Qingming flickered his spiritual light and put away the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" that had been deployed outside.

Subsequently, the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" huge body, dozens of zhang long, fell directly from high above, shaking the many demon beasts and cultivators who were still fighting nearby below.

The many low-tier demon beasts that were closest and preparing to come to support were blocked halfway by "Golden Wind," and even if they were desperate to come and help regardless of sacrifice, they still failed to approach this side.

At this moment, seeing the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" corpse suddenly fall from the sky, they were also startled and hurriedly turned and fled toward the rear.

The many second-tier demon beasts in front began to collapse, which also affected some of the demon beast army nearby, causing them to fall into chaos as well.

Low-tier demon beasts had weak intelligence; without the command of a high-tier demon king, they could only fight on their own and would even kill each other.

Seeing that the demon beast army on the scene had begun to lose control, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan immediately stepped forward to command the "Jin Shan Market" cultivator army to launch a full-scale counterattack against the demon beast army before them.

This demon beast army's strength was not much different from the human cultivator side to begin with; now, facing the leading attack of two Jin Dan cultivators, under the leadership of a few late-stage Foundation Establishment demon beasts, they quickly began to collapse and turned to flee toward the north.

"The demon beasts have retreated! We finally won!"

As the many demon beasts on the scene began to retreat on a large scale, the many human cultivators who were fighting a life-and-death battle with them immediately had smiles appear on their faces and began to pursue the retreating demon beast army with all their might.

Facing this rare and excellent opportunity to earn merit, the many cultivators of "Jin Shan Market" did not dare to miss it easily and immediately scrambled to chase after them, fearing that they would miss this rare opportunity on the battlefield.

Having finally managed to defeat the demon beast army this time, Song Qingming did not go to stop the crowd from pursuing these fleeing demon beasts too much.

After helping the crowd pursue the demon beasts for dozens of li, Song Qingming gave a few instructions to Song Xuanfeng, who controlled the law enforcement team, and then returned with Huang Siyuan to the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" corpse on the east side of the battlefield, beginning to collect the demon beast materials on this Jin Dan demon king.

In this battle, although the "Jin Shan Market" cultivators won a great victory over the demon beast army, they also paid a considerable price; at this moment, besides the various demon beast corpses scattered all over the battlefield, many human cultivator corpses were also lying there.

Most of the cultivators who went to pursue the demon beasts had not returned yet; those responsible for cleaning up the battlefield were the law enforcement team cultivators who had been on standby in the rear.

Ever since his experience in the East Sea cultivation world last time, Song Qingming had not killed a demon king above the Jin Dan stage for a long time; this time, killing the mid-stage Jin Dan demon king "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" so smoothly was still somewhat beyond Song Qingming's expectations.

The "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" illusion divine ability was very difficult to deal with, and after obtaining the curved blade magic treasure bestowed by the Brother Molong Demon Emperor, his strength was not very weak among mid-stage Jin Dan demon kings.

If it weren't for the fact that he encountered Song Qingming, whose divine ability and strength were no longer inferior to ordinary cultivators of the same tier and who knew him very well, if it had been replaced by other mid-stage Jin Dan cultivators in the Xiaoyao Sect, even if they could defeat this demon, it would have been very difficult to keep him.

However, choosing to drive the demon beast army to attack "Jin Shan Market" alone and bumping into Song Qingming, who countered his divine ability, could be considered this demon's bad luck.

After stripping off the most valuable beast horns and beast skin from the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," Song Qingming broke open his corpse with one sword and searched within the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" body, unexpectedly discovering a blue sphere.

"Husband, what is this thing?"

Seeing the spiritual energy radiating from the blue sphere in Song Qingming's hand, Huang Siyuan on the side hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"This thing seems to be the Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's gall; I didn't expect this guy to have a good third-tier material in his body. This thing is more suitable for refining elixirs, so I'll give it to you."

After picking up the blue flood dragon gall and examining it carefully before his eyes, Song Qingming responded with a smile and wanted to hand the blue flood dragon gall in his hand to Huang Siyuan.

At this moment, a strange movement suddenly came from the spirit beast bag at Song Qingming's waist.

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly placed the blue flood dragon gall in Huang Siyuan's hand and cast a spell to open the spirit beast bag at his waist.

Just after opening the spirit beast bag, a crimson shadow flew out from within and arrived on Song Qingming's shoulder; it was his spirit beast, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon," which he had cultivated for many years.

"You little guy, didn't I just give you a few spirit fruits a few days ago? Why are you making a fuss again for no reason!"

The "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon," which had just run out of the spirit beast bag, did not pay attention to Song Qingming, who was talking in its ear; after quickly scanning the surroundings, its gaze soon locked onto the blue flood dragon gall in Huang Siyuan's hand.

Before Song Qingming could finish his words, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" had already leaped and flew rapidly onto Huang Siyuan's shoulder, then quickly crawled along Huang Siyuan's arm to the blue flood dragon gall in her hand, opening its mouth to swallow the entire gall in one gulp.

"Hmm? Who told you to swallow this thing? Spit it out for me quickly."

Seeing the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" suddenly swallow this precious material that could be used for refining elixirs, Song Qingming, who had reacted, immediately had a look of displeasure appear on his face and rebuked it angrily.

Ever since this "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" was hatched, it had been well-fed and well-cared for by following Song Qingming all these years, and he had already raised it to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

The value of the spirit items Song Qingming had spent on the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" over these decades added up to probably ten or twenty thousand spirit stones, and he had not treated it poorly; he did not expect this guy's courage to be growing, actually daring to snatch the blue flood dragon gall he gave to Huang Siyuan.

After hearing Song Qingming's rebuke, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" was somewhat fearful and immediately shrank its head to the side, but it still could not bear to spit out the blue flood dragon gall in its mouth.

Seeing that the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" dared to resist his order, Song Qingming's expression also changed, and anger rose from his heart; he raised one hand, preparing to cast a spell to teach this bold spirit beast a lesson.

"Husband, let it be! Seeing that it likes this thing so much, it should be helpful to its cultivation.

Although this flood dragon gall can be used for refining elixirs, it is not the main ingredient for any high-tier elixir and cannot be considered a precious item; leaving it for me to refine elixirs might not necessarily be of much use, so it doesn't matter much if I reward it."

Just as Song Qingming intended to teach the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" a lesson, Huang Siyuan on the side smiled and raised her hand to stop him, then handed the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" in her hand back to Song Qingming.

Hearing Huang Siyuan speak for it, Song Qingming was silent for a moment, then lowered his raised right hand and took the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon," which was still looking at him with some fear.

At this moment, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon," which had swallowed the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" blue flood dragon gall, also had some changes in its aura, seemingly refining the gall within its body.

Seeing this, Song Qingming did not say anything more; after glaring at it, he directly put it into the spirit beast bag at his waist.

After the two handled the materials on the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," they did not stay on the battlefield for long and directly returned to the cave dwelling on the west side of the market.

The battle to pursue the demon beasts continued from the afternoon until dusk.

Seeing that the dim sky had already darkened, the many "Jin Shan Market" cultivators who had already chased more than a hundred li away finally let go of the panicked and scurrying demon beasts and turned back to return to "Jin Shan Market."

In this great battle outside "Jin Shan Market," under the leadership of Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, they not only killed the cunning mid-stage Jin Dan demon king "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" but also wiped out more than a thousand low-tier demon beasts of various first and second tiers.

In just over a day, the "Jin Shan Market" cultivators defeated the invading demon beast army in one battle, which could be considered an unprecedented great victory.

After those victorious cultivators returned to the market, every one of them had faces filled with the joy of victory.

From preparing for battle a few months ago until now, no one expected that they, who were already prepared for a protracted war against the demon beasts, would defeat this wave of fierce attacks by the demon beasts so quickly. (End of chapter)