Chapter 801

Hearing the pleas for mercy from Ma Wuchen coming from the "Soul-Suppressing Talisman," Song Qingming remained as calm as usual, unmoved, and directly took out a bowl-shaped magic tool specially designed to imprison a cultivator's soul.

Subsequently, he cast a spell to retrieve the spiritual talisman from afar, ignoring Ma Wuchen's pleas for mercy, and threw the "Soul-Suppressing Talisman" into the magic tool.

Demonic cultivators above the Golden Core stage generally leave themselves a backup plan; if their soul is not completely annihilated, it is very easy for them to escape and undergo possession to re-cultivate.

After capturing Ma Wuchen's soul that had escaped his physical body, Song Qingming finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and completely set his mind at ease.

Facing a high-level demonic cultivator like Ma Wuchen, whose cultivation had reached the peak of Golden Core, Song Qingming did not have much certainty of annihilating the other party at the beginning and had not intended to fight to the death with him.

It was just that Ma Wuchen's greed for the "Heaven-Reaching Token" caused Song Qingming to lose his last shred of luck, and he had no choice but to risk exposing his identity and decisively take action to kill him here.

If Ma Wuchen had escaped this battle, once the secret regarding the "Heaven-Reaching Token" was spread by him, or if his master, the "Red Blood Old Demon," learned of this matter.

This would undoubtedly be a huge hidden danger for Song Qingming and the entire Song family. After all, the Song family was just a small Golden Core immortal clan and could not possibly have the ability to contend with a Nascent Soul cultivator like the "Red Blood Old Demon."

Fortunately, after a great battle, Ma Wuchen ultimately failed to escape and was successfully killed and his soul suppressed by Song Qingming, which allowed Song Qingming to slightly set aside the worry in his heart.

After capturing Ma Wuchen's soul, Song Qingming released his powerful spiritual sense again to scan the surroundings to prevent any negligence or omissions.

Until he was sure there were no omissions in the vicinity, Song Qingming used true fire to burn away all traces of Ma Wuchen on the battlefield, as well as those few "Blood Corpse Puppets," before quickly returning to the sky above the deserted island.

These "Blood Corpse Puppets" were all refined by extracting the souls of living people. Although Song Qingming did not know their specific identities before they died, he knew they should all be righteous path cultivators who had been unlucky enough to die at Ma Wuchen's hands in recent years.

Having unfortunately fallen at the hands of a demonic cultivator during their lifetime, and having their physical bodies refined into "Blood Corpse Puppets" after death, with even their souls unable to escape the other party's control and unable to reincarnate, it was indeed somewhat pathetic and lamentable! However, all of this vanished with Song Qingming's great fire, and these people could finally be considered to have escaped the demonic cultivator's shackles and could be reincarnated as humans again.

Returning to the deserted island battlefield, Song Qingming scanned the area and did not see Song Qingyu's figure, so he hurried to the cave below, where he saw Li Xiuning and Song Qingyu inside.

Song Qingyu had been injured by the self-destruction of a "Blood Corpse Puppet" at the end, and coupled with excessive consumption of magic power, the blood poison in her body was no longer under control, and she had fallen into a coma not long after falling from mid-air.

Li Xiuning, who had been hiding in the cave, saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to bring Song Qingyu back into the cave and helped her take a few healing pills.

It was just that Li Xiuning did not have any high-level pills on her, and her help for Song Qingyu's injuries was very limited, so much so that she still showed no signs of improvement.

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly stepped forward to check and found that Song Qingyu's blood poison had flared up and invaded her heart meridians, so he immediately took out a third-grade detoxifying pill and fed it into her mouth.

Most of the high-level detoxifying pills Song Qingming had on him were refined by Huang Siyuan.

Thanks to her, this third-grade alchemist, over these years, almost all cultivators in the entire Song family had much more generous supplies of pills than other cultivators in the surrounding area, and even disciples from the "Carefree Sect" occasionally came to Mount Funiu to seek pills.

After helping Song Qingyu take a third-grade detoxifying pill and seeing her complexion gradually improve, Song Qingming breathed a sigh of relief.

After instructing Li Xiuning to take good care of Song Qingyu, who was still in a coma, Song Qingming got up and came outside the cave, retrieving "Jin Feng," which had been embedded in a cliff wall.

In the battle just now, "Jin Feng" had been severely injured by Ma Wuchen's strike, his entire chest had collapsed, revealing a huge hole, and one of his legs had also been broken into two pieces.

Although this level of injury was not fatal for a corpse puppet, Song Qingming could slowly repair it as long as he collected the materials.

But seeing the miserable state of "Jin Feng," who had followed him for many years, Song Qingming felt a bit unbearable in his heart, sighed, and hurriedly retrieved him into his spirit beast bag first.

By the time Song Qingming had dealt with the traces of the battlefield and returned to the cave, Song Qingyu had already woken up, and after refining the detoxifying pill, her complexion had slowly returned to normal.

Seeing Song Qingming return to the cave, Song Qingyu hurriedly got up and asked: "Seventh Brother, did that old demon run away? Should we leave here quickly?"

"Rest assured! He will not appear again, but the commotion just now was too big, and I'm afraid it has already alarmed the nearby cultivators. It's not safe for us here either, so let's change to another place to help you heal!"

Seeing that Song Qingyu's injuries had improved a lot, Song Qingming felt gradually relieved, nodded in response to her, and then took her and Li Xiuning out of the cave.

A moment later, the three of them, already standing on the "Phantom Boat," turned into a streak of white light and left the deserted island, heading south.

About an hour later, two streaks of light, one blue and one white, flew over the deserted island, which had already become very quiet, and turned into two figures standing in mid-air.

One of the blue-robed women looked at the battlefield below the deserted island, which had been reduced to ruins, frowned slightly, and said:

"Senior Brother Chen, there was such a big commotion here, could it be that someone was hunting a Demon King?"

The white-robed man on the side heard this, but shook his head with a solemn expression:

"Hunting a Demon King! I don't think so. If it were hunting an ordinary Demon King, how could it be fought like this? The person who appeared here is definitely a late-stage Golden Core expert or higher."

"Late-stage Golden Core cultivator? This... who exactly would dare to make trouble here so blatantly? Could this person be a loose cultivator from out of town?

Senior Brother Chen, should we inform the sect about this first!"

Hearing that a late-stage Golden Core cultivator might have appeared nearby, a trace of surprise appeared on the blue-robed woman's face, and she immediately asked another question.

The white-robed man looked around with a solemn face and did not directly answer the blue-robed woman's question, but directly cast a spell to take out a golden spiritual talisman and threw it into mid-air.

This spiritual talisman instantly turned into a ball of golden light in the air, and then this golden ball automatically flew to the battlefield below.

After the golden ball circled the battlefield and returned to the white-robed man's hand, there were already several thin black lights on it.

"This is... demonic energy. Could it be that there was a Golden Core demonic cultivator here!"

Seeing the black light appearing on the golden ball in the white-robed man's hand, the blue-robed woman was shocked and couldn't help but shout out.

The white-robed man saw this and sighed slightly: "Sigh! I had heard before that cultivators nearby were disappearing inexplicably, and I had always thought it was the work of demonic beasts.

Only after arriving here just now did I feel a trace of faint demonic energy. It seems that a Golden Core demon must have appeared nearby.

With just the two of us, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find them. We still need to go back and discuss it with the Elders before making a decision!"

After the two of them agreed in mid-air, they quickly turned into two streaks of light and disappeared from the sky above the deserted island.

At the same time, in the sky a thousand miles away from the deserted island.

Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and the three of them were standing on the "Phantom Boat," looking at an island that was getting closer and closer in the distance, and a look of relief appeared on all three of their faces.

After more than an hour of rapid travel, the three of them had successfully moved away from the deserted island and entered the territory controlled by a small country surrounding Song Guo.

Because this country was subordinate to the Wu Guo in the south and had a relatively ordinary relationship with the "Profound Origin Sect" of Song Guo, under normal circumstances, cultivators from the "Profound Origin Sect" could not easily enter this area.

Having left the sphere of influence of Song Guo, the few of them did not need to worry about running into cultivators from the "Profound Origin Sect" at any time, so they boldly landed on this island not far from the lake shore.

On this island named "Xufengdao," there was a second-grade medium-tier spiritual vein, and a small marketplace about the same size as Qinghefang had been established on it.

Because there were many demonic beasts in "Taiyue Lake," many cultivators from surrounding countries liked to go deep into the lake to hunt demonic beasts, and since this place was not far from the lake shore, many cultivators coming and going to hunt demons liked to stop here to rest.

When Li Xiuning was wandering in Song Guo years ago, she had come here several times with friends and was relatively familiar with the situation here.

When she heard Song Qingming ask to find a small marketplace to rest so that Song Qingyu could easily heal her injuries, Li Xiuning thought of this place immediately.

After the flying boat arrived not far from "Xufengdao," Song Qingming deliberately slowed down, and then performed the transformation technique that "Long Feng" had given him years ago to disguise his appearance and cultivation.

Although Song Qingming's practice of this technique was not as powerful as "Long Feng's," and could not deceive cultivators of the same rank as him, it was no problem to deal with the low-level cultivators at the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining levels on "Xufengdao" right now.

After the flying boat landed at the port on the west side of the island, Li Xiuning, who was familiar with the situation here, immediately jumped down first and threw a wooden plaque that could prove her identity to the marketplace guards who hurried up to greet them.

Seeing the familiar wooden plaque, the small cultivator whose cultivation was only at the seventh layer of Qi Refining hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Li Xiuning.

After asking Li Xiuning about the identities of Song Qingming and the other behind her, he quickly returned the wooden plaque to them and respectfully invited the three of them into the marketplace.

This small marketplace on "Xufengdao," although similar to "Qinghefang."

However, because it was located near "Taiyue Lake" and was full of cultivators coming and going to hunt demons, their cultivation was still significantly higher than that of the cultivators in "Qinghefang."

Just after walking into the marketplace, Song Qingming saw several Foundation Establishment cultivators whose cultivation was similar to Li Xiuning's, which was rare in "Qinghefang" of the same size.

The cultivators coming and going on the street, seeing the three strange Foundation Establishment cultivators walking in, only looked a little curious and didn't show too much surprise. With the help of Li Xiuning, who was familiar with the situation, the three of them didn't spend much effort and quickly rented a few cave dwellings with good spiritual energy in the marketplace.

After taking the third-grade detoxifying pill, although the injuries on Song Qingyu's body were suppressed, the blood poison in her body had not yet been cleared.

If this dragged on for too long, once the blood poison seeped into the cultivator's internal organs, it would be troublesome to clear it later, and it might leave some hidden dangers in the body.

It was precisely because of this concern that Song Qingming did not choose to rush back to Wei Guo, but first looked for a place nearby where they could safely go into seclusion, allowing Song Qingyu to clear the blood poison from her body first.

After handing over all the pills that could assist in healing to Song Qingyu, Song Qingming carefully instructed her before walking out of the cave dwelling where Song Qingyu was in seclusion.

Subsequently, Song Qingming personally set up a protective array outside and instructed Li Xiuning to watch over the cave dwelling where Song Qingyu was in seclusion.

Li Xiuning had come to help search for the "Heaven and Earth Divine Thunder" this time, and in addition to the "Barrier-Breaking Pill" that Song Qingming had promised her before, she had also received some extra rewards from Song Qingming, and she was already grateful to Song Qingming in her heart.

Moreover, having experienced the battle on the deserted island, she could be considered to have witnessed the powerful divine abilities of these Golden Core cultivators, and at this moment, she did not dare to have any thoughts about Song Qingming's instructions.

After making these preparations, Song Qingming finally felt relieved to return to his own cave dwelling on the side and took out the storage magic tool he had found on Ma Wuchen earlier.

This time, in order to deal with the great demon Ma Wuchen, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu had suffered huge losses.

Previously, in order to desperately hold off Ma Wuchen and buy time for Song Qingming to refine the "Heaven and Earth Divine Thunder" in his body, Song Qingyu not only got poisoned by the other party's blood poison in the battle but also injured her internal meridians.

Even if she could successfully clear the blood poison from her body this time, it would likely take at least several years to fully recover.

In addition, in the battle, several third-grade spiritual talismans and a defensive magic treasure on Song Qingyu's body were all consumed in the battle.

Subsequently, when Song Qingming fought Ma Wuchen, the white scroll magic treasure that had just been repaired not long ago was also forcibly broken by Ma Wuchen, damaging this third-grade high-tier magic treasure again.

The most miserable was the corpse puppet "Jin Feng," who had followed Song Qingming for many years, which was severely damaged in this great battle, and it was unknown how much time and materials it would take to repair it.

Adding these things together, Song Qingming and the other had lost at least nearly 100,000 spirit stones in this battle.

Although since forming his core, Song Qingming's wealth had become more and more abundant over these years, and he had many high-level magic treasures and spiritual items, and even more than one fourth-grade magic treasure.

But having experienced the struggle for a few spirit stones since he was a child, he had long been used to living frugally, and losing so many spirit stones at once still made Song Qingming feel a long-lasting heartache after the battle.

He didn't know if the storage magic tool of Ma Wuchen he finally obtained could give him some surprises to compensate for some of Song Qingming's losses in the previous great battle.

The restrictions placed on the storage magic tool on Ma Wuchen were very complex, and even with Song Qingming, a third-grade medium-tier array master, taking action, it still took a full three days to erase all the restrictions on it.

After opening Ma Wuchen's storage magic tool, Song Qingming, with a somewhat nervous mood, slowly probed his spiritual sense into it and took out all the spiritual items in the storage magic tool.

"No way! At least you are a dignified peak Golden Core great demon, how can you be so poor!"

Before opening Ma Wuchen's storage magic tool, Song Qingming had also thought that since the other party was a demonic cultivator, there wouldn't be many good things that he could have.

But after seeing the few items that were truly pitiful that he had just taken out of the storage magic tool on the table, Song Qingming still couldn't help but show a very disappointed look on his face.

Except for the "Black Gourd" that Song Qingming had seen long ago, the rest were only two third-grade low-tier magic treasures of poor quality, and a few low-level spiritual talismans of even lower quality.

And then there were a few demonic cultivation technique classics and pills that Song Qingming didn't even bother to look at, and then there was nothing else.

Most of the magic treasures used by demonic cultivators were already contaminated with demonic energy, and their value in the marketplace was far inferior to normal magic treasures.

The value of those two third-grade magic treasures added together might not even be able to be exchanged for 10,000 spirit stones.

The best of the few magic treasures, the "Black Gourd," although its divine ability was not weak and its grade had reached the fourth grade, it was also a high-level magic treasure contaminated with demonic energy.

Moreover, this fourth-grade magic treasure had also been damaged by Song Qingming's spellcasting in the previous battle, losing the life-bound demonic beast soul inside, and it was unknown how many spirit stones it would take to repair it.

If Song Qingming sold it directly in the marketplace, the value would certainly not be very high, and being able to exchange it for 20,000 or 30,000 spirit stones would already be considered good luck.

The things on Ma Wuchen added together didn't even reach 50,000 spirit stones, which really disappointed Song Qingming, and he couldn't help but think of Du Yu, who was as poor as him back then.

"I thought that Du Yu, as a disciple, was already poor enough, but I didn't expect his master, Ma Wuchen, to be not much better than him.

Being so poor, I don't know how he still dared to talk about having a chance to condense a Nascent Soul.

These demonic cultivators can really say anything."

After putting away the things on the table with a disappointed face, Song Qingming set up a soul-locking array in the cave dwelling and took out the bowl-shaped magic tool that sealed Ma Wuchen's soul.

Ever since he killed Du Yu back then and formed a grudge with the other party, Song Qingming had often worried over these years that Ma Wuchen and the "Red Blood Old Demon" behind him would come to his door.

After killing his opponent a few days ago, the reason he didn't directly annihilate Ma Wuchen's soul was that Song Qingming also wanted to try soul-searching to see how much this guy knew about him.

And also, these high-level demonic cultivators have always been cunning, and after capturing the other party's soul, he could also find the hideouts hidden behind him through soul-searching.

Maybe he could even find some extra treasures from it to make up for his losses.

After opening the magic tool that sealed the soul, the spiritual talisman that imprisoned "Ma Wuchen's" soul immediately floated out automatically, and then Song Qingming cast a spell to open the spiritual talisman and release his soul.

Ma Wuchen, who had just escaped, turned into a ball of black smoke and wanted to run away, but before he could run very far, the surroundings of the cave dwelling instantly shone with spiritual light, forming a golden light that locked his soul in mid-air.

"This fellow Daoist! Please have mercy and let me go. I really know a technique that can assist cultivators in condensing a Nascent Soul. As long as you can let me go, I will definitely offer this technique with both hands.

In the future, I am also willing to stay and be a servant for you. With my cultivation and ability, I can definitely help you a lot.

As long as you agree, I can worship you as my master, or worship you as my righteous..."

"Too much nonsense!"

Song Qingming, who hadn't found any good things on him just now, was already a bit displeased with him in his heart, and hearing Ma Wuchen babbling on and on, he became even more impatient and immediately used the soul-searching secret technique on him.

As the secret technique was performed, the words Ma Wuchen hadn't finished speaking came to an abrupt end.

Because Song Qingming had already used the soul-searching secret technique when he killed the ghost cultivator Wen Tianyang in Mount Yunwu back then, he was already familiar with it when performing it again today.

However, compared to the ghost cultivator Wen Tianyang, who had lost part of his memory back then, Ma Wuchen's soul was obviously much more powerful, which made Song Qingming much more strenuous when performing the soul-searching secret technique.

After spending a full half-hour, Song Qingming's spiritual sense was finally able to slowly probe into Ma Wuchen's sea of consciousness and began to try to search his memory.

Watching the numerous memory fragments in the other party's sea of consciousness fly by quickly, Song Qingming immediately began to search for those memory fragments closest to the present, wanting to find information useful to him from them.

Soon, figures familiar to Song Qingming appeared before him.

These included Ma Wuchen's master, the "Red Blood Old Demon," as well as Du Yu, with whom Song Qingming had dealt many times, and other disciples and fellow apprentices of Ma Wuchen.

Through searching Ma Wuchen's memory, Song Qingming thought he had discovered a secret he didn't know back then.

That was that the "Red Blood Old Demon" and the Golden Core demon Xiao Huang, who was suppressed in the "Demon-Sealing Valley" back then, were actually fellow apprentices.

After Song Qingming and Feng He joined forces to kill Xiao Huang back then, Ma Wuchen and his junior apprentice brother had both gone to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range to look for Song Qingming for this reason.

It was only because they were stopped by Long Feng and Huo Feng at the end that they inadvertently helped Song Qingming block this disaster.

Knowing these secrets, Song Qingming also felt a bit of lingering fear in his heart. If he hadn't been lucky enough to have just gone to Huo Feng's place back then, he might have really fallen into this person's hands.

As Ma Wuchen's memory fragments continued to flow, some secrets about him also continued to emerge before Song Qingming.

After a full stick of incense, Song Qingming finally finished soul-searching him, and his spiritual sense slowly withdrew from Ma Wuchen's sea of consciousness on its own initiative.

At this time, Song Qingming, although still constantly digesting the information he had obtained in his mind, his complexion was already much better than before.

"There really is a cave dwelling hidden nearby. I hope you won't disappoint me this time!" (End of chapter)