Chapter 291: Facing the Enemy

After Huang Shengxin, who had injured half an arm, took a healing elixir, the injury on his hand quickly improved a bit. After getting up, he frowned and looked around.

"He is injured and can't run far. He must be hiding in this forest. Everyone, search together. Never let this person go." Just after Huang Shengxin finished speaking, he took the lead and rushed into the forest in front.

In the previous strike, he also felt that the enemy's injury was no lighter than his own. Seeing that Cheng Yilong was already a merit in hand, Huang Shengxin could not let him have a chance to escape.

This forest was only five or six miles in radius. The four of Song Qingming divided into two teams and turned around several times inside, but strangely, they didn't see Cheng Yilong's figure at all.

Seeing that there was no figure, Huang Shengxin became a bit anxious and went with Huang Shengyue to search on a small hill not far from the forest.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you search here again. I'll go see how Fellow Daoist Gao is doing, and by the way, mobilize some Qi Refining cultivators to turn this place over completely. I don't believe I can't find this guy's trace."

Lu Yuanfeng saw that Cheng Yilong could not be found in this forest and needed to expand the search range. Relying only on the few of them was really not enough manpower, so he discussed with Song Qingming to mobilize manpower to come back to help. Song Qingming had no objections to this.

Unexpectedly, he had already severely injured this person, but he was hidden by him again. Although Song Qingming and the others had searched several times and hadn't found Cheng Yilong's trace, everyone believed that this guy definitely hadn't had time to escape and was hiding somewhere nearby. It was just that it was not easy to search in the middle of the night, which gave him a chance to hide. Once dawn came, Lu Yuanfeng would mobilize manpower to search, and he would surely be able to drag this guy out quickly.

After Lu Yuanfeng left, Song Qingming circled above the forest again and still didn't find any clues, so he wanted to find a higher position where he could easily see the vicinity, waiting for Lu Yuanfeng to bring people to support.

Just as Song Qingming wanted to find a place to rest for a moment, he suddenly felt a trace of spiritual power fluctuation from the lower left side. This fluctuation was only very light. If it weren't for Song Qingming practicing the Soul Forging Technique, making his spiritual sense three times stronger than ordinary people, he would have found it very difficult to capture this trace of change.

After turning and landing on the ground, Song Qingming took out the Fire Pattern Sword and looked around cautiously.

In front, there was a big tree that three people could hug. The lush branches and leaves covered the surroundings, covering this area under its branches. The area under the big tree was very empty with no shelter. Song Qingming had passed by here when searching before, and he had even checked the tree carefully at that time, but didn't see anything unusual.

"Could it be that some demonic beast is hiding nearby?" Song Qingming walked close to the big tree and checked it again, but still didn't find anything unusual. He also felt that he might have sensed it wrong just now.

Just as Song Qingming shook his head and turned to leave, his eyes suddenly caught a root extending outward beside the big tree, and he noticed a trace of something wrong.

"This is... a concealment array."

Unexpectedly, Cheng Yilong was also a high-level array master. In such a short time, he actually set up an array to hide himself. This array level seemed to be higher than his own. Coupled with the cover of night, no wonder they didn't notice it when they passed by earlier. If it weren't for the commotion he made inside just now, Song Qingming really wouldn't have discovered this place immediately.

After discovering Cheng Yilong's hiding place, Song Qingming didn't intend to go up and fight. Although Cheng Yilong was injured, this person's cultivation was much higher than his own, and he had many life-saving spiritual items on him. If he rushed up rashly, he would likely suffer like Huang Shengxin.

Anyway, this guy couldn't run away for a while, so there was no need for him to take this risk. To be safe, Song Qingming still planned to pretend he hadn't discovered anything unusual and leave here first to notify the two Huang family members nearby. By then, the three of them dealing with Cheng Yilong together would be a sure thing.

Song Qingming looked around other places with a calm face, then walked forward steadily, wanting to pass through this big tree to continue searching.

Just as Song Qingming was about to leave the area under the big tree, he suddenly felt a cold killing intent coming from his body. Having been prepared, he hurriedly used his strongest defensive magic tool, the Azure Water Bell, to cover his whole body inside.

After a bang, Cheng Yilong revealed his figure, holding a sharp black long knife in his hand, looking fiercely at Song Qingming hiding inside the Azure Water Bell.

Cheng Yilong was worthy of being an old fox who had cultivated for over a hundred years. Although Song Qingming had performed very naturally just now, he still couldn't escape his sharp eyes.

When fighting with several people before, Cheng Yilong was forced to a point where he had no choice, so he hardened his heart and used the Heaven Heart Thunder to fight Huang Shengxin to a draw, temporarily hiding in the forest, using the array to hide himself. He thought he had gained this glimmer of life, but he didn't expect Song Qingming and the others to have searched for so long without moving far from here. He himself also understood that if he didn't find a way to escape before dawn, he would also be exposed.

Just when he thought there was no one nearby and wanted to leave the array to escape secretly, he didn't expect to be found a trace by Song Qingming who was patrolling nearby.

Seeing that it was only Song Qingming, who had the lowest cultivation among the few, Cheng Yilong thought he wouldn't be exposed. He also didn't expect Song Qingming's array level to be not low. After some checking, he was still discovered by him. Seeing that he was exposed, Cheng Yilong then decisively walked out of the array to attack Song Qingming.

Fortunately, Song Qingming was also prepared and didn't let his sneak attack succeed. Both of them had their own calculations.

Failing in one strike, Cheng Yilong didn't give up, again disregarding his injuries and concentrating his magic power on the black knife magic tool in his hand, slashing out a dozen knives with all his might, wanting to force open Song Qingming's defense with his higher cultivation.

It was just that the Azure Water Bell in Song Qingming's hand was indeed not an ordinary item. Facing Cheng Yilong's fierce attack like raindrops, although it shook a bit because Song Qingming's magic power was not as good as Cheng Yilong's, it still firmly covered Song Qingming's head.

Seeing that the defensive magic tool on Song Qingming was extraordinary and couldn't be broken through by force, Cheng Yilong suddenly stopped attacking, took out a jade box from his body, threw it aside, and said to Song Qingming: "Yi and fellow Daoist have no deep hatred, so there is really no need to fight to the death. There is a third-tier spiritual medicine in this jade box. I give it to fellow Daoist, please don't force me too hard. What do you think?"

Song Qingming glanced at the jade box thrown aside, not knowing what was inside, and immediately turned his eyes away, not moved by this item. He didn't believe that Cheng Yilong at this moment really wanted to take a third-tier spiritual medicine to buy his life.