Chapter 342: Uninvited Guest

Seeing Song Qingming staring at the traces on the ground with deep thought after speaking, Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu showed a trace of confusion on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist Song, since this person didn't kill the Fire-Scaled Leopard but just drove it away from here, I guess he is either a high-ranking person who doesn't want people to know, or his cultivation base is just not much different from ours, and he only has the ability to defeat this monster but not the ability to kill the Fire-Scaled Leopard. Since that's the case, we don't have to worry too much."

"Hmm! Seventh Brother, Fellow Daoist Huang's analysis is not bad. Even if this person is still hiding nearby, as long as he has no malice toward us, we don't have to care who he is."

Song Qingming turned around and nodded to Huang Sipo with a smile: "What you said is also reasonable. However, it is always right to be more vigilant. We still need to pay attention recently. You two go to other places to see. There are dark caves everywhere in this rock cave, so be careful. I will collect some materials on the ground and go to Qinghe Market to ask Fellow Daoist Feng later to see if he will know the origin of this person."

Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu nodded immediately upon seeing this, and then left the rock cave and went to other locations to check.

After the two left, Song Qingming took out a sound-insulation talisman to cover himself and asked softly to the empty rock cave: "Senior Feng He, can you see the cultivation base of the person hiding here?"

"I say you kid really look up to me. How long has this person left? How can I be sure of his cultivation base? Do you really think the old man can open the heavenly eye to distinguish all things?"

Hearing Feng He's words, Song Qingming hurriedly apologized: "Senior, don't blame me. The junior just feels that the person hiding here is not very simple, and I feel a bit uneasy in my heart, fearing that if this person is a Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivator, it would not be very safe for you to follow me all the time."

"Don't worry, although the old man can't determine this person's cultivation base, it is absolutely impossible to be a cultivator above the Golden Core stage. However, your feeling is not wrong. Just now I used my spiritual sense to investigate carefully, but I found a trace of residual demonic energy. The person hiding here may be those sneaky demonic cultivators."

"What? Actually a demonic cultivator." Hearing that a Foundation Establishment demonic head might be hiding here, Song Qingming's face suddenly changed greatly.

He had personally experienced the battle to wipe out the demonic head Yang Wuqi back then, and he had also seen the destructive scenes caused by these Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators practicing demonic techniques. A good spiritual mountain could be turned into a hell of corpses and blood in just a few months.

"Hehe! What are you panicking about? It may also be the aura left by this person carrying a demonic weapon, not necessarily a real demonic cultivator.

Even if it is really a demonic cultivator, his cultivation base cannot exceed the Golden Core stage. The old man also dealt with those high-level demonic cultivators back then, and there are ways to deal with them. As long as this demon dares to appear in front of you, hehe, I guarantee he will come and not be able to leave." Feng He's language was very confident.

"In that case, if I really run into this demon in the future, I will have to rely on Senior!" A happy smile appeared on Song Qingming's face.

After collecting some residual refining materials on the ground, Song Qingming got up and left the place. After walking for dozens of zhang into the depths of the rock cave, he ran into Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu who were returning from the inside.

"Seventh Brother, we have checked everything inside. We only found a few spiritual herbs and didn't see anything else." Seeing Song Qingming, Song Qingyu nodded slightly to him.

"Since that's the case, let's leave here first! Although this place is a good Grade 2 spiritual vein, it is a pity that the location is already deep in Mount Yunwu and is of little use. This time we have already found the reason for the monster invasion of Qinghe County, so we can be considered a worthwhile trip."

After Song Qingming finished speaking, he took Song Qingyu and the other two back along the original path and walked out of the rock cave.

However, just after walking to the cave entrance, what surprised the three was that a red light suddenly appeared in the sky in the distance, and it was flying toward this mountain.

"Seventh Brother! This is a Grade 2 monster. It seems to be the original Fire-Scaled Leopard."

"Hmph! It should be wanting to take back its lair. Quickly hide in the cave." Hearing Song Qingyu say this, Song Qingming felt a joy in his heart and hurriedly took the two of them back into the rock cave to hide their figures.

A moment later, a leopard with red light all over its body entered the rock cave cautiously.

This Fire-Scaled Leopard had been entrenched in this Grade 2 spiritual vein for nearly a hundred years. A few months ago, a strange human cultivator came here, defeated it, and drove it away from this place.

The Fire-Scaled Leopard wandered outside with a group of low-level monsters for a few months and never found a stable place to settle down. Although this Fire-Scaled Leopard lost several head-on battles to that person, it always kept its lair in mind. Every once in a while, it would still sneak back to see if there was a chance to take back its spiritual mountain and territory.

However, it didn't know that although the person who drove it out of its nest had long left this place, there were other people waiting for it in the rock cave at this moment.

Not long after the Fire-Scaled Leopard entered the cave, seeing that the person who drove it out of its nest did not appear this time, it couldn't help but feel a bit happy.

However, before it could be happy for long, two cultivators, a man and a woman, suddenly attacked it from the depths of the cave. In this rock cave full of fire-attribute spiritual energy, the Fire-Scaled Leopard's strength would also increase by a few points. Seeing that there was an ambush in it, the Fire-Scaled Leopard, which had already been vigilant, hurriedly ran toward the outside of the rock cave with wind under its feet.

However, just as the Fire-Scaled Leopard was about to escape to the cave entrance, a tall figure was already standing at the cave entrance, blocking its way.

Before at the cave entrance, after seeing the Fire-Scaled Leopard coming this way from afar, Song Qingming let Huang Sipo and Song Qingyu hide in the depths of the rock cave, and he himself used the Hidden Spirit Shirt to hide his aura and hid directly near the cave entrance.

After the Fire-Scaled Leopard threw itself into the net and entered the rock cave, Song Qingming and the three surrounded it from front to back. At this moment, they blocked it in the middle without any effort.

This Fire-Scaled Leopard was just a Grade 2 monster in the early Foundation Establishment stage. Its combat strength in the outside world was not necessarily able to beat Song Qingyu. Now facing the siege of three Foundation Establishment cultivators whose strength was not lower than it, it was soon unable to parry and was killed by Song Qingming and the others in its former lair.

Song Qingming and the few didn't expect that they didn't find this monster in the rock cave before, but when they were about to leave, the Fire-Scaled Leopard came uninvited and fell directly into their encirclement, thus losing its life.