Chapter 51: Killing the Demon Beast

Seeing that the entrance to its cave dwelling had been blown into a mess, this high-level Flame Rat was immediately furious. Its red fur stood up against the wind, undulating like flames in the wind.

Seeing that the Flame Rat had come out, Old Ghost Feng immediately directed the puppet to retreat, and the man and the beast slowly retreated backward.

The Flame Rat opened its small mouth, and a powerful fire light sprayed toward Old Ghost Feng. Seeing this, Old Ghost Feng was not panicked. He had dealt with this demon beast several times and was already very familiar with its divine abilities.

Seeing the flames coming, Old Ghost Feng hurriedly pinched a spell with his right hand and unhurriedly released a water wall to block this flame. After blocking the flames, he pasted a God-Speed Talisman on himself, accelerated his speed, and retreated toward the rear.

Seeing that this hateful human cultivator, who had harassed its cave dwelling many times recently, wanted to escape again, the Flame Rat was very angry and chased after him. The speed of a high-level Flame Rat was also extremely fast, and it soon shortened the distance with Old Ghost Feng, spraying out more than a dozen fire lights along the way, making Old Ghost Feng a bit unable to handle it.

Seeing that the Flame Rat was already far away from the cave entrance, Old Ghost Feng hurriedly shouted toward the distance: "Daoist friend Song, quickly block the demon beast’s retreat!"

Previously, when that white tiger puppet beast first acted, Song Qingming had already taken advantage of the chaos to touch the side of the Flame Rat’s cave dwelling. Seeing Old Ghost Feng lure the Flame Rat away, Song Qingming soon appeared and blocked the Flame Rat’s rear, cutting off its retreat.

He summoned his magic treasures, the Blazing Sun Sword and the Black Gold Shield, with both hands. Facing a high-level demon beast, he could not afford the slightest slack and had to use his full strength as soon as he acted.

These two magic treasures had been refined by him for many years, and now they were very handy to use. The Blazing Sun Sword released a fire light that hit the Flame Rat’s tail, causing its red-black tail to burn.

Feeling its tail being attacked, the Flame Rat turned around and shook, and the flames burning on its tail were instantly extinguished. It was a fire-attribute demon beast by nature, so it was naturally not afraid of fire attacks. Song Qingming’s attack did not cause any damage to it.

However, Song Qingming’s attack still delayed its attack on Old Ghost Feng. Jia Sixing, who was hiding in the back, took this opportunity to support Old Ghost Feng, and the three of them surrounded the Flame Rat from front and back.

Looking at the two people who suddenly appeared, the Flame Rat did not show panic, but instead revealed its sharp, thin teeth, appearing very manic.

After confronting the three for a while, the Flame Rat soon launched an attack again. Only to see flames flowing on its body, and its squeaking mouth spat out a black fire cloud. After the fire cloud floated in the air for a while, it turned into a black mist of five or six zhang in size, rushing toward Old Ghost Feng and the other person at high speed.

"Be careful, this is the Flame Rat’s unique spell, 'Smoke-Fire Miasma'." Old Ghost Feng shouted to Jia Sixing beside him. He had long known about this spell. On the road here, he had already told Song Qingming and the other two about the Flame Rat’s characteristics and how to deal with them.

The most difficult spell to deal with on the Flame Rat was the Smoke-Fire Miasma. Once covered by the Smoke-Fire Miasma, a cultivator would soon be unable to even figure out the direction in the smoke. The Smoke-Fire Miasma also contained the fire poison that the Flame Rat had refined for many years in its body. If one could not escape for a long time, the cultivator’s eyes might even be blinded by this smoke.

Seeing the black fire cloud coming, Old Ghost Feng and the other person did not dare to be careless. Jia Sixing immediately sacrificed a high-grade Gale Talisman that had been prepared long ago.

A tornado rose from the ground, instantly sweeping away all the black fire clouds above their heads.

Wherever the gale passed, even the rubble on the ground was swept away, exposing the bare mountain body.

A high-grade Level 1 spirit talisman cost at least ten spirit stones. To deal with this Flame Rat, Old Ghost Feng specifically found Captain Lu Yunfei to exchange for this high-grade spirit talisman and handed it to Jia Sixing. Taking advantage of the Flame Rat releasing the Smoke-Fire Miasma from its body, Jia Sixing seized this good opportunity and sacrificed this high-grade spirit talisman, blowing away the Flame Rat’s Smoke-Fire Miasma.

The Smoke-Fire Miasma was a life-bound spell that the Flame Rat had refined for many years. If it wanted to use it again, it would be impossible for this Flame Rat to use it again without three or five years of cultivation and refining.

Without this spell, the Flame Rat’s divine abilities instantly dropped by twenty or thirty percent, and it immediately began to panic, seeing that the situation was not good and wanting to escape back into the cave.

As soon as it turned its head, it happened to bump into Song Qingming’s Black Gold Shield. Song Qingming held the shield with his right hand and pressed hard against the Flame Rat’s hard head, while his left hand released the Blazing Sun Sword and slashed at the Flame Rat’s neck. Unexpectedly, the Flame Rat stretched out the iron claws on its front limbs and hooked his flying sword.

Song Qingming wanted to take back the flying sword, but the flying sword instantly broke away from his hand, was slapped to the ground by the Flame Rat, and Song Qingming’s left hand also felt numb in the tiger’s mouth, and he was shaken back several steps by the Flame Rat.

Even if a high-level demon beast didn't use spells, its physical body was also very hard. If Song Qingming hadn't practiced the Jade Profound Scripture and had magic power thicker than ordinary mid-Qi Refining stage cultivators, he would have been knocked back by the Flame Rat by now, allowing it to escape back into the cave.

Once this demon beast escaped into the cave, even if the three of them joined forces, the cave was narrow and it was not easy to display divine abilities. Relying on the terrain, the Flame Rat could easily escape even if it wasn't their match. If it really went like that, the three of them would have been busy for nothing.

Just when Song Qingming was having trouble handling it, Old Ghost Feng and Jia Sixing also sacrificed the magic treasures in their hands and launched an attack on the Flame Rat.

Jia Sixing seemed to have practiced a set of impressive footwork. Only to see him as light as a swallow, his feet seeming to step on a burst of purple mist, appearing around the Flame Rat like a ghost, holding two short blades more than half a foot long in his hands, constantly leaving bloodstains on the Flame Rat’s body.

Every time the Flame Rat wanted to fight back, it was dodged by his agile figure, making it so angry that it kept spraying flames into the air.

Although Jia Sixing’s attack didn't cause much damage to the Flame Rat, it always attracted a large part of its attention.

The person mainly responsible for the attack among the three was still Old Ghost Feng. With the containment of Song Qingming and Jia Sixing, the high-grade golden flying sword in Old Ghost Feng’s hand soon slashed off one of the Flame Rat’s tails, and his white tiger puppet also kept releasing bursts of thunder light, making the Flame Rat tremble constantly.

Old Ghost Feng practiced a metal-attribute technique, and his attack means were second only to the rare thunder-attribute technique. His cultivation base had long reached the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining, and his magic power was deeper than that of Song Qingming and Jia Sixing.

The high-grade flying sword he sacrificed was also quite sharp, and with the help of the white tiger puppet, even if he had faced the Flame Rat alone several times before, although he hadn't been able to defeat this demon beast, he had always retreated unscathed.

This time, with the help of Song Qingming and the other person, and breaking the Flame Rat’s most powerful Smoke-Fire Miasma divine ability, the Flame Rat was soon beaten by him until it retreated repeatedly. Wanting to escape, it was entangled to death by Song Qingming and the other person.

After two sticks of incense of fierce fighting, following a squeaking wail, Old Ghost Feng cleanly slashed off the Flame Rat’s head with a sword, and the three of them successfully ended this battle.

After killing the Flame Rat, Old Ghost Feng looked at the Flame Rat’s corpse with some reluctance, then smiled and said: "Haha, finally solved this demon thing. I will go and take the White Jade Flower, and leave this to you two Daoist friends."

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