Hunting a Peak Foundation-Establishment Demon Beast

It was around dusk.

Ling Pengyun was preparing to return to his cave abode to cultivate.

But suddenly he noticed something, and looking towards the northern horizon, he saw a Immortal Crane and a flying boat flying towards Falling Dusk Mountain.

Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengxing sat on the back of the Immortal Crane, while Yang Changxing of the Peace Cloud Yang Clan and Yang Mingtian, the Yang Clan Head, sat on the flying boat.

Yang Mingtian's cultivation level was originally only at the Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer, but he also gained great benefits during the Beast Tide, and his cultivation level broke through to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.

"Such a grand display, could it be something big?" Ling Pengyun muttered to himself in confusion upon seeing this.

Not long after, the Immortal Crane and the flying boat landed on the Falling Dusk Mountain.

Ling Pengyun followed and went to meet him.

"Ancestral Grandfather Yun Hong, Pengxing Clan Brother, Long Xing Grand Uncle, and Grandfather Mingtian, I wonder if you all have come with such an important matter?" Ling Pengyun asked after bowing to each of them.

"I do have something important to discuss with you. It's been more than three years since the last Heavenly Talisman Auction held by the Sky Talisman Commerce Association, which was jointly established by our two families and your cousin."

"According to the information that came out when we established our chamber of commerce, an auction would be held every five years, and it was guaranteed that Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object would appear at each auction."

"But now our two families don't have many Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object left. After discussing it with fellow Daoists Yang Changxing and Yang Mingtian, we decided to bring you and Peng Xing along. With the strength of the five of us Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator, we will go to the Purple Scorpion Mountain, Demon Beast Gathering Ground in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect territory that is adjacent to our Hundred Spirits Sect territory, to hunt down a few Foundation Establishment Completion demon Demon Beast. We will then use the inner cores of those Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast to refine a few batches of Small Hundred Spirits Water."

"In this way, not only can we offer Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object as the finale item at the Heavenly Talisman Auction two years later, but we will also have no worries about not having Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object for the subsequent Heavenly Talisman Auction."

"At the same time, our two families can also obtain some Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object through this action to assist our Lineage cultivators in Foundation Establishment."

"We can also obtain some Demon Beast materials to refine Second Grade Magic Tool, which can then be added to the merchant guild to serve as its facade."

"Peng Yun, would you be willing to come with us?"

Clan Head Ling Yunhong explained in detail.

Upon hearing this, Ling Pengyun agreed with the idea.

With the combined strength of him and the Clan Head Ling Yunhong (Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer), Ling Pengxing Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer), Yang Changxing Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer), and Yang Mingtian (Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer), it would not be difficult to kill Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast.

As for the location, setting it in the Purple Scorpion Mountain area within the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain region was a last resort.

Although there are still hundreds of thousands of Demon Beast in the Serpent Dragon Lake area, the Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators stationed there will patrol the Serpent Dragon Lake Serpent Dragon Lake area every year and kill those Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast.

To prevent those Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast from breaking through to the Golden Core stage by fortuitous opportunity and causing trouble.

"Of course I'm willing." Ling Pengyun nodded in agreement without much hesitation.

"That's good. We'll set off immediately. What do you think?" Clan Head Ling Yunhong smiled as he saw Ling Pengyun's response.

"Okay." Ling Pengyun nodded slightly, waved his hand and took out a note. Using spiritual power as ink, he carefully wrote small characters on the note.

Then, he placed the note on the stone table there.

Having accomplished this task, he took the two Foundation Establishment Spirit Beast, the Black Armored Turtle and the Wind Shadow Peng, and left Falling Dusk Mountain with Ling Yunhong and the others.

The next day, early morning.

After cultivating all night, Ling Chengping emerged from her cave abode and, as usual, planned to go to the Spirit Plant Garden to use her silkworm rearing secrets on the Earth Silk Spirit Silkworm raised there to accelerate their silk production.

But then they saw a note covered in small characters on the stone table.

She stepped forward curiously to take a look, and her expression immediately became curious.

Although Ling Pengyun wrote a lot on that note, he only mentioned leaving in two sentences.

Ling Pengyun mostly instructed Ling Chengping not to leave Falling Dusk Mountain Falling Dusk Mountain and to cultivate diligently there.

"I wonder where Peng Yun Earl went this time."

After asking a question, Ling Chengping used a token to walk into the cave abode that belonged to Ling Pengyun.

Seeing that neither the Foundation Establishment Realm Black Armored Turtle nor the Wind Shadow Peng, who usually slept and cultivated in this cave abode, were present, her curiosity vanished and replaced by worry.

"In the past, when Peng Yun Earl went out, he would at most take the Wind Shadow Peng with him. This time he took the Black Armored Turtle with him, so it seems that Peng Yun Earl's trip is in danger."

After some speculation, Ling Chengping secretly prayed that "Peng Yun Earl," who treated her like a father, would return safely.

On the other side.

Although the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is located right next to the Hundred Spirits Sect, the Purple Scorpion Mountain area is quite far from Huai River County, a distance of more than two million miles.

It took Ling Pengyun and his group more than thirty days to finally reach the vicinity of Purple Scorpion Mountain.

Like the original Serpent Dragon Lake area, the Purple Scorpion Mountain region is guarded by Golden Core Demon Beast, and there are countless Demon Beast within it.

The Golden Core Demon Beast that guards Purple Scorpion Mountain is a Purple Crystal Scorpion at the Golden Core Initial Stage.

As for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, it is a major Golden Core sect that takes beast taming as its foundation. The sect has a Golden Core stage Spirit Beast and a Golden Core Initial Stage sect leader.

With the combined strength of two Golden Core experts, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is quite powerful among the five major sects of the Yan Kingdom, second only to the Hundred Spirits Sect and the Profound Yang Sect.

Below it are the other two major Golden Core sects, namely Medicine King Valley and Pure Heart Dao Hall. Each of these two sects has only one Golden Core expert in charge.

Medicine King Valley is famous for its Pill Refining, while Pure Heart Dao Hall is famous for its talisman making, but it is somewhat special. This sect is known for its purity of mind and single-minded pursuit of the Dao. The sect only recruits a few people who are devoted to the Dao, and there are very few disciples, but they are all people who like to go into seclusion.

In the Cultivation World of the Yan Kingdom, there are few disciples of the Pure Heart Dao Hall.

After entering the Purple Scorpion Mountain area, Ling Pengyun and his group went straight into the Purple Scorpion Mountain area.

One day later.

The group ventured thousands of miles deep into the Purple Scorpion Mountain region and finally found a spiritual mountain with Second Rank Spirit Vein.

"That spiritual mountain is a second-tier spiritual mountain, and there must be many Foundation Establishment Demon Beast there, but it is still unknown whether there are Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast among them."

"Ling-xiong, Peng Yun, we can only rely on the Immortal Spirit Crane King and the Wind Shadow Peng that you two possess to investigate the situation."

Yang Changxing, with his white hair, gazed at the second-tier spiritual mountain, which was several miles away and several tens of feet high, and spoke up.

Upon hearing this, both Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong agreed with the suggestion.

Their current location is quite far from that sacred mountain, making it difficult for them to use their Divine Sense to investigate.

However, if one were to approach that sacred mountain rashly, it would arouse the demonic Demon Beast within.

Fighting a battle without preparation can be extremely dangerous.

Under such circumstances, sending the Flying Demonic Beast, the Immortal Spirit Crane King and the Wind Shadow Peng, to investigate is the best course of action.

Of course, both the Immortal Spirit Crane King and the Wind Shadow Peng Roc have reached the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment and have the advantage of flight. Even Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast would find it difficult to kill them in a short time.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong then informed the Immortal Spirit Crane King and Wind Shadow Peng, who had been guiding them from the sky, about their investigation.

Upon receiving the signal, the Immortal Spirit Crane King and the Wind Shadow Peng immediately took action, flapping their wings and flying towards the sacred mountain several miles away.

Before long, they had walked to within two miles of that sacred mountain.

Suddenly, a series of deep roars echoed from within Mount Ling.

Immediately afterwards, seven or eight hundred earthen-yellow scorpion demons, each the size of a millstone, emerged from the hidden caves throughout the sacred mountain.

They all raised their scorpion tails with sharp spikes and unleashed stings of spiritual energy at the Wind Shadow Peng and the Immortal Spirit Crane King in the sky.

Upon seeing this, Wind Shadow Peng and the Immortal Spirit Crane King immediately used their defensive Divine Ability to create a protective light barrier, blocking the incoming poisonous thorns one by one.

Then they began to fight back, unleashing their respective attack Divine Ability to bombard the hundreds of Qi Refining Scorpion Demons in the Spirit Mountain.

In just over ten breaths, nearly a hundred Qi Refining Scorpion Demons were killed by Wind Shadow Peng and the Immortal Spirit Crane King.

These casualties caused the remaining hundreds of scorpion demons to roar continuously.

The next moment, a yellow scorpion demon, five zhang in size, emerged from a huge cave on the top of Mount Ling, accompanied by four other scorpion demons, each about ten zhang in size.

At that moment, Wind Shadow Peng and Immortal Spirit Crane King also noticed the five enormous scorpion demons.

Their purpose in coming here was to investigate the Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Beast in the Spirit Mountain. Now that all the Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Beast in the mountain have come out, they will not stay any longer and immediately fly away from this place.

Meanwhile, several miles away, on a desolate mountain.

"There is one Late-Stage Foundation Establishment, two Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment scorpion demons, and two Early-Stage Foundation Establishment scorpion demons. There is no Foundation Establishment Completion scorpion demon."

"Peng Yun, you are a second-tier Artifact Refiner. Do you need the materials from that scorpion demon on your body? If so, we will kill it."

"If not, we'll leave directly and continue deeper into the Purple Scorpion Mountain territory to search for Foundation Establishment Completion Demon Beast. This will save time and also avoid trouble."

Yang Changxing saw the five Foundation Establishment Realm scorpion demons appearing on the distant Spirit Mountain and asked Ling Pengyun, who was standing beside him, about it.

Since the establishment of the Sky Talisman Commerce Association, Ling Pengyun has frequently crafted Second Grade Magic Tool for the Chamber.

Currently, at least 50% of the Second Grade Magic Tool sold by the Chamber of Commerce are made by Ling Pengyun, and the other 50% are made by Ling Pengliang's Daoist partner, the "genius Artifact Refiner" Wen Nianling, as well as through the channels of his Golden Core daughter-in-law Yang Siling.

As for Ling Yunhong, the Artifact Refiner, he has been busy Pill Refining since the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce. Now that his Lineage has two second-level Artifact Refiner, Ling Pengyun and Wen Nianling, he rarely has time to refine magical Law Artifact.

"The carapaces on the backs of those Yellow Rock Scorpion are incredibly sturdy, comparable to defensive magic Law Artifact of the same rank. If we could obtain them, they would be sufficient as the main material for forging defensive magic Law Artifact of the same rank."

"If I can kill all five scorpion demons, I can at least use the materials from those five Foundation Establishment scorpion demons to refine two or three second-tier defensive magic Law Artifact to supplement the Chamber of Commerce and prepare for the Heavenly Talisman Auction two years later."

Ling Pengyun explained in detail.

Upon hearing this, Yang Changxing's eyes lit up.

Two or three second-tier defensive magic Law Artifact are quite valuable. Once Ling Pengyun can refine them, the Yang Clan can also share in the profits.

"Since you're confident you can refine it, then let's do it."

Yang Changxing said.

With everyone in agreement, they immediately set off together towards the sacred mountain several miles away.

Five Foundation Establishment Realm scorpion demons, enraged by the killing of over a hundred Qi Refining scorpion demons by Wind Shadow Peng and the Immortal Spirit Crane King in the Spirit Mountain, immediately turned their hatred towards Ling Pengyun and the other five Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators upon their appearance.

Instantly, a large number of poisonous thorns shot out from the sacred mountain.

But before these poisonous thorns could land, they were completely burned away by the countless flames that appeared from the furnace that Yang Changxing had created.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Changxing poured more spiritual energy into the furnace, creating even more flames that surged towards the spiritual mountain a mile or two away.

In an instant, the entire sacred mountain was engulfed in flames.

The scorpion demons in the Qi Training Stage in the mountains could not withstand the flames for long before being roasted to a crisp.

Only the five Foundation Establishment Realm scorpion demons on the mountaintop have the strength to resist the flames.

"Judging from Long Xing Grand Uncle's current strength, he is probably not far from reaching the Foundation Establishment Completion."

Seeing the power of Yang Changxing's attack, Ling Pengyun secretly made an assessment.

Yang Changxing had reached the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer more than ten years ago. After the Beast Tide incident, he received a lot of resources and was not far from the Foundation Establishment Completion.