Slaying

"What!"

The leading male cultivator's face showed surprise. He had never expected the Spirit Sword Talisman to be broken in such a way.

"This is bad, the Spirit Sword Talisman is about to disappear. I can't wait any longer."

The leading male cultivator's face contorted in ferocity. It seemed he had to take action himself.

Golden Armor Technique: Golden Armor, activate!

Instantly, his entire body was enveloped in a layer of golden light, forming a thick layer of soft armor. He charged fiercely at Xu Chunniang.

"Die!"

Xu Chunniang had just dealt with the Spirit Sword Talisman when a fist came flying at her. She couldn't dodge in time and let out a muffled groan as she was sent flying backward by the punch.

"Hiss, that hurts."

Xu Chunniang clutched her stomach, feeling as if her internal organs had been displaced. She managed to stand up and used the Spirit Void Steps to create distance between herself and the leading male cultivator.

However, she saw the leading male cultivator move and chase after her. He sneered coldly, "You think you're the only one with movement techniques? You want to run? Not so easy!"

Xu Chunniang's expression turned cold. Without any visible movement from her, a water sphere suddenly appeared in front of the male cultivator, engulfing him.

The leading male cultivator dodged to the left, narrowly avoiding the Water Bind Technique.

"You think I'll fall for that trick again? You underestimate me too much."

He deliberately didn't chase too closely, precisely because he was guarding against this move. Having experienced it firsthand, he knew how troublesome that strange water sphere was.

Xu Chunniang remained silent. She couldn't keep running like this.

Her cultivation was already inferior to this male cultivator, and her Spiritual Qi was more than half depleted. Continuing would only make her situation more dire.

Seeing Xu Chunniang stop, the leading male cultivator clenched his fist and attacked her again. But just as he was about to hit her, he was blocked by a blue mass.

"Water Bind Technique!"

Xu Chunniang roared, and a water sphere instantly appeared and enveloped her, blocking the punch. In her desperation, she had actually used the Water Bind Technique on herself.

The leading male cultivator's brow furrowed. It seemed he couldn't reach her without breaking this water sphere.

He increased his force, smashing his fist into the water sphere several times, shattering it directly!

Seeing the water sphere break, Xu Chunniang calmly repeated her tactic, summoning another Water Bind Technique to protect herself. At the same time, she quickly unleashed the Spirit Blast Technique, splitting it into four bursts of Spiritual Qi. The moment the second water sphere shattered, the four bursts of Spiritual Qi flew towards the male cultivator in unison!

"Bang!"

The bursts of Spiritual Qi exploded as soon as they neared the male cultivator. However, the power of the four bursts of Spiritual Qi was limited, and the male cultivator was protected by his Golden Armor. It only managed to make him spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Is this all you've got?"

The male cultivator grinned menacingly, spitting out a mouthful of blood foam, and charged forward with his fist again.

Xu Chunniang's eyes narrowed. He was truly troublesome!

She cast a Water Bind Technique on herself and began to split Wood Spiritual Qi again. Soon, another four bursts of Spiritual Qi were condensed. At the same time, the Water Bind Technique was broken for the third time!

Xu Chunniang activated the Spirit Void Steps, retreating while enduring the sharp pain in her meridians caused by the excessive Spiritual Qi consumption. Gritting her teeth, she controlled the four bursts of Spiritual Qi to begin splitting again!

"Why aren't you using that water sphere trick anymore?"

The male cultivator sneered sinisterly and flew forward, closing the distance between them. "No matter how many water spheres you make, I'll smash them all!"

Xu Chunniang suddenly raised her head and gave him a brilliant smile, controlling the newly formed eight bursts of Spiritual Qi to charge at the male cultivator.

Sensing the violent Spiritual Qi within the eight green light spheres, the male cultivator's expression changed slightly. Seeing that it was too late to retreat, he could only grit his teeth and cast three layers of defensive shields on himself.

Xu Chunniang's gaze turned cold. Instead of detonating the bursts of Spiritual Qi while he was casting his shields, she seized this opportunity to squeeze out the last of her Spiritual Qi and split the eight bursts of Spiritual Qi fiercely again!

The sixteen mini bursts of Spiritual Qi had just appeared, almost slipping out of her control.

Xu Chunniang made a decisive move. "Explode!"

"Rumble!!"

The bursts of Spiritual Qi detonated in unison. The several layers of defensive shields only lasted for less than half a second before shattering into dust, instantly engulfing the male cultivator.

Xu Chunniang's face was deathly pale, all the Spiritual Qi in her body depleted. She still held a talisman in her hand, the last mid-grade talisman, a Wind Blade Talisman. If the male cultivator didn't die, this would be her final resort.

However, the reality was that under the immense explosion, even a fifth-level Qi Condensation demonic beast like the Wind Cloud Tiger couldn't survive, let alone a human cultivator whose physical condition was far inferior to a demonic beast!

The male cultivator didn't even leave a complete corpse; his upper body had been destroyed in the explosion.

Seeing that the male cultivator was undeniably dead, Xu Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed onto the ground. Only now did she feel the intense pain. Besides her injuries, her head and meridians ached terribly.

After a brief moment of recovery, Xu Chunniang endured the pain, forced herself to sit up, drank two bottles of Spiritual Dew, and began meditating.

Although this was the outer safe zone of the Hundred Demonic Mountain Range, it wasn't completely safe.

After absorbing the two bottles of Spiritual Dew, she felt slightly better. She got up and went to pick up the storage bags of the leading male cultivator and the three cultivators who had entered later.

Finally, there were seven storage bags laid out before her.

Xu Chunniang opened them one by one, putting valuable items and Spirit Stones into her own storage bag.

These people were truly poor. After opening six storage bags, she only managed to get thirty-five Spirit Stones, some low-grade talismans, and junk materials. Not even a single mid-grade talisman.

Xu Chunniang shook her head and turned her gaze to the last storage bag. This one was picked up from the leading male cultivator. It shouldn't be this poor, right?

She opened the storage bag, and her eyes immediately lit up. There were a full sixty-eight spirit stones, as well as three mid-grade talismans, half a bottle of Three Yuan Pills, and some other materials.

The haul from this trip was almost equivalent to her earnings from entering the mountains.

Xu Chunniang shook her head. No wonder these people spent their days not hunting demonic beasts, but plotting how to rob others.

However, those who rob must be prepared for death.

Xu Chunniang placed all the valuable items into her own storage bag and the less valuable ones into a second storage bag. Then, she found a rope, strung the seven empty storage bags together, and hung them around her neck, planning to sell them all after returning to Green Mountain Town.

"Next, only one item remains."

After finishing all this, Xu Chunniang took out a red string with a white bead attached, which she had found on the leader of the male cultivators after he died. The fact that he carried it close to him showed how much he valued it.

"This must be the thing that could detect my location."

Xu Chunniang quietly sensed it but felt nothing special about the white bead. After some thought, she broke the string, put the white bead into a jade box, and decided to investigate what it was after returning to the sect.

With two more hours until dawn, Xu Chunniang found a tree and sat down for meditation.

It wasn't too late to return to Green Mountain Town after daybreak, by which time her spiritual Qi would also be nearly fully recovered.

The next morning, Xu Chunniang was waiting at the entrance of the market town early. As soon as Green Mountain Town opened, she walked in.

Seeing the bustling market town, a smile flashed across Xu Chunniang's face. After living in the mountains for over ten days, she had finally returned.

She wondered if this haul would fetch a good price.

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