Hearing Ma Wuchen's pleas coming from the "Essence-Locking Soul-Calming Talisman," Song Qingming remained expressionless and unmoved. He directly took out a bowl-shaped magic artifact specially designed to imprison a cultivator's soul.
He then cast a spell to retrieve the talisman from afar. Ignoring Ma Wuchen's continued pleas, he tossed the "Essence-Locking Soul-Calming Talisman" into the artifact.
Demonic cultivators above the Golden Core stage generally left themselves contingencies. Unless their souls were completely destroyed, it was still very easy for them to escape, seize another body, and cultivate anew.
Only after capturing Ma Wuchen's soul after it had fled his body did Song Qingming slowly let out a breath and finally set his mind at ease.
Faced with a high-tier demonic cultivator like Ma Wuchen, whose cultivation had reached Peak Golden Core Stage, Song Qingming had not initially been very confident that he could kill him. He had never intended to fight him to the bitter end.
But Ma Wuchen's greed for the "Tongtian Token" had extinguished Song Qingming's last trace of wishful hope. Left with no choice, he had risked exposing his identity and decisively struck him down here.
Had Ma Wuchen escaped from this battle, and the secret of the "Tongtian Token" been spread by him—or learned by his master, the "Crimson Blood Old Demon"—
—it would have been an enormous hidden danger to both Song Qingming and the entire Song Family. After all, the Song Family was merely a small Golden Core Immortal Clan. It could not possibly contend with a Nascent Soul Cultivator like the "Crimson Blood Old Demon."
Fortunately, after a fierce battle, Ma Wuchen had ultimately failed to escape. Song Qingming successfully killed him and suppressed his soul, allowing Song Qingming to put aside some of the worry in his heart.
After capturing Ma Wuchen's