Alchemy Is Just a Side Job

Within the shifting light and shadows.

Everyone's speed slowed almost simultaneously.

Only Qing Youzi and a figure dressed in black robes and wearing a silver mask were barely affected.

"Die!!" Qing Youzi's face hardened. A large azure saber appeared in his hand, and he brought it crashing down.

The silver-masked figure drew two chilling spikes from his sleeves and, with a bang, knocked the saber aside.

The two instantly transformed into light and shadow.

They collided with a thunderous crash, unleashing dozens of terrifying killing moves in an instant.

After only one exchange, Qing Youzi had already gained more than a dozen wounds across his body.

About thirty breaths later.

Xu Qing and Li Yi arrived at the forest at the same time.

Yet the gruesome sight before them made both their pupils contract.

The entire forest had nearly been razed to the ground.

No fewer than twenty corpses lay within the woods.

More than ten of them belonged to cultivators from the extermination force.

The remaining corpses were all dressed in black.

The four remaining members of Qing Youzi's team were each facing the combined assault of three or four shadows.

Their situation was extremely perilous.

Had they arrived a few breaths later, these people would likely all have been killed!!

As he spoke, Li Yi vanished, becoming a streak of divine light that shot directly toward the two shadows charging Qing Youzi in the forest!

Xu Qing's body flickered, and two clones abruptly appeared.

Together with his true body, they plunged into three separate battlefields and rescued the three remaining severely wounded cultivators.

Afterward, he put on a great show of struggling as he tangled with those black-clothed men.

Though he failed to kill any enemies, he had saved the people.

He had perfectly established himself as an