Sneak Attack

Not long after, a figure flashed, and a cultivator dressed in black leather armor appeared from the side of the dense forest.

This cultivator had a horse-like face. After emerging, he was extremely cautious, looking back every step he took and constantly scanning his surroundings. He also seemed to be holding a Magic Artifact in his hand, as if prepared for a sudden attack.

Almost instantly, this very cautious horse-faced cultivator spotted the black toad flipped over by the water's edge from the Fireball Talisman. He stopped, his eyes flickering, as if contemplating something.

Holding his breath and hidden in the tree, Wei Suo secretly used the Qi Gazing Technique to scan the horse-faced cultivator. He discovered that this horse-faced cultivator was also a cultivator at the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm, one level higher than himself.

Since he couldn't find Tie Ce, Wei Suo had decided to create a significant commotion here. However, he couldn't determine yet whether this horse-faced cultivator was an associate of Tie Ce or part of the Yellow Robe Cultivator's group.

"Come out. Do you think I can't see you hiding there?" Suddenly, the horse-faced cultivator let out a cold snort.

Wei Suo was startled, thinking the horse-faced cultivator knew some astonishing technique to see through invisibility. "Damn it, trying to trick me. This guy doesn't look like a good person at all." But immediately, Wei Suo cursed inwardly with gritted teeth. Although the horse-faced cultivator appeared arrogant, his eyes were still darting around, not looking at Wei Suo's hiding spot at all.

With a soft sound, at this moment, another person emerged from the dense forest opposite the horse-faced cultivator. He made a gesture to the horse-faced cultivator, signaling him not to be nervous, as he was one of their own.

"Damn it, that horse-faced guy really isn't a good person!"

What sent a chill down Wei Suo's spine was that the person who appeared at this moment was none other than the Purple Robe Old Daoist with the First Level of Circulation Realm cultivation that he had seen at the market in the northern part of the city!

"Blackwater Poison Toad," the Purple Robe Old Daoist's cold gaze swept over the black toad lying on the ground, and he snorted, "It should be that kid. Only a low-level cultivator like him would make such a fuss with a magic talisman to deal with a third-tier demonic beast."

The horse-faced cultivator nodded, "Senior Zi Xiao, this kid is trying to ruin our plans. We must deal with him properly. He shouldn't have gotten far. Let's split up and catch him."

"You go search immediately," the Purple Robe Old Daoist said coldly. "I'll search around here to prevent this kid from being cunning and hoping Tie Ce's people will come, then sneak back here."

"Damn it!" Upon hearing the Purple Robe Old Daoist's words, Wei Suo couldn't help but feel a pang of despair.

He didn't want to risk fighting a cultivator in the Circulation Realm. However, the duration of the Invisibility Talisman on him was limited. If this Purple Robe Old Daoist didn't leave, once the talisman's effect wore off, he would definitely be discovered by him.

After a moment of hesitation, Wei Suo held his breath and quietly took out the Sun Scorching Treasure Talisman, the Five Elements Copper Ring, and the Yin Charm Blade.

The horse-faced cultivator nodded and was about to leave.

"Who's there!"

At this moment, the Purple Robe Old Daoist's eyes flashed with cold light, and he looked towards Wei Suo's location.

"Ah!"

But almost simultaneously, the Purple Robe Old Daoist and the horse-faced cultivator let out a scream. A blinding light, countless times more dazzling than the midday sun, instantly enveloped them both. Their eyes felt as if they had been pricked by needles, and they couldn't open them at all.

As the Purple Robe Old Daoist and the horse-faced cultivator screamed, involuntarily closing their eyes and shedding tears, a copper ring suddenly descended from above and ensnared the Purple Robe Old Daoist. It tightened abruptly, tightly binding all his limbs.

"Wuuu!"

A fierce gale suddenly swept through the forest around the entire pond. Over a dozen terrifying black skulls and a streak of dark light all impacted the Purple Robe Old Daoist amidst the strong wind. The purple daoist robe on the Purple Robe Old Daoist suddenly erupted with the brilliance of a dragon and a tiger, blocking all the terrifying black skulls formed from dark energy. However, the streak of dark light slashed across, severing the Purple Robe Old Daoist's entire head, and blood spurted high from his neck.

"Chii!"

But just as the Purple Robe Old Daoist's head was completely severed, a white light also struck the area where Wei Suo was. The tree trunks in that area were all pulverized, and the entire tree was cut in half.

"Senior Zi Xiao!"

The horse-faced cultivator, blinded by the dazzling light, let out a scream as he activated a green light shield, enclosing himself within it.

But almost at the same time, a mass of white ice mist descended not far above his head. The chilling aura emanating from this white ice mist instantly froze the nearby water into a layer of ice, with continuous cracking sounds. The green light shield encased in the white ice mist remained intact, but the extremely strong cold also caused the horse-faced cultivator to stiffen.

During this moment of stiffness, a "wuu wuu" gale sounded again. A surge of black skulls and a streak of dark light burst forth and shattered his green light shield with a "poof."

An expression of extreme terror appeared on the horse-faced cultivator's face, but before he could utter a sound, the violently exploding black energy and the slashing dark light instantly riddled him with wounds.

"Damn!" Still enveloped by the power of the Invisibility Talisman, Wei Suo, beneath the tree that had been cut in half, broke out in a cold sweat and directly swallowed a Qi Replenishing Pill.

In a short period, ambushing and killing a cultivator in the Circulation Realm and a cultivator at the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm was astonishing enough for a cultivator at the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm.

However, Wei Suo had launched a surprise attack when both of them were completely unprepared. By using the Sun Scorching Treasure Talisman and the Five Elements Copper Ring to blind the Purple Robe Old Daoist and bind most of his limbs, if Wei Suo hadn't been clever enough to leap down from the tree as he attacked, he might have also been pulverized by the Purple Robe Old Daoist's desperate counterattack.

This was because Wei Suo, busy with the offensive at that moment, had no time to channel True Essence to activate the Mystic Tortoise Shield or the power of his modified magic robe.

Moreover, the Purple Robe Old Daoist had sensed the Sun Scorching Treasure Talisman almost immediately after Wei Suo used it.

If the Sun Scorching Treasure Talisman were a restrictive Magic Artifact and not a direct offensive one, the Purple Robe Old Daoist might have been able to block it. The magic robe on the Purple Robe Old Daoist could even block the black, ghostly skulls emitted by the Yin Charm Blade.

That counterattacking white light was also a technique cast by the Purple Robe Old Daoist. However, the power of this desperate technique cast by the Purple Robe Old Daoist at the brink of death was truly astonishing.

Cultivators in the Circulation Realm were indeed terrifying.

The defensive shield activated by the cultivator at the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm was also powerful, as it had not been breached by a third-tier Profound Ice Talisman. If not for a Magic Treasure like the Yin Charm Blade with its offensive power, Wei Suo would not have been able to kill him so easily.

Most importantly, at Wei Suo's current cultivation level, after using the fragments of the Yin Charm Blade twice in succession, his True Essence was almost completely depleted.

After swallowing a Qi Replenishing Pill, Wei Suo didn't dare to linger. He collected the Five Elements Copper Ring that was still on the Purple Robe Old Daoist, then stripped the clothes off both the Purple Robe Old Daoist and the horse-faced cultivator, rolled them into a bundle, and then quickly fled into the depths of the dense forest.

Not long after Wei Suo had escaped from the vicinity of this water pool, a gray shadow suddenly swept over and stopped.

The person who arrived was none other than the Gray Robe Cultivator whom Wei Suo had met at the market in the northern part of the city, the first person to meet with the Yellow Robe Cultivator. This Gray Robe Cultivator was also a powerful cultivator at the First Level of Circulation Realm.

"How is this possible!"

Upon seeing the scene before him, this thin Gray Robe Cultivator with a pointed chin and a large black mole on his left cheek had a drastic change in expression. He immediately activated a wooden bowl-like Magic Artifact in his hand as if facing a formidable enemy, manifesting a yellow-green light shield that enveloped him. At the same time, he took out something about two feet long, resembling a white fishbone, and held it in his hand, his eyes searching the surroundings in horror.

Zi Xiao Sanren, whose strength was at least equal to his own, and another cultivator at the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm, had both been killed here. And they were stripped completely naked. Could it be that besides that low-level cultivator, there was another monstrously powerful cultivator in the Green Wind Mausoleum?

Just as this Gray Robe cultivator at the First Level of Circulation Realm was thinking this in extreme horror, Wei Suo, after fleeing a considerable distance with all his might, plunged into the bottom of a dead old tree, into a rather filthy tree hole that was only half a foot high.

After rearranging the vines and dead branches at the entrance of the tree hole, Wei Suo, squeezed into the narrow tree hole, checked the belongings of the two cultivators he had just ambushed and killed, trying his best not to make any sound.

"This is the Dragon Tiger Ziwei Robe. It can't be activated simultaneously with your magic robe, and its defensive capabilities should be slightly inferior to your modified magic robe." As soon as Wei Suo mentioned the purple robe he had stripped from the old daoist, the Green Robe Old Man's voice immediately echoed in Wei Suo's ears.

Wei Suo nodded and began to carefully search the clothes of the Purple Robe Old Daoist and the Horse-faced Cultivator. After a bit of rummaging, his somewhat nervous eyes lit up. He pulled a black Treasure Pouch from the Purple Robe Old Daoist's clothes, and from the Horse-faced Cultivator's garments, he found two leather pouches and a few miscellaneous items.

"Holy crap!"

The Purple Robe Old Daoist's black Treasure Pouch and Wei Suo's own looked different in style, but there was no difference in how they were used. As Wei Suo held the black Treasure Pouch and sensed its contents, he almost bit his own tongue in surprise.

Spirit Stones!

There were many, many Spirit Stones inside!

Besides several hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones, there were also over seven hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones and five High-grade Spirit Stones!

Over seven hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones were equivalent to over seven thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones, and five High-grade Spirit Stones were equivalent to five hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones. In total, the Treasure Pouch contained over eight thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones just in the form of Spirit Stones!

(To all my brothers and sisters, you are mighty! Red tickets broke 7000 yesterday! A new record! I will do my utmost to burst out three updates every day! Let us be even mightier!)