"Good!"
"The nine of us will split into three groups, surrounding and ensuring a lethal strike!"
Chu Ping looked at the distant figure of the youth in black robes, a hint of anticipation flashing in his eyes as he waved his sleeves.
That youth in black robes.
No matter how strong, facing the nine cultivators with cultivation levels above the eleventh level of Qi Refining on his side, he could only end in defeat.
"Yes, Young Master!"
"Understood!"
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The six cultivators agreed, splitting into three groups to flank the youth not far away.
Chu Zhang and another female cultivator at the eleventh level of Qi Refining followed Chu Ping closely, rushing towards the youth.
Outside the forest.
Although Qin Wang was sitting cross-legged on a large stone, his surroundings were under his vigilant gaze. Behind him were formations like the Thunderous Array, Yin-Yang Illusory Array, and Four Symbols Killing Array, waiting. Suddenly, Qin Wang noticed three cultivators approaching him from a mile away—two men and one woman.
These three were all wielding magic swords with unhidden killing intent.
"How many fellow Daoists are you?"
Qin Wang stood up immediately, keeping a wary eye on the three cultivators standing thirty feet away, clasping his hands together and taking a few cautious steps back.
"Youngster, we've finally caught up to you!"
"Attack!"
The Eighteenth King Chu Ping looked at Qin Wang, anticipation in his eyes, and waved his sleeves. Instantly, Qin Wang saw six cultivators appearing on both sides, all of them at the eleventh or twelfth level of Qi Refining, all attacking him.
"I have no grievances with any of you, why are you attacking me?!"
Qin Wang pretended to be furious, shouting angrily, then turned and swiftly dashed into the forest, disappearing from sight in an instant.
"Trying to escape."
Chu Ping sneered coldly and waved his sleeves. "Chu Zhang, be careful and clean!"
"Yes!"
Chu Zhang responded, leading five cultivators into the forest to chase after him.
Chu Ping stood with his hands behind his back, waiting three zhang away. With six cultivators at the eleventh or twelfth level of Qi Refining surrounding him, the young cultivator would be dead even with three heads and six arms!
"Is this a formation?"
"Why is there a formation here?"
Chu Zhang led five cultivators at the eleventh or twelfth level of Qi Refining, chasing the young man in black robes. After just two steps, they found the surroundings shimmering and unexpectedly arrived in a grassland. The Eighteenth King had disappeared without entering the forest, which greatly surprised them!
He also discovered that all five of his companions who had come in with him were nowhere to be seen.
This is bad!
They've been ambushed!
Chu Zhang's heart trembled as he realized they had entered a formation!
He immediately tried to leap back, but it was already too late. A stern-faced cultivator struck him like lightning with a punch!
"Ah!!"
Chu Zhang felt like he had been hit by an iron hammer, his chest tightening, and he spewed out a mouthful of blood.
He fell heavily more than ten zhang away.
Struggling to get up, Chu Zhang suddenly saw a sword tip piercing through his chest, running through his body!
Immediately after that.
He saw a young man in black clothes holding a black bowl in his hand. Who else would be killed if not the one the Eighteenth King wanted to kill?
"You"
Chu Zhang pointed at Qin Wang, but before he could finish his sentence, he lost consciousness.
His soul flew out of his body and was sucked into the Soul Gathering Bowl.
"Hmm? The person disappeared?"
"Formation?"
Chu Ping saw Chu Zhang and the other five pursuing the young cultivator in black robes. They had only taken two steps when they disappeared without entering the forest. He couldn't help but frown deeply and step back several zhang.
"Young Master, I have some knowledge of formations. I'll go and take a look!"
At this moment, the middle-aged man in gray robes beside Chu Ping, who was at the twelfth level of Qi Refining and over forty years old, respectfully clasped his fists and said.
"Hmm, go! Be careful!"
Chu Ping nodded.
The man in gray robes cautiously headed towards the forest, not daring to go deep. Instead, he leaped onto the treetops to get a better view.
Just then.
The earth under Chu Ping's feet suddenly erupted with flying dirt and debris. A gaping maw instantly clamped down on Chu Ping's legs, swallowing his lower body whole!
"Ah!!! Ahhhh!"
The Eighteenth King Chu Ping screamed in surprise, slashing down with his sword instinctively at the head of the Earth Dragon Beast King!
But it was like striking a defeated leather, emitting a dull sound and leaving a white mark!
Seeing the bloodthirsty maw emerging from the ground, the female cultivator beside him also let out a cry of fear. The sword's radiance shot out as it slashed at the Earth Dragon Beast King, but it was still repelled, leaving a white mark and unable to break through its defense.
At this moment.
The Earth Dragon Beast King's mouth wriggled, continuously swallowing until it reached Chu Ping's chest. Feeling a life-threatening crisis, Chu Ping reached for a jade pendant on his chest—his ultimate trump card given to him by the Ancestor.
Inside was the Ancestor's divine consciousness!
The Ancestor instructed that if he encountered danger, he should crush it to unleash the divine consciousness within, transforming it into a divine body!
At this critical moment.
Chu Ping suddenly felt dizzy, his vision blurred!
His hand paused.
The next moment, the hand that reached for his neck found nothing there. The jade pendant had disappeared.
"No!!!!"
Chu Ping screamed in horror, feeling as if he had fallen into an icy abyss. The Ancestor's divine consciousness jade pendant had been taken away, and his body was being devoured by a third-tier monster!
He struggled desperately.
But to no avail, only his head remained outside the Earth Dragon Beast King's mouth.
He saw.
The Ancestor's divine consciousness jade pendant appeared in the hands of a young cultivator in black robes.
The young cultivator in black robes held the pendant in his left hand and hugged a five-foot-long black wood in his right hand, the cultivator Chu Ping had been pursuing.
"Chu Ping, if it weren't for your Ancestor's divine consciousness avatar!"
"Why wait until now to kill you!"
Qin Wang looked at Chu Ping, whose body remained above the Earth Dragon Beast King's mouth, coldly sneering, instructing the Earth Dragon Beast King, "Earth Dragon Beast, swallow him!"
"Daoist friend, I was wrong! Spare me! Spare me!"
"I'm willing to be your servant, willing to do anything for you! I only ask for mercy!"
Hearing Qin Wang's words, Chu Ping's heart trembled, struggling desperately and begging bitterly.
Qin Wang couldn't be bothered.
Chu Ping had too great an origin; making him a servant would pose a huge risk. Moreover, his usefulness was limited.
In the end, Chu Ping's body was swallowed by the Earth Dragon Beast.
Swoosh!
After swallowing Chu Ping's body, the Earth Dragon Beast King spit out a storage bag from its mouth.
Immediately after.
A faint soul rose from its body, sucked into Qin Wang's Soul Gathering Bowl.
"Finally resolved!"
Qin Wang put away the storage bag, satisfaction showing in his eyes.
At this moment, Zhang Fujian, Mu Huan Er, Shi Huan San, Ye Qian, Lin Shengbing, and the spiritual soul of Situ Yunfei emerged from the forest. Zhang Fujian brought many soul-type puppets and killed the remaining female cultivator.
And expertly obliterated the evidence.
After dealing with all this.
Qin Wang, with Zhang Fujian, put away Mu Huan Er, the Earth Dragon Beast King, and others, swiftly speeding away into the distance.
"I wonder how the battle of divine consciousness between Wu Su and Chu Yunxiao turned out?"
Three hours later, two hundred miles from where Chu Ping was killed, inside a cave, Qin Wang looked at the jade pendant and thousand-year Soul Nourishing Wood in front of him, his eyes filled with worry.
At the moment when the Earth Dragon Beast King attacked Chu Ping, Wu Su had acted in advance, enveloping the jade pendant with his spiritual sense and diving into it.
Wu Su had once said.
With the thousand-year Soul Nourishing Wood, even if it consumed fifty years of soul power, she would not worry anymore.
She could spend time recovering.
"Should I approach and take a look with my divine sense?"
Qin Wang worried, hoping that Wu Su had defeated Chu Yunxiao's divine consciousness and destroyed it.
Otherwise.
Once Chu Yunxiao's divine consciousness escaped, it would be a never-ending trouble!