Chapter 1043: Unlucky Bai Linger

Bai Ling'er conjured a palm-sized bell. With a gentle shake, a vast wave of white sound flew out. The azure flying sword touched the sound wave and immediately flew backward.

Roar! Roar!

A strange roar echoed, and the Three-Headed Jiao lunged at Bai Ling'er. Its three heads each unleashed different spells, attacking her.

Wang Qingshan released two third-tier puppet beasts. They temporarily engaged Bai Ling'er, allowing him to focus on the silver-robed youth.

The Three-Headed Jiao continuously unleashed spells, while the two third-tier puppet beasts wielded their long blades and staffs, attacking Bai Ling'er. Injured, Bai Ling'er found herself fumbling to cope.

A cold glint flashed in the silver-robed youth's eyes. He violently flapped his wings, stirring up a whirlwind. His entire body transformed into a gray hurricane, dozens of zhang high, rapidly sweeping towards Wang Qingshan.

The gray hurricane was filled with numerous silver electric arcs. Large amounts of earth and stone were swept into the hurricane and ground to dust. Towering trees were uprooted and twisted into piles of debris within the storm.

Wang Qingshan let out a soft snort. Suddenly, a vast expanse of azure flying sword phantoms appeared around him, rapidly swirling. A powerful current of air materialized, and Wang Qingshan transformed into an azure tornado, dozens of zhang high, meeting the gray tornado.

Rumble!

With an earth-shattering crash, the azure and gray tornadoes collided, unleashing a powerful shockwave. Where the shockwave passed, earth and stone cracked, trees turned to splinters, and mountain vegetation was ripped away, directly pulverizing into powder.

Lightning flashed and thunder roared. Silver lightning bolts periodically shot out from the gray hurricane, plunging into the azure hurricane.

The azure hurricane couldn't withstand it and was slowly devoured by the gray hurricane.

Just then, a flash of azure rainbow light erupted from within the azure hurricane. It swiftly plunged into the gray hurricane, and a man's miserable scream followed.

Two bloodied halves of a body dropped to the ground. Had the silver-robed youth not been injured and desperate to fight, Wang Qingshan would not have slain him so quickly.

Bai Ling'er, startled by the death of her companion, flared with yellow light across her body. She stomped her jade foot on the ground, causing a large expanse of yellow ropes to erupt from beneath the earth. They swiftly bound the Three-Headed Jiao and the two third-tier puppet beasts.

A piercing gust of wind shot towards her. Bai Ling'er gently shook the bell in her hand, and a vast wave of white sound swept out. The gust of wind shattered the sound wave. Bai Ling'er's beautiful face contorted in alarm, and she tried to dodge, but it was too late. The gust of wind pierced her left shoulder, causing blood to immediately gush forth.

Thousands of azure flying swords shot towards her, as if to pierce her full of holes.

Bai Ling'er slapped her right hand towards the void. A white fox claw, several zhang in size, materialized and fiercely swatted at the incoming azure flying swords. At the same time, she shook the white bell in her hand, releasing a vast wave of white sound.

Rumble!

The white fox claw was shattered by the dense azure flying swords. Fortunately, the white sound wave blocked all the azure flying swords.

Before Bai Ling'er could catch her breath, a piercing whoosh, painful to the ears, sounded. An azure rainbow, several zhang long, shot forth, instantly appearing before Bai Ling'er.

Bai Ling'er was scared out of her wits. She opened her mouth and spat out a large burst of white flames, striking the azure rainbow, but it failed to block it.

With a shriek, the azure rainbow cleaved Bai Ling'er in two.

An azure light flashed, revealing Wang Qingshan's figure. He held the Azure Glaze Sword in his hand. His clothes were tattered, and he had multiple bleeding wounds, his aura somewhat weak.

It was a pyrrhic victory; to slay Bai Ling'er and her companion, he too had sustained injuries.

He gazed at Bai Ling'er's corpse, a hint of confusion in his eyes. Bai Ling'er was a key cultivation target for the Demon Race; could she have been killed by him just like that? Even if she was injured, she shouldn't have been so weak!

A white light flashed, and Bai Ling'er's corpse transformed into a pure white fox tail, as white as snow.

“Substitute Technique!”

Wang Qingshan suddenly understood. He released his divine sense but detected no trace of Bai Ling'er's aura.

He suddenly sensed something and took out a golden jade plate. He cast a spell into it, and an urgent voice suddenly rang out: “Brother Qingshan, come quickly! We can't hold them back any longer.”

“Alright, I'll be right there.”

Wang Qingshan put away his spirit beast, puppet beasts, and the silver-robed youth's corpse. He transformed into an azure streak of light and soared away.

Hundreds of zhang beneath the ground, a pure white fox, enveloped in a swirling mass of white and yellow light, rapidly burrowed downwards.

Bai Ling'er had used a secret technique, sacrificing one of her tails as a substitute. Her vitality was severely depleted, rendering her unable to assume human form. It would take at least a century of arduous cultivation before she could transform back into human form. She utterly detested Wang Qingshan.

Tens of thousands of miles away, in a gigantic valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, Huang Fugui stood at the entrance. Hundreds of low-tier demon beasts were cornered there by him.

“Heh heh, I'm rich!”

Huang Fugui chuckled, conjured four yellow flying needles, and charged into the horde of demon beasts. Screams erupted as demon beasts successively collapsed. They had few visible wounds, and their hides were intact, allowing for a better selling price, with little blood lost.

Huang Fugui took off the large storage bead string hanging around his neck and stored the demon beast corpses inside.

Suddenly, a mound of earth swelled on the ground. Huang Fugui's expression changed, and he quickly conjured a yellow shield, ready to flee at any moment. A pure white fox emerged from the ground, with two tails and a hint of fear in its eyes. Its white fur was stained with some blood, and its aura was weak, clearly indicating injuries.

“Oh, a Two-Tailed Spirit Fox! This is a rare variant; it will surely fetch a large sum of spirit stones.”

Huang Fugui was immediately overjoyed. He flicked his sleeve, and a yellow light shot out.

Two-Tailed Spirit Foxes are not very aggressive, possess keen senses of smell, and are adept at finding spirit herbs, making them highly favored by female cultivators.

The white fox was alarmed and tried to burrow back underground. However, Huang Fugui had anticipated this. His finger turned a deep gold, and with a gentle flick, a golden light shot out and vanished into the earth. The ground instantly turned golden, as if made of pure gold, preventing the white fox from re-entering the earth. A large yellow net, several zhang wide, descended from above, covering the white fox and binding it.

“A third-tier Two-Tailed Spirit Fox! Selling it to a Nascent Soul cultivator would be no problem.”

Huang Fugui took out a yellow talisman, and sticking it onto the white fox, the fox immediately stopped struggling and became lethargic. He then tossed it into his spirit beast pouch.

“I can't believe my luck, encountering a third-tier Two-Tailed Spirit Fox! There might be even better demon beasts ahead.”

Huang Fugui muttered to himself, a hint of greed in his eyes.

Suddenly, an earth-shattering boom resonated from afar. A massive silver mushroom cloud rose conspicuously on the distant horizon.

The greed in Huang Fugui's eyes instantly turned to fear. Without a word, he transformed into a yellow streak of light and sped away back the way he came, moving incredibly fast.

Before long, Huang Fugui vanished into the horizon, as if he had never been there.