Qinghe Immortal Clan.

The Jindan-stage "Black-Scaled Beast" attacked, causing the white transparent light shield to shake continuously, and it seemed to be shaky.

After the four people from the "Bai Hua Palace" standing in the formation stabilized their bodies, they hurriedly waved the formation flags in their hands and injected their own magic power into the formation flags to stabilize the formation above their heads.

Seeing that one attack failed to break the formation, the "Black Scaled Beast" raised its head and shot out another black light blade straight at the white light shield in front of it, causing the entire formation to shake violently again.

The angry "Black Scale Beast" launched several attacks in succession. Although it failed to break the formation, it did cause the spiritual energy on the white formation to become disordered, and it began to show signs of collapse.

The leading woman named Yu, seeing that the formation could not hold out for much longer, turned pale and showed a hint of despair.

This place is still thousands of miles away from the "Wanhu Island" where the sect is located. Even if the Jindan elders of the nearby sect have received the message, it will take at least an hour to get here.

This second-grade superior formation before them could not possibly hold out for that long in the face of this angry "black-scaled beast" in the Jindan stage. It seemed that they were doomed today.

In this coastal area, it is very rare to see demon kings above level three. Today, they are really unlucky. They didn't expect to run into a Jindan demon king who came here to seek revenge.

In less than a quarter of an hour, as the huge claws of the "Black Scaled Beast" shattered the white light shield in front of it, this somewhat unsightly second-level formation finally couldn't hold on and shattered.

The moment the formation was broken, a golden sword light flew out from the formation and headed straight for the belly of the "Black Scale Beast".

Seeing that the golden light in front of him was quite powerful, a black shield immediately appeared in front of the "Black Scaled Beast" and forcibly blocked the attack.

While the "Black Scaled Beast" was busy dealing with the second-level top-grade talisman that the woman surnamed Yu had just used, several people from the "Hundred Flowers Palace" who had already had no way to retreat, immediately flew out of the formation and fled in all directions.

However, just when the few of them escaped only a hundred feet away, the "Black Scaled Beast" had already solved the trouble in front of them.

Afterwards, the demon king moved quickly and disappeared from the spot immediately. Not long after, he caught up with the slowest running woman at the second level of Foundation Establishment.

Seeing the demon king chasing after her, the woman in white's face changed drastically, and she hurriedly threw out a few low-level talismans in an attempt to slow down the opponent's pursuit speed.

However, such resistance did not have any useful effect. After a moment, the woman in white was caught up by the "Black Scale Beast". After a scream, the woman in white was slapped into the sea by the "Black Scale Beast" with one claw.

After killing the opponent in front of it, the "Black Scaled Beast" just glanced at the sea below its feet, and without paying attention to the man's body, it chased after another "Hundred Flowers Palace" disciple not far away.

The woman named Yu, who was at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, saw the "Black Scaled Beast" coming towards her. She knew it was impossible for her to outrun the beast in the sea, so she gritted her teeth and turned around to retreat back to the island.

Relying on her high level of cultivation and a good flying magic weapon, the woman surnamed Yu tried her best to retreat back to the island before the demon king could attack her. She then dived into the forest and hid behind a huge rock.

After chasing to the sky above the island, the "Black Scaled Beast" glanced around and immediately swung an invisible wind blade at the huge rock not far ahead, directly cutting off the hope of the woman surnamed Yu to hide here.

Seeing that the other party found her hiding place so quickly, the woman surnamed Yu was forced to run out from behind the boulder to avoid the other party's attack. A look of despair appeared on her face.

Just when the "Black Scaled Beast" was about to launch another attack and directly kill the woman surnamed Yu, a green sword light suddenly flew over from the horizon not far away, and rushed straight towards their location at an incredibly fast speed.

Upon seeing this, the "black-scaled beast" immediately gave up the woman surnamed Yu in front of it, turned around and sprayed out a black ball that rushed straight towards the green sword light that was attacking here.

Just when the "Black Scaled Beast" thought that this attack was enough to repel the sword light, unexpectedly, the green sword light suddenly split into three, bypassing the black sphere and quickly running towards the "Black Scaled Beast" behind.

Seeing this scene, the "Black Scaled Beast" was suddenly surprised, and then took the initiative to step forward and slap one of the flying swords with its sharp claws, and a loud collision sound was heard instantly.

When this claw with great power hit the green flying sword, it did not directly smash the annoying magic weapon in front of it as the "Black Scaled Beast" had imagined. Instead, it was directly shocked back by the power of the flying sword and took two steps back.

Before the "Black Scaled Beast" could react from its shock, the other two flying swords not far away had already arrived in front of it. The residual power of the two swords knocked the unprepared "Black Scaled Beast" back and hit it on a huge rock at the foot of the mountain.

After the fight, the auras on the three green flying swords changed for a while and soon merged together, revealing the figure of a woman in green riding on a flying sword.

The woman surnamed Yu, who was still standing below staring at the scene, suddenly showed an expression of incredible joy on her face when she saw the heroic figure of the woman in green.

"Thank you for saving me, senior!"

"It's not safe here, you'd better retreat first." Song Qingyu, who was standing on the flying sword, glanced at the other party and asked him to retreat directly. He then stepped on the flying sword and flew directly to the place where the "Black Scale Beast" fell.

Seeing this, the woman surnamed Yu immediately bowed to express her gratitude, then stepped on the flying magic weapon and flew back several hundred feet. Only then did she feel at ease to watch the battle between Song Qingyu and the "black-scaled beast".

The "Black Scaled Beast" that had just been caught off guard shook off the gravel and dust that hit it, then flew high into the sky and fought with Song Qingyu.

The cultivation level of this "black-scaled beast" is similar to that of Song Qingyu. It is also a demon king that has just formed a pill not long ago. And because it is on land, the power of its magical powers is greatly weakened.

Faced with the powerful attack of Song Qingyu's natal flying sword magic weapon, although the "Black Scaled Beast" could still parry a few times at the beginning, it soon showed signs of weakness after dozens of rounds and was suppressed by Song Qingyu's flying sword and fell into a disadvantage.

Seeing that it was unable to defeat the opponent, the "black-scaled beast" let out a strange cry in anger, then left Song Qingyu behind, turned around and retreated, wanting to return to the sea to deal with the opponent again.

However, just as the "Black Scaled Beast" retreated several hundred feet and was about to reach the coast, several strong rays of five-colored light suddenly shot out from all directions, instantly blurring its vision.

Then several large golden mirrors appeared beside it, blocking its way back to the sea.

"Sorry, this road is blocked!" Following a whisper, a handsome young man suddenly appeared out of nowhere next to the "Black Scale Beast", staring at the other party with cold eyes.

Seeing another Jindan cultivator coming, the "Black Scaled Beast" felt something was wrong, and hurriedly struggled forward to break through the obstruction of the golden mirror. However, the spiritual light on the golden mirror was also very powerful. Facing several fierce attacks from the "Black Scaled Beast", it still stood in front of it like a rock.

After several attempts, seeing that it still couldn't get through, and another sword light was following closely from behind, the "Black Scaled Beast" opened its mouth and spat out a black inner pill, wanting to use its own inner pill to display its magical powers and force a passage for itself.

Unexpectedly, before it could finish casting the spell, a purple light suddenly shot out from the golden mirror, directly freezing the "Black Scaled Beast's" inner elixir, making it unable to control the inner elixir to fight the enemy for a while.

The "Black Scaled Beast" was horrified when its own inner elixir was controlled by the other party. It rushed to Song Qingming's location, trying to interrupt his spellcasting and release the control of its own inner elixir.

However, just as it moved, a group of colorful and golden spirit insects suddenly flew over from not far in front of it. There were thousands of these spirit insects, and they quickly surrounded the "Black Scale Beast" and blocked its way.

After trapping the "Black Scaled Beast", these colorful spirit insects continuously released wind blades and began to attack the demon king in front of them from all directions.

Although these golden spirit insects are all low-level second-level spirit insects, and the damage of the wind blade magic they release is not very strong, there are too many of them. Even this Jindan-stage "Black Scaled Beast" finds it difficult to break out of the encirclement when facing the attack of so many spirit insects.

The "Black Scaled Beast" was helpless upon seeing this. It could only support the protective light shield to block the attacks of the surrounding wind blades while casting spells to kill the colorful spiritual insects blocking its way.

Just as the "Black Scaled Beast" was trying hard to release a ball of black light, killing dozens of flying spirit insects in the air in front of it, a sword light came in front of it, forcing it back when it was about to escape from the encirclement of the spirit insects.

The owner of the sword light was Song Qingyu, who had been chasing from behind and had been waiting for a while.

Seeing that the demon king in front of her was still trying to break free, Song Qingyu didn't want to give him any more chances. Three sword lights beside her lit up, circled around her and merged into a larger green flying sword.

Song Qingyu, holding the flying sword emitting powerful force, took a cold look at the "Black Scaled Beast" in front of him, raised his hand and gently swung the giant sword in his hand. A sword light came out of it, and then the whole person flashed and killed towards the location of the "Black Scaled Beast".

This "black-scaled beast" was already no match for Song Qingyu before, and now its golden elixir had left its body and was restrained by Song Qingming, which had reduced its magical powers by more than half. Now it was no match for Song Qingyu at all.

The two had been fighting for less than an incense stick of time when the "black-scaled beast" was severely damaged by Song Qingyu's natal flying sword, which directly cut off one of its sharp claws. It was forced to passively defend itself and had no power to fight back.

Although this unlucky demon king was injured and managed to take back his life golden elixir, he still failed to escape from Song Qingming and the others and escape back to the sea. He was killed on the island by Song Qingyu with a single sword. "Seventh brother, your golden illusion butterfly is really useful. It seems that I have to cultivate some more after I go back, so that I can use it in the future!"

Seeing that the demon king had been killed, Song Qingyu put away his natal magic weapon "Xuanming Golden Light Sword" and walked towards Song Qingming who was collecting the "Golden Illusion Butterfly" with a smile on his face.

"Cultivating spirit insects is too cumbersome in the early stages and consumes a lot of resources. You have just formed your golden elixir, so you should focus on improving your cultivation. Wait until you break through to the second level of golden elixir before you do that!
Don't worry, I have asked Yuan Fang and the others to find a way to collect spiritual objects and increase efforts to cultivate the Golden Illusion Butterfly. If you want it in the future, you can go to the Beast Taming Pavilion in the back mountain to get it at any time."

Song Qingming responded to Song Qingyu with a smile, then checked the number of "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" lost in the battle before carefully putting away the spirit beast bag in his hand.

In the battle just now, although the "Black Scaled Beast" apparently killed two or three hundred "Golden Illusion Butterflies", most of them were phantoms created by these spiritual insects. In fact, the total number of spiritual insects killed by the opponent was less than twenty.

For Song Qingming, who already has more than 300 second-level "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" on his body, the loss of a dozen of these spiritual insects is nothing. He can cultivate them again quickly in the future as long as he spends some time.

While the two were talking, the disciple from Baihua Palace who had just escaped a disaster and was still in shock, and the other two who had escaped not far away and returned to the island when they saw that something was not right, also mustered up the courage to come over and bowed respectfully to Song Qingming and the others.

"Junior Yu Yanting, I would like to thank the seniors for saving my life!"

Song Qingyu waved his hand, stepped forward and said with a smile: "We just happened to pass by here, and saw people fighting on the island, so we came over to take a look. We are all human cultivators, and we should help each other when we are in trouble. You don't need to be so polite.

"This may be just a simple favor for you, senior, but it is a life-saving favor for us juniors. Please leave your name so that we can have a chance to repay you in the future."

Hearing what the other party said, Song Qingyu said calmly: "We are not cultivators from the East China Sea Immortal Cultivation World, and we will not stay here for long, so these rewards are unnecessary.

You guys should be disciples of Baihua Palace, right? I wonder how far it is from here to Wanhu Island. Please tell me."

Hearing Song Qingyu mention the three words Wanhu Island, Yu Yanting showed a little surprise on her face and said: "Senior is going to Wanhu Island, is it possible that you have something to do in our sect?"

Song Qingyu nodded slightly and said, "Daoist He Mengxin and I are close friends, and I want to visit her this time!"

"So you're Uncle He's good friend. What a coincidence! This place is about three thousand miles away from our Wanhu Island. If you don't mind, we are willing to help lead the way. Maybe it will be more convenient for you!"

Seeing this, Song Qingyu thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay! Then you wait here for a while. Once we have dealt with the things on this monster, we will take you on the road together!"

"Thank you in advance, senior!" Upon hearing this, Yu Yanting and the other two immediately smiled and nodded, then left the place and went to the beach to look for another companion.

After the three people left, Song Qingming took out a small jade bottle from the storage magic tool, then performed the "soul-collecting technique" on the corpse of the "black-scaled beast" in front of him, and directly collected the soul of the demon king into the bottle.

After taking a look at the demon beast's spirit in the bottle and finding nothing unusual, Song Qingming threw it directly to Song Qingyu. "This demon king's spirit can help you break through the Soul Devouring Technique. Keep it first and try to refine it when you return!"

The last time when he and He Mengxin were exploring the Nascent Soul cultivator's cave in Yue State, Song Qingming also collected the soul of a demon king. However, at that time, Song Qingyu's second level of the "Soul-Devouring Art" he was practicing had not yet been completed. Not long after Song Qingming obtained this item, he refined it directly.

"Seventh brother! You deal with the materials on the monster first, I'll go pick up my sister-in-law!" After receiving the jade bottle, Song Qingyu responded, put it away immediately, and then turned into a sword light and left the place.

Just now when the three of them were passing by the island, they happened to find that several people from the "Bai Hua Palace" were using a formation to resist the monsters.

After approaching the island and discovering that it was a Jindan Demon King, Song Qingming and his companions left Huang Siyuan on the beach on the other side of the island to prevent any accidents before rushing to rescue Yu Yanting and others.

Song Qingming nodded slightly when he heard that, turned around and looked at the huge corpse of the demon king in front of him. He waved his hand and took out a flying sword. After cutting a hole in the demon king's stomach, he quickly found the black inner elixir from it, which was the inner elixir of the demon king of this "black-scaled beast".

This time when they came to the East China Sea to cultivate immortals, Song Qingming and the other two had been traveling on the sea for a total of four or five days.

They traveled tens of thousands of miles along the way, and only saw some insignificant Qi Refining monsters, and didn't even see a single Foundation Establishment monster.

Unexpectedly, when they met Yu Yanting and others this time, they unexpectedly captured a Jindan Demon King. For Song Qingming and others, it was indeed a somewhat unexpected surprise.

The inner elixir of this demon king plus other demon beast materials such as fur should be worth about 30,000 to 40,000 spirit stones in total. For Song Qingming and others, it is considered a huge windfall.

After Song Qingming and the other two spent half a quarter of an hour collecting the valuable materials from the Demon King, Yu Yanting had already found the body of her companion who had been killed by the Demon King and returned to the island.

After several people boarded the "Phantom Boat" together, they soon turned into a white light and left the nameless island.

Seeing their companion, who was chatting and laughing together not long ago, turned into an extremely cold corpse in the blink of an eye, Yu Yanting and the other two standing on the flying boat couldn't help but show a bit of sadness on their faces.

Seeing this scene, Song Qingming and others could only sigh helplessly.

The cultivators come out to hunt monsters just to get some resources for cultivation, but there are many people in the world of cultivation who have lost their lives for this.

Whether in the Floating Cloud Mountains or in the East China Sea, similar tragedies are happening all the time in the world of immortal cultivation. Song Qingming, who has become a Jindan cultivator, has naturally experienced such things a long time ago.

After Song Qingming and others had traveled about several hundred miles on the flying boat, a golden light suddenly flew from the front. Then, a middle-aged man with a weathered face controlled the flying boat under his feet and suddenly blocked the front of the "Phantom Boat".

"Greetings, Uncle Wu!"

Before Song Qingming opened his mouth to ask the other party's purpose, Yu Yanting and the other two beside him saw the man and immediately bowed to the middle-aged man in unison.

Seeing this, Song Qingming and others knew that the person who came should be a Jindan elder from the "Baihua Palace", and they hurriedly bowed to him slightly.

The middle-aged man first looked at Song Qingming and the others meaningfully, then nodded and saluted them calmly, then turned to Yu Yanting and the other two and asked:
"I just received the message you sent for help, and I rushed over directly. What on earth happened to you, Brother Yu? Why are you with these fellow Taoists?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Yanting immediately spoke quickly and told everything about what happened to them when they were hunting the monster just now, and how they were rescued by Song Qingming and the other two later. She also mentioned in passing that Song Qingming and the other two had come to find He Mengxin.

After hearing Yu Yanting's explanation, the middle-aged man's attitude changed slightly. He smiled and bowed to Song Qingming again, saying, "My nephew and I were in trouble this time. Thanks to Brother Song for helping us. I am Wu Xiang from Baihua Palace. I would like to thank you brothers on behalf of the sect!"

"We are lucky to have met you and are able to help you. There is no need to be so polite, Brother Wu!" Seeing this, Song Qingming waved his hand slightly.

"Since you are here to look for Junior Sister He, you are also honored guests of our Baihua Palace. Please come to our sect's welcoming peak and rest for a while!"

After exchanging a few polite words with Wu Xiang, Song Qingming and the others followed him and walked forward for thousands of miles. Not long after, they arrived at a huge island with a fairy-like aura and green mountains and clear waters.

After passing through the mountain protection formation of "Wanhu Island", under the guidance of Wu Xiang, the flying boat they were riding soon docked on a green mountain that towered into the clouds.

As soon as he jumped off the flying boat, Song Qingming felt a very pure spiritual energy coming towards him, which made the faces of the people who had been drifting on the sea for a few days look refreshed.

"Fellow Daoist Song, please follow me inside and sit for a while. I will immediately ask someone to invite Junior Sister He over!"

"Then we'll bother you for a while!" Song Qingming and the other two responded, and followed Wu Xiang into an attic not far ahead.

As soon as they sat down, several female disciples from the "Hundred Flowers Palace" came to them with several cups of fragrant spiritual tea.

After drinking tea and chatting with Wu Xiang in a living room for a while, a familiar laugh soon came from the door. "Qingyu! You are really here."

Song Qingyu, who was sitting on the side, stood up immediately after hearing the words and walked over happily. (End of this chapter)