"This is the third mission. It looks like we'll be able to return to the sect soon!" Li Yuanba held a jade slip in his hand, observing the map inside and whispered to himself.

For the first two missions, he did not stop at all and started right away upon arriving at the location.

With his current strength, anyone who is in the foundation-building stage and is not a true disciple of a large sect will not be his match.

Even if they are true disciples of a large sect, it depends on how true their teachings are. Ordinary true disciples will not be able to withstand his full-strength and continuous attack.

The sword cultivator was originally the best in attack in the world of immortal cultivation, not to mention that he had inherited the top sword cultivation technique, the 'Sword Intent Soaring into the Sky'.

Li Yuanba's mind swept across the front, where a formation concealed a cave, which was exactly where his mission target was.

Just like before, he didn't hesitate at all and shot the flying sword towards the formation.

The flying sword broke into the formation through a loophole, disrupting the transmission of spiritual power within the formation and causing the formation to collapse instantly.

The flying sword was about to continue attacking inwards, but suddenly it changed direction and dodged to the side.

At the same time, a white lotus appeared under Li Yuanba's feet. He disappeared on the white lotus and appeared on the white lotus one hundred and fifty meters away.

A pestle-shaped magic weapon with black mist flew out from the cave and hit the place where he disappeared.

This attack condensed the full strength of the Jindan cultivator that had been accumulating for a long time. Although it missed, the energy waves swept in all directions, forming a hole on the ground with this place as the center.

Moreover, all the soil within tens of meters, which was several meters thick, was blown away by the energy shock wave, which shows how powerful this attack was.

Li Yuanba was shocked and angry. He didn't expect that a Jindan cultivator would ambush him here.

You have to know that Jindan cultivators are also proud, and even if they want to attack foundation-building cultivators, they will only do it in person. This kind of secret ambush means they have no intention of saving his life.

If he had not practiced 'Lotus Blooms with Every Step' and had not been careful in maintaining the preparations for 'Lotus Blooms with Every Step', this attack from the Jindan cultivator would have taken his life.

Even though he dodged it, the danger still made him feel cold on the back.

At the moment the formation was broken, the Jindan cultivator locked onto him with his divine sense, and the subsequent attack was almost certain to kill him, because all the pressure from the Jindan cultivator fell on him.

This method of suppressing with all one's strength in realm is extremely effective against weak enemies with a large realm gap.

Fortunately, 'Lotus Steps Everywhere' can ignore these things, which allowed Li Yuanba to escape.

Li Yuanba was filled with shock and anger, and Niu Ziru, who had been waiting for him for a long time, was equally shocked.

Niu Ziru was a casual cultivator from the Shiwan Mountains. When the Senluo Sect was expanding rapidly a few years ago, he wisely joined Elder Yue.

A few days ago, Elder Yue gave him a task, asking him to kill Li Yuanba.

Li Yuanba's name may not be well-known in other places, but he is very famous in the Shiwandashan Mountains.

Ever since Li Yuanba killed several true disciples of Senluo Sect in a row, the foundation-building disciples of Senluo Sect who had ambushed him dared not to make the slightest move, which made Li Yuanba, the sword cultivator, notorious for his evil deeds.

Although Niu Ziru is a Jindan cultivator, he comes from a casual cultivator family and cannot compare with the Jindan cultivators from the big sects. There is a huge gap between them both in terms of skills and magic weapons.

He was self-aware, so after receiving the task from Elder Yue, he chose the safest way, which was to use a sneak attack.

If it were any other Jindan cultivator, they would still have some dignity, but Niu Ziru, who came from a casual cultivator background, had done everything he could. In order to succeed in making the elixir, he used countless means, including cheating and deceiving.

With the information sent by Elder Yue, Niu Ziru arrived at the target of the mission before Li Yuanba and killed the target.

At the same time, Niu Ziru also knew Li Yuanba's style of doing things, so he stayed in the cave of the target and waited for Li Yuanba to come to him.

As expected, Li Yuanba didn't even do any reconnaissance and attacked with all his might as soon as he appeared.

Niu Ziru used a secret method to accumulate strength and delivered what he thought was a fatal blow, but reality slapped him hard in the face.

His attack inexplicably missed and Li Yuanba disappeared from under his magic weapon.

If he was born in a large sect, or even a medium-sized sect, he would have heard of supernatural powers. Unfortunately, his origin was too low and his supernatural powers were too high-end, so he didn't know about the supernatural power of "Lotus Blooming with Every Step".

After his attack missed, he quickly mobilized his pestle-shaped magic weapon to attack Li Yuanba again.

Li Yuanba calmed down from the surprise attack and used 'Lotus Steps' again to dodge the attack of the pestle-shaped magic weapon. At the same time, he had time to observe Niu Zirulai.

The aura on Niu Ziru's body was not concealed at all because he was using all his strength. The strength and aura of an early Jindan cultivator were much weaker than those of an early Jindan cultivator in a sect. This showed that he was a Jindan cultivator from a small sect or a casual cultivator.

Li Yuanba didn't know that Niu Ziru couldn't recognize 'Bu Bu Sheng Lian'. Ever since he was hunted down by Qianye Temple after using 'Bu Bu Sheng Lian' in the righteous forces' territory last time, he had designated 'Bu Bu Sheng Lian' as a forbidden skill that must be used to kill the perpetrator.

If Niu Ziru was an early Jindan cultivator from a large sect, he would have no way to deal with him, but after sensing Niu Ziru's true combat power, he had the idea of ​​fighting him.

This idea is extremely arrogant. The Jindan stage naturally suppresses the foundation-building stage, just as the foundation-building stage naturally suppresses the Qi-refining stage.

His arrogance is based on the magical power of 'Lotus Blooms with Every Step'. With the power of 'Lotus Blooms with Every Step', he can be many times faster than his opponent in battle, and he can attack or defend, thus becoming invincible.

When Niu Ziru mobilized the pestle-shaped magic weapon to chase him again, the white lotus under Li Yuanba's feet disappeared along with his body.

The flying sword in the air did not dare to get close to the pestle-shaped magic weapon. The quality of the two magic weapons was too different. Even if the flying sword of the spiritual weapon level was blessed with sword intent, it would be destroyed as long as it collided with the pestle-shaped magic weapon.

Therefore, the flying sword avoided the pestle-shaped magic weapon from a distance, but circled around the button freely, like an eagle in the sky waiting for the opportunity to attack.

Niu Ziru's spiritual sense sensed the changes in the energy around him. When he was recalling the pestle-shaped magic weapon, Li Yuanba and a white lotus appeared behind him at the same time.

The third-grade sword base in Li Yuanba's hand turned into a long sword. The sword was full of sword power and slashed heavily on Niu Ziru's body.

Niu Ziru was blessed with a defensive spell, a seemingly thin layer of black mist, but it was actually a secret magic defense method that he cultivated by using the vicious methods of many magic practitioners.

In order to practice this secret magic defense method, he killed no less than a thousand monks, and used the monks' blood and souls to refine this secret magic defense method.

This magic defensive secret technique is extremely powerful, almost equivalent to the defensive power of ordinary defensive magic weapons, and it can also use the evil energy contained in it to corrode the opponent's magic weapon.

Of course, the more powerful the magic defense secret method is, the stronger the backlash will be. This is a double-edged sword.

As for why Niu Ziru did not refine a defensive magic weapon like a normal Jindan cultivator, it would have saved him so much trouble.

Although the Ten Thousand Mountains are the sphere of influence of the Demon Sect Senluo Sect, if the Senluo Sect knew that Niu Ziru used the lives of so many cultivators to practice the secret technique, he would still be hunted down by the Senluo Sect.

If this kind of behavior is not restricted, no matter how many cultivators there are in the vast Ten Thousand Mountains, they will not be enough to cope with such consumption.

Niu Ziru also wanted to use a defensive magic weapon, but he was just a casual Jindan cultivator, and the pestle-shaped magic weapon was obtained by trickery and robbery.

If it were any other sword cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, this sword would not only fail to hurt Niu Ziru, but would contaminate the sword cultivator's sword if it landed on Niu Ziru's secret magic defense technique.

But after Li Yuanba practiced "Purple Air Coming from the East" for a long time, the sword intent contained the power of yang, which is the nemesis of all evil cultivation techniques.

When the third-grade sword base slashed at Niu Ziru's magic defense secret technique, the third-grade sword base emitted a dazzling light, and at the same time, countless struggling shadows appeared on the surface of the magic defense secret technique.

The shadow seemed to fall into an endless sea of ​​fire. That was the effect of the extremely yang sword intent in the third-grade sword foundation.

The pestle-shaped magic weapon returned and struck towards Li Yuanba, but by this time Li Yuanba had already used 'Lotus Steps' to disappear from the spot, and when he reappeared he was more than a hundred meters away.

There was a flash of horror in Niu Ziru's eyes. Li Yuanba's attack just now seemed to have not hurt him, but the secret magic defense method that he had cultivated with great difficulty was reduced by one percent.

He was sure that if there was no protection from the magic defense secret method, the strange long sword in Li Yuanba's hand, combined with Li Yuanba's sword intent, would definitely be able to hurt him.

This is something that is extremely difficult to imagine. Unless the Foundation Establishment cultivator has the strength of a half-step Golden Core, even if the Golden Core cultivator just stands there and does not fight back, he will not be able to have much impact on the Golden Core cultivator.

Li Yuanba, a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, made Niu Ziru feel threatened.

Niu Ziru no longer held back and regarded Li Yuanba as a formidable rival.

He took out a talisman, which was a talisman for the Jindan period and was also the most powerful means of attack in the hands of a casual cultivator like him.

It is impossible to use ordinary Jindan spells to attack Li Yuanba, whose figure is as ghostly as a ghost. Only Jindan spells with a large range can be effective.

However, with his level of cultivation, he is simply unable to instantly cast a large-scale Jindan spell, and can only rely on Jindan-stage talismans.

Before activating the talisman, he felt a little nervous in his heart, because he felt sorry for the consumption this time. He hoped that Li Yuanba really had a set of resources for making elixirs as rumored, and that he could make up for the consumption of this battle.

When Li Yuanba saw Niu Ziru taking out the talisman, he continuously performed "Lotus Blooms with Every Step". When Niu Ziru activated the talisman, he retreated hundreds of meters away in a breath.

The talisman was activated, and a gray fog expanded outwards at a rapid speed. Everything touched by the gray fog was covered with a layer of death.

The remaining weeds on the ground turned into dead leaves in the gray fog and soon became powder, blending into the soil that had also turned gray and black.

Li Yuanba was retreating and the gray fog was chasing him. It was because the speed of 'Lotus Step by Step' was fast enough that he was unable to come into contact with the gray fog.

This gray fog covers an area with a radius of 300 meters. The spell solidified in this talisman is indeed the best way to deal with enemies with high-speed movement capabilities.

After finding out that the talisman did not achieve the expected effect, Niu Ziru became scared. He did not have the pride of a Jindan-stage cultivator, and he was dealing with a true disciple of the Senluo Sect.

Even though he had received a mission from Elder Yue of the Senluo Sect, he knew clearly that after the incident, Elder Yue would have no chance of protecting him.

On the contrary, if he failed to complete the task, Elder Yue would not let him go.

But he had no choice. Since he couldn't kill Li Yuanba, he chose to escape.

Otherwise, when Li Yuanba returns to the sect, before Elder Yue finds him, Senluo Sect will definitely not let him go, a Jindan cultivator who dared to attack and kill the true disciples of Senluo Sect.

At that time, a Jindan cultivator from the Senluo Sect will accept the mission, just like Li Yuanba easily killed those Foundation Establishment Stage mission targets, and his life will be easily used as a mission reward.

Even his body will become material for corpse refining, and his soul will be extracted to become nourishment for the magic practice.

When Niu Ziru thought of this, he flew away in another direction.

When Li Yuanba saw that he wanted to escape, the first thing he thought of was that this Jindan cultivator wanted to publicize the matter of 'lotus blooming with every step', so the white lotus under Li Yuanba's feet disappeared, and his figure also disappeared, and appeared in the direction of chasing Niu Ziru.

"Kill!" A shout came into Niu Ziru's ears, but faster than the sound was the third-grade sword master.

The third-grade sword base slashed at Niu Ziru's body, and the extremely yang sword intent caused the shadows struggling on the magic defense secret method to be burned again by the extremely yang flame.

Niu Ziru was going crazy. His fight with Li Yuanba lasted for three hours.

During these three hours, Li Yuanba's figure would appear close to him from time to time.

Even if he tried his best, he could not use the pestle-shaped magic weapon to block any attack, because there was no pattern in the appearance of Li Yuanba.

Sometimes Li Yuanba would appear above his head, sometimes behind him, sometimes at his feet, and he could appear at any position in any direction around Niu Ziru.

As it appears, the long sword transformed from the third-grade sword base will bring a blow containing the extremely yang sword intent.

After being hit, he immediately fled away without stopping for a moment, not giving Niu Ziru any chance to counterattack.

Niu Ziru is like a slow-moving elephant, and Li Yuanba, like an ant, can only bite off a very small piece of the elephant each time, and the little bit he bites off is not even considered an injury to the elephant.

But Li Yuanba's continuous attacks continued to accumulate damage, causing Niu Ziru's injuries to gradually improve.

In three hours, Li Yuanba attacked no less than a hundred times, making the secret magic defense method outside Niu Ziru's body almost completely transparent and could disappear at any time.

In addition, the Zhiyang Sword Intent within the third-grade sword base also affected Niu Ziru's body during multiple attacks. The magic power in his body was affected by the Zhiyang Sword Intent, and he felt a slight tingling sensation when it was circulated.

If Niu Ziru was not a Jindan-stage cultivator, the magic power in his body would have collapsed long ago when faced with this extremely yang sword intent that could restrain magic power.