When Su Qing and her group arrived at Fire Ridge, they noticed that cultivators had been there before.
"I wonder which group it is. There are so many monsters in Fire Ridge, they're really lucky to have gotten away with this," Qiu Feiyang said.
Qiu Feiyang had long planned to come to Huoling to kill the monsters, but he went to Qingsha Village instead because Su Qing said that the salt lake in Qingsha Village could be found to find Qingyan ore.
Originally, I thought it wouldn't be too late to get the Qingyan Mine and go to Huoling. Who would have thought that I would be waiting for Su Qing and Xuan Qingye to form their cores at Salt Lake for two whole months?
I wonder how many monsters and demonic cultivators the other groups have hunted down. They've wasted the last two months. I wonder if they can catch up on their progress.
Qiu Feiyang thought that everyone else might have already gone deep into the Gobi Desert, and their small team would just have to follow the main group and get scraps.
However, he didn't blame Su Qing and Xuan Qingye. They were young geniuses of the Xuanling Sect. The stronger they were, the stronger the Xuanling Sect would be, and the safer their sect's competition team would be.
"The Blazing Golden Branch should be at the summit of Fire Ridge." Su Qing looked up in the direction of Fire Ridge.
In her previous life, she became the sect leader of the Cloud Sword Sect and once came to Fire Ridge. There, she encountered a demonic cultivator who used the Yin-Yang Banner to control vengeful spirits. She saw Su Ruoshan's face in one of the spirits.
Su Qing scratched her face. Why did she think of Su Ruoshan?
She still remembered that the last time she saw Su Ruoshan was in the Xuanyuan Secret Realm, after which she was killed by Yan Ziying.
Let's not think about it anymore. What happens to Su Ruoshan has nothing to do with her.
All she wants to do now is refine the Seven Star Pill of Grade Seven.
Su Qing also had her own selfish motives. She and Xuan Qingye had only recently formed their cores and needed the Seven Star Pill to stabilize their cultivation. Another consideration was Elders Shui Qingchen and Qiu Feiyang, both of whom were at the peak of the Core Formation stage. If they could use the Seven Star Pill to nourish their cores, they might be able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in the Gobi Desert.
The depths of the Gobi Desert are far too dangerous. If the strongest member of their group is only at the peak of the Core Formation stage, they may not be able to continue.
Su Qing has made up her mind. Now that she has entered the Gobi Desert, she is going to the Demon Realm and take down the Demon Lord's lair!
Along the way, they only encountered the devastation left after the monsters were eliminated; they didn't encounter anything else.
Deep within the Fire Ridge, Xiang Yuhe had already detected the traces of the demonic beast.
"An eighth-tier super monster." Xiang Yu frowned slightly.
Eighth-tier demonic beasts possess combat power comparable to Core Formation cultivators, making them relatively easy for Xiang Yu and his group to deal with.
However, eighth-tier super monsters have bloodline inheritance, so their combat power is much stronger than that of eighth-tier monsters.
Xiang Yuhe's five-person team was reduced to a four-person team due to the loss of Yan Beige. Xiang Yuhe was a peak Core Formation cultivator, another was an early Core Formation cultivator, and there were two peak Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Even if such a team manages to kill an eighth-tier super monster, there will likely be casualties.
Although Xiang Yuhe believed that teammates were all worth sacrificing, he didn't want to end up fighting alone in the Gobi Desert at this moment.
"This is Fire Ridge, a place clearly marked on the map as having a large population of fire-attribute monsters. There will definitely be other teams coming to Fire Ridge to hunt monsters. We'll stay here and cultivate. When other teams come, we'll decide whether to cooperate or wait for them to fight the eighth-tier super monsters to a standstill before we reap the benefits," Xiang Yuhe explained his plan.
"Elder Xiang is wise!" Liu Yi said.
Liu Yi, early stage of Core Formation cultivation.
He had no powerful backing in the Wuji Sect and had to rely entirely on his own hard work to cultivate to the Core Formation stage. By participating in the sect competition, Liu Yi hoped to use this opportunity to become an elder after returning to the sect.
The two Foundation Establishment cultivators naturally had no objection to the decision made by the two Core Formation cultivators.
So the four of them dug a cave in the Fire Ridge, set up a defensive array, and hid there.
Xiang Yuhe specializes in fire-attribute cultivation and is also an alchemist, making Fire Ridge a suitable place for him to cultivate.
Liu Yi mainly cultivates the water elemental root, and the Fire Ridge made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles. He could only barely set up a spirit-gathering array to cultivate.
As for the other two Foundation Establishment Peak cultivators, they need to observe the outside situation and are not qualified to cultivate.
Five days passed, and they finally received the monks.
"Elder Xiang is a cultivator from the Xuanling Sect!"
Xiang Yu opened her eyes, looked outside, and was so shocked she almost fell to the ground!
Why did this bunch of plague gods show up instead!
Shui Qingchen and Qiu Feiyang arrived at Fire Ridge with their team. Xiang Yu frowned. Upon closer inspection, he realized that Su Qing and Xuan Qingye were both Core Formation stage cultivators!
He immediately decided that he would hide here.
The other team has two full squads, eight out of ten of whom are at the Core Formation stage. What can his four-person squad do to compete with them?
"I guess I'm just unlucky!" Xiang Yu gritted his teeth in anger, thinking to himself that once he left Fire Ridge, he would have to find a team to cooperate with, as a four-person team was really too disadvantageous.
Su Qing glanced sharply in the direction of Xiang Yu and the others.
She could sense that the place was protected by an array.
It seems that the cultivators who hunted the demonic beasts are hiding there.
Su Qing raised her head and looked into the depths of the Fire Ridge, a cold smile playing on her lips.
Unable to handle an eighth-tier super monster, they want to sit back and reap the benefits here?
Nobody tolerates these opportunists! Su Qing raised her hand and threw out a stack of fifth-grade Heavenly Gang Explosion Talismans.
With a loud bang, Xiang Yuhe felt his vision go black as their defensive array crumbled like paper.
Xiang Yuhe only had time to pick up his weapon to block in front of him before a shockwave from an explosion struck. By the time the fifth-grade Heavenly Gang Explosion Talisman detonated, only Xiang Yuhe and Liu Yi, two Core Formation stage cultivators, were standing there. Two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators had already fallen to the ground, their fates unknown.
"Elder Xiang, are you sneaking around there trying to launch a sneak attack?" Shui Qingchen turned to look at Xiang Yuhe.
Xiang Yu was caught off guard by the Heavenly Gang Explosion Talisman and looked disheveled. He looked at Su Qing with cold eyes and said with a sneer, "I didn't expect that your Xuanling Sect would produce such a ruthless disciple."
“I can’t compare to Elder Xiang,” Su Qing said. “However, the talisman I just used seemed a bit weak.”
Having already taken down two Foundation Establishment Peak disciples, how dare he say his talismans are not powerful enough?
What, you think you can just use a talisman to instantly kill a Core Formation cultivator?
Xiang Yu gritted her teeth in anger.
"Elder Xiang, you've really cleared out all the monsters in Fire Ridge. We haven't seen a single fifth-tier monster along the way," Qiu Feiyang said. "But why didn't you continue deeper in? Oh, are you afraid you can't defeat that eighth-tier super monster?"
shame!
However, Xiang Yu and Xiang Lai have always been able to adapt to changing circumstances!
Xiang Yu had already secretly reached behind his back and pulled out a teleportation talisman.
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