Shui Qingchen, an alchemist, was currently wielding a large hammer and fighting against an eighth-tier super monster.
Not only did the green-eyed fire lion gain no advantage whatsoever, it was even hit in the front paw by Shui Qingchen's hammer.
Blood splattered, and the Azure-Eyed Fire Lion was completely enraged. It roared at Shui Qingchen, and its body suddenly swelled to more than ten meters tall, glaring down at Shui Qingchen.
Shui Qingchen showed no weakness, his fire-attribute spiritual power surged, reaching a height of ten meters.
"So what if you're tall?" Shui Qingchen raised the giant hammer in his hand, and the flames suddenly surged to fifty meters!
The giant hammer fell and smashed directly onto the head of the Azure-Eyed Fire Lion. The Azure-Eyed Fire Lion screamed in agony as its skull shattered and blood splattered everywhere!
Qiu Feiyang stared blankly at the scene, completely dumbfounded.
Is this the power of a violent alchemist?
The eighth-tier super monster, the Azure-Eyed Fire Lion, was killed with a single hammer blow?
Shui Qingchen watched as the green-eyed fire lion gave up and returned to its original state. She looked at Su Qing and a barely perceptible smile appeared on her lips.
It has to be said that after so many years of alchemy, she now felt much more satisfied than opening the alchemy furnace in the past by directly killing a demonic beast.
No wonder those cultivators are always thinking about going out to train and smashing monsters to pieces with one blow. We wish there were more of these kinds of experiences.
Having obtained the demon crystal of the Azure-Eyed Fire Lion, the group continued their journey deeper into the Fire Ridge.
Deep within the volcano lies a crater. The group descended into the crater and indeed found the Blazing Golden Branch.
The Blazing Gold Branch grows atop a ball of Blazing Azure Flame, which is a top-tier type of earth fire.
Su Qing already possessed both Immortal Flame and Heavenly Flame, while Shui Qingchen and Qiu Feiyang each had their own Heavenly Flame. The Blazing Azure Flame was given to Yue Lan.
The Fiery Golden Branch was shimmering with golden light, and Su Qing put it into her storage space.
While Su Qing was collecting sixth-grade spiritual herbs to refine the Seven Star Pill, disciples from various sects had already begun large-scale hunting of demonic beasts and pursuing demonic cultivators in the Gobi Desert.
However, while hunting monsters is easy, dealing with demonic cultivators is not so simple.
Demonic cultivators can absorb blood to enhance themselves and refine souls to become vengeful ghosts within the Yin-Yang Banner, greatly increasing their combat power.
When a small team is defeated by a demonic cultivator, that demonic cultivator is able to kill two other cultivator teams. At first, this was not a common occurrence, but the sect competition has been going on for more than three months, and all the major sects outside the Gobi Desert have found that their fellow disciples who entered the Gobi Desert have suffered heavy casualties.
"What's going on? Only three months have passed, and one-fifth of them have already died." A Nascent Soul cultivator frowned.
The Wuji Sect members looked even uglier; four members of their squad had already disappeared, and their Nascent Soul protector, Wen Yutian, was also dead.
"The monsters in this Gobi Desert aren't strong; at most, they're eighth-tier super monsters. The demonic cultivators are all desperate fugitives being hunted down in the Boundless Continent; at most, they're comparable to the peak of the Core Formation stage. How could there be so many casualties in just three months!" Even the cultivation families couldn't sit still any longer.
Even among the top ten cultivation families of the Boundless Continent, there aren't many Core Formation stage cultivators. Half of them have entered the Gobi Desert for training, and some families even have Nascent Soul patriarchs.
If they could gain benefits, that would be fine, but judging from the current situation, it seems they won't gain much, and instead, the family's Core Formation cultivators will suffer losses.
"We are withdrawing from the sect competition," said the patriarch of a cultivation family, his face pale.
Their family managed to assemble a small team to enter the Gobi Desert, but now only one member has managed to escape by crushing the counting spirit stone; the rest have been left behind in the Gobi Desert and will never return.
If they hadn't participated in the sect competition, their family could still be considered a mid-to-upper-class cultivation family in the Wuyuan Continent. Now that they have lost their future heir, their status will likely plummet.
Then several more cultivation families withdrew from the sect competition.
These are all mid-level cultivation families, and they can't even muster a few groups to enter the Gobi Desert.
"Demonic cultivators! Demonic cultivators are terrifying." A Foundation Establishment peak cultivator who had just crushed a counting spirit stone was pale-faced. Just now, a Core Formation cultivator had been turned into a dried corpse by demonic cultivators who had sucked his blood right before his eyes, and even his soul had been absorbed into the Yin-Yang Banner.
That's terrible!
The leaders of the five major sects all arrived at the outskirts of the Gobi Desert, and all five of them had solemn expressions.
Not only did the cultivation families suffer heavy losses, but many of their sect's disciples also perished in the Gobi Desert.
The Xuanling Sect leader was slightly relieved to see that Su Qing and Xuan Qingye were unharmed. However, the Xuanling Sect had already lost two groups.
The monks from both groups were killed in the same place.
The sect leader of Xuanling Sect pointed to a place called Xuesha Village and frowned.
"Xuesha Village?"
Su Qing pointed to a village on the map and said, "The most likely place to find the sixth-grade spiritual herb, the Misty Windbell Grass, is the back mountain of Xue Sha Village."
“Su Qing, I always felt that you were very familiar with the Gobi Desert,” Shui Qingchen said.
Su Qing did not answer, but she thought to herself, who knows the Gobi Desert better than her?
“There’s a canyon in the back mountain of Xue Sha Village. During the stormy season, strong winds blow through the canyon, strong enough to tear an eighth-tier demon beast apart. The Misty Wind Chime Grass should be rooted in this canyon,” Su Qing explained. “As long as we get the Misty Wind Chime Grass, we’ll have collected all the herbs for the Seven Star Pill.”
“Then let’s go to Xuesha Village,” Xuan Qingye said.
Xue Sha Village, Su Qing took a deep breath.
In her previous life, she encountered a demonic cultivator in the Gobi Desert and fled to Xuesha Village with injuries. It was the villagers of Xuesha Village who saved her.
Unfortunately, the demonic cultivators later tracked them down and wiped out the entire Xue Sha Village in front of Su Qing.
At the critical moment of life and death, Su Qing broke through the bottleneck and reversed the situation to kill the demonic cultivator. However, Xue Sha Village was already gone.
Su Qing was very uneasy on the way to Xuesha Village.
When we arrived at the entrance of Xuesha Village, the strong smell of blood was impossible to conceal.
When everyone entered the village, they found it had been completely slaughtered, and there were also the corpses of cultivators in the village.
Although they had been drained of blood by the demonic cultivators and turned into mummies, the clothes they wore were still intact.
These are all disciple robes of Xuanling Sect cultivators!
Ten Xuanling Sect cultivators—two small teams were completely wiped out in Xuesha Village.
"Our fellow disciples from the Xuanling Sect!" Yue Lan was shocked by what she saw.
“These demonic cultivators are despicable,” Wen An also said.
Shui Qingchen and Qiu Feiyang became alert. These were ten Xuanling Sect cultivators. Their bodies were here. Had their souls already been absorbed into the Yin-Yang Banner?
If they were transformed into vengeful ghosts by demonic cultivation, they would be the vengeful ghosts of six Core Formation cultivators.
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