Liu Yunqing decided to ask someone.
As everyone knows, unless one is preparing to fight, no one would be so impolite as to use their divine sense to track someone's whereabouts.
Liu Yunqing only wanted to find someone to ask if anything major had happened in the Luoxia Mountains. He didn't want to fight, so he only looked for people in the direction of cultivators' spiritual energy fluctuations and did not use his divine sense to investigate.
As a result, when Liu Yunqing arrived at the place where there had been traces of cultivators, he found that the people and beasts had vanished and there was nothing there.
At first, Liu Yunqing thought it was just a coincidence, that maybe the person was planning to leave anyway. But things don't happen more than three times. When this happened again and again, Liu Yunqing knew it couldn't be a coincidence.
Fortunately, Liu Yunqing wasn't really stupid. After frowning and thinking for a moment, she knew roughly where the problem lay. Although she found it somewhat unbelievable, she still tried her best to suppress her aura.
Sure enough, this time her target did not run away, although the three people in the group still looked wary when they saw Liu Yunqing.
"Fellow Daoists, I'd like to ask if anything significant has happened in the Luoxia Mountains recently?"
Liu Yunqing stood three zhang away from the three people, asking questions politely while observing the surrounding situation.
All three were at the peak of the Golden Core stage, but their auras were surging, and the two huge monster corpses lying on the ground indicated that they had just finished a battle.
The three of them looked at Liu Yunqing with wariness, and they all stopped dealing with the monster's corpse. When they saw that Liu Yunqing had stopped three zhang away and seemed to be quite polite, their gazes softened.
Even so, the three remained tense, their guard up. After exchanging a glance, the female cultivator among them finally spoke:
"Nothing major has happened, why do you say that, fellow Daoist?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Yunqing's thoughts were confirmed; it was indeed a problem with the immortal aura emanating from her own body.
Liu Yunqing smiled gently and bowed to thank the female cultivator, saying:
"Thank you for telling me, fellow Daoist. There's nothing else. It's just that I didn't encounter any demonic beasts or fellow Daoists along the way, so I thought something had happened. I guess it was just a coincidence."
To the three men, Liu Yunqing's words sounded like blatant lies, and they assumed he was just making excuses to strike up a conversation.
As for why people would think that someone would try to strike up a conversation like that, it's obviously because in the cultivation world, sometimes the rewards for hunting cultivators are much greater than those for hunting demonic beasts.
Amusement and mockery flashed in the eyes of the three, but they did not expose Liu Yunqing. They simply nodded perfunctorily and continued to handle the monster corpses with caution, but they always kept a sliver of attention on Liu Yunqing.
Liu Yunqing was naturally aware of the other party's wariness. After thanking them with a smile, she turned and left on her own. Only when she felt the gaze sticking to her back disappear did she release her divine sense again to search for the monster's lair.
The higher the rank of a monster, the fewer there are, the larger the territory it needs, and naturally the more sparsely it is distributed.
Liu Yunqing didn't look at the map; she only relied on her divine sense to scan the area. By the time she arrived, following the fluctuations of spiritual energy in her divine sense, the demonic beast there had already discovered her.
Meow~~~
The moment Liu Yunqing appeared, a melodious and long meow came from the cave at the foot of the hill ahead.
Immediately afterwards, a cute cat with yellow and black fur and round eyes appeared at the entrance of the cave.
Liu Yunqing clearly didn't find it cute at all, because this was a genuine Nascent Soul stage demon beast—the Shadow Spider.
The Shadow Spider, as its name suggests, is a monster with a cat's head and a spider's body, known for its speed.
Liu Yunqing took a closer look at the Shadow Spider. Its cultivation level was at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, which perfectly matched her requirements for her first battle after changing her immortal energy.
The round cat's head and round eyes stared intently at Liu Yunqing. Seeing that Liu Yunqing did not move, it stretched out its breath and meowed softly at Liu Yunqing.
This meow sounds similar to the previous one, but in reality, they are quite different.
The moment the scream rang out, Liu Yunqing sensed danger descending from the sky. Looking up, she saw a huge spider web, shimmering with a faint blue light, closing in on her.
Liu Yunqing instinctively tried to dodge, but found that the faint blue light seemed to carry a certain fragrance, making her unable to move her feet.
Liu Yunqing raised an eyebrow and looked at the Shadow Spider, which only showed its head. She noticed that its round eyes had turned into vertical pupils, and it was looking at her with mockery. When it saw her looking over, it let out a mocking meow.
Seeing this, Liu Yunqing curled her lips at the Shadow Spider, raised her right palm and pushed upwards, a ball of flame rose up and gently collided with the dark blue spider web.
"Sizzle—"
The spider web stopped descending, and after colliding with the flames, it emitted a slight crackling sound like burning hair. Then, the flames burst forth from the center of the web, like a firework slowly exploding.
Liu Yunqing looked up and nodded in satisfaction. Then he looked at the Shadow Spider and saw that it stared wide-eyed in disbelief, its vertical pupils turning into thin lines.
"Waaaaah—!!!"
At this moment, the Shadow Spider stopped meowing and instead bared its teeth, letting out angry howls from its throat.
Liu Yunqing smiled even more brightly. With a light tap of his foot, without using any strength, he flew out like lightning. As he flew out, he flipped his wrist with his left hand, nocked an arrow with his right, and shot it at the Shadow Spider without hesitation.
"Wow—!!!"
The Shadow Spider's voice changed drastically, and fear flashed across its cat-like face. Relying on its beastly instincts and its increased speed, it leaped out of the cave, barely dodging Liu Yunqing's arrow.
"Awoo~~~"
Just as the Shadow Spider, thinking it had survived a calamity, let out a soothing cry, an arrow gleaming with starlight gently and slowly pierced its brow.
The Shadow Spider's eyes widened, and before the words it uttered could even finish, it collapsed limply to the ground, as if in disbelief.
Liu Yunqing landed lightly beside the monster's corpse and squatted down to examine the wounds on the body.
She was very satisfied with the result, but the shape of the arrow was just too ugly.
This was the first time Liu Yunqing had condensed an arrow after his spiritual energy was replaced by immortal energy. Arrows, which he used to condense with ease, were now extremely difficult to condense after being replaced by immortal energy.
In pursuit of speed, he could only barely form a stick shape before drawing the bow and releasing the arrow.
It seems I should spend some time getting back to familiarizing myself with controlling my immortal power; otherwise, I might make a fool of myself if I were to face a cultivator.
While mocking himself, Liu Yunqing quickly cleaned up the corpse of the Shadow Spider and threw it into his storage ring.
After finishing all this and clearing his own aura from the scene, Liu Yunqing prepared to head to the next monster's lair.
This time, instead of randomly targeting one with her divine sense, she opened the map to check and prepared to choose a tough-skinned monster to fight.
Just as Liu Yunqing had finalized her goal and was preparing to set off, she suddenly sensed a very brief fluctuation of spiritual energy.
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