Liu Yunqing and Master Mingxin never believed that the cultivator who was so enthusiastic towards them and seemed so kind and upright.
If the two are truly as useless as those people speculate, they might indeed be grateful to the only person on their side in this matter.
But neither of them was a useless person who needed to be pampered or protected; they were perfectly aware of this excessively abnormal persona.
The moment they stepped onto that path, Liu Yunqing and Master Mingxin suddenly sprang into action, attacking the person leading the way.
"Hey! What's the matter, you two fairies? Why did you suddenly attack me?"
Although he said that, the honest expression on the man's face had long since disappeared, replaced by anger and ferocity. He then launched a merciless attack on Liu Yunqing and the other person.
At the same time, the person, who clearly only appeared to be at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, suddenly changed his aura as the fight progressed, and the next moment he was at the late stage of the Golden Core realm.
"Since you two fairies are so ungrateful, then I will not be a pushover!"
He then intensified his attacks, attempting to quickly subdue the two men.
For a late-stage Golden Core cultivator to take down two early-stage Golden Core cultivators would normally be a very simple matter.
But as soon as that person made his move, it became clear that he had overestimated himself.
Before the fight, I was thinking about how to stall the person for a while so I wouldn't kill them immediately.
Now, the thought that comes to mind when facing this situation is how to hold out longer until the rescue arrives.
Yes, getting Liu Yunqing and the other person over was a scheme he and his companions deliberately set up to take advantage of these two easy targets.
If I had known these two were so capable, I should have kept one more person on board.
As the man thought, Liu Yunqing and the other two were also dragging him down with their attacks.
With this person's cultivation level, he wouldn't even be a match for one of the two of them.
If they weren't afraid of people dying too quickly and not being able to counter the opponent's moves, wouldn't they have been working for nothing?
Fortunately, this worry was unnecessary.
Just as the two sides, each with their own thoughts, strangely reached a consensus, the urgent and lively rustling sound of the Sand Scorpion quickly came towards the three people fighting.
The three men were all jolted awake, thinking to themselves, "Here it comes!" and their attacks became swift and fierce.
"puff--"
Finally, with the combined efforts of the two, Master Mingxin caught up with the person behind him and pierced their heart meridian with a single sword strike.
Then the two concealed themselves. Liu Yunqing's mind stirred slightly, and she slowly wrapped the power of the Golden Crow Space around her body, making her concealment even more seamless.
The man who had been acting strangely, Liu Yunqing and his companion, arrived with his men and saw the man's corpse lying on the ground. He frowned and immediately said:
"Oh no! Run!"
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Liu Yunqing had already set up the array plate, and as soon as those people arrived, they were trapped by the array.
"You want to use us to lure away the Sand Scorpions, and then you want to plunder our supplies? Do you really think we're trash?"
“You’ve all cultivated the path to immortality, yet you still look down on women like this. This is the end for you.”
As Liu Yunqing spoke, he activated the killing array of the composite array plate, working with True Person Mingxin to quickly and successfully kill these people.
Because of the array's protection, the smell of blood hadn't spread yet. The sand scorpions that had been lured there lingered outside the array for a while before heading back to where there were people.
Liu Yunqing and his companion gathered the storage items from the people, quickly released the array to let the smell of blood spread, and lured the Singing Sand Scorpions, which were about to leave, back.
The two hid in the formation, watching the countless sand scorpions, as numerous as carp crossing a river, scramble to climb onto the corpses of the people, and after they climbed away, only a few skeletons with a faint blue glow remained.
"It's our turn to make a move!"
Liu Yunqing unleashed the killing formation once more, quickly annihilating the low-level Singing Sand Scorpions. Then, taking advantage of the formation, he began to unilaterally kill the third-tier Singing Sand Scorpions.
The third-tier Sand Scorpion is equivalent to the strength of a human Golden Core cultivator. However, because it has not developed intelligence, it can only fight based on its beastly instincts and poses no threat to Liu Yunqing and the other person.
Compared to Master Mingxin's sword cleaving in two, Liu Yunqing's shooting was much more artistic.
Except for a small burn hole in the scorpion's head pierced by an arrow, the rest of the body of each sand scorpion was in perfect condition.
Liu Yunqing estimated that the time was about right, and the three-tiered Sand Scorpions had been almost completely killed by the two of them, so he put away the formation and flew towards the temporary base.
When the two arrived at the temporary camp, there were people there who were injured from hunting sand scorpions and were healing themselves.
Some recovered through meditation after their spiritual energy was depleted.
When the two entered, no one paid any attention at first, assuming they were also injured, and no one gave her a second glance.
After a while, the people who had led away the western sand scorpions staggered back into their camp, somewhat disheveled. After each taking a pill, they began to heal their wounds without saying a word.
Then the people from the south also returned.
Finally, some people in the camp began to pay attention to Liu Yunqing and his companion.
One of them was tightening the bowstring, and the other was carefully wiping the sword. Their gray Taoist robes were spotless, and they looked very relaxed and at ease, as if separating them from others.
The person observing the two was momentarily stunned, then shook his head before remembering the important matter at hand.
To the east... it seems that apart from these two people returning, no one else has been seen?
Several of the veterans probably guessed the intentions of the person who had started the trouble earlier. Now, Liu Yunqing and his companion are unharmed, but the others are nowhere to be found. The inside story behind this is quite intriguing.
More importantly, Master Tu, leading the main force, should have been the last to head east, while these two were the first to return.
They've come back, but the Singing Sand Scorpion in the east doesn't seem to have returned either.
With this in mind, those who had guessed the inside story looked at the two of them with less contempt and more surprise and attention.
I had originally intended to go up and ask, but now I quickly suppressed my thoughts and pretended not to know anything.
However, a cultivator who had just returned from the south, seeing that Liu Yunqing and his companion seemed to have been back for quite some time, said sarcastically to them:
"I really don't understand why those pampered beauties from the major sects would come to Red Moon City for sightseeing?"
"Coming to a place like this to show off, aren't you afraid of losing your life?"
Master Mingxin paused in wiping his sword, looked at the speaker, smiled dismissively, and said in a calm voice:
"I think people who speak without thinking are more likely to die young."
After saying that, the man wanted to say something more, but he felt a burning sensation on his cheek and a piercing pain that rendered him speechless.
The female cultivator holding the longbow casually twirled the dazzling bow between her fingers.
"Stinky... Ugh—!!!"
He uttered a single curse word, and then a rocket shot out, smashing the other side of his face as well.
At this moment, someone finally stood up to stop them, saying to Liu Yunqing:
"Fellow Daoist, infighting is not allowed in this temporary base!"
With a flick of his fingers, Liu Yunqing's longbow vanished, and his voice carried a warning:
"Then let those who are foul-mouthed stop causing trouble."
The companion of the man hit by the rocket, seeing Liu Yunqing's arrogant demeanor, was about to rush over to argue when he saw Master Tu leading his men in from outside, striding straight towards Liu Yunqing and his companion.
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