He was numb! Completely numb!
The moment Qi Ping went all out, the three people who had intended to make a move on him were utterly stunned.
What did they just see?
A second-tier Sunfire Crow!
A swarm of second-tier bees with an extraordinary aura!
Coupled with Qi Ping’s own strength at the initial Foundation Establishment stage!
This really was like poking a hornet’s nest now!
The heart of the middle-aged man called Seventh Uncle instantly sank. He looked at the young man beside him with a feeling of frustration, thinking, ‘What an idiot!’
He finally understood now. Qi Ping had clearly been open to negotiation, but because of this fool’s comment, he had directly eliminated any possibility of easing the tension!
He was really going to get them killed!
The young man’s pupils were also constricted as he stared at Qi Ping in shock. He had completely underestimated Qi Ping’s strength.
Moreover, since he himself practiced the Beast Taming arts, he understood even more clearly what Qi Ping’s summoned spirit beasts signified.
This was disastrous!
Especially that Sunfire Crow; it had likely already awakened its Solar Body. There was no way the two old-timers beside him, who weren’t even at their peak, could handle it.
At the same time, a pang of jealousy arose in his heart. He didn’t even have a spirit beast of this level himself!
And that Stone Spirit was supposed to be his!
In just a fleeting moment, despair enveloped the hearts of the three.
It was already unbelievable enough that Qi Ping had summoned two second-tier spirit beasts as combat power, but now even the Stone Spirit had sided with him.
What was more, the Stone Spirit seemed even stronger than before?
But no matter what they thought, it couldn’t change the imminent battle.
Qi Ping, having summoned his animal companions, immediately sprang into action.
Hundred-Pupil Demon Realm!
Explosive Step!
Explosive Fireball!
Qi Ping executed a combo without giving them a chance to activate their defenses. Since a fight was inevitable, he had to finish them off as quickly as possible and minimize his losses, especially since it seemed these three had backers.
He first used his spiritual power and talent in illusionary techniques to catch them off guard.
Under the influence of the Hundred-Pupil Demon Realm, the Foundation Establishment cultivator Qi Ping targeted was instantly pulled into an illusion where inner demons bizarrely resurrected.
Intense fear immediately appeared on his face, and his body began to tremble.
Qi Ping seized this moment to use Explosive Step, charging forward. Immediately after, his enhanced Explosive Fireball slammed into the man.
With a thunderous roar, the Foundation Establishment cultivator, completely defenseless, took the full brunt of Qi Ping’s attack and was severely wounded in an instant!
Only then, driven by intense pain and survival instinct, did he manage to break free from the Hundred-Pupil Demon Realm.
He looked at Qi Ping with utter terror. This man’s combat strength was far more terrifying than he had imagined!
Unfortunately, he didn’t even have a chance to kneel and beg for mercy now. No sooner had the severely injured cultivator awakened than he was surrounded by the Armor Bees.
With the launch of the Armor Bees’ explosive stingers, his nearly exposed heart was instantly destroyed.
In no time, he was completely dead.
And before Qi Ping had even killed this Foundation Establishment cultivator, the youngest one had already died the fastest.
Under the siege formation of the second-tier Armor Bees, he and his summoned first-tier spirit beasts were swiftly eliminated.
The combination of second-tier Armor Bees and a battle formation was simply something a Qi Condensation cultivator couldn’t withstand.
After these two died quickly, only the Foundation Establishment cultivator besieged by Crow Crow and the Stone Golem remained.
Witnessing the speed at which his two companions perished, all that was left in his heart was despair!
He knew their side had basically lost, but did they have to die this fast?
He had also seen Qi Ping’s combo just now, especially that terrifying soul skill. That was something people at their level simply couldn’t block!
At first glance, Qi Ping had seemed utterly unremarkable.
Plain-looking, with strength probably similar to theirs, nothing particularly special. But now that Qi Ping had unleashed his full power, he realized just how terrifying he truly was.
The True Intent of Fire, the Dao Heart Realm, the terrifying soul technique…
With such talent, he could rank among the top even in their Xuan Tian Beast Sect.
But Qi Ping was far from just that. The second-tier bee swarm and the Sunfire Crow he brought out were also extraordinary. Being part of a sect with a Beast Taming lineage, he naturally had a good understanding of spirit beasts.
He simply couldn’t comprehend how someone could possess such terrifying personal combat power and such formidable spirit beasts. If this guy joined their Xuan Tian Beast Sect, he’d definitely be a contender for the position of core disciple!
But it was useless to say anything now!
His biggest regret now was becoming a guard for this idiot!
His hatred for Qi Ping was actually much weaker, after all, Qi Ping, with his level of strength, had still been willing to negotiate, but that fool had forced his hand.
Regretful!
“Ahhh!”
With a final scream, the last Foundation Establishment cultivator was severely wounded by the combined attack of Crow Crow and the Stone Golem.
At the last moment, however, Qi Ping had the Armor Bees deliver the finishing blow.
This was Qi Ping’s current battle habit. When circumstances permitted, he would always let the bees make the final kill, and then send the responsible bees out into the wild to lay low for a while.
After the kill, Qi Ping quickly cleaned up the battlefield and the bodies. The corpses were carried away by the first-tier Dark Armor Bees.
As for the storage pouches, Qi Ping opened them using the method Meng Yan had taught him. He took out the valuable items inside, then divided them into several portions and had the bees hide them in various locations.
Qi Ping didn’t have many things, but he did have a stash of empty storage pouches prepared by Boss Gao during the honey transactions.
After doing all this, Qi Ping quickly left the area with the little Stone Spirit.
While they were leaving, Qi Ping also erased the tracking mark on the little Stone Spirit.
Only after they had gone a considerable distance did Qi Ping finally breathe a sigh of relief.
“Ding ding. (Where are we going now? Is it safe here?)”
The little Stone Spirit, looking like a small lump of coal, stood on Qi Ping’s shoulder and asked.
“We’re going to find someone first, then back to my place.”
Thinking about the descriptions of the Stone Spirit race’s fate in the books, Qi Ping couldn’t help but sigh.
Every Stone Spirit is born from the very essence of heaven and earth, endowed with extraordinary abilities.
In ancient times, the Stone Spirit race flourished and was one of the most powerful races in the cultivation world.
But later, when cultivators discovered that the life-bound magic artifacts forged by Stone Spirits possessed growth potential and extraordinary power, disaster befell the race.
In a long-premeditated war, nearly all the famous Stone Spirits in the cultivation world were captured.
The two thousand most powerful Stone Spirits were forged into a devastating sword formation of ten thousand and eighty swords!
This was one of the most terrifying transcendent set magic artifacts in the history of the cultivation world, rumored to still be in the hands of an ancient cultivator.
After the most powerful Stone Spirits had all fallen, the news about the growth-type artifacts they could forge spread.
From then on, the Stone Spirit race faced catastrophe. Under the frenzied hunting by cultivators, any Stone Spirit that revealed itself was nearly wiped out.
In the current cultivation world, Stone Spirits are already very hard to find. Once one appears, it basically can’t escape the clutches of cultivators.
Take the little Stone Spirit on Qi Ping’s shoulder; even hiding in the mortal world, it got dug up…
“Ding ding. (What are you thinking about?)” the little coal-ball Stone Spirit asked curiously, noticing Qi Ping had fallen silent.
“Nothing much. Just follow me, don’t worry. I know somewhere safer.”
“Ding ding! (Yay! That’s great!)”
