Ning Qingxue is ing!?

  Wang Ben was utterly surprised, and then a look of joy fshed across his face!

  He hadn't expected that Ning Qingxue, who usually stayed out of worldly affairs, would agree to lead the team.

  This was truly fantastiews!

  With Ning Qingxue, who had the Sect Leader bag her, leading the team to capture Lin Hao, it couldn't be more appropriate.

  Even if Master Feng tried to protect Lin Hao, the Sect Leader would be there to take the brunt, sparing them from the wrath of the Great Bamboo Peak's master!

  Wang Ben spread the news of Ning Qingxue's leadership, and everyone was overjoyed!

  Not only was Ning Qingxue powerful, but her status was also high, and their previous fear of Lin Hao's backer, the Great Bamboo Peak's master, suddenly dissipated.

  "Junior Sister Guo, where is Senior Sister Ning?"

  Wang Ben could hardly tain his excitement; he was eager to get rid of the demon Lin!

  "Senior Sister Ning is currently battling an old tree demon. She'll e o's sin!"

  "Let's go help Senior Sister Ning!"

  "No need!"

  A cool, ethereal voice rang out, and then a peerless beauty desded gracefully from a verdant flying sword, like a fairy falling to the mortal world.

  The male cultivators present were momentarily entranced.

  But they quickly snapped out of it, not because the woman's allure wasn't enough, but because they feared desecrating this fairy-like beauty.

  Smack!

  Ning Qiossed a tree heart in front of everyone.

  "This old tree demon was quite strong, but its vitality was too abundant. It o be uprooted, which took some time."

  The tree heart was so red it was almost purple, suggesting the tree demon's true form had lived for over a thousand years!

  Such a creature's strength was close to that of a Golden Elixir cultivator.

  Yet Ning Qingxue had sin it without even damaging her clothes.

  The cultivators present were filled with respect; with such a master as Ning Qingxue, Lin the demon was doomed.

  Wang Beepped forward with a fawning expression.

  "Senior Sister Ning, how should ture Lin the demon? Please devise a pn!"

  Ning Qingxue replied calmly, "The main thing now is to find Lin Hao's whereabouts. As for capturing him, I alone am enough."

  Wang Ben was silent, aowledging that Ning Qingxue indeed had the fideo speak this way!

  "That Lin demon is quite ing, with no fixed hiding pce. This vast wilderness makes finding him difficult."

  "ahe teams and have them spread out, but keep a certain distance. If Lin Hao appears or is spotted, send a cloud sword signal, and he won't escape."

  Wang Betered her lightly.

  "Senior Sister Ning is absolutely right; I'll arra immediately!"

  Unmoved by the praise, Ning Qingxue simply nodded calmly, then took the tree heart of the thousand-year-old tree demon a on her sword.

  ...

  Whoosh!

  Lin Hao exhaled a breath of turbid air.

  He looked inward at his dantian.

  His spiritual power was being more solid. What was once a vast o was now a small pond.

  When the liquid solidified to the size of a duck egg, it would be time to attempt f the Golden Elixir.

  Of course, talking about f the Golden Elixir noremature.

  He had been cultivating for nearly four years.

  In the first three years, he only reached the sixth level of Qi Refining.

  But ihan a year, he had leaped to the peak of Foundatioablishment.

  Indeed, cultivating immortality required striving!

  Resources, Dao panions... everything had to be fought for!

  Before participating in the Demo Hunting petitiohought of just getting a random ranking, then aimed food ranking.

  But now, he wao fight for first pce!

  He khe sect had ied heavily, and the champion of the Demo Hunting petition could obtain a ground-level cultivation teique!

  Heaveh, Bck, Yellow—Heaven-level teiques oed in records, and ground-level teiques were the pinhe treasures of each sect.

  Only the Sect Leader, Peak Masters, or those who made great tributions to the sect could cultivate them!

  This showed the preciousness of ground-level teiques!

  He was now at the peak of Foundatioablishment, not much different in cultivation from those Golden Elixir seeds!

  He had to fight, to seize!

  Afterward, Lin Hao moved swiftly into a.

  In the vast wilderness, deep in the forest.

  Mu ing led a team in a fierce battle with a pig demon that had cultivated for five hundred years.

  This pig demon had the bloodline of an a variant, and its physical body alone was parable to the te Foundatioablishment stage. Moreover, it had cultivated a Demon teique, making it a dual cultivator of body and teique, truly troublesome.

  The demon core of such a creature could be exged for many tribution points, so even though it was difficult, Mu ing had no thought of giving up.

  "Everyone, hold on a bit lohis pig demon won't st much longer!"

  Mu ing's words were not unfounded. No matter how strong the pig demon was, it couldn't withstand the relentless attacks of the cultivators, soon wailing miserably.

  Especially its body, parable to a Magical Treasure, was covered in wounds, the deepest revealing bone!

  It was close; the pig demon was about to be sin!

  A hint of joy fshed in Mu ing's eyes as he formed hand seals, juring hundreds of ice arrows to shoot toward the pig demon's eyes.

  Caught off guard, the pig demon's ntern-like eyes were pierced by dozens of ice arrows, shattering like gss, with purple-bck liquid flowing everywhere.

  Roar!

  The pig demon howled to the sky, its bck fur standing on end like steel needles!

  It was in pain and about to go berserk, but at this moment... its head was severed by a sword aura.

  "Who..."

  A trace of fusion crossed Mu ing's face. Just as the pig demon was about to be sin, how had someone else taken the prize?

  Lin Hao sat atop a broad sword, pying with a demon core the size of a goose egg, a mog look in his eyes.

  "My dear grandson, don't ynize yrandpa Lin?"

  Mu ing's eyebrows shot up as he shouted sternly, "Lin Hao, you're already a rat crossing the street, everyone shouting to beat you.

  Yet you dare to appear so openly; you're truly c death!"

  Lin Hao jumped down from the sword, a smile tugging at his lips.

  "My dear grandson, yrandpa has always been bold, daring to veon's irs and tiger's dens.

  Moreover, do you think I appeared here by ce?"

  Mu ing looked puzzled.

  "You really are stupid, my dear grandson!"

  Lin Hao frowned slightly, speaking slowly, "My dear grandson, this is a trap yrandpa set. Wasn't it fun fighting that pig demon?"

  Ah!

  Mu ing suddenly realized, exg, "Damn it, I wondered why this pig demon appeared here; it turns out you drove it here."

  "Damn it, so insidious!"

  "My dear grandson, now that you know, it's already too te!"

  A ball of fme appeared at Lin Hao's fiips, rapidly expanding into a sea of fire.

  "Go."

  With a soft and, the sea of fire surged toward Mu ing and the others.

  Having broken through to the peak of Foundatioablishment, Lin Hao's spellcasting power had increased signifitly.

  Mu ing and the others were only at the te Foundatioablishment stage, and in their uanding, Lin Hao was also supposed to be at the te Foundatioablishment stage.

  "When did you advao the peak?"

  "Weren't you just at the te Foundatioablishment stage not long ago?"

  Lin Hao replied calmly, "The world of geniuses, you wouldn't uand!"

  Swift!

  Having reached the peak, his spellcasting speed had increased greatly, with Yellow-level low-grade spells almost instantaneously cast.

  "Boom!"

  Hundreds of Fme Bdes sshed forward.

  Fmes soared to the sky!

  Mu ing and the others couldn't withstand it, their skin scorched and their clothes in tatters!

  The differeween the peak and the te stage, though just a small realm apart, was worlds apart!

  Late Foundatioablishment couldn't withstand a full-force strike from a peak cultivator!

  Mu ing barely defended with a Magical Treasure, but his hair and beard were singed and curled.

  He looked disheveled, yet a hint of satisfa lingered in his expression.

  "Lin the demon, do you think you're clever?"

  "I'll tell you the truth, you're the one caught irap, not me!"

  He ughed maniacally.

  "Haven't you noticed you're surrounded?"

  A fsh of surprise crossed Lin Hao's eyes. With a thought, he extended his divine sense, and his face ged instantly.

  He indeed se!

  Many people were flying here on swords!

  So this brat was the oriole!

  Ha!

  He wao seize the opportunity to leave, but a white streak of light appeared like lightning.

  The newer wore white, with long hair flowing, a sword without a sheath on her back.

  She was stunningly beautiful, exuding ahereal aura.

  Ning Qingxue!

  Lin Hao's muscles tensed.

  Damn it!

  Why was this woman here?

  He uzzled.

  He had reported to the sect long ago that this woman was a Demon spy. Did the seot take it seriously? Or did the leading elder Liu Mei not report it at all!?

  Peerjun