"Master, those two cultivators and the demon are catching up."

At this moment, the stupid husky barked out.

"Damn it!"

Guo Feilong cursed and said, "Run faster, we must shake them off."

The husky panted as it ran, barking, "Master, you told me to run at my fastest speed earlier, and I haven't recovered my strength yet, so I can't run at full speed."

Guo Feilong regretted it a bit. Why did he have to test how fast the husky could run when there was nothing else to do?

"Fellow Daoist! Please wait a moment."

A figure suddenly flew overhead and landed thirty meters in front of Guo Feilong and the husky. It was a female cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Guo Feilong didn't even glance at her appearance and decisively told the husky, "Run to the left."

The husky immediately turned and ran.

Only a fool would wait.

Lin Feiyu was infuriated. How could this person be so timid? Didn't he know that demons are the common enemy of humanity?

"If you won't stay and help us deal with the demon, don't blame me for being rude."

The next moment, her hands glowed with an earthy yellow light.

She bent over.

Stuck out her rear.

Squatted on the ground.

Her fair and beautiful hands pressed down on the ground with force.

Buzz!

An earthy yellow circle of light spread rapidly from her as the center.

In the blink of an eye, the circle of light surpassed Guo Feilong and the husky, expanding rapidly outward.

"What the hell is this spell or divine power?"

Guo Feilong warned the husky to be cautious and prepared himself for battle.

One hand held a high-quality flying sword spiritual instrument bought at the market in Xiaoye Village, and the other held a high-quality spiritual instrument, the Kun Wood Shield.

"Fellow Daoist, your only choice now is to join my junior sister and me in dealing with that ninth-rank demon."

As Lin Feiyu spoke, a hundred meters in front of Guo Feilong and the husky, an earthy yellow light screen suddenly rose from the ground.

Soon, a massive earthy yellow light screen, like a large bowl, enveloped them and the demon together.

"This is the strongest earth-attribute defensive spell among high-quality defensive spells."

"A defensive spell can also be used as a cage, capable of trapping a cultivator of the same stage for a quarter of an hour."

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Lin Feiyu spoke rapidly, "Fellow Daoist, you should join us in slaying the demon."

"That ninth-rank demon is already injured from the combined efforts of my junior sister and me."

"If we all run away now, that ninth-rank demon will rush into nearby villages and towns, slaughtering ordinary people to recover its injuries."

"For the sake of the world, for those innocent common folk, we cultivators must risk our lives to slay all demons."

"Only then can humanity thrive and prosper."

Lin Feiyu hoped that by appealing to these righteous principles, Guo Feilong would sincerely join them in slaying the ninth-rank demon.

Although his seventh-level Qi Refining wasn't very strong, the combat power of the ninth-rank spiritual beast, the Ice Flame Hound, was formidable enough to serve as a meat shield against the ninth-rank demon, creating opportunities for her and her senior sister to kill it.

Without Guo Feilong's cooperation, she and her junior sister would struggle to defeat the ninth-rank demon.

"Idiot, foolish, big-chested but brainless. For the prosperity of humanity, you should at least consider your own strength. If you're not strong enough but still want to slay demons, you're just delivering snacks to them." Guo Feilong cursed her in his heart.

"..." The husky could hear Guo Feilong's thoughts. Why was it always "dog blood" and not "horse blood" or "pig blood"?

Despite cursing her as brainless and foolish, given the situation, he could only join forces with them to slay the demon. Guo Feilong nodded in agreement.

Bang!

At that moment, a figure flew backward from the sky, crashing heavily on the ground between the two of them.

"Junior Sister!"

Lin Feiyu exclaimed, rushing over to help the person up.

"Senior Sister..."

Shangguan Mingyue coughed up a mouthful of blood, sorrowfully saying, "Little Grey sacrificed itself to save me... it's dead..."

Earlier, to intercept Guo Feilong, Liu Feiyu had come to stop him and join forces against the ninth-rank demon.

Shangguan Mingyue and her ninth-rank spiritual beast, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse Little Grey, were dealing with that ninth-rank demon.

The demon's physical form was as tough as a spiritual instrument, and its combat power was much stronger than human cultivators of the same level.

While Senior Sister Lin Feiyu went to intercept Guo Feilong, Shangguan Mingyue and her ninth-rank spiritual beast, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse, quickly found themselves in a perilous situation.

At the critical moment, if not for her ninth-rank spiritual beast, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse, taking a fatal blow for her, she would have died instead of Little Grey.

"You two, stop grieving. The ninth-rank demon is coming."

Guo Feilong activated the Kun Wood Shield, and four energy-formed Kun Wood Shield light screens rotated around him and the husky.

At this moment, the ninth-rank demon emerged from the forest, approaching the three humans and one dog step by step.

Its head resembled a lizard, and its entire body was covered in blood-red scales, like armor forged from steel, comparable to high-quality defensive spiritual instruments.

It had four arms, with hands like eagle claws, and its claws were over a foot long, resembling registered knives, gleaming with a cold white light under the moonlight.

It was tall, at least six or seven meters, with a long, thick tail behind it, covered in sharp bone spurs like a mace, looking terrifying.

The ninth-rank demon spoke in a muffled voice, "I've only eaten a few thousand ordinary people and dozens of cultivators, yet your Spirit Creek Sect has been hunting me for over ten years.

If I hadn't kept a low profile, always disguising the crime scenes as the work of seventh-rank demons, causing your Spirit Creek Sect to misjudge, I would have died at the hands of you weak and despicable human cultivators long ago.

Foolish human cultivators, tonight I know that by devouring you three and that dog, I can advance to a great demon, hahaha!"

After speaking, the ninth-rank demon fixed its gaze on Guo Feilong, "The weakest one is you. My habit is to kill the weak before the strong."

Before finishing its words, the ninth-rank demon charged at Guo Feilong and the husky.

However, the demon was cunning and sly. In the middle of Guo Feilong's defensive preparations, it suddenly changed direction, rushing towards Lin Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue.

"Die!"

The demon's knife-like claws swung towards the heavily injured Shangguan Mingyue's heart.

Bang!

Shangguan Mingyue used her flying sword to block the demon's claws, but she was sent flying by the terrifying physical strength of the ninth-rank demon.

The demon had high defense, great strength, and fast movement speed, making it terrifying in close combat. Only cultivators skilled in body refinement could somewhat contend with it.

"Damn, the ninth-rank demon is so fierce." Guo Feilong watched with his heart pounding.

Although Shangguan Mingyue was injured, she was still a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator, yet she was sent flying like a scarecrow with a single strike.

This proved that among the same cultivation stage, the ninth-rank demon was overwhelmingly powerful compared to human ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators.

"Fellow Daoist, quickly let your dog entangle it. We'll attack from a distance and prevent it from getting close." Liu Feiyu shouted anxiously.

"You want my dog to be a meat shield? What if it dies? I spent money on it; will you compensate me?" Guo Feilong grumbled in his heart, but he couldn't really stand by and do nothing.

After all, he was trapped in the light screen for a quarter of an hour. Once the ninth-rank demon killed the two ninth-level Qi Refining female cultivators, it certainly wouldn't spare him.

Guo Feilong saw that Liu Feiyu, a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator, couldn't even pierce the scales of the ninth-rank demon with her high-quality flying sword, and he was anxious.

"Right, auspicious clouds can temporarily enhance the power of divine powers, spells, and martial skills, and can also temporarily enhance the power of sacred treasures, spiritual instruments, formations, and talismans."

With this thought, Guo Feilong released the Kun Wood Shield with his left hand, letting it autonomously revolve around him.

With his right hand free, he took out a ninth-grade talisman from his storage bag, sealed with a lightning attribute attack, equivalent to a spell attack from a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator with a lightning spiritual root.

"Let's see if this works, auspicious clouds." Guo Feilong quickly injected auspicious clouds into the ninth-grade lightning talisman.

He didn't know how much the auspicious clouds could enhance the talisman, but to kill the ninth-rank demon and save his life, he directly injected ten auspicious clouds.

"Go!"

Guo Feilong activated the ninth-grade lightning talisman with mystic power, locked onto the ninth-rank demon with divine sense, and threw it.

The ninth-grade lightning talisman transformed into a one-meter-diameter lightning ball, swiftly striking the chest of the ninth-rank demon.

Boom!

With a loud explosion, the ninth-rank demon, whose body was comparable to a spiritual instrument, was blown to pieces on the spot, dead beyond doubt.

Guo Feilong was shocked, not expecting the auspicious clouds-enhanced ninth-grade lightning talisman to have such immense power.

Lin Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, both with ninth-level Qi Refining cultivation, looked at him in astonishment.