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"Fellow Daoist Zhou, Fellow Daoist Xu, I'm willing to leave all my wealth behind. Could you spare my life?"
Someone spoke fearfully.
"No."
Zhou Qiang's sinister voice replied, "Killing you means everything on you naturally becomes ours. Why bother letting you go?"
"Fellow Daoist Zhou, Fellow Daoist Xu, we've had no past grievances nor recent enmity with you. Why must you exterminate us?" Someone frowned slightly and said, "Even if we must die, at least let us die knowing why."
"Fine, I'll let you die knowing. It's because we are demon cultivators."
Zhou Qiang's entire body surged with demonic energy, transforming into a humanoid demon in the blink of an eye. His body was covered in dark red scales, hands like eagle claws, feet like ox hooves, and two massive bat-like wings sprouted from his back.
His head resembled that of a lizardman, with interlocking fangs, speaking in a strange voice, "Fellow Daoists, I need your flesh and divine souls to refine elixirs and break through to the Golden Elixir stage. You can't escape, so just stand there and close your eyes. I'll make it quick for you."
Demon cultivators were originally human cultivators who practiced demonic arts, learning to refine elixirs and medicines using human flesh and divine souls, extremely cruel and bloodthirsty.
Upon realizing Zhou Qiang and his companions were demon cultivators, those trapped within the formation's light barrier immediately abandoned any hope of negotiating for their lives.
"Fellow Daoist Guo, what should we do?" At this moment, the sisters Wu Xuemeng and Wu Yumeng approached Guo Feilong, asking softly.
The strength of demon cultivators far exceeded that of cultivators of the same stage. Their physical forms were as powerful as spiritual instruments and sacred treasures, making them nearly invincible at the same level.
After nearly two months of interaction, Guo Feilong had developed a good relationship with the sisters.
Moreover, both sisters were high-level alchemists.
In conversations with them, Guo Feilong had gained a lot.
Especially since the sisters had generously gifted him a compendium of spirit herbs, documenting the characteristics of no less than ten thousand kinds of spirit herbs and medicines.
This was no small favor to Guo Feilong.
While he could ignore others, he felt obliged to protect the sisters, at least to repay the favor of the spirit herb compendium.
Guo Feilong knew the sisters' true cultivation stages and could guess their extraordinary backgrounds, assuming they had life-saving treasures.
He transmitted his voice, "Take out any defensive sacred treasures you have and protect the three of us first.
We are all high-level alchemists and must have a large supply of elixirs for quickly restoring mystic power.
The demon cultivators' demonic transformation is different from true demons; maintaining that form consumes mystic power. Let's see whose mystic power lasts longer.
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As long as we endure, victory will be ours."
Guo Feilong didn't want to reveal his life-saving sacred treasure or waste his auspicious clouds to enhance talismans. Letting the sisters take the lead was the most cost-effective strategy.
"Alright, we'll listen to Fellow Daoist Guo."
The younger sister, Wu Yumeng, was straightforward. She patted her storage bag, and a fist-sized pearl-like low-quality defensive sacred treasure flew out.
At the same time, the elder sister, Wu Xuemeng, performed the Cloud Walking Technique, and a white cloud with a diameter of about three meters appeared beneath her feet.
Guo Feilong stepped onto Wu Xuemeng's white cloud, and Wu Yumeng followed, channeling mystic power into the low-quality defensive sacred treasure pearl.
Buzz~
The fist-sized pearl floated three feet above Wu Yumeng's head, and a white transparent defensive barrier appeared, enveloping the three of them.
"Junior Brother Zhou, stop wasting time with them. Finish them off quickly, then go out and form a Foundation Establishment stage team to come over. Remember, don't take so long to bring people next time."
The ghost-faced black-robed demon cultivator also transformed into a demonic form, joining Zhou Qiang and Xu Liang in attacking Guo Feilong and his companions.
The true cultivation stages of other Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were as they appeared.
Only Zhou Qiang, Xu Liang, and the Wu sisters concealed their cultivation.
In front of the late Foundation Establishment stage grand perfection demon cultivators, early and mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators were as fragile as chicks.
Moreover, everyone was trapped within a formation barrier only a few hundred meters wide, leaving little room to escape or dodge.
Soon, Zhou Qiang and the other two demon cultivators killed several people.
Wu Xuemeng maneuvered her cloud to dodge attacks.
Wu Yumeng used the low-quality defensive sacred treasure pearl to block attacks.
Guo Feilong seemed unaffected, but he held a Spirit Explosion Bead, capable of injuring even Golden Elixir stage grand cultivators.
Naturally, it could harm late Foundation Establishment stage grand perfection demon cultivators, even if their bodies were as tough as low-quality sacred treasures.
Seeing that they couldn't break Wu Yumeng's pearl defensive barrier, Zhou Qiang and the others said, "Let's deal with the other Foundation Establishment cultivators first, then handle these three."
The demon cultivators were powerful, and in less than ten minutes, everyone except Guo Feilong and the sisters was killed within the formation barrier.
Each time the demon cultivators killed someone, they used a bottle-like spiritual instrument to collect the cultivator's divine soul and corpse.
It was unclear what kind of spiritual instrument the bottle was, but once the divine soul and corpse were collected, the soul emitted a piercing scream, as if undergoing some torture.
Each Foundation Establishment cultivator's divine soul screamed for over ten seconds in the bottle before suddenly falling silent, as if completely dead.
At this moment.
The three late Foundation Establishment stage grand perfection demon cultivators surrounded Guo Feilong and the sisters, launching a fierce attack on the pearl defensive barrier.
Their attacks were powerful and frequent, and in less than a minute, the pearl defensive barrier became unstable, flickering as if it could collapse at any moment.
Mystic power was everything, and as the pearl defensive barrier was attacked, Wu Yumeng, as the pearl's owner, consumed mystic power rapidly.
Wu Yumeng took out a bottle of elixirs for quickly restoring mystic power from her storage bag. After consuming them, her mystic power quickly replenished.
The pearl defensive barrier also strengthened, no longer showing signs of imminent collapse.
However, even after taking the elixirs, Wu Yumeng's mystic power continued to deplete rapidly.
"Fellow Daoist Guo, what should we do? Even after taking the elixirs, my mystic power is depleting faster than it replenishes. I can hold on for at most half an hour."
Late Foundation Establishment stage grand perfection demon cultivators were terrifying, their bodies as tough as low-quality sacred treasures. Even against early Golden Elixir stage grand cultivators, they could put up a fight.
Of course, the final result would be getting killed by a Golden Elixir stage grand cultivator, but the demon cultivators' bodies, after demonic transformation, could indeed contend with early Golden Elixir stage grand cultivators for a short time.
Their bodies were simply too strong.
"Half an hour is enough. Those three demon cultivators might not last half an hour." Although Guo Feilong hadn't encountered many demon cultivators,
the Arctic Continent's cultivation world had the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, a demon cultivator sect. From various sources, he knew that maintaining demonic transformation consumed mystic power rapidly.
Sure enough, in less than half an hour, the three demon cultivators' auras weakened, reverting to their human forms.
However, after each consumed a blood-red elixir, their auras surged again, becoming stronger.
Judging by the effect of the blood-red elixirs, they were far superior to the elixirs Wu Yumeng had taken.
"Fellow Daoist Guo, what should we do now?" The sisters asked anxiously, thinking to themselves, "How long is Fellow Daoist Guo going to keep pretending? It's already this critical, why hasn't he shown his power yet?"
Guo Feilong then spoke, "Fellow Daoists, don't hold back any powerful sacred treasures or spiritual instruments. Each of us should take on one opponent, and you two just need to hold them off."
After saying this, Guo Feilong preemptively swallowed two Seventh Grade elixirs for quickly restoring mystic power. With a thought, he activated the Golden Body Technique, which he had cultivated to a level comparable to low-quality sacred treasures.
Auspicious clouds rose beneath his feet, and he left Wu Yumeng's pearl defensive barrier, charging towards the ghost-faced black-robed demon cultivator.
"Sister, you hold off Zhou Qiang, and I'll handle Xu Liang."
The sisters split up, their late Foundation Establishment stage grand perfection auras surging, charging towards their respective targets.
"I thought you three had some skills, but it turns out you're just two late Foundation Establishment stage grand perfection cultivators and a body cultivator with a physique comparable to low-quality sacred treasures."
The ghost-faced black-robed demon cultivator sneered, his bat-like wings flapping furiously, moving as fast as a red lightning bolt, charging towards Guo Feilong and throwing a punch.
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