Chapter 71: The Crow's Pride, Sitting on City Head

  "How can my words not count? You want me to show mercy, I've already shown mercy, not having shattered her soul is already a favor. What more do you want from me?" Wang Guang sneered, extremely disdainfully turning his head to look at the Qi Practitioner.

  Only to see the pursuing cultivator wearing a cyan robe, with a cyan wooden crown on his head, flying cloud boots on his feet, and a cyan silk robe on his body. A shining flying sword in hand, a round and shiny treasure pearl smashing against the wind. His eyebrows were clear and his eyes were bright, what a handsome appearance.

  "Fellow Taoist! I only hope you can release my friend's soul, and I'll offer a thousand crystal stones in exchange." The cultivator suppressed the anger in his heart and took a deep breath before speaking.

  Wang Guang also didn't know what relationship the other party had with the girl who rode the five-colored deer earlier. If it were any other Qi cultivator, they would definitely agree to trade their soul for it. But to Wang Guang, those thousand crystal stones were nothing more than rocks. Except for setting up formations and special seals, he didn't need crystal stones at all.

  "Fellow Taoist, I am a Qi-refining practitioner from Qingfeng Mountain's Qingmu Sect. It seems we're neighbors in the same Qi-refining sect. Can you give me some face?" The Qi-refining practitioner bowed his head and paid respects, but seeing that Wang Guang was not moved by the thousand pieces of crystal stone, he couldn't help but feel anxious inwardly.

  "The woman whose soul was just taken by you is a disciple of an elder from the Hundred Beasts Sect. That elder is extremely protective and had entrusted me with ensuring her safety. Today, she had her soul taken by you, not only will I be punished, but also you, fellow cultivator, will be remembered by that elder."

  Qingmu's cultivator saw that he still couldn't persuade Wang Guang, so he gritted his teeth and revealed the woman's identity and his own difficulties, hoping that Wang Guang could understand. "As long as Fellow Daoist calls her soul to me today, if Fellow Daoist has any requests in the future, I absolutely won't have a single bit of hesitation."

  "Is she that important to you?" Wang Guang had already thought it through, so he said: "However important she is, she's not as important as I am to myself. Even if her master came, I wouldn't hand over this soul." After speaking, he didn't wait for the other party to respond, and with a flick of his finger, the red copper sand transformed into a yellow light that enveloped his body and flew towards the Bian Guan border.

  "Don't go." Qingmu Zong, a cultivator of the Qi Refining stage, saw Wang Guang leave and suddenly felt anxious. Just as he was about to chase after him, he heard a sharp, ear-piercing cry coming from beneath his feet.

  A crowd of people followed the strange cry and looked down, only to see that the Taoist priest who had been blasted by the gemstone on the five-colored deer had already struggled to get up. The Taoist priest was caught off guard by the gemstone blast and fell to the ground, not only injuring himself, but also his mount, the large crow, which was burned by a fierce flame, its feathers scorched, fortunately not becoming bald.

  The crow Taoist's originally ugly face was burned by the fire, making it even more hideous. Streams of blood flowed down his face, and it was unclear whether he had been hit by the gemstone or had fallen to the ground.

  "You want that woman's soul? Ask me first." The Crow Taoist took out a bird's nest from his bosom, which was only the size of a palm. It was unknown what material it was made of, but it emitted a faint glow all over its body. As he infused his magic power into it, the bird's nest suddenly expanded to three to five zhang in size.

  The bird's nest suddenly surged, and the bald crow struggled to jump into it, while the Taoist stood on the back of his mount. The Taoist's body was upside down, and he let out a series of strange cries from his scattered hair. A black, foul-smelling smoke emerged from his mouth and nose, which collided and burned, entwining part of the dim light that struck the ground. The black smoke dispersed, revealing hundreds of foolish men.

  Wang Guang returned to the city head at this time, and saw that Wu Ya Dao Ren had released a pile of talisman soldiers. Suddenly, he became interested. He let the gourd itself instinctively refine the soul it had just seized, while he curiously looked at Wu Ya Dao Ren's talisman soldiers with what means.

  Only to see that the soldiers were one by one, with thick waists and sturdy bodies, over two zhang tall, each holding a lasso hook, spewing black smoke from their mouths and noses, with white maggots crawling on their bodies, disheveled hair, and a stench filling the air.

  "How dare you stop me?" Seethed Kaito Minami, enraged by the sudden release of a swarm of spirit soldiers blocking his path.

  In front of the two armies, he had met Wu Ya Dao Ren before and knew that the Wu Ya Dao Ren in front of him was just a loose cultivator, without any sect or background. Therefore, seeing the other party blocking himself at this time, how could he not be annoyed?

  "Old man, I'll kill you." The crow Taoist let out a strange cry, and with his cry, the symbol soldiers on the ground moved their bodies, instantly forming an array. As soon as the array was formed, the crow Taoist spat out countless black smoke from his mouth, which fell into the array, causing all the symbol soldiers to roar loudly at once.

  Aoki Munetaka, enraged in his heart, didn't even bother to look at the Fu Bing Da Zhen formation, and with both hands rubbing, one by one, the wooden thunderbolt was rubbed out by him towards Wu Ya Dao Ren.

  A deafening thunderclap, a divine lightning bolt splitting the air, and massive tree trunks weighing several thousand catties suddenly materialized out of thin air, either falling from above or crashing in from the front, with logs smashing in from all eight directions.

  "You really think you're a superior cultivator of the Qingmu Sect and look down on us rogue cultivators? Today, I'll take you down and wash away the shame of being blown up earlier." The Crow Dao Ren sneered repeatedly. The array suddenly changed, and the large formation below underwent countless transformations.

  Thousands of black smoke rolled, on the heads of hundreds of soldiers, each condensed a cloud pillar dozens of feet long, this cloud pillar was only one foot in diameter, looked fragile, but the several thousand catty heavy logs hit it, only to hear a few loud noises, the cloud shook slightly, the logs collapsed, turned into clusters of green gas and dissipated into the air.

  Aoki Munetaka's Qi practitioners were only concerned with throwing their heads and losing their divine thunder, thinking of using this trick to break open the large formation composed of Fu Bing, and killing Wu Ya Dao Ren to vent their anger. After losing dozens of divine thunders and failing to smash the formation, he manipulated a bright pearl on the side to emit countless brilliant lights and fall onto the large formation.

  That pearl followed the master's guidance, spinning and falling onto the void above the Fu Bing's large array, starting to press down. The brilliant light touched the cloud pillar, emitting a series of hissing sounds, but within three to five breaths, the rolling stench of black smoke in the array was cleared by half. Seeing this result, the Qīng Mù Zōng cultivator burst into joyful laughter.

  It turned out that this bright pearl was originally a thousand-year-old bright pearl picked from an inland sea by a junior sister. This pearl originally emitted a brilliant light, was impervious to water and fire, and dust did not fall on it. Not only could it illuminate, but it could also drive away evil spirits and avoid poison.

  He obtained the Bright Pearl and added a Forbidden Law Array to it. To further increase its power, he placed the pearl in the largest academy of the Great Qi Empire for fifty years. The Confucianism flourished there, and the pearl absorbed countless amounts of aura, increasing its power by three to five times. Its ability to ward off evil and poison increased exponentially, making it the most effective way to eliminate the evil aura of the Black Crow Taoist.

  Bright pearls kept falling, and the silk threads broke through the black smoke and landed on his own body. The crow Taoist was so painful that he let out a loud cry. "You only dare to fight with us scattered cultivators, why don't you dare to move against the Qi-refining cultivator from just now?" The crow Taoist said in his heart, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he spoke these words.

  "Isn't it that you only dare to bully the weak and small, those without a background, but don't dare to oppose those with a background?" Wu Ya's anger towards Ming Zhu caused him to bite his tongue and spit out a mouthful of vital blood to increase the power of his formation.

  Only to see the essence of blood falling into the formation, one part merging into the body of the symbol soldiers, and the other part merging into the cloud pillar on top of the symbol soldiers' heads.

  "You rascal, don't spout nonsense! Let me show you my skills." The face of Qingmu Zong, a cultivator of the Refining Qi Sect, turned bright red with anger and annoyance at Uya Dao Ren's words. He no longer wanted to hold back his magical powers against Wang Guang, so he opened his mouth and shot out dozens of streams of green light, which fell into the treasure pearl. The boundless brilliant light burst forth, instantly compressing the cloud pillar that was over a hundred feet tall to just seven or eight feet high. If Uya Dao Ren hadn't just sprayed some of his vital blood to increase the array's power, it wouldn't have taken more than this one move for the treasure pearl to fall and shatter the entire magical array.

  "It's only when you have a way that others can't, right?" The crow said, seeing its own magic array being suppressed, and suddenly let out a loud cry.

  The Taoist priest's cries made his already thin body even thinner. The spirit soldiers underground heard their master's cries, and one by one they sat cross-legged on the ground, concentrating on transporting the Spirit Soldiers' Gate to maintain the formation and establish its power. He then threw the ropes and hooks in his hands into the smoke column on his head, and the smoke column suddenly surged to a thickness of three feet, with hundreds of smoke columns twisting their bodies in mid-air, entwining each other and transforming instantly into a black crow dozens of meters in size.

  The crow was spread all over the sky, with its feathers and sharp claws clearly visible. A pair of eyes rotated, as if a real big crow emerged.

  A crow cawed, and a black light flew out of its mouth to entwine the Bright Pearl. Before it could even wrap around the Bright Pearl's body, an infinite amount of brilliant light dissolved the black light into nothingness. The black light dissipated, leaving behind only a rope and a hook that fell to the ground.

  A layer of black light was emitted from the giant crow, not only shrouding the Taoist and his nest, but also protecting the Fu soldiers who were sitting cross-legged below. Then, the crow flapped its wings to grab the bright pearl in mid-air under the Taoist's urging.

  Where is the bright pearl that can be caught by a crow? Under the command of its master, it flies up and down, suddenly left and right, unwilling to be pecked away by the crow, nor does it want to be caught by the crow.

  At that moment, one wanted to hide and the other wanted to catch. The two armies were in a frenzy at the front line, with a strong wind blowing wildly, emitting a foul smell. The crows condensed by the soldiers became more and more fierce as they absorbed the soldiers' magic power. Later on, they let out strange cries, swallowing wave after wave of ominous energy.

  Every time it swallowed a fierce and evil energy, the illusory giant crow became even more ferocious. It didn't spit out the rope hook to grab the Bright Pearl, but instead sprayed out endless black smoke to envelop the land. For a moment, the two armies' formation was shrouded in a massive dark cloud, with the Bright Pearl occasionally flashing inside, and the cawing of the crow.

  "Wang Dao, it's been many days since we last met. I never thought you'd be dressed like this, it's truly astonishing." Wang Guang was standing on the city wall when he suddenly heard a voice coming from behind him. The voice was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite place it for a moment.

  Turning his head, Wang Guang saw the newcomer and couldn't help but exclaim: "Is it you?"