plumnovel Chapter 44 Determined to Avoid War
Chapter 44 Determined to Avoid War
"Are you serious, fellow Daoist?"
Yanli activated her divine sense to probe into the storage bag and was surprised to find that there was indeed a pile of spirit stones inside.
"Of course we won't let you leave directly."
Luo Qing flipped his hand and took out two dark-colored pills.
"This is the Corpse Fragrance Pill, a secret medicine of my Whale Corpse Island. After taking it, one will have a unique fragrance for a year. It can be found by me using a secret technique."
If no antidote is found within a month, the person will die from intestinal perforation!
This Corpse Fragrance Pill is a common first-tier elixir on Extreme Yin Island. It was not purchased by Luo Qing, but came from Zhao Donglin's storage bag.
As for its effectiveness, the former is true, while the latter is false.
Luo Qing wanted to use this to set a fixed time limit for the two women.
Knowing they had no choice, the two women immediately accepted the pills and swallowed them in front of Luo Qing.
"Go, and act quickly! Don't even think about playing any tricks!"
Luo Qing neither revealed his own name nor asked the two women's names.
It was purely a transaction between them: Luo Qing let them go, and they did Luo Qing a favor.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, are you really not interested in that storage bag from the Six-Hall Connection?"
Before leaving, Yuan Yao noticed that Luo Qing hadn't glanced at the storage bag lying among the demon corpse, and couldn't help but ask.
She still held a sliver of hope for this windfall.
"Hmph, don't you think about it? Not all of their own Qi Refining disciples in the Six Halls have died. Why should they entrust this important task to you?"
In my opinion, the person who devised this plan must have been in too much of a hurry and couldn't fool their own disciples, so they turned their attention to outsiders like you.
Luo Qing never thought he could make a fortune on this trip.
Even so, there was still some small fortune.
Once the two women had flown far away, Luo Qing reached out and grabbed the storage bag belonging to the Fire Wheel Sect member.
Then, with a casual wave of his hand, a fireball shot out, burning the man's corpse to a crisp.
"You know what, it's actually pretty addictive!"
After making a joke, Luo Qing mounted his weapon and flew towards the merchant ship.
Half an hour later, Luo Qing leisurely returned to the battlefield where she had started.
At this moment, the merchant ship of the Six-Tiered Palace had crashed into the sea and broken into two pieces.
A large number of Qi Refining disciples were carrying goods through the wreckage, with only one skeletal warship nearby.
The remaining three ships had now surrounded Golden Ring Island on three sides, continuously firing corpse flame cannons to bombard the island's defensive formation.
As for the supporting cultivators who were previously surrounded, the battle had already ended, so Luo Qing naturally didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
However, given the current passive situation of Golden Ring Island, where it is only being attacked and not fighting back, it must be suffering huge losses.
When the Foundation Establishment cultivators on the ship saw Luo Qing return, they did not inquire about the mission. It was clear that they had already learned from the other disciples who had returned earlier that the storage bag was merely for show.
Without orders, Luo Qing naturally wouldn't take the initiative to do any work.
He concealed his aura, pretended to be exhausted of magic power, and went into the cabin to rest.
Unexpectedly, he ran into Li Wanxing when he casually walked into the nearest cabin.
"Senior Brother Luo, you didn't also miss your chance, did you?"
Li Wanxing looked at Luo Qing with regret. He knew that with Luo Qing's strength, if he hadn't been assigned a hunting mission, he would have been able to slaughter those Six-Hall disciples and make a fortune!
"There are no exceptions."
Luo Qing shook her head, her face showing no emotion, and then asked about what had happened after he left.
It turned out that shortly after he left, all the cultivators who tried to break through the encirclement were killed, men, women, and children, none were spared!
Just as Li Wanxing and his men were about to storm the merchant ship, the ship suddenly plunged into the sea, smashing itself in two.
As the water column rose, more cultivators flew out of the merchant ship to escape.
Just as the Foundation Establishment cultivators from Jiyin Island, who were in charge of this battlefield, were about to surround and attack, one of them noticed something amiss with his sea ape spirit beast.
It turned out that some people had disappeared into the sea and fled in different directions.
The crowd rushed to surround them, but they were a step too slow and only managed to keep half of them safe.
According to the soul search results of one of the arrested individuals, there were a total of nine people on this trip, and the valuable goods they carried accounted for 30% of the total value of the merchant ship's cargo.
"I think I've figured it out. Our real target for this raid is Golden Ring Island."
We completely took advantage of the situation with those six merchant ships; haha, they were really unlucky.
Li Wanxing was in high spirits; he had managed to retrieve at least three storage bags this time.
"Have the senior disciples said how long the protective formation of Golden Ring Island can hold out?"
Luo Qing held two spirit stones in his hands and asked in a deep voice.
"Uncle-Master Nie said that such a small island wouldn't have many spirit stones in reserve. If we bombard it for five or six days, the city's protective formation will surely be broken!"
However, in my opinion, five or six days is still too long, with too many variables.
If we could get a peak master to intervene, we could definitely drink our fill on Golden Ring Island within half a day!
Li Wanxing was excited, and with a wave of his hand, he pointed out the landscape.
However, what was said without malice was taken seriously by the listener.
Luo Qing's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but think to herself that something was strange.
As the saying goes, invasion is like fire. There's no reason for them to deliberately slow down and waste five or six days on this small island, since they have three Sha Dan Peak Masters on this trip!
unless....
Golden Ring Island wasn't the real destination either!
"To sacrifice the small for the great! Could it be White Tail Island?"
Luo Qing had just formed a guess when he immediately dismissed it himself:
"No, according to those two women, there are no Core Formation cultivators on White Tail Island either."
With such strength, they certainly couldn't withstand our full-force attack; there's no need for such trouble.
Damn it, which one is the real target?!
Luo Qing couldn't help but feel anxious, and said irritably, unable to sort out her thoughts:
"Mengbao, what do you think?"
"Master, there's no need to worry. If we have the advantage in strength, then speed is of the essence. In the current situation, it's clear that the real target is stronger."
Meng Bao's words were a wake-up call. Luo Qing didn't actually care about a place name; what he cared about was the intensity of the future war.
"So, a great battle for Core Formation is inevitable in the future. No, I have to find a way to avoid the main battlefield!"
Luo Qing instantly grasped the key point: although he had some strength, there was still an insurmountable gap between him and a Core Formation cultivator.
To ensure your own safety, you must stay away!
However, after taking the Heavenly Capital Pill, he had to take the antidote every seven days, and the antidote was in the hands of those Foundation Establishment cultivators.
To solve this problem, he either needs to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator and seize the antidote from his storage bag, or he needs to persuade someone to join him in avoiding battle.
Without much hesitation, Luo Qing immediately chose the latter, since the former depended too much on timing, and he really didn't have the confidence to kill him.
"This is a good opportunity to find out what he's up to."
Once the decision was made, a slender figure immediately appeared in Luo Qing's primordial spirit.
Meanwhile, aboard a skeletal warship above Golden Ring Island, Nie Shan couldn't help but sneeze, wondering if it was Senior Brother Wang talking about him.