“You can’t kill me! I’m the personal disciple of the Guangyang Sect’s leader. If you kill me, Guangyang Sect won’t let you off…”

“Crack!”

Before the demonic cultivator could finish his sentence, Xu Taiping reached out and dislocated his jaw, then shoved a True Fire Talisman into his mouth.

After doing this, Xu Taiping took the demonic cultivator’s storage ring and stood up.

“You’re already a demonic cultivator, so you probably won’t be needing these things, right?”

Xu Taiping smiled at the demonic cultivator with the True Fire Talisman in his mouth and slipped the storage ring onto his own finger.

He had used up a lot of his elixirs and talisman scrolls and was in urgent need of resupply.

The demonic cultivator, eyes filled with terror, seemed unwilling to give up and kept trying to use his demonic energy to repair his body.

But with a “boom,” the True Fire Talisman exploded, blowing the demonic cultivator’s head apart and setting his body ablaze.

Another demonic cultivator dealt with.

“Boom!”

Just as Xu Taiping was about to head towards the blood pool, a fist shadow came crashing towards him from the side.

However, before the fist could land, Xu Taiping had already formed a circle with his thumb and forefinger, summoning a wind wall from the Cang Luan Ring.

“Bang!”

With a loud noise, the fist was blocked by the wind wall from the Cang Luan Ring.

Xu Taiping only staggered slightly.

At that moment, a demonic cultivator with a wolf’s head and a body like a small mountain lunged out from the bushes, throwing another punch at Xu Taiping.

“Crack, crack, crack…”

Facing the punch, Xu Taiping bent his body, awakening the Wild Lion physique with a series of bone-cracking sounds. He then countered with a powerful headbutt.

“Bang!”

With a loud crash, the wolf-headed demonic cultivator’s fist shattered, and his massive body was sent flying.

One had to admit, Xu Taiping’s combat power was quite impressive when he let loose.

“Boom!…”

Just as Xu Taiping was about to do another good deed by relieving the demonic cultivator of some unnecessary items, a powerful demonic aura suddenly approached from behind.

Judging by the aura alone, this demonic cultivator’s cultivation level was at least on par with Qingyu.

“Better retreat and observe first.”

Xu Taiping made a quick decision.

Although he liked to test his skills against strong opponents, he wasn’t reckless enough to fight without understanding his enemy.

Before leaving, he threw a True Fire Talisman onto the wolf-headed demonic cultivator.

Without the protection of demonic energy, the True Fire would cause severe damage, if not death.

“Boom!…”

Not long after Xu Taiping retreated, a violent sword aura exploded like a tornado in the area where he had just been, cutting through a large patch of Jade Bone Grass.

“Pure Yang Sword Sect’s Chen Sheng?”

Wearing a cloaking cloak, Xu Taiping recognized the man through the gaps in the grass.

“Whoosh!…”

At that moment, an arrow shot out from the left side of the grass.

Xu Taiping dodged it with a swift movement.

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!…”

But as soon as he steadied himself, more arrows came flying from the grass.

Clearly, the demonic cultivators hunting him wanted to force him to reveal his position with these arrows.

Xu Taiping wasn’t going to fall for it.

Dealing with one demonic cultivator was simple, but dealing with a group was asking for trouble.

“I’ll keep picking off the easy targets first. Once I’m done, I’ll come find you, Brother Chen Sheng, for a real fight.”

Xu Taiping glanced back at Chen Sheng’s direction with a smile, then continued to move like a ghost through the Jade Bone Grass.

He kept heading towards the blood pool, killing isolated demonic cultivators along the way, while deliberately avoiding Chen Sheng.

In just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he had already collected four or five storage rings.

Quite a haul.

If he wasn’t in a hurry to find the blood pool, Xu Taiping would have liked to stay longer.

Seeing their numbers dwindling, the remaining demonic cultivators became increasingly cautious, no longer daring to act alone.

Even so, Xu Taiping continued to pick them off one by one, causing panic among the demonic cultivators.

“Capture that kid! This is a task given to us by our master. If we fail, none of us will leave here alive!”

Seeing his fellow demonic cultivators turning into frightened birds, Chen Sheng suddenly stepped forward and shouted.

“But that kid’s cultivation is terrifying. In a one-on-one fight, we’d be dead in an instant. We can’t capture him.”

A demoralized demonic cultivator said.

“Yeah, and these strange wild grasses are hard to cut through and block our senses. If he gets close, we can’t even detect him.”

Another demonic cultivator stepped forward.

“I will use a sword formation to trap him within a hundred-zhang area. But this formation has two flaws: first, I can’t be distracted, so you’ll have to work together to kill him. Second, once the formation is activated, it can’t be undone for the time it takes to burn a stick of incense. No one, friend or foe, can leave.”

Chen Sheng said seriously to the remaining seven or eight demonic cultivators.

“As long as we trap him within a thousand zhang, the eight of us can definitely kill him!”

Hearing this, a wolf-headed demonic cultivator stepped forward and confidently assured Chen Sheng.

“If that’s the case, I don’t see a problem.”

“We’ll all use our true demonic forms to fight. Killing one cultivator of the Gazing Abyss Realm should be no problem.”

“That’s right, Boss Chen, activate the sword formation!”

The other demonic cultivators also stepped forward.

They all believed that with eight against one, they could definitely kill Xu Taiping.

As they spoke, the eight demonic cultivators revealed their true demonic forms, filling the area with demonic energy.

Given their current cultivation levels, their true demonic forms could last for about the time it takes to burn a stick of incense. Revealing their true forms now was a desperate move.

Seeing the demonic cultivators’ renewed fighting spirit, Chen Sheng nodded in satisfaction, then raised his sword fingers and shouted:

“White Night, Red Sparrow, Black Crow, form the Trapping Immortal Sword Formation!”

As soon as he finished speaking, three flying swords shot out from the sword box behind him like streaks of light.

With a “boom,” the three sword lights formed a circular sword net covering a ten-li radius.

As the sword net took shape, a massive sword aura fell along its edge, creating a circular wall of sword energy that enclosed the ten-li area.