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    The Sky-Rending Eagle''s eyes hardened, and it issued a sharp scream, producing thenguage of eagles.


    "Number Three, you hold him off, Number Two, children, we split and retreat!"


    Then, it pped its wings toward the depths of the Yunhua Mountain Range.


    Looking at Eagle Nine Skies spinning in the tornado, Eagle Splinter hesitated for 0.03 moments before following the Sky-Rending Eagle into the depths.


    The Sky-Rending Eagles of Skyscraping Ridge also rose into the air, scattering in different directions toward the depth of the Yunhua Mountain Range.


    Eagle Nine Skies: "Damn it! I''m still spinning in the tornado, how can I hold him off?"


    "Think you can escape that easily?"


    Feng Buji pped his wings and shot out of the tornado, chasing directly in the direction of the Sky-Rending Eagle.


    As the inflow of spiritual power ceased, the tornado began to slowly dissipate.


    After a dozen breaths, the blood-covered Eagle Nine Skies, with half of its feathers missing, finally burst out of the tornado.


    Dizzy and frightened, Eagle Nine Skies nced in the direction where the Sky-Rending Eagle and Feng Buji had left, and chose a direction perpendicr to theirs, fluttering its wings to escape.


    Its speed was less than half of what it was before.


    However, just as it had flown for a moment, thousands of Water des shot from the ground below, heading straight for it.


    Eagle Nine Skies was startled, for it was not far from the ground and the area covered by the Water des wasrge, so it could not dodge them.


    "But an attack of this degree is just a little stronger than a tickle!


    Even though I''m injured, I''m not something any cat or dog at the Foundation Establishment Stage can bully."


    Feeling the force of the Water des hitting its body, Eagle Nine Skies calmed down and, thinking thus, prepared to end the person who dared to attack with one swoop of its ws.


    However, then came the second wave, the third wave...


    The Water des came one after another, and even if the force of a single Water de was only at a mid-Foundation Establishment level, Eagle Nine Skies, with half of its main defensive feathers missing and some parts injured, felt the attacks.


    After a dozen waves of Water des, Eagle Nine Skies felt its injuries worsen.


    By then it was toote to retreat.


    Eyes shining with ferocity, Eagle Nine Skies, braving the Water de attack, mmed its ws where Yu Qingtan was concealed in a small puddle.


    "Bang—" Water sshed in all directions, creating a deep crater.


    Facing the w strike of the Third Stage Heavenly Demon, the Sky-Rending Eagle, Yu Qingtan felt an overwhelming presence envelop her, and an ordinary early Foundation Establishment cultivator could not escape this pressure using the Five Element Escape Technique.


    But Yu Qingtan was far from ordinary; she possessed a powerful Divine Sense and the Clear Spirit Eyes. As soon as Eagle Nine Skies gathered its ws to speed up its attack, she detected it.


    She used the perfected Second Stage Water Escape Technique in advance to leave her original spot.


    Although the attack of Eagle Nine Skies was fast and fierce, it missed its mark.


    Then came another intense barrage of Water des.


    "How can this human maintain such frequent, dense spell attacks with their spiritual energy?"


    The not-so-clever Eagle Nine Skies couldn''t understand, but it knew it couldn''t be entangled with this human any longer.


    It pped its wings with all its might, attempting to fly away, but Yu Qingtan wasn''t about to let it get away so easily.


    She maintained a continuous output of dense Water des.


    It doesn''t matter if a move is old; as long as it''s effective, it works.


    After a dozen breaths like this, Yu Qingtan still kept Eagle Nine Skies tightly trammelled, and its aura became more and more wilted.


    Eagle Nine Skies felt intense hatred in its heart.


    "I''m a dignified Third Stage Heavenly Demon; Ouyang Wenjian couldn''t kill me, Feng Buji couldn''t kill me, do you, a little Foundation Establishment cultivator, think you can kill me?"


    Eagle Nine Skies violently turned around and spat a pigeon-egg-sized orb toward Yu Qingtan''s location.


    The orb spun around and rushed at Yu Qingtan at several times the speed of Eagle Nine Skies'' flight.


    The orb was thick with demonic energy, exuding a formidable aura.


    It was Eagle Nine Skies'' Demon Core.


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    Yu Qingtan felt her hairs stand on end, a sense of great disaster looming.


    Under the lock of the Demon Core''s energy and its extreme speed, Yu Qingtan realized that even with her perfected Water Escape Technique, she could not escape, and even wearing a medium-quality Spiritual Artifact, the Xuan Red Armor, she could not defend against the attack from the Demon Core.


    "Could it be that this avatar is going to fall here?"


    Since it was only an avatar, Yu Qingtan did not panic. In a sh of thought, an idea struck her.


    She did not attempt to dodge, but instead took out the Xuan Turtle Shield, holding it in front of her with both hands and infusing it with Spiritual Power for defense.


    "You think such a petty Magic Artifact can block my Demon Core''s strike? Die!"


    In the midst of Eagle Nine Skies'' coldugh, the Demon Core easily pierced through the Xuan Turtle Shield.


    Then.


    It disappeared.


    It actually disappeared.


    Eagle Nine Skies was bewildered and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his aura wilted to an extreme.


    At this moment, Eagle Nine Skies'' Demon Core was in Yu Qingtan''s System Space.


    Yu Qingtan had researched that to take something into the System Space, her hand needed to directly touch it.


    If it was a living being or something bearing the divine mark of a living being''s soul, it required theck of any resistance from the other party.


    Yu Qingtan had only tried using the Purification Spell to cleanse it before taking it into the System Space as ast-ditch effort; she never expected it to truly seed.


    What Yu Qingtan didn''t know was that inside a Third Stage Heavenly Demon''s Demon Core, there was a portion of the Demonic Beast''s soul, but it was very little, which is why it waspletely purified by Yu Qingtan''s second stage perfected Purification Spell.


    A Demonic Beast would generally not directly use its Demon Core against enemies—it was too risky.


    Eagle Nine Skies had no choice, driven to such a desperate measure.


    Facing the weakened Eagle Nine Skies, Yu Qingtan would not miss the chance to beat the faltering eagle. A Water de surged forth with her Spiritual Power, rushing towards Eagle Nine Skies.


    Eagle Nine Skies strained to block with his right wing.


    "Pfft—" This Water de, whose might wasparable to ate Foundation Establishment strike, left a deep bloody mark on the bare spot of his right wing.


    "Chirp—" Eagle Nine Skies let out a pain-filled cry, but immediately after, a second solid Water de already arrived.


    Then came the third, the fourth…


    Thebat of someone with an advantage is just like this—in and unadorned yet monotonous.


    Finally, Yu Qingtan found an opportunity, and a Water de severed Eagle Nine Skies'' neck.


    A Heavenly Demon of that era fell by the hand of Yu Qingtan just like that.


    Yu Qingtan exhaled a breath of air and was about to go forward to collect Eagle Nine Skies'' body.


    A cyan Escape Light shot rapidly from afar.


    Yu Qingtan quickly put away the Xuan Red Armor, then waited in ce.


    Two breathster, a man with green hair and green robe, and wings emerged above Eagle Nine Skies'' carcass.


    Feng Buji.


    Upon seeing his green hair up close, the corners of Yu Qingtan''s mouth twitched even more fiercely.


    "Such a natural hair color, what were you thinking?"


    But, it seemed like there was no concept of ''natural hair color'' in the Lichuan Cultivation World.


    While lost in her thoughts, Feng Buji looked at her, puzzled, and asked, "Qunfang Pavilion''s Yuan Qianrou? No, I heard that Fairy Qianrou has also formed her Core. Who are you?"


    Yu Qingtan instantly remembered the Fairy Qianrou that Yan Xi of Tianxiang Valley had mentioned, Luo Xiang''s unattainable dream, and the person she supposedly resembled quite a bit. So, she was a Golden Core Cultivator from Qunfang Pavilion?


    Yu Qingtan felt a subtle nuance; in the Lichuan Cultivation World, the title of ''fairy'' was not one casually thrown around.


    Thoughts swirling in her mind, Yu Qingtan quickly replied, "Tianxiang Valley''s Yu Qingtan bids Senior Feng greetings. The senior''s lone battle against the three Heavenly Demons was mighty and awe-inspiring. I hold great admiration for you."


    As a low-level cultivator in the Cultivation World, there were times for ttery; she couldn''t risk him being upset for her taking his prey and smacking her to death, with no ce to seek justice.


    As for iming to be from Tianxiang Valley, she was mainly worried that if she said Tianxiang Pavilion, he might not have even heard of it.