Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu

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Wolves block the path ahead, tigers fiercely pursue from behind.

Chen Qing for the first time felt pressured to such an extent.

Of course, the main targets of this ambush were not him, but Hao Chengtian and Zhang Can.

He was merely caught up in it.

One could say that when the city gate catches fire, the fish in the moat suffer as well.

However, this did not prevent him from joining the struggle.

After all, the current situation was such that if you do not fight, you are merely waiting for others to come and kill you.

In front of the blood-soaked Taihao City, where Yan Shiyin, devoid of any bloodstain despite the stench of blood, bent down to pick up a blood-stained bronze ghost mask.

He glanced around, noting that all who had taken out the Jiguang Sect masks were already dead from the fierce battle.

"As expected of the eternal Jiguang Sect."

Yan Sisi, wearing red cloth shoes, stepped off the carriage and walked past the thirty-plus Foundation Establishment individuals who had surrendered.

After passing them, she pointed at three of them.

"These three harbor ulterior motives, kill them!"

Only after these three were completely executed did she turn around and return to the carriage.

Yan Shiyin leaned against the carriage, "Sisi, you're also tired, rest for a bit."

From inside the carriage came Yan Sisi's voice, "No, big brother, we still need to continue the pursuit."

"To me, Hao Chengtian is like a Great Sun."

"Zhang Can, in my eyes, is merely a sword bursting with Sword Intent."

"But that Qingxu is different."

Yan Shiyin asked, "What's different?"

Yan Sisi softly said, "I feel that Qingxu might also be one of the Abnormal people."

Yan Shiyin boarded the carriage, inquiring carefully, "Abnormal people? Don't they lose their special abilities after reaching Foundation Establishment?"

Yan Sisi said, "What I see in him is like the haunting of an Evil Ghost."

"It's very vague, I can't see clearly."

"And I don't dare to see clearly."

Yan Shiyin puzzledly asked, "Haunting of an Evil Ghost?"

"Is it Evil Ghost Form or something else?"

Yan Shiyin mounted his horse, "Then let's continue the pursuit, we must capture that Qingxu with our own hands!"

"Seal off Taihao City, set out, continue the pursuit!"

"I must see the heads of those three, including Qingxu."

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The night is deep and mysterious, the elliptical moon indifferent to the bloodshed on earth.

Golden flowers and silver trees reflect the moonlight, brightening the area as if it were early morning.

Chen Qing once again strikes Chou Ying flying with a palm, yet cannot cause any significant injury.

Immediately, Chen Qing draws his sword and sends a Sword Qi River towards Chou Ying!

The Sword Qi sweeps forth, but Chou Ying, holding the butt of his spear, whirls it like a twister, knocking down the Sword Qi one by one.

Hao Chengtian behind him opens up True Yang Purgatory, blocking the enemies' diverse magic attacks—furious winds and howling thunder dissipate into wisps of green smoke upon entering the True Yang Purgatory.

Hao Chengtian occasionally strikes, finding chances to hit enemies with a True Yang Fierce Flame Palm.

Chen Qing shouted, "Don't entangle with them any longer, if we keep waiting, Yan Shiyin will catch up!"

"Come on, we break through!"

Once Hao Chengtian stood on Chen Qing's shoulders, Chen Qing blasted away more than a dozen Foundation Establishment opponents blocking their way and immediately deployed the Feather Sky Soaring Skills, forming wings of moonlight on his back and flying towards the sky.

Just as Chen Qing was about to break through a dark cloud overhead, suddenly, numerous black-clad assassins wielding short daggers flew towards him.

Caught off guard, Chen Qing was struck by dozens of daggers, their black blades glowing green, clearly poisoned.

The poison infiltrated his body like bone-piercing maggots, penetrating into Chen Qing's Dantian and Sea of Consciousness.

Dizzy and blurry-eyed, Chen Qing immediately summoned torrents of lightning to strike himself in an attempt to drive off the assassins clinging onto his body.

However, ordinary lightning had little effect on these assassins.

"So many Foundation Establishment Realm assassins?"

Chen Qing could clearly sense the strange poison corroding the Spiritual Energy within him!

He immediately induced the Snake Butterfly to devour these toxins.

Chen Qing leapt from the sky, landing heavily on the Red Iron Land and creating two large craters.

Since the way above was impassable, he decided to go underground!

Elsewhere, Chou Ying had switched to a Mutant Blood Horse, leading his men at full force to encircle and converge on this side.

Chen Qing immediately communicated with the earth, walls of Red Iron land rising hundreds of feet high from both sides of his body, enclosing him within.

When Chou Ying led his men here, he found the ground above empty and desolate.

"What should we do, sir?"

Chou Ying confidently smiled, "No need to worry, Lord Yan Shiyin has laid a trap for them. They can't escape!"

"They're just like grasshoppers after autumn, hopping a few more times is all."

"First, clean up the battlefield."

Chen Qing moved through the underground with his massive form, currently unable to disengage from the Fatian Xiangdi state.

He was carrying Hao Chengtian and Zhang Can in his hands as he fled; if he let go, they could only make their own way forward.

After fleeing underground for about a hundred li, Chen Qing suddenly sensed a volcano ahead.

"There is a volcano ahead, with a network of molten lava underground. We can hide there for a few days."

Hao Chengtian clutched his wounded chest, "That would be good!"

Chen Qing pushed aside the red-hot iron, and he and Hao Chengtian landed in a vast empty space. Hao Chengtian, looking at the lava pool in front of him, rarely displayed a hint of joy.

"This lava pool is just right for me to heal my wounds."

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