Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 253 Li Qiushui

The one-eyed giant said, "No one told us. We found out ourselves. It's all over the Chongshui Sect market that people are saying that you, Zhou Qing, are a genius array master, and that all your skills come from arrays."

"What, you don't want to admit it?"

Zhou Qing laughed and said, "Very good. You told me this news, and I will spare your lives. Go quickly and don't waste my kindness."

The one-eyed giant said, "Hand over the formation to us, and we'll leave."

An elderly man with a cane nearby said, "Why waste words with him? Just take him down, and he'll talk."

Zhou Qing glanced at the old man and guessed that he was probably a rogue cultivator who had not been guided by a master and had made mistakes in his cultivation, which was why he looked so old and lame.

The black iron cane he was leaning on was probably his weapon.

With a thought, Zhou Qing released the iron crutch from his hand.

Before the old man could react, Tieguai transformed into a blur and pinned him to the ground through his chest.

Everyone else was startled and instinctively threw out their best spells.

Some people prepared talismans and activated their power.

Zhou Qing even saw his Fire Gold Needle inside.

A cold glint flashed in his eyes.

A beam of five-colored divine light swept across, clearing away all the spells. Some unlucky cultivators were struck by the divine light and were instantly cut in two.

Those who were lucky enough to escape the divine light were still frightened and hurriedly flew away.

After his battle with the Three Mysterious Immortals, Zhou Qing had come to realize his own limitations.

Without the "Withered Tree Rejuvenates" technique, his strength is roughly equivalent to that of a cultivator who has just entered the Golden Core stage.

By using the most inefficient method of "Rejuvenating the Dead Tree," he was already able to contend with, and even surpass, a renowned Golden Core cultivator like the Three Mysterious Immortals.

Dealing with these rogue cultivators who are mostly just beginning their Foundation Establishment cultivation will not take much effort.

Seeing these rogue cultivators leave, Zhou Qing did not chase after them, but continued on his way.

He walked along, thinking about what had just happened.

Those rogue cultivators were nothing special; they were just a bunch of greedy people who overestimated themselves and tried to rob him.

It is worth noting that they say the Chongshui Sect's market is currently full of rumors that its strength comes from its formations, which can be broken through by multiple people working together to attack.

He was wondering who was spreading these rumors and what their purpose was.
The first sect to be ruled out was Chongshui Sect.

Chongshui Sect's plan was clear: they wanted to provoke the Hongfa Daoist Temple to be wary of them and then use the Nascent Soul True Monarch to eliminate them.

The Three Mysterious Immortals couldn't possibly be unaware that these rogue cultivators posed no threat to them whatsoever.

If it's not the Chongshui Sect, then who else could it be?
After pondering for a while, Zhou Qing suddenly had a thought. He realized that the other party's emphasis on the possibility of multiple people working together to break his methods seemed to be an attempt to incite the cultivators to attack him.

If the other party doesn't really intend to use this mob to get rid of him, then he has another possible objective.

He needs more test subjects to test his methods.

If that's the case, then he'll definitely come into contact with those rogue cultivators who just escaped.

As Zhou Qing continued walking forward, pretending not to notice anything, he connected to the relay station in the air.

There were no relay stations nearby, so he controlled two relay stations five hundred miles away to fly to the vicinity, constantly scanning and tracking the fleeing rogue cultivators. In less than half an hour, he finally discovered a Golden Core level spiritual pressure, located the rogue cultivators one by one, and soon Zhou Qing saw the spiritual pressure of those rogue cultivators extinguish in patches.

It was obvious that they had been silenced by that person.

Under Zhou Qing's watchful gaze, the man arrived at the place where Zhou Qing had fought with the other rogue cultivators. He lingered there for a while before chasing after Zhou Qing.

They stopped about fifty miles away from Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing continued walking forward, keeping an eye on the location of the spiritual pressure, and discovered that it always kept a distance of about fifty miles from him.

Zhou Qing then concluded that the other party must have a way of pinpointing his location from fifty miles away.

Zhou Qing remained calm and continued on his way at his own pace, wanting to see what that guy was planning.

In the following days, several more groups of cultivators caught up with him, demanding the formation from him, but he easily dismissed them all.

Each time he chased someone away, the next person would come up to him, and after some questioning, he would take care of the person.

Half a month later, Zhou Qing suddenly noticed that the person was no longer following behind him, but instead went in a big circle, walked in front of him, and then stopped about fifty miles ahead of him.

Zhou Qing understood that the other party thought they knew him well, so they planned to make a move against him.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Qing deviated from the planned route and headed in another direction.

If the other party is plotting against him in secret, he should also play along.

Sure enough, not long after Zhou Qing deviated from the route, the other party also began to move. He changed direction and rushed ahead of Zhou Qing's original route.

Zhou Qing wandered leisurely in circles through the forest, sometimes moving forward and sometimes backward, forcing the other man to change his route repeatedly.

Finally, he had had enough fun, and then headed straight in the direction of that person.

About twenty miles away from that person, Zhou Qing noticed that the person's spiritual pressure suddenly weakened, dropping from the original Golden Core level to the level of someone who had just broken through to Foundation Establishment.

This was the first time Zhou Qing had encountered a situation that could alter his spiritual pressure state, and he was greatly surprised.

For a Foundation Establishment cultivator, twenty li is just a short distance.

Zhou Qing quickly arrived near the person.

He first saw seven or eight corpses lying on the ground, and a woman dressed in white with a cold and beautiful appearance sitting quietly among the corpses to regulate her breathing.

As if hearing Zhou Qing's voice, the woman forcibly ended her meditation and looked at Zhou Qing warily. As a result, her breathing became disordered, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.

This was all an act by the other party, of course.

Zhou Qing thought to himself, "So the other party came around to him not to duel him, but to find a way to get close to him."

Zhou Qing wanted to know her scheme, so she didn't expose her.

He quickly moved to the woman's side and asked with concern, "Miss, are you alright?"

When Li Qiushui saw Zhou Qing's concerned inquiry, she was overjoyed, knowing that her plan had succeeded.

Through this period of probing, she believed she had gained some understanding of Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing usually doesn't harm those rogue cultivators who go to rob him, which means that Zhou Qing is not a bloodthirsty person. Such a person would not run away if a cultivator's injury was aggravated by her interference. In this way, she would have a chance to get close to Zhou Qing.

Li Qiushui's face was as white as silver paper, and she said in a trembling voice, "I encountered several enemies here, fought them, and was seriously injured. I had no choice but to practice Qi cultivation in the wild to heal my wounds. I thought this place was remote and no one would pass by, but I didn't expect to meet you. It must be my fate."

(End of this chapter)