Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

Tongdan Grass, a second-tier fire-attribute spiritual plant.

Song Chuan looked at Master Kuzhuo's list, glanced at the woods in front of him, and thought that the place should be in there.

The woods were unremarkable and easily overlooked if not marked on a map.

He explored the area and, seeing that no one was around, began to search carefully in the woods.

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, a chirping sound came from beside him. Song Chuan looked up and saw that it was an ordinary, unknown little insect.

But then, he felt a strong drowsiness wash over him.

Then, feeling dizzy, he was about to fall asleep.

The orchid worm instantly flew out of his arms and swallowed the little insect whole.

His sleepiness vanished instantly, and his expression changed drastically!

Before I could figure out the reason, I heard a shout:

"Damn it! My sleepiness!"

Song Chuan looked in the direction of the sound, his gaze turning cold.

He saw two men from the Beast Taming Sect staring at him, one of them with an angry expression.

These two men, one with a dark face and a wide mouth, and the other with a fat head and big ears, were both at the seventh level of Qi Refining!

They were about forty or fifty feet away from Song Chuan just now, no wonder he didn't notice them.

I was so sleepy, I almost fell for it.

Each of these insects looks different, but they are all unremarkable in appearance and difficult to identify.

"Are you 'fishing' here?" Song Chuan sneered, mockingly saying.

"You two really have the leisure to set up an ambush in this godforsaken place!"

"Fellow Daoist's spirit insect seems familiar, but I didn't get a good look at it. Please release it so we can see it again!"

The dark-faced man said calmly.

"Brother Zeng, why waste words with him? Let's capture this man first, then we need to meet up with Senior Brother Lu to catch that Wind Fox Beast."

The fat, big-eared man said angrily.

That sleepy bug was actually this person's spirit insect, and it was extremely precious.

"If you want to know about my spirit insect, please wait a moment, and I will explain it to you in detail."

Song Chuan smiled slightly, but before he could finish speaking, he flipped his wrist and spread his five fingers.

The fire-wielding hoe appeared out of thin air in his palm, and he unleashed it with lightning speed, heading straight for the fat, big-eared man!

"You bastard!"

Seeing Song Chuan's decisive action, the two men shouted angrily and quickly summoned their defensive magical artifacts.

The fat, big-eared man produced a bronze plaque, which rapidly enlarged, emitting a ray of golden light that protected him.

Song Chuan sneered, pointed at the Fire-Cultivating Hoe, and the hoe suddenly accelerated, shoveling into the protective cover of the bronze plaque.

The bronze plaque swayed slightly, and the golden light on it began to flicker.

"Top-tier Five Elements Hoe! This is a big fish, Brother Guan, you hold him off, I'll handle it..."

However, before he could finish speaking, he patted the spirit beast pouch and released the spirit beast, but the fat man's bronze plaque had already been exposed.

Song Chuan raised his hand and lit the hoe again. The hoe head shone with a bright red light, and a wisp of scorching flame poured down on his head.

With a "sizzle," the flames instantly melted the bronze plaque.

Immediately afterwards, the hoe pressed down hard, and a large, fat head rolled to the ground.

His wide-open eyes held a mixture of anger, regret, fear, and disbelief, reflecting the complex emotions he felt in his final moments before death.

The dark-faced man stared at the head, his face filled with horror.

Beside him, a four-legged monster looked ready to pounce.

This monster was also at the late stage of the first tier, but it looked like it had just been promoted.

"Fellow Daoist, the last person to see my spirit insect has been dead for two years."

Song Chuan gave this person a cold smile, made a hand seal, and pointed at the Fire Harvester, attacking the person.

"Hmph! Kill him." The dark-faced man suppressed his shock and pointed at Song Chuan, pointing at the spirit beast.

The spirit beast swiftly pounced on Song Chuan.

He then intensified the defensive magic weapons, focusing all his efforts on dealing with the Fire-Cultivating Hoe.

A Qi Refining cultivator can wield a maximum of two magical artifacts. Based on his guess, Song Chuan must use a defensive artifact to defend against the spirit beast while attacking him.

As for his own spirit beast, the Armored Leopard, it can break through any defense artifact except for top-tier defensive magic weapons.

Song Chuan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the armored leopard.

This beast moves nimbly, and its claws are gleaming and exceptionally sharp.

However, these spirit beasts are all good at close combat and probably don't have any strange or bizarre supernatural abilities.

He waved his hand and took out the shark silk net, and his body was quickly enveloped in a layer of water mist.

The armored leopard pounced on the water mist, its claws outstretched as if grasping cotton.

"Damn it! Another top-tier magic weapon!"

The man with the dark face was both angry and anxious upon seeing this.

It was still a top-tier water-attribute magic weapon, using softness to overcome hardness; it would be almost impossible for his armor-rending leopard to break through it.

The man's eyes darted around. He could still use a magical artifact, but it wasn't very useful.

His defensive magic weapon was of superior grade, and he was barely managing to withstand the fire-wielding hoe, even though the hoe had stopped releasing that strange fire.

It seems I'll have to use my most treasured talisman to force Huo Yunchu away and prepare for my escape.

He reached into his robes and pulled out a talisman.

Looking at the talisman with a pained expression, he gritted his teeth and was about to unleash it when an unexpected change occurred.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the armored leopard was blown to pieces without warning!

It turned out that Song Chuan saw that this beast was incredibly strong and was scratching and clawing wildly at his silk net.

Although he posed no real threat, the simultaneous use of two top-tier magical artifacts consumed a great deal of his magical power, making it an unsustainable strategy.

In order to finish the battle quickly, he did not hesitate to take out Lin Kuo's wooden thunder talisman.

The armored leopard is agile; if I attack it directly, it's hard to guarantee it won't dodge.

So he had the orchid worm carry the wood thunder talisman, and using his teleportation and stealth abilities, he quietly approached the beast and threw it at it.

The beast had barely sensed the anomaly and before it could even react, Song Chuan immediately detonated the talisman.

A muffled clap of thunder, accompanied by a green glow, dissipated.

As soon as the armored leopard died, Song Chuan immediately put away the mermaid net and poured all his magic power into the fire-cultivating hoe.

Just then, the dark-faced man, suffering a backlash from the sudden destruction of his spirit beast, coughed up blood.

He was suppressing his regret and about to cast a talisman when his magic power faltered. His defenses were breached by the Fire-Cultivating Hoe, which struck him down, killing him instantly.

In the blink of an eye, Song Chuan swiftly and decisively killed two disciples of the Beast Taming Sect who were at the seventh level of Qi Refining!

Song Chuan looked around and scanned the area with his divine sense, wary of anyone spying on them while they were fighting.

Seeing nothing amiss, he walked toward the two corpses.

Both of their defensive magical artifacts were destroyed by the Fire-Wielding Hoe and were now useless.

He stretched out his five fingers and took the storage bags and spirit beast bags from the two people, as well as the hidden talisman of the dark-faced man.

One of the spirit beast pouches was already empty; it belonged to the dark-faced man.

There seemed to be living creatures in the fat man's spirit beast pouch.

Song Chuan carefully erased its divine sense, and the spirit beast bag shook, revealing a beast inside.

This beast resembled a rat but was not a rat. As soon as it appeared, it shook its head with a sly look and then burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

Yellow-tailed Rat, mid-tier Tier 1.

Hey! This earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escape technique) is more powerful than mine.

A first-tier spirit beast that has recognized its master is useless unless it possesses special materials.

When the master dies, the spirit is severed, and the spirit beast is free.

It is almost impossible to get it to recognize its master again.

Song Chuan shook his head, too lazy to bother dealing with it, and let it escape.

Now he wanted to see what good stuff these two had on them!