Mortal: Starting by joining the Falling Cloud Sect

"Tiannan people? Which sect are you from? State your name!" Mu Lan's spy had already given up hope when she discovered that a cultivator from Tiannan had appeared, thinking that she was doomed. But when she found out that it was just a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, her hope for survival surged back.

"Heh heh, you're a dying man, you don't need to know so much, do you?" Zhou Qing chuckled sinisterly, slapping his waist twice with his right hand, and a jade-green sword appeared in his grasp.

"You're only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. Once I break the formation and get out, I'll kill you." Mu Lan's spy was enraged by Zhou Qing's words and threatened him viciously.

Zhou Qing didn't care at all. He was only able to chat with this Mulan spy for a few words to attract his attention so that he could secretly release the Heavenly Crystal Ants.

The crystal ant is the size of a finger and moves in the shadows in the dark night, making it almost impossible to detect.

Now that the Heavenly Crystal Ants have quietly infiltrated the formation and laid an ambush, he has nothing more to say to this "dead man".

Zhou Qing sneered and, without saying a word, suddenly raised his right hand and threw out several consecutive fireball talismans.

The talisman was activated in the air, transforming into a series of fireballs that, accompanied by heat waves, blasted towards the Mulan spy.

Upon seeing this, Mu Lan, the spy, smiled contemptuously. She neither dodged nor avoided the attack, but instead pointed to the earthen-yellow spirit pearl in front of her chest with one hand and channeled her spiritual power.

The earth-yellow spirit pearl suddenly shone brightly with yellow light, then transformed into a yellow wind wall, about five or six zhang high, which stood in front of Mu Lan's spy, blocking Zhou Qing's barrage of fireballs.

Dozens of fireballs slammed into the wind wall, which only trembled a few times before swallowing all the fireballs whole. The fireballs disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if they had sunk into the sea.

Mu Lan, the spy, thought Zhou Qing would use some powerful magic weapon, but he only threw out a few basic talismans. Although there were quite a few, they were easy for him to deal with.

"As expected, he's just an early Foundation Establishment cultivator. He doesn't have any particularly impressive skills. I'm saved now," Mu Lan thought to herself, while also considering whether to continue attacking the formation.

With this level of strength, he estimated that he could handle it if he focused half his attention on it. In the current situation, escaping as soon as possible was the most important thing.

Zhou Qing wasn't bothered that the Fireball Talisman hadn't worked; he just wanted to test the defensive capabilities of the spirit orb.

"I never imagined that this spirit pearl could release both wind blades and wind walls, making it a rare and valuable treasure with both offensive and defensive capabilities." Zhou Qing was already drooling over the spirit pearl and was determined to seize it.

A thousand thoughts raced through my mind in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Qing missed his first move, so he tried again, throwing out several more fireball talismans as if he was unwilling to accept defeat.

However, this time it was triggered ahead of time, turning into fireballs. Then, it stretched out its fingers and released spiritual power, slightly guiding the dozens of fireballs in the air, causing them to split into two groups and try to bypass the wind wall to flank Mulan's spy team from both sides.

"Childish tricks, utterly disgraceful!" Mu Lan's spy sneered, tapping the earth-yellow spirit bead with her fingertip, then silently reciting an incantation before making a light sweeping motion.

The complete yellow wind wall split into two, one on the left and one on the right, which met the incoming fireballs and swallowed them all up as usual.

Seeing the wind wall split in two, Zhou Qing's eyes narrowed, his gaze flashed, and he frantically poured spiritual power into the Qingfeng Sword with his right hand, then suddenly urged it on.

The Qingfeng Sword shot out, transforming into a streak of azure light, like a bolt of lightning, heading straight for Mulan's face.

The barrage of fireballs was merely bait set up by Zhou Qing; his true killing move was the three-foot-long Qingfeng sword!

Mu Lan's expression changed drastically. He had seen the emerald green sword in Zhou Qing's hand, but at the time, seeing its dim spiritual light, he thought it was just an ordinary magic weapon.

Of course, this was Zhou Qing's deliberate act, so it's not surprising that Mu Lan, the spy, didn't expect it.

Unfortunately, it was too late for him to think of it now. The Qingfeng Sword was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had already rushed to Mu Lan's spy.

This Mulan spy was indeed a battle-hardened elite Mulan warrior. Even in such a critical moment, he was still able to make a comeback. He knew that it was too late to gather the wind wall again, so he suddenly used a strange movement technique, causing his figure to retreat several feet abruptly.

Having created some distance, the Mulan spy was able to find a glimmer of hope and activated the spirit pearl.

After a slight tremor, the spirit pearl suddenly began to spin rapidly. In an instant, a condensed yellow tornado burst forth from the spirit pearl, growing larger rapidly and crashing straight into the Azure Edge Sword.

Countless tiny wind blades within the tornado struck the Qingfeng Sword with a clanging sound, instantly halting its momentum and stopping it mid-air.

When Mu Lan saw that Qingfeng Sword had been blocked, his heart finally settled down. However, at this moment, he also completely gave up his contempt for Zhou Qing.

After a moment of fear, another burning greed surged up from the depths of his heart.

Judging from the intense spiritual light emanating from the Qingfeng Sword and its swift speed, Mulan, the spy, was certain that it was at least a top-tier magic weapon.

The Mulan Grassland is resource-poor, and top-tier magical artifacts like the Qingfeng Sword are only possessed by the most core members of their Tianfeng Tribe.

If we can seize it, it will be an incredible opportunity; failure in the mission is insignificant compared to it.

At this moment, Zhou Qing also frowned slightly, not expecting the other party to be so troublesome.

Even with insufficient spiritual power, he can still use wind-elemental treasures with such superb skill, and his combat experience far surpasses that of ordinary sect cultivators.

Furthermore, that strange movement technique made Zhou Qing extremely wary, and he couldn't help but feel fortunate that the person was trapped in the great formation.

"It seems I have no choice but to use a 'talisman treasure'," Zhou Qing thought coldly.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing hardened his heart, and his spiritual power surged out, driving the Qingfeng Sword forward against the wind blades with all his might.

Seeing this, Mulan's spy dared not be negligent in the slightest. She also used all her magic power without reservation, and the tornado surged even more, with wind blades within it attacking the Qingfeng sword continuously.

However, the Azure Edge Sword was no pushover either, being one of the best among top-tier magical artifacts. It withstood the wind blades and managed to stab at Mulan's spy once more.

The spy, Mu Lan, was taken aback again. The power of the Qingfeng Sword was far beyond his imagination. He quickly formed a hand seal, causing the tornado surrounding the Qingfeng Sword to suddenly swirl around, greatly reducing the sword's impact.

At the same time, he pointed to the wind walls on both sides with both hands, and the wind walls rolled up and condensed into a circle of pale yellow wind vortex, which enveloped Mulan's spies.

This Mulan spy seemed to move as if riding the wind, employing strange movement techniques. He drifted erratically within a small area of ​​the formation, making the Qingfeng Sword, whose impact had been greatly reduced, unable to threaten him for the time being.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing's expression did not change. He had already secretly released his divine sense to awaken the Heavenly Crystal Ants that had been lying dormant for a long time.

At the same time, he opened another spirit beast bag and released two Sun Crows.

After doing all this, he pinched two fingers of his right hand and took out the talisman "Qiankun Tower", and immediately began to activate it.

Now that Zhou Qing's cultivation has entered the Foundation Establishment stage, he is already quite adept at activating talismans, and it won't take long at all.

Meanwhile, within the grand formation, Mu Lan, the spy, felt uneasy upon seeing the glittering golden talisman in Zhou Qing's hand.

Under Zhou Qing's control, the Qiankun Tower Talisman Treasure manifested its physical form a moment later, a golden tower about a foot long floating in mid-air, radiating light.

The spy Mu Lan inside the formation froze abruptly, looked up, and her face turned deathly pale.

"Amulet!"

He gasped in shock, his eyes filled with genuine terror for the first time.

Although he had never possessed a talisman treasure before, he was quite familiar with it, as his elder brother had died from a talisman treasure possessed by a cultivator from Tiannan.

Fear gripped him instantly, and he could no longer care about anything else. He frantically activated the spirit orb, unleashing wind blades that slashed at the array wall.

But these dying struggles seemed ridiculous to Zhou Qing. With a flick of his right hand, the Qiankun Pagoda grew taller in the wind and hung above Mu Lan's head.

Then he coldly uttered, "Suppress!"

The Qiankun Pagoda immediately released a huge beam of light, causing the floating Mulan spy to fall to the ground and be crushed under the pagoda. The transmission of spiritual energy was instantly sealed, and the spiritual pearl could no longer be activated.

The long-lurking Crystal Ants and Sun Ravens swarmed forward. The Sun Raven's spiritual flames transformed into a fire serpent, instantly breaking through the protective aura of the Mulan spy.

The Sky Crystal Ants swarmed onto Mu Lan's spy, tearing at her frantically, causing her to let out a series of piercing screams.

At the same time, because the Spirit Pearl lost its spiritual power support, the tornado it released gradually dissipated, and the Azure Edge Sword broke through the wind, becoming completely unstoppable.

The spy, Mulan, looked on in despair. She was about to say something, perhaps begging for mercy, or perhaps something else entirely.

However, Zhou Qing didn't care about any of this. He simply flicked his sword finger, and the Qingfeng sword smoothly wrapped around the neck of the spy Mu Lan, beheading her completely.

Bright red blood spurted from the neck of Mulan's spy, flowing all over the ground and staining the fine sand red.

Zhou Qing stood outside the formation, waited for a while, then used his Qingfeng sword to stab Mu Lan a few times before stepping into the formation.

He bent down and picked up the other person's storage bag, while using his spiritual power to pick up the earth-yellow spirit bead that had fallen to the side and put it into the storage bag.

Then he picked up the storage bag made by Mulan and poured it out. With a flash of white light, all the items scattered out.

After observing for a while, Zhou Qing's face showed a strange expression. He discovered many interesting things.