58: Chapter 58 Escape

While defending, Chen Changqing urged the azure dragon flag to attack her.

"We cannot go on like this, otherwise once my spiritual power is exhausted, I will be at her mercy," Chen Changqing thought to himself.

He exerted a slight force with the hand holding several ice crystal talismans, and then threw them toward Yun Nangu.

"She still has the energy to counterattack?" Yun Nangu was somewhat startled. Seeing the few ice crystal talismans getting closer and closer to her, she immediately stopped her attack and distanced herself to prevent being caught in the fallout of the ice crystal talismans.

She had already witnessed the destructive power of the ice crystal talismans earlier; any single one was enough to injure a Foundation Establishment tier-three Cultivator, let alone so many. Even with her Foundation Establishment tier-five cultivation base, taking a hit head-on would not feel pleasant to varying degrees.

Taking advantage of her distancing herself, Chen Changqing self-detonated the two dragon souls of the azure dragon flag to heavily damage her spear-shaped Magical Artifact while turning on his heels and fleeing.

Seeing this, Yun Nangu grew somewhat angry. She recalled the tattered and dim spear-shaped Magical Artifact into her hand, stroked the spear shaft with a heartache, put it back into her Storage Pouch, and then gave chase.

"Brat, you actually destroyed my Liuming Spear. If I do not kill you today, it will be hard to vent the hatred in my heart."

Two streaks of light of different colors, one chasing and one fleeing, headed toward Cang Prefecture.

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A few days later, Chen Changqing took out a Medicinal Pill to swallow while looking back. For the past few days, he had been constantly on edge, almost being killed several times during this period. Fortunately, relying on the surrounding terrain and some dangerous locations, he managed to escape death by the skin of his teeth every time.

One of those times, he was just a hair's breadth away from completely perishing and having his Dao destroyed. Thinking back to that massive figure at the time, he still felt a lingering fear; that Yao Beast definitely possessed Tier 3 strength.

Otherwise, how could its mere coercion have almost prevented both him and Yun Nangu from leaving that valley?

Fortunately, with the timely appearance of that Yao Beast, he was now considered free from Yun Nangu's pursuit.

After days of desperate escape, he no longer knew where he was.

But at least he knew one thing: he had already deviated from his original route. Originally, according to the time elapsed, he should have entered the directly administered territory of Cang Prefecture by now. However, here were boundless mountains; firstly, it was uninhabited, and secondly, he hadn't encountered many Yao Beasts.

Right now, he even felt that he was no longer in Cang Prefecture.

Picking up the map and examining it closely, he truly could not find any similar places.

"Sigh!" Chen Changqing let out a long sigh. To say his luck was good, he had at least shaken off Yun Nangu's pursuit; to say his luck was bad, he didn't even know where he was right now.

He couldn't wander around everywhere either, lest he encounter another Tier 3 Yao Beast of that level or run into Yun Nangu again; that would truly be extremely bad luck.

Chen Changqing stopped overthinking, found a cave to first recover his spiritual power, and then determined his next objective.

A gravel-shattering spell carved out an entrance about five zhang deep and two zhang wide on the cliff face, and then he set up a Tier 2 Low Grade Maze Formation outside, starting to sit in meditation and recover just like that.

Fortunately, he previously had enough Spirit Stones to buy this Formation, and before leaving, he bought another one hundred sets of talisman-refining Materials for Tier 2 Low Grade ice crystal talismans.

It happened to be a good time to replenish his ice crystal talismans over the next few days; anyway, he didn't need to worry too much about a sudden sneak attack from Yun Nangu right now.

Half a month later.

Chen Changqing outlined the final stroke on the talisman paper, and instantly, countless Spiritual Qi in heaven and earth transformed into a whirlpool and surged toward the talisman paper.

After a while, this phenomenon completely dissipated. Looking at the finished ice crystal talismans, Chen Changqing let out a long breath of relief. Fifty sets of Materials yielded a total of thirty-three ice crystal talismans; not bad.

Although there were still fifty sets left, there was no time to continue refining them. Currently, the best course of action was to find the direction of the route to Cang Prefecture City; otherwise, if he didn't show up for a long time, Qingling and the Family would definitely be very worried.

"Grandfather, run quickly!"

A female voice came over, and Chen Changqing raised his eyebrows, spreading his Divine Sense outward.

He saw an old man and a young person driving their Flying Swords to sprint wildly through the woods, glancing back from time to time.

Behind them, a single-horned Yao Beast wolf appeared from not far away. Its eyes revealed a fierce light, saliva constantly flowed from the corners of its mouth, and it was rapidly chasing after the two.

The old man was probably advanced in age and physically frail, and his spiritual power could not keep up with the speed of driving the Flying Sword, slowing down significantly and causing the young girl in front to become somewhat anxious.

Seeing this, Chen Changqing thought to himself, "There are finally living people; just in time."

He urged the qingyang sword to slash toward the single-horned Yao Beast wolf.

Whoosh!

A sound of breaking through the air rang out, and the head of the single-horned Yao Beast wolf instantly fell off its neck. This sudden and shocking change left the old man and the young girl stunned.

The old man was the first to react, pulling the young girl's arm, intending to leave.

"Wait, please stay your steps, two Fellow Daoists." Chen Changqing abruptly appeared before the two, a smile forming at the corners of his mouth.

"Huh?!" The old man was surprised. When did he arrive here? Instantly, vigilance arose in his heart, and then he nudged the young girl's arm, seeming to want her to be careful as well. But seeing the young girl unresponsive, the old man glanced sideways from the corner of his eye.

He saw the young girl looking at Chen Changqing with a blushing face, not saying a word, much like a young maiden harboring romantic thoughts.

However, Chen Changqing did not pay attention to this matter and just politely spoke, "Two Fellow Daoists, dare I ask what place this is?"

Hearing this, the old man asked doubtfully, "Could it be that Fellow Daoist is not a Cultivator of the He Family?"

"The He Family?" Chen Changqing was puzzled. He had merely made a move, so how did he get mixed up with the He Family again?

"I see. Since Fellow Daoist is not a Cultivator of the He Family, that is good, that is good." The old man let out a breath. The days of continuous pursuit had made him somewhat exhausted, and he couldn't help but inwardly let out a sigh of relief.

"Fellow Daoist, I... I am Yu Song. Judging by Fellow Daoist's accent, you must be from Cang Prefecture over there!" Seeing Chen Changqing's young appearance, and seeing that the other party casually slaughtered a Yao Beast wolf that they feared immensely, Yu Song did not dare to act big. After calming down, he realized that the other party didn't seem to be a local Cultivator.

"Yes, Fellow Daoist Yu, my surname is Yun. Fellow Daoist may address me as Daoist Yun. Where is this place?" Chen Changqing inquired.

"So Fellow Daoist is lost. I shall first thank Daoist Yun for saving our lives. This place is Tianhe County in Qingzhou. If you head north for one thousand five hundred miles and cross the mountains, you can reach Tianhe County City. If you head west, you can return to the territory of Cang Prefecture." After cupping his fists in gratitude, Yu Song got straight to the point.

"Also, Fellow Daoist, be careful. I do not know how Fellow Daoist came over from Cang Prefecture in the west, but nowadays there are quite a few He Family Cultivators over in the west. The single-horned Yao Beast wolf you killed just now is a clan-protecting Spirit Beast raised by the He Family. If you want to return to Cang Prefecture, you had best not take this road; otherwise, if you encounter the He Family, they will not let you off. Because their single-horned Yao Beast wolves can easily sniff out the aura of their own kind, after you killed that Yao Beast wolf just now, you have already been tainted with its aura."

"Hmm, dare I ask about the strength of this He Family?" Chen Changqing nodded and inquired, not asking why the He Family's Yao Beast wolf wanted to hunt them down. Since he didn't ask, others wouldn't volunteer the information.

The Immortal Realm was simply like this; if he had to help out whenever he encountered something today, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? He was not a Saint, and moreover, he wouldn't be idle enough to do such things that offended people, especially since he had Family members behind him.