Hearing Mo Tiange's voice, the female Devil Cultivator was shocked. She was about to retreat, but she found that the double-edged scimitar she hadn't had time to withdraw was sinking. The lightning on the blade intertwined as if it was stuck and couldn't be withdrawn.
She stared at Mo Tiange in horror. "You … Aren't you just a Dao cultivator in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm?"
She couldn't be blamed for being so surprised. The cultivation path of Devil Cultivators was based on safety. They were greedy for strength, so Devil Cultivators were usually stronger than Dao cultivators.
If she didn't lie before, this was the first time she met a high-level Dao cultivator. It was no wonder she underestimated Mo Tiange's strength.
Mo Tiange stared at her coldly. "In your eyes, Dao cultivators are at the mercy of others?" Right after she finished speaking, the lightning on the double-edged scimitar crackled and attacked the divine sense on the scimitar.
The female Devil Cultivator turned pale with fright. She made a seal with her hands, condensed devil aura, and tried to withdraw the scimitar.
This double-edged scimitar was her natal magic weapon, which contained the devil aura essence she refined for hundreds of years. If it was destroyed, her strength would be greatly reduced!
Unexpectedly, Mo Tiange didn't intend to compete with her. Instead, she waved the Heaven and Earth Fan and withdrew the golden lightning on the scimitar. When the female Devil Cultivator reacted, Mo Tiange had turned into a flight light and disappeared into the sky.
The female Devil Cultivator withdrew the scimitar and stared blankly at the place where Mo Tiange disappeared.
"What are you doing?"
A deep male voice rang out. A cloud of dark blue smoke gathered in front of her and turned into a tall man with pale blue skin.
This man was definitely not a normal human. There was a protrusion on his forehead that looked like a beast's horn, and his hands hidden under his sleeves shone with silver light.
The color of his hair and eyes was the same as his skin color, a kind of azure blue that was close to black. This made his cold face look exceptionally handsome.
This man was obviously in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, but the female Devil Cultivator hurriedly bowed to him. "Young Master."
The man just stared at her coldly and didn't speak for a long time.
The female Devil Cultivator's expression gradually became nervous. In the end, she couldn't help but say, "Young Master, a Dao cultivator appeared here. I wanted to kill him first, but I didn't expect …"
"I didn't expect you to underestimate his strength." The man glanced at her.
He did not deliberately display his might, but every word that came out of his mouth was like a solid block of ice, hard and cold.
The female demonic cultivator lowered her head and said in a terrified tone, "I was wrong. Please punish me, Young Master."
"Hmph!" The man glanced at her coldly. "I'm not your master. Why do you have to do this?"
Hearing this, the female Demonic Cultivator slowly put away the fear on her face and fell silent.
As a Nascent Soul cultivator, she definitely wasn't willing to refer to herself as a servant to a cultivator of the same level.
However, she also knew that although the man in front of her was a cultivator of the same level as her, he had enough methods to make her wish for death.
"Tell me, what happened?"
The female demonic cultivator raised her head and reported, "I was just about to go in and take a look, but I found a Dao cultivator here, and it was a Nascent Soul cultivator, so I decided to deal with it …"
"So you're saying that you don't know this person's background?"
"There wasn't much time, so I didn't pursue this matter."
The female devil cultivator hesitated for a moment, then said, "However, from the clothes on this female cultivator, she should be a disciple of a large sect."
"A Nascent Soul cultivator most likely belongs to a sect."
The man's blue eyes stared at the place where Mo Tiange disappeared. "Since she could easily escape from your hands, this person can't be underestimated."
"Young Master, Celestial Pole cultivators rarely set foot in this westernmost area, let alone Nascent Soul cultivators.
At this critical moment, a Nascent Soul cultivator suddenly appeared here. Should we investigate? "
"Didn't you say we didn't have much time?" The man stared at her coldly. "Don't cause trouble. We'll act according to plan."
Upon hearing this, the female devil cultivator bit her lip and finally bowed her head. "Yes."
Mo Tiange rushed all the way back to the small town near Sandstorm City. Suddenly, she felt a powerful divine sense attacking her. She held the Heaven and Earth Fan tightly and was on guard.
The person rushed directly towards her. In the next moment, she felt a familiar breath and finally relaxed. "Senior Martial Brother?"
Seeing it was Mo Tiange, Qin Xi heaved a sigh of relief. "I'm fine …"
What did he mean?
Mo Tiange asked, "Senior Martial Brother, what happened to you?"
Qin Xi said, "Did you see a Nascent Soul devil cultivator?
I met him, but he ran away. His divine power was strange, and I was worried he would run into you … "
Mo Tiange hesitated for a moment. "I did run into a Nascent Soul devil cultivator, but her strength was average. I forced her to retreat after a sneak attack."
Qin Xi was stunned. "Average strength?
Did we run into different people? "Then he asked," What did the devil cultivator you ran into look like? "
"It was a woman in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm."
"A woman?"
Qin Xi was surprised. "I ran into a male cultivator in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. He had a strange appearance and blue skin … So, two devil cultivators appeared at the same time?"
The two of them looked at each other. They both felt this matter wasn't simple.
Huo Zong and Mo Tiange were here for the secret storehouse that might exist in Sandstorm City, but what about these two devil cultivators?
Was there some secret in Sandstorm City they didn't know?
The two of them thought about it. After a while, Mo Tiange said, "Aside from Sandstorm City, I can't think of any other reason why they came."
Qin Xi nodded slowly. "The far west is desolate. There's nothing worth a Nascent Soul cultivator's attention within a radius of several hundred miles. These two people must've come for Sandstorm City."
"If that's the case, wouldn't they have a conflict with us?"
The Celestial Pole wasn't like Yunzhong. Righteous and devil cultivators once fought each other. Until now, the Devil Path had been refused entry to Kunwu from the north of Demonic Mountain. Devil Path cultivators had a deep-rooted hatred for Righteous Path cultivators, especially Dao cultivators.
Qin Xi said, "We have to enter Sandstorm City. Let's talk about it when we run into them."
Right after he said that, they suddenly felt two auras. The two of them turned around. It was Huo Zong and Mo Tiange.
"Fellow Daoists!" Huo Ziqi saluted them with a solemn expression. "Have you sensed the presence of other cultivators?"
Mo Tiange was surprised. The female devil cultivator who sneak-attacked her wasn't very strong, but her breath-concealing technique was extraordinary. If she hadn't practiced the Soul-Refining Art successfully, her sneak attack might've really succeeded.
The one Qin Xi encountered could easily escape from him, so her escaping technique was obviously extraordinary.
Huo Ziqi and Zong Si's cultivation levels weren't outstanding, and their strength wasn't top-notch either, but they could actually sense their presence?
"To tell you the truth," Qin Xi said, "We encountered two devil cultivators just now."
"Devil cultivators?" Huo Ziqi was very surprised. "How could there be devil cultivators in the far west?
Are you sure they're devil cultivators and not Kunwu cultivators who practice Devil Path cultivation techniques? "
Huo Ziqi asked this because there were many cultivators in Kunwu who practiced Devil Path cultivation techniques. They weren't real devil cultivators; they just coveted the special effects of certain Devil Path cultivation techniques. Among them, the most famous one was the Head Grand Supreme Elder of Tiandao Sect, Liu Dingyuan.
Qin Xi said, "There are only so many Nascent Soul cultivators in the Celestial Pole. I've never heard of these two people."
"In that case, it's very likely that these two people are Diabolism cultivators from the north of Demonic Mountain …" Huo Ziqi frowned. Now that the Immortal Alliance was hostile to the Diabolism, was there something strange about two Diabolism cultivators coming here?
Mo Tiange asked, "Fellow Daoists, since you sensed the presence of other cultivators, couldn't you sense they were devil cultivators?"
Huo Ziqi smiled shyly and said, "To be honest, the presence of other cultivators here wasn't sensed by Fellow Daoist Zong or me. It was my spiritual beast."
As he spoke, he lightly patted the spiritual beast bag on his waist. A palm-sized butterfly flew out and landed on his shoulder.
Huo Ziqi said, "Although this Spirit-Seeking Butterfly is a seventh rank spiritual beast, it has almost no fighting power. It's only very sensitive to spiritual aura. It can sense even the slightest spiritual aura fluctuation."
"I see."
If they hadn't run into each other, she and Qin Xi wouldn't have found any traces of those two devil cultivators, but this Spirit-Seeking Butterfly sensed them.
Sure enough, the spiritual beasts of Spiritual Beast Sect were extraordinary. If they were used properly, their strength would be greatly improved.
"Fellow Daoists, what's going on with you running into devil cultivators?
Do you know their origins and why they came here? "Huo Ziqi was a bit nervous.
Among Nascent Soul cultivators, his and Zong Si's strength was only average. They originally thought this errand wouldn't be dangerous and would be a good opportunity for them.
Unexpectedly, after coming to Fengsha City, not only did they run into Qin Xi and Zong Si, but they also found traces of devil cultivators. If there was another conflict, it would be good enough if he and Zong Si could escape unscathed.
Qin Xi shook his head. "Just now, we ran into two devil cultivators, one male and one female. Both of them were in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. The male cultivator had a strange appearance, mysterious divine powers, and extraordinary strength. The female cultivator didn't seem to have anything special about her for now.
As for what they came here for, we don't know. "
"With Fellow Daoist Shoujing's skills, it should be easy for you to deal with them, right?" Huo Ziqi asked with a hopeful expression.
Although Qin Shoujing was a junior, his cultivation level and divine powers were much higher than the two of them. It was said that his fire divine powers were superb, and his methods were far superior to cultivators in the same realm. With his cultivation level in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it shouldn't be difficult for him to deal with two devil cultivators in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, right?
Qin Xi paused for a moment before answering, "That male cultivator's Escaping Technique is strange. It won't be easy to kill him, but it shouldn't be a problem for me to protect myself."
Upon hearing this, Huo Ziqi relaxed and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Shoujing, you're too modest. I heard you could escape from Master Song Feng when you were in the Core Formation realm. Presumably, with your current divine powers, two early stage cultivators shouldn't be a problem for you."
Master Song Feng was powerful, cruel, and bloodthirsty. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was the number one bully in the Celestial Pole. People in Kunwu were afraid of him when they heard that Qin Xi once escaped from his pursuit. This news became more and more outrageous, especially after Qin Xi advanced to the Nascent Soul realm. In order to set off his genius, the news became more and more exaggerated.
In fact, Qin Xi was able to escape from Master Song Feng's pursuit because Lord Daoist Zhenyang and Lord Daoist Jinghe came to his rescue in time. With their protection, Master Song Feng could only retreat. Otherwise, even ten Qin Xi wouldn't be enough to kill him.
Qin Xi said, "Fellow Daoist Huo, you think too highly of me. I was just lucky." He didn't explain too much. In the cultivation world, modesty wasn't a virtue.
Huo Ziqi asked, "Where are they now?
Did you guys fight? "
"We just met face to face, then they ran away," Qin Xi said. "We don't know where they went after that."
"Oh …" Huo Ziqi and Zong Si looked at each other then asked, "Two devil cultivators suddenly appeared. What do you think?"
Qin Xi smiled and said, "My wife and I came here on Master's order to look for someone. If it's unrelated, it's fine. If there's any conflict, it won't be too late to take action."
Upon hearing what Qin Xi said, Huo Ziqi nodded in agreement. "What Fellow Daoist Shoujing said makes sense. Tomorrow, we'll go to Fengsha City as planned."
Qin Xi smiled. "Alright, see you tomorrow."