103: Kill Wu Gaoqi

Soon, it was time for the auction of the Youth Preservation Pill Pill Formula and the Peiyuan Pill Pill Formula.

As expected, the price for both of these Pill Formulas was over 50,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

The Cultivator who purchased the Peiyuan Pill Pill Formula was actually an acquaintance of his, Wu Gaoqi.

The distance between their locations was not very far.

However, Wu Gaoqi had also disguised himself.

If it weren't for Zhang Qingxiao possessing the perfect-level Spirit Detection Technique and specifically investigating when Wu Gaoqi bid on the Peiyuan Pill, he truly would not have discovered that it was actually him who purchased the Peiyuan Pill.

By the time the auction ended, it was already late at night.

Zhang Qingxiao mingled within the crowd, approached Wu Gaoqi, and left a special mark on his hair.

Afterward, he quickly disappeared into the streets.

Returning to the rented inn, he changed his Magical Artifact robe, altered his appearance, and immediately took out a special Magical Artifact from his Storage Pouch. Following the instructions on the Magical Artifact, he found Wu Gaoqi's location.

When he arrived at the location indicated by the Magical Artifact, he immediately discovered that three or four Foundation Establishment Cultivators were secretly following Wu Gaoqi.

Wu Gaoqi must have realized he was being followed, as he remained on the brightly lit streets, strolling slowly.

Then, after entering a shop, he never came out again.

If Zhang Qingxiao hadn't left a mark on him, he might have truly been fooled.

The other few Cultivators secretly following him also realized something was wrong after a while.

Someone immediately entered the shop to inquire, and upon learning that the target they were tracking had already left through the shop's back door, they immediately split up to begin searching.

Zhang Qingxiao silently left the shop, circled around, and continued to follow not far behind Wu Gaoqi.

Because he kept a relatively far distance, he was not discovered by Wu Gaoqi.

In fact, when he had just come out of the Four Seas Merchant Association, he had also been followed.

It was just that the Cultivator following him did not follow him into the inn.

That was why he had quickly changed his appearance and left the inn.

After circling a few times, Wu Gaoqi also entered an inn.

After more than half an hour, he finally came out.

Then he quickly left Ancient County City.

He didn't expect Wu Gaoqi to leave overnight.

Zhang Qingxiao worried that if he returned directly to the Sect, it would be difficult to find an opportunity to strike later, so he could only continue to follow behind him.

After following for nearly a few hundred miles, he stopped.

"Fellow Daoist, having followed me for so long, is it time to show yourself?"

After stopping, Wu Gaoqi suddenly turned around and shouted sternly.

After a long while, with the surroundings completely silent, he muttered: "There shouldn't be any Foundation Establishment Cultivators following me anymore."

After speaking, he controlled his Flying Sword and turned to leave again.

On the way, he stopped again just like before and shouted a few times in different directions.

Seeing that there was truly no one following, he finally relaxed his vigilance.

At this moment, they were already more than two thousand miles away from Ancient County City.

They had completely left the area of Ancient County City.

Having engaged in Sword Flight for such a long time, even with consuming Medicinal Pills to restore True Essence, he couldn't quite hold on.

Wu Gaoqi took out a Formation Plate, found a relatively hidden spot, set up a simple Formation, and began to recover.

When Wu Gaoqi first turned around to shout, Zhang Qingxiao was truly startled.

If it weren't for seeing that Wu Gaoqi didn't take further action, he would have attacked directly.

Fortunately, he restrained the urge to strike.

Otherwise, if they had really started fighting directly, it would have taken quite some effort.

It might even have attracted the attention of other Foundation Establishment Cultivators, bringing unnecessary trouble.

Seeing Wu Gaoqi take out the Formation Plate, set up a concealment Formation, and begin to recover his True Essence, Zhang Qingxiao approached silently.

To avoid being discovered, he stopped at a distance of thirty meters from Wu Gaoqi.

The Divine Sense range of a Foundation Establishment First Layer Cultivator is generally between ten and twenty meters.

Therefore, to ambush the opponent, one cannot be too close or too far.

A distance of thirty meters was just right.

Since he hadn't been discovered at such a close distance, it could basically be confirmed that Wu Gaoqi was truly circulating his Cultivation Technique to recover his True Essence.

Zhang Qingxiao no longer hesitated and quickly took out seven or eight Tier-2 attack Talismans and threw them at Wu Gaoqi.

At the same time, Fireball Technique, Ice Technique, and Spirit Arrow Technique were cast one after another.

Wu Gaoqi opened his eyes immediately, saw seven or eight attack Talismans flying towards him, instantly triggered a defensive Talisman, and took out a High Grade defensive Magical Artifact to activate his defense.

The Talismans' attacks broke the defensive Talisman's spiritual energy shield.

The techniques he cast struck directly onto the spiritual energy shield formed by the defensive Magical Artifact, causing waves of ripples.

"Puchi!"

At this moment, a dark red Flying Sword pierced through the Magical Artifact's spiritual energy shield and severed Wu Gaoqi's head.

Wu Gaoqi's eyes widened, his expression one of disbelief.

He had already recognized this surpassing ordinary Flying Sword of Zhang Qingxiao's.

Although unwilling, he was helpless.

Wu Gaoqi's consciousness began to dissipate.

His body also fell backward uncontrollably.

The whole process took a long time to describe, but in reality, it was very brief, lasting less than a single breath's time.

After killing Wu Gaoqi, Zhang Qingxiao immediately scavenged everything from Wu Gaoqi's body, including his Storage Pouch, his Magical Artifact robe, inner armor, and defensive Magical Artifact.

Then, with a Fireball Technique, he turned his corpse into ashes.

Then he buried all the ashes in the soil, put away the Formation Plate, and headed toward Ancient County City.

Returning to Ancient County City, he came to an inn run by the Four Seas Merchant Association, paid ten Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and found a small courtyard.

Confirming that no one noticed him, he took out Wu Gaoqi's Storage Pouch and carefully examined it.

"There are quite a few things."

After Zhang Qingxiao opened the Storage Pouch, his eyes lit up.

Inside, besides the Peiyuan Pill Pill Formula, there were more than 30,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Fifty Purple Spirit Pills and thirty Spirit Enhancing Pills.

There were also many various Magical Artifacts and Talismans.

Added together, the total value would not be less than 100,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

This result completely exceeded Zhang Qingxiao's expectations.

The reason Wu Gaoqi could have so many Mid-Grade Spirit Stones was mainly because he had obtained many benefits when the Xiaoyao Sect attacked the Chang Sheng Sect.

Coming to Ancient County City this time was also because he had long received news that the Peiyuan Pill Pill Formula would be at this auction.

The purpose was to purchase the Pill Formula, and after refining the Peiyuan Pill, to improve his Aptitude and Breakthrough his current Realm as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes; in the end, it benefited Zhang Qingxiao.

After counting the items, Zhang Qingxiao put away the Spirit Stones, Pill Formula, and Medicinal Pills.

He planned to sell all the other items to the Four Seas Merchant Association.

Next time he came over, he could not continue using his current identity.

After organizing the items, Zhang Qingxiao took out the Pill Formulas for the Peiyuan Pill and the Qingling Pill and began to study them.

After memorizing the medicinal herbs and refining methods required for these two Medicinal Pills, he began to meditate and Cultivate to restore his True Essence.

Early the next morning, Zhang Qingxiao took the Storage Pouch to the Four Seas Merchant Association's counter that specialized in purchasing various items.

The Magical Artifacts, Talismans, along with the thirty-cubic-meter Storage Pouch, sold for a total of 23,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

The most expensive items among them were the surpassing ordinary Flying Sword and the High Grade defensive Magical Artifact.