Song Qingming thought about it for a while and decided to participate in this operation and agreed to Feng Laogui.
Seeing that he agreed, Feng Laogui asked him to stay here for a while. He walked out of the tent happily and sent a sound transmission talisman. Soon, a man in white clothes and dressed like a Confucian scholar came into the tent.
The man in white is named Jia Sixing. He is in his thirties and has not been a member of Feiyun Guard for long, just like Song Qingming. He and Feng Laogui have known each other for many years in Guiyunfang, and it was Feng Laogui's introduction that allowed him to join Feiyun Guard.
Jia Sixing was also a little surprised to see that there was another person in Feng Laogui's tent. After nodding and greeting Song Qingming, he said to Feng Laogui, "I was wondering why Brother Feng was so anxious to go pick the Pearl Spirit Medicine after just coming out of seclusion. It turns out that he has found another helper. It seems that Brother Feng is determined to do it this time."
Feng Laogui smiled and nodded, saying, "Fellow Daoist Song and I have some friendship, and he just agreed to work together. With one more person, our chances of success will be greater. After all, I only want the White Jade Flower, and the materials for killing the monster will all belong to you two."
Jia Sixing nodded and said, "In that case, let's make it clear in advance. I don't care about the other things, but the fur of the flame rat must belong to me. I want to ask someone to refine a top-grade magic weapon. This thing will be of great use to me. If Fellow Daoist Song agrees, there will be no problem on my side."
There aren't many valuable parts on a monster like the Fire Rat. The best part is its skin. The fur of a high-level Fire Rat is a good material for refining magical tools, and its value is higher than all the other items on its body combined. Jia Sixing said this, obviously wanting to take advantage of it.
"Okay, then it's settled. You take the Flame Rat fur, and the rest of the monster materials belong to me."
Although Song Qingming knew that he would suffer some losses by doing so, he did not bother to argue with Jia Sixing. He also knew in his heart that although the three of them had the same cultivation level, these two were cultivators who had advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining for many years, and their fighting abilities should be higher than his. After all, he was a newcomer to Feiyunwei, and arguing too much might make the other party dissatisfied.
Song Qingming also learned from Feng Laogui about the fire rat that they were going to deal with this time. This fire rat had a cultivation level of at most the seventh or eighth level of the Qi Refining Stage. Although it was already a high-level monster, among the many high-level monsters in the Qi Refining Stage, the fire rat had average magical powers and was not a difficult monster to deal with.
Otherwise, if they were dealing with those difficult high-level monsters, even if Old Ghost Feng could speak eloquently and offer a sky-high price, Song Qingming would have no choice but to do nothing. After all, although spirit stones are good, they can only be spent with life. If it really doesn't work, he can just go to the market to inquire about the news of Bailong Mountain. As long as he is willing to spend time, there will always be a way.
Although there are great risks in dealing with high-level monsters this time, as long as he can get half of the monster materials, he can also get twenty or thirty spirit stones, save a few talismans, and get to know his two teammates and understand their magical powers. For Song Qingming, it is very cost-effective no matter how you look at it. He has to take this risk when he comes out to gain experience.
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The white jade flower was only fifty miles away from the camp. After Song Qingming and the other two made an appointment, they left the camp one after another early the next morning.
The higher-ups generally don't follow up too closely on the time and speed at which the Feiyun Guards complete their tasks, and their rewards are paid out based on the quality of their tasks. As long as they don't bring disaster to the camp, Lu Yunfei doesn't bother to care where they go.
After meeting at the foot of the mountain, under the leadership of Feng Laogui, the three of them spent more than half an hour on the road and arrived at a small hill covered with rocks.
"The Fire Rat is in the cave ahead. This monster has a very sensitive nose. Anyone approaching the cave will be attacked immediately by this beast. Even using an invisibility talisman will be useless."
Old Ghost Feng pointed at a small rock cave a few dozen feet in front of the three people and spoke to Jia and Song beside him.
"Let's follow the plan we agreed on on the way. Brother Feng will use the puppet to lure the monster out first. After the monster comes out, Brother Song will block its retreat to prevent it from retreating back into the cave."
Jia Sixing repeated the action plan that the three of them had discussed yesterday.
Then Feng Laogui slapped the storage bag on his waist, and a three-inch white puppet beast was released by him. The puppet beast flashed with golden light, and soon turned into a seven-foot white tiger. The white tiger was shining with spiritual light and looked majestic.
Old Ghost Feng cast a forbidden spell with both hands, and a flash of light appeared on the white giant tiger puppet's body. Its eyes flashed with white light, and it quickly rushed towards the cave where the fire rat was hiding.
When it was still four or five feet away from the cave entrance, the white tiger puppet opened its mouth wide and a flash of lightning instantly spurted out of its mouth. After a loud bang, rocks flew all over the sky. The cave entrance, which was more than half a person's height, was almost completely buried by the rubble.
Looking at this white tiger puppet, Song Qingming's eyes lit up. Feng Laogui's medium-grade white tiger puppet was actually a rare puppet beast that could use thunder magic.
Level one puppet beasts are not rare. Many large sects have this kind of inheritance. There are also many cultivators in Weiguo Xiaoyao Sect who can refine level one puppet beasts. However, puppet beasts above the level of level two foundation building are extremely rare. No one in the entire Weiguo can refine them. It is estimated that even if all the Jindan cultivators in Weiguo are added together, there are not many of them.
Among spells of many attributes, thunder spells have always had the most powerful attack ability. If Feng Laogui's white tiger puppet beast is used properly, it can be equivalent to a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining.
Puppet beasts are generally only about half as powerful as cultivators or monsters of the same level. Normal cultivators can only control one or two puppets of the same level at most. If there are more, the puppets will not be able to exert their full strength.
Only some monks who have practiced special skills and have stronger spiritual awareness can control more puppet beasts.
In the western part of Donghuang Xianzhou, there is a Zijin Kingdom which is several times larger than Wei Kingdom. In Zijin Kingdom, there is a large sect that specializes in practicing puppetry, called Jinkui Sect.
There is a secret technique in the Golden Puppet Sect that specializes in cultivating the spiritual consciousness of cultivators. It can make the spiritual consciousness of cultivators who practice this technique several times stronger than that of cultivators of the same level. There have even been powerful cultivators in the Golden Puppet Sect who can control more than a dozen puppets at the same time.
Relying on the help of numerous puppet beasts, the disciples of the Golden Puppet Sect can often gain the upper hand in battles with cultivators of the same level. For this reason, the cultivators of the Golden Puppet Sect have always been feared by cultivators from other sects when they travel outside.
Although the Golden Puppet Sect only has three Nascent Soul cultivators, it has dominated the Zijin Kingdom's cultivation world for thousands of years by relying on several Nascent Soul-level puppets passed down from generation to generation within the sect. Several other major Nascent Soul sects in Zijin Kingdom have experienced ups and downs, but only the Golden Puppet Sect has relied on the art of puppetry to remain standing for thousands of years.
Old Ghost Feng was controlling the White Tiger Puppet and was about to attack again when suddenly a rumbling sound came from the rubble at the entrance of the cave. Following a strange squeak, a three-foot-long red demon rat jumped out from the rubble.