With the Eight Immortals' magical treasures in hand, even a mortal like myself! Ha!

Upon seeing the talisman, the woman's expression changed slightly, but she quickly regained her composure and said, "It's useless!"

"Hmph, how do you know it won't work if you don't try!" Gu Qing wasn't the kind of person who would be defeated by words, so he immediately channeled his magic power to activate the Invisible Needle Talisman.

A blinding light burst forth in the sky, and the woman hurriedly conjured a red silk ribbon to form a light barrier for defense.

"It seems that if I don't teach this kid a lesson, he won't obediently come back with me." The woman thought to herself, while carefully guarding against the invisible needles in the sky.

However, the invisible needle did not shoot out for a long time, but only emitted light in the air. After a while, the woman became suspicious, so she controlled the red silk to strike the place that was shining.

The ball of light was shattered by the red silk, and Gu Qing's figure vanished. The woman realized she had been tricked.

"You cunning brat, do you think you can escape my grasp?" The woman stepped on the red silk and flew off in one direction. At the same time, she sent a message to her sect, explaining that she had discovered Gu Qing.

The reason she followed him alone was because she hadn't confirmed if it was Gu Qing. After all, Gu Qing had disguised himself, which is why the woman followed him alone.

But now that it's confirmed to be Gu Qing, they naturally contacted someone from the sect to come over.

On the other side, after escaping, Gu Qing was preparing to unleash his crutch, which would allow him to fly a thousand miles in an instant.

But he stopped in his tracks. Just as Gu Qing was about to take out his cane, he became wary, as if someone was secretly watching him.

The moment I move, that person will attack me.

"There are other experts?" Gu Qing scanned his surroundings but found nothing.

At this moment, the woman from the Hidden Moon Sect caught up. Seeing Gu Qing standing still, she laughed and said, "Junior, why aren't you running anymore?"

"Besides you, are there other people here? Are they also from the Seven Sects?" Gu Qing's gaze did not fall on the woman, but instead he looked around warily.

Upon hearing this, the woman scanned her surroundings with her divine sense, finally fixing her gaze on a cloud.

"Hey! You're quite interesting." A middle-aged man dressed in blue silk brocade appeared.

"Who are you, and why are you following me?" Gu Qing questioned.

The middle-aged man in blue snorted coldly and said, "You killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators from our Qin family, and you still ask who I am?"

"Ancestor of the Qin family, a Core Formation cultivator? Hey, I'm willing to return to the Hidden Moon Sect, quickly protect me." Gu Qing said shamelessly.

After hearing this, the woman glanced at the Qin family cultivator and said, "Please give our Yanyue Sect some face. As for the Qin family's losses, our Yanyue Sect is willing to compensate them."

"The Hidden Moon Sect?" The middle-aged man in blue was clearly somewhat wary, after all, it was a sect with a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in charge, and it was also very close to the Yuanwu Kingdom.

After thinking for a moment, the middle-aged man in blue glanced at Gu Qing and then smiled, "Alright, I'll give your Hidden Moon Sect face and let this kid leave with you."

Upon hearing this, the woman breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at Gu Qing, saying, "Young man, come here quickly."

Gu Qing was stunned. He hadn't expected things to end so easily. The influence of the Hidden Moon Sect was too useful. But he had finally gotten out, so how could he possibly go back with the people from the Hidden Moon Sect now?

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Qing turned and ran away.

"Watch out!" came a woman's shout from behind.

A burst of magical light shone from Gu Qing's body, and the Qin family patriarch struck down with a palm, directly hitting Gu Qing.

The jade pendant given to Gu Qing by Lei Wanhe shattered instantly, and the yellow light formed by the two talismans on his body twisted. Gu Qing was shot into the mountain like a cannonball.

"Hmm, this is interesting." The Qin family patriarch clearly hadn't expected his opponent to withstand his attack unscathed.

"Stop! He is a man of importance to the seven sects of Yue Kingdom. How dare you kill him?" The woman, though only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, seemed utterly unafraid as she spoke to the Qin family patriarch.

The woman then unleashed a magical weapon and began fighting against the Qin family patriarch.

Upon realizing that what the woman had taken out was not a magical artifact, but a magical treasure, the Qin family patriarch instantly understood what was going on.

"So you're a fellow Daoist. Then let me experience your superior skills," said the Qin family patriarch.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The two Core Formation cultivators were fighting, and the surrounding terrain was deformed by the fluctuations of their battle. Gu Qing, who had been knocked into the ground and rolled several times, dared not stay in place.

Gu Qing brandished Tieguai Li's crutch and tried to escape, but the two men, while fighting, were still paying attention to Gu Qing.

"Stop! He's trying to escape. Don't let him activate his magic weapon," the woman warned.

"A magic weapon?" The Qin family patriarch was somewhat puzzled. How could a Foundation Establishment cultivator possess a magic weapon?

However, before the Qin family patriarch could think further, a large bell-shaped magic weapon descended, covering an area of ​​several dozen feet in radius.

Gu Qing urged his iron crutch to crash into the large bell, which surprised him greatly. He did not expect that the iron crutch could not penetrate the bell-shaped magic artifact.

"Hehehe, kid, let's see where you run this time," the Qin family patriarch said with a laugh.

Gu Qing gripped his iron crutch, his mind racing. He quickly spotted a pond in the distance out of the corner of his eye, and without hesitation, pointed his crutch at it.

Tieguai Li's iron crutch can turn stones into gold and water into dragons.

Immediately, a water dragon several dozen feet long rose from the pond that Gu Qing pointed to. After circling in the sky, it flew towards the Qin family patriarch.

Before the Qin family patriarch could react, the water dragon swallowed him whole and slammed him hard into the ground.

The Qin family patriarch, who was slammed to the ground, coughed up a mouthful of blood. He was both shocked and furious. He hadn't expected the water dragon's attack to come so suddenly, and he didn't even have time to react.

"Boy, you're courting death." The patriarch of the Qin family cast a spell, striking the large yellow bell. The bell hummed and then rapidly contracted.

In the blink of an eye, the bell shrank to less than ten feet in size, and it was still shrinking rapidly, seemingly about to crush Gu Qing to death.

Gu Qing was shocked to see this and hurriedly used his crutch to support the bronze bell to prevent the light shield from shrinking further. Fortunately, the iron crutch was very sturdy, and the bronze bell did not crush Gu Qing to death in the end.

Upon seeing this, the women of the Hidden Moon Sect quickly took action, using red silk to bind the bronze bell and pull it down.

After the bronze bell was torn off, Gu Qing stirred the pills in his mouth, swallowed a thousand-year-old spiritual herb and some other pills haphazardly, and then controlled the iron crutch to directly insert it into the head of the Qin family patriarch.

The patriarch of the Qin family opened his eyes wide, looking as if he had died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

Gu Qing collapsed to the ground, his hands twitching slightly. That attack had drained all his magical power, leaving him with absolutely nothing.

Gu Qing is as fragile as an ordinary person now; an ordinary woman could probably take him down.

"Young man, I didn't expect you to be so capable, taking down a Core Formation cultivator while only at the Foundation Establishment stage." The woman from the Hidden Moon Sect said as she walked up to Gu Qing.

"I didn't expect you to get the better deal in the end. Do you know your name?" Gu Qing asked.

The woman from the Hidden Moon Sect couldn't deny it, but simply chuckled and said, "Nangong Wan."