A Qi Refining cultivator ultimately couldn’t compare to a Foundation Establishment cultivator in terms of endurance. Relying on his familiarity with the terrain via his map, Wang Hao fled the entire way, but that Foundation Establishment cultivator pursued him relentlessly. Wang Hao’s own spiritual power was nearly exhausted.

Discovering a rock fissure ahead, he quickly hid inside. He needed to take pills to restore some Spiritual Power. Entering the fissure, he found it relatively spacious, about a hundred square meters. Moreover, the entrance was extremely small; perhaps he could ambush that Foundation Establishment cultivator here!

He took out Spirit Recovery Pills and stuffed several into his mouth.

One mouthful down, he immediately felt refreshed and clear-headed. His Dantian felt much fuller, and his body lighter. As expected of my own refined pills, the effect is truly good…

In this brief moment, the black-clothed cultivator also arrived and trapped him here, sniffing angrily. “The smell of spirit pills… Kid, are you wasting my spirit pills?”

Hearing this, Wang Hao laughed. These robbers were simply unreasonable.

“Kid, hurry up and come out. With your little skill, do you think you can escape? Honestly, come up and hand over all your storage pouches. If I’m happy, I might even leave you alive.”

It was impossible to believe such nonsense. Wang Hao spoke out, “The storage pouch is right here in my hand. Why don’t you come and get it?”

“It seems I need to teach you a lesson.” The black-clothed cultivator fiercely slapped the rock wall, and the cave immediately shook violently.

Wang Hao secretly cursed. My choice was wrong. Continuing like this, I’ll be buried alive. Thus, he thought to use the Earth Escape Technique to exit. However, he ended up slamming his head straight into a rock wall.

He was somewhat dazed. Loud laughter came from above his head. “I told you that you couldn’t escape, yet you insist on asking for suffering. Honestly, come up, otherwise, believe it or not, I will burn you to death?”

With no choice, he could only walk out. “Senior, we have no grudges in the past and no enmity in the present. You are merely seeking wealth. This junior is coming out to offer the storage pouch, hoping Senior shows mercy.”

Saying so, he didn’t actually believe the opponent would spare him. His hand tightly gripped the Earth Turbidity Seal, and he was simultaneously prepared to release Xiao Bai to fight desperately.

Fortunately, the black-clothed cultivator was rather overconfident and didn’t attack when Wang Hao showed his head. He coldly snorted, “Kid, hurry up and give the storage pouch to me. Let me tell you, don’t hide anything private, otherwise, I’ll make you know what it means to be unable to live or die!”

Hearing this, Wang Hao thought, This person seems experienced in highway robbery. Where is the logic in not giving the opponent any breathing room?

Running the entire way, he discovered the opponent’s methods were also quite average. He seemed like a novice who had just reached Foundation Establishment not long ago and hadn’t yet adapted to his own Spiritual Power.

“What are you thinking? Still not hurrying to take out the storage pouch? Do you want to force me to act?” The robber naturally didn’t plan to let Wang Hao go, but the kid was truly hard to deal with. The Earth Turbidity Seal in the kid’s hand was better than any magical instrument he possessed. If not for his Foundation Establishment Spiritual Power being thicker than the kid’s, he feared he might have already failed.

So, he planned to first pretend to be easily trusting, trick the Earth Turbidity Seal out of the kid’s hand, and then strike to kill.

Wang Hao took out a low-grade storage pouch, which only contained some spiritual herbs. He handed it tremblingly to the big man, begging for mercy, “Junior’s collected spiritual herbs are all here. I still hope Senior spares this junior a path to life. Junior will never forget Senior’s great kindness.”

The black-clothed cultivator took the storage pouch and impatiently checked what was inside. Opportunity has arrived! The moment the robber opened the storage pouch, Wang Hao’s Divine Sense moved, directly detonating several spirit talismans inside the pouch.

The result was completely different from what he expected. The robber easily dodged the attacks of several spirit talismans. A few attacks that hit his body were also blocked by his body-protecting spiritual light. His face wore a look of mockery. “Kid, I knew early on you wouldn’t be honest. A Qi Refining ant dares to plot against a Foundation Establishment cultivator? It looks like you want to resist to the end! Don’t think only you were delaying time to recover spiritual power; did you think I wasn’t recovering?”

After speaking, the big man took out a green longsword and slashed towards Wang Hao. Intent on testing this person’s strength, Wang Hao pasted ten defensive talismans on his body in a row. Only three were slashed open.

Is he really weak, or am I too strong? Then what the hell was I running for all this way! Wang Hao scoffed. Even if he attacked, he could cut through four layers of defensive talismans.

Thus, he took out the Gale Sword and began to exchange attacks with the opponent. He had many talismans on his body, so he didn’t need to worry about defense at all. On the contrary, the opponent could only use body-protecting spiritual light to resist hard hits.

The two exchanged hundreds of moves. After consuming more than two hundred spirit talismans, the robber was panting with exhaustion, out of breath as he said, “You kid, exactly how many spirit talismans do you have? Is there no end to them?”

Wang Hao laughed. “If Senior lets this junior leave, this junior can gift Senior a few!”

“You kid dare look down on me! I must hack you to death today!” After speaking, he continued holding the sword and chopping towards Wang Hao.

Dodging left and right, Wang Hao was also anxious inside. The opponent couldn’t kill him, but his methods couldn’t do anything to the opponent either. In the Qi Refining stage, he was considered invincible; several of his techniques were max level. But the opponent was a Foundation Establishment cultivator! His movement technique speed was extremely fast, easily dodging attacks. What he couldn’t dodge, he could resist with body-protecting spiritual light without much problem.

Wear the opponent down to death? It wasn’t impossible, but the opponent’s spiritual power was much deeper than his. Up to now, the opponent hadn’t even taken a pill to recover Spiritual Power. Wang Hao dared not gamble. A Qi Refining cultivator’s body tired much more easily than a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s; even a body refinement cultivator wouldn’t work.

Do I want to try that?

His mind moved, remembering the Shatter-Soul Spike he cultivated. But the Shatter-Soul Spike had a prerequisite: the opponent’s Divine Sense power had to be weaker than his own. The opponent was a Foundation Establishment cultivator; once it failed, he would die! He decided to test him for a while longer!

So, he threw spirit talismans wildly while releasing Xiao Bai to consume the opponent’s spiritual power, simultaneously observing the opponent’s methods.

The sword in the black-clothed cultivator’s hand was only a Tier 1 High-Grade flying sword, proving he wasn’t a wealthy person.

He hadn’t eaten any spirit pills, nor had he released even a single spirit talisman, further confirming this point.

The spells used were also mostly Tier 1, indicating the opponent hadn’t cultivated Tier 2 spells. There were two possibilities: one was that the opponent had no way to obtain them, and two was that the opponent had just reached Foundation Establishment not long ago and hadn’t had time to cultivate them.

From his aura, he was inferior to Old Wang, so the possibility of having just reached Foundation Establishment was high!

In other words, aside from his spiritual power being deeper than Wang Hao’s, his other methods were about the same, or even inferior!

By now, Wang Hao somewhat regretted letting Wang Yanfeng leave first. Otherwise, adding Yaya, killing this fellow would be much easier than it was now.

A single Tier 1 High-Grade spirit beast could restrain the opponent, making things much easier for him, let alone having two more helpers.

He didn’t know who gave this guy the confidence to come out for highway robbery.

The black-clothed cultivator was also speechless, feeling incredibly depressed inside. It was one thing for a Qi Refining junior to have a Tier 2 magic tool; a Qi Refining cultivator had insufficient spiritual power and couldn’t wield it for long, so he wasn’t very afraid.

But how could he have inexhaustible spirit talismans? Hmm, they are all Tier 1 talismans, similarly not enough to be feared.

But why was there also a spirit beast? This kind of Tier 1 High-Grade spirit beast was usually strenuous to deal with, let alone in this current one-versus-two situation.

The black-clothed cultivator, by now, also somewhat regretted coming out to rob. His name was Zhao Kuang. Originally, he was just a rogue cultivator who, by a stroke of luck and chance, obtained a small inheritance and luckily reached Foundation Establishment. But after Foundation Establishment, he had neither cultivation techniques nor resources.

What to do? He could only think of some crooked ideas. Thus, he conspired with several rogue Foundation Establishment cultivators to hide at the edge of the Duan Yuan Mountain Range and intercept some Qi Refining juniors. At least he could get some resources.