Chapter 102: Troops Set Out to Chifeng Ridge
The Song family took the supplies they had prepared long ago, left Funiu Mountain and walked east for more than 200 miles to the Huang family's Wufeng Mountain.
Wufeng Mountain is a second-level spiritual vein. The Huang family occupied this place after discovering a spiritual spring hundreds of years ago. It has been operating for more than 400 years. The spiritual fields on the mountain have been opened up for hundreds of acres. Not only are there dozens of Qi-refining cultivators from the Huang family stationed here, but there is also a powerful second-level formation guarding the mountain. Even if the foundation-building cultivators attack, so many cultivators can rely on the power of the formation to resist for a day or two until the arrival of reinforcements.
In the world of cultivating immortals, the spiritual veins in many places are generated by nature. It takes at least tens of thousands of spiritual stones to cultivate a second-level spiritual vein from scratch. The spiritual vein of Wufeng Mountain can be regarded as the most important industry of the Huang family besides the ancestral land Taiyuan Mountain.
As soon as the Song family arrived at Wufeng Mountain, they saw from afar that there was already a person waiting at the foot of the mountain. When they approached, they saw that this person was a middle-aged man with a square face and thick eyebrows. He was dressed in a yellow Taoist robe and looked quite righteous. When he saw the Song family, he hurried forward and put on a smile.
"Haha, I thought it would be Taoist Changfeng who came this time, but I didn't expect it to be the head of the Song clan who came in person. Junior Huang Xianlong greets Senior Song." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he stepped forward and bowed to Song Gushan.
Facing such a humble Huang Xianlong, Song Gushan was also slightly surprised. After all, the Huang family was the main family of the Song family. Even if Huang Xianlong was just an ordinary cultivator in their family, he did not dare to be arrogant. He quickly bowed to Huang Xianlong and said, "Fellow Daoist Huang, you are too polite. We are all fellow Daoists. How dare I call you a senior."
"Alas! When I just entered the Dao, Senior Song was already a famous cultivator in our Qinghe County. Naturally, I have to call you a senior. Everything has been arranged on the mountain. Fellow Daoists, please follow me up the mountain first."
After Huang Xianlong finished speaking, he raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation, and then walked in front. Song Gushan did not say anything polite, and led the Song family to follow quickly.
After going up the mountain, several monks of the Song family moved into the residence that the Huang family had prepared long ago. Song Qingming found that in addition to the monks of the Huang family, many monks from the various vassal families of the Huang family had gathered on Wufeng Mountain. He also met several acquaintances he had met in Qinghefang in recent years.
The Huang family has dominated Qinghe County for nearly a thousand years. The entire northern part of Qinghe County is the sphere of influence of the Huang family. There are more than 20 vassal Qi-refining families like the Song family. Some vassal families farther away have not arrived yet. They can only stay here first and wait for the monks who have not arrived yet.
Unexpectedly, Song Qingming and others waited for five or six days on Wufeng Mountain before all the vassal families of the Huang family arrived here.
Fortunately, Huang Xianlong is not only enthusiastic, but also very thoughtful. He not only arranged accommodation for them, but also sent some spiritual rice and other supplies. He would come to express his condolences every now and then, which made Song Qingming and others feel very warm.
Seeing that all the vassal families had arrived, the Huang family immediately summoned the leading cultivators of each family to the Wufeng Mountain Conference Hall to discuss the specific matters of this action.
In the Wufeng Mountain Conference Hall, including the Huang family cultivators, there were dozens of cultivators standing, among which two foundation-building cultivators were sitting at the top.
One was Huang Shengxin, the current patriarch of the Huang family, who was at the eighth level of foundation-building and the number one master in Qinghe County. The other cultivator had not been building his foundation for a long time and only had the cultivation of the second level of foundation-building. He was the current patriarch of the Qian family, Qian Guangyao.
Seeing Qian Guangyao suddenly appear here, the cultivators of the Huang family's vassal families below showed a hint of surprise on their faces.
Since Qian Guangyao successfully built his foundation more than ten years ago, the Qian family has been able to get rid of the status of a vassal of the Huang family and has been promoted to a foundation-building family. Logically, it no longer needs to accept the Huang family's call.
Unexpectedly, the Qian family gave the Huang family such a face this time that even Qian Guangyao, the foundation-building patriarch, came in person.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Huang Shengxin stood up and said to everyone:
"You all already know our goal this time. This time our goal is to encircle and suppress Chifeng Mountain. Please work together to eliminate this place where the monsters have been entrenched in Qinghe County for many years.
Don't worry, I have already discussed this operation with Brother Lu who is stationed in Qinghefang. He will keep an eye on the rear for us. Our Huang family guarantees that no matter which of your families is attacked by other forces during the operation, we will get our assistance in time. Please rest assured about this.
This mission, killing the monsters on the mountain is the business of our Huang family and the Qian family. You don't have to worry about it. You all take care of the people down the mountain. In their respective areas, they can just stop the monsters that escape down the mountain.
In the areas that everyone is responsible for, the monsters and materials killed belong to each person. After the war, our Huang family will also take out a few spiritual objects to reward those who have made great contributions in this battle, and the cultivators who died in the battle can also get a pension from our Huang family.
However, I have to say something ugly in advance. You are all vassals of my Huang family and have been protected by my Huang family for many years. If I know that any cultivator dares to be sneaky and play tricks, the Liu family will be their fate. "
When they heard that the reward for this action was so generous, the faces of the people below showed a trace of excitement, but not long after, they were beaten back to their original state by Huang Shengxin's harsh words.
Everyone has witnessed the disaster of the Liu family being wiped out. These small Qi-refining families are not worth mentioning in the eyes of the huge Huang family. Once they offend the main family, the Huang family does not need to do anything themselves, and there will be a large group of people willing to share a piece of the pie. The disaster of genocide is just a matter of a blink of an eye.
Chifengling is a mountain near the boundary of Yunwu Mountain. It is not too far from the place where Song Qingming was chased by the robbers of Yingchaoling. It is less than a hundred miles away.
This place was originally the only way to enter Yunwu Mountain from the north of Qinghe County. Many cultivators in QH County would enter Yunwu Mountain from here to hunt monsters and pick spiritual herbs in exchange for cultivation resources.
Recently, for some reason, this place was the territory of a second-level monster, the golden-horned sheep. This monster is a relatively docile monster. It usually stays in the mountains and rarely comes out. It rarely invades the territory of Qinghe County.
A few years ago, a second-level middle-grade white lion came here, drove away the golden-horned sheep and occupied this place. The white lion was ferocious, and basically all the cultivators passing by the mountain fell into its mouth, so that no cultivators in Qinghe County dared to enter Yunwu Mountain in recent years.
Not only that, this white lion crossed the border into Qinghe County a few months ago and attacked a small fine iron mine of the Huang family, killing several cultivators and thousands of mortals of the Huang family, and messed up the Huang family's mine vein. A foundation-building ancestor of the Huang family quickly came to support and fought a fierce battle with the white lion, and then defeated it.
This white lion suddenly stirred up the situation in the north of Qinghe County. As the overlord of the north of Qinghe County, the Huang family naturally would not give up. They immediately began to gather people, and even the clan leader Huang Shengxin, who had been in seclusion, came out of seclusion to prepare to take down the spiritual vein where the monster was entrenched.
Under the leadership of Huang Shengxin, the head of the Huang family, nearly two hundred cultivators have already arrived at the foot of Chifeng Ridge in a menacing manner. Not counting the last time when several major foundation-building families reorganized Qinghefang, this action can be regarded as the largest action taken by the cultivators in Qinghe County in recent decades.