Chapter 106 Bad News at Home

A few days after returning to Funiu Mountain, another major event in Qinghe County reached the Song Family Mountain Gate.

After the Qian Family occupied Chifeng Ridge, in order to increase the force to guard this second-level spiritual vein, Qian Guangyao issued a bounty order in Qinghe County, inviting scattered cultivators from all over the neighborhood to go to Chifeng Ridge to assist them in guarding the spiritual mountain.

The bounty order issued by the Qian Family is different from the conscription order issued by the Huang Family. The conscription order is an order issued by the main family to the dependent family. This order is mandatory. As a subordinate Qi-refining family like the Song Family, they cannot refuse the main family's conscription, otherwise they will be greeted by a catastrophe.

The bounty order issued by the Qian Family is the same as the task that the Liu Family invited them to go to the Fuyun Mountains to hunt the second-level monsters. At this time, it is just an employment relationship. Whether to accept the task is completely voluntary. There are not too many mandatory requirements, and the reward given will be higher.

Seeing that the price offered on the Qian family's bounty order was very high, not only the casual cultivators in Qinghe County, but also many cultivators from Qi-refining families like the Song family were moved by the spirit stones and came here.

Many cultivators gathered on Chifeng Ridge for a while. Although they were attacked by level 2 monsters several times, they were all defended by the Qian family without any danger.

However, in order to invite those powerful casual cultivators, the Qian family also offered a relatively high price. Although the Qian family had some foundation, it would be difficult to persist for too long. At most, the Qian family would face the crisis of bankruptcy in half a year.

For this reason, Qian Guangyao did not hesitate to mortgage several mines and shops of the Qian family in Qinghefang to other families. More than three months later, he set up a level 2 formation on Chifeng Ridge, which ended the bounty order.

After his thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong broke through the late stage of Qi Refining, he was also a person who could not sit still. Not long after he finished his retreat, he followed a few friends to Chifengling to hang out for two months and earned a lot of spiritual stones. He returned to Funiu Mountain reluctantly until the Qian family had no more employment tasks.

However, some people were not as leisurely as him. Song Qingming, who had just returned to Funiu Mountain, had not yet taken a breath when he received the bad news that his father was seriously ill from his home down the mountain. He could only rush back to his home in Mujiao Town.

Song Dezhang was nearly sixty years old, which was considered old among mortals. In recent years, he had also had many problems with his body. Half a month ago, he accidentally fell in his yard due to slippery roads in rainy days and lay on the bed all of a sudden.

For half a month, Song Dezhang could not speak and his condition worsened. The Song family invited many doctors to come for treatment, but none of them worked. They could only inform the family's garrison cultivators in Mujiao Town about the matter and wanted to notify Song Qingming to go home to see if there were any other ways.

Unfortunately, Song Qingming was still on the Wufeng Mountain of the Huang family at that time. He didn't know about this until he returned to Funiu Mountain.

Song Qingming used his own magic power to check his father's body and found that several important internal organs in Song Dezhang's body were severely damaged. It was almost the last moment of his life. It was not easy for him to hold on until he came back.

Facing the expectant eyes of his mother, Song Qingming could only shake his head helplessly. Although he was a cultivator, the spiritual objects in his hands could only cure diseases and eliminate disasters for mortals. There was no high-level spiritual medicine that could make mortals grow flesh and bones and bring them back to life.

In Song Dezhang's current condition, it would not be very effective to waste spiritual medicine rashly. It might even accelerate his death. Song Qingming could only exchange some medicines for Song Dezhang from the clan to relieve his pain as much as possible.

Half a month later, the Song family began to hang white banners everywhere. Song Dezhang, who was reluctant to leave his relatives around him, finally passed away.

In recent years, the Song family has been regarded as a prominent family in Mujiao Town. In addition, Song Qingming also wanted to let his father pass away in a more dignified manner, so Song Dezhang's funeral was naturally very grand.

For several days in a row, the Song family's door was full of people from Mujiao Town who came to pay their respects. The sound of suona, gongs and drums expressing the grief of relatives never stopped from morning to night. Song Qingming also went to the mountain to invite the fourth elder Song Gucai, who was proficient in Feng Shui, to find a Feng Shui treasure land for Song Dezhang to be buried.

After four or five days of busy work, the fourth brother sent away all the guests who came to mourn. It was not convenient for Song Qingming to show up too much among mortals. The second sister had to take care of the grief-stricken Song mother, so he and his brother-in-law were basically busy with the running errands.

After dealing with his father's affairs, Song Qingming was not in a hurry to return to the mountain. He stayed at home for more than ten days. The spiritual energy in Mujiao Town was scarce, and he did not spend spiritual stones on cultivation. Contrary to his usual habit of staying in his room every time he returned home, he took the initiative to walk out of the door and familiarize himself with the whole house.

One day, Song Qingming was playing with several young nephews in the backyard, but he didn't expect that the elderly mother Song took the initiative to come to him.

"San'er, your father has been gone for so long, why are you still staying at home? He was most afraid that family affairs would delay your cultivation. You came back this time to take care of this matter, which can be regarded as filial piety. Go back after dinner. Don't worry about me here. It's nothing serious. I know my own body well."

Song's mother was a reasonable person. Seeing that Song Qingming had not returned to the mountain for such a long time, she took the initiative to put aside her grief and came to persuade Song Qingming to leave. Although she also wanted her son to stay at home with her more, Song Qingming's future was obviously more important to her than these things.

Song Qingming also knew his mother's intentions in his heart, nodded and agreed, and helped his mother to sit aside.

Song's mother looked at Song Qingming beside her, and then looked at the grandchildren in the yard, and slowly showed a smile on her face that she had not seen for a long time.

"It's a pity that Yunshan didn't test out his spiritual roots last time. I don't know if these children have a chance to become immortals and can follow me to the mountains to practice in the future."

Over the years, the fourth brother has given birth to several more children. Song Yunshan, Song Qingming's eldest nephew, is already ten years old. He went to the town to take a spiritual root test half a year ago, but the result was disappointing to the child. He is just an ordinary mortal and has not tested out his spiritual roots. He can't practice immortal methods like his uncle Song Qingming in this life. If nothing goes wrong, he can only be a rich man among mortals like his father.

When Song's mother heard what Song Qingming said, she said with some displeasure: "How come you have become as stubborn as your father? What's wrong with not having a chance to become an immortal? If I were to ask you, it would be enough for them to live peacefully until old age. If they all go to cultivate immortality, no matter how big this family is, it will be deserted. What's the point?

You, it would be better if you could get married earlier. How can I leave you alone in the mountains without any worries?"

As soon as she finished speaking, tears from Song's mother's eyes could not be stopped.

Song Qingming naturally knew that his mother wanted him to get married a long time ago, but the family had a rule that cultivators could not get married before the age of 40. Even if he had this idea, he was still a few years away from getting married, so he could only helplessly explain it to his mother again.

However, his father's sudden death this time still left him with a trace of regret in his heart. It was indeed a great regret in life that he could not let his parents see him get married. Even if he was a cultivator, how could he completely cut off the relationship between the secular world when his parents were still alive?