Chapter 107: Monster Rebellion
After saying goodbye to his family, Song Qingming, who returned to Funiu Mountain, quickly came out of the grief of his relatives' death and began to carry out the family's task of transporting supplies to Qinghefang.
After leaving Qinghefang with Feng Laodao last time, Song Qingming returned to Qinghefang for the first time in more than three months. A few months later, Song Qingming found that there were many more unfamiliar cultivators in Qinghefang. After checking Song Qingming's identity, the cultivator guarding the gate of the market let him in without asking any questions. It seems that Zhou Jintang's disappearance did not attract anyone's attention.
After killing Zhou Jintang in Yunwu Mountain, Song Qingming had been worried for several months that someone would come to the market to seek revenge after the incident. It was not until he handed over the supplies and left the market this time that he was relieved about the matter.
After completing this mission, Song Qingming also ushered in a period of stable cultivation in the mountains. Only when the family occasionally needed manpower to escort supplies would he go down the mountain.
In the past, the second elder of the family, Song Changfeng, was in charge of transporting supplies. However, the old patriarch has a short life span now, and the second elder has begun to gradually take over the patriarch's authority and cannot go down the mountain often. This matter has fallen to Song Qingming, who has a higher cultivation level in the family.
Soon, two years passed in a flash. Song Qingming also had two rare years of quiet cultivation in the mountains. In addition to cultivation, he would still make some talismans and other things. When the family sent him down the mountain to transport supplies, he would take them to Qinghefang to exchange for some spiritual objects needed for cultivation.
In the past two years, in addition to cultivation, Song Qingming's biggest improvement was his talisman making level. Half a year ago, he had already improved his talisman making skills to the upper grade and became the third upper grade talisman maker of the Song family.
However, after he made a lot of upper grade talismans, he suddenly found something that made him a little helpless. Although the upper grade talismans had higher profits, they were not as easy to sell as the middle grade talismans in Qinghefang. Many of the upper grade talismans sold in Qinghefang were still piled up in his own storage bag.
The reason for this is that although the effect of the top-grade talisman is good, the finished product is much higher. The value of a top-grade talisman is generally about ten spirit stones, which is four or five times that of a medium-grade talisman. The old-fashioned late-stage cultivators in Qinghefang who can afford the top-grade talisman are all old-fashioned late-stage cultivators.
As for the large number of low- and middle-level cultivators, most of them are not too rich. Even if they have one or two top-grade talismans, they are kept as trump cards. Generally speaking, they are not willing to use them, so the overall consumption of top-grade talismans in the market is not large.
For him, he can only change back to making medium-grade talismans, and the dozens of top-grade talismans he has hoarded can only wait until the next time he goes out to sell them in a large market like Guiyunfang.
In the Floating Cloud Mountains thousands of miles north of Guiyunfang.
A short late-stage cultivator is on a high cliff. He can only see the mana surging in his hands, and he is struggling to climb the smooth cliff quickly.
On the cliff a few dozen feet away from him, there were several star-moon flowers swaying gently with the breeze on the cliff, and a hint of blue enchanting spiritual light flashed from time to time on the yellow petals.
He came alone to the depths of the dangerous Floating Cloud Mountains just for these spiritual objects. Soon the middle-aged monk successfully climbed to the star-moon flowers. After seeing the spiritual objects, he first carefully inspected them. After confirming that there was no danger nearby, he carefully picked these spiritual flowers and put them into his storage bag.
Seeing that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, the man also showed a happy expression on his face. After checking that there were no missing spiritual medicines nearby, he turned around and prepared to leave this cliff to look for spiritual medicines nearby. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged monk who had just raised his head suddenly fixed his eyes after seeing the scene in the distance below the mountain, and gradually showed a trace of panic on his face.
After wiping his bright eyes with his hands and confirming that there was nothing wrong with his eyes, the cultivator looked up at the foot of the mountain again, and saw a burst of yellow sand flying all over the sky in the distance, with countless monsters mixed in it, and they were slowly approaching him from far to near.
"This is... a monster riot!"
After confirming that he was not mistaken, the cultivator who had been in the Floating Cloud Mountains for decades had a face full of fear. After shouting, he quickly ran down the mountain.
More than a dozen days later, hundreds of cultivators, like him, encountered a group of monsters approaching the south in the Floating Cloud Mountains, and fled the Floating Cloud Mountains in a hurry. Many cultivators did not escape in time and fell into the belly of the monsters.
In the meeting hall of Guiyunfang.
More than a dozen foundation-building cultivators were carefully discussing in the hall how to deal with this monster riot. Even Qin Wenyuan, the Jindan ancestor stationed in the market, came out of seclusion and sat on the high platform to preside over the meeting.
"According to the information obtained by Junior Brother Shen yesterday, there are three groups of monsters coming towards Guiyunfang this time. The leaders are four level 3 monsters, and there are also hundreds of level 2 monsters. They are quite powerful. There are tens of thousands of low-level monsters under their command. Their strength is far beyond the current guard force in Guiyunfang. Junior Brother Chen, you should go to the mountain gate in person and ask the head brother to arrange for the sect to come to the rescue as soon as possible. If it is too late, some accidents may happen."
"Disciple obeys the order."
A tall and thin man bowed respectfully to Qin Wenyuan and left here quickly.
Qin Wenyuan nodded, and continued to say to the rest of the people with a serious face: "Notify everyone that from today on, Guiyunfang will close the market. All cultivators can only enter but not leave. Post a notice to inform the cultivators in the market that everyone must accept the deployment of the market guard. If anyone dares to retreat without fighting, I will personally take action and use his head as a sacrifice."
Fortunately, every time the monsters and beasts in the northern border riot, it will not involve cultivators above the Nascent Soul and the fourth-level demon king. Whether it is the monsters or the human race, those who can take action are those with a cultivation level below the Golden Core. Otherwise, if a fourth-level demon king appears on the battlefield, Guiyunfang may not be able to defend for half a day.
The Xiaoyao Sect’s mountain gate is some distance away from Guiyunfang. If they want to wait for the sect’s reinforcements, they need to hold on for a while.
Unexpectedly, within a few days, two groups of monsters had already arrived near Guiyunfang from two directions, led by two thunder eagles and a black dragon. All three were Jindan-stage monsters. Faced with absolute power suppression, Qin Wenyuan did not dare to fight, and could only rely on Guiyunfang's level 3 mountain protection formation to defend.
After the two groups of monsters arrived at Guiyunfang, they quickly commanded the lower-level monsters below to surround the market and began to attack the mountain protection formation outside the market. Not only Guiyunfang, but also several markets near the Fuyun Mountains in Weiguo were soon besieged by monsters. The once-in-a-century northern border monster turmoil began without warning.
After the news of the monster turmoil reached Xiaoyao Sect, the Xiaoyao Sect monks immediately began to organize monks to go north for support, and quickly issued a conscription order to several county family monks near Guiyunfang, asking them to rush to support first.