Chapter 157 The Demonic Cultivator Reappears

Such miscellaneous matters that occurred within Qinghefang were usually directly decided by the two foundation-building cultivators who were guarding the place. Judging from Lu Yuanfeng's tone, he obviously did not want to pursue the Gao family's affairs. Seeing this, Song Qingming did not object.

In the past, he had personally decided several similar minor disputes in the Law Enforcement Hall. Afterwards, Lu Yuanfeng knew the results of his handling and never objected to them. This time, the Gao family was involved. It was estimated that Gao Jinhe had already informed him about the matter. His purpose of teaching Jinbaotang a lesson had been achieved, and there was no need to offend the Gao family for such a small matter. Song Qingming nodded without much hesitation and agreed with Lu Yuanfeng's opinion.

"I was a little angry at the time that these people did such dirty things in broad daylight and didn't care about the reputation of our market. In order to save the face of our Qinghefang, I punished them. Now I think this matter is indeed a bit too much. Let's deal with it according to the opinion of Fellow Daoist Lu."

Seeing that Song Qingming had agreed to this matter, without saying much, Lu Yuanfeng nodded with satisfaction and hurriedly asked a disciple waiting outside the door to bring a pot of spiritual tea.

In the past few years in Qinghefang, Song Qingming occasionally came to discuss Taoism with him at the invitation of Lu Yuanfeng. Both of them are foundation-building cultivators, and it is very beneficial for both parties to exchange their cultivation experiences from time to time.

Just when the two were talking fascinatedly, Lu Yuanfeng's disciple waiting outside the door suddenly broke in.

"Master, there is someone outside the door named Song Qingshi, who said he is a member of Senior Song's clan and has something important to report."

When he heard Song Qingshi's name, Song Qingming nodded to the person and said, "He is indeed from my Song family. Please wait for a moment, Brother Lu. I will go out to take a look first."

In a large courtyard outside Lu Yuanfeng's cave, Song Qingshi, who looked tired, was waiting anxiously. When he saw Song Qingming coming out, he hurried forward to salute.

"Grand Elder, something strange happened at home. I don't know how to deal with it. Clan leader, please go back quickly." After Song Qingshi finished speaking, he handed a handwritten letter from Song Changfeng in his hand directly to Song Qingming.

Upon hearing this, Song Qingming was also a little surprised. He didn't know what happened on Funiu Mountain that was so urgent.

After opening the letter, Song Qingming's brows gradually frowned, and his face was no longer relaxed.

"Brother, wait for me here for a while. I'll go in and inform Fellow Daoist Lu, and then I'll go back with you."

Half a day later, in the meeting room of the Song family in Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming sat at the top seat, and below him sat several late-stage Qi Refining cultivators of the Song family.

"Sixth uncle, have you confirmed the situation? Are you sure that the one who appeared in the Wu family is a demon cultivator?"

Song Changfeng replied with a heavy face: "News just came from the Wu family, and several suspicious people have been found. These people all have a trace of strange black air, which is obviously tampered by the cultivators. It is definitely a demon cultivator who casts spells to control ordinary mortals so blatantly. This point can be basically confirmed."

"If there are really demon cultivators causing trouble nearby, everyone should be careful. Demon cultivators have many methods and are extremely agile and cunning. It is not an easy task to completely eradicate them. When the other families arrive, let's act together. It's best to take action with thunder and lightning before they react. We must not give them a chance to escape, otherwise there will be endless troubles."

It turned out that the reason why Song Changfeng was so anxious to invite Song Qingming back was because the Song family suddenly received a letter from the Wu family of Longtan Mountain asking for help half a month ago, and the traces of demon cultivators were actually found in the Wu family.

The Wu family was originally a subsidiary family of the Huang family, just like the Song family. Longtan Mountain is not far from Funiushan Mountain, only less than 80 miles away.

Since the Song family was officially promoted to a foundation-building family four years ago, the northwest of Qinghe County has been under the jurisdiction of the Song family. The Qi-refining families that were originally vassals of the Huang family have also been assigned to the Song family, and they have to pay some tributes every year in exchange for the protection of the Song family.

There are not many cultivators in the Wu family, only more than 20 people. The situation in the ancestral lands of Longtan Mountain and Funiushan is similar, with tens of thousands of mortals.

More than half a month ago, several acquired mortal martial artists suddenly disappeared in a relatively remote mortal village within the Wu family. The Wu family cultivators stationed there have not figured out the reason for this. A few days ago, Wu Mengyuan, an elder of the Wu family, felt that this matter was a bit confusing, so he did not alarm the resident cultivators there and went to investigate in person. As a result, he made an amazing discovery. In this relatively remote mortal village, there were actually several mortals who had been parasitized by demon cultivators.

This frightened the people of the Wu family. Although the mortals parasitized by the demon cultivators looked no different from ordinary people on the surface, their lives and deaths had long been controlled by the demon cultivators behind them. They were basically puppets controlled by the demon cultivators. The discovery of mortals parasitized by the demon cultivators here showed that there must be demon cultivators hiding near this place.

Demon cultivators are extremely cruel and will often do cruel things to sacrifice a large number of cultivators and mortals. More than a hundred years ago, there was a Qi Refining family in Qinghe County that was not checked for a while and was mixed with a group of demon cultivators. They slowly controlled and parasitized many cultivators and mortals in their family. In the end, the cultivators and mortals of the whole family were sacrificed by these brutal demon cultivators overnight. When several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County arrived after the incident, the demon cultivators had already fled.

Knowing that there might be demon cultivators in his territory, the head of the Wu family didn't know how many demon cultivators were hiding here. He was afraid that some of his cultivators had been parasitized and controlled by demon cultivators. He didn't dare to make it public, hiding it from most of the cultivators in the family, and sent his trusted people down the mountain overnight to ask for help from the main family, the Song family. After Song Changfeng received the request for help from the Wu family, he also didn't dare to go out without authorization, so he sent Song Qingshi to urgently invite Song Qingming, a foundation-building cultivator, to support him.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for a demon cultivator who would parasitize a mortal in a small Qi-refining family like the Wu family to be a demon cultivator above the foundation-building stage, but there are no absolute rules for demon cultivators to do things. It's not strange that they will do anything cunningly. If there is a foundation-building demon cultivator in the Wu family, if they rush to kill them, it will definitely be a warning to the snake.

After discussing the action plan, Song Qingming asked Song Changfeng to quickly send out conscription orders to several affiliated Qi-refining families under the Song family. One day later, when everyone gathered at Funiu Mountain, there were already forty or fifty cultivators gathered at the Song family. Song Qingming then directed everyone to blockade the entire Longtan Mountain under the cover of night.