Chapter 174 Herb Collection

Huang Family, Taiyuan Mountain.

This is the best spiritual vein in the entire Qinghe County. After thousands of years of management by the Huang Family, now within a radius of dozens of miles, the mountain is densely populated and prosperous, just like a paradise on earth.

One day, a green sword light suddenly came from the east. When the mortals at the foot of the mountain saw this scene, they thought it was the immortals on their own mountain. They stopped their work and knelt down to worship devoutly.

"It is worthy of being the ancestral land that the Huang Family has managed for thousands of years. The number of mortals here is enough to rival Qinghefang." Looking at the endless villages and towns below, Song Qingming, who was riding a flying sword, couldn't help but sigh.

There are nearly 300,000 mortals living in the dozen small towns under Taiyuan Mountain. Almost all of these people are descendants of the Huang Family. Every year, they can send two or three children with spiritual roots to the Huang Family. Compared with the newly rising foundation-building family like the Song Family, the thousand-year heritage of Taiyuan Mountain is difficult for them to match in a short period of time.

Just after coming out of seclusion, his sixth uncle Song Changfeng handed him a letter from the Huang family. Song Qingming then knew that the Huang family had asked him to meet up at Taiyuan Mountain five days ago. After briefly speaking with Song Changfeng, he hurried here.

Under the guidance of the Huang family cultivators at the foot of the mountain, Song Qingming quickly arrived at the top of Taiyuan Mountain. After seeing Song Qingming, several Huang family cultivators who had been waiting for a long time also hurried to meet him.

Song Qingming stepped forward and bowed, saying, "I have been in seclusion these days, and I didn't see the letter in time. I am really sorry for keeping you waiting for so long!"

"No problem, no problem! I didn't expect that after half a year, Fellow Daoist Song has made progress in cultivation. It's really a cause for celebration."

Huang Shengyue, with a smile on her face, stepped forward to greet Song Qingming, and then pointed to an old man beside her and introduced him, "Fellow Daoist Song, this is my nineteenth uncle. He had already joined the Xiaoyao Sect in his early years, and this time he came back to help."

Song Qingming hurriedly stepped forward to greet the old man, and then he unexpectedly discovered that this seemingly ordinary old man was actually a late-stage foundation-building cultivator with a high level of cultivation, just like Huang Shengxin. He couldn't help but have some new understanding of the strength of the Huang family.

The old man's name is Huang Chengding. In the Huang family tree, he is of the same generation as Huang Chengliang, and he has been building his foundation for more than a hundred years.

Huang Chengding joined Xiaoyao Sect when he was a teenager and rarely returned to Qinghe County. As a result, Song Qingming, a native cultivator of Qinghe County, had never heard that the Huang family had such a powerful foundation-building master in Xiaoyao Sect.

Since everyone was already there, Huang Shengxin, the head of the Huang family, coughed lightly, and quickly took out a silver flying boat from his body, carrying everyone and heading north directly.

A flying boat is a flying magic weapon that can carry multiple cultivators. It requires cultivators above the foundation-building stage to control it. A second-level flying boat like the one Huang Shengxin used can generally only carry about ten people. If it is replaced with a third-level flying boat driven by a Jindan cultivator, it is normal to put hundreds of people in it.

Standing on Huang Shengxin's flying boat, feeling that it is three times faster than his own flying sword, Song Qingming couldn't help but feel a little envious. When he has the opportunity in the future, he must also get such a magic weapon. With this, he can greatly speed up his escape when he encounters danger.

However, a flying boat is much more expensive than an ordinary second-level magic weapon. Any second-level flying boat needs 2,000 spirit stones to buy, which is almost as expensive as a second-level top-grade magic weapon. Ordinary people can't afford such a thing.

The Huang family did not bring any Qi-refining cultivators on this long journey. Except for a Qi-refining cultivator from the Huang family who found the pearl spirit medicine and was responsible for leading the way, the rest were all foundation-building cultivators.

The Huang family was very well prepared for the third-level pearl this time. The three foundation-building cultivators of the Huang family, Huang Shengxin at the ninth level of foundation building, Huang Chengliang at the fifth level of foundation building, and Huang Shengyue at the fourth level of foundation building, were already very strong. Together with Huang Chengding at the seventh level of foundation building and Song Qingming who had just broken through to the second level of foundation building, it was more than enough to deal with two late-stage foundation-building monsters.

If nothing unexpected happens, the goal should be achieved. The only thing that worries Song Qingming is that Huang Shengxin, the head of the Huang family, seems to have just recovered from an injury when they first met. It is unknown whether it was the injury he suffered when he robbed the two monsters of spiritual medicine a year ago.

The group flew north for two days, passed through Pingyang County, and soon entered the Floating Cloud Mountains. Along the way, everyone took turns driving the flying boat without stopping. After five days of long journey, they finally arrived at the destination of this trip, a high mountain covered with various weeds.

Huang Shengxin and Huang Shengyue had been here once before and knew the location of the monsters on the mountain. In order not to alarm them first, the group, under the command of Huang Shengxin, put away the flying boat when they were more than ten miles away from the mountain and quietly approached the spiritual mountain on foot.

Along the way, the people on the flying boat had discussed the battle repeatedly, and finally decided to split into two groups. One group would approach quietly from the front as bait to lure out the two late-stage foundation building wolf monsters on the mountain first, and then the other group of cultivators would sneak into the mountain from the side while the second-level wolf monster was lured out, take the opportunity to get the pearl spirit medicine, and then go to join the rest of the people.

After deciding on the strategy, several people divided the work. Huang Shengxin and Huang Chengding, two late-stage foundation building masters, were responsible for luring the enemy, and the remaining three people, Huang Chengliang, Huang Shengyue and Song Qingming, took the opportunity to pick spirit medicine.

After Huang Shengxin and the other two set off, Song Qingming and others used the breath-holding technique, carefully controlled their spiritual energy, and lurked on the side and waited slowly.

Unexpectedly, after a while, Huang Shengxin and the other two flew back empty-handed, and there was no trace of the monster behind them.

"Strange! I don't know what happened on the mountain. We didn't see any monsters. The same happened where we encountered monsters last time."

"Could it be that someone has already got there first?" Hearing Huang Shengxin's words, everyone showed a hint of surprise.

Huang Shengxin shook his head and said, "It's hard to say. I didn't see too many signs of fighting. I don't know if this group of wolf monsters has migrated. Anyway, let Si Rui take us to the mountain to have a look. I don't know if the third-level spiritual medicine is still there."

Hearing this, the Qi-refining cultivator who first discovered the third-level spiritual medicine hiding behind everyone hurriedly stepped forward and nodded.

The group of six, led by the Qi-refining cultivator, soon came to a pool on the top of the mountain. Sure enough, here, everyone saw a half-foot-tall spiritual medicine emitting a hint of spiritual light. This was the third-level Tianmang flower that they wanted to get.

"We are so lucky. Those wolf demons didn't damage the pearl spirit medicine at all."

After Huang Shengxin carefully picked up the pearl spirit medicine, a strange voice suddenly rang out from the others.

"A few little guys, have you been wandering around outside for a long time just for this pearl spirit medicine?"