Chapter 251 Operation Failed
Yingchao Ridge is located in a deep mountain connecting the northeast of Wei State and the east of Zheng State. This place belongs to the vacuum of power between the two countries, and it is adjacent to the Yunwu Mountain with a relatively harsh environment. It has always been uninhabited.
Because of this, Yingchao Ridge is somewhat similar to Bailong Mountain. Many desperate casual cultivators and those robbers who rob and loot gather here to avoid being wanted by the cultivators of the two countries.
A few decades ago, a casual cultivator named Cheng Yilong offended a foundation-building immortal in Zheng State and fled to Yingchao Ridge.
This person was originally just an unknown little Qi-refining casual cultivator in Zheng State. Unexpectedly, after he fled to Yingchao Ridge, his luck began to turn. I don’t know where he got the opportunity and he succeeded in building his foundation.
After Cheng Yilong established his foundation, he quickly recruited all the vicious criminals near Yingchao Ridge. He also welcomed all those who came to him, which gradually strengthened the strength of Yingchao Ridge and turned it into a big scourge in the northeast of Wei State.
These bandits often sneaked into Jiangling County of Wei State to do some murders and robberies. Not only Qinghefang, but also Jinshanfang in Pingyang County, Jianglingfang in Jiangling County and other nearby markets were also deeply affected.
The bandits in Yingchao Ridge that Song Qingming met near Lingyuan Mountain in the past harmed many cultivators near Qinghefang.
At first, these people just colluded with some greedy people in Qinghefang to attack those casual cultivators with no background. Lu Yuanfeng, Huang's family and other major foundation-building families did not pay much attention to this matter.
Later, these people became more and more daring and even killed a cultivator from the Huang family. This angered several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County. Under the leadership of the Huang family, Qinghefang conducted a thorough investigation and finally found several troublemakers who colluded with Yingchao Ridge. Unfortunately, the robbers from Yingchao Ridge ran away in advance when they saw the situation was not good, so they did not catch any of them. Since then, Qinghe County has finally been quiet for a while.
A few years later, people from Yingchao Ridge killed several cultivators from Jinshanfang in Pingyang County. Several major families in Pingyang County united and sent many cultivators under the leadership of the Cao family to attack.
As a result, because Yingchao Ridge was well-informed, Cheng Yilong knew about this matter long before the cultivators from Pingyang County set out. Seeing that the other party was powerful, Cheng Yilong decisively gave up Lingshan and hid in Yunwu Mountain with his subordinates, leaving the cultivators from Pingyang County empty-handed.
After the monks from Pingyang County left, these people returned to Yingchao Ridge under the leadership of Cheng Yilong and continued to cause trouble.
This time, Lu Yuanfeng made such an arrangement, traveling light and bringing as few monks as possible, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of Yingchao Ridge on the road, and kill them when they were not prepared. According to his idea, as long as things go smoothly, there is a great possibility of eliminating this disaster.
After the agreement here, several major families began to go back and make preparations.
The Song family does not have many late-stage Qi training monks now, including Shi Chun who joined the Song family not long ago, there are only eight people in total.
Qingming could only summon all the late-stage Qi training monks in the clan except for his sixth uncle Song Changfeng and second sister Song Qingwan, and recruited a few people from several subordinate Qi training families, and then barely gathered ten people.
Three days later, on a small spiritual vein in the north of Qinghefang, Lu Yuanfeng led the dozens of people who gathered here and went directly north under the cover of night.
In addition to the five foundation-building cultivators who attended the meeting that day, there were more than 50 late-stage Qi-refining cultivators from various families.
It was a pity that the two late-stage foundation-building cultivators with the highest cultivation in Qinghe County, Huang Shengxin and Gao Jinhe, were unable to come this time.
Huang Shengxin happened to leave Qinghe County for Xiaoyao Sect more than half a month ago, and it was not known when he would return.
Gao Jinhe of the Gao family went into seclusion after returning from the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm last time. In recent years, he has been out of character and has not shown up. In recent years, Gao Yubai has been the one in charge of the Gao family.
According to the Huang family's speculation, Gao Jinhe's seclusion should be to heal his injuries. It seems that he was seriously injured and has not yet fully recovered.
Now that most of the foundation-building cultivators in Qinghe County have left, in order to ensure the safety of Qinghefang, Lu Yuanfeng specially called back his eldest disciple Yuan Wencai, who had already established his foundation, to guard Qinghefang for him for a period of time.
This time, several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County were united and quickly headed for Eagle Nest Ridge in the northeast of Qinghe County.
Everyone traveled light and carefully along the way. After more than ten days of urgent travel, they finally arrived near Eagle Nest Ridge within the scheduled time.
Just when everyone was ready to fight, Lu Xingde, who was responsible for reconnaissance in advance, brought them a shocking news. Eagle Nest Ridge was silent, as if there were no people there.
Lu Yuanfeng, who learned of the news, turned pale and quickly led everyone to Eagle Nest Ridge.
As Lu Xingde guessed, Eagle Nest Ridge was already in a mess at this time. Cheng Yilong, the cunning fox, seemed to have left here a few days in advance.
Faced with this situation, everyone in Qinghe County changed their faces. This time they were so cautious, but they didn't expect that the news was leaked, resulting in everyone's empty-handedness.
The leading foundation-building monks looked at each other, and it seemed that each of them had a target of suspicion in their hearts, but they had no actual evidence and could not speak out directly.
"It may not be that our own people leaked the secret. It may also be that the people from Eagle Nest Ridge bumped into us somewhere and guessed the purpose of our trip." Lu Yuanfeng, who was responsible for organizing everyone to come here, saw that the atmosphere on the scene was a bit awkward, and hurriedly came out with a wry smile to make peace.
Among the people at the scene, Lu Yuanfeng was the oldest and had the highest cultivation. In addition, he was a monk from Xiaoyao Sect. Since he had spoken, everyone must give him this face, and nodded and agreed with his statement.
Seeing that Eagle Nest Ridge had been prepared, the failure of this operation was already a done deal. Although everyone was very reluctant, they could only accept this fact.
Unable to find the robbers of Eagle Nest Ridge, the people who had nowhere to vent their anger could only make a big fuss on this sacred mountain and leave.
After everyone from Qinghe County left, a figure wrapped in black suddenly appeared on a low hill next to Yingchao Ridge.
The man in black carefully looked around and saw that there were no more people nearby, so he left the place stealthily.
Half an hour later, the man in black came to a cave a hundred miles away from Yingchao Ridge. More than a hundred bandit cultivators from Yingchao Ridge had gathered here.