Chapter 284 Heavy Losses

The reason why Song Qingyu returned to Qinghefang just now was because she was seriously injured before and was poisoned by Chen Zicong's black python. It was difficult for her to fly with a sword for a while. She later relied on her legs to perform the lowest level of light body skills to rush back to the market.

Seeing that Song Qingyu was already covered in wounds and poisoned, Song Qingming quickly took out a few high-level healing pills and handed them to her, asking her to recover from her injuries first.

With the help of Song Qingming, Song Qingyu quickly returned to her cave and began to retreat to slowly refine the pills she had taken. It was not until half a day later that her face regained some rosy color.

Seeing that Song Qingyu was fine for the time being, Song Qingming was completely relieved and slowly asked her:

"Qingyu, tell me what happened after you rushed out of the market."

"I didn't know what happened at the beginning of yesterday. I was still in seclusion at that time. Suddenly, I heard the sound of the market formation being destroyed, so I hurried out of the cave."

After Song Qingyu's slow narration, Song Qingming knew what kind of danger she encountered and how she escaped from it. What he didn't expect was that the person who saved Song Qingyu in the end was Gao Yubai, who had some grudges with him.

Knowing the answer, Song Qingming couldn't help but smile bitterly. For a moment, he didn't know what to say when he saw Gao Yubai next time.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yubai didn't take the opportunity to attack Song Qingyu. He was arrogant and looked down on others, but at the critical moment, he could distinguish right from wrong. It was a great fortune for the Gao family to have such a person to take over in the future.

After taking back Qinghefang, under the unified command of Lu Yuanfeng, each family quickly counted their losses and prepared to resume daily operations, and counted the meritorious officials for future rewards.

For several days in a row, dozens of immortal cultivation families, big and small, in Qinghe County, including the four major foundation-building families, almost all had a layer of haze on their faces.

After the market formation was broken this time, although it took less than half an incense stick of time, in that short period of time, the entire Qinghefang was almost taken away by those bandit cultivators with various spiritual objects worth nearly ten thousand spiritual stones.

There were also several thousand spiritual stones in the storage bags of the cultivators who died in their hands. However, because their storage bags were taken away by the bandits, the exact number was unknown and could not be counted.

Regardless of the loss of spiritual objects, many cultivators and hundreds of mortals living in the market also died in this war.

Mortals were not a big deal, but the loss of these cultivators was a very painful thing for every immortal cultivation family. Not only the immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County, but also many disciples under Lu Yuanfeng died in this turmoil. Even his favorite third disciple Hu Maocai, after rushing out of the market with Song Qingyu, was unfortunately targeted by several robbers with high cultivation. In the end, he still failed to escape and died in a pool not far from the market. He was not even left with a complete body.

The Song family also suffered heavy losses this time. Three of the cultivators who followed Uncle Thirteen Song Changxiong into the Qinghefang Law Enforcement Team died on the spot. Even Uncle Four Song Changqiu, who managed the family shop, was killed by the bandit cultivator in the final battle.

Looking at Aunt Four's family lying on Uncle Four's body in grief, Song Qingming was also very sad. Uncle Four had no heart for Taoism in his life. He gave up cultivation early and came to Qinghefang. After getting married, he just wanted his family to live the rest of their lives in peace. Unexpectedly, he encountered this sudden disaster and died tragically here.

In addition to the four dead, most of the remaining cultivators of the Song family were also injured. Sister Two Song Qingwan was injured in the meridians when fighting with the enemy. Although she had taken healing pills and would not be in danger of life, it would take a long time to recover. It is estimated that she will not be able to make pills in the next few years.

The family had just been developing steadily for a period of time after the monster riots, but they didn't expect to encounter another disaster so soon. Song Qingming didn't care too much about the loss of spiritual objects. The more valuable spiritual objects in the store were all taken by Song Qingyu in advance. The losses were all low-level spiritual objects, which added up to only one or two hundred spiritual stones.

What made Song Qingming most distressed was the loss of cultivators. Compared with other foundation-building families, the Song family was short of people. The loss of so many lives here was enough to give Song Qingming, the head of the family, a headache.

For example, the Huang family had more than 200 Qi-refining cultivators. The loss of a few cultivators would basically have no impact on their family, but the Song family had only a few dozen people in total, and they lost nearly one-tenth of the cultivators at once. How could Song Qingming not feel distressed?

Fortunately, although Song Qingyu, who he cared about the most, was also injured, she didn't have a big problem. After a short rest, when Song Qingyu used her own magic power to force out the poison in her body, she should be able to recover.

While Song Qingyu was still recovering from his injuries, Lu Yuanfeng suddenly came here again, and happened to run into Song Qingming who was protecting Song Qingyu in seclusion.

"Brother Lu, Qingyu's injuries are quite serious this time, and he will probably need some time in seclusion. If there is anything convenient, you can also tell me directly."

Hearing that Song Qingyu was in seclusion, Lu Yuanfeng was not too surprised. He said to Song Qingming with a heavy face: "This time the market was breached, and the incident was a bit strange. After investigating for a few days, I found some strange places. I was just about to come over to ask and verify with Daoist Fellow Qingyu."

After learning the purpose of Lu Yuanfeng's visit, Song Qingming was also a little surprised, and asked casually: "Did you find the traitor?"

"I haven't told anyone about the traitor yet, how did you guess it, brother?" Lu Yuanfeng asked with a shocked face.

"A few days ago, I heard from the law enforcement team at home that on the night of the incident, they encountered several groups of strange cultivators who sneaked into the market to cause trouble. From what happened later, they should be bandits who sneaked in in advance and deliberately mixed into the market to destroy the most important mountain protection formation among the guards of the market.

In addition, they chose that day on purpose. Except for Gao Yubai, we were all tied up in Taiyuan Mountain. I think they didn't just happen to know that we were not there. They had calculated the time in advance. It was difficult for us to rush back to support before breaking through the market."

Song Qingming smiled and told Lu Yuanfeng all the doubts and guesses he had thought of these days.

Lu Yuanfeng nodded and said with a heavy face: "You are right. I have found some clues here and found several suspicious people. It should not take long for you to know who the traitor is."

"In that case, I will wait and see here."