Chapter 472 First Confrontation

Under the comfort and encouragement of Song Qingming and others, many foundation-building cultivators present gradually became more confident. Although this monster riot was extremely dangerous to the human race, it also brought many opportunities to quickly earn spirit stones.

In the past, after each monster riot, many cultivators would be able to earn a large amount of cultivation resources. Some used these cultivation resources to break through the realm and increase their strength, and some would be able to soar into the sky and successfully build their foundation soon. These crises were also full of opportunities.

In addition to the cultivators from Qinghe County who had come to support, there are now almost 1,500 cultivators in Jinshanfang. The number of cultivators has even exceeded the battle when the human cultivators counterattacked Jinshanfang that year, but there are still relatively few foundation-building cultivators, only more than 20 people.

Among these cultivators, several major foundation-building families in Pingyang County accounted for the majority. They came with a total of 11 foundation-building cultivators and 800 Qi-refining cultivators. There were also six foundation-building cultivators and more than 200 Qi-refining disciples in Xiaoyao Sect, who were sent to Jinshanfang to assist in defense.

A total of six foundation-building cultivators came from Qinghe County. In addition to Song Yuanfang, who had just built his foundation, Song Qingyu, Song Yuanli, and Huang Siyuan from the Song family had already come to Jinshanfang. Huang Shengyue and Huang Mengde came from the Huang family, and Lu Xingde was the only one from the Lu family. The three families of Song, Huang, and Lu brought more than 400 Qi-refining cultivators.

The rest were the scattered cultivators recruited by Jinshanfang in recent years. In addition to the two foundation-building scattered cultivators, Jinshanfang also recruited nearly 300 scattered cultivators in the Qi-refining stage. Although this force seemed weaker, it was also a force that Song Qingming and his team had spent several years to gather.

In order to boost the morale of the cultivators, Song Qingming not only comforted them verbally, but also took out some spiritual objects on the spot and distributed them to all the cultivators who were about to participate in the battle.

Although they were only some low-level talismans and elixirs of low value, the total cost for so many cultivators was also a considerable sum. Song Qingming himself was of course reluctant to spend such spiritual stones, and all these expenses were counted in the treasury of the entire Jinshanfang.

In order to prevent the turmoil of monsters, Song Qingming went to Jinshanfang early to take charge. In the past few years, Xiaoyao Sect directly handed over all the rights to manage Jinshanfang to Song Qingming, including some spiritual objects and nearly 10,000 spiritual stones left in the treasury in the market.

After Song Qingming arrived at Jinshanfang, all the expenses for recruiting these casual cultivators in the past few years were also paid from here. Although the seven major foundation-building families in Pingyang County also had some shares in the treasury of Jinshanfang, they did not dare to offend Song Qingming, the Golden Core Ancestor, for these spiritual stones.

Two days later, just as the cultivators of Jinshanfang were ready to fight a big battle with monsters, the vanguard troops of the monsters finally arrived outside Jinshanfang.

Among the hundreds of monsters that arrived first, there were not many high-level monsters. Only the three leading monsters were level 2 monsters. The others were a mess of level 1 monsters, about two or three hundred in number.

Seeing that there were only three level 2 monsters in the first batch of monsters from outside the market, before the monster army approached the market mountain protection formation, Cao Rongxue and Song Qingyu, who had been prepared for a long time, suddenly led four foundation-building monks and more than 500 Qi-refining monks to rush out of the market from both sides and directly attacked the monster army.

Facing the monster attack, the reason why Jinshanfang chose to take the initiative was to save some spirit stones for operating the mountain protection formation, and also because the frontal attack to repel the monsters could greatly increase the morale of the human race, letting everyone know that these monster armies that seemed to rush through with great momentum were not so terrible.

Unlike high-level cultivators like Song Qingming, almost all of the cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage who participated in the battle in the market had never seen such a large battle between hundreds of cultivators and monsters. Faced with such a large army of monsters rushing straight at them, these young cultivators who had never seen much of the world would easily collapse and retreat.

However, in this situation, as long as they have experienced a little battle, they can basically get used to such a big scene. The same was true when Song Qingming participated in the monster turmoil. After experiencing the Huoyun Mountain War, he soon got used to it. This wave of hundreds of monsters in front of them is the best opponent for the human race to hone.

Therefore, in order to fight this first battle well, Song Qingming also deliberately sent out a much stronger force than the monster vanguard army in front of him. Not only was the number of cultivators fighting twice that of the monsters, but six foundation-building cultivators were also sent out at once, including late-stage foundation-building strongmen such as Cao Rongxue and Song Qingyu. From the perspective of strength alone, the human cultivators have an overwhelming advantage over these monsters.

In addition to Song Qingyu and others who had already fought their way out of the market, Song Yuanli had also brought hundreds of law enforcement monks to the outside of Jinshan Market.

These people did not directly participate in the attack on the monsters, but only blocked the front of the market, staring intently at the fierce battle in front.

These law enforcement monks were elite monks selected by Song Yuanli from the disciples of the Song family and Xiaoyao Sect, as well as several major foundation-building families in Pingyang County in the past two years. They were all people who had fought monsters for many years and had rich combat experience.

In addition to monitoring the battlefield to prevent those monks who dare to retreat before the battle, the law enforcement monks also need to monitor the performance of each monk in this battle on the battlefield, which will be used to evaluate the merits and demerits of each monk who participated in the battle after the battle. In addition, they need to urgently treat some injured monks who retreated from the battlefield to minimize the death of their own monks after the battle.

Song Qingyu and Cao Rongxue were both masters in the late stage of foundation building. They soon faced two second-level monsters in the front of the monster army. These two monsters were only second-level lower-grade. Facing two late-stage foundation building monks, they quickly fell into a disadvantage before fighting for a few rounds.

Cao Rongxue had a higher cultivation level and was still more skilled. After several rounds of fighting with her opponent, she soon found an opportunity to cast a spell with both hands, releasing a fast-growing green vine to firmly trap the opponent.

Then Cao Rongxue quickly raised the top-grade flying sword in her hand and cut off the opponent's huge head from the air to the ground with one sword.

Song Qingyu was facing a second-level inferior pig demon. Although she was restrained by the opponent due to the attributes of her skills, she was a little slower than Cao Rongxue, but she did not let her opponent go.

After controlling the Bishui Bell in front of her to block the monster's counterattack before death, the two blue flying swords in Song Qingyu's hands quickly penetrated the opponent's fatal parts and ended the duel.

After Song Qingming formed the elixir, the second-level magic weapons he originally had on him were no longer of much use to him now. Basically, he took them out and distributed them to other foundation-building cultivators in the Song family. Among them, the best quality magic weapon on him, the Bishui Bell, fell into Song Qingyu's hands.

The Bishui Bell is a water-attributed magic weapon, and it is very suitable for Song Qingyu's practice. The power it can exert will be a few points greater when it is handed over to her.

As for the two blue flying swords in Song Qingyu's hand, this is also a pair of second-level top-grade water-attributed male and female swords. Song Qingming happened to see this magic weapon in the Good Merit Pavilion of Xiaoyao Sect a few years ago. At that time, he thought that this thing was very suitable for Song Qingyu to use, so he used his good merit to replace it and gave it to Song Qingyu.

With these two top-grade magic weapons in hand, Song Qingyu, although her cultivation level is only the eighth level of foundation building, her current fighting ability is no less than that of veteran ninth-level foundation building cultivators such as Cao Rongxue.

The last second-level middle-grade fire bull was besieged by two foundation building cultivators from Jinshanfang. Seeing that the situation was not good, it quickly took the initiative to abandon these low-level monsters below and fled north alone.

Because Song Qingming issued a strict order before the war, not to pursue these high-level monsters without authorization, after the two foundation building cultivators chased for several miles, they could only retreat empty-handed with regret when they saw that they could not stop the other party.

The leading second-level monsters above died or fled, which soon made the first-level monsters below confused. The Jinshanfang monks had more people, and they had the upper hand with the support of the foundation-building monks. Without the deterrence of the second-level monsters, these low-level monsters quickly turned around and began to flee north.

Seeing that the monsters had begun to gradually collapse, the Jinshanfang monks were immediately motivated and began to chase the monsters that wanted to escape. They chased them for more than ten miles before stopping the pursuit under the order of the foundation-building monks above.

After a great battle, the entire battlefield was filled with all kinds of bloody smells. After the battle, looking at the monster corpses everywhere, the monks who participated in the battle and survived were also very excited.

Standing above the city gate of Fangshi, Song Qingming, who had watched the entire battle, was very satisfied with the performance of the monks of Jinshanfang in this battle.

Except for the corpses of monsters far away from the battlefield, which belonged to the people who killed them, Song Yuanli had led the monks of the law enforcement team to start processing the monster materials on the main battlefield in front of Jinshanfang.

After the news of the victory in the first battle came back, it quickly boosted the morale of all the monks in Jinshanfang. Seeing the piles of monster materials brought into the Fangshi by the law enforcement team, the monks who had not yet participated in the battle began to feel a little disappointed, and only regretted that they were not selected to participate in this battle.

However, the result of the battle just now, although the human monks of Jinshanfang won a great victory, this battle between humans and monsters was also very cruel.

Although this battle achieved the brilliant result of killing nearly a hundred monsters, including two level 2 monsters, more than 30 monks on the Jinshanfang side were accidentally injured in the battle, and seven or eight unfortunate people left their lives on the battlefield just now.

Some people were busy celebrating and receiving their recent military achievements, while others were weeping and mourning their recently deceased relatives. The war in the world of immortal cultivation was so cruel.

Song Qingming and those high-level cultivators above the foundation building stage knew very well that what was happening was just the beginning. When the real army of monsters arrived, the battle in Jinshanfang would be even more cruel than it was now.