Chapter 523 Post-War Settlement

Seeing the head of Ma Hongshan in Jin Ziyuan's hand, the rest of the Xiaoyao Sect was also very happy.

The Ma family betrayed the sect. If the sect tried its best but still failed to kill Ma Hongshan, the culprit, and let him escape to Yue State smoothly, even if Xiaoyao Sect could kill many low-level cultivators under the Ma family, this time it would definitely greatly damage the reputation of the sect.

Although this battle failed to completely wipe out the entire Ma family, it still allowed Ma Qiudie and some Ma family cultivators to escape, but Xiaoyao Sect also made them pay a considerable price, which was enough to deter other immortal cultivation families in Wei State.

This war, which was caused by the rebellion of the Ma family and lasted for several days, finally came to an end at this moment.

Li Mufeng heard the results of the battle reported by Jin Ziyuan and Chen Xuanxin, and there was still a trace of satisfaction on his face. He took the initiative to praise Song Qingming and others who went to chase Ma Hongshan.

In addition to the Ma family monks who were killed, Xiaoyao Sect also seized a large flying boat from Jiuyuan Sect, which contained a lot of supplies that the Ma family was going to transport to Yue State, including many that they had just robbed from Tuoyun Mountain Market. These spiritual objects, together with the large flying boat, were worth nearly 100,000 spiritual stones.

Because Ma Hongshan had already handed over many precious things of the Ma family to Ma Qiudie in advance, although Song Qingming and others later found a storage bag on him, they did not find anything good except a few volumes of exercises, two magic weapons and some spiritual stones, which really disappointed everyone in Xiaoyao Sect.

After returning to Tiexian Fort, Li Mufeng took Song Qingming and many Xiaoyao Sect elders and immediately set off to return to Guyang Mountain, leaving the aftermath of Tiexian Fort to Chu Fengping, who was always good at communicating with others.

Now, the Ma family monks have all evacuated from Tiexian Fort, but there are still millions of ordinary mortals left here, as well as more than a dozen vassal immortal cultivation families near Tiexian Fort.

Xiaoyao Sect has never been careless about mortals, but without the protection of the Ma family, it may be difficult for them to live their free and easy lives again.

In order to prevent so many mortals from the Ma family from gathering together, which is not conducive to management, Chu Fengping also specially dispatched a large flying boat from the sect to transport some mortals to Guiyunfang and Gaoyun County in the south.

According to the rules of Xiaoyao Sect, even if these mortals from the Ma family will not be punished now, if there are cultivators with spiritual roots in the future, they will not be qualified to ascend to immortality for at least a hundred years, and can only be ordinary mortals for the rest of their lives.

As for the dozen or so foundation-building immortals under the Ma family, Xiaoyao Sect also dealt with them in batches according to their crimes. Several foundation-building immortals who followed the Ma family and were ready to defect and flee to Yue State were quickly liquidated by Xiaoyao Sect and their families were confiscated and exterminated, ending up in a worse fate than the Ma family.

There were some fence-sitters left who did not completely want to follow the Ma family all the way to the end. Xiaoyao Sect also understood that they were under the command of the Ma family and were forced to participate in the Ma family's judgment. For these immortal cultivation families, Chu Fengping still gave them some more relaxed policies at his discretion, only verbally warned them and confiscated many of the merit points of these immortal cultivation families in the sect's Good Merit Pavilion.

Facing Chu Fengping's interrogation, these vassal immortal cultivation families, regardless of whether they sincerely betrayed the sect with the Ma family or not, all cried out for injustice and accused each other, which immediately disrupted the interrogation rhythm of Xiaoyao Sect.

However, although Xiaoyao Sect has not interfered much in the affairs of Tiexian Fort in recent years, the Ma family has become increasingly disobedient in recent years, and has long attracted the attention of Xiaoyao Sect. Among the many immortal cultivation families under Tiexian Fort, several have long been secretly controlled by the sect and monitor the Ma family's every move for Xiaoyao Sect.

Through the several nails that the sect has secretly buried in Tiexian Fort for many years, Chu Fengping quickly dug out several immortal cultivation families headed by the Chen and Li families who deliberately confused the public, and let these Ma family's diehard immortal cultivation families get the punishment they deserve.

For these accomplices who assisted in the rebellion, although Xiaoyao Sect did not kill them like the Ma family cultivators, the days of these immortal cultivation families were not much better.

Like the Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain in the past, the leaders were basically executed directly, and the remaining low-level cultivators were directly sent to several mines controlled by Xiaoyao Sect and became mining slaves. Even the Yinfengling mine in Qinghe County received a lot of such cultivators at once this time.

Through this round of cleansing, the remaining forces of the Ma family in the entire Tiexian Fort have been completely eradicated. Xiaoyao Sect has regained control of the entire Tiexian Fort, and also controlled all the Ma family's markets and mines near Tiexian Fort.

Soon the news of the Ma family's betrayal of the sect spread throughout the entire Wei State. The Ma family, which had been glorious for more than 500 years in the northwest of Wei State, completely disappeared in the long river of Wei State's history in less than half a month.

After returning to Guyang Mountain, Li Mufeng immediately rewarded the many Jindan elders of Xiaoyao Sect who participated in the war. Including Song Qingming, everyone finally received a lot of rewards for the good deeds of the sect.

In addition, in order to compensate Song Qingming and Lu Boyang who were accidentally injured in this battle, Li Mufeng generously rewarded each of them with a third-level lower-grade spiritual talisman, which really surprised Song Qingming and he took the spiritual object with a happy face.

This time, during the battle of Tiexian Fort, Song Qingming killed the old man of the late foundation building stage of the Ma family outside the mountain protection formation. Not only did he get a valuable talisman "Green Leaf Three Star Ruler" from him, but he also found more than 3,000 spiritual stones and a lot of miscellaneous spiritual objects in the old man's storage bag.

Even without counting the value of the talisman, the other spiritual objects in the old man's storage bag alone are estimated to be nearly 10,000 spiritual stones. These spiritual objects were obtained by Song Qingming alone by killing enemy cultivators on the battlefield. After knowing this, Xiaoyao Sect did not say much and directly and generously rewarded these spiritual objects to Song Qingming.

After Li Mufeng finished rewarding the merits, Yao Qianshu on the side asked cautiously: "Uncle Li, this time because of the obstruction of Jiuyuan Sect, we did not do our best to completely eradicate the Ma family, and there are still some hidden dangers for the sect. Now we have a grudge with Jiuyuan Sect in the west. Should we be more cautious about Tiexianbao in the future?"

Li Mufeng smiled and shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter. Ma Hongshan is dead, Wang Ziheng is seriously injured, and Jiuyuan Sect has lost two Jindan fighters at once. Now they have no strength to compete with us. They dare not easily cross the Skylark Mountains. Feng Ping is there.

Jiuyuan Sect has intervened in my defense of the country this time, and I have already put it on record. Sooner or later, we will have to settle this account with Jiuyuan Sect."

After the battle with Jiuyuan Sect, although Li Mufeng was very angry, he still kept his reason at all times and did not lead Song Qingming and others to rush into the territory of Yue State to continue to fight with Jiuyuan Sect.

However, because the Jiuyuan Sect intervened in the affairs of the Weiguo Ma family, the two sects have now completely broken up. If there is a chance next time, Li Mufeng will definitely find a way to deal with them.

"Now that Feng Yangde is dead in Tuoyun Mountain, the independent cultivators on the mountain are leaderless, and even the formation has not been repaired yet. Should we send a suitable person to take over Tuoyun Mountain?"

"Don't be so anxious about this matter for the time being. Those independent cultivators are used to freedom. It is difficult to make them submit to the sect so quickly. Let's not intervene in the spiritual vein of Tuoyun Mountain for now. Send a few more second-level formation masters, and let Chen Jinliang's two disciples go back and take a look first." Li Mufeng sighed.

After staying in Guyang Mountain for a few days, Song Qingming also bid farewell to the Xiaoyao Sect and returned to Qinghe County alone.

After learning that Xiaoyao Sect was going to attack Tiexian Fort, Xiaoyao Sect immediately mobilized the entire Weiguo force and prepared to fight to the death with Jiuyuan Sect and Tiexian Fort. The Song family, far away in Qinghe County, also received the conscription order issued by the general affairs hall of the sect and began to get busy.

However, before they could mobilize the cultivators to set off, the news that Song Qingming and other high-level cultivators of Xiaoyao Sect broke through Tiexian Fort and wiped out the Ma family soon spread to Funiu Mountain, interrupting the busy figures of Song Qingyu and others.

Seeing Song Qingming return to Funiu Mountain from a distance, Song Qingyu and other elders of the Song family also immediately came to greet him and expressed their concern.

Including Song Qingyu, they received a letter from Xiaoyao Sect two days ago, in which they learned that Song Qingming was injured in the battle of Tiexian Fort, and everyone in the Song family was a little panicked.

Song Qingming has always been the biggest pillar of the entire Song family. If something happens to Song Qingming, the Song family, which has just risen, may fall back immediately.

Seeing everyone's concern for him, Song Qingming smiled helplessly and explained that this time in Tiexian Fort, although Song Qingming's life magic weapon was severely damaged and could no longer be used, his injury this time was not serious. He just lost some blood in his body. Song Qingming just needs to practice patiently and warm up for a while.

After learning about Song Qingming's situation, Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan were relieved.

After returning to Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming immediately began to retreat and heal his injuries. His life magic weapon was damaged, and even the corpse puppet "Golden Wind" was seriously injured. Although Song Qingming gained a lot of spiritual objects and good deeds in the battle of Tiexian Fort, he also paid some prices.

Song Qingming had just been in seclusion for less than two months to heal his wounds when two unfamiliar guests suddenly arrived at Funiushan, forcing Song Qingming to leave seclusion early.

"Senior Song, we two have an urgent matter and need your help. We hope you can forgive us for our impoliteness." Zhang Rong and Lin Yutang hurriedly stood up and saluted Song Qingming as soon as they saw him come in.