Chapter 599: Retreat and Practice, Chiyan Mountain (Combined Chapter)

After nearly 20 years of development, Tuoyun Mountain has recovered from the Ma family rebellion and is even more prosperous than Fengdeyang at that time.

The Tuoyun Mountain Market has been doing better and better in recent years, and has already recovered its costs. It can also bring a lot of spiritual stones to the three parties operating the market every year.

Among them, Xiaoyao Sect, which has the most shares in the market, is naturally the one that earns the most. They can earn nearly 10,000 spiritual stones from many Tuoyun Mountain casual cultivators almost every year.

On Tuoyun Mountain now, Jinyun Pavilion Lin Yutang and others are responsible for managing the entire spiritual mountain and many casual cultivators on the mountain. Xiaoyao Sect firmly controls the management and control of Tuoyun Mountain Market, while the Song family provides shelter for this spiritual mountain and then takes a small part of the benefits.

At present, the cooperation between the three parties has reached the point where Xiaoyao Sect is obviously the one that benefits the most. They did not spend much effort here and got the benefits they wanted most.

Although Lin Yutang and his people from Jinyun Pavilion gave up most of the benefits of the market, they still had control over the spiritual veins of Tuoyun Mountain.

In addition, Song Qingming, the Jindan ancestor, was in charge, and Xiaoyao Sect was there to support them.

Although the lives of the two brothers are not as prosperous as before, they are still living a stable and comfortable life, and there is not much to worry about in the short term.

Although the Song family also gained some benefits from the Tuoyun Mountain market, Song Qingming, a Jindan cultivator, had to stay in Tuoyun Mountain most of the time to help guard this gateway to the northwest of Weiguo. The cost was not high compared to the benefits.

Fortunately, in recent years, since Song Qingming taught the Yunhe Demon King a lesson twice, Tuoyun Mountain has been relatively peaceful and Song Qingming has not worried much. Most of the time he has been here, he has basically been practicing in seclusion.

Otherwise, if there were high-level monsters coming to harass every few days, Song Qingming would probably have been overwhelmed and left the things here and returned to Qinghe County.

Zhang Tieyang came to Weiguo this time, but it was actually a bit of a bad time. Now that the monster turmoil had just ended, Tuoyun Mountain was relatively peaceful.

Moreover, the business of Tuoyun Mountain Market was getting better and better, and all kinds of benefits had already been distributed. If a foreign Jindan cultivator suddenly took over Tuoyun Mountain, it would definitely break the current balance, which was what Xiaoyao Sect did not want to see.

Whether it was Xiaoyao Sect or Lin Yutang of Tuoyun Mountain, they were not in a hurry to need a powerful Jindan cultivator to help guard the spiritual vein of Tuoyun Mountain all year round. It was enough to have Song Qingming to take care of it.

If a few decades later, when the pressure from the monsters in the north was getting greater and greater, and everyone needed help, Zhang Tieyang would definitely not object as long as he spoke.

However, generally speaking, people who can cultivate to the Jindan realm are not fools. If the monster turmoil is about to go south, it is basically impossible for anyone to choose to come to Weiguo to wade into this muddy water.

Even for Jindan cultivators, it is difficult to ensure their own safety in a war like the monster riot. If there is no sufficiently attractive benefit, no one will be willing to risk their own death to help Xiaoyao Sect deal with the monster riot.

Although a third-level lower-grade spiritual vein is indeed very important to Jindan cultivators, it is not worth them taking such a risk.

It is easy to share wealth, but it is always more difficult to share adversity.

After knowing the news that Xiaoyao Sect rejected Zhang Tieyang, Song Qingming, who was in Funiu Mountain, was a little surprised, but he could only sigh for Zhang Tieyang.

"Daoyou Zhang and I have only known each other for a short time, and we don't have much to do with each other. You don't need to worry so much. Since it is the sect's intention, I will not have any objection. You just need to do your own thing.

Next, I will be in seclusion for a while. If there is any urgent matter down the mountain, just send a letter to inform me as before."

"Please rest assured, senior, I know what to do." Seeing that Song Qingming was smiling and had no intention of pursuing the matter, Lin Yutang breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in response to Song Qingming.

After sending Lin Yutang and the others away, Song Qingming stayed outside the cave and watched the setting sun outside for a while.

After the sun set in the west, Song Qingming was reluctant to leave and slowly walked back to his cave, opened the ban at the door, and prepared to start seclusion and practice.

Spring went and autumn came, and six years passed quickly.

One day, in the northwest corner of Qinghe County, in Yunwu Mountain, two sword lights suddenly flew in and stopped on a high mountain.

One of the handsome men in green clothes pointed to a place not far in front of the two men with a smile on his face, and said to another man beside him:

"Uncle Sixteen, what do you think of this place? I have already checked the surroundings last time I came here. Except for a second-level middle-grade fire-scaled leopard on this mountain, there are no other second-level monsters within a hundred miles.

Although this spiritual vein is only second-level lower-grade, it is less than a thousand miles away from the Huang family's Chifeng Ridge and the Zhao family's Luoyun Mountain in Pingyang County. I feel that the location is more in line with your requirements."

Song Yuanfang looked at the other mountain pointed by Song Changze, nodded after a moment and said: "Well! Changze, your vision is not bad this time. This place is indeed suitable for building a market in all aspects.

Although the spiritual vein is a little low, it is not a big deal. I will find a way to improve it later.

I will discuss it with others after I go back. If no one has any objections, we will immediately organize people to come and flatten this place."

After talking for a few more words, Song Yuanfang and Song Changze quickly turned into two sword lights and left the place directly.

A few days later, under the leadership of Song Yuanfang, a large army of more than 100 cultivators came to the foot of this mountain again.

The large army of cultivators brought by Song Yuanfang was composed of cultivators from the Song family and some nearby immortal cultivation families under the Song family. Their cultivation was basically above the sixth level of Qi Refining, and their combat ability was very good.

In addition to the more than 100 Qi Refining cultivators, there were also five foundation-building cultivators, Song Yuanfang, Song Changze, Song Yuanli, Liu Yuxin, and Wang Huaqing.

Among the five people who came, Song Yuanli had the highest cultivation level. He had already cultivated to the peak of the sixth level of foundation-building. He could break through to the late stage of foundation-building at any time. He was already the strongest among the cultivators in the middle stage of foundation-building.

The second was Song Yuanfang, who had been building foundation for more than 40 years. He had just broken through to the fourth level of foundation-building two years ago. Although his cultivation speed was not very fast, he could barely surpass about half of the foundation-building cultivators in the Weiguo cultivation world.

Except for the two cultivators in the middle stage of foundation-building, the cultivation levels of the other three were still in the early stage of foundation-building. Among them, Song Changze and Liu Yuxin had only broken through to the third level of foundation-building in the past few years.

The remaining Wang Huaqing had only the second level of foundation-building. He was not a foundation-building cultivator invited by the Song family from outside, but the one from the Fengtou Mountain Wang family who successfully built his foundation after exchanging for foundation-building pills from Song Qingming more than ten years ago.

This time, Song Yuanfang and his team led so many cultivators to flatten the relatively flat second-level spiritual vein in front of them, which was occupied by a second-level middle-grade demon beast.

After taking over this spiritual vein, the Song family planned to build a market here that connects Qinghe and Pingyang counties and can go deep into Yunwu Mountain.

Since the Song family was promoted to the Jindan Immortal Clan, with more and more cultivators in Qinghe and Pingyang, even the expanded Qinghefang has gradually become a bit crowded.

The increasing number of cultivators in Qinghe County has also allowed the Song family to see some business opportunities. Therefore, after some discussions within the family, the Song family decided to rebuild a market near the middle of Pingyang County.

The Song family now has the control and management rights of the territories of Qinghe and Pingyang counties. If they want to build a new market in their own territory, Xiaoyao Sect will naturally not interfere.

Except for the several market towns and some mineral industries that were originally controlled and operated by Xiaoyao Sect before the Song family was promoted to a Jindan family, Xiaoyao Sect has basically not intervened in anything in the Song family's territory in recent years.

This is also a tacit understanding that has been reached between the two sides for decades.

Although building a new market town in their own territory does not require notifying Xiaoyao Sect, this move will more or less affect the business of Qinghefang, which is the closest.

For this reason, Song Yuanfang, who is more cautious, wrote a letter to the General Affairs Hall of Xiaoyao Sect before this, directly explaining the matter and asking for their opinions.

The General Affairs Hall of Xiaoyao Sect did not care too much about the Song family's idea of ​​building a new market town in the northeast of Qinghe County, and quickly gave a reply, agreeing to their idea of ​​building a market town.

Compared with large market towns such as Tuoyunshan Market Town, Qinghefang is located in the territory of Weiguo, which is only a small market town among the nearly 100 market towns controlled by Xiaoyao Sect, and the income it can create for the sect every year is very limited.

Even if the business of Qinghefang is affected a little, it is just a drop in the bucket for the entire sect. They are more concerned about several large-scale markets such as Guiyunfang, Tuoyunshan, and Yangshanfang.

After resting for a while, Song Yuanfang loudly announced the mission to everyone and assigned their respective responsibilities on the spot.

With Song Yuanfang's order, the five foundation-building monks present immediately set off with a team of Qi-refining monks, divided into five different directions, and killed the mountain in front of them.

There are not many monsters on this spiritual vein, only one medium-grade second-level monster with average strength, and dozens of ordinary small monsters in the Qi-refining period.

Song Yuanfang and his team came this time with five foundation-building monks and hundreds of Qi-refining masters. Everyone has long been determined to win this battle, and everyone's face showed a bit of excitement.

A sword light flew to the top of the mountain, and Song Yuanli, who rushed the fastest, soon found the second-level "Fire Scale Leopard" hiding in a place on the mountain.

Upon seeing human cultivators running to the sacred mountain where it was entrenched, the "Fire Scale Leopard" immediately roared and rushed towards Song Yuanli. When the two sides met, they immediately sparked some flames.

Seeing the fire scale leopard that was about to kill him, Song Yuanli showed a slight contemptuous smile at the corner of his mouth. With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, a second-level flying sword immediately appeared and he rushed towards the opponent.

Although this fire scale leopard was also a second-level middle-grade monster, its cultivation strength was still much worse than that of Song Yuanli, who was already a master of the middle stage of foundation building. After fighting for only a moment, it soon fell into a disadvantage.

Several foundation building cultivators who were searching for monsters in other directions heard the fighting noise at the position where Song Yuanli was on the side of the mountain, and hurriedly set up their flying swords and approached him.

This second-level middle-grade "fire scale leopard" was already unable to resist Song Yuanli's attack. When he saw two more foundation building cultivators approaching quickly not far away, he immediately felt something was wrong, and hurriedly left Song Yuanli behind and turned around to slip away directly.

However, the people of the Song family had obviously been prepared before attacking here.

Seeing that the "Fire Scale Leopard" wanted to flee northeast to the depths of Yunwu Mountain, Song Yuanli, who was following behind it, did not show any sign of anxiety on his face.

Before the "Fire Scale Leopard" could escape far, another blue sword light appeared in front of it, blocking its way. It was Liu Yuxin who had been preparing here for a long time.

Seeing that Liu Yuxin, who was blocking in front of him, was only at the third level of foundation building, the "Fire Scale Leopard" did not take her seriously at first. After spitting out a ball of flames at Liu Yuxin, he wanted to bypass her and escape quickly.

However, just as the "Fire Scale Leopard" passed Liu Yuxin and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a silver ring suddenly appeared in the air in front of him, and then quickly grew several times larger and stuck directly on the "Fire Scale Leopard".

The one who operated this silver ring magic weapon was Liu Yuxin who had just avoided the attack of the "Fire Scale Leopard".

Seeing the "Fire Scale Leopard" struggling in mid-air after being trapped by his magic weapon not far away, Liu Yuxin's face lit up, and the magic power in his hand was strengthened a little bit, and soon the "Fire Scale Leopard" could not move forward.

Liu Yuxin had just trapped the "Fire Scale Leopard" with the silver ring magic weapon, took out a blue flying sword, and went forward to continue attacking the opponent.

The trapped "Fire Scale Leopard" suddenly turned around and opened its mouth, spitting out a red ball wrapped in flames, and rushed straight to Liu Yuxin.

Seeing this scene, Liu Yuxin, who was a little surprised, hurriedly stopped and took out another defensive magic weapon to block himself.

However, when the black ball spit out by the "Fire Scale Leopard" just flew into the air, a golden light suddenly appeared and directly stopped it, and a violent explosion soon sounded in the air.

"Are you okay!"

Before the smoke had dissipated, Song Changze's figure had appeared beside Liu Yuxin, and he asked the other party with some concern.

"I'm fine! Go and kill the Fire Scale Leopard first, don't let it run away." Liu Yuxin glanced at Song Changze and immediately spoke to him.

In order to defend against the swift attack of the "Fire Scale Leopard", Liu Yuxin had already loosened the control of the silver ring, and the opponent might have already broken free from her magic weapon at this moment.

The two of them passed through the black smoke in front of them and were about to chase the "Fire Scale Leopard", but they found that the opponent had just broken free from Liu Yuxin's silver ring magic weapon and was entangled by Song Yuanli who had already caught up.

Seeing this, Liu Yuxin and Song Changze also breathed a sigh of relief and hurried forward to join the battle.

The strength of this "Fire Scale Leopard" was not as good as Song Yuanli. After falling into the siege of three people, it was immediately beaten back and had no power to resist.

When Song Yuanfang and Wang Huaqing, who were a little further away, arrived at the battlefield, the "Fire Scale Leopard" had been beaten by the three of them and only half of its life was left. Soon, Song Yuanli cut off its head with a sword.

Seeing that the fire-scaled leopard had been successfully killed, Song Yuanfang's face lit up with joy, and he immediately said to the people present with a smile:

"Changze and Liu Daoyou stay to collect the monster materials, and the rest of us will go together to help eliminate the remaining monsters on the mountain."

After Song Yuanfang finished speaking, he took the lead and stepped on the flying sword to the top of the mountain. Song Yuanli and Wang Huaqing didn't say much after hearing this, and immediately turned into a sword light and left here.

After the three of them left, Liu Yuxin glanced at Song Changze who was dealing with the corpse of the "Fire Scale Leopard" in front of him, and asked with some displeasure:

"Song Changze! I could have blocked that attack just now, why did you waste a second-level defensive talisman?"

Song Changze, who was concentrating on collecting monster materials, turned around and replied calmly after hearing Liu Yuxin's words:

"I believe you can block it, but I feel that the innate magical power of this fire scale leopard is indeed a bit powerful, so I used the talisman in a hurry. It's just a second-level low-grade talisman, so you don't have to care too much."

"When I asked you to borrow a few hundred spirit stones, it was like asking for your life. How come you don't care about even a second-level low-grade defensive talisman now? I wonder if you have made a fortune secretly and have too many spirit stones to use up?"

Song Changze smiled and shook his head and said, "Haha! You think too much. If I have too many spirit stones to use up, I will share some with you.

Ancestor Qingyu specifically told me to look after you. I was afraid you might get hurt, so I used that talisman. If you really feel bad about it, you can just return it to me next time."

"Humph! You were the one who insisted on wasting it, and you want me to return it. You're really wishful thinking. "

Although Liu Yuxin still seemed a little indifferent to Song Changze's answer, his heart was warmed. Without saying anything more, he followed Song Changze to collect monster materials.

After dealing with the second-level medium-grade "Fire Scale Leopard", the remaining monsters on the mountain were no longer a threat to everyone. Except for a small number of them that escaped down the mountain, the rest were killed.

After collecting all the monster materials, Song Yuanli and Song Changze took dozens of Song family cultivators and stayed there to guard the spiritual vein.

Song Yuanfang took the rest of the people back to Funiu Mountain and began to dispatch people to set up a mountain protection formation here.

After the mountain protection formation began to operate, the Song family quickly gained a foothold here and named the newly acquired spiritual vein "Chiyan Mountain" .

After occupying "Chiyan Mountain", the news that the Song family was going to build a new market here soon spread throughout the northeast of Weiguo.

Although Xiaoyao Sect did not care about this matter, many local immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County began to get excited after hearing the news that the Song family was going to build a new market immediately.

As Qinghe County became more and more prosperous, other foundation-building families in Qinghe County, led by the Huang family and the Gao family, could still get a lot of spirit stones every year, although they did not have many shares in Qinghefang.

With the strength of the Song family's Jindan Immortal Clan, the market to be built in "Chiyan Mountain" in the future will definitely not be worse than the current Qinghefang and Jinshanfang.

They naturally wanted to contribute to the Song family's new market, and take some shares, or get a few more shops.

As long as the market is properly built in the future, It is running normally. Even if they can't eat meat, it's good for them to drink some soup after following the Song family.

Not long after the news spread, not only the foundation-building families in Qinghe County, but also several foundation-building families in Pingyang County, were a little restless.

Soon they sent people to Funiu Mountain to meet Song Yuanfang, the manager of the Song family, and wanted to help the Song family and follow them to participate in the operation of this new market.

Regarding their plan to get a piece of the pie, Song Yuanfang's attitude towards them this time was relatively vague.

Although they verbally agreed to them, everyone could rent and open shops in the newly built market in the future, and occupy some shares.

However, Song Yuanfang did not immediately agree to the specific details of the cooperative operation of the market, and refused They wanted to participate now and build the market together.

Looking at the "Chiyan Mountain", the Song family has begun to vigorously improve the spiritual veins and build the market. Those foundation-building families who have not received accurate replies from the Song family are also getting anxious day by day, and they keep sending people to Funiushan to inquire about the news.

Facing these people who came to the Song family to inquire about the news, Song Yuanfang, who was in charge of the matter, always greeted them with a smile, but he couldn't give them a single answer.

He just claimed that the head of the Song family was still in seclusion, and he couldn't make the decision on his side, and he had to wait for Song Qingming, the ancestor of the family, to come back.

After hearing Song Yuanfang's explanation, even if these people were anxious in their hearts, they didn't dare to disturb Song Qingming's practice because of this little thing, and could only leave Funiushan with some disappointment.

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In the northwest of Yue State, on a mountain hundreds of feet high in the depths of the Floating Cloud Mountains.

A faint white light suddenly lit up on the steep cliff on one side that was originally extremely quiet.

Then two figures quickly flew out of the white light and stopped in the air next to the mountain wall.

A young woman in green looked at the woman in white next to her and said softly: "Senior Sister Xia, it seems that we can't get in with just the two of us. We must find some helpers."

The woman in white looked around and sighed helplessly:

"We have just opened the formation outside. The spiritual energy here has begun to leak out. It won't be long before it will attract the attention of those high-level demon kings.

This place is too far from the sect. It may be too late for us to go back to find helpers."