Chapter 65: A Ray of Hope
The two sat facing each other around the fire, and time passed quickly without them noticing. Song Qingming and Xu Ziyan were talking, and a white light gradually appeared in the sky.
Seeing that the sky was already slightly bright, Xu Ziyan greeted Song Qingming and stood up to return to the camp. After walking a few steps, she suddenly stopped, as if she had thought of something, and turned around to ask Song Qingming a question with a serious face.
"Fellow Daoist Song, I have something else to ask you. I heard from Junior Brother Wei Tong a few days ago that you had a good relationship with Fellow Daoist Feng who died at the hands of the demon cultivator. I wonder if you know his relatives and descendants in the market."
"Fellow Daoist Feng? You mean Old Ghost Feng, right? Actually, he and I only met when we were on missions together in the past few months. I had agreed with him to ask him for a small favor after I came back this time, but I didn't expect that things are unpredictable and I no longer have this opportunity. I wonder why Captain Xu asked this?"
Xu Ziyan said: "If a cultivator who is carrying out a mission for the sect unfortunately dies outside, the sect will look for the cultivator's relatives and descendants to distribute spiritual objects for relief. Since I have taken over as the captain of the eleventh guard, I am now fully responsible for this matter. The descendants of several other Daoists have been found, except for Daoist Feng. After the notice was issued in the market, no descendants of his have come to claim the compensation. I thought you were familiar with him, so I asked you if you knew where his descendants were. "
After thinking for a while, Song Qingming continued, "Captain Xu, you can ask Daoist Jia Sixing. He knew Daoist Feng earlier and may know something about him."
"Okay, thank Daoist Song for your advice. I don't know what kind of help you need. Why don't you tell me? Even if I can't help you, I can ask other people for you in the future." Xu Ziyan saw that Song Qingming was worried, so she asked him kindly.
After a slight hesitation, Song Qingming smiled and said, "It's nothing special. When I first saw the puppet beast on Fellow Daoist Feng, I envied him. Later, I learned that he bought the puppet beast from the Bailong Mountain black market. It was my first time to go out for training, and I didn't know how to get to Bailong Mountain, so I made an appointment with him and used some spiritual objects to ask him to help take me to Bailong Mountain to try my luck. But I didn't expect that after we made the appointment, before we set off, Fellow Daoist Feng didn't believe in trouble." After saying this, Song Qingming sighed a little disappointed.
Unexpectedly, after Xu Ziyan knew about Song Qingming's troubles, she smiled and looked at him and said, "It's not a difficult thing for you. Bailong Mountain is not too far from Guiyunfang. I went there once a year ago. If you want to go, Fellow Daoist Song, I can just give you a map of Bailong Mountain."
"Don't you need an introduction to enter the Bailong Mountain black market?" Song Qingming asked with a puzzled look.
"Black market? Bailong Mountain is just a market smaller than Guiyunfang, so it can't be considered a black market. Who did you hear this from?"
"After I came back this time, I also asked many shops in the market about this matter. I didn't expect that no one knew about Bailong Mountain. I think that place is so mysterious, it must be a black market."
Xu Ziyan laughed and said, "It's normal that you can't find out about Bailong Mountain. Bailong Mountain Market was not established by our Xiaoyao Sect. It is in a competitive relationship with our Guiyunfang. The elders of the sect have long issued an order in the market, not allowing everyone to talk about Bailong Mountain in the market. I went to Bailong Mountain that time, actually I went there secretly with Senior Sister Gao without telling the master. Don't tell this matter everywhere, lest Senior Sister Gao find trouble with you in the future."
After talking with Xu Ziyan, Song Qingming finally knew the specific situation of Bailong Mountain. After hearing the end, he couldn't help but touch his forehead.
According to Xu Ziyan, Bailong Mountain was a small market jointly built by several foundation-building casual cultivators near Guiyunfang several decades ago. It is much smaller than Guiyunfang and slightly larger than Qinghefang.
Bailong Mountain is closer to Fuyun Mountain Range and is close to the border between Fuyun Mountain Range and Weiguo. There are also many casual cultivators who live here.
In the past few decades, in order to compete with Guiyunfang, Bailong Mountain Market has released many precious spiritual objects that are difficult to buy in Guiyunfang, attracting many cultivators near Fuyun Mountain Range to go there. It has developed better and better in the past few decades, and has also attracted some cultivators who used to live in Guiyunfang.
In order to minimize the impact of Bailong Mountain, Guiyunfang began to prohibit talking about Bailong Mountain Market in the market. In this way, cultivators like Song Qingming who have just come to Guiyunfang will naturally find it difficult to find out about Bailong Mountain in Guiyunfang.
However, even if Guiyunfang used this method to prohibit cultivators from talking about the Bailongshan Market, it would only have a temporary impact. For example, Song Qingming, who has been in the market for at most half a year and has made some acquaintances, would naturally be able to easily find out the news about Bailongshan.
At the beginning, Old Man Shi and Old Ghost Feng deliberately described Bailongshan as a black market in front of Song Qingming. In fact, they just wanted to take advantage of the information gap and get some benefits from Song Qingming.
However, although these two people got some benefits, one of them is now dead and the other is almost half dead. Song Qingming felt a little bit amused and helpless about this.
After getting the Bailong Mountain map from Xu Ziyan, Song Qingming was grateful to her. After Feng Laogui died, Song Qingming could not find any news about Bailong Mountain in Guiyunfang, and he felt a little disappointed. Unexpectedly, after meeting Xu Ziyan today, things suddenly took a turn for the better.
After dealing with Xu Ziyan these days, Song Qingming also found that she gave him some different feelings.
Although Xu Ziyan was also an inner disciple of Xiaoyao Sect, she was not like most of the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators who looked down on them from small families. Even when facing Song Qingming, whose cultivation was much lower than hers, Xu Ziyan treated him with courtesy and never looked down on him.
Unconsciously, Song Qingming also had some good feelings for her.
After giving the map of Bailong Mountain to Song Qingming, Xu Ziyan returned to the camp and directed everyone to pack up and continue on their way.
After walking for another three days, everyone came to the area assigned for this mission.
This time, because the 11th Guard monks had just suffered a heavy blow, and the newly joined Xiaoyao Sect disciples were still lacking in experience, Liu Xingfeng, who arranged the task, specially allocated a relatively safe area for them.
This mission lasted for more than two months, and everyone did not encounter any major crises. Only a few times, the newly joined Xiaoyao Sect disciples accidentally provoked a few difficult high-level monsters, and the situation was a bit embarrassing.
However, after they sent out a distress signal, Xu Ziyan quickly took action personally and easily resolved the situation. No one was injured until they returned to Guiyunfang to rest.
The original captain of the 11th Guard, Lu Yunfei, assigned tasks more casually and never left the camp except for necessary support.
In contrast, Xu Ziyan, who took over, acted much more meticulously. He would carefully consider the candidates when assigning tasks, and would often go to the vicinity of their mission area to protect and guide those monks with less experience.
More than two months later, Song Qingming and his team, who had successfully completed the mission, returned to Qinghefang again. After this mission, they also had more than half a month of rest time.
Song Qingming, who returned to Guiyunfang again, did not rush to Bailong Mountain. Instead, he was unusual and began to sit in the Feiyunwei station all day.