Chapter 251 Operation Failed
Eagle's Nest Ridge is located in a deep mountain connecting the northeastern Wei Kingdom and the Zheng Kingdom to the east. This place belongs to the vacuum of power between the two countries. It is also adjacent to the Yunwu Mountain, which has a relatively harsh environment, and has always been sparsely populated.
Because of this, Yingchao Ridge is somewhat similar to Bailong Mountain. Many desperate casual cultivators and bandits who robbed their homes gathered here in order to avoid being wanted by the cultivators from both countries.
Decades ago, a casual cultivator named Cheng Yilong offended a Foundation-Building Immortal Clan in Zheng State and fled to Yingchao Ridge.
When this person was in Zheng State, he was originally just a little-known Qi-refining casual cultivator. Unexpectedly, after he escaped to Yingchao Ridge, his fortune started to change. I don't know where he got the opportunity, but he actually succeeded in building the foundation.
After Cheng Yilong established the foundation, he quickly brought all the vicious gangs near Yingchao Ridge under his control. He also refused to refuse those who came to seek refuge with him, which also allowed Yingchao Ridge to gradually grow in strength and become more and more powerful. It has become a big disaster in the northeastern part of Weiguo.
These bandit cultivators often sneaked into Jiangling County of the Wei State to commit murder and sell goods. Not only Qinghefang, but also Jinshanfang in Pingyang County, Jianglingfang in Jiangling County and other nearby cities also suffered greatly.
The bandit cultivators from Yingchao Ridge that Song Qingming met near Lingyuan Mountain caused harm to many cultivators near Qinghefang.
At first, these people just colluded with some money-grubbing people in Qinghefang and attacked casual cultivators with no background. Several major foundation-building families such as Lu Yuanfeng and the Huang family did not pay much attention to this matter.
Later, these people became more and more courageous and even killed a monk under the Huang family. This also angered several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County. Under the leadership of the Huang family, Qinghefang conducted a thorough investigation. , finally found out several of the scourges who colluded with Yingchao Ridge. Unfortunately, the group of robbers in Yingchao Ridge ran away early when the situation was bad, so that none of them was caught. Since then, Qinghe County has finally stopped. some time.
A few years later, people from Yingchao Ridge killed several monks from Jinshanfang in Pingyang County. Several big families in Pingyang County united and sent many monks under the leadership of the Cao family to attack them.
As a result, because Yingchao Ridge was well-informed, not long after the Pingyang County monks set out, Cheng Yilong knew about the matter early. Seeing that the opponent was powerful, Cheng Yilong decisively gave up Lingshan and hid in the Yunwu Mountain with his men, allowing the Pingyang County monks to attack null.
After the monks from Pingyang County left, these people returned to Yingchao Ridge under the leadership of Cheng Yilong and began to cause trouble again.
This time Lu Yuanfeng arranged it like this. He was traveling lightly and with as few monks as possible. He just wanted to avoid the eyes and ears of Yingchao Ridge on the road and kill them when they were unprepared. He was caught off guard. According to his idea, as long as everything went well, there would be a big chance. It is very possible to eliminate this scourge.
After the agreement was reached, several major families began to go back and make preparations.
The Song family currently has not many late-stage Qi refining monks. Including Shi Chun, who joined the Song family not long ago, there are only eight people in total.
Qing Ming could only summon all the late-stage qi-refining monks in his clan except his sixth uncle Song Changfeng and his second sister Song Qingwan, and after recruiting a few more people from several subordinate qi-refining families, he could barely make up ten people.
Three days later, on a small spiritual vessel in the north of Qinghefang, Lu Yuanfeng led dozens of people gathered here and headed north under the cover of night.
In addition to the five foundation-building monks who attended the meeting that day, there were also more than fifty late-stage Qi-refining monks from various schools who took action this time.
It was a pity that Huang Shengxin and Gao Jinhe, the two late-stage foundation-building monks with the highest cultivation level in Qinghe County, were not able to come this time.
Huang Shengxin happened to leave Qinghe County for Xiaoyao Sect more than half a month ago because of something, and he didn't know exactly when he would come back.
Gao Jinhe of the Gao family has been in seclusion since his last trip to Taiyue Lake Secret Realm. In the past few years, he has been uncharacteristic of himself and has not come out. In recent years, Gao Yubai has been in charge of the affairs outside.
According to the Huang family's speculation, the reason why Gao Jinhe was in seclusion was to heal his injuries. It seemed that he was seriously injured and he has not fully recovered yet.
Nowadays, most of the foundation-building monks in Qinghe County have left. In order to ensure the safety of Qinghefang, Lu Yuanfeng specially recruited his eldest disciple Yuan Wencai, who had already established a foundation, to guard Qinghefang for him for a period of time.
This time, several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County worked together as one and quickly attacked the Yingchao Ridge located in the northeast of Qinghe County.
Everyone drove lightly and carefully along the way. After more than ten days of urgent travel, they finally arrived near Eagle's Nest Ridge within the scheduled time.
Just when everyone was gearing up to prepare for a big fight, Lu Xingde, who was responsible for rushing to conduct reconnaissance in advance, brought news that shocked them. There was silence on Eagle Nest Ridge, as if no one had been seen.
After learning the news, Lu Yuanfeng's face turned pale, and he quickly led everyone towards Eagle's Nest Ridge.
Sure enough, just as Lu Xingde guessed, the Eagle's Nest Ridge was already in a mess at this time, and Cheng Yilong, the cunning fox, seemed to have left here a few days in advance.
Faced with this situation, the expressions of everyone in Qinghe County changed. They had been so cautious this time, but they didn't expect that the news would be leaked, causing everyone to rush in vain.
The leading Foundation Establishment monks, you look at me, I look at you, they all seem to have a target of suspicion in their hearts, but no one has any actual evidence, and they can't say it directly.
"It's not necessarily that one of our own leaked the secret. It's also possible that someone from Yingchao Ridge bumped into us somewhere and guessed the purpose of our trip." Lu Yuanfeng, who was responsible for organizing everyone's visit this time, saw the atmosphere at the scene. I was a little embarrassed, so I quickly came out and tried to smooth things over with a wry smile.
Among the people at the scene, Lu Yuanfeng was the oldest and had the highest cultivation level. In addition, he was a monk from the Xiaoyao Sect. Since he had spoken, everyone must still give him this face, and they all nodded in agreement with him. statement.
Seeing that Yingchao Ridge had been well prepared, the failure of this operation was already a done deal. Although everyone looked very reluctant, they could only accept this fact.
Unable to find the robbers from Yingchao Ridge, everyone had nowhere to vent their anger and could only make a big fuss on the Lingshan Mountain before leaving.
After everyone in Qinghe County left, a figure wrapped in black clothes suddenly appeared on a low mountain next to Yingchao Ridge.
The man in black looked around carefully and saw that there were no more people nearby, so he left the place furtively.
Half an hour later, the man in black came to a cave a hundred miles away from Yingchao Ridge. More than a hundred bandit cultivators from Yingchao Ridge had all gathered here.