Chapter 623 Armistice Agreement, Heading to the East China Sea (Combined Chapter)
Last time, Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue were chased by the monks of the "Tianhai League" when they were escorting supplies. Although they lost the supplies they were escorting and lost more than a dozen Qi-refining monks, their two foundation-building monks, including Wang Jingde from the Lingyin Sect, escaped successfully.
In the battle of the "Tianhai League", the focus was still on the front-line Fengguyuan battlefield at the beginning, and they did not attack the rear market.
Therefore, it also gave the monks stationed in the rear market some time to retreat. As soon as the news of the defeat on the front line of Fengguyuan came, Song Yuanli and others who fled back to the market took the monks and the supplies in the market and retreated to Baimeng Mountain in time.
In the past two months, although the "Tianhai League" has also tried to attack Baimeng Mountain many times, the monks on the mountain, with the support of this fourth-level mountain protection formation, fought several bloody battles and still blocked the opponent's fierce attack, supporting the arrival of several reinforcements from Xiaoyao Sect and others.
In the past two months, Song Yuanli and his companions, as well as the monks from the Song family they brought with them, participated in several bloody battles and suffered many casualties. Li Chengyue from the Li family was also injured in the arm by an enemy monk in a battle and is still recovering from his injuries.
After seeing that Song Yuanli was safe and sound, Song Qingming, who had been very worried about him for days, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
There are not many foundation-building monks in the Song family now, and Song Yuanli is a talented person who will have the opportunity to impact the Golden Core Realm in the future. If something really happens outside, Song Qingming, as the clan leader, will definitely regret it.
In addition to Song Yuanli, six of the twenty monks from the Song family who came with him have been killed, and several others have been seriously injured. Song Qingming, who knew the news, felt a little distressed.
These younger clansmen were all cultivators that the family had cultivated with great difficulty. Seeing them fall one by one on the front battlefield, how could he, as an elder, not feel uncomfortable? However, in front of Song Yuanli, Song Qingming did not show too much pain.
"Seventh uncle, it's all my fault that I didn't take good care of Changshi and the others."
Seeing that Song Yuanli still had some deep guilt in his words, Song Qingming patted his shoulder and comforted him repeatedly:
"The situation on the front line changes rapidly, and even Jindan cultivators are hard to escape. That's what you, a foundation-building cultivator, can't change. You have done very well and don't need to blame yourself.
War is ruthless. These are things we expected. Even if I were here, these things would also be difficult to avoid. Things in the world are impermanent, and this may be their fate!"
After comforting Song Yuanli for a few words, Song Qingming went to discuss with Li Wutong and the others, and asked Chen Xuanxin, who was also injured on the battlefield, to send all the Weiguo cultivators left in Baimengshan back to Xiaoyao Sect.
Song Qingming originally wanted Song Yuanli to return to Weiguo together, but he chose to stay. After Song Qingming thought about it carefully, he nodded and agreed.
After Song Qingming and his companions came to Baimeng Mountain, under the leadership of Lingyin Sect, the monks of Baimeng Mountain fought several battles with the "Tianhai League" at the foot of the mountain. After the reinforcements from several neighboring countries, the situation was finally stabilized.
The monks of "Tianhai League" who came to besiege Baimeng Mountain this time numbered tens of thousands, including more than 40 Jindan monks.
On Baimeng Mountain, including the reinforcements coming from all over, the number of low-level monks was still less than half of that of the other side, and the total number of Jindan monks was less than 30. In comparison, Baimeng Mountain was at a very obvious disadvantage.
Although both Lingyin Sect and "Tianhai League" had Nascent Soul monks, because the Nascent Soul monks were too powerful, the Nascent Soul ancestors of both sides had agreed before the war that they would not directly participate in the fight.
The key to the outcome of this war still depends on Song Qingming and his Jindan cultivators, as well as the tens of thousands of foundation-building and Qi-refining cultivators below.
After nearly half a year of guarding Baimeng Mountain, Song Qingming and others finally waited for a force that determined the outcome of the war. After a long period of preparation, the army of cultivators organized by the "Wanling Sect" to come to support finally arrived in Lu State in time to join the battlefield.
On the side of the Wanling Sect, thirty Jindan cultivators came at a time, bringing more than a dozen large flying boats loaded with tens of thousands of low-level cultivators, which suddenly reversed the entire battlefield situation.
In less than a month, the "Tianhai League", which had lost a large number of low-level cultivators in several battles, took the initiative to retreat from the foot of Baimeng Mountain and withdrew to the Fengguyuan line.
The Fuyun Mountain Range side took advantage of the victory and pursued directly to Fengguyuan. Just when everyone thought that the "Tianhai League" was about to be completely driven out of Lu State, the Yuanying cultivators on both sides reached an agreement and suddenly ended the war.
According to the agreement between the two parties, the "Tianhai League" took the initiative to withdraw from Fengguyuan and returned this important stronghold in the south of Lu to Lingyin Sect. The Zipeng Mountain in the east of Fengguyuan and several nearby spiritual veins continued to be occupied by the "Tianhai League".
The two parties agreed that they would not continue to wage war within a hundred years.
According to the agreement agreed by both parties, although the forces of the "Tianhai League" basically withdrew from Lu, they also planted a nail in the Zipeng Mountain in the south of Lu, which was equivalent to hanging a sharp knife over the head of Lingyin Sect at all times.
Although Song Qingming and others were somewhat puzzled by the fact that this war ended so hastily when they had already gained the upper hand, they also guessed that Lingyin Sect would accept this result, which must be due to the influence of Wanling Sect behind the scenes.
The many sects in the west of Fuyun Mountains, headed by Wanling Sect, are somewhat at odds with many sects in the east of Fuyun Mountains such as Xingchen Sect, Lingyin Sect, and Xiaoyao Sect.
The reason why I took the initiative to help this time was because I didn't want the big force of the "Tianhai Alliance" to invade the world of immortal cultivation in the Fuyun Mountains and affect the status of the Wanling Sect here.
Naturally, they do not want to lose their own strength to fight to the death with the monks of the "Tianhai Alliance" for the Lingyin Sect. It is definitely the most suitable thing for Wanling to reach an armistice agreement with the "Tianhai Alliance" to quickly end this war for a hundred years. Zong currently wants the most benefit.
Although the Lingyin Sect is very reluctant to accept this result, without the help of so many sects behind them, they are unable to fight against the powerful "Tianhai Alliance" alone, and they do not have the ability to recapture Feng Guyuan, so they can only be forced to compromise. Some territory was given to the "Tianhai Alliance".
Although a century-old armistice agreement has been reached, both the "Sky Sea Alliance" and the many sects in the Fuyun Mountains know in their hearts that this war that has spanned hundreds of years is not over yet.
Whether it is a temporary truce for one hundred years or two hundred years, this war has involved too many grievances and interests. Sooner or later, both sides will continue to fight until one side is completely defeated and unable to resist.
Regarding the sudden end of the war, Song Qingming and the other monks who came all the way from other places were naturally happy to see the result.
In the past six months, the two sides have fought more than a dozen battles in Baimeng Mountain. I don’t know how many low-level Qi Refining and Foundation-building monks below have died in the battle. Even the Golden Core monks have suffered several casualties on both sides.
On the Xiaoyao Sect side, Jin Ziyuan injured his body during the battle with the "Tianhai Alliance" monks and returned to Weiguo to recover.
Although the remaining three people, Song Qingming, Li Wutong, and Chen Xuanxin, were not seriously injured, they had been through dangerous situations several times, and they also wanted to end the war for a long time.
After all, in the final analysis, everyone is working hard here just to block the "Tianhai Alliance" monk army and prevent them from invading their territory in the future. They are not simply trying to regain lost ground for Lingyin Sect.
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Three months later, Song Qingming and others, who had rested for a period of time in Baimeng Mountain, took the sect's large flying boat and returned to Weiguo in batches.
This time, in addition to Song Qingming and Song Yuanli, the family sent out twenty monks in the Qi Refining Stage. A total of nine people died in the Lu Kingdom. Only two or three people who came back intact came back intact.
However, Song Qingming and Song Yuanli, two important high-level monks in the family, did not suffer any serious injuries. This is the best news for the Song family.
As soon as Song Qingming and others returned to Funiu Mountain, everyone in the Song family who had been waiting for a long time immediately came out to welcome them and give them a good cleansing.
Ever since Song Qingming received a letter from the sect and was sent to Lu State by name by Li Mufeng, Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan and other members of the Song family who knew about it were worried about them all the time.
In a big battlefield like the Lu Kingdom's front line, even the Jindan monks could not avoid dying, let alone foundation-building monks like Song Yuanli. A slight mistake might be a disaster for them.
Seeing that Song Qingming and the others returned safely, Song Qingyu and others finally let go of the worries that had been hanging in their hearts for half a year.
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A year later, Song Qingming was in the cave at the top of Funiu Mountain.
Song Qingming, who had a lot of beads of sweat on his forehead, slowly put away the magic power in his hand, slowly exhaled a breath, then slowly opened his eyes, and stood up.
After the Battle of Baimeng Mountain, the smoke of war gradually dissipated in the entire Fuyun Mountain Cultivation World, and Song Qingming finally stayed on Funiu Mountain and lived a comfortable life for a few days.
For more than half a year in the Lu Kingdom, Song Qingming was worried about tomorrow all the time. Song Qingming himself didn't practice well at all. Several of the exercises he practiced, including the somewhat special "Tongtian Ten Thousand Spirits Jue", were useless. What progress.
However, because he has accumulated a lot of combat experience in fighting with others on the battlefield, Song Qingming now has some different experiences with the techniques he practices.
Previously, Song Qingming had been unable to gain access to the "Tongtian Ten Thousand Spirit Art", and the progress of his cultivation was very slow.
After returning from the Lu Kingdom, Song Qingming was pleasantly surprised to find that the set of exercises he practiced suddenly became much easier. He thought it would take another four or five years to have the opportunity to enter the late stage of Qi refining, but he did not expect that it would take less than a day after returning. He successfully achieved this goal within a year.
After putting away the technique, Song Qingming walked to the entrance of the cave and picked up a white telegraph note that had been floating here for a long time.
After opening the transmission talisman sent by Song Yuanfang and looking at it, a smile slowly appeared on Song Qingming's face, and then he waved his hand and removed the prohibitive array at the entrance of the cave and strode out.
A moment later, Song Qingming came to the outside of the cave where Song Qingyu was retreating at the top of the mountain. After sending a message inside, Song Qingyu's figure soon appeared in front of him.
"Qing Yu, Yuan Fang is almost ready. If nothing happens on your side, I plan to leave tomorrow and take you to the East China Sea to buy elixirs and spiritual items."
Song Qingyu smiled and nodded when he heard this: "I've been ready for you for a long time. Do you want to go with me, sister-in-law?"
"Yes! She is still refining alchemy at Tuoyun Mountain. Please help me run over to pick her up. I will go down the mountain to say hello to Yuan Fang and the others and check the required spiritual objects."
After explaining to Song Qingyu, Song Qingming turned around and came to the meeting hall at the foot of the mountain, calling over Song Yuanfang and Song Yuanqian, who were responsible for managing family affairs.
This time he went to the East China Sea Cultivation World to purchase the spiritual objects needed by his family. Song Qingming had also asked Song Yuanfang and the others to start preparing a few years ago to exchange all the spiritual objects accumulated in the family's Golden Pavilion into spiritual stones or to facilitate transactions. of high-level spiritual beings.
In addition to the original accumulation in the treasury over the years, almost 60,000 spiritual stones have been collected in the Song Family Golden Pavilion.
After hearing the accounts reported by Song Yuanqian, Song Qingming also showed a bit of satisfaction on his face.
The Song family has developed rapidly in recent years. In its overseas businesses, Yinfengling and Tuoyunshanfang City, they have successively invested a lot of spiritual stones. In addition to upgrading the family's spiritual veins, they took the lead in the construction of "Chiyanfang" in the past few years.
The investment in each of these items is at least over 10,000 spirit stones, and the entire family's spiritual stone expenditures in various aspects are also very large. Song Yuanfang and the others can now gather so many spirit stones, which is somewhat beyond Song Qingming's expectation.
"Seventh Uncle, Yuan Qian and I have discussed it. We, the foundation-building elders of our clan, were able to succeed in foundation-building with the support of our family. We should also repay the family.
These spiritual stones were gathered together by our seven foundation-building elders. Each of us has one thousand spiritual stones. Uncle Seventh, please bring them with you too! "
Seeing the spirit stone that Song Yuanfang took out, Song Qingming nodded with relief and said: "It is rare for you to know how to repay the family now. Since it is your heart, then record it in the family treasury in the future. I’ll give it back to you when I’m richer.”
Seeing this, Song Yuanqian glanced at Song Yuanfang, then raised her hands to Song Qingming and said:
"Seventh uncle, every time the family supports a foundation-building monk, a lot of resources must be invested in the Hidden Gold Pavilion. Now most of the family's treasury resources are used to purchase foundation-building pills to support clan members in building foundations. It will be difficult to maintain it after a long time. , it is inevitable that there will be other tribesmen who can't think about this behind the scenes.
I think the family should set up some rules in the future to let everyone know that the family cannot support them in building the foundation in vain. This can not only quickly replenish the deficit of the Hidden Gold Pavilion, but also make other monks in the family who are not selected to build the foundation feel more accepting. Some. "
After hearing Song Yuanqian's reminder, Song Qingming thought for a moment, nodded and said:
"Well! There were too few monks in the family before, and there weren't many people who could build foundations. I didn't consider this. Now the situation is different. We elders should act more fairly.
From now on, all those whose family supports the foundation building will need to come up with a sum of spiritual stones to compensate the family treasury after the foundation building is successful. You two will discuss the specific amount first, and then confirm it after I come back! "
The foundation-building monks of the Song family in the past were basically supported by Song Qingming. At that time, the Song family's treasury was still a little barren. Most of the spiritual objects and spiritual stones in exchange for the foundation-building pills were taken out by Song Qingming from himself. of.
Now that the family is a little wealthier, it has been able to accumulate a lot of spiritual stones every year in the Cangjin Pavilion treasury over the years, and it is almost self-sufficient. Naturally, the ancestor of the Song Qingming family no longer needs to pay out of his own pocket to subsidize the family's needs.
However, since it is a spiritual stone shared by the entire family in the family treasury, it cannot be invested in just one of the clan members without asking for anything in return. This would be a bit unfair to the other clan members who were not chosen to build the foundation.
After explaining to Song Yuanfang and bringing the spiritual stones and spiritual objects prepared by the family early the next morning, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan took the "Phantom Boat" and left Funiu Mountain directly.
The spiritual resources around the Immortal Cultivation World of Weiguo are relatively scarce. Spiritual objects related to foundation building and pill formation are basically firmly controlled by large sects such as Xiaoyao Sect.
Ordinary cultivating families and casual cultivators who want to obtain spiritual objects such as the Foundation Establishment Pill usually have to exchange more precious spiritual objects to the Xiaoyao Sect, or go to the black market such as the "Tiandan Alliance" auction to have a chance. get.
If the Song family wants to develop steadily in an environment like Weiguo's, they must find more channels for themselves to obtain resources. This trip to the East China Sea to cultivate immortality was something Song Qingming had planned more than two years ago. of.
From Weiguo to the East China Sea Immortal Realm, you still need to cross tens of thousands of miles across several countries. Even for a Jindan monk like Song Qingming, a round trip will take at least two or three months.
To be more prudent, Song Qingming rushed to Guyang Mountain before setting off, spent some spiritual items to invite Xu Ziyan to come forward, and went to Tuoyun Mountain to help with the battle for a while.
Although Xu Ziyan's cultivation level is only the second level of Jindan, but with the help of Tuo Yunshan's third level mountain protection formation, even if the Yunhe Demon King suddenly attacks, she can handle it alone.
There is no need to worry too much on the Funiu Mountain side. There are no demon kings above the Golden Core stage around Qinghe County. Even if there are some second-level demon beasts on the Yunwu Mountain side who dare to attack "Chiyanfang", they will not be backed by Funiu Fang. City Grand Formation Song Yuanli and their opponents.
After the "Phantom Boat" went all the way east through the Yunwu Mountains that stretched for nearly thousands of miles, Song Qingming and the others quickly entered the territory of Zheng State.
The State of Zheng is a slightly smaller country than the State of Wei. There are two Jindan sects, the Tianxing Sect and the Minghe Sect, with equal strength in the territory. There are a total of seven or eight Jindan monks in total.
However, the relationship between these two Jindan sects has always been somewhat incompatible. They have fought countless battles over the past hundreds of years, which has seriously damaged the entire Zheng Kingdom's immortal world.
In order to avoid the war, many casual cultivators and cultivating families in Zheng State chose to flee to Wei State and other surrounding countries. In Qinghe and Pingyang counties within the Song family territory, there were many monks who took refuge from Zheng State.
Huang Siyuan is no stranger to the country Zheng. In order to successfully build the foundation, she stayed here for decades. Although it has been nearly a hundred years, Huang Siyuan still has fresh memories of this place.
Knowing that the territory of Zheng State was relatively chaotic, Song Qingming and the others did not choose to stay here too long. They traveled across the entire Zheng State in only two days.
After passing through two small countries, Song Qingming and the others came to a huge mountain. This mountain towered into the clouds and was ten thousand feet high. It was the highest mountain Song Qingming had seen in more than 100 years of practicing Taoism.
Seeing Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan next to them, they were a little surprised after seeing this high mountain. Song Qingyu quickly explained to them:
"The name of this mountain is Duanyun Mountain. It is the junction of Fuyun Mountain Range and the East China Sea Cultivation World. After passing through here, we can enter the East China Sea Cultivation World."
"This mountain is so high that it would be difficult for ordinary Qi refining and foundation-building monks to climb. Qingyu, how did you pass through this place when you went to the East China Sea?" Huang Siyuan asked curiously.
"My sister-in-law doesn't know. There are several cities to the south from here, and there are large flying boats that are specially used to pick up monks from two places. One person only needs to hand over thirty spiritual stones to ride on the flying boat and cross the gap. Yunshan is gone.
However, this kind of large airship is very slow, and it will take at least more than a month to pass through Duanyun Mountain. If we directly drive the airship over, we should be able to shorten the time by more than half. "
Song Qingming looked at the mountains in front of him and sighed slightly: "It's a pity that the two places are too far apart to build a teleportation array, otherwise we wouldn't have to spend so much time here."
"Brother Qi, you may think of things too simply. If you want to teleport such a long distance, you must at least build a large teleportation array. This is not something that ordinary sects can do.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Nascent Soul Sect on the other side of the East China Sea to let go of such a large amount of profit. "Song Qingyu shook his head slightly and replied.
Say it! Song Qingming and the others drove the "Phantom Boat" directly into the sky and flew to a lower peak of Duanyun Mountain.
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More than ten days later, outside a small city near Duanyun Mountain in the East China Sea Cultivation Realm, a white flying boat suddenly flew across the horizon from far to near, and soon stopped at a location not far from the entrance of the city. Three figures jumped down.
Song Qingyu, who was walking in the front, took a closer look at the market in front of him, then smiled and said to Song Qingming and the two people beside him: "This is Meishanfang. After decades of not being here, nothing much has changed."
"Okay, let's take a rest here today, and we will set off to Tiandan City tomorrow."
Song Qingming and others took turns driving the "Phantom Boat" through Duanyun Mountain. They had not had a good rest for more than ten days, and now they were a little tired.
In order to get back into good shape and go on the road, after passing through Duanyun Mountain, the group of people decided to take a rest in the nearby market after passing through Duanyun Mountain, and at Song Qingyu's suggestion, they then headed to the "Tiandan City", the main medicine destination of this trip to the East China Sea Immortal Cultivation World. . (End of chapter)