Chapter 641: Secret Testing, Returning after a Hundred Years

Chapter 641: Secret Testing, Returning after a Hundred Years

After Song Yuanli came back from the front line of Lu State last time, he only stayed at home to recover from his injuries for a while, and then took the initiative to go to "Yinfeng Ridge" to help his family guard the mines there.

The mine vein of "Yinfeng Ridge" is often attacked by nearby monsters because it is deep in the Yunwu Mountain and there is no human habitation around it. Therefore, the Song family and Xiaoyao Sect also attach great importance to the protection there.

Not only is a second-level high-grade defensive array deployed on "Yinfeng Ridge", but it is also guarded by two or three foundation-building monks and hundreds of Qi-refining monks all year round.

Even so, when they occasionally encounter monster riots in the Yunwu Mountain, and when the "Yinfeng Ridge" mine is attacked by many monsters, they will send letters to the nearby Song family for help.

However, because Yunwu Mountain is close to Qinghe County, there are basically Level 2 monsters. In the past few hundred years, there have never been monsters above Level 3. When they sent a letter asking for help to the Song family, it was Song Yuanfang who arranged it. Those who deal with it rarely alert Song Qingming, the ancestor of the family.

Therefore, when Song Qingming just heard the urgent letter sent to him by Song Yuanli, he felt a little puzzled.

"Could it be that some powerful third-level monster appeared near the mine?"

Song Qingming, who thought there was another crisis at the "Yinfengling" mine, picked up the letter from Song Yuanli, opened it and took a look at it. The expression on his face suddenly changed a few times, and he raised his head again and asked Song Xuanfeng in front of him. :

"Have you confirmed that this letter came from Yinfeng Ridge?"

"Reporting to Third Uncle, after receiving the letter, the law enforcement team has confirmed it after receiving it. It is from Yinfeng Ridge, the eighteenth uncle."

Seeing something wrong with Song Qingming's expression, Song Qingyu quickly asked: "Brother Seven! What's wrong? Did Yuan Li and the others encounter any trouble again?"

After Song Qingming waved Song Xuanfeng to go down first, he calmly said to the two people beside him: "Yuanli's letter said that they found a piece of chijing jade in the mineral vein, and asked me to go there now."

"What? They found Chijing Jade in Yinfeng Ridge. Do the people of Xiaoyao Sect know about this?"

When they heard Song Yuan's letter saying that they had found a spiritual object "Chi Jing Jade" to assist in forming pills, both Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan showed a bit of surprise on their faces.

Although it is indeed possible to find precious spiritual objects such as "Chijing Jade" in large mineral veins such as "Yinfengling", the probability is extremely low. Sometimes, even after hundreds of years of mining, no piece can be found. No wonder Song Qingyu and his wife were so surprised when they heard the news.

Song Qingming shook his head slightly and said: "He just mentioned this in the letter, and didn't say any other details. He just urged me to go there quickly."

"Brother Qi! There is something wrong with this matter. Yuan Li is not such a careless person. How could he just write such a sentence and rush to call you over without explaining the matter clearly?"

Song Qingyu picked up the letter Song Qingming put on the table and took a look at it, with a slight doubt on his face.

"Yeah! I also feel a little strange, but since this letter came from Yinfeng Ridge, it should be written by Yuan Li and the others. I just don't know what happened over there."

Seeing that Song Qingming had already seen the clues in the letter, Song Qingyu breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Then Brother Qi, you'd better not go over there yet. I'll go and check on the situation first. If anything goes wrong over there in Yinfeng Ridge, you can deal with it at home at any time."

Song Qingming shook his head slightly and said: "Don't worry, I won't go there rashly until I understand the situation, and now you can't just go out and take risks.

Qingyu, please go find Yuan Fang and go to the family ancestor hall to see if there is any abnormality in the life cards of Yuan Li and other family monks in Yinfeng Ridge. "

The letter that Song Yuanli sent to Song Qingming was obviously a little strange. It didn't look like something he would do under normal circumstances. Song Qingming was also a little worried about their safety at the moment.

Song Qingyu received Song Qingming's order and hurriedly went to check with Song Yuanfang. They found no problems with the life cards left by Song Yuanli and other Song family monks on the family genealogy. This was enough to prove that they should be safe now.

After learning the news that no one had happened to Song Yuanli and the others for the time being, Song Qingming and the other three were slightly relieved.

"Seventh uncle, since the situation is unknown, I'd better go to Yinfeng Ridge to check the situation first. If I haven't come back after a day, then the Xiaoyao Sect must be informed of this matter." Song Yuanfang, who had just learned of the matter, After thinking for a while, I made my own suggestions.

After Song Qingming stood there and thought for a moment, he shook his head and said slowly:

"There are so many things going on at home, and I can't do without you for a while, so I'd better let Yuan Hao go there first. This kid is smarter, and he can almost tell if something is going on.

If someone wanted to target us, they probably wouldn't take action against him, a foundation-building monk, before the goal was achieved. Otherwise, Yuan Li and the others would definitely not be safe now. "

After finishing speaking, Song Qingming put away the letters on the table and sent a message down the mountain to Song Yuanhao who was practicing in the cave to summon him up the mountain.

Song Yuanhao has been building the foundation for almost thirty years, and now his cultivation has reached the fourth level of foundation building.

He has always had a restless personality. Ever since he established the foundation, he has been less willing to stay in the mountains. When he is not performing family tasks outside, he likes to go on adventures with others to the Fuyun Mountains or Yunwu Mountains to hunt monsters.

It was not until these few years, when his mother Chen Yanyun's health deteriorated as her lifespan approached, that Song Yuanhao finally calmed down and stayed in the mountain.

After receiving Song Qingming's summons, Song Yuanhao thought that the family had another important task to entrust to him, and he was secretly excited.

Unexpectedly, after arriving at the "Huixian Pavilion", Song Qingming directly handed him a reply letter he had just written, asking him to go to "Yinfeng Ridge" to give it to Song Yuanli.

From the Song family's Funiu Mountain to the "Yinfeng Ridge" deep in the Yunwu Mountain, it is less than two thousand miles away. On weekdays, the Song family basically uses the second-level thousand-mile sound transmission talisman when contacting there, and rarely sends cultivators to deliver letters.

In the face of Song Yuanhao's confusion, Song Qingming did not explain too much to him, but just asked him to be careful on the road, and if he found anything wrong after arriving at "Yinfeng Ridge", he should return to the family immediately.

Seeing that the eyes of several ancestors of the family were full of caution, Song Yuanhao also felt that this matter seemed a little bit complicated. After nodding seriously, he took the reply letter from Song Qingming and went to "Yinfeng Ridge".

Song Yuanhao was very careful on the way to deliver the letter this time, but the road was calm and nothing happened, so he arrived at "Yinfeng Ridge" smoothly.

However, when he arrived there, he wanted to complete the task of delivering the letter, but he couldn't find Song Yuanli. After asking, he learned that Song Yuanli went out half a day ago to look for a monk who suddenly disappeared not long ago, and he has not returned yet.

Song Yuanhao, who heard the news, instantly realized that something was wrong, and immediately hurried back to Funiushan and told Song Qingming and the other two the news.

After knowing that Song Yuanli and the others seemed to have disappeared, Song Qingming was considering whether to inform Xiaoyao Sect in advance, but he didn't expect Song Yuanli to suddenly return to Funiushan alone.

After learning the news, Song Qingming hurriedly called Song Yuanli to the top of the mountain and asked him carefully. He learned that the letter he had sent to Song Qingming from "Yinfeng Ridge" not long ago was indeed forced by a mysterious person after being held hostage.

Just half a day ago, a Song family cultivator suddenly lost contact with the "Yinfeng Ridge" mine while patrolling nearby.

Thinking that the other party was attacked by a monster outside, Song Yuanli hurried out to check the situation. As a result, he was immediately controlled by a mysterious masked man shortly after leaving the mountain protection formation.

The other party's cultivation was extremely high, at least a cultivator above the middle stage of the Golden Core. Song Yuanli was like an ant trying to shake a tree in front of him. He had no power to fight back at all, but he fell into the hands of the other party in one round.

After the mysterious man caught Song Yuanli, he did not make things too difficult for him. He just asked Song Yuanli to help him pass a letter to Funiushan to help him invite Song Qingming to "Yinfeng Ridge".

Song Yuanli had already fallen into the hands of the other party, so naturally he didn't have much choice, but he also knew that the other party was so mysterious that he held him hostage to lure Song Qingming out, and it was likely that he had no good intentions.

Therefore, when Song Yuanli wrote the letter, he also deliberately left a more obvious flaw in the letter, just to remind Song Qingming and others not to be easily fooled.

When Song Yuanhao went to "Yinfeng Ridge" to deliver the letter, Song Yuanli actually saw him nearby, but he was coerced at the time and had no way to contact Song Yuanhao.

The mysterious man who held Song Yuanli hostage, after seeing that it was not Song Qingming but a foundation-building cultivator from the Song family, for some reason he let Song Yuanli go back and asked him to bring a painting to Song Qingming for him.

After hearing Song Yuanli tell the story from beginning to end, Song Qingming and the other two were also full of confusion. They didn't know when they had offended such a powerful Jindan cultivator at home, and why the other party went through such a big circle to send them a painting.

However, when Song Qingming opened the painting handed over by Song Yuanli and saw a crane painted on it, the puzzled expression on his face disappeared instantly, and a bit of helplessness appeared on his face.

"Husband, what does this crane mean by this person? Is he someone you are familiar with?"

Seeing the crane in the painting, Huang Siyuan and others beside him could not figure out what the other party's purpose was, so they could only ask Song Qingming.

"Well! He is quite familiar, but he has a strange temper, so don't ask too much." Song Qingming put away the painting in his hand with a wry smile.

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Broken chapter!

East of Qinghe County, outside Qinghefang.

It was just dawn, and with a huge creaking sound, several law enforcement team monks guarding the market slowly opened the gate of Qinghefang in the morning light.

Before these people stood at their respective posts, more than a dozen monks who were anxious to enter the market immediately surrounded the city gate.

The leading law enforcement team, a cultivator in the late Qi Refining period, glanced at these people with some contempt, and then reached out to stop them.

"You must verify your identity before entering the market, so line up by yourselves, don't gather here and waste my time!"

These people who were anxious to enter the market early in the morning were basically casual cultivators who were making a living nearby. The reason they came so early was that they were anxious to enter the market and wanted to find a good place to set up a stall.

After checking seven or eight people in a row, another young man in a green robe and with a handsome appearance came over.

"Fellow Taoist, your face looks strange. Have you been here before?" The monk from the law enforcement team who was checking the identity immediately asked after glancing at the other person.

The man in green robe, who seemed to be only in the middle stage of Qi Refining, shook his head slightly and replied calmly: "No, I was introduced by a friend from Liuyang County and wanted to buy some elixirs from the market. ”

"What's your name? I'll register it for you first before you go in!" the monk from the law enforcement team said as he lowered his head and opened a book in front of him that recorded the monk's name.

"Willow Breeze!"

"Hey! Your name is clearly in this booklet. Have you been here before and registered it?"

Facing the confused gazes of the monks from the law enforcement team, the man named Liu Feng smiled and shook his head and said, "Fellow Taoist, I misunderstood. This is indeed my first time here. Maybe I have the same name!"

Hearing this, the monk from the law enforcement team took a closer look at the records in the book, nodded slightly and said: "Yeah! It seems that the name is the same. This person has been recorded here for a hundred years, and he has probably passed away long ago.

strangeness! It's been so long, why is his name still on it and not crossed out? I really don't know what the people who manage the treasury are busy with every day. "

The monk from the law enforcement team muttered to himself, picked up the pen and marked the place where the name "Liu Feng" was originally recorded, and then wrote down a new name and detailed information in the blank space on the side. .

"Okay! You go in first."

Since the last expansion of Qinghefang, the size of the market has doubled. Although the business of the market has been affected to some extent due to the Song family's establishment of the "Chiyanfang" relationship in recent years, it is still smaller than it was a hundred years ago. Much more prosperous.

After the young man in green robe entered Qinghefang, he walked for a while on the streets of Fangshi and then stopped on his own initiative. He began to scan the surrounding shops, restaurants and teahouses, as if he was looking for something.

After a while, the young man in green robe took the initiative to withdraw his gaze, but he had no intention of going to these shops, so he raised his legs and continued walking forward.

He kept walking and walking like this until he was standing at the end of Fangshi Street. When the green-robed young man saw a remote small shop selling groceries in front of him, his normally plain face showed a trace of emotion. A slight smile.

"Haha! Sir, do you want to buy some exercises or talismans?"

As soon as he entered the door, a mortal waiter in the store saw the man in green robe and immediately stepped forward to greet this customer who rarely came to buy things so early in the morning.

"I want to get rid of a low-level puppet beast, but I don't know if you guys will accept it!"

After the man in green robe finished speaking, he quickly raised his left hand, and immediately a palm-sized crane puppet appeared in his hand, and he placed it in front of the waiter.

The grade of this puppet beast is not very high, only first-level mid-grade, but the workmanship is very exquisite, and the lines on it are lifelike. At first glance, it is a work that the person who refines this thing loves very much.

When the mortal clerk saw the Crane Puppet Beast in the hands of the green-robed young man, and was about to ask him how many spiritual stones he wanted to sell for it, a voice suddenly appeared from the side and interrupted his words.

"I dare to ask my friend, did you refine this thing yourself?" The speaker was an old man with a gray beard, who was also the shopkeeper of the shop named Liu Fengtang.

Seeing that the shopkeeper, who rarely came out to greet customers on weekdays, suddenly became very enthusiastic when faced with this customer who came to buy spiritual objects, the mortal waiter quickly stepped aside and gave up his position.

"Yes! This thing was refined by myself." Faced with the shopkeeper's inquiry, the man in green robe responded directly without changing his expression.

The shopkeeper immediately nodded after hearing this, and extended his hand to greet him in a somewhat respectful manner: "Don't worry, fellow Taoist, our store will naturally accept this item, but I would like to ask you to come to the back hall to discuss the price first, and we can discuss it slowly. how?"

"Even so, let's lead the way!" The young man in green robe said and put away the crane puppet beast in his hand.

After hearing what the other party said, the shopkeeper hurriedly led the man in green robe directly to the back hall of the shop. After the two of them passed through several corridors, they soon came to a closed door. .

"Senior! The person you want to see is inside. I'm going to wait outside first, so as not to disturb you." The shopkeeper bowed his head to the man in green robe with a respectful look, and then hurriedly retreated. .

The man in green robe looked at the other party's leaving figure, with a look of satisfaction on his face, then raised his hand and pushed open the door in front of him, and strode in.

In this small room that looks very ordinary, there are some messy semi-finished puppet beasts scattered around. There is also a man in green robe sitting in front of a wooden table holding a volume of notebooks.

"It's been a hundred years and there's still no change here, but you're really interested!"

When the man in green robe saw Song Qingming sitting in front of the wooden table, he spoke softly and walked quickly towards him. The door behind him immediately closed automatically.

When Song Qingming saw the person coming, he immediately stood up with a smile, cupped his hands and said, "Qingming will do his best to fulfill his promise to the senior. After saying goodbye to the Babel Tower, the junior has not seen the senior for thirty years. I don't know the wind." Senior He has been doing well in recent years!"

The man in green robe who came to "Liu Feng Tang" was Feng He, the owner of this shop a hundred years ago.

However, when Feng He left, he was just a young cultivator who had just established his foundation. Now, after a hundred years, he has returned again, and his cultivation has leaped to the ninth level of the Golden Core, and he is only one step away from entering the Nascent Soul realm.

Although he knew that Feng He was a Nascent Soul cultivator who took over another body to cultivate, seeing his cultivation speed with his own eyes still brought a great shock to Song Qingming.

Hearing Song Qingming's cordial greetings, Feng He, who had long been accustomed to the other party's politeness, first took a cup of spiritual tea poured by Song Qingming on the table and took a sip, then slowly said:

"Thank you for your concern. Although I haven't had any great opportunities in these years, I have been relatively smooth overall, otherwise I wouldn't be standing in front of you now."

"What you said is right. I haven't heard from you for many years, so I have been worried about you. When I received the token you asked the younger generation in your family to send me on the mountain yesterday, I was a little afraid that I had made a mistake. Fortunately, Senior Feng He is doing well."

Since he received the crane picture brought by Song Yuanli on the mountain that day, Song Qingming had recognized on the spot that the mysterious cultivator who restrained him should be Feng He, whom he had not seen for many years.

After Song Qingming met Feng He on the front line of Lu State, until he took over Feng He's body and left after building his foundation, the two had been dealing with each other for decades. Song Qingming naturally knew each other's style of doing things very well.

With Feng He's strange temper that is difficult for ordinary people to figure out, it is indeed very likely that he will take the strange action of kidnapping Song Yuanli to test and lure him out.

But Song Qingming still doesn't know whether Feng He did this just to test him or has other purposes and ideas in his heart.

Hearing Song Qingming mention that he asked Song Yuanli to help him deliver the letter two days ago, Feng He nodded calmly and admitted: "Yes! I asked him to send that letter to you."

"I wanted to try whether you would come out to see me because of him, but I didn't expect that you are not only getting bolder and bolder, but also more and more cruel now, and you don't care about the life and death of your own juniors!

But your junior is still a good character. When he is facing life and death, he dares to play tricks in the letter to remind you. There is no problem with his loyalty to you."

"In this case, I have to thank the senior for helping to test the juniors in my family!" Hearing Feng He's explanation, Song Qingming also smiled bitterly in his heart.

Although Feng He said that he was testing Song Yuanli, Song Qingming knew very well that the reason why this old guy went to such great lengths was actually to test him on the mountain.

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Song Qingming poured Feng He a cup of spiritual tea that he had brewed himself, and then asked, "I wonder if the senior came to see me this time just to reminisce or for other instructions!"

Seeing that Song Qingming could no longer hold back and directly introduced the topic, Feng He immediately put down the teacup in his hand, slowly put away the smile on his face, and showed a very rare serious look.

"Song Xiaoyou, I have always heard that you want to travel outside. I wonder if you are willing to go to Donghuang Country with me in a while!"

"Senior is going to Donghuang Country, is it to impact the Nascent Soul Realm?"

Hearing Feng He suddenly ask him to go to Donghuang Country with him, Song Qingming, who had some guesses in his heart, couldn't help but ask him directly. (End of this chapter)