Chapter 105: Rewarding Merit

On a high mountain thousands of miles away from Chifeng Ridge, in a dark cave on the top of the mountain, a roar of anger suddenly sounded. The sound was like thunder, shaking the sky and the earth, echoing in the nearby mountains and rivers. Many demonic beasts within ten or twenty miles of this mountain, upon hearing this sound, all revealed looks of terror, and were all frightened by this sound to crawl on the ground, not daring to get up for a long time.

After killing the White Lion, Qian Guangyao searched half a circle on Chifeng Ridge and soon found a part of the Qian family cultivators he brought.

Most of the demonic beasts on the mountain had already been killed by the cultivators at this time, and the remaining demonic beasts that were still resisting stubbornly soon all died in the hands of the cultivators who attacked the mountain under the command of Qian Guangyao, a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

This battle led by the Huang family's Qinghe County cultivators could be considered a great victory. They killed a second-tier mid-grade White Lion and more than a hundred first-tier demonic beasts. The value of just these demonic beast materials obtained was already close to ten thousand spirit stones.

After the war, Qian Guangyao led the Qian family cultivators to search on Chifeng Ridge and found dozens of mature spiritual herbs on the mountain, among which there were two spiritual herbs whose quality had reached the second tier.

In this battle, in order to drag the White Lion, Qian Guangyao also used many spiritual items. The Qian family also suffered no small losses in this trip to Chifeng Ridge. Not long after the battle started, they encountered the main force of the demonic beasts on the mountain, lost several cultivators, and even the patriarch Qian Guangyao was injured.

The most valuable thing on Chifeng Ridge was this second-tier spiritual vein. It was just a pity that this place was too close to Mount Yunwu. Even though the Qinghe County cultivators had now killed all the demonic beasts on the mountain, it would be very difficult to hold this spiritual vein for a long time.

The reproduction speed of demonic beasts far exceeded that of human cultivators. Just in this area of Mount Yunwu, the number of demonic beasts was as many as several thousand. It would not take long before other demonic beasts would arrive here soon. Wanting to occupy this place for a long time, one must have the ability to face the attacks of many demonic beasts at any time.

Including the Song family, the many cultivators who were responsible for surrounding the mountain at the foot of the mountain had long received strict orders from the Huang family before the war not to go up the mountain at will, so as not to let anyone fish in troubled waters and secretly go up the mountain to grab spiritual items.

From the beginning of surrounding the mountain to the Huang family announcing the end of the battle, it took a total of only a few hours. After finishing their respective tasks, the cultivators of each family gathered in one place and began to wait for the next instructions from the Huang family.

After the Huang family cultivators came down from the mountain, the crowd gathered in one place and set off to leave this place and return to Mount Wufeng. Next, the Huang family still had to provide pensions for the wounded and dead cultivators and reward the meritorious officials of this battle there.

This was also a necessary process for every conscription of cultivators. Although these Qi Refining families below were all tools of the Huang family and could be conscripted and used at any time, they had sold their lives for you. If the pensions and rewards that should be given were not in place afterward, it was inevitable that these people would have two hearts and turn to join others. The Huang family had been able to dominate Qinghe County for a thousand years, and naturally understood this point.

On Chifeng Ridge, after all other cultivators had left, what surprised everyone was that Qian Guangyao led the Qian family cultivators to stay on the mountain and began to survey the earth veins and set up formations on this second-tier spiritual vein.

The Qian family did not have a second-tier spiritual vein. This time, the reason Qian Guangyao readily agreed to the Huang family's invitation to come to encircle and suppress Chifeng Ridge was actually because he had taken a fancy to this second-tier spiritual vein.

Qian Guangyao had built his foundation for more than ten years. When he was first responsible for guarding Qinghefang, the second-tier spiritual vein of Qinghefang could still support his daily cultivation. After the five-year rotation period arrived, he could only helplessly give up the position of guarding Qinghefang and return to the Qian family.

These years, he had been relying on the family's foundation and using spirit stones to subsidize his cultivation, so he did not fall behind much in his cultivation speed. However, this was not a long-term solution after all, and the spirit stones in the Qian family's inventory were not many. If this continued, there would be a day when they would be used up sooner or later.

Regarding this, Qian Guangyao could only begin to look for other ways out. After considering the Huang family's invitation, he still agreed to it. However, he also agreed with the Huang family that after taking down Chifeng Ridge, the spiritual vein and spiritual items on the mountain would be handled by the Qian family.

The Huang family's original purpose was to hunt the White Lion, and they had no interest in this spiritual vein of Chifeng Ridge. Regarding this, the Huang family did not raise any objections and readily agreed to this matter.

"This kid Qian Guangyao is really somewhat crazy about poverty, actually daring to have ideas about the spiritual vein of Chifeng Ridge. He is not afraid of dragging the entire Qian family in." Looking at the Qian family cultivators who were setting up formations in the distance, Huang Chengliang said with some disdain to Huang Shengxin.

Huang Shengxin narrowed his eyes and smiled: "The Qian family's foundation is not deep, and he is also forced to choose to take this risk. In the past thirty years in Qinghe County, only he has succeeded in building a foundation. He can also be considered a person with good temperament and aptitude. Don't underestimate him too much."

Less than half a day after just returning to Mount Wufeng, Song Gushan received the notification to go and receive the rewards for this mission. The crowd was still on the way back, and the Huang family had already arranged for people to count the size of the merits of the cultivators of each family in this battle.

Huang Shengxin, this Foundation Establishment patriarch, did not care about this matter. After returning to Mount Wufeng, Huang Shengxin took the spiritual items on the White Lion and left here, directly entrusting the heavy responsibility of providing pensions and rewarding the cultivators of each family to Huang Chengliang.

The best-performing cultivator came from the Ma family. This person had already cultivated to the ninth layer of Qi Refining. In this battle, he killed three high-tier demonic beasts alone, and his merit far exceeded other cultivators.

Regarding this, the Huang family did not skimp and directly rewarded him with a good top-grade magic tool, which immediately made this person very happy. The second and third place cultivators were rewarded with mid-grade magic tools respectively.

The Ma family received the top prize, which also attracted the envy of other family cultivators. This Ma family cultivator was less than fifty years old and could be considered a rising star. Among the thousands of Qi Refining cultivators in Qinghe County, there were not many who had hope of building a foundation. This person could be considered one, and it might not be long before Qinghe County would have another Foundation Establishment family.

In contrast, the performance of the Song family cultivators was average. They went there just to watch the fun. The few of them added together only received spiritual item subsidies of a few top-grade spiritual talismans. Regarding this, they were not surprised.

Before the war, Song Qingming spent a long time setting up the Vine Wood Spring-Returning Formation. He originally wanted to use the power of this formation to do a big job, but unexpectedly, their luck was average and they did not get many opportunities to perform.

However, in general, they could be considered to have had good luck. Although they also consumed some spiritual items, they did not have any personnel casualties. This point still made them feel very relieved.

The family of cultivators with the worst luck encountered a large number of demonic beasts besieging them at the beginning. Seven cultivators came, and after one battle, three died and two were injured. Only two were left safe and sound without injury. Although the Huang family also issued many pensions, half of the cultivators died in one battle, which still made their faces full of haze.

After receiving the rewards, Song Gushan greeted the Huang family cultivators and led the Song family group to leave Mount Wufeng the next day.

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