Chapter 153: Four Years Later

Time flew by, and another four years passed in a flash.

In a shop named Jin Baotang in Qinghe Fang, an old man and a young person were arguing with the shopkeeper, and there were quite a few cultivators watching the excitement around the shop.

"You are talking nonsense. What we took out just now was clearly a second-tier magic robe. What you are returning to us now is definitely not the one from just now." The person speaking was a young woman in green clothes, at the fourth layer of Qi Refining, who was holding a first-tier top-quality purple magic robe in her hand.

The shopkeeper of Jin Baotang, who was confronting them, was already a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator. Seeing that the woman was relentless, he shouted loudly with some impatience: "You poor rogue cultivators are truly ungrateful. The two of you together aren't even worth a hundred spirit stones, and you dare to say you can take out second-tier spiritual items? Who would believe this if it were said out loud? If you are unwilling to sell, take your things back. For this piece of broken magic robe, you still want to extort two hundred spirit stones from me? Daring to swat flies on a tiger's head, you don't even go out and inquire about the prestige of my Gao family in Qinghe Fang."

The old man standing beside the green-clothed woman pulled her clothes somewhat sadly and whispered: "Hongyu, forget it! This is someone else's territory. We are weak and have no power, and even if we are in the right, we can't beat them. It's only our fault for being too careless and falling into their trap all at once."

Hearing the old man's words, the shopkeeper of Jin Baotang, although somewhat displeased, did not continue to speak, only hoping that the two would leave quickly.

"No, this magic robe was passed down by our ancestors; we can't just let these people take advantage of it so easily. I want to go to the market law enforcement team to report them." After the green-clothed woman finished speaking, she angrily threw the purple magic robe in her hand at the Gao family shopkeeper and rushed out.

"Hongyu, don't go, Hongyu... sigh." The old man, seeing that the woman had not looked back, could only sigh, carefully picked up the purple magic robe that had fallen on the ground, and chased after her.

The shop assistant, seeing that the woman really dared to go to the market law enforcement team, suddenly panicked in his heart and hurriedly summoned a shop assistant and said: "You hurry out the back door and go directly to find Captain Hu. It is his turn on duty today..."

In a cave dwelling with rich spiritual energy in Qinghe Fang, Song Qingming was in the midst of meditation and cultivation.

Only to see a layer of emerald green spiritual light flickering on his entire body, this green light sometimes manifesting into form and sometimes sinking into his body.

After a long time, the green spiritual light on Song Qingming's body suddenly concentrated in his palm, turning into a formless color. As Song Qingming raised his right hand lightly, a sound like a rain of arrows landing suddenly came from the stone wall in front of the cave dwelling, and immediately, a cloud of dust filled the air in front of the cave dwelling.

Song Qingming opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved, releasing a light breeze to sweep away the dust in front of him. Seeing the ten-plus dense holes that had suddenly appeared on the stone wall, he smiled with satisfaction and put away the magic power on his body.

During the four years of guarding in Qinghe Fang, Song Qingming had finally successfully used the two spells, Profound Light Armor and Jade Light Needle, in the Jade Profound Scripture. Now that he had these two spells to protect his body, plus the several second-tier spiritual items in his hands, he had finally ended the embarrassment he had when he first achieved Foundation Establishment and had the strength a Foundation Establishment cultivator should have.

After ending his cultivation, Song Qingming, having nothing to do, took out several talisman-making tools and began his daily talisman drawing.

These past few years, his talisman-making skills had already surpassed Fifth Aunt Song Changling, becoming the person with the highest level of talisman-making skills in the Song family. Although he had not yet advanced to become a second-tier talisman maker, the distance was already not far. There were too few second-tier spiritual items in Qinghe Fang. If Song Qingming wanted to make second-tier spiritual talismans, he could only go to other large markets to purchase materials, which was truly inconvenient for him who had to guard Qinghe Fang, so he had always not tried to make second-tier spiritual talismans.

Apart from talisman-making skills, his formation skills had also been elevated to first-tier top-quality, and he had become a famous formation master in Qinghe Fang. He had even helped several Qi Refining families without top-quality formation masters refine the kind of mountain-protecting formations used in Mugud Town.

Now, the first-tier spiritual talismans he made were not only large in number, but their quality basically had no rivals in the entire Qinghe Fang. These years, they had also helped him earn quite a few spirit stones in the open and in secret, making his originally empty storage bag gradually saturated.

Before long, Song Qingming, who was concentrating on drawing a top-quality spiritual talisman in the cave dwelling, was suddenly interrupted by a sound transmission, breaking the pattern of his strokes. Sighing helplessly, he put away the talisman-making tools on the table and stood up to walk out of the cave dwelling.

"Xinhu, what is Thirteenth Uncle looking for me for?" Looking at Song Xinhu who walked in, Song Qingming asked with a gentle tone.

"Reporting to the Supreme Elder, someone from the law enforcement team just came to complain, saying it is related to the Jin Baotang of the Gao family. Thirteenth Uncle doesn't know how to handle it, so he asked me to find you to go and take a look."

After Song Xinhu had been tempered in a place like Qinghe Fang for a few years, he had already changed somewhat from when he first went down the mountain, no longer having that wooden appearance.

Although Song Xinhu's personality was somewhat introverted, he was indeed very diligent in his cultivation. Not long ago, he had successfully broken through to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, already exceeding Song Qingming's cultivation speed back then.

This was also because he had been following Song Qingming in Qinghe Fang these past few years. Not only had he basically never lacked cultivation resources, but he also had a Foundation Establishment cultivator giving him pointers from time to time. If he still cultivated slowly, it could only be said that his cultivation aptitude was too poor.

All these years, Song Qingming had always remembered the Great Elder's kindness to him back then. As long as he could take care of Song Xinhu, the descendant of the Great Elder, within his ability, he would not be stingy with those spiritual items.

"Then let's go for a trip. It's been a long time since I went out to move around." Song Qingming smiled, nodded, took the lead, and walked toward the law enforcement team, and Song Xinhu hurriedly followed behind him.

Hearing that the matter was related to the Gao family, Song Qingming also knew that Song Zhangxiong would definitely not be easy to handle. Although his term of guarding would end soon, dragging it without handling it was not good for the reputation of the market law enforcement team. If Lu Yuanfeng found out about this matter after coming out of seclusion early, it might make him have a very bad impression of him.

After arriving at the law enforcement team and listening to Song Zhangxiong tell the ins and outs of the matter, Song Qingming felt a burst of anger in his heart.

Because Gao Jinhe broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment these past few years, the Gao family's reputation in Qinghe Fang had risen greatly, and the Qi Refining cultivators below had also become quite arrogant. Song Qingming had guarded Qinghe Fang for these few years, and this was not the first time he had heard of their family's shops forcibly cheating and bullying weak rogue cultivators in the market.

Previously, most of them were just occasionally playing tricks on low-tier spiritual items. He didn't expect that they would dare to take action like this on second-tier spiritual items now. It was truly going a bit too far. Song Qingming thought to himself: "It seems that if I don't give them a knock this time, it won't work."

Song Qingming gave a few instructions calmly and sat in the main hall of the law enforcement palace.

Everyone, rest early.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 154 =====