Chapter 190: Duanliu Mountain

Upon hearing the news that Huang Shengxin was forming his core, Song Qingming finally understood why the current Taiyuan Mountain had fallen into such a tense state, with even the mountain-protecting formation running all the time.

A cultivator's seclusion for Core Formation takes at least a few years. If someone forcibly disturbs it during this period, it will definitely fall short of success. For Huang Shengxin's Core Formation, the Huang family must use all resources and strength to guard Taiyuan Mountain well. Compared with this matter, the small amount of territory outside that had been swallowed by the Gao and Lu families naturally did not count as very important.

Once the Huang family possessed a Golden Core cultivator, not to mention Qinghe County in the future, all cultivation families in the entire Jiangling Prefecture would look to the Huang family as their leader. By then, the Huang family would be the hegemon of the northeast of Wei Guo.

After knowing this news, Song Qingming finally felt a bit more stable in his heart. Regardless of whether Huang Shengxin could successfully form his core, as long as this Foundation Establishment peak patriarch was still there, the Huang family would definitely not collapse suddenly.

The only thing that needs attention is that Huang Shengxin's remaining lifespan is not too much. If he cannot successfully form his core this time, calculated by the 250-year limit of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his lifespan only has sixty-plus years left. If the Huang family cannot cultivate new Foundation Establishment cultivators in the future, their status in Qinghe County will also decline somewhat.

Although Core Formation is difficult for a cultivator, it will not be as dangerous as Foundation Establishment. Failure in Core Formation at most only requires a few years of healing to recover as before. It's just that if he wants to form his core again, it depends on whether he can have another opportunity to find such a spirit item that can assist in Core Formation.

"Fellow Daoist Huang, now that the Gao family is so aggressive, I wonder if you have any way to deal with them?"

Huang Shengyue looked at Song Qingming and sighed: "The reason why the Gao family is so aggressive this time is also because their family cultivated another Foundation Establishment junior a few years ago. This person is named Gao Yubai, a dual-spirit-root cultivator. Although the time he reached Foundation Establishment is not much different from yours, this person has excellent talent, and his current cultivation is estimated to be higher than yours."

"The Gao family still hides a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Why have I never heard anyone mention this?" Song Qingming asked with a puzzled expression.

Huang Shengyue smiled and said slowly: "Otherwise, why do you think Gao Jinhe has such confidence to dare to take action against our Huang family this time? Although the Gao family has hidden this person very well over the years, it is not so easy to completely avoid the eyes and ears of our Huang family. We actually knew about this person's situation two years ago."

Song Qingming nodded after listening, and suddenly understood this problem in his heart. The Gao family had one more Foundation Establishment cultivator, and with Lu Xingde's help, even if Huang Shengxin was fine, their strength on this side could already contend with the Huang family's two Foundation Establishment cultivators. No wonder they now had the courage to turn against them, and the Huang family had always been afraid to fight back.

"Fellow Daoist Song, now that the Gao and Lu families are forcing us so much, these days, I am indeed a bit unable to support the situation alone. Now that you are back, I want to take this opportunity to show them some color, so that they can restrain themselves a bit next. I wonder what you think?"

"Our two families have long been of one mind. Fellow Daoist Huang, if you have any ideas, please speak frankly."

Huang Shengyue already knew about the Gao family forcing the Song family earlier. This time, Song Qingming took the initiative to find her, which just happened to give her an opportunity to propose the matter of joining forces against the enemy.

The Huang family had occupied more than half of the resources in Qinghe County for many years. This time, having an opportunity, Gao Jinhe joining forces with the Lu family to seize the Huang family's territory was indeed within expectations. It's just that he didn't expect that when he was away, Gao Jinhe didn't even intend to let the Song family go. Both sides had already turned against each other. Now, even if Song Qingming wanted not to stand on the same boat as the Huang family, it was impossible.

Huang Shengyue nodded and said in a deep voice: "Over the past two months, the Gao family has occupied several of our Huang family's external spirit mountains. Among them, there is a spirit mountain that produces refined copper, which is a relatively important mineral vein of our Huang family. The Gao family must have sent heavy troops to guard this place. I plan to join forces with you to directly seize it back.

As long as your Song family agrees to take action, after the matter is done, I can make the decision to give up 40% of the shares. Our two families can jointly mine this mineral vein next. What do you think, Fellow Daoist Song?"

Upon hearing this, Song Qingming thought that the Huang family was willing to use nearly half of the mineral vein to invite them to help. This was indeed a pretty good reward for the Song family. Song Qingming thought slightly and soon agreed.

After the two planned the plan, Song Qingming soon left Taiyuan Mountain and returned to Funiu Mountain to start preparing to mobilize the Song family cultivators.

A few days later, beside a high mountain hundreds of miles south of the Huang family's Taiyuan Mountain.

This mountain is named Duanliu Mountain, located at the boundary of the Huang and Lu family forces. Originally, this was just a barren mountain with few human footprints, and there was no spirit vein.

Twenty years ago, a Qi Refining family under the Huang family inadvertently discovered a large-scale refined copper mineral vein on this mountain. After some investigation, the family cultivators found that their family's strength was low and they were unable to mine this mineral vein, so they simply donated this mineral vein directly to the Huang family in exchange for some rewards and shares.

After the Huang family obtained this mineral vein, they soon directly cultivated a first-grade top-quality spirit vein here and also moved many mortals to help mine the ore. As time passed, Duanliu Mountain soon became a spirit mountain with vigorous spiritual energy.

Not long after, the Lu family in the south soon learned the news that the Huang family was mining refined copper in Duanliu Mountain. Because this mountain was located at the boundary between the two families, the Lu family also wanted to come and share a piece of the pie. However, because the Huang family was powerful at that time, after receiving Lu Xingde's invitation to jointly mine the mineral vein, they decisively refused and did not give the Lu family face. The two families also began to turn against each other that year.

Just past noon, a Huang family cultivator at the late stage of Qi Refining, wearing the unique magic robe of Huang family cultivators, swaggered toward Duanliu Mountain.

Just as he walked to the side of the mountain-protecting formation, two Gao family cultivators suddenly jumped out from inside and stopped this person.

"Two fellow daoists, I am Huang Xiantang from Taiyuan Mountain. I am here under the family's order to discuss the matter of returning Duanliu Mountain. Please trouble the two of you to report."

"Fellow Daoist Huang, please!" Seeing that the person was indeed from the Huang family and knew the etiquette well, he should have been sent by the Huang family to discuss returning this mineral vein. One person had already come before. Seeing this situation, the two Gao family members did not say much and directly invited him into the formation.

It's just that, before a stick of incense had passed, several Gao family members together blasted Huang Xiantang down from the mountain, looking somewhat displeased.

"You are really too much. This was originally my Huang family's spirit mountain. May I ask, what is the reason for your Gao family to occupy it for no reason? Does your Gao family not have its own spirit mountain?"

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