Chapter 251: Action Failed

Eagle Nest Ridge is located in a deep mountain connecting the northeast of the State of Wei and the State of Zheng in the east. This place belongs to a vacuum of power between the two countries and is adjacent to the relatively harsh Mount Yunwu, which has always been sparsely populated.

Because of this, Eagle Nest Ridge is somewhat similar to Mount Bai Long. Many loose cultivators who have nowhere to go and those robbers who rob and plunder, in order to avoid the wanted orders of the cultivators of the two countries, all gathered here because they were birds of a feather.

Decades ago, a loose cultivator named Cheng Yilong offended a Foundation Establishment immortal family in the State of Zheng and fled to Eagle Nest Ridge.

This person was originally just a little-known small Qi Refining loose cultivator when he was in the State of Zheng. Unexpectedly, after he fled to Eagle Nest Ridge, his luck began to turn. He didn't know where he got the opportunity, but he actually successfully reached Foundation Establishment.

After Cheng Yilong reached Foundation Establishment, he soon brought all the vicious and evil people near Eagle Nest Ridge under his command, and he didn't refuse anyone who came to take refuge in him, which also made the strength of Eagle Nest Ridge gradually grow and become a not-so-small scourge in the northeast of the State of Wei.

These bandit cultivators often mixed into Jiangling Prefecture of the State of Wei to do some killing and looting. Not only Qinghe Market, but also Jin Shan Market in Pingyang County, Jiangling Market in Jiangling County, and several other markets nearby were also deeply harmed.

At first, these people just colluded with some greedy people in Qinghe Market to attack those loose cultivators who had no background. Lu Yuanfeng and the major Foundation Establishment families like the Huang family didn't pay much attention to this matter.

Later, these people became more and more daring and actually killed a cultivator under the Huang family, which immediately angered the major Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County. Led by the Huang family, after a thorough investigation of Qinghe Market, they finally found the scourges who colluded with Eagle Nest Ridge. It's just a pity that the robbers of Eagle Nest Ridge saw that the situation was not good and ran away in advance, letting them not catch a single one. Since then, Qinghe County has finally been quiet for a while.

A few years later, the people of Eagle Nest Ridge killed several Jin Shan Market cultivators in Jin Shan Market in Pingyang County again. The major families in Pingyang County united and sent many cultivators to crusade under the leadership of the Cao family.

As a result, because Eagle Nest Ridge was well-informed, not long after the Pingyang County cultivators set off, Cheng Yilong knew about this matter early. Seeing that the other party was powerful, Cheng Yilong decisively abandoned the spiritual mountain and took his subordinates to hide in Mount Yunwu, letting the Pingyang County cultivators make a wasted trip.

After the Pingyang County cultivators left, these people returned to Eagle Nest Ridge under the leadership of Cheng Yilong and continued to scourge one side.

This time, Lu Yuanfeng arranged it this way, traveling light and bringing as few cultivators as possible, precisely to avoid the ears and eyes of Eagle Nest Ridge on the road and catch them off guard when they were unprepared. According to his idea, as long as things went smoothly, it was very likely to wipe out this scourge.

After agreeing here, the major families began to go back and prepare urgently.

The Song family's late-stage Qi Refining cultivators are not very many now. Added to Shi Chun who joined the Song family not long ago, there are only eight in total.

Qingming could only summon all the late-stage Qi Refining cultivators in the clan except for Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng and Second Sister Song Qingwan, and after conscripting a few people from the subordinate Qi Refining families, he barely gathered ten people.

Three days later, on a small spiritual vein north of Qinghe Market, Lu Yuanfeng led the dozens of people gathered here and headed north directly under the cover of night.

This time, besides the five Foundation Establishment cultivators who participated in the meeting that day, there were also over fifty late-stage Qi Refining cultivators from various families.

It's just a pity that the two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators with the highest cultivation in Qinghe County, Huang Shengxin and Gao Jinhe, were unable to come this time.

Huang Shengxin happened to have something to leave Qinghe County for the Xiaoyao Sect more than half a month ago, and he didn't know when he would return.

Gao Jinhe of the Gao family had been in seclusion ever since he went to the Taiyue Lake secret realm last time. He had been acting against the norm for these years and had never come out to show his face. In recent years, the person in charge of the Gao family outside had always been Gao Yubai.

According to the Huang family's speculation, the reason why Gao Jinhe was in seclusion should be to heal his injuries. It seems that he was not injured lightly and has not fully recovered until now.

Now most of the Foundation Establishment cultivators in Qinghe County have left. To ensure the safety of Qinghe Market, Lu Yuanfeng specially summoned his eldest disciple Yuan Wencai, who had already reached Foundation Establishment, back to garrison Qinghe Market for him for a period of time.

This time, the major Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County were of one mind and quickly killed towards Eagle Nest Ridge located in the northeast of Qinghe County.

Everyone traveled light and acted cautiously along the way. After more than ten days of emergency rushing, they finally arrived near Eagle Nest Ridge within the scheduled time.

Just when everyone was rubbing their hands and preparing to do a big job, Lu Xingde, who was responsible for rushing to scout, brought back a piece of news that shocked them very much: Eagle Nest Ridge was silent, as if there was no one there long ago.

Upon learning this news, Lu Yuanfeng's face turned pale and he hurriedly led everyone to kill towards Eagle Nest Ridge directly.

Sure enough, just as Lu Xingde guessed, at this time, Eagle Nest Ridge was already a mess. Cheng Yilong, this cunning fox, seemed to have left here a few days in advance.

Facing this situation, everyone in Qinghe County changed their faces one after another. This time they had acted so cautiously, but they didn't expect that the news was still leaked, causing everyone to make a wasted trip.

The few leading Foundation Establishment cultivators looked at each other, and it seemed that each had their own suspected targets in their hearts, but everyone had no actual evidence and couldn't say it directly.

"This is not necessarily leaked by our own people. It is also possible that the people of Eagle Nest Ridge bumped into us somewhere and guessed our purpose for this trip." Lu Yuanfeng, who was responsible for organizing everyone to come here this time, saw that the atmosphere at the scene was a bit awkward and hurriedly came out to smooth things over with a bitter smile.

The few people at the scene, Lu Yuanfeng was the oldest and had the highest cultivation, and he was also a cultivator from the Xiaoyao Sect. Since he spoke, everyone had to give him this bit of face and nodded in agreement with his statement.

Seeing that Eagle Nest Ridge was prepared, this action had failed, and everyone had to accept this fact, although they were very reluctant in their hearts.

Unable to find those robbers of Eagle Nest Ridge, everyone who had nowhere to vent their anger could only make a big scene on this spiritual mountain before leaving here.

After the people of Qinghe County left, a figure wrapped in black clothes suddenly emerged from a low mountain next to Eagle Nest Ridge.

This black-clad man looked around carefully, and seeing that there were no people nearby, he left this place sneakily.

Half an hour later, the black-clad man arrived at a cave a hundred miles away from Eagle Nest Ridge, where over a hundred bandit cultivators of Eagle Nest Ridge had all gathered.

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