Chapter 264: Meeting Bai Yunhua Again

After the two discussed for a while in the restaurant, Song Xinyu returned to Mount Guyang.

Early the next morning, Song Qingming went up Mount Guyang alone and came to the spiritual mountain where the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall was located.

It wasn't the first time Song Qingming came to the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall. Back then, in order to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill, he ran to the Law Enforcement Hall several times, so he was already very familiar with this place.

After explaining his intention to the Xiaoyao Sect disciple on duty, after waiting for about a stick of incense, the cultivator who went to report came out and brought Song Qingming into the Law Enforcement Hall.

Seeing the two Foundation Establishment cultivators on duty in the hall, one old and one young, Song Qingming didn't hide anything and soon told the whole story of Song Qingze's murder, wanting to ask the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall to help clarify this matter.

Learning that several disciples in the sect were missing and one inner sect disciple had been murdered, the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall also attached great importance to it and hurriedly began to send disciples to inquire about this matter.

After Song Qingming reported this matter, he patiently returned to the restaurant in Yangshan Square to wait for the results of the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall's inquiry. Since he had come on this trip, he couldn't just come in vain. Song Qingming took advantage of his spare time to walk around Yangshan Square and collected some second-grade talisman-making materials.

After alarming the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall, this matter soon had a clue. A few days later, Song Qingming, who was staying in the square's inn, received a summons from the Xiaoyao Sect's Law Enforcement Hall and came here again.

After entering the door this time, besides the two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Law Enforcement Hall who had entertained him earlier, two more Foundation Establishment cultivators were sitting on the side. One of them, a very young white-clothed man, hurriedly stood up and greeted Song Qingming after seeing him.

"Senior Song, do you still recognize me?"

"Oh! It's Fellow Daoist Bai. You and I are already people of the same path, so don't call me Senior anymore. Let's call each other Fellow Daoist from now on!"

Seeing the familiar face of the person who came, Song Qingming instantly remembered this person's identity. He was the second-grade formation master of the Xiaoyao Sect who helped the Song clan's Mount Funiu upgrade its spiritual vein, Bai Yunhua.

Back then, when Song Qingming asked him to help upgrade the Mount Funiu spiritual vein, Bai Yunhua had lived in the Song clan for half a year. Although Song Qingming didn't see him often, his memory of him in his brain was still very deep. After all, a Foundation Establishment cultivator's memory was already comparable to ordinary people.

When Song Qingming asked him to go out of the mountain to Qinghe County, this person's cultivation base was still at the ninth layer of Qi Condensation. Now that twenty years had passed, Bai Yunhua had also become a Foundation Establishment second-layer cultivator. By comparison, his identity had long been a world of difference.

"Fellow Daoist Song, our Law Enforcement Hall has already found some clues about the death of Martial Nephew Qingze. He went to Black Stone Valley with several sect disciples and then went missing. A total of six people went, including him. The situation of the others is the same as his; they haven't returned to the sect since then. However, they didn't leave any soul lamps in the sect, so we still don't know their life or death situation."

"Black Stone Valley? What did Third Brother go there for? Was it a task assigned by the sect?"

Hearing that Song Qingze went to Black Stone Valley with others, Song Qingming's face also appeared very surprised. He really couldn't figure out why Third Brother and others went there.

Black Stone Valley was located in the west of Wei Country. That place was once a dead land of absolute spirit fought out of an ancient battlefield. For hundreds of miles around, besides giant stones half-burned into black charcoal, let alone people, there wasn't even a single demonic beast. It was a dead land without any vitality.

"That's not the case. Fellow Daoist Song also knows that that place is a dead land of absolute spirit. The sect has no industries nearby, so it's impossible to send disciples to perform tasks near there. The reason they went there this time is because someone said they found an ancient cultivation cave dwelling near Black Stone Valley and wanted to go there to seek some opportunities, so they invited Martial Nephew Qingze and others to go explore together. This matter was asked from two disciples who were not persuaded by them to go together, which our law enforcement team found yesterday. According to what the two of them said, the place mentioned by the two disciples who invited them was near Black Stone Valley. Because the two of them didn't agree to participate later, the situation they knew was only this much.

As for what changes Martial Nephew Qingze and the others encountered after leaving the sect, it is still unknown. After several martial brothers and I discussed it yesterday, we intend to go to Black Stone Valley together today to investigate the truth of this matter, so as to comfort the spirits of several martial nephews in heaven."

Song Qingming nodded and said, "In this way, it will take some time to clarify this matter. I wonder why several Fellow Daoists invited me here today?"

Bai Yunhua heard this and exchanged glances with several others before saying, "Inviting you here today, Fellow Daoist, is also to ask you for a favor, to go to Black Stone Valley with us to find the place where several martial nephews fell."

"This! Although I have been cultivating for some years, I haven't cultivated any secret techniques for finding people?" Hearing Bai Yunhua want to call him to go together, Song Qingming felt very surprised.

The Xiaoyao Sect's law enforcement team rarely let outsiders participate in executing tasks. Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator with some strength like Song Qingming was unlikely to be seen by the Xiaoyao Sect's law enforcement team. Like today, in order to search for the whereabouts of several Qi Condensation disciples, being able to gather four Foundation Establishment cultivators to act together was already completely enough. How could they need Song Qingming to help?

"Fellow Daoist Song, it's like this. The disciples who went missing this time are all Qi Condensation cultivators and didn't leave soul lamps in the sect. Relying only on some items used during their lifetime, it is very difficult to determine their specific location. This time, we discussed it and intend to use Martial Brother Wang's blood-connection secret technique to search. This requires a close relative of the missing person. Today, we invited you here, Fellow Daoist, hoping you can take action to help."

After Bai Yunhua finished speaking, another middle-aged man who looked a bit older stepped forward and said again, "This method requires taking out some essence blood from the cultivator's body to lead the way. Cultivators with too low cultivation bases losing essence blood will affect their future cultivation a bit. However, it doesn't matter for a Foundation Establishment cultivator like you, Fellow Daoist. Losing this little essence blood will basically have no impact on your current cultivation base."

Hearing these words, Song Qingming finally understood. Originally, he thought they had clarified the investigation when he came, but after listening to Bai Yunhua talk for a long time without any results, he was already puzzled in his heart. It wasn't until now that he finally knew their purpose.

After thinking for a while, Song Qingming didn't want to reject the Law Enforcement Hall's face like this, so he nodded and agreed to their proposal, following them to search for the missing Xiaoyao Sect cultivators.

The reason he agreed so readily was mainly for Third Brother Song Qingze. After all, they were brothers once, and Song Qingming also hoped that he could know the truth of his death earlier.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 265 =====