Chapter 279

On the Taiyuan Mountain side, Song Qingming and the others were still tasting the exquisite banquet prepared by the Huang family, when suddenly a colorful light flew over at high speed in the sky and fell to the top of Taiyuan Mountain.

Before long, a young Huang family cultivator ran over in a hurry and handed a sound-transmission talisman that still carried spiritual light to Huang Shengxin. Seeing this, everyone's gaze shifted to the few Huang family members located in the center of the banquet.

After Huang Shengxin opened the sound-transmission talisman, his face changed instantly. He said to Lu Yuanfeng, who was already standing beside him: "Fellow Daoist Lu, the news from Qinghe Market is that a large group of bandit cultivators are attacking the market."

"What, Fellow Daoist Huang, you didn't make a mistake, right? Someone is actually attacking Qinghe Market!"

Hearing this news from Huang Shengxin, everyone present stood up one after another, revealing a shocked look.

When Qinghe Market was first established, because the overall strength of Qinghe County was relatively weak and the garrison strength was not strong, it was often targeted by surrounding bandit cultivator forces. Several times, the entire market was broken by others, not only was the property robbed, but also each family lost quite a few cultivators.

Later, with the overall strength of Qinghe County becoming stronger and stronger, plus the Xiaoyao Sect also starting to attach importance to the experience of the market in the northeast, they sent Foundation Establishment cultivators to help sit in charge. Only then could Qinghe Market be considered stable. Especially in the last hundred years, although occasionally someone would come to the market and its surroundings to make trouble, everyone had never seen anyone dare to attack Qinghe Market so blatantly.

Not only Qinghe Market, but many markets around the northeast corner of Wei were also the same. This place was adjacent to the Zheng country in the east, and Zheng country was a country that was often in turmoil. Every time the two major sects of Zheng country fought internally, many cultivators would escape to the Wei country to avoid the turmoil. After these cultivators came over, they were not welcomed by the local cultivators in Wei, so they couldn't get much cultivation resources. Slowly, many people gathered together to become bandit cultivators in order to grab cultivation resources, and started the no-capital business of robbing and looting.

Among these people, not only were there cultivators who had fallen into trouble from Zheng country, but there were also many local wicked people in Wei who had committed crimes and escaped here to avoid disaster. The Yingchao Ridge that Song Qingming and the others went to clear a few years ago was a group of such bandit cultivators.

These people were all desperate people who only looked at immediate interests. Even if they knew that the Xiaoyao Sect had a large share in Qinghe Market, as long as they could grab it, they wouldn't retreat.

Hearing that Qinghe Market had been attacked, Song Qingming immediately couldn't sit still. Now Lu Yuanfeng was not in Qinghe Market, and only Song Qingyu, who had just established her Foundation not long ago, was left in the market. Once the market was broken, facing those cruel bandit cultivators, Song Qingyu's safety made him have to frown, and his heart was already extremely anxious.

Of course, he wasn't the only one who was anxious. Qinghe Market, after all, involved the interests of almost all cultivation families in Qinghe County. Once the market was broken, the loss would be immeasurable.

"Everyone! It seems that this banquet cannot continue today. Everyone, follow Fellow Daoist Lu and go directly to Qinghe Market! I hope we are still in time." After the few cultivators at the scene discussed, they only left Huang Sipo, who had just established his Foundation, to gather the Qi Condensation cultivators nearby. Six Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Song Qingming, set off immediately to support the market first.

Taiyuan Mountain was more than eight hundred miles away from Qinghe Market. Even if Foundation Establishment cultivators rushed at full speed, it would take at least two hours. It's just a pity that none of the few people present had magic tools like flying boats that could improve the speed of rushing, otherwise they could greatly speed up the speed of rushing.

Accompanied by several loud noises, the Qinghe Market's mountain-protecting formation began to shake again.

"Everyone, increase your efforts to attack the east side of the market for me. The brothers who sneaked in have already destroyed the formation pulse there. The formation won't last long."

Cheng Yilong was the boss of the Yingchao Ridge bandit cultivators. In order to successfully take down Qinghe Market this time, he also specially found a group of bandit cultivators nearby to help. This time, their two families sent a total of three Foundation Establishment and more than a hundred relatively elite Qi Condensation cultivators, just intending to take advantage of Lu Yuanfeng's absence to break Qinghe Market in one fell swoop.

After he unified Yingchao Ridge, his actions had always been relatively cautious. Cheng Yilong also knew that attacking the market so blatantly would definitely bring the revenge of Qinghe County and the Xiaoyao Sect in the future. The reason why he took the risk this time was also to grab a sum of money to raise resources for his future core formation.

These bandit cultivators under his command were all vicious people. Sometimes, for a little cultivation resource, they wouldn't even let go of their own people. As long as they could successfully break the market's mountain-protecting formation, the remaining defensive forces in the market naturally wouldn't be the opponents of these people.

In the entire Qinghe Market, besides Foundation Establishment cultivator Song Qingyu, there were more than forty law enforcement team cultivators guarding the market who were relatively combat-capable. The remaining people in these shops, except for more than a dozen Qi Condensation late-stage cultivators with higher cultivation, were mostly people with poor Dao paths sent by their families to operate businesses in the market.

They were long out of practice, and their spell-casting abilities were basically difficult to beat cultivators of the same tier, let alone those cruel bandit cultivators outside. Once the market formation was broken, these people would likely scatter like birds and beasts.

This was not the most fatal part. Now the biggest gap between the two sides was the Foundation Establishment cultivators who decided the outcome. The other side had three Foundation Establishment cultivators, and each of them had cultivation not lower than hers. Once the mountain-protecting formation was broken, relying on her alone, it was definitely impossible to contain all the Foundation Establishment cultivators on the other side. Once they were free, those Qi Condensation cultivators in the market facing a Foundation Establishment cultivator would definitely collapse at the first touch. At that time, only the fate of being slaughtered would be left.

"Qingyu, the other side has started to concentrate their strength to attack the east side where the formation pulse was damaged. It is estimated that the formation won't last long. We still have to hurry and think of a countermeasure to see how we can persist until Senior Lu and the others arrive to support."

In the mountain-protecting formation, Second Sister Song Qingwan, with a worried face, looked at the bandit cultivators outside attacking more and more fiercely, and a hint of panic could not help but flash in her eyes.

Although the mountain-protecting formation was activated in time, because of the destruction by the inside traitor bandit cultivators, there were still two formation pulses that were seriously damaged, and the bandit cultivators outside the formation obviously also noticed this point and started to attack the weak points of the formation.

"Send someone to take out all the spirit stones in the market's inventory. Tell Thirteenth Uncle to send all the gathered cultivators to the east side. No matter what, we must hold on first. For everyone who participated in this defense, distribute ten spirit stones to each person on the spot."

At this moment, although Song Qingyu was actually very panicked in her heart, she was also facing this dangerous situation for the first time. But she still appeared relatively calm on the surface. As the only Foundation Establishment cultivator in the market, Song Qingyu knew deeply that she was the backbone of the entire Qinghe Market at this moment. Once she showed a hint of panic, the cultivators below would probably soon follow and become chaotic.

(End of chapter)