Chapter 284: Heavy Losses

The reason Song Song Qingyu returned to Qinghe Market only now was also because she was too seriously injured before and was poisoned by Chen Chen Zicong's Black Python venom. For a time, she could not even fly with her sword. Later, she relied on a pair of legs to perform the lowest-tier Light Body Technique to rush back to the market.

Seeing that Song Song Qingyu was already covered in injuries and had been poisoned, Song Song Qingming hurriedly took out a few high-tier healing elixirs and handed them to her, letting her recover from the injuries on her body first.

With Song Song Qingming's help, Song Song Qingyu soon returned to her cave dwelling and went into seclusion to slowly refine the elixirs she had taken. It was not until half a day later that the complexion on her face finally recovered a hint of rosy color.

Seeing that Song Song Qingyu was temporarily out of danger, Song Song Qingming finally put his heart down completely and slowly asked her:

"Song Qingyu, tell me, what happened after you rushed out of the market."

"Yesterday, at first, I didn't know what happened. I was still in seclusion when I suddenly heard the sound of the market formation being destroyed, so I hurriedly walked out of the cave dwelling."

Under Song Song Qingyu's slow narration, Song Song Qingming finally knew what kind of dangerous situation she had encountered, and how she escaped later. What he did not expect was that the one who saved Song Song Qingyu in the end was actually Gao Gao Yubai, who had some grudges with him.

Knowing this answer, Song Song Qingming's mouth could not help but reveal a hint of a bitter smile. For a time, he did not know what he should say when he saw Gao Gao Yubai next time.

He did not expect this guy Gao Gao Yubai not to take the opportunity to kick Song Song Qingyu while she was down. On weekdays, looking at his arrogance and not putting others in his eyes, at the critical moment, he still distinguished right from wrong. It was a great blessing for the Gao family to have such a person to take over in the future.

After retaking Qinghe Market, under Lu Feng's unified command, all families soon counted their losses and prepared to start restoring daily operations, counting those who had made contributions to be rewarded later.

For several consecutive days, including the four major Foundation Establishment families, the dozens of large and small cultivation families in Qinghe County almost all had their faces covered with a layer of haze.

After the market formation was broken this time, although it was only for less than half a stick of incense, in that little time, the entire Qinghe Market was looted of various spiritual items worth nearly ten thousand spirit stones by those bandit cultivators.

There were also the spirit stones in the storage bags of the cultivators who died in their hands, estimated to be at least several thousand. It was just because the storage bags on their bodies were all looted by those bandit cultivators, and the specific number could not be counted for a time.

Whether it was the loss of spiritual items, or the cultivators and hundreds of mortals living in the market who died in this war, it was a tragedy.

Mortals were easy to say, but the loss of these cultivators was a very bone-breaking thing for every cultivation family. Not only the cultivation families in Qinghe County, but also many disciples under Lu Feng died in this turmoil, even his favorite third disciple, Hu Maocai, after following Song Song Qingyu to rush out of the market, was unfortunately targeted by several robbers with not low cultivation, and in the end, still could not escape, dying in a water pool not far from the market, without even leaving a complete corpse.

The Song family also suffered significant losses this time. Three cultivators who followed thirteenth uncle Song Song Changze into the Qinghe Market enforcement team died in battle on the spot, and even the fourth uncle Song Changqiu, who managed the family shop, died miserably under the bandits' knives in the final battle.

Looking at Fourth Aunt's family, who were heartbroken over Fourth Uncle's corpse, Song Song Qingming was also very sad in his heart. Fourth Uncle had no Daoist heart in his life and had long since given up cultivation to come to Qinghe Market. After forming a family, he only wanted his family to live safely for the rest of their lives, but he did not expect to encounter this sudden disaster and die tragically here.

Except for the four who died, most of the remaining Song family cultivators were injured. Second sister Song Song Qingwan was also injured in her meridians when fighting the enemy. Although she has taken healing pills and there is no danger to her life, it will take a long time of recuperation to recover. It is estimated that she will not be able to refine pills again in the next few years.

The family had just developed steadily after the beast riots, but he did not expect that it would encounter a disaster so soon. Song Song Qingming did not take the loss of spiritual items too much to heart. The precious spiritual items in the shop were all carried by Song Song Qingyu in advance. The lost ones were all low-tier spiritual items, adding up to only one or two hundred spirit stones.

What Song Song Qingming felt most distressed about was the loss of cultivators. Compared to other Foundation Establishment families, the Song family was originally short of people. Losing so many lives here all at once was enough to make Song Song Qingming, the head of the family, feel a huge headache.

Like the Huang family, which had over two hundred Qi Refining cultivators, losing a few cultivators basically would not have any impact on their family. But the Song family had only a few dozen people in total, and losing nearly one-tenth of the cultivators all at once, how could Song Song Qingming not feel distressed?

Fortunately, Song Song Qingyu, whom he cared about most, although injured, was generally fine. After resting for a period of time, once Song Song Qingyu used her magic power to force the toxin out of her body, she should be able to recover seven or eight out of ten.

Just when Song Song Qingyu was still in seclusion for healing, Lu Feng suddenly came here again and happened to run into Song Song Qingming, who was protecting Song Song Qingyu during her seclusion for healing.

"Brother Lu, Song Qingyu's injury is somewhat heavy this time. It is estimated that it will take some time for her to come out of seclusion. If there is anything convenient, you can also tell me directly."

Hearing that Song Song Qingyu was in seclusion, Lu Feng was not too surprised and said with a heavy face to Song Song Qingming: "This time the market was broken, the incident was somewhat strange. After I investigated for a few days, I discovered some strange places and wanted to come over to ask and verify with Fellow Daoist Song Qingyu."

Knowing Lu Feng's purpose for coming, Song Song Qingming was also somewhat surprised and asked casually: "Could it be that you found the insider?"

"I haven't mentioned the insider to anyone yet. How did you guess, Brother?" Lu Feng asked with a shocked face.

"A few days ago, I heard from the family law enforcement team that they encountered several batches of strange cultivators who specifically infiltrated the market to make trouble on the night of the incident. From what happened later, they should be the bandit cultivators who infiltrated in advance, specifically mixing into the market to wait for an opportunity to destroy the most important protective mountain formation of the market's defense.

Plus the day they specifically chose, except for Gao Gao Yubai, we were all contained on Taiyuan Mountain. I think they should not have known that we were all not there by such a coincidence; they must have calculated the time in advance, knowing that we would be very difficult to rush back to support until the market was broken."

Song Song Qingming smiled and told Lu Feng all the doubts and guesses he had thought of these days.

Lu Feng nodded and said with a heavy face: "You are right. I have already found some clues on my side and also found a few suspicious people. It is estimated that it won't take long, Brother, for you to know who the insider is."

"In that case, I will wait and see here, Brother."

(End of Chapter)