Chapter 302: Poor War Situation

Although Gao Jinhe's lifespan is not much left, the Gao family has Gao Yuyao and Gao Yubai, one in the sect and one in the family, supporting each other. Once they both cultivate to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, it will not be difficult to cultivate one or two more Foundation Establishment cultivators in the future. The Gao family's future looks very bright.

Compared to the Gao family, the current situation of the Huang family at Mount Taiyuan is somewhat awkward. Although Huang Shengxin has failed to reach Core Formation twice, he has not completely given up the idea of Core Formation and is still consuming the Huang family's resources to prepare for his final attempt at Core Formation.

Huang Shengyue, who was sitting at the head of the table flipping through the accounts of the recent year, suddenly frowned and asked a Qi Condensation cultivator standing below: "The Qinghe Market hasn't just recovered, why are there still so many deficits in the accounts?"

"There were no deficits in Qinghe Market at first. Last month, the Clan Leader suddenly sent a sound transmission, withdrawing one thousand spirit stones from the market. Because the Clan Leader didn't say what it was for, it wasn't recorded." This Qi Condensation cultivator said while carefully observing the expressions of the two Foundation Establishment cultivators at the head of the table, fearing that what he said would cause displeasure to these two family ancestors.

After hearing this, Huang Shengyue was silent for a moment, then nodded and turned the page.

Knowing that Huang Shengxin was still consuming a large amount of the Huang family's resources for the last glimmer of ethereal hope for Core Formation, Huang Shengyue felt somewhat anxious in her heart, but she had no good way to stop this matter. Huang Shengyue also felt deeply helpless about this point.

Since Huang Shengxin began preparing for Core Formation, Huang Shengyue's cultivation had only broken through one layer in twenty years. Her own cultivation had also been delayed quite a bit, and now she had been caught up by the two latecomers, Gao Yubai and Song Qingming.

Although she was also a cultivator of the same generation as Huang Shengxin and had some weight in speaking before him, after all, Huang Shengxin was the Clan Leader of the Huang family. She had already done her best to get Huang Shengxin to agree to support Huang Sipo's Foundation Establishment first.

Faced with the temptation of Core Formation, in fact, most people sitting in Huang Shengxin's position would not be able to completely control their desire to go further.

Cultivating to Huang Shengxin's realm, there is not much lifespan left. If he cannot reach Core Formation, he can only watch his lifespan run out and sit in his cave dwelling waiting for death.

After all, cultivation seeks the Dao of longevity. For Huang Shengxin, as long as he can successfully reach Core Formation, it is not only an increase of three hundred years of lifespan, it is possible that he might get an opportunity in the future to go further, and even ascending is not impossible.

Aside from the point of lifespan, the glory that a Core Formation cultivator can bring to himself and his family is far from what a Foundation Establishment cultivator can compare to. In the entire Qinghe County, no one has successfully reached Core Formation for thousands of years. This is not because no one pursued this Dao, but because they all failed.

On one hand, it is the fear of death; on the other hand, it is the desire for higher strength and power. These two points are enough to make anyone become more selfish.

After checking the accounts, Huang Shengyue waved her hand at the few Qi Condensation cultivators below, letting them retreat first.

After those few people went out, Huang Shengyue turned her head and asked Huang Sipo on the side: "I heard that the Song family held a Grace and Honor Ceremony at Mount Funiu these past few days. Did they invite anyone else?"

"No outsiders have been to Mount Funiu. The Song family has been very honest all these years. Isn't Great-Aunt a bit too worried about them?" Huang Sipo replied with a chuckle.

Huang Shengyue shook her head at him and said: "When Song Qingming first reached Foundation Establishment back then, I thought the Song family would not last long like the Qian family back then. Now it seems I underestimated this kid Song Qingming too much. In the future, we still need to keep a closer eye on the Song family, to prevent Song Qingming from secretly leaning towards that old thing Gao Jinhe and stabbing us in the back.

Sipo, you are still a bit too young. In the future, when you are in charge, you must remember that no matter when, you must secretly guard against allies. The Song family and other families are the same. Our Huang family controls so many resources in Qinghe County that anyone will be jealous in secret, it's just that they usually won't show it."

Hearing Huang Shengyue say this, Huang Sipo nodded thoughtfully and did not reply anymore.

Lu Xingde of the Lu family and Huang Shengxin have some similarities. He also controls the resources of the entire Lu family, wholeheartedly striving only for ways to improve his own cultivation faster, and does not care much about other families' affairs.

In his eyes, all the resources of the Lu family should belong to him alone to enjoy, and others should not want to get a share. Even though there are two good seedlings for Foundation Establishment in the Lu family now, Lu Xingde still ignored them. However, the Lu family has not been doing well recently. After the last Qinghe Market incident, the Lu family suddenly lost the ownership of two shops in the market, and it is already not as good as before.

The Lu family has not had any changes or development all these years, and its strength has been slowly surpassed by the Song family. Lu Xingde does not care about this at all in his heart; he has always focused only on his own personal cultivation, wanting to try his best to raise his cultivation to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

However, this is not an easy task. Although Lu Xingde's lifespan is still very sufficient, since he cultivated to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, his cultivation speed has also slowed down. Even though he has worked very hard to cultivate and consumed a lot of resources, there is still no great progress at present, and I don't know if he can still cultivate to the late stage of Foundation Establishment in this lifetime.

After the Grace and Honor Ceremony ended, Song Qingming also entered closed-door cultivation. His current cultivation had also approached the bottleneck of the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, and this closed-door cultivation was also an attempt to see if he could break through his cultivation.

After intermittently being in closed-door cultivation for a year, Song Qingming tried several times, but in the end, he still failed to break through. It seems he still needs to think of other ways.

Just when Song Qingming planned to go to Yangshan Market to see if he could find any spiritual objects to assist in breaking through there, a sound transmission suddenly came from Qinghe Market, inviting Song Qingming over again.

After arriving at Qinghe Market, Song Qingming learned that it turned out that the war between the front line of the State of Lu and the Tianhai Alliance had suddenly suffered a setback. Faced with such a poor war situation, the Xiaoyao Sect planned to conscript a second batch of reinforcements to quickly rush over to support.

This time, the Xiaoyao Sect was not only going to mobilize its own cultivators, but even all the Foundation Establishment families in the State of Wei were going to start accepting conscription.

Hearing this news, Song Qingming also felt a bit helpless. The war in Qinghe Market had only ended less than three years ago, and he didn't expect that he would have to face a more cruel battle now.

After Song Qingyu inquired before Feng De, she learned that this second wave of conscription only conscripted Foundation Establishment cultivators from each family, and this conscription was also relatively broad. All Foundation Establishment families in the State of Wei should have to take turns going to the front line for a period of time.

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