Chapter 314: Second-Grade Puppet Beast

In such a tense atmosphere, another half a month passed. As a result, strangely, Huanglong Market was always very calm, and there were no Tianhai Alliance cultivators attacking as everyone imagined.

Huanglong Market was finally stable on the surface, and everyone responsible for guarding the market gradually let go of their tense nerves and lived a relaxed life.

Aside from daily cultivation and taking turns guarding at the market gate, Song Qingming and these Foundation Establishment cultivators had no other specific things to do, unlike in Qinghe Market where they still had to manage the trivial matters of the market.

Song Qingming had plenty of time and often wandered around the few shops opened by the Lingyin Sect in the market. Because there were no shops opened by other cultivators in the market, all the cultivators stationed here who wanted to purchase or exchange materials with merit could only come to these few shops opened by the Lingyin Sect.

After Song Qingming came to Huanglong Market for a period of time, he discovered that there were many characteristic spiritual objects here that were not available in the State of Wei, and some low-tier spiritual objects that could be seen everywhere in the markets of the State of Wei could not be found here instead.

Like the puppet beasts that are very rare in the State of Wei, there are many in the markets of the State of Lu. Not only first-tier puppet beasts, but even second-tier puppet beasts, which are very rare in the entire State of Wei, don't seem to be rare spiritual objects here. Even in this inconspicuous Huanglong Market, there are several second-tier puppet beasts. However, these few puppet beasts are not owned by individuals, but are uniformly allocated by the Lingyin Sect to cooperate in guarding the market, and belong to the assets within the Lingyin Sect.

After Song Qingming stayed in Huanglong Market for a period of time, he gradually understood all the defensive forces of this market. When he first saw a team of security cultivators in the market training together with a second-tier puppet beast standing on the city wall, Song Qingming still revealed a look of surprise.

After Song Qingming intentionally inquired about it, he learned that aside from the few Foundation Establishment cultivators like Liu Wenguan, there were also four second-tier puppet beasts in Huanglong Market assisting in guarding this market. When Huanglong Market was attacked last time, if it weren't for these few puppet beasts helping to contain several people at a critical moment, even with a master like Liu Wenguan at the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment facing the siege of multiple people, it would be very difficult to find an opportunity to use that third-grade spirit talisman that determined the fate of the entire Huanglong Market.

An ordinary second-tier puppet beast, although it only has half the strength of a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the same tier, when facing the desperate attack of a second-tier puppet beast, sometimes it can also make cultivators of the same tier who do not understand the characteristics of puppet beasts rush around in confusion. This kind of spiritual object plays a very large role in the battle of cultivators of the same tier.

When Song Qingming was still in the Qi Condensation stage back then, he had always wanted a second-tier puppet beast. It's a pity that after he reached Foundation Establishment, he only saw a somewhat special second-tier puppet beast in the Tiandan Alliance auction. At that time, his hands were tight, so he could only watch others take down this object. After he was no longer short of these spirit stones, he never saw similar spiritual objects again.

Coming to support the State of Lu, now as long as you have enough merit, you can immediately go to the Merit Hall of the Lingyin Sect to directly exchange for a second-tier puppet beast. And there are not only second-tier puppet beasts in there, even if you want a third-tier puppet beast, the Lingyin Sect can take it out, provided you can earn enough merit. Many of these are exchanged with life.

All spiritual objects in the Merit Hall of the Lingyin Sect require a certain amount of merit to exchange. The current Song Qingming does not have enough merit to exchange for spiritual objects of the second-tier puppet beast level, so he can only sigh at the ocean.

When Song Qingming was still in the Qi Condensation stage back then, he had operated several first-tier puppet beasts, and he was quite interested in this kind of spiritual object. It's just that later, after his cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, the help of the puppet beasts in his hands to him became lower and lower, until later, after Song Qingming lost the giant ape puppet beast he had been carrying on his body in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, he never used this kind of spiritual object again.

As long as the spiritual sense is strong enough, the help of puppet beasts to cultivators is very large. In a general cultivator battle, if you can suddenly control a puppet beast of the same tier to join the battle, it is enough to affect the balance of victory or defeat.

Second-tier puppet beasts, aside from being controlled by Foundation Establishment cultivators, three or four Qi Condensation cultivators together can also barely control spiritual objects of this level. If you can get a second-tier puppet beast here and put it in the family, it can also greatly improve the overall combat effectiveness of the Qi Condensation cultivators below in the Song family.

Although Song Qingming has this idea in his heart, a second-tier puppet beast needs at least five thousand spirit stones in the market. The merit required in the Lingyin Sect's Merit Pavilion naturally will not be too low. Just by guarding here in Huanglong Market for one year, if there is no major merit, it is absolutely impossible to exchange for spiritual objects of this level.

Fortunately, there is still nearly a year left. Song Qingming can still inquire about where he can directly purchase this kind of spiritual object. If it really doesn't work, he can only wait until he has the opportunity to come to the State of Lu to see again in the future.

Just like this, Song Qingming stayed in Huanglong Market for half a year. Although he encountered several requests for help from convoys transporting materials attacked by infiltrated Tianhai Alliance cultivators in the middle, by the time they rushed to the scene of the incident to rescue, the other side had either already finished robbing and ran away, or saw that they couldn't attack for a long time and chose to retreat. Song Qingming and the others didn't have any opportunity to fight with the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the other side at all.

As for Huanglong Market, since Song Qingming and the others came, there has been no war here. The batch of Qi Condensation cultivators who came to guard here with them all looked very excited. Being able to be assigned to such a safe place can be considered as having hit the jackpot.

In contrast, on the front battlefield of the State of Lu, both sides have fought several more battles in the past half a year. Although there was no loss of combat power at the Golden Core level, the losses of both sides of low-tier cultivators like Foundation Establishment and Qi Condensation were not small. The high-level officials of both the Lingyin Sect and the Tianhai Alliance had no major actions during this period of time, just maintaining the battle line, and from time to time both sides found an excuse to fight, but in the end, they couldn't fight out a result, just wasting a lot of low-tier cultivators and materials in vain.

Regarding the stable days now, Song Qingming had no objections. Even if he returned to the State of Wei empty-handed, it wouldn't matter, as long as he could save his little life.

However, Cao Rongxue, who came together, was somewhat unwilling. She seemed to be very eager to make contributions. Every time, whether it was supporting the battle or going to escort materials, she was the one who rushed to the front. This made Song Qingming, who had an average attitude towards tasks, feel somewhat embarrassed. Fortunately, there was also a Zhao Mengzhen who had similar thoughts to him. Both of them were people who prioritized saving their lives. Many times, their thoughts could quickly come together.

On this day, Song Qingming had just returned from changing shifts at the market gate. Unexpectedly, before he could return to his cave dwelling, he suddenly received a sound transmission for all cultivators to gather.

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