Chapter 341: Entering Mount Yunwu

Two days after sending the letter to the Huang family, what made Song Qingming somewhat surprised was that the person who came to the Song family this time was not Huang Shengyue, whom Song Qingming thought, but Huang Sipo, who had only successfully established his foundation more than ten years ago.

Since Huang Sipo established his foundation, this was the second time he had met him, except for the time he saw him at the banquet held by the Huang family back then. After more than ten years, Huang Sipo's current cultivation was not much different from Song Qingming's expectation, and he had also broken through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment.

"Auntie happened to be in seclusion a few days ago. After receiving the letter, the patriarch was afraid that other changes would occur if time passed, so he sent the junior here. I hope Senior Song will forgive me!"

Just after arriving at Mount Funiu, Huang Sipo saw Song Qingming coming to welcome him with a look of doubt on his face and hurriedly explained.

Hearing the news of Huang Shengyue's seclusion, Song Qingming immediately reacted. She was in seclusion to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Huang Shengyue had established her foundation many years earlier than Song Qingming, but her cultivation speed after Foundation Establishment was not particularly fast, and she broke through to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment two years later than Song Qingming. Whether she could succeed this time was uncertain.

Song Qingming's successive failures to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment in recent years also gave him a deep understanding of the difficulty. Although there was only one layer of realm between the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment and the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment, the difficulty of this layer suddenly increased several times compared to the previous layers, almost stumping more than 50% of the Foundation Establishment cultivators in the cultivation world.

Among the Foundation Establishment cultivators Song Qingming was familiar with, such as Lu Yuanfeng of the original Qinghe Market, Lu Xingde of the Lu family, and Huang Chengliang of the Huang family, all of them had their cultivation stagnate for many years after cultivating to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment and could hardly improve. Among these people, there was no lack of hard-working people, but without suitable spiritual items to help, they could only waste their years.

"Sigh! Fellow Daoist Huang is already a person of our generation. Why use the word 'Senior'? We should treat each other as peers from now on. Don't break the rules of the cultivation world for tens of thousands of years casually."

Huang Sipo smiled when he heard this and didn't be polite, replying: "What Fellow Daoist Song said is right. Although the junior has established his foundation for some years, I have rarely gone out. I didn't expect this Mount Funiu Immortal Mountain to be such a beautiful scene. It's a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to visit earlier."

"Fellow Daoist Huang is too polite. To talk about beautiful scenery, how dare Mount Funiu compare with Mount Taiyuan, the thousand-year spiritual land in our Qinghe County? Being able to get such undeserved praise from you today is truly making my Song family shine."

Song Qingming, together with Song Qingyu and several Song family elders, stepped forward to meet Huang Sipo one by one, and then very politely invited him to the council hall.

"Fellow Daoist Huang, this time demonic beasts broke into Qinghe County on a large scale in Mount Yunwu, and there were even second-tier demonic beasts mixed in. I guess there must have been some changes in the mountain, so I invited you here to help, to see if we can investigate and calm this matter." After Song Qingming drank a cup of spiritual tea, he roughly repeated the things that happened at Mount Bai Yang to him again.

Huang Sipo stood up and bowed his hands, saying: "Although Sipo has established his foundation, I have never gone deep into Mount Yunwu. The patriarch had already given instructions before I came, telling me to listen to your orders."

"Our two families have been allies for many years. Since Fellow Daoist Huang has said so, Song will not waste time here. Let the three of us Foundation Establishment cultivators go to Mount Yunwu together first to check the Fire-Scaled Leopard's lair to see if we have a chance to kill this demonic beast and eliminate this future trouble first." After Song Qingming finished speaking, he took the initiative to stand up and walked out with Song Qingyu and Huang Sipo.

The three of them flew east for about two hundred li and finally arrived at the volcano Song Qingyu had been to before.

Song Qingming put on the Hidden Spirit Shirt to hide his figure and turned around four or five times on this mountain, but the result made him somewhat surprised. He didn't find any trace of the Fire-Scaled Leopard here, and there were not many demonic beasts on the whole mountain, which didn't look like the territory of a second-tier demonic beast at all.

"Even if it went out to hunt, this Fire-Scaled Leopard wouldn't have taken all the demonic beasts on the mountain away, right? Could it be that this demonic beast happened to migrate to another spiritual mountain?"

In this Mount Yunwu, there were not many second-tier spiritual veins, and basically, there were demonic beasts occupying them. The place that demonic beasts like the Fire-Scaled Leopard liked to cultivate most was the volcanic spiritual vein in front of them. There was no reason for it to abandon such a good place and go to other places to look for spiritual veins.

After Song Qingming brought this news back to inform Song Qingyu and the other, the three of them searched carefully on this volcano together and found a huge rock cave at a position near the top of the mountain.

The fire-attribute spiritual energy in the rock cave was very abundant, and there were quite a few remains of demonic beasts all around. After the few of them arrived here, they didn't need to think to know that this should be the cave where the Fire-Scaled Leopard cultivated.

After walking to the depths of the rock cave, Song Qingyu on the side suddenly saw a place that had been smoked very black in a cave that stretched out in a rock cave. After stepping forward to check carefully, she found some residual ore and traces of human activity on the ground here and hurriedly called Song Qingming and the other over.

"There should have been other cultivators staying here for a period of time, and the time he left is not too far away. It should be that this person drove away the Fire-Scaled Leopard in order to refine some magic treasure here, which made it not hesitate to abandon this spiritual vein and break into Qinghe County not long ago." After Song Qingming observed the surroundings carefully, he slowly said to the two people beside him.

"This person was able to drive the original owner, the Fire-Scaled Leopard, away from this place. It can be confirmed that his cultivation is not below ours. Such an unidentified foreign Foundation Establishment cultivator hiding here is truly a troublesome thing for us. Fortunately, this person has already left this place now." Huang Sipo on the side said with a smile.

Song Qingming shook his head and said solemnly: "Whether this person is still hiding nearby and whether he has left is hard to say now. After returning, we still need to remind the clansmen not to go deep into Mount Yunwu for a period of time."

Mount Yunwu was also a huge mountain spanning thousands of li, and there were quite a few loose cultivators who would place their cave dwellings nearby. The senior cultivator's cave dwelling that Song Qingming explored with that old Daoist Chen before Foundation Establishment was a Foundation Establishment loose cultivator who built his cave dwelling deep in Mount Yunwu.

Cultivators like this certainly were not just one person, but in order to hide their cave dwellings, ordinary cultivators would not easily reveal their whereabouts near their cave dwellings.

No matter whether this person was still hiding nearby, as long as this person was just an ordinary loose cultivator, the impact on Qinghe County and the Song family would not be too great. Everyone didn't need to worry about this matter. It was just afraid that this person was a bandit cultivator who fled here from other places.

For some reason, after Song Qingming arrived here, a trace of strange familiarity suddenly flashed in his mind, and this feeling also made him feel some inexplicable unease in his heart.

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