Chapter 469

In the Jinshan Market meeting hall, Song Qingyu, who had been here for more than four years, was chatting and drinking tea with three other Foundation Establishment cultivators in the meeting hall.

Except for one who was Zhao Chuancheng, a Carefree Sect cultivator stationed in the market, the other two were loose Foundation Establishment cultivators who had just moved into Jinshan Market not long ago.

Zhao Chuancheng has been stationed in Jinshan Market for many years, and he is relatively smooth in handling affairs and likes to make friends with cultivators of the same rank everywhere. These two loose cultivators were exactly two good friends he knew before, who were invited by him to help guard Jinshan Market together.

Of course, if you want people to agree to help you resist the dangerous matter of monster beast invasion, Jinshan Market must definitely pay a lot of rewards. Without enough benefits to move them, these loose cultivators will not come to help for no reason.

Zhao Chuancheng and Song Qingyu's cultivation is not much different. Both have practiced to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. In the past few years in Jinshan Market, the two have often exchanged some cultivation insights in their spare time.

Just when several people were talking, a Qi Refining cultivator wearing the market law enforcement team uniform suddenly broke into the meeting hall and reported loudly to Zhao Chuancheng in front of him: "Master, just now our third team received news that many cultivators saw a golden light suddenly appear in the sky in the southeast of the market, but it disappeared quickly not long after!"

"You mean a golden light appeared in the sky in the southeast corner of the market? Could it be that something happened near the market below? Have you sent anyone to check it?" After hearing the report, Zhao Chuancheng, who had a surprised look on his face, stood up immediately and asked with a serious tone.

The person showed a look of difficulty and shook his head: "Senior Brother Wu just took us to check it together. It seems that there is no abnormal situation in the market, but we did not dare to go to the place on the mountain near the Old Ancestor Song's cave dwelling."

"Oh! This." Hearing the report from the disciple below, it might be related to that Golden Core senior in the market, Zhao Chuancheng also had a look of difficulty on his face, not knowing how to reply for a while.

After a streak of spiritual light flashed, a golden bronze mirror emitting five-colored light quickly appeared in Song Qingming's hand.

Seeing that everyone present had turned their eyes to him, Song Qingyu hurriedly stood up with a smile and ordered the law enforcement team disciple below: "You all go down and busy yourselves with other things for now. I will go over and check the situation."

After Song Qingyu checked slightly outside the cave dwelling and saw that there was nothing abnormal outside, she reached out and took out a sound transmission talisman from the storage bag, chanted a few words softly, and sent it into the cave dwelling.

"Refining a magic treasure?"

It was not just Zhao Chuancheng. Even the two loose Foundation Establishment cultivators sitting on the side, after hearing the three words "Old Ancestor Song" from the mouth of this Qi Refining stage disciple, their expressions also changed slightly. Like Zhao Chuancheng, they could not help but look at Song Qingyu sitting on the side.

"Seventh Brother, you have been in closed-door cultivation for so long this time, it turns out it was because of this. I said why you have not come out of closed-door cultivation for two years?" After Song Qingyu finished speaking, she revealed a look of "so that's how it is."

This cave dwelling is located at the highest point of Jinshan Market. Compared with the bustling market below, this area is very quiet, and the spiritual energy around it is obviously slightly richer than other places in the market.

After about a cup of tea's time, the formation restrictions at the entrance of the cave dwelling slowly dissipated, and Song Qingming, dressed in a green Daoist robe, walked out of the cave dwelling with big strides.

"Hmm! Fellow Daoist Zhao, rest assured, I have noted it!" After Song Qingyu and Zhao Chuancheng nodded in response, they walked out of the meeting hall quickly.

Seeing that Song Qingyu took the initiative to take on this matter, Zhao Chuancheng's face showed joy. He saluted Song Qingyu and said: "In that case, I will trouble Fellow Daoist Song. Senior Song seems to have been in closed-door cultivation for two years. If he really came out of closed-door cultivation, I also ask Fellow Daoist Song to inform me in time."

Seeing Song Qingyu standing outside the cave dwelling, Song Qingming walked up with a smile and said: "I did not expect that when refining the magic treasure just now, golden light appeared outside the cave dwelling, causing such a big commotion. If I had known, I would have set up an extra restriction in advance to avoid disturbing you all!"

A moment later, Song Qingyu's figure appeared outside a cave dwelling hidden on the mountain peak in the southeast of the market.

As Song Qingming's magic power moved, this golden bronze mirror flew quickly to the top of Song Qingming's head, and then suddenly split into five, turning into five mirrors of different colors, and began to move slowly around Song Qingming.

After seeing this bronze mirror appear, a trace of surprise appeared on Song Qingyu's face, and she asked Song Qingming with a smile: "Seventh Brother, is this the life-bound magic treasure you just refined?"

Song Qingming nodded lightly and said: "Not bad. This Five Elements Divine Light Mirror took me several years, consumed many materials and spirit stones. Today, hard work pays off, and it was successfully refined."

Since switching to practicing the "Five Elements Profound Gang Art," Song Qingming also obtained the secret technique for refining the life-bound magic treasure "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" from it. Subsequently, Song Qingming immediately began to collect materials and finally refined this life-bound magic treasure.

After a Golden Core cultivator has a life-bound magic treasure that is connected to the cultivation technique, their own strength will also be greatly improved. This is also the reason why Song Qingming was so anxious to refine this "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

Although there are many materials needed to refine a life-bound magic treasure, and several precious third-tier spiritual items are needed, after Song Qingming became a guest elder of the Carefree Sect, he could not only enter the sect's Merit Pavilion to exchange for some high-level spiritual items, but also borrow the power of the Carefree Sect to spread news throughout Wei Guo to collect these materials he needed.

With the help of the sect's power, Song Qingming only spent less than two years collecting the materials needed to refine the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," and spent another two years in closed-door cultivation, finally refining this life-bound magic treasure.

The "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" is a magic treasure that is both offensive and defensive. The five-colored divine light contained within it also has a trace of Profound Yang Qi, which has a slight restraining ability against those demonic cultivation techniques that practice Yin Qi.

After having this life-bound magic tool, Song Qingming's overall strength has now exceeded those Golden Core cultivators who have just advanced and fake core cultivators like Feng Yangde by a large margin. Now, Song Qingming, who walked out of the cave dwelling, is also slightly more confident than before closed-door cultivation.

After putting the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" in front of him into his body, Song Qingming asked again: "Qingyu, how is the situation in the Fuyun Mountain Range now? Have the formations outside the market that I ordered before been set up now?"

Hearing Song Qingming ask about this matter, Song Qingyu hurriedly put away the smile on her face and replied softly: "According to the investigation of these two months and some news from the sect, many monster beasts have gathered in the Fuyun Mountain Range. However, although small groups of monster beasts have flowed into the border, no large-scale movement of monster beasts going south has been found yet.

Half a year after you went into closed-door cultivation, Fellow Daoist Cao and the others had already set up the other two large formations. According to your orders, our Jinshan Market has recruited many loose cultivators in these two years. Fellow Daoist Zhao and the others also introduced two loose Foundation Establishment fellow Daoists from Tuoyun Mountain not long ago. Now the defense force here at Jinshan Market has been greatly strengthened compared to two years ago."

"Hmm! You all did well. You have worked hard these few years!" After hearing Song Qingyu's reply, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction.

In order to deal with the upcoming monster beast turmoil, since Song Qingming sat in Jinshan Market, he has also put a lot of thought into strengthening the defense force of Jinshan Market in these few years.

Not only did he personally come forward to invite several formation masters from the Carefree Sect to set up two extra second-tier large formations for Jinshan Market, but he also found a way to rent more than ten second-tier Flying Cloud Crossbows from the sect and placed them around the market.

These second-tier low-grade Flying Cloud Crossbows can be operated by only a few cultivators above the middle stage of Qi Refining. After installing spirit stones, the spiritual light arrows fired can also have about half the power of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

However, the shortcomings of large magic tools like Flying Cloud Crossbows are also very obvious. Because their size is too huge, it is very troublesome for ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators to transport them. Generally, they can only be fixed in one place for defense, which is far less useful than puppet beasts of the same rank that can be flexibly carried.

In addition to strengthening the daily defense configuration in Jinshan Market, Song Qingming also asked Song Qingyu and others to post notices around the market, spread news, and recruit those loose cultivators with relatively reliable character to enter Jinshan Market to help resist the upcoming monster beast invasion.

It is extremely difficult for low-level loose cultivators in the Qi Refining stage to practice. In order to earn spirit stones, these people can do anything. Even if they know that Jinshan Market issued this task and recruited them to resist the upcoming very dangerous monster beast invasion, many people still squeeze their heads to want to take this task.

However, these loose cultivators generally have a relatively low background. Because the cultivation environment is too poor, most of them are profit-seeking people, and sometimes they have no morality or shame when doing things.

Relying on these people to support the scene occasionally is fine, but if they really go to a big battlefield like the monster beast turmoil, once they face the scene of hundreds of monster beasts attacking in groups, they are also very easy to collapse and affect the morale of the army.

In the past, for battles like this to deal with monster beast invasion, whether it was the Carefree Sect or those Foundation Establishment families below, they rarely recruited loose cultivators to participate in this kind of battle.

Regarding this order to recruit loose cultivators, although Song Qingming had already emphasized strictly screening people with better character, some people who pretended to be good still mixed in during this period of time.

These loose cultivators now live in the market for free, do not lack spiritual energy to practice, and can receive a little spirit stone every month. The treatment obtained can be said to be very generous, which also aroused the jealousy and confusion of many people in Jinshan Market.

As the number of loose cultivators in the market has increased during this period of time, several major Foundation Establishment families in Pingyang County and some Carefree Sect disciples guarding Jinshan Market have begun to have some opinions in their hearts, but because this was an order from Song Qingming, the Golden Core Old Ancestor, these people only dare to talk about it privately for now.