Chapter 472

Under the comfort and encouragement of Song Qingming and others, the many Foundation Establishment cultivators present gradually gained more confidence. This monster beast turmoil, although extremely dangerous for the human side, was also accompanied by many opportunities to earn spirit stones quickly.

In the past, every time after the monster beast turmoil, many people on the cultivator side could earn a large amount of cultivation resources. Some used these cultivation resources to break through the realm and increase their strength greatly, and some could fly into the sky and successfully reach Foundation Establishment not long after. These crises were also filled with many opportunities.

Added to the cultivators from Qinghe County who came to support, there are now nearly 1,500 cultivators in Jinshan Market. The number of cultivators even exceeded the battle of the human cultivators counterattacking Jinshan Market back then. It is just that there are relatively few Foundation Establishment cultivators at present, only more than twenty.

Among these cultivators, the several major Foundation Establishment families native to Pingyang County occupy the majority. They brought a total of eleven Foundation Establishment cultivators and eight hundred Qi Refining stage cultivators. The Carefree Sect also had six Foundation Establishment cultivators and more than two hundred Qi Refining stage disciples sent to Jinshan Market to assist in the defense.

Qinghe County brought a total of six Foundation Establishment cultivators. In addition to Song Yuanfang, who had just reached Foundation Establishment, Song Qingyu, Song Yuanli, and Huang Siyuan had all arrived at Jinshan Market. The Huang family brought Huang Shengyue and Huang Mengde, and the Lu family still only had Lu Xingde. The Qi Refining stage cultivators brought by the Song, Huang, and Lu families together also had more than four hundred people.

The rest are the loose cultivators recruited by Jinshan Market in these few years. In addition to two loose Foundation Establishment cultivators, Jinshan Market also recruited nearly three hundred loose Qi Refining stage cultivators. Although this force looks relatively weak, it is also a force that Song Qingming and the others spent several years and finally gathered with great difficulty.

In order to boost the morale of the cultivator side, Song Qingming did not just comfort them with words, but also took out some spiritual items on the spot and distributed them to all the cultivators who were about to participate in the war.

Although they were only low-level spiritual talismans and elixirs of low value, so many cultivators added together were also a not-so-small expenditure. Song Qingming naturally was not willing to spend spirit stones like this alone. These expenses were all counted in the treasury of the entire Jinshan Market.

Because of guarding against the monster beast turmoil, Song Qingming went to Jinshan Market to sit early. In these few years, the Carefree Sect directly handed over all rights to manage Jinshan Market to Song Qingming, including some spiritual items and nearly ten thousand spirit stones left in the treasury of the market, which were not transported away.

After Song Qingming arrived at Jinshan Market, all the expenses for recruiting these loose cultivators in these few years were also paid from here. Although the seven major Foundation Establishment families in Pingyang County also had some shares in the treasury of Jinshan Market, they did not dare to offend Song Qingming, the Golden Core Old Ancestor, for the sake of these spirit stones.

Two days later, just when the cultivators in Jinshan Market were rubbing their hands and preparing to have a great battle with the monster beasts, the vanguard troops on the monster beast side finally arrived outside Jinshan Market.

Unlike high-level cultivators like Song Qingming, almost all the Qi Refining stage cultivators participating in the war in the market had not seen such a big battle of hundreds of cultivators and monster beasts fighting together. Facing such a monster beast army rushing over like a thousand troops and horses, these young cultivators who had not seen much of the world were easily psychologically collapsed and retreated.

Among the hundreds of monster beasts that arrived first, there were not many high-level monster beasts. Only the leading three monster beasts were second-tier monster beasts, and the others were all kinds of first-tier monster beasts mixed together, probably two or three hundred.

However, in this situation, as long as one experiences a battle to temper it slightly, one can basically get used to such a big scene. Song Qingming was the same when he participated in the monster beast turmoil back then. After experiencing the great battle of Huoyun Mountain, he soon got used to it. The vanguard army of hundreds of monster beasts in front of him was exactly the best opponent sent to the door to temper the human side.

Facing the monster beast attack, the reason why Jinshan Market chose to take the initiative to attack was, on the one hand, to save some spirit stones for operating the mountain-guarding formation, and on the other hand, because taking the initiative to attack and repel the monster beasts could greatly increase the morale of the human side, letting everyone know that these monster beast armies that looked imposing and rushed over were actually not so terrible.

Therefore, in order to fight this first battle well, Song Qingming also specially sent out a combat force far stronger than the monster beast vanguard army in front of him. Not only was the number of cultivators sent out twice that of the monster beasts, but he also sent out six Foundation Establishment cultivators at once, including strong late-stage Foundation Establishment experts like Cao Rongxue and Song Qingyu. From the perspective of strength alone, the human cultivator side already had an overwhelming advantage over these monster beasts.

In addition to Song Qingyu and others who killed out of the market, Song Yuanli had also led more than a hundred law enforcement cultivators and arrived outside Jinshan Market.

Seeing that among the first batch of monster beasts that came to the market, there were only three second-tier monster beasts, before the monster beast army approached the market mountain-guarding formation, Cao Rongxue and Song Qingyu, who had been prepared for a long time, suddenly took four Foundation Establishment cultivators and more than five hundred Qi Refining stage cultivators and killed out of the market from both sides, rushing directly at the monster beast army.

They did not directly participate in the attack on the monster beasts, but blocked in front of the market, staring closely at this fierce battle ahead.

These law enforcement cultivators were all elite cultivators selected by Song Yuanli from the Song family, Carefree Sect disciples, and several major Foundation Establishment families in Pingyang County over the past two years. They were all people who had fought with monster beasts all year round and had relatively rich combat experience.

In addition to supervising the battlefield to prevent those cultivators who dared to retreat in the face of battle, the law enforcement cultivators also needed to supervise the performance of each cultivator on the battlefield in this battle, which was used for the evaluation of merits and demerits of each participating cultivator after the war, and also to urgently treat some injured cultivators who retreated from the battlefield, trying to reduce the casualties of their own side after the war.

Song Qingyu and Cao Rongxue were both late-stage Foundation Establishment experts. The two quickly each faced the two second-tier monster beasts rushing at the forefront of the monster beast army. These two monster beasts were only second-tier low-grade. Facing two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, they did not fight for a few rounds before they quickly fell into a disadvantage.

Cao Rongxue's cultivation was higher, and she was ultimately better. Seeing her circling with her opponent for a few rounds, she quickly found an opportunity, cast a spell with both hands, released a green vine that grew rapidly, and firmly trapped the other party.

Subsequently, Cao Rongxue quickly raised the high-grade flying sword in her hand and cut the opponent's huge head from the air to the ground with one sword.

Song Qingyu faced a second-tier low-grade pig monster on this side. Although she was slightly slower than Cao Rongxue because her cultivation technique attribute was restrained by the other party, she also did not let the opponent go.

After controlling the Bi Shui Bell in front of her to block the counterattack of this monster beast before it died, the two blue flying swords in Song Qingyu's hands quickly pierced through the fatal parts of the other party, ending this duel.

After Song Qingming reached Core Formation, the second-tier magic tools on his body were no longer of much use to him now. Basically, they were all taken out and distributed to other Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Song family. Among them, the Bi Shui Bell, the magic tool with the best quality on his body, fell into Song Qingyu's hands.

The Bi Shui Bell was originally a water-attribute magic tool, which was also very compatible with the cultivation technique practiced by Song Qingyu. The power it could exert in her hands would also be greater.

As for the two blue flying swords in Song Qingyu's hands, this was also a pair of second-tier high-grade water-attribute female and male swords. Song Qingming happened to see this magic tool in the Carefree Sect's Merit Pavilion a few years ago. At that time, he felt that this item was very suitable for Song Qingyu to use, so he used the merit in his hand to exchange for it and gave it to Song Qingyu.

With these two high-grade magic tools in hand, although Song Qingyu's cultivation was only at the eighth level of Foundation Establishment, her fighting ability was already not inferior to veteran ninth-level Foundation Establishment cultivators like Cao Rongxue.

The last second-tier middle-grade fire ox was besieged by two Foundation Establishment cultivators on the Jinshan Market side. Seeing that the situation was not good, it quickly abandoned these low-level monster beasts below and fled north alone.

Because Song Qingming gave a strict order before the war not to pursue these high-level monster beasts without authorization, the two Foundation Establishment cultivators chased out for a few miles, and seeing that they could not stop the other party, they could only return empty-handed with regret.

The leading second-tier monster beasts above were killed or fled, which soon made the first-tier monster beasts below lose their footing. Originally, the human cultivator side had a larger number of people, and with Foundation Establishment cultivators pressing the formation, they had already occupied the upper hand. Now that there was no deterrence from second-tier monster beasts, these low-level monster beasts soon turned around and began to flee north.

Seeing that the monster beast side had begun to collapse gradually, the human cultivators in Jinshan Market were suddenly greatly encouraged. They began to pursue these monster beasts that wanted to escape, and chased them for more than ten miles until they stopped the pursuit under the order of the Foundation Establishment cultivators above.

After a great battle, the entire battlefield was full of all kinds of bloody smells. After the war, looking at the monster beast corpses everywhere, the cultivators who survived the battle were also extremely excited.

Standing on the top of the market city gate, Song Qingming, who had been watching the entire battle, was also very satisfied with the performance of the Jinshan Market cultivators in this battle.

Except for those monster beast corpses far away from the battlefield, which belonged to those who killed them, Song Yuanli had already led the law enforcement team cultivators to start dealing with the monster beast materials on the main battlefield in front of Jinshan Market.

After the news of the first battle victory came back, it also boosted the morale of all cultivators in Jinshan Market. Looking at the piles of monster beast materials moved into the market treasury by the law enforcement team, the cultivators who had not participated in the war also began to feel a trace of loss in their hearts, only hating that they were not selected to participate in this battle.

However, the result of this battle just now, although it was a great victory for the human cultivator side, this kind of battle between humans and monsters is also extremely cruel.

Although this battle achieved the brilliant result of killing nearly a hundred monster beasts, including two second-tier monster beasts, Jinshan Market also had more than thirty cultivators accidentally injured in the battle, and seven or eight unfortunate people left their lives on the battlefield just now.

Some people are busy cheering and receiving the battle merits they just established, and there will also be people weeping and grieving, mourning the relatives who just passed away. The war in the cultivation world is so cruel.

Song Qingming and those high-level cultivators above Foundation Establishment all understood very well in their hearts that all these are just the beginning. Next, when the real monster beast army arrives, the battle in Jinshan Market will be even more cruel than it is now.