Chapter 621: Jade Firmament Sect Rebellion, Song Yuanli Encounters Danger

After the two family juniors began their seclusion, Song Song Qingyu, who had already collected the materials for refining her magic treasure, stepped into her seclusion cave after some preparation and began to refine her natal magic treasure.

A natal magic treasure can be said to be a crucial item for a Jin Dan cultivator who has just succeeded in forming a core.

Before refining her own natal magic treasure, Song Song Qingyu's combat abilities could only be slightly stronger than those of an average False Core cultivator and could not yet rival a true Jin Dan cultivator, so she still needed to seize the time to complete the refinement of her natal magic treasure.

After leaving Song Song Qingyu to refine her natal magic treasure on Mount Funiu Mountain, Song Song Qingming quickly returned to Mount Tuoyun Mountain with Huang Huang Siyuan, and the couple also entered into seclusion for cultivation.

A year later, outside a small market on the front line of Lu State, a team of carriages and horses slowly drove up and stopped at the entrance of the market.

A few yellow-robed Qi Refining cultivators guarding the entrance glanced from afar at a middle-aged man in a blue robe walking out from the front of the convoy, then immediately walked out of the market's grand formation to stop the other party.

Seeing the two yellow-robed cultivators walking over, the middle-aged man in the convoy quickly stepped forward and bowed with a smile: "Two fellow Daoists, we are here to deliver supplies from Gao Jinhu Mountain!"

"Do you have a passage token!" The yellow-robed cultivator did not respond to the other party upon hearing this, but instead asked a question with a cautious expression.

"Oh! Yes, I do."

Upon hearing the words from the other party, the middle-aged man quickly waved his hand and took out a white jade token from the storage bag on his body, handing it to the yellow-robed cultivator in front of him with a cautious expression.

After getting the jade token, the yellow-robed cultivator didn't care about the person standing in front of him, quickly cast a spell to probe the jade token in his hand, and after confirming it was correct, handed it back to the blue-robed middle-aged man.

"Alright! Follow me in."

After speaking, the yellow-robed cultivator turned and walked toward the market, and soon the entire convoy also entered the market under the leadership of the blue-robed middle-aged man.

The great war between the Spirit Hidden Sect and the "Heaven Sea Alliance" had been going on for nearly three years. Almost every day, the front-line battlefield consumed a large amount of spiritual items. If it weren't for the support of large and small sects in the surrounding dozen countries, the Spirit Hidden Sect alone would not be able to support such a great war.

However, for them, this was also a matter of no choice. The "Heaven Sea Alliance" had developed rapidly over the years, and its ambition to expand to the north was also growing. If the Spirit Hidden Sect could not stop them, once Lu State was occupied by the other party, the surrounding countries would sooner or later suffer as well.

In this situation where the lips are gone, the teeth are cold, the major sects nearby could only unite first and fully support the Spirit Hidden Sect in resisting the "Heaven Sea Alliance's" offensive.

This market, located in a small market in the south of Lu State, was one of the transit stations for the Spirit Hidden Sect to transport supplies to the front line. Most of the cultivators stationed there were cultivators who had come from surrounding countries to support them.

The vassal cultivation families under the Spirit Hidden Sect would deliver collected spiritual rice, elixirs, magic tools, spiritual talismans, and other strategic supplies to these transit markets at regular intervals.

After the market counted and organized them, the cultivators stationed there would directly escort them to the front-line battlefield.

In a meeting hall in the middle of the market, a yellow-robed cultivator walked in quickly and bowed to the several Foundation Establishment cultivators in the hall: "Seniors, the supplies from Gao Jinhu Mountain have arrived, and Brother Luo and the others are already counting and putting them into storage."

An old man in a yellow robe at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment sitting at the head nodded slightly upon hearing the report: "Hmm! Once counted, send them back, and then load up the supplies needed for the front line and send them directly to Fenggu Plain in two days."

Hearing the instructions of the yellow-robed old man, the Qi Refining cultivator who came to report quickly responded and then slowly retreated.

After the other party left, the yellow-robed old man turned his gaze again, glanced at the two Foundation Establishment cultivators sitting in the meeting hall, and said with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist Song, Fellow Daoist Li, this batch of supplies is relatively important, so I will trouble you two fellow Daoists to make a trip!"

Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue, who were sitting on the side, immediately stood up and bowed in response: "Please rest assured, Fellow Daoist Xu, we will certainly not fail our mission!"

"Hehe! You two are both young and promising, and you have both rotated to the front-line battlefield. With you acting together, I believe there will certainly be no problems."

After Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue took on this task, they confirmed the details and time of the transport with the other party before leaving the meeting hall.

Having come to the Lu State front line to support for a year, Song Song Yuanli and the others spent most of their time in the market behind the front line, transporting supplies to the front-line battlefield. Only occasionally, when the front-line battlefield lacked manpower, would they rotate to the front line to fight the enemy directly.

This situation was the same as when Song Song Qingming came to the Lu State front line to support years ago. Compared to the cultivators from the large sects like the Spirit Hidden Sect, the overall combat effectiveness of these cultivators conscripted from the vassal families below was naturally much worse.

Therefore, they were generally not forced to go to the front-line battlefield. They only needed to do a good job of transporting supplies, guarding important strongholds such as rear markets and mines, and dealing with cultivators from the "Heaven Sea Alliance" who infiltrated to carry out sneak attacks.

Of course, although tasks like guarding the rear or transporting supplies were safer, the merit points that could be earned would be much less. Some cultivators who were eager to earn merit to exchange for the spiritual items they wanted could also apply to go to the front-line battlefield at any time.

Over the past year or so, many cultivators who came from the Song family's territory, including Song Song Yuanli, had already rotated to the front-line battlefield to fight, either by actively applying or being passively conscripted by the front line.

In such a large-scale war full of crises, even if they hid in the rear market to do things like guarding the market and transporting supplies, they still couldn't completely avoid these dangers.

Just in the market where Song Song Yuanli and the others were stationed, the cultivators who transported supplies to the front line over the past year had already suffered several sneak attacks by cultivators infiltrated by the "Heaven Sea Alliance."

Another Foundation Establishment cultivator from Pingyang County who came with Song Song Yuanli, Meng Meng Xuanzhang, was very unlucky to be targeted by the other party not long ago when transporting a batch of supplies to the front line, and was suddenly attacked by several Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After a great battle, although Meng Meng Xuanzhang saved his life, he was seriously injured and was still in seclusion to heal his injuries.

If it weren't for the fact that nearby Foundation Establishment cultivators received the distress signal and arrived in time to support, Meng Meng Xuanzhang, who was facing the siege of three Foundation Establishment cultivators alone, would probably not have just suffered some injuries.

The battlefield is ruthless, and the war in the cultivation world is the same. Of the two hundred or so people who came out, in the past year, more than ten had already fallen on the battlefield, and many cultivators with more serious injuries had been sent back to the rear in advance to take large flying boats back to Wei State for treatment.

However, after more than a year of tempering, these cultivators who came to Lu State, ten thousand miles away, had all grown to some extent.

In such a large-scale battlefield, the battle between cultivators is different from hunting monster beasts. The enemies you face are all strangers. You cannot know in advance what powerful divine abilities the other party has to make responses. To survive in such a place, what is tested is the cultivator's own strength and ability to adapt on the battlefield.

Early the next morning, Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue, who had prepared everything, verified the supplies and soon led dozens of Qi Refining cultivators, escorting more than ten large beast-drawn carriages, and set off for the Fenggu Plain front line more than a thousand miles away.

A year ago, in the great war between the Spirit Hidden Sect and the "Heaven Sea Alliance," because they were momentarily careless, they suffered a great defeat, losing thousands of cultivators in one battle, including many Foundation Establishment disciples. Even two Golden elders of the Spirit Hidden Sect were injured in that great battle.

The Spirit Hidden Sect therefore almost lost Fenggu Plain, an important stronghold guarding the south of Lu State. Fortunately, cultivators from sects in surrounding countries arrived at the front line in time to support, which slowly stabilized the battlefield situation.

Besides guarding the market on weekdays and receiving and organizing supplies sent from the rear, the task Song Song Yuanli and the others received the most over the past year was transporting supplies to the Fenggu Plain front line.

At this moment, Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue, who were in the middle of the market convoy, were sitting together drinking tea and chatting, with no nervous expression on their faces.

Ever since Meng Meng Xuanzhang was attacked by infiltrated enemy cultivators last time, the people responsible for market management, after some discussion, decided to change the Foundation Establishment cultivators for the subsequent supply transport tasks to two.

Song Song Yuanli had already broken through to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, and Li Chengyue was also an expert whose cultivation had reached the sixth level of Foundation Establishment. With the two of them escorting this batch of supplies together, even if they encountered two or three Foundation Establishment cultivators from the other side, they could basically deal with them on their own and didn't need to be afraid of anything.

After the convoy traveled about a few hundred miles toward Fenggu Plain, everything had been peaceful. Just when everyone in the convoy was slightly relaxed, several figures suddenly appeared in front and rushed straight toward them.

"Fellow Daoists, I am Yu Wu Zitong of the Spirit Hidden Sect, there is an enemy attack!" Before the person arrived, the voice had already entered the ears of Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue, who were in the carriage.

Looking up, seeing that it was their own people being chased by the other party, Song Song Yuanli and the two on the beast carriage immediately showed a trace of surprise, quickly took out their magic tools, walked out of the carriage, and prepared to meet the enemy.

Glancing at the Spirit Hidden Sect cultivators being chased by several "Heaven Sea Alliance" members in mid-air, "Fellow Daoist Song, it's really strange. Why are the people of the Heaven Sea Alliance so bold recently, repeatedly infiltrating the rear to attack our people?"

Since Song Song Yuanli and the others came to the Lu State front line, although the situation on the front-line battlefield was still relatively disadvantageous, and they were unable to counterattack the "Heaven Sea Alliance" to drive them out of Lu State territory and end this war, the battlefield situation had at least gradually stabilized.

Especially in the last few months, the scale of fighting on the front-line battlefield had shrunk a lot, far less intense than when they first arrived. Song Song Yuanli and the others even had a feeling that this war seemed to be coming to an end.

Because Song Song Yuanfang had already said when they came that anyone who participated in this expedition only needed to stay on the front line for a full year before they could return to Wei State for rotation and rest.

Now they had been in Lu State for almost a full year, and it was estimated that in at most a month or two, once the large flying boats to Wei State were ready, they could return to Qinghe County together for rest.

Just when Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue were chatting with each other, both of them had already said that after returning to Qinghe County, they must find an opportunity to have a good drink in the "Red Flame Market." They didn't expect that they would really encounter a battle at this juncture.

"Fortunately, there are two of them. Fellow Daoist Li, let's go save them first!"

Hearing the doubt in Li Chengyue's words, Song Song Yuanli nodded with a complex expression, and without further hesitation, the two quickly stepped on their flying swords and took the initiative to go forward to meet the Spirit Hidden Sect cultivator.

Seeing that someone had really come to support from the front, and their cultivation was higher than their own, the two mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators of the "Heaven Sea Alliance" who were chasing from behind looked at each other halfway through the chase, then suddenly turned their sword lights and retreated quickly.

"Thieves, don't run! If you have the ability, come and fight this old man!"

Seeing that the other party retreated so decisively without fighting them, Li Chengyue, who wanted to have a fight, immediately showed a trace of mockery on his face. Just as he was about to step forward to pursue the other party, he was stopped by the Spirit Hidden Sect cultivator who had just saved his life.

"Two fellow Daoists! Do not pursue any further. There are at least dozens of enemy cultivators over there now. It is too dangerous ahead!"

"Fellow Daoist, you aren't mistaken, are you! This is already behind Fenggu Plain. How could such a large-scale Foundation Establishment cultivator of the other party appear?"

Hearing the words of the Spirit Hidden Sect cultivator, Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue, who wanted to step forward to stop the two, were slightly startled and immediately stopped their pursuit.

Over the past year or so, the market where Song Song Yuanli and the others were stationed had also suffered several sneak attacks by cultivators infiltrated by the "Heaven Sea Alliance" when transporting supplies.

But when the other party acted, for the convenience of dispersing and retreating, they were basically three or four people, at most five or six, and never had a large-scale cultivator appear together. Moreover, this was only a few hundred miles behind Fenggu Plain. The matter was clearly somewhat wrong.

The Spirit Hidden Sect cultivator took out a healing elixir and took it, then slowed down his breath and said slowly:

"Two fellow Daoists may not know that I am Wang Wang Jingde. Today, I was originally ordered by the sect elder to go to Zipeng Mountain with a fellow sect brother to contact the Jade Firmament Sect cultivators there.

As a result, as soon as I arrived at Zipeng Mountain, I found a large number of Heaven Sea Alliance cultivators appearing nearby. Only then did I know that the people of the Jade Firmament Sect had suddenly rebelled and defected to the enemy. My brother and I saw this and hurried to escape. Brother Ding unfortunately died in battle on the way, and I was lucky enough to escape here."

"What did you say? The people of the Jade Firmament Sect rebelled? What is going on?"

If Song Song Yuanli and the two were still somewhat confused when they just knew the matter, when they heard the news of the Jade Firmament Sect's rebellion, they were left with only shock!

The "Jade Firmament Sect" in Wang Wang Jingde's mouth was originally a Jin Dan sect in a small country in the south of Lu State. Its strength was not very strong, and it had always been a vassal under the Spirit Hidden Sect before.

Since the "Heaven Sea Alliance" invaded the Floating Yunshan Range cultivation world to the north, the country where the "Jade Firmament Sect" was located had already been captured by the "Heaven Sea Alliance" two hundred years ago. The "Jade Firmament Sect" cultivators who lost their own spiritual mountains and land for survival could only retreat to Lu State.

Over the years, the "Jade Firmament Sect" cultivators had been on the southern border of Lu State, helping the Spirit Hidden Sect resist the powerful "Heaven Sea Alliance." They were also constantly wanting to recapture the spiritual mountain territory they had lost, and the two sides could be considered to have a relationship of sharing weal and woe.

The front-line battlefield of the Spirit Hidden Sect, although it barely withstood the pressure of the "Heaven Sea Alliance," in terms of strength, the Spirit Hidden Sect had always been at a clear disadvantage. The front lines were basically only able to defend by relying on the mountain-protecting grand formations and had no ability to counterattack.

At this time, the "Jade Firmament Sect" suddenly rebelled and directly let the "Heaven Sea Alliance" cultivators in from the side, which would inevitably affect the situation of the entire front-line battlefield. Song Song Yuanli and the two who learned this news also changed their faces and immediately felt the seriousness of the matter.

"Fellow Daoist Wang, have you reported this matter to the front-line battlefield?"

"Two fellow Daoists, rest assured, at the time of the incident, I had already sent a sound-transmission talisman to the sect. At this time, the sect should already know about this!"

"Fellow Daoist Song, according to Fellow Daoist Wang, the front may have been occupied by enemy cultivators. Should we continue to move forward?" Li Chengyue nodded slightly to Wang Wang Jingde, then turned his gaze to Song Song Yuanli on the side.

Escorting supplies to the front line on time was also an important task for these Foundation Establishment cultivators stationed in the rear market on the front-line battlefield. If there was no special situation and they delayed without reason, these Foundation Establishment cultivators responsible for escorting would also have to bear the responsibility afterward.

Li Chengyue was only a Foundation Establishment family cultivator under the Song family, so it was naturally not easy for him to make decisions for Song Song Yuanli on this matter, so he could only ask him directly.

Seeing this, Wang Wang Jingde immediately said somewhat anxiously: "Now the front is full of traitors from the Heaven Sea Alliance and the Jade Firmament Sect. I advise the two of you to hurry back together. If you go further, I am afraid you will run directly into the enemy's cultivator army.

The two fellow Daoists have saved my life, and I really don't want to see you go to your deaths. I hope the two of you can believe me once."

Seeing that the situation was so critical at this moment, Song Song Yuanli did not hesitate too much, thought for a moment, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Fellow Daoist Li, hurry up and order everyone to retreat. Let's retreat back to the market first. Fellow Daoist Wang, I see that your injuries are not light, so you should accompany us!"

"Alright, then I will retreat with the two fellow Daoists!" Wang Wang Jingde bowed to Song Song Yuanli and the two with gratitude upon hearing this.

After the three returned to the convoy and had just organized everyone to turn around and retreat for less than a few miles, they didn't want a few more escape lights to appear in the sky in the distance ahead, rushing straight toward the convoy.

Song Song Yuanli and the three looked closely and found that it was the "Heaven Sea Alliance" Foundation Establishment cultivators who had just retreated and returned, and there were two more Foundation Establishment cultivators beside them, one of whom was a late-stage Foundation Establishment powerhouse whose cultivation had reached the eighth level of Foundation Establishment.

Seeing this, Song Song Yuanli frowned immediately, and then shouted loudly to the many Qi Refining cultivators below: "Enemy attack, Changping, hurry up and organize everyone to form a formation to retreat from the enemy!"

After the forty-plus Qi Refining cultivators who came along in the convoy heard the order, they immediately took out their own magic tools and formed a defensive formation.

Among them, more than ten Qi Refining cultivators with higher cultivation each held a golden formation flag. After a spell, the formation flags in their hands immediately released rays of golden light, which soon gathered in the air into a golden tiger with a pressure no less than that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

This golden tiger was transformed by a second-grade low-tier grand formation with extraordinary power. Controlled by more than ten late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, it could also contend with a first-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator for a short time without falling into a disadvantage.

The four "Heaven Sea Alliance" members came swiftly, but in a moment they reached the top of the convoy. Song Song Yuanli and the three saw this and immediately flew up to stop the three Foundation Establishment cultivators of the other party first, while the remaining one was blocked by the golden tiger controlled by the more than ten Qi Refining cultivators.

The two sides soon fought together, and for a time, the entire battlefield, both in the sky and on the ground, rang with the violent sounds of cultivators fighting.

Song Song Yuanli and Li Chengyue's opponents had cultivation levels similar to theirs. After dozens of rounds of fighting, although they were slightly at a disadvantage, they did not suffer too much.

Wang Wang Jingde's cultivation was only at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, and because he was already seriously injured in the previous battle, he soon fell into a disadvantage against an opponent at the sixth level of Foundation Establishment. Fortunately, there were more than ten Qi Refining cultivators helping him, so he barely avoided being defeated quickly.

In another battlefield, the "Heaven Sea Alliance" cultivator at the third level of Foundation Establishment was also fighting back and forth against the golden tiger summoned by the second-grade grand formation. For a time, it seemed that neither side could do anything to the other.

However, as the battle continued, the Qi Refining cultivators who controlled the golden tiger with formation flags felt more and more pressure.

Just when several battlefields were temporarily in a stalemate, a few more escape lights suddenly flew from the sky, all of them enemy cultivators wearing "Heaven Sea Alliance" cultivator attire.

Song Song Yuanli felt something was wrong at a glance and immediately sent an order to the many Qi Refining cultivators below to disperse and escape.

Afterward, the three Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sky each used their divine abilities to quickly get rid of their opponents, directly abandoned these supplies below, and each chose a direction to escape from this place.

"Hehe! Junior Brother Liu, don't worry about those Qi Refining cultivators first. The good things must be on those Foundation Establishment cultivators. Let's not waste time here!"

The several "Heaven Sea Alliance" Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sky saw that Song Song Yuanli and the others wanted to escape, so they didn't care about the Qi Refining cultivators below who had already been defeated and started to flee in all directions, and immediately followed the direction Song Song Yuanli and the others left and dispersed to chase them.

After Song Song Yuanli escaped more than ten miles away alone, he looked back and saw that the "Heaven Sea Alliance" Foundation Establishment eighth-level cultivator who had just fought him had already chased up quickly, and he felt that the situation was not good.

This "Heaven Sea Alliance" late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, although his cultivation was not much different from his, had a very refined gourd-shaped flying magic tool under his feet, and his escape speed was clearly much faster than Song Song Yuanli's.

Even though Song Song Yuanli had fully urged the second-grade low-tier flying boat under his feet, he still couldn't easily shake off the other party for a while. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 622 =====