Chapter 673: Gao Yubai Falls, Northern Frontier Demonic Beasts Move South (Seeking Monthly Votes)

After all, in the battle just now, in order to lure out these demon cultivators, Song Qingyu not only had her natal magic treasure damaged but also lost a third-tier defensive spiritual talisman of no low value. Li Wutong's action was also to compensate her for some of the losses in this battle.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Li!"

Song Qingyu, who understood the other side's intention in her heart, did not be overly polite with Li Wutong. After taking these storage bags, she cupped her hands with the other side and directly put them into her pocket.

After Li Wutong took people away, Fang Baixuan, who was standing to the side, also cupped his hands to bid farewell to Song Qingyu and returned to "Guiyun Market."

After taking the spiritual elixir given by Song Qingyu, Gao Yubai did not persist for too long. After intermittently explaining his funeral arrangements with Gao Changjin, he swallowed his last breath.

As the Gao family patriarch, Gao Yubai could be considered the one with the highest cultivation in the Gao family for the past few hundred years. His sudden departure was also a very big blow to the Gao family.

After losing Gao Yubai, the patriarch at the peak of Foundation Establishment, the Gao family only had Gao Changjin, a third-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator, left. Moreover, Gao Changjin was only a three-spirit-root cultivator, and his cultivation talent was far inferior to Gao Yubai's. I am afraid it would be somewhat difficult for him to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment in this life.

If there were no other changes, the Gao family's overall strength was already somewhat unable to shoulder the position of the second largest Foundation Establishment family in Qinghe County, and in the future, they would definitely have to yield a portion of their benefits to other Foundation Establishment families.

After taking a look at Gao Changjin, who was still full of sorrow, Song Qingyu also felt somewhat unbearable in her heart. She stepped forward and gave a few instructions to Song Yuanfang, letting him lead others to help send the corpses of Gao Yubai and other Gao family cultivators back to "Mount Lianhua" first.

In this battle, because those who came were all cultivators above Foundation Establishment, except for the Gao family losing their patriarch Gao Yubai and dozens of Qi Refining cultivators, no other cultivators died in the battle against the demon cultivators. Only Song Yuanxue and a few others suffered some minor injuries.

After explaining and handling the Gao family's affairs, Song Qingyu took a step first, left "Mount Bailin," and returned to the family.

After returning to Mount Funiu, Song Qingyu returned directly to her cave dwelling and took out the storage bags of those demon cultivators obtained on the battlefield.

It took a full day for Song Qingyu to open these storage bags one by one and pour out the things inside.

Because they often had to avoid the pursuit of righteous cultivators, demon cultivators, even between master and disciple, could hardly produce absolute trust. Generally, those Foundation Establishment demon cultivators who followed Jin Dan demon cultivators were basically forced to have restrictions planted on them and were controlled by others.

Therefore, it was naturally also very difficult for them to hide good things on their bodies.

Opening the storage bags of those few Foundation Establishment demon cultivators, it was indeed as Song Qingyu expected; inside were all useless spiritual objects that had already been contaminated with demonic Qi.

A total of four storage bags, Song Qingyu only found three thousand spirit stones inside, and a few second-tier magic treasures that needed to be rid of demonic Qi. The rest were all some strange elixirs, spiritual objects, and cultivation secret manuals that were of low value or that only demon cultivators dared to use.

The reason these magic treasures contaminated with demonic Qi were of low value was that ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators simply did not dare to casually rid them of demonic Qi. Generally, it required cultivators above the Jin Dan stage to be able to control the scale during the process of ridding demonic Qi, not letting demonic Qi invade their own bodies.

But it was unlikely for a Jin Dan cultivator to spend a large amount of time and energy on such low-value matters. Therefore, after cultivators obtained this type of magic treasure, most could only directly destroy and melt them into raw materials.

Only a small portion of higher quality would someone be willing to spend a large price to invite a Jin Dan cultivator to make a move to rid them of demonic Qi.

Song Qingyu only picked out one second-tier top-quality flying sword from among them to keep, waiting for when she had free time in the future to slowly rid it of demonic Qi.

The rest were directly thrown to the side by her, intending to hand them over to the family's artifact refining pavilion in the future to be directly melted and exchanged for artifact refining materials.

After looking through the things on those few Foundation Establishment demon cultivators, Song Qingyu put her gaze on the large pile of spiritual objects in the purple-clothed woman's storage bag.

Compared to those Foundation Establishment demon cultivators who were controlled by others, the purple-clothed woman, who was a Jin Dan demon head, appeared much wealthier.

After patiently organizing them, Song Qingyu found nearly seven thousand spirit stones inside, as well as a magic treasure contaminated with demonic Qi. Just the value of these things added together already exceeded ten thousand spirit stones.

Besides this, Song Qingyu also found some magic treasures and spiritual objects not contaminated with demonic Qi, which seemed to have been obtained by the purple-clothed woman not long ago from those cultivators harmed by them.

Among them were two magic treasures that Song Qingyu recognized at a glance; they were exactly the magic treasures Gao Yubai had used in front of her years ago.

Song Qingyu picked up these two magic treasures and, after pondering for a moment, still put them to the side, intending to have someone send them back to the Gao family in two days.

Although Gao Yubai had died, the people of the Gao family were still there. These were things that should have been theirs, so it was better to return them to them.

After organizing these scattered low-tier spiritual objects, Song Qingyu separated the demon cultivator spiritual objects contaminated with demonic Qi to the side. On the table remained the last two spiritual objects that she also found difficult to confirm.

One of these two things was a golden, glittering crystal sphere, which looked like a second-tier top-quality magic treasure of not low quality.

But Song Qingyu cast a spell wanting to activate it, only to find that this crystal sphere had no reaction at all, which was somewhat different from ordinary magic treasures.

This also made Song Qingyu somewhat unable to see through this object for a time, so she could only put it away first, waiting for when she had time in the future to go to the Xiaoyao Sect and inquire about it with other elders in the sect.

Another spiritual object was a spiritual talisman with three flying swords drawn on it. This object looked like a third-tier low-grade spiritual talisman, but the power contained within it was slightly worse, seeming like a relatively rare talisman treasure.

Talisman treasures of this type were very rare in the cultivation world. Song Qingyu had only seen one with her own eyes in all her years of cultivating the Dao; it was the "Green Leaf Three-Star Ruler" that Song Qingming had seized from the Ma family of "Iron Immortal Castle" years ago.

After this talisman treasure fell into Song Qingming's hands, it had also been briefly handed over to Song Qingyu to hold. It was not until Song Qingyu formed her core that it was handed over to Huang Siyuan.

Now, after several twists and turns, the "Green Leaf Three-Star Ruler" had fallen into the hands of Song Yuanfang, who managed the family's various mundane affairs, and could be considered the most powerful trump card on his body.

However, for so many years, although many people in the Song family had held the "Green Leaf Three-Star Ruler" talisman treasure, no one had truly used it. This was also thanks to the relatively peaceful reason within the family's territory these years.

Although she did not find any precious spiritual objects, it could be considered a small harvest, making up for her losses in the previous battle. After finding these spiritual objects on the demon cultivators, Song Qingyu was still relatively satisfied.

After putting away these two spiritual objects and the useful things she had organized, Song Qingyu cast a spell to burn those demonic cultivation manuals and a pile of useless elixirs and spiritual objects clean before she felt at ease. —— On a high mountain several thousand li away from Qinghe County, a burst of black mist suddenly flew over quickly from the north on this day. After these black mists arrived above the mountain peak, they slowly stopped, subsequently diving into a very hidden cave on the north side of the mountain peak.

Two Foundation Establishment cultivators who were meditating in the cave were startled when they saw a burst of black mist suddenly appear in front of them.

Before they could react, this black mist dived into the body of a young-looking white-clothed man standing in front. Immediately following, this person went completely limp and lay directly on the ground.

"Senior Brother Chen! What happened to you?"

Seeing the white-clothed man in front of her suddenly fall into a coma, a green-clothed woman who did not yet know what had happened hurriedly shouted at him.

A moment later, just as the green-clothed woman gathered her courage and approached, wanting to check the other side's condition, the white-clothed man's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and bursts of strange black Qi subsequently emerged from his body.

"Damn Xiaoyao Sect cultivators, actually daring to destroy my physical body, truly hateful to the extreme!"

Hearing the voice that came from the white-clothed man's mouth, which was completely different from before, the green-clothed woman to the side was also startled, somewhat trembling as she asked: "You are not Senior Brother Chen, you are Master?"

After the white-clothed man swept a glance at the green-clothed woman to the side, he did not directly answer her question, but took out a spiritual talisman from his body and started to close his eyes and cast a spell.

However, after casting the spell for only a moment, the spiritual talisman in the white-clothed man's hand suddenly burned without wind, directly turning into flying ash.

"Truly useless, actually not even the primordial spirit escaped!"

After the white-clothed man finished speaking, he stood up and adapted to his body, then suddenly turned and threw out a "blood-colored jade plate," casting a spell to trap the green-clothed woman to the side in a blood-colored cage.

"Master, spare my life... I am so loyal to you, why do you still want to commit such a poisonous act!"

Feeling the essence blood all over her body being slowly drawn out of her body, the green-clothed woman instantly revealed a look of terror, begging for mercy from the white-clothed man in front of her without stopping.

However, her miserable begging for mercy did not move the white-clothed man in front of her. Soon, the "blood-colored jade plate" sucked all the essence blood in her body clean, directly turning her into a withered corpse without any vitality.

"Hehe! My primordial spirit seizing a body now has greatly reduced cultivation, and I am afraid it will be difficult to recover without a few decades. Keeping you by my side all the time, I cannot feel at ease.

Since you are so loyal to me, then I will accept the essence blood on your body, which can be considered the final filial piety to me. Hahaha...!"

After the white-clothed man stood in the cave and laughed wildly a few times, he did not care about the green-clothed woman who still had her big eyes open and died with a grievance. After taking away the storage bag on her body, he left this hidden cave directly. —— A few days later, white banners were hung on "Mount Lianhua" in Qinghe County, and the Gao family began to hold a funeral for the cultivators who sacrificed themselves in "Mount Bailin" this time. Hearing this, Song Qingyu even went to "Mount Lianhua" personally to mourn Gao Yubai, this good friend who had fought side by side for many years.

After Song Qingyu finished paying respects to Gao Yubai, she also publicly promised in front of the many cultivators from Qinghe County who came to attend the funeral that she would provide the Gao family with a Foundation Establishment Pill within three years, in accordance with the sect's compensation treatment.

This move also made the Gao family members on "Mount Lianhua," who were deeply immersed in grief, feel slightly better in their hearts.

No matter what, Gao Yubai ultimately died in the great battle between Qinghe County cultivators and demon cultivators. Song Qingyu compensating the Gao family according to the treatment of those who died in battle against demon cultivators was also justifiable in terms of both emotion and reason.

A few days after the funeral held by the Gao family ended, Huang Siyuan, who had gone to the East Sea cultivation world to participate in the "Heavenly Elixir Alliance" meeting, finally returned to the family with many spiritual objects.

With demonic beast unrest imminent, although the Song family was actively preparing for war, various materials needed for many battlefields were becoming increasingly scarce and difficult to collect in the Wei Kingdom, and even around the entire Floating Yunshan Range.

Before going to the East Sea cultivation world this time, after Song Qingyu discussed with Huang Siyuan, she took out many spirit stones from the family's Golden Treasury Pavilion and handed them to her, letting Huang Siyuan help purchase some needed spiritual objects from the East Sea side by the way.

Seeing Huang Siyuan return smoothly, and also bringing back many spiritual objects needed by the family, the Song family group also suddenly reduced a lot of pressure on their shoulders.

Huang Siyuan's alchemy technique had already been raised to the third-tier low-grade, and she could refine spiritual elixirs needed for the daily cultivation of Jin Dan and Foundation Establishment cultivators. This time, she also bought back many second and third-tier high-tier spiritual medicines, intending to try refining this type of elixir in large quantities in the clan in the future.

This was not only beneficial to improving the alchemy level of family cultivators but could also save the entire family a lot of spirit stones needed to purchase elixirs. Song Qingyu, Song Yuanfang, and the others were also very supportive of this.

Besides Huang Siyuan, the Song family also had two people who successfully advanced to become second-tier alchemists in these years. One was the family Foundation Establishment elder Song Yuanqian, who had already advanced to become a second-tier low-grade alchemist twenty years ago.

The other was a cultivator of the "Xuan" generation of the family who had just reached Foundation Establishment a few years ago, named Song Xuanqing.

Song Xuanqing was the second cultivator of the "Xuan" generation of the Song family to successfully reach Foundation Establishment, and he was also a three-spirit-root cultivator with relatively good talent.

Among the many Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Song family, Song Xuanqing's cultivation talent could be ranked among the top. He was less than forty years old when he reached Foundation Establishment, only slightly worse than Song Yuanli and Song Yuanhao, and his cultivation speed was still stronger than other family Foundation Establishment elders.

Because the fire spirit root in his body was relatively better, Song Xuanqing mainly practiced the family's fire-attribute cultivation method and chose to learn the alchemy technique.

Because he caught up with the good time of the family rebuilding the Alchemy Pavilion, although Song Xuanqing's talent in alchemy was not very strong, relying on his own efforts and the family's cultivation, he still raised his alchemy technique to the first-tier top-quality step by step.

After successfully reaching Foundation Establishment, through the personal teaching of family ancestor Huang Siyuan, Song Xuanqing also did not have any surprises, and in two years finally raised his alchemy level to the second-tier low-grade, becoming the third alchemist in the Song family whose alchemy technique reached the second tier or higher.

This time Huang Siyuan went to the "Heavenly Elixir Alliance" in the East Sea and also brought back two Foundation Establishment Pills for the family. These were all refined by herself after collecting materials in the "Heavenly Elixir Alliance."

Although Huang Siyuan's alchemy technique had just been raised to the third-tier low-grade, the success rate of refining "Foundation Establishment Pills" had already reached about 30%.

Now that she was refining "Foundation Establishment Pills" herself, she would not lose any spiritual medicines. If she was lucky, Huang Siyuan could also refine one or two more "Foundation Establishment Pills" and earn a small profit of spirit stones.

These two "Foundation Establishment Pills" were originally intended to be left entirely for family cultivators to use. However, Song Qingyu had already promised to give one to the Gao family, so she directly let Song Yuanfang send a message to notify Gao Changjin to come and collect it.

After the other "Foundation Establishment Pill" passed the family meeting, Song Qingyu handed it to Song Xuanfeng, who was already prepared to reach Foundation Establishment at any time, and arranged for him to immediately go into seclusion to impact the Foundation Establishment realm.

Now with demonic beast unrest imminent, every bit of improvement in family strength was very critical to the Song family. Having one more Foundation Establishment cultivator emerge would definitely also be of no small help to the upcoming great battle.

It was not just the Song family; all cultivators in the entire Wei Kingdom, including the Xiaoyao Sect, had already sensed this great battle that could happen at any time, and all had started to step up their efforts to improve their own strength and collect various strategic materials.

Just like this, amidst everyone's tense preparations for war, more than four years passed, and the demonic beasts in the Northern Frontier finally started to take action and move south on a large scale.

On this day, in a cave dwelling atop Mount Funiu, a streak of cyan sword light suddenly flew out and landed on the mountain peak not far away, turning into a cyan-clothed woman with a few traces of heroic spirit.

The cyan-clothed woman standing on the mountain peak raised both hands, and the three cyan flying swords emitting spiritual light surrounding her merged into one, turning into a cyan giant sword over a zhang high.

Subsequently, under the control of the cyan-clothed woman, this cyan giant sword flicked lightly and released dozens of streaks of cyan sword light, heading straight for a small hill several hundred zhang away opposite.

A moment later, following a burst of loud "rumbling" sounds, after the smoke and dust dispersed, the small hill in the distance had already been cut down by a large section under this attack just now.

Song Qingyu, who had been in seclusion for nearly a year, saw the power of this strike of hers, and a satisfied look of joy appeared on her face.

"After refining the Profound Crystal Spiritual Pearl, the power of the natal magic treasure has indeed increased quite a bit. It seems I didn't waste this effort of mine."

The "Profound Crystal Spiritual Pearl" in Song Qingyu's mouth was the golden sphere she found from the purple-clothed woman's storage bag after the battle to wipe out the demon cultivators a few years ago.

Song Qingyu, who didn't recognize this object at first, thought it was a relatively special magic treasure. It was not until a year later when she went to the Xiaoyao Sect and inquired about it with the knowledgeable Chu Fengping that she knew this object was a special crystal stone for melting magic treasures.

The "Profound Crystal Spiritual Pearl" was a relatively rare high-tier artifact refining material. This object could be directly used to refine ordinary magic treasures, and could also be melted to improve the power of some of the natal magic treasures within a Jin Dan cultivator's body.

Under Chu Fengping's suggestion, after pondering for a long time, Song Qingyu finally spent a year melting the "Profound Crystal Spiritual Pearl" into her natal magic treasure, the "Xuanming Jin Guang Sword," to improve her combat strength.

After the melting was successful, after the test just now, Song Qingyu discovered that the power of the "Xuanming Jin Guang Sword" had increased by about 20% compared to before. Seeing this effect, which was a little better than she had expected, Song Qingyu also had a few more traces of gratification in her heart.

Just as Song Qingyu put away the "Xuanming Jin Guang Sword" and landed from high in the sky, Huang Siyuan and Song Yuanfang, who had already discovered the movement here and were waiting to the side, hurriedly welcomed her with smiles.

"Congratulations to Great-Aunt for coming out of seclusion!"

"I didn't expect that your natal flying sword would have such great power now. It seems that in this year or more of seclusion, your strength has increased quite a bit!"

"Sister-in-law, you must not keep praising me like this. Without you helping me find ways to provide elixirs all these years, my cultivation base might still be stuck at the Jin Dan second layer now, let alone talking about improving strength.

By the way! You sent me a message a few days ago to ask, could it be that there is some urgent matter? Nothing major happened in the clan during this year I was in seclusion, right!"

Huang Siyuan nodded slightly upon hearing this and continued to explain:

"There is nothing major in the clan. It's just that we received a message from the sect a few days ago saying that the Northern Frontier demonic beasts have started to move south. Senior Sister Xu asked us to go to the sect together to discuss matters, so I sent a message to ask when you would come out of seclusion."

"What! The Northern Frontier demonic beasts have already moved south. It really is as the sect expected; this demonic beast unrest actually advanced by such a long time.

Since the sect has already sent a message, let's hurry over now, lest Senior Sister Xu and the others wait too long." Hearing the news of the Northern Frontier demonic beasts moving south, a few traces of anxiety suddenly appeared on Song Qingyu's face.

"Qingyu, don't be too anxious. The Northern Frontier demonic beasts moving south will take at least two months or so to reach our Wei Kingdom. I have already sent a message to Senior Sister Xu to explain. After you come out of seclusion these few days, we will go over together immediately."

"Hmm! Yuanfang, you first send a message to notify Yuanli, letting the cultivators of the immortal cultivation families in Pingyang County go to Jin Shan Market to assemble first, and notify all Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County, letting them come to 'Red Flame Market' to discuss matters in three days.

Remember, you must block the news of the demonic beasts moving south well. Tell them that whoever leaks this matter in advance, once we on Mount Funiu find out, we will definitely not forgive them easily."

After hearing Huang Siyuan's reminder, Song Qingyu quickly calmed down and hurriedly issued a few orders to Song Yuanfang to the side. After he responded and left, she turned to Huang Siyuan and said: "Sister-in-law, this demonic beast unrest looks somewhat different from the past. Let's go to the sect earlier to explore the situation, so we can deal with this matter!"

Years ago, Zhao Menglian had long since reminded Song Qingyu that some changes had occurred on Golden Feather Mountain in the north. Over these years, Song Qingyu had also received some not-so-good rumors one after another, and she had always had a few traces of worry in her heart about this demonic beast unrest.

"Hmm! Then let's listen to you, go to Guyang Mountain first to see the situation." Seeing that Song Qingyu's expression was still somewhat solemn, Huang Siyuan did not say much more and directly nodded in agreement.

In the years Song Qingming was not here, besides daily cultivation, Huang Siyuan was focused on improving her alchemy technique.

Occasionally, she also had to go to "Heavenly Elixir City" in the East Sea cultivation world to collect some alchemy materials that were relatively rare in the Floating Yunshan Range. Because her personal affairs were relatively busy, she did not intervene too much in family affairs.

After agreeing with Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu took out her natal flying sword and, carrying Huang Siyuan, turned into a streak of escape light, leaving Mount Funiu and heading toward the southwest direction.

Not long after Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan left, another streak of white escape light flew over from the east side of Mount Funiu, directly landing on a barren mountain not far away, subsequently revealing the figures of a man and a woman. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 674 =====