Chapter 681

After Song Song Qingming and the others killed the "White Cow Demon King" and "Green Python Demon King" in one battle, the demon beast army besieging "Mount Guiyun Market" also immediately stopped besieging the market's protective formation after this battle.

It was not until two days later that the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" began to command the demon beast army gathered in the north to continue heading south to attack the "Mount Guiyun Market" protective formation.

However, after being counterattacked and ambushed by Song Song Qingming and the others last time, the demon beast army clearly became much more cautious. They did not besiege the market formation from all four sides in three routes as before, but concentrated their main force in the north and began to attack in turns from the front.

In this way, the pressure faced by the "Mount Guiyun Market" market formation was much smaller than before. The Xiaoyao Sect side only needed to go out to block the demon beasts at intervals, giving the market formation enough time to replenish and restore spiritual energy, and they would be able to guard "Mount Guiyun Market."

On the "Jin Shan Market" side, the news that the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" was killed by Song Song Qingming and his wife also soon reached the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor's" ears.

After the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" learned of this matter, it was also very angry. In order to prevent the cultivator army at "Jin Shan Market" from coming to "Mount Guiyun Market" to support.

The "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" transferred a "Blue Feather Demon King" with relatively average strength from the many demon kings under its command to collect and command the demon beast army that had been defeated by the Jin Shan Market cultivators and fled back to the north, and headed south again to attack "Mount Guiyun Market."

Half a month later, after receiving the emergency sound transmission from "Jin Shan Market," Song Song Qingming and the Xiaoyao Sect people discussed and transferred Huang Huang Siyuan back to "Jin Shan Market" to help resist the "Blue Feather Demon King" there.

In this way, a relatively subtle balance was restored in terms of strength between the Xiaoyao Sect side and the demon beast army coming south.

In the next few months, although both sides went through several larger-scale melees and lost many low-tier cultivators and demon beasts, no Jin Dan or above combat power died again.

Through such a long time of mutual fighting, the Xiaoyao Sect side had already figured out the situation of the demon beast army and knew that they had gathered all their strength and gone out in full force at this time.

As long as they could persist for a period of time, wait for the cultivators of the State of Pei in the south to defeat the demon beasts' attack in "Taiyuehu" and extract strength to support Wei, the Xiaoyao Sect side would have enough strength to counterattack the demon beast army and lift the current crisis situation.

Just when Song Song Qingming and the others in "Mount Guiyun Market" thought that the war situation in the north had slowly stabilized, a demon beast army of nearly ten thousand, commanded by six demon kings, thousands of miles away in the north, was slowly approaching the direction of Wei.

When these demon beasts marched near "Golden Feather Mountain," the "Gao Jinhu Demon King," who had long been waiting here, immediately turned into a ray of escape light and arrived before the few demon kings leading the team.

"Brother Canglong brother, the ancestor asked me to wait here to welcome you fellow Daoists. This time, I finally waited for you all."

After seeing the "Gao Jinhu Demon King," the "Brother Canglong Demon King," who led the team in the demon beast army, immediately replied: "Gao Jinhu brother, don't misunderstand. We just captured the north of Zheng, and as a result, the Heavenly Extreme Sect in the south sent many reinforcements north to support.

The ancestor also had a hard time leading us to stabilize the situation, and only then did we find an opportunity to extract ourselves and lead the army to support. It is definitely not that we intentionally delayed this matter."

Hearing the explanation from the "Brother Canglong Demon King," the "Gao Jinhu Demon King" hurriedly waved its hand and said: "Hehe! This matter doesn't matter. Brother Canglong brother, as long as you all came as agreed.

For the past half year, we have already fought more than ten great battles with the Xiaoyao Sect side and have long firmly contained their main strength.

Brother Canglong brother, as long as you all act according to the plan set by the ancestor, our two families join forces, breaking through the Xiaoyao Sect's defense line is already a matter of reaching out and grabbing it. By then, the entire north of Wei will be the territory of our demon clan."

"Hahaha, Gao Jinhu brother, rest assured. Before we set off, the ancestor had already ordered us to listen to the command of the Brother Molong ancestor after arriving here. You just instruct us on how to do it."

Hearing what the "Gao Jinhu Demon King" said, seeming to have already had a grasp of certain victory in this battle, the "Brother Canglong Demon King" and the others immediately let out bursts of excited laughter, as if the entire north of Wei was already in their pockets at this moment.

Half a month later, in the deliberation hall of "Mount Guiyun Market."

Song Song Qingming, sitting at the head, looked carefully at the battle report calculated in his hand.

Most of the nearly forty Foundation Establishment cultivators standing below were people from "Mount Guiyun Market" who had already participated in the great battle against the demon beasts a few days ago.

When Song Song Qingming turned to the last page regarding the battle damage of the Mount Guiyun Market cultivator side in this great battle, the originally somewhat happy expression on his face suddenly became somewhat solemn.

Although Mount Guiyun Market won a great victory in this battle, defeating and severely injuring the demon beast army, they also paid a considerable price.

Just Foundation Establishment cultivators died in battle on the spot, and nearly three hundred Qi Condensation cultivators were also lost, and many cultivators were injured in this battle and returned to the rear to recuperate.

Huang Huang Siyuan, in the previous great battle against the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" alone, also injured her internal organs and was still in seclusion to heal her wounds.

In this battle, although the Song family did not have any Foundation Establishment cultivators die in battle, they also lost more than thirty people. Among them, the family elder Song Song Xuanqing, who was at the second layer of Foundation Establishment, was quite severely injured in this battle and had already been arranged to be sent back to the family's Mount Mount Funiu to heal his wounds.

Looking at the cultivators who had already died in battle on the list, although it was not the first time he had seen this, Song Song Qingming still found it difficult to calm down in his heart.

Among these people, there were descendants and juniors he had seen, and there were also vassals under his command who had visited him. A few days ago, they were still standing in this great hall with smiles, but looking back now, they were all cold names.

However, having experienced such cruel things many times, although Song Song Qingming was touched in his heart, he was still able to adjust his mindset quickly.

After closing the merit book in his hand, Song Song Qingming looked up at everyone sitting there and showed a smile on his face again.

"In this battle, you all performed well. After the merit points from the law enforcement team are calculated, I will report this matter to the sect and record merit points for you all.

For those with outstanding merit on the battlefield, a merit-rewarding assembly will be arranged in ten days, at which time I will personally distribute rewards to everyone.

In addition, for the cultivators of each family who died in battle, a portion of the pension spirit stones can be distributed first. You all arrange for people to go directly to the treasury to collect them.

You must personally inquire about this matter and must not allow the occurrence of deducting the pension merit points of the deceased from vassal families. Otherwise, once it is discovered in the future, it will be dealt with according to the sect's rules without exception. You must not be careless."

"Many thanks to the ancestor for the reward! We will definitely keep it in mind!"

According to the detailed post-battle statistics, in this battle, the Mount Guiyun Market cultivators, excluding the demon king "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" killed by Song Song Qingming and his wife, killed a total of twenty-six second-tier demon beasts and 1,386 first-tier demon beasts.

After the materials on these demon beasts were processed and collected, they were now already filling the treasury of "Mount Guiyun Market."

According to the old rules, although these spoils of war were all to be transported back to the sect in the end, Song Song Qingming had the right to take out a portion of the demon beast materials first to be used for pensions for the deceased and rewards for those who performed meritorious service on the battlefield.

In this battle at "Mount Guiyun Market," Song Song Qingming was still very satisfied with the performance of the cultivators under his command.

When he and Huang Huang Siyuan did not kill the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" to balance the victory of the battlefield, facing the fierce demon beast army, not many people dared to retreat on the battlefield, and they all showed their bloodiness to defend their land and protect their homes.

Now that they had finally spent so much effort to defeat the demon beast army, Song Song Qingming naturally did not want these cultivators, who were looking forward to the rewards, to wait for too long, so he directly announced the holding of a merit-rewarding assembly.

Hearing that the merit-rewarding assembly was about to be held, the people present also became excited one after another.

Compared to a hundred years ago, when they fought the "White Lion Demon King" for more than half a year and fought dozens of battles before defeating the demon beast army, this time the Mount Guiyun Market cultivators defeated the demon beast army in less than a month. Celebrating and receiving rewards was definitely something these people did not expect at the beginning.

Although they defeated the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's" demon beast army in one battle, this could not represent that this demon beast turmoil sweeping across the north of Wei had already ended now.

However, being able to have such a good start was definitely a very inspiring thing for all the cultivators guarding "Mount Guiyun Market."

As Song Song Qingming expected, after killing the leading demon king "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon," for a period of time that followed, only some scattered demon beasts that could not form a climate came south to harass, and there were no more large-scale demon beast armies.

Ten days later, "Mount Guiyun Market" also held a merit-rewarding assembly as promised.

This time, not only did Song Song Qingming personally preside over the assembly, but Huang Huang Siyuan, who was in seclusion to heal her wounds, also specially came out of seclusion to the assembly site to encourage and reward these cultivators who had performed meritorious service on the battlefield.

In this great battle against the demon beast army, the best performers were naturally the few late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators with the highest cultivation.

Among them, five people, including Song Song Yuanli and Huang Mengde, all had the record of killing a second-tier or above demon beast alone, and each received a reward of a second-tier top-quality magic tool.

Next were more than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators led by Song Song Yuanhao who performed well on the battlefield and had cooperated to kill second-tier demon beasts, each of whom was rewarded with a second-tier mid-quality magic tool.

They these people's battle achievements although not as dazzling as the former, but their brave performance on the battlefield was not much worse than theirs.

Besides these Foundation Establishment cultivators, dozens of Qi Condensation cultivators with outstanding battle achievements also received rewards such as magic tools or talismans and other spiritual items.

These spiritual items used for rewards were all exchanged by Song Song Qingming from surrounding Foundation Establishment families or markets at an equivalent price using the captured demon beast materials, among which many came from the Song family and the "Red Flame Market" it controlled.

For this reason, the Song family also exchanged a lot of demon beast materials from the Mount Guiyun Market treasury and transported them back to Mount Mount Funiu.

After the merit-rewarding assembly ended, not long after Song Song Qingming returned to the cave dwelling with Huang Huang Siyuan, a ray of spiritual light suddenly flew from the sky and fell into a small courtyard in the center of the market.

Before long, Song Song Yuanli, holding a sound-transmission talisman that flew from Mount Mount Guyang, hurriedly arrived outside Song Song Qingming's cave dwelling and sent a sound transmission inside.

"Seventh Grand-Uncle, there is a letter from the sect!"

Song Song Qingming, who was drinking tea and chatting with Huang Huang Siyuan, received this sound transmission from Song Song Yuanli and hurriedly called him into his cave dwelling, taking the sound-transmission talisman in his hand.

After Mount Guiyun Market won a great victory over the demon beast army, seeing that the demon beast army here no longer dared to come south on a large scale, Song Song Qingming sent a letter to inform the sect's General Affairs Hall of the situation here and asked about the detailed situation of the war in other parts of Wei.

Although he defeated the demon beast army here, Song Song Qingming knew very well in his heart that this demon beast turmoil was far from over and definitely would not be able to pass so easily.

In case the war in other places was unfavorable, they also had to be prepared to go to support at any time.

Hearing Song Song Yuanli say that news had already come from the sect, Song Song Qingming's expression immediately became serious.

After opening the sound-transmission talisman sent by the sect and looking at it carefully, Song Song Qingming's expression gradually became solemn, his brows followed and furrowed slightly, and he was full of worry.

"Husband, what's wrong? Is there a problem at Mount Mount Tuoyun and Iron Immortal Castle?" Seeing that Song Song Qingming's expression was a bit wrong, Huang Huang Siyuan, sitting on the side, immediately asked.

Song Song Qingming heard this, then put away the sound-transmission talisman in his hand, shook his head, and replied: "It's not that there is a problem in those two places. The trouble is here at Mount Guiyun Market.

According to the sect's letter, besides the Brother Molong Demon Emperor leading the team personally near Mount Guiyun Market, eighteen demon kings came at once. Now the sect is in an emergency, and even Junior Sister Xu and Senior Brother Chen have already rushed to the Mount Guiyun Market front line to support."

"What? Eighteen demon kings? How could Golden Feather Mountain dispatch so many demon kings at once? Is the new demon emperor crazy? To attack Mount Guiyun Market with such a full force, aren't they afraid that their old nest will be taken advantage of by other demon clan forces?..."

Hearing from Song Song Qingming that eighteen demon kings came to "Mount Guiyun Market" at once, Huang Huang Siyuan's face suddenly showed a look of unbelievable shock.

There were usually about a dozen demon kings stationed near "Golden Feather Mountain." Adding those demon kings who came south from the northern border during the demon beast turmoil, generally, during the demon beast turmoil, there were only more than twenty demon kings in the north of Wei.

Back when the Golden Feather Demon Emperor was still alive, every time the demon beast turmoil occurred, although there would be many demon beasts coming south to attack the human territory near "Golden Feather Mountain," there was never a move to go out in full force. At least, they would leave a part of the demon kings to guard the spiritual mountains under their command.

If it was said that eighteen demon kings appeared at "Mount Guiyun Market" at the same time this time, then adding the demon kings responsible for containing "Jin Shan Market," "Mount Mount Tuoyun," and "Iron Immortal Castle," they added up to more than twenty.

With so many demon kings coming south to besiege "Mount Guiyun Market" at the same time, the demon beast army under "Golden Feather Mountain" could indeed be considered to have gone out in full force.

The Xiaoyao Sect side guarding "Mount Guiyun Market," plus the two people Chen Chen Xuanxin and Xu Wu Ziyuan who went to support, only had seven Jin Dan cultivators in total.

In the situation where the Nascent Soul cultivators of both sides were containing each other and it was difficult to intervene, even if the seven people of the Xiaoyao Sect relied on the protective formation of "Mount Guiyun Market," facing the full siege of eighteen demon kings, it would be very difficult to persist for too long.

Therefore, this sound-transmission letter came to Song Song Qingming here, besides explaining the specific situation of several other places in Wei to him, it was also to ask for help from him here, hoping that Song Song Qingming would hurry to "Mount Guiyun Market" to support the sect in guarding this market. "Mount Mount Tuoyun" was contained by the mid-stage Jin Dan Cloud Crane demon king. True Person Daoist Guangling and Zhang Rong, by joining forces, could only barely block the other party and simply could not extract the strength to support "Mount Guiyun Market."

Outside "Iron Immortal Castle," where Zhao Zhao Menglian and Hu Hu Qingyun were guarding, three demon kings also came this time. Although these few demon kings could not break into "Iron Immortal Castle" for a while, Zhao Zhao Menglian and the others were also unable to extract themselves.

Only "Jin Shan Market," which was somewhat underestimated by the demon beast side, had Song Song Qingming unexpectedly kill the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" and quickly defeat this demon beast army, which made the Xiaoyao Sect side see a lot of hope, so they hurriedly sent a letter asking him to go to "Mount Guiyun Market" to support.

After learning that the front line "Mount Guiyun Market" was in an emergency, Song Song Qingming did not dare to delay too much and took Huang Huang Siyuan back to Mount Mount Funiu.

Now that the "Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon" had been killed by Song Song Qingming and Huang Huang Siyuan together, the demon beasts to the north of "Jin Shan Market" were no longer a climate, and there was a third-tier protective formation.

As long as Song Song Yuanli and the others could be careful and cautious, even if they encountered one or two ordinary demon kings attacking, the thousands of cultivators inside guarding the formation for half a day while waiting for the sect's support was something they could do.

After returning to Mount Mount Funiu, seeing that Song Song Qingyu was still in seclusion and had not come out, Song Song Qingming left a letter for her and immediately went to Mount Mount Guyang with Huang Huang Siyuan, taking the sect's teleportation array to arrive directly at the "Mount Guiyun Market" front line.

After Song Song Qingming and his wife arrived at the market, the Xiaoyao Sect people who were resisting the attack of the demon beast army in the market were also very excited and breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this news.

The next day, Grand Elder Li Li Mufeng gathered all the Jin Dan elders at "Mount Guiyun Market" in the deliberation hall, preparing to organize a counterattack against the demon beasts to first defeat the demon beast army's constant attacks on the market's protective formation outside.

The demon beast army that came to besiege "Mount Guiyun Market" this time, besides the Brother Molong Demon Emperor leading the team, had a total of more than twenty thousand demon beasts, among which there were more than five hundred second-tier Foundation Establishment demon beasts, and there were as many as eighteen Jin Dan demon kings who could influence the situation on the battlefield.

And in "Mount Guiyun Market," although the Xiaoyao Sect had already gathered most of the sect's strength here, there were currently less than two hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators in the market. Adding the Song Song Qingming couple who came to support, there were only nine Jin Dan cultivators.

Even adding those rogue cultivators who had lived in "Mount Guiyun Market" for many years and stayed to help guard the market, the overall strength of the Xiaoyao Sect side was only about half of the demon beast army, and the gap in strength between the two sides was still very obvious.

More than half a month ago, the Brother Molong Demon Emperor led so many demon beasts to kill "Mount Guiyun Market," which also almost caught the Xiaoyao Sect off guard.

Fortunately, the sect's Grand Elder Li Li Mufeng had already entered "Mount Guiyun Market" in advance to sit in command, plus the market's third-tier top-quality protective formation had impressive power, so they barely blocked the demon beasts' first wave of fierce attacks.

After discovering that the demon beast army had gone out in full force to besiege "Mount Guiyun Market," Li Li Mufeng hurriedly transferred all the remaining mobile forces that were left behind in the sect to respond to and support the front line at any time to the "Mount Guiyun Market" front line, which barely stabilized the current situation.

However, although the Xiaoyao Sect guarded "Mount Guiyun Market," now that the demon beast army was powerful, they could only rely on the protective formation to defend and had no ability to defeat the demon beasts' siege.

For more than half a month, being constantly attacked by the demon beast army, although the protective formation of "Mount Guiyun Market" had not had any problems yet, if they did not find a way to defeat the demon beast army's fierce attack, it would not be able to persist for too long.

In the thousands of years of history of the Xiaoyao Sect, the last time they encountered such a large-scale demon beast army coming south was the demon beast army led by the "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" more than a thousand years ago.

In that battle more than a thousand years ago, the reason why the Xiaoyao Sect could successfully defeat the "Golden Feather Demon Emperor's" powerful attack, besides having the support of the cultivators of the State of Pei, who had a good relationship with them in the south.

It was mainly because the former Nascent Soul Grand Elder, True Person Daoxuan, had powerful divine abilities and defeated the leading "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" several times in the great battle, which forced the demon beast side to retreat and sign a covenant with the human side.

Facing the full-scale attack of the demon beasts in the north, the Xiaoyao Sect, which was already finding it difficult to bear this pressure, had also sent letters to surrounding friendly countries for help.

However, now that the demon beast turmoil was occurring in the entire northern border, surrounding countries also had their own troubles to deal with. It would definitely be very difficult for the Xiaoyao Sect to wait for reinforcements from other sects in a short time. To guard "Mount Guiyun Market," they currently still needed to rely on their own strength.

For the past half month, Xiaoyao Sect Grand Elder Li Li Mufeng had also fought several great battles with the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor," who led the demon beast side. Both were mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, and Li Li Mufeng did not take any advantage in the hands of the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor."

Now that the Nascent Soul cultivators of both sides were evenly matched, if the Xiaoyao Sect wanted to interrupt the demon beast army's attack on the "Mount Guiyun Market" protective formation and temporarily lift this crisis, they could only look to Song Song Qingming and these Jin Dan elders of the sect.

According to the information currently mastered by the Xiaoyao Sect, there were a total of eighteen demon kings attacking the protective formation outside "Mount Guiyun Market." They led a demon beast army respectively and took turns attacking the "Mount Guiyun Market" protective formation from the north, east, and west directions.

Each direction had six demon kings, and there were powerful late-stage Jin Dan great demon kings sitting in command.

Because the strength of the demon beasts was far beyond the Xiaoyao Sect side, in the previous few times, no matter which direction Bai Bai Yuxian and the others attacked from, they failed to defeat the enemy and were forced back by the demon kings who came to support from the other two directions, and they could only return to the market's protective formation without success.

This time, with the addition of the Song Song Qingming couple, the Xiaoyao Sect side, which had been strengthened in terms of Jin Dan cultivator strength, finally had an opportunity to break the current crisis.

In the previous counterattacks, although the Xiaoyao Sect side failed to defeat the demon beast army's siege, they also scouted a lot of useful information.

Both the north and west directions of "Mount Guiyun Market" had two late-stage Jin Dan great demon kings sitting in command. Only the six demon kings responsible for commanding the demon beast army on the east side of the market had slightly weaker strength, among which there was only one late-stage Jin Dan great demon king.

Therefore, the Xiaoyao Sect people also chose this side as the direction for this counterattack.

As long as they could be caught off guard and severely injure or kill one or two demon kings before the demon beast armies on the other two sides reacted, they would definitely be able to thwart the enemy's sharp edge and force the demon beast army to temporarily stop the siege from all sides, reducing the pressure on the market's protective formation.