Chapter 698: Losses and Gains, Turmoil Ends (Seeking monthly votes)

After repairing the "Tuoyun Mountain" mountain-protecting formation, Song Qingming and Chen Xuanxin stayed behind to help sit in town for half a month. Seeing that the situation on the mountain had gradually stabilized, they said goodbye to Zhang Rong and returned to "Guiyun Workshop."

Since the "Molong Demon Emperor" was defeated and retreated back to Golden Feather Mountain, although small groups of demon beasts still went south to harass the workshop from time to time, the entire north of Wei State had gradually stabilized. The "Xiaoyao Sect" side also gradually began to extract strength to clean up the remaining demon beast forces in the territory and restore the vitality of the entire north.

Not long after Song Qingming returned to "Guiyun Workshop," Xu Ziyuan, who was in charge of the sect's Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, took the initiative to come to the door. Looking at the merit book full of numbers of fallen and meritorious deeds that the other party handed him, Song Qingming also revealed a trace of confusion on his face.

Although the "Xiaoyao Sect" side had temporarily repelled the demon beast army and recovered the northern territory, the demon beast turmoil in the entire Fuyun Mountain Range usually lasts for two or three years. Now less than a year has passed, and it is far from the time to distribute merits and rewards.

Seeing the look of doubt on Song Qingming's face, Xu Ziyuan hurriedly explained: "Senior Brother Song, logically speaking, it is not yet time to discuss merits and rewards, but I am also here on the orders of Senior Sister Bai.

Since the demon beast turmoil, all parts of the sect have suffered heavy losses. Senior Uncle Li and Senior Sister Bai discussed it and decided to take out a portion of spiritual items from the sect treasury in advance to reward and comfort those disciples and subordinate cultivation families who have made contributions to the sect.

This list was submitted by Qingyu not long ago. She insisted on waiting for you to see it before reporting it. Since you happened to return today, if you have no problems here, I will hand it over to the Merit Hall directly as it is."

Hearing Xu Ziyuan's explanation, Song Qingming hurriedly nodded: "So that's how it is. Now that all parts of the sect in the north are waiting to be rebuilt, it is hard for Senior Uncle Li and Senior Sister Bai to have such good intentions.

You also know that I have spent most of my time in Guiyun Workshop for the past six months, and I don't know as much about the situation in Jin Shan Workshop as Qingyu and the others. Since this list has been confirmed by her, naturally there will be no major problems. Just report it as it is!"

Seeing the names and numbers of the fallen cultivators who fought against the demon beast turmoil recorded in the merit book, Song Qingming also felt a trace of sadness and helplessness in his eyes, and soon handed it back to Xu Ziyuan.

"Since that's the case, I need to hand this over quickly, so I won't stay here to disturb Senior Brother Song!" After getting Song Qingming's confirmation, Xu Ziyuan also immediately put away the merit book, stood up, and said goodbye to leave the cave dwelling.

Although this demon beast turmoil lasted less than a year, the losses suffered by the entire Wei State had already far exceeded the past. At this time, it is naturally most necessary to soothe people's hearts. The "Xiaoyao Sect" decided to reward disciples and cultivation families in advance, which is naturally a very wise move.

On the Song family side, after experiencing several "Jin Shan Workshop" battles and sending many cultivators to support "Guiyun Workshop," they also lost many cultivators in this demon beast turmoil, and even family Foundation Establishment cultivators fell on the battlefield, and the losses were also very heavy.

Although under the leadership of the Song family, many cultivation families in the northeast of Wei State held the most important defense line "Jin Shan Workshop" and did not let the demon beast army invade the territory of human cultivators, avoiding the severe destruction suffered by "Tie Xian Fort" and "Tuoyun Mountain" in the northwest of Wei State.

But in order to guard "Jin Shan Workshop" and resist the demon beast turmoil, the major cultivation families in the northeast of Wei State also paid a huge price.

Just the many cultivation families in Pingyang and Qinghe counties under the Song family lost thousands of cultivators in this year. Such a casualty figure has already exceeded the sum of the two demon beast turmoils Song Qingming experienced before.

Even the Song family, who won the "Jin Shan Workshop" battle and held the territory, had such heavy casualties, not to mention other places in the north of Wei State.

In this demon beast turmoil, although the "Xiaoyao Sect" defeated the demon beast army and recovered the lost territory in less than a year, the price paid was also extremely heavy.

Not only were a large number of low-tier cultivators and mortals lost, but even the sect's Jin Dan elders suffered not small losses.

True Person Guangling, the most senior Jin Dan elder in the sect, died in battle on the spot to block the "Brother Chiyun Demon Emperor" from destroying the workshop's formation. Zhao Mengling and Hu Qingyun were also very seriously injured in the great battle with the opponent's demon kings.

Before the great battle ended, the two of them had already withdrawn from the battle and went into seclusion to heal their injuries. Now it is almost equivalent to having lost their combat power, and it will take at least ten years to recover.

Other sect elders, including Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, were more or less injured. After the battle of "Guiyun Workshop" repelled the demon beast army, the only Jin Dan elders left in the "Xiaoyao Sect" who were still intact were Song Qingyu, Xu Ziyuan, and Chen Xuanxin, who were relatively lucky.

When Song Qingming was confronting the "Brother Chiyun Demon Emperor," his natal magic treasure "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" was broken by the demon emperor with one strike, and he vomited a mouthful of blood due to the backlash on the spot.

Although such injuries were not very serious compared to Zhao Mengling and the others and did not affect Song Qingming's combat power too much, the damage to his natal magic treasure also caused a crack in his Jin Dan, which required quiet healing for about half a year to fully recover.

However, in this demon beast turmoil, although the "Xiaoyao Sect" suffered huge losses, they also harvested a large amount of demon beast resources.

It was precisely because there were so many rich spoils in the treasury that Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian had the confidence to take out some materials in advance to reward and comfort the many disciples and cultivation families below.

Not counting those numerous low-tier demon beasts, just the demon kings above the Jin Dan stage, the "Xiaoyao Sect" side killed fourteen, which is also a war record the sect has never had before.

Of these dozen or so demon kings, four fell in "Jin Shan Workshop," among which the Nine-Patterned Dragon, who led the demon beast army to attack "Jin Shan Workshop" first, was killed by Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan together. The "Blue Feather Demon King," who came to pin them down later, died in the hands of Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu.

Two other demon kings from "Red Yunshan" were killed outside "Jin Shan Workshop" by Li Xuanyi, who rushed to support them, together with Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu.

Except for these four demon kings, the remaining ten demon kings, nine died in the most tragic "Guiyun Workshop" great battle, and only one died under Chen Xuanxin's sword when recovering "Tuoyun Mountain" later.

Because these dozen or so demon kings were not all killed by "Xiaoyao Sect" cultivators, and some died in the hands of Li Xuanyi and other cultivators who came to support the "Xiaoyao Sect," the "Xiaoyao Sect" did not get all the materials on these demon kings and still divided a portion to them according to the rules.

The demon kings who died in "Jin Shan Workshop," because they were all killed by the Song family and Li Xuanyi alone, and Bai Yuxian did not intervene in the distribution, they were all handed over to the Song family according to the last time. The materials on the remaining demon kings were rewarded to the many Jin Dan elders who participated in the battle according to the size of their merits.

The Song family relied on the good performance of three Jin Dan ancestors, including Song Qingming, on the battlefield this time and harvested the materials on three complete demon kings, which also caused other elders in the sect to be envious for a while.

In addition to rewarding these high-tier demon beast materials, the "Xiaoyao Sect" Merit Hall also fully opened all the first and second-grade low-tier demon beast materials harvested on the battlefield to sect disciples and subordinate cultivation families above the Foundation Establishment stage.

As long as you make great contributions on the battlefield and get the sect's merit rewards, you can go directly to the Guyang Mountain Merit Hall to exchange for these demon beast materials with merits.

Not only that, in order to help the sect and subordinate cultivation families recover their strength as soon as possible, the Xiaoyao Sect also took out many elixirs that can improve cultivation realms, including "Foundation Establishment Elixir" and "Barrier-Breaking Elixir," and placed them in the Merit Hall for them to exchange on their own.

These relatively precious high-tier spiritual elixirs were all important materials that the "Xiaoyao Sect" had hoarded in advance for rewarding merits after the war. This time, in order to soothe people's hearts, Li Mufeng and the others also decisively took out these spiritual items in advance.

Anyway, the value of the many demon beast materials seized by the sect this time has already far exceeded these spiritual items. The "Xiaoyao Sect" does not need to feel distressed because of this. As long as they send flying boats to transport these demon beast materials to other countries in need after a period of time, they can quickly exchange them for spirit stones to purchase these elixirs and spiritual items, which will not have a major impact on the sect.

After learning this very shocking news, all the cultivation families in Wei State and those disciples in the sect who were eager to break through their cultivation immediately took action and began to raise merits everywhere to exchange for the spiritual items they needed in the sect's Merit Hall.

After staying in "Guiyun Workshop" for a few more days, seeing that there was nothing going on in the sect, Song Qingming greeted Sect Master Bai Yuxian, packed his things, and took Huang Siyuan and Li Xuanyi back to "Funiu Mountain" directly.

Before Song Qingming returned, Song Qingyu had already led the many cultivator armies under the Song family to retreat to "Jin Shan Workshop" one step ahead. Because the demon beast turmoil had not yet ended, war could occur at any time, and a large number of cultivators must be stationed on the northern front, so Song Qingyu stayed in "Jin Shan Workshop" to sit in town.

Because Huang Siyuan's injuries had not fully recovered, she immediately started seclusion to heal her injuries after returning.

Because Song Qingming promised to help Li Xuanyi comprehend the cultivation technique, after returning to "Funiu Mountain" and arranging family affairs, he also started seclusion to comprehend the "Grand Void Sword Art."

This seclusion lasted for nearly half a year before Song Qingming walked out of the seclusion cave dwelling.

Although it took a lot of time, hard work pays off. After careful comprehension, Song Qingming successfully found the problem in Li Xuanyi's cultivation technique and helped her solve this difficulty in cultivation.

After coming out of seclusion, Song Qingming wanted to hand over the recorded comprehension insights to Li Xuanyi, but he did not see her figure in the cave dwelling where she lived. After calling Song Yuanfang to inquire, he learned that this little senior sister had run to "Jin Shan Workshop" to find Song Qingyu because she was bored staying on the mountain.

After sending a letter to Song Qingyu, who was far away in "Jin Shan Workshop," about an hour later, a cyan escape light flew from the north and landed outside "Funiu Mountain." Li Xuanyi, who had just rushed back from "Jin Shan Workshop," arrived at the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain with an anxious face. From afar, she smelled a burst of refreshing tea fragrance, and soon found Song Qingming, who was tasting tea with Huang Siyuan, on the third floor.

"Hehe! I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Siyuan to come out of seclusion today. It seems I really came at the wrong time and disturbed you two!"

Huang Siyuan was injured during the great battle with the demon king in "Guiyun Workshop." At that time, her opponent was a demon king whose cultivation was already close to the peak of the mid-stage Jin Dan. This demon not only had a cultivation base much higher than Huang Siyuan but also cultivated a divine ability that somewhat restrained Huang Siyuan's cultivation technique.

Facing such a powerful demon king, although Song Qingming was taking care of her on the side, Huang Siyuan, who lacked experience in fighting, still suffered many secret losses in the battle and was injured in her meridians.

Fortunately, Huang Siyuan's injuries were not very serious. After half a year of seclusion, her injuries had now recovered seven or eight out of ten and were almost fully healed. After receiving the news that Song Qingming had come out of seclusion, Huang Siyuan simply ended her seclusion and walked out of the cave dwelling.

Seeing Li Xuanyi walk up, Huang Siyuan immediately stood up and poured her a cup of spiritual tea, shaking her head with a smile: "Senior Sister Li, don't tease me. I came here just to boil tea, nothing else.

I promised to treat you, this distinguished guest, well before, but I didn't take care of it after returning to seclusion to heal my injuries. You two talk first; I'll go prepare and make a few of my specialty dishes for you later."

"Oh! With such a treat, I didn't come in vain this time." Hearing that Huang Siyuan was going to cook to treat her, Li Xuanyi, who had long wanted to taste the delicious spiritual food she made, immediately revealed a trace of anticipation on her face.

After seeing Huang Siyuan leave, Li Xuanyi walked directly to Song Qingming and sat down, tasting a sip of the spiritual tea on the table.

"The spiritual tea boiled by Fellow Daoist Siyuan is fragrant and mellow, and the control of the heat is truly unique. Junior Brother Song, you are truly lucky to find her as a Dao companion. Even I am a bit envious now!"

"There are so many cultivators in the cultivation world; finding one or two people who are good at tea-boiling skills is not a difficult thing. Senior Sister Li will always meet them in the future, so there is no need to envy me."

"What if I meet them? I am not as free as you. As a family ancestor, I can do whatever I want. Although the cultivation world is big, we family cultivators always have attachments that are hard to give up. Sometimes it's really not as free and happy as those loose cultivators."

When saying this, Li Xuanyi's originally very happy face suddenly revealed a trace of worry, and I don't know what unhappy things she thought of in her heart.

Seeing that Li Xuanyi's face was a bit wrong, Song Qingming, who didn't know the situation, didn't dare to ask more and hurriedly took out a bamboo slip that had been prepared early from his body and placed it on the table, diverting Li Xuanyi's attention.

"Senior Sister Li, this is what I comprehended from the Grand Void Sword Art. It should be able to help you break through the bottleneck in your cultivation. You take it and try it first. If it doesn't work, I will help you find the reason."

"Hehe! Junior Brother Song, you really didn't let me down. If it's really useful, it will be a great help to me. Senior Sister must thank you well."

After picking up the bamboo slip on the table and checking it, Li Xuanyi immediately forgot the worry just now, her face changed for a while and returned to the previous joy. After bowing to Song Qingming with a smile, she put the bamboo slip in her hand into the storage magic treasure.

"Senior Sister has a life-saving grace to me. These things within my power are what I should do. Don't mention any thanks again, or you will be formal with Junior Brother."

Li Xuanyi nodded slightly and smiled: "Junior Brother, don't worry. I won't stand on ceremony with you. If I encounter any problems with cultivation techniques in the future, I'm afraid I'll have to bother you quite a bit. I hope you won't find this Senior Sister troublesome when the time comes."

"Hehe! My place is just a small mountain temple. Senior Sister Li, feel free to come often if you like. As for the problems in cultivation, I will naturally do my best. However, Master's Grand Void Sword Art has many mysterious aspects. Senior Sister still needs to ask him for advice more in the future. Don't delay your cultivation path because of me."

Hearing Li Xuanyi say that she would come to ask him for advice on cultivation problems in the future, Song Qingming's face was also helpless. The "Grand Void Sword Art" practiced by Li Xuanyi was created by Master Lingxu Daoist, a top-tier Soul Transformation cultivator in the cultivation world. How can ordinary cultivation techniques compare with it?

Before, Song Qingming spent half a year to help Li Xuanyi comprehend a bottleneck of the "Grand Void Sword Art." If Li Xuanyi really came to Song Qingming for every problem in the future, he would really have no way to deal with it.

But fortunately, Li Xuanyi still has to go back after traveling outside, and she definitely won't really come to Funiu Mountain to find herself often. Song Qingming didn't worry too much about this point in his heart.

Except for the problems in cultivation, Song Qingming naturally welcomes Li Xuanyi to be a guest at Funiu Mountain at any time. After all, apart from the fellow sect friendship, she is now considered a distinguished guest of the Song family and even the "Xiaoyao Sect." As long as there is a way to help her, Song Qingming will definitely not refuse.

After the two chatted in the "Huixian Pavilion" for a long time, Huang Siyuan brought people to bring up a few fragrant spiritual foods.

As soon as she smelled the fragrance of the spiritual food Huang Siyuan placed on the table next to her, Li Xuanyi's attention was immediately attracted. Before Song Qingming could invite her, Li Xuanyi had already taken the initiative to stand up and come to the dining table, looking at the spiritual food on the table with joy.

Although Huang Siyuan has been busy refining elixirs all these years, her spiritual food skills have not been neglected too much. Song Qingming was originally a glutton, and he has tasted many delicious spiritual foods while traveling outside these years, but there are indeed very few restaurants that can compare with Huang Siyuan's cooking skills.

This time, in order to treat Li Xuanyi, this "distinguished guest," well, Huang Siyuan also spent a lot of thought preparing. Not only did she personally run to "Chiyan Workshop" to choose the best materials for making spiritual food, but she also sent a letter to the Huang family of "Taiyuan Mountain," asking them to send people to send the best fresh spiritual fish, which prepared such a delicious banquet for Li Xuanyi.

It has been almost two years since returning from the "Donghuang State cultivation world." Because she encountered the demon beast turmoil that broke out in advance as soon as she returned, Song Qingming has been busy with various affairs in these two years and has not had the opportunity to sit down and have a good meal.

This time, Song Qingming also completely let go of all the things in his heart and had a good drink with Li Xuanyi and Huang Siyuan.

Shortly after the three of them started the banquet, Song Qingyu, who had already heard the news, also rushed back a little late after explaining the affairs on hand. Several people chatted and drank in the "Huixian Pavilion" while exchanging cultivation insights, chatting from the afternoon until late at night before returning to their cave dwellings.

After getting the comprehended cultivation technique from Song Qingming, Li Xuanyi simply stayed on "Funiu Mountain" and started seclusion to try to break through the bottleneck. Song Qingming went to "Jin Shan Workshop" to replace Song Qingyu, letting her and Huang Siyuan stay on the mountain to practice with peace of mind.

The demon beast turmoil has passed for almost two years. Like most countries around the Fuyun Mountain Range, the turmoil faced by Wei State is almost coming to an end.

In the half year since Song Qingming's seclusion, in the Song family territory, only small groups of low-tier demon beasts went south to harass "Jin Shan Workshop" in the Fuyun Mountain Range in the north, and no large-scale demon beast army driven by Jin Dan demon kings appeared again.

In "Yunwu Mountain" in the east, groups of demon beast armies appeared from time to time, but they were also low-tier demon beasts with weak strength.

Although these demon beasts were numerous and brought some threats to Qinghe and Pingyang counties, facing the strong defense of human cultivators, they were also difficult to cause too much damage. In most cases, they were beaten back to the deep mountains by the cultivator army that came to support them shortly after invading the human territory.

Just like this, another half a year passed. The demon beast army of the Fuyun Mountain Range, which had been attacking the human territory for more than two years, finally began a full-scale retreat. Except for some places that had been occupied by the demon beast army during the turmoil, the north of the entire Fuyun Mountain Range cultivation world gradually stabilized.

This demon beast turmoil, which had lasted for more than two years and caused huge losses to the Fuyun Mountain Range cultivation world, finally ended.

After receiving the news from the sect confirming the end of the demon beast turmoil, Song Qingming, who had been in "Jin Shan Workshop" for half a year, also felt relieved in his heart. He hurriedly issued an order to disband the cultivator army gathered in the workshop and led the Song family cultivators guarding the workshop to retreat back to "Funiu Mountain" together.

In the two-year demon beast turmoil, in order to guard the family territory and resist the invasion of demon beasts, the Song family also lost nearly a hundred cultivators on the battlefield.

Because the demon beast turmoil had not ended before, the family's full energy was focused on dealing with this matter, and there was no way to give them a grand funeral. They could only collect the bones of these fallen family cultivators, cremate them, and bring them back to "Funiu Mountain" and place them in the family ancestor hall.

Now that the turmoil is over, it is time to hold a decent funeral for these cultivators who sacrificed for the family.

Under the personal arrangement of Song Qingming, the clan leader, "Funiu Mountain" was soon full of flags and white banners were hung everywhere. All fallen cultivators were treated equally and buried in the family cemetery at the back of the mountain according to the highest standards of the family.

For the relatives and descendants of these fallen family cultivators, Song Qingming also instructed Song Yuanfang, who was in charge of family affairs, to soothe and take care of them well. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 699 =====