Chapter 736: At Daggers Drawn, Attacking White Lion Ridge

After the "Mount Funiu" family discussion decided on the strategy of expanding northward, the entire Song family immediately began to mobilize.

Cultivators outside began to return to "Mount Funiu" to wait for the family’s dispatch, and the family "Treasury Pavilion" also opened the treasury to distribute materials useful on the battlefield to the cultivators who were confirmed to be about to set out.

In addition to "Mount Funiu," almost all the immortal cultivation families under the Song family received the mobilization order from "Mount Funiu," requiring them to send some cultivators to follow the Song family to expand territory northward.

After receiving the mobilization order, the Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe and Pingyang counties immediately began to mobilize following the Song family.

Not only that, several markets located within the Song family’s territory, such as "Chiyan Market," "Jinshan Market," and "Qinghe Market," also began to post notices to hire loose cultivators to participate in this expansion of territory.

In order to invite many loose cultivators to participate, the conditions offered by the Song family this time were very generous. As long as they killed demonic beasts and made contributions, they could not only get certain rewards.

Those with outstanding merits could also freely choose a spiritual vein below the third grade in these newly expanded spiritual veins for cultivation, or create a new immortal cultivation family, and could be attached to the Song family in the future to get the protection of "Mount Funiu."

As soon as this notice was posted, it immediately received the response of many loose cultivators within the Song family’s territory.

Hearing that following the Song family to expand territory could have the opportunity to seize spiritual veins and create an immortal cultivation family, even some old-brand loose cultivators in the neighboring counties who had this idea came to Qinghe County to join in the fun.

Soon, two months passed in a flash. At this time, on the square west of "Chiyan Market," hundreds of loose cultivators who had heard the news from all over had gathered.

Under the arrangement of the Song family cultivators, these people stood honestly in several rows, patiently accepting the roll call by several market law enforcement team cultivators one by one.

And on the other side of the square, hundreds of cultivators had also gathered. It was just that compared to those loose cultivators with irregular formations, these people were organized into several groups, and their cultivation quality was clearly higher.

At this time, a team of cultivators wearing unified costumes walked toward this side from the east street of the market. The middle-aged man in the lead had just brought the cultivators behind him to an empty space on the side, when he heard a somewhat familiar voice behind him.

"I thought it would be Xinyun leading the team for Lotus Mountain this time, but I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Gao to come in person. Long time no see, Brother Gao!"

Gao Changjin turned around immediately, saw Li Chengyue and Luo Daozhen walking toward him, and immediately smiled and stepped forward to return the salute to the two.

"Fellow Daoist Li, Fellow Daoist Luo, are you well? Xinyun should have come, but he just happened to have some gains in cultivation a few days ago and closed his doors to cultivate, so I had to come down the mountain."

"Oh! Fellow Daoist Xinyun is in closed-door cultivation again. This time, is he preparing to break through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment? This must be congratulated to Fellow Daoist Gao in advance. When Fellow Daoist Xinyun leaves closed-door cultivation, you must let us know, so that we can have the opportunity to go to Lotus Mountain to have a cup of wine."

"Haha! Easy to say, easy to say, my Lotus Mountain always welcomes friends from all directions. If the two fellow daoists want to go, you can go at any time. I happen to have a few jars of good wine that have been treasured for many years to entertain the two."

"Fellow Daoist Gao is heroic, then it’s a deal..."

Gao Changjin and the three were chatting very happily, but several Foundation Establishment cultivators standing not far away, led by the Huang family of "Taiyuan Mountain," showed disdain on their faces.

"Humph! I said why the market business has been targeted by the Gao family recently. These old things really got together early. Brother Huang, I said long ago that the Gao family’s relationship with the Li family is unusual, but you didn't believe it. You can see it now!"

"Gao Changjin, I really underestimated him before. This person looks honest on the surface and seems to dare not do anything, but his courage is not small behind his back. He actually dares to walk with the Li family openly."

"Don't worry, although Li Chengyue has good aptitude, it is not easy to form the Core. As long as Mount Funiu does not come forward to help him, it is wishful thinking for him to break through the Core Formation stage."

The speaker was named Huang Leping, a mid-stage Foundation Establishment elder of the Huang family of "Taiyuan Mountain," and the person he was talking to was Chen Ziliang, the head of the Chen family of "Iron Immortal Mountain," another Foundation Establishment family in Qinghe County.

Decades ago, the previous head of the Chen family, Chen Yun’an, brought his family from "Tuoyun Mountain" as a loose cultivator and created the "Iron Immortal Mountain" Chen family.

After the Chen family took root in "Qinghe County," their development had been quite good. Chen Yun’an was low-key in his actions. Although he was an outsider cultivator, he handled his relationship with major local immortal cultivation families quite well.

It was just that Chen Yun’an was a bit unlucky later. During the last demonic beast turmoil, he met a powerful demonic beast like Huang Sipo and died directly in "Jinshan Market."

Fortunately, the Chen family received compensation after the war and used the Foundation Establishment pill to cultivate another Foundation Establishment cultivator, Chen Ziliang, which slowly eased the embarrassment of the Chen family having no Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Although Chen Ziliang successfully established his Foundation and took charge of the Chen family, because of the sudden departure of Chen Yun’an, the status of the Chen family in "Qinghe County" dropped a lot, and the market business that the family relied on for survival was often squeezed by other families such as the Li family and the Luo family.

In order to get rid of the predicament faced by the family, Chen Ziliang took the initiative to find the Huang family of "Taiyuan Mountain" to form an alliance to fight against the step-by-step pressure of the Li family and the Luo family.

After the demonic beast turmoil, the Chen family and the Huang family formed a secret alliance, and the Li family and the Luo family had long been wearing the same pair of pants. The several Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County also slowly divided into two factions.

One side was led by the old-brand Foundation Establishment family "Taiyuan Mountain" Huang family, followed by the "Iron Immortal Mountain" Chen family and the "Fengtou Mountain" Wang family.

The other side was the alliance formed by the emerging Foundation Establishment family "Cuilong Mountain" Li family, "Lotus Mountain" Gao family, and "Gaoping Ridge" Luo family, whose strength was also not weak.

Among them, the "Cuilong Mountain" Li family, in the hands of Li Chengyue, had also developed very rapidly in just over a hundred years. The family not only had the clan leader Li Chengyue, who was at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, but also two other newly promoted Foundation Establishment cultivators and nearly two hundred Qi Refining stage cultivators.

Now the "Cuilong Mountain" Li family had three Foundation Establishment cultivators, and its strength had faintly exceeded the Gao family when Gao Yubai was there back then, and it had the confidence to challenge the "Taiyuan Mountain" Huang family, the first Foundation Establishment family in Qinghe County.

Huang Mengde of the Huang family and Li Chengyue of the Li family had both cultivated to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment. Both seemed to have a hope of forming the Core, but it was not yet clear who among them had a greater chance of forming the Core.

Although the two sides were now at daggers drawn and competing with each other in the market, they had not yet fought openly because of the Song family of "Mount Funiu."

This time, receiving the mobilization of the Song family of "Mount Funiu," the six major Foundation Establishment families in "Qinghe County" all sent many cultivators to "Chiyan Market" to participate in the northward expansion of territory.

After the two sides arrived here, they naturally divided into two teams and stood in groups. Although they seemed to be chatting, their eyes had been staring at the other side from afar.

Just as the many cultivators in the middle of the square were bustling, a huge figure suddenly flew from the sky outside the market, and then a huge flying boat passed through the market’s protective mountain array and came to the sky above the square.

Seeing this scene, the many cultivators on the square slowly calmed down and locked their eyes firmly on this huge flying boat.

After this huge flying boat came to the sky above the square, it stopped, and then slowly descended and stopped directly on the open space in the middle of the square. Not long after, three Foundation Establishment cultivators wearing Song family costumes walked down from the flying boat.

Liu Yuxin, who had been waiting below for a long time, saw Song Changze walking in front and immediately greeted him with a happy face, then turned and waved to the leaders of several other Foundation Establishment families, calling them all over.

"Fellow Daoists, the Old Ancestors are all on it, please hurry up and get on!"

Hearing Song Changze’s instructions, Li Chengyue, Huang Leping, and others didn't dare to say anything, hurriedly greeted the cultivators they brought to board the flying boat, and then Liu Yuxin arranged for the market law enforcement team on the side to lead the team in batches and brought the loose cultivators hired to perform the task onto the flying boat. After everyone arrived, Song Changze and others returned to the flying boat and issued the order to march north.

This large flying boat was specially rented by Song Qingming from the "Guyang Mountain" of the sect, finding Elder Xu Ziyan of the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, and was used to quickly transport these low-grade cultivators.

Otherwise, relying only on their legs, it would take them more than a month to walk from "Chiyan Market" to their destination.

Moreover, such a large team acting in a mighty way was also easily detected by demonic beasts in advance. By then, the other party would have fled, and everyone would have worked in vain.

After the cultivators in Qinghe County boarded the flying boat, the flying boat traveled a long distance and came to "Jinshan Market" in the north. At this time, hundreds of cultivators in Pingyang County had already gathered in the market.

After the flying boat stopped, the many cultivators in "Pingyang County" soon boarded the flying boat under the arrangement of Song Changze and others.

It was not until this large flying boat was full and could not be loaded anymore that it began to rise into the air under the command of the Song family and marched north, heading straight for "White Lion Ridge," the biggest destination this time.

"White Lion Ridge," this third-grade low-tier spiritual vein, was located in the northeast of Pingyang County, about three thousand miles away from "Jinshan Market," and was already deep in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range.

"White Lion Ridge" was originally a nameless immortal mountain. Because it was occupied by a white lion demonic king who had just formed the Core, it was changed to this name by cultivators.

Later, the "White Lion Demonic King" was killed by Song Qingming in conjunction with the sect, and "White Lion Ridge" slowly became a paradise for a group of second-grade demonic beasts. Previously, Foundation Establishment cultivators occasionally came here to hunt demonic beasts.

The "White Rhino Demonic King" that attacked "Jinshan Market" last time was chased by Song Qingyu all the way, and seeing the direction the other party finally fled was also toward "White Lion Ridge," she suspected that this demon might be hiding here.

This was also one of the reasons why Song Qingming was determined to wipe out this place. If this demon kept hiding here, the threat to "Jinshan Market," which was closest to that side, would also be huge, and he must find a way to kill it to eliminate future troubles.

Otherwise, the territory that the family had worked so hard to expand northward would be under the other party’s nose, and the days would definitely not be easy. After marching north for half a day, the flying boat, which had crossed thousands of miles of high mountains and big rivers, finally came under a huge mountain peak thousands of zhang high.

Song Changze, who was standing in front of the flying boat, saw this towering mountain in front of him and immediately turned to come outside a ship cabin in the middle, knocking on the door lightly.

"Come in!"

Hearing the instruction from inside, Song Changze immediately opened the door and walked in slowly. Seeing Song Qingming and the three who were tasting and chatting not far away, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"Reporting to Old Ancestor! We have arrived near White Lion Ridge, and there is less than twenty miles left ahead."

Song Qingming heard this, put down the teacup in his hand and nodded slightly: "Hmm! Tell Yuanhao and the others to act according to the plan set before. After surrounding White Lion Ridge, you must immediately divide into routes and attack the mountain."

"Warn them that whoever encounters the White Rhino Demonic King must immediately send the designated signal, and absolutely must not let this demon have the opportunity to escape."

"Whoever dares to disobey orders on the battlefield and not listen to the command will be severely punished according to the family rules."

"Old Ancestor, please rest assured, I will arrange it immediately."

After Song Changze left, Song Qingming got up and came to the side, opened the window and glanced at "White Lion Ridge" in the distance.

Because the Song family used the sect’s large flying boat to kill over suddenly this time, the demonic beasts on "White Lion Ridge" did not detect the arrival of the Song family cultivators in advance.

It was not until a large number of cultivators suddenly emerged from the foot of the mountain and surrounded "White Lion Ridge" from all directions that the low-grade demonic beasts hiding at the foot of the mountain began to flee in panic.

This time, in order to wipe out "White Lion Ridge" in one fell swoop, the Song family could be said to have sent out all the family elites. Coupled with the immortal cultivation families under their command and the loose cultivators recruited from the market, a total of nearly 1,500 cultivators were sent out.

These cultivators who came to the expedition were basically carefully selected, and their cultivation was at least above the fifth level of Qi Refining.

In addition, in front of these cultivators, there were nearly thirty Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Song Changze and others, who had already led the demonic beast army, which had been divided into several groups, and began to rush toward "White Lion Ridge" quickly from different directions.

"Leave a team to guard the intersection below, others follow me and rush up!"

Song Changze, who rushed to the front, killed two low-grade demonic beasts that were fleeing in front of him with a sword, and after issuing an instruction to the cultivators behind him, he took the lead in controlling the flying sword under his feet and continued to chase up the mountain.

Soon, the many demonic beasts on the mountain also reacted and began to organize to resist the attack of the several human cultivator armies. For a time, the whole "White Lion Ridge" was filled with killing sounds, breaking the original peace on the mountain.

"White Lion Ridge," this third-grade low-tier spiritual vein, also had many demonic beasts on it. Just the second-grade demonic beasts above were more than a dozen, and the number of first-grade demonic beasts was not less than the human cultivator army that came to attack.

However, the human side clearly had the advantage in Foundation Establishment combat power, and there were six late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators including Song Changze, Song Yuanhao, Liu Yuxin, and Li Chengyue, who were far more powerful than the demonic beast side.

Under their leadership, after less than half an hour of fighting, the demonic beast armies that came to resist from all routes began to retreat and slowly fled toward the top of the mountain.

Just as Song Changze and others continued to pursue and were about to approach the mountainside, a roar that was very deafening and powerful suddenly came from above the top of "White Lion Ridge."

Immediately after, Song Changze and others who were attacking upward felt a pressure far exceeding that of Foundation Establishment cultivators attacking them, making them hurriedly stop their steps.

The "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was a mid-stage Golden Core demon king, standing five or six zhang tall. Charging down from the high mountain peak, it was like a giant mountain pressing down, making the many cultivators below feel a sudden chill of fear.

Seeing the "White Rhino Demonic King" suddenly appearing and rushing toward them, Song Changze hurriedly shouted to the crowd who were still in a daze, and quickly conveyed instructions to stabilize the morale of the army.

Song Linfeng, who reacted, hurriedly took out a golden spiritual talisman from his body, cast a spell to turn it into a golden spiritual light and flew quickly into the air.

Afterward, together with the other six Foundation Establishment cultivators beside him, each holding a silver array flag, they soon formed a second-grade high-tier "Seven-Star Green Dragon Array."

This array was refined by Song Qingming in his spare time, and it could be activated by joining three or more Foundation Establishment cultivators. Under the joint efforts of Song Changze and the seven, they could also resist the attack of an ordinary Core Formation demonic king for half a quarter of an hour.

After the seven activated the array flags in their hands, soon a huge light shadow of a green dragon coiled appeared in front of Song Changze and others. At this time, the "White Rhino Demonic King" had also quickly killed them, and the horn on its head directly released a fierce golden light.

Seeing the golden light attacking, Song Changze and others hurriedly waved the array flags in their hands quickly, injected magic power into them, and controlled the green dragon light shadow in front to open its giant mouth and spit out a group of green flames to block the "White Rhino Demonic King’s" attack directly.

Seeing that Song Changze and others could block his full blow, the "White Rhino Demonic King" was also a bit surprised, and somewhat angrily lifted its foot and stepped heavily on the ground, then rushed directly toward the crowd.

Under the frantic running of the "White Rhino Demonic King’s" huge body, the nearby ground immediately shook violently, making some low-grade Qi Refining stage cultivators unable to stand firmly at this moment.

Facing this somewhat earth-shaking fierce blow, Song Changze and the others did not show panic on their faces, and once again changed the array, making the green dragon’s body in front also increase several times, taking the initiative to step forward to block the "White Rhino Demonic King" and wanting to stop it halfway.

However, the "White Rhino Demonic King" was a mid-stage Core Formation demonic king after all, and its physical body was very strong. The green dragon light shadow controlled by Song Changze and others, although it looked equally huge, was not as strong as the demonic king’s physical body.

After the two sides collided, the green dragon light shadow soon showed a bit of decline, and after only blocking the other party for a moment, it was smashed by the "White Rhino Demonic King" in mid-air.

Seeing this scene, Song Changze and the others also showed some surprise, not expecting that the green dragon phantom they had worked so hard to summon would be defeated so quickly.

Seeing the "White Rhino Demonic King" solve the opponent, it let out a roar excitedly and accumulated strength again to rush toward them.

Song Changze and the others could only bite the bullet and desperately inject the remaining magic power into the array flags in their hands, using the last defensive shield transformed by the array in their hands to block in front.

This defense was already the last means of the "Seven-Star Green Dragon Array." If it was quickly broken by the "White Rhino Demonic King," then the end of the few of them would inevitably be death.

Therefore, everyone did not dare to hide their secrets at this moment, and desperately urged the array flags in their hands to cast spells to block the "White Rhino Demonic King’s" next attack.

Song Changze, who was standing at the front, saw that everyone was in a very dangerous situation. With a movement of spiritual light in his hand, he threw out a blue second-grade high-tier spiritual talisman, which turned into a shield and blocked at the very front, adding a layer of defense for everyone.

However, this second-grade high-tier spiritual talisman obviously could not block the full blow of the "White Rhino Demonic King," which was already in the mid-stage of Core Formation, and was only slightly blocked before being smashed by the other party’s horn.

The "White Rhino Demonic King," which rushed through the spiritual talisman shield, soon hit the last defensive shield directly.

In this confrontation, both sides used their full strength. Only a loud "boom" was heard, and the "White Rhino Demonic King" was blocked by the shield and failed to make a contribution in one blow, but was shaken back several steps.

The situation of Song Changze and the others was even worse. They were scattered by this huge impact force, and several Foundation Establishment cultivators with lower cultivation, such as Song Xuanyu, had already been knocked out more than ten zhang away.

The array flags in the hands of Song Changze and the others had also fallen off, falling to the ground on the side. The seven people were all spitting out blood at this moment, obviously seriously injured in this blow of the "White Rhino Demonic King."

The only array that could fight against it had been broken by the demonic king, and Song Changze and the others had no means to resist the other party in their hands. Seeing the "White Rhino Demonic King" accumulating strength again and preparing to launch an attack, despair also appeared on everyone’s faces.

Just as Song Changze and the others were preparing to separate and flee, a sharp sword light suddenly descended from the sky and landed in front of the "White Rhino Demonic King," forcing the demonic king who was accumulating strength back dozens of steps.

Feeling that there was a familiar aura in this sword light, the "White Rhino Demonic King" immediately looked up into the air and found that the person who came was Song Qingyu, who had chased it for hundreds of miles a few months ago, and couldn't help but show anger in its eyes.

"You all retreat, just leave it to me!"

Seeing Song Qingyu who came to rescue in time, Song Changze and others who were still nervous immediately relaxed, and joy appeared on their faces. They responded and hurriedly left the spot together.

After Song Changze and others retreated, Song Qingyu turned to look at the "White Rhino Demonic King," and then cast a spell to summon her natal magic treasure "Xuanming Golden Light Sword."

"I didn't fight enough last time and let you run away. Today you have no way to retreat, come and try how powerful my sword is!"

"Haha! Immortal Master Song, you discovered that my grandson has an affinity for immortality as soon as you returned. No matter what, you have brought a bit of good fortune to our family, so you should accept their bow."

Knowing from Song Qingming that their grandson had an affinity for immortality and could become an immortal master like Song Qingming in the future, the Wang Qin family was very happy.