Chapter 737

After finishing her sentence, Song Qingyu waved one hand and pointed forward, and the five "Mysterious Underworld Jin Guang Swords" surrounding her immediately flared with spiritual light, emitting a powerful pressure.

Subsequently, the "Mysterious Underworld Jin Guang Swords" transformed into five sharp streaks of sword light, splitting into several different directions and piercing through the air toward the location of the "White Rhinoceros Demon King."

The "White Rhinoceros Demon King" had been defeated by Song Qingyu last time and knew that the opponent was not easy to deal with; if they had met in the wild, it might have already turned around and fled just like before.

But now that Song Qingyu had brought people to kill it in its own lair, it had already touched the bottom line of the Demon King's dignity. The "White Rhinoceros Demon King" naturally would not concede easily. Seeing the "Mysterious Underworld Jin Guang Swords" attacking again, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" let out an angry roar and immediately summoned a white iron shield to block in front of it, blocking all the sword light coming from Song Qingyu.

Although there was no way to retreat, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was not a brainless demon king; it knew that it would be very difficult to take down Song Qingyu, a formidable opponent, on its own.

Having just blocked Song Qingyu's attack, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" immediately sent a sound transmission into the air to seek reinforcements from other demon kings near "Bai Shiling."

Afterward, another roar resounded throughout the entire spirit mountain, and it began to summon low-tier demon beasts from the vicinity to come and assist in the battle.

Seeing this, Song Qingyu did not want to give the opponent too many opportunities. She immediately controlled her natal flying swords to merge into one, once again wielding a huge "Mysterious Underworld Jin Guang Sword" to strike fiercely at the opponent's head, engaging in a fierce battle with the "White Rhinoceros Demon King."

Although Song Qingyu's magic power and divine abilities were a cut above, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" possessed a defensive magic treasure of considerable power. Fighting desperately, it did not fall into a disadvantage for a while.

Even knowing that it might not be able to defeat the Song Qingyu before it, as long as it could delay for time until the nearby demon kings arrived to reinforce it, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" still had great confidence in its heart that it could repel these enemies and hold onto its spirit mountain.

However, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" had only exchanged a dozen or so rounds with Song Qingyu when two more streaks of light, not weaker than Song Qingyu, suddenly appeared not far away, rushing rapidly toward its location.

These two streaks of light were none other than Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, who had rushed over to support after receiving the sound transmission message; it was just that their starting positions were further away, which was why they were a step slower than Song Qingyu.

Upon seeing that there was more than one Jin Dan cultivator, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was immediately shocked. It could no longer care about guarding its spirit mountain, directly abandoning the numerous low-tier demon beasts on the mountain, and with a flash, it broke away from the battle, wanting to flee into the distance.

However, Song Qingyu, who was right in front of it and entangled in the fight, could not let it have its way. Seeing the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" wanting to escape, she immediately used a "Sword Shadow Spirit Transformation Art," using her natal flying sword to create five clones in front to intercept the Demon King.

This "Sword Shadow Spirit Transformation Art" was a formidable divine ability that Song Qingyu had comprehended and cultivated from the sword intent within her body after breaking through to the fifth layer of Jin Dan.

The clones created by Song Qingyu using this technique were not mere illusions; they were exactly the same as the main body and could help her fight the enemy, which was equivalent to her gaining several helpers to assist her for a time.

It was just that these clones summoned using her natal magic treasure did not have magic power and divine abilities as formidable as the main body, and could only exert about one-third of Song Qingyu's usual strength.

Moreover, casting the "Sword Shadow Spirit Transformation Art" once was extremely taxing on her own magic power. With Song Qingyu's current cultivation, she could only maintain these clones for a quarter of an hour at most and could not rely on them for long-term combat.

Having just broken away from the battle and not yet fled very far, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was intercepted by the combined efforts of Song Qingyu's two clones. Wanting to change direction, there were three more clones surrounding it from behind, making it completely unable to escape the battlefield smoothly for a time.

The "White Rhinoceros Demon King," entangled by Song Qingyu's "Sword Shadow Spirit Transformation Art," seeing that it could not shake off its opponent, had no choice but to open its large mouth and spit out its natal core.

Afterward, it cast a spell to fiercely drive its core, releasing hundreds of sharp spikes at once, wanting to force back the clones that were entangling it.

However, facing this somewhat desperate, all-out strike from the "White Rhinoceros Demon King," Song Qingyu, who had fought it before, was clearly well-prepared. Before the opponent could launch the attack, she immediately controlled these clones to huddle together and jointly cast a protective shield to block the opponent's lethal move.

Taking advantage of these clones defending against the attack from its natal core, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" hurriedly retracted its core, wanting to take the opportunity to flee. What it did not expect, however, was that by this time, Song Qingyu's main body had already wielded two flying swords and intercepted it a step ahead.

"Hmph! I already said you can't leave today, why do you still keep thinking about running!"

Seeing the provocative look on Song Qingyu's face, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was now burning with rage. It spat out its natal core again, wanting to use the divine ability it had just used to force back Song Qingyu, who was blocking its path.

Just as the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was fiercely casting its spell, several streaks of purple light suddenly shot out from mid-air, pinning its natal core in mid-air, making it difficult to move for a time.

Seeing this somewhat strange scene, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was immediately shocked. It cast a spell wanting to retract its natal core, only to find that the core, which was usually inseparable from it, seemed to have been restrained by someone, suddenly slipping out of its control.

"Husband, this Demon King's natal core has already been restrained by you, and it has no more formidable divine abilities. I think you shouldn't take action anymore; just leave it to me and Qingyu."

"That is fine too! You two just feel free to attack; I will hold the line."

Song Qingming, standing in mid-air and controlling the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" to restrain the opponent's core, saw the "White Rhinoceros Demon King," which was already in a panic, and a faint smile appeared on his face as he nodded to Huang Siyuan beside him.

The "White Rhinoceros Demon King's" strength was already inferior to Song Qingyu's, and after losing its natal core, its divine abilities immediately weakened by another thirty percent. It was soon forced into a disadvantage by Song Qingyu and beaten back repeatedly.

At first, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" could still rely on the shield magic treasure in its hand to block Song Qingyu's fierce attacks, but after Huang Siyuan joined the battlefield, it soon could not withstand the joint attack of the two women.

Song Qingyu cultivated the sword cultivator's path, which was proficient in slaughter, and her ability to fight was already superior to ordinary cultivators of the same tier. After Huang Siyuan broke through to the fourth layer of Jin Dan, her strength also advanced by leaps and bounds. With the two of them joining forces, they could even fight against an ordinary late-stage Jin Dan demon king.

The "White Rhinoceros Demon King," having lost its natal core, faced the two's attacks and was already overwhelmed just by parrying; it had no power to fight back at all, let alone think about breaking free and escaping.

The "White Rhinoceros Demon King" wanted to summon the low-tier demon beasts under its command to come and help, but they had already been firmly blocked in the distance by the cultivator army led by Song Changze and others. They could barely save themselves, let alone come to rescue it.

Although it had successfully sent out a signal to request support earlier, the territory of the nearest demon king was at least two thousand miles away from here.

At such a long distance, even if a late-stage Jin Dan demon king received the message and rushed at full speed, it would still take at least half an hour to arrive at "Bai Shiling."

Song Qingming, who was on the side, had not yet taken action, but the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was already struggling to hold on; there was simply no chance for it to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Finally, after holding on for less than a quarter of an hour, this "White Rhinoceros Demon King," which had reached the end of its rope, was unsurprisingly beheaded in mid-air by Song Qingyu's sword.

Seeing that the Demon King was dead, Song Qingming immediately cast a spell to retract the demon core not far away.

Just as he was about to step forward to congratulate Song Qingyu and the other on killing the Demon King, Song Qingming heard a thunderclap from the northern sky, followed by two waves of pressure that only Jin Dan cultivators possessed, which came from the distance.

"It must be the demon king's reinforcements arriving; they came so fast!"

Song Qingyu, who had also seen the huge commotion in the distance, immediately guessed that it must be the demon kings from the vicinity who had come to support "Bai Shiling."

Seeing this, Song Qingyu could not care about collecting the materials on the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" below and hurriedly took the initiative to meet the black clouds where the demon kings were, together with Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan.

Human cultivators knew how to support each other, and the numerous demon kings of the demon race were also well-versed in this principle. Unless they happened to meet outside, if one wanted to penetrate deep into the Floating Yunshan Range to take action against a demon king, one had to be prepared at all times to deal with the reinforcements it called.

In the black clouds above the sky, a "Bai Lu Demon King" with snow-white feathers all over its body and another black-armored giant ox several zhang tall were rushing toward "Bai Shiling" at full speed.

The "Bai Lu Demon King" controlling the black clouds to travel only had the strength of an early-stage Jin Dan, while the black-armored giant ox demon king's cultivation was much higher, having already reached the peak of the mid-stage Jin Dan.

The spirit mountain where these two demon kings were located was not far from "Bai Shiling," only a few thousand miles away. After receiving the "White Rhinoceros Demon King's" plea for help, they immediately organized the demon beast army under their command to come and support.

However, although they had chosen to abandon their demon beast army and arrived at "Bai Shiling" ahead of time, they were still a step late. By this moment, the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" had already died at the hands of the three members of the Song family.

Before the two demon kings could even reach the spirit mountain in front of them, they suddenly saw three streaks of light flying from the mountain and rushing toward them. Seeing this scene, the two demon kings immediately felt that things were very bad.

Seeing clearly that the people coming were three human Jin Dan cultivators with formidable strength, the two demon kings' expressions changed drastically. They did not dare to continue forward, but directly turned around and fled away from "Bai Shiling" rapidly.

Seeing these two demon kings being very sensible and retreating directly, the three members of the Song family were not too surprised in their hearts.

Although the two demon kings that came were, like the "White Rhinoceros Demon King," early-to-mid-stage Jin Dan demon kings with average strength, they were simply no match for the three members of the Song family and naturally did not dare to take the initiative to fight them.

However, if the opponent was determined to escape, pursuing them would inevitably mean penetrating deeper into the Floating Yunshan Range, and the three of them did not dare to pursue them relentlessly.

In case they encountered other more formidable demon kings halfway, it would likely be somewhat dangerous. In order not to cause extra trouble, the three of them only followed them for a dozen miles to confirm that the opponent had truly left, and then immediately returned to "Bai Shiling." The Song family was very well-prepared to take down "Bai Shiling," this third-tier spirit vein, and their cultivator strength was far greater than that of the demon beast side.

After the interference of the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" was gone, the human cultivator army led by Song Changze and others was immediately unstoppable. Except for a small number of low-tier demon beasts that were lucky enough to slip out of the encirclement, the vast majority of the demon beasts were slaughtered by them on the spirit mountain.

By the time the three members of Song Qingming returned to the mountain, the battles on the four battlefields on "Bai Shiling" were also nearing their end, with only a small number of demon beasts trapped on the mountaintop still resisting.

After Song Qingyu, this Jin Dan ancestor, returned to the battlefield, she immediately stepped forward to help and joined the battle. It was seen that the flying sword in her hand danced a few times on the battlefield, and a large area of low-tier demon beasts immediately fell.

The remaining demon beasts, seeing this, also lost their last courage to resist and could only scatter and flee in all directions. Not long after, they were all slaughtered clean by the human cultivators.

After the battle ended, Song Qingming immediately took out a set of third-tier mountain-protecting formations that had been prepared long ago and led a team of formation cultivators to begin setting up the mountain-protecting formation on the spirit mountain, while Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan went to deal with the corpse of the "White Rhinoceros Demon King."

After Song Changze received the instructions, he also immediately arranged for the family cultivators to begin cleaning up the battlefield, searching for the remaining fish that had slipped through the net hiding in the caves, and timely treating the injured cultivators.

In this battle, not only was the "White Rhinoceros Demon King" killed, but everyone also harvested materials from nearly a thousand demon beasts at once, among which there were more than a dozen second-tier or higher demon beasts with higher value.

Besides this, "Bai Shiling," this third-tier low-quality spirit vein, had been occupied by demon beasts for many years, and there were also many various kinds of naturally grown spirit medicines and spirit fruits on it.

As for the human cultivator side, because they were well-prepared and their strength far exceeded that of the demon race side, only a few dozen Qi Condensation cultivators died in battle, and among the Foundation Establishment cultivators, only Song Changze and others suffered some minor injuries, without suffering too great a loss.

For this battle, the Song family had prepared for several months in advance and once again conscripted so many cultivators to come, and even all three family ancestors had come out of the mountain to this place. Being able to successfully achieve such rich battle results was also within the expectations of everyone in the Song family long ago.

Having just won a great victory and captured this third-tier spirit mountain that the demon king had occupied for many years, at this moment, the numerous cultivators on the mountain all had expressions of joy on their faces.

These demon beast materials and spirit items were all the spoils of this battle. According to past rules, the Song family naturally had to reward based on merit after the battle, and every cultivator who came here to participate in the battle was incomparably looking forward to this in their hearts.

The battle on the mountain had just ended when Song Yuanxue immediately led dozens of Song family cultivators to begin searching everywhere. These people had all learned some spirit planting skills and knew how to identify the value of various spirit medicines.

Under the leadership of these spirit planters, the Song family cultivators found more than a dozen second-tier spirit medicines of varying quality on the mountain, and finally, in a cave on the mountaintop, they unexpectedly discovered a third-tier spirit fruit tree that was over a thousand years old.

It was just a pity that everyone arrived a little late; the mature spirit fruits on this fruit tree had already been devoured clean by the demon beasts, and it was estimated that it would take several decades for the remaining spirit fruits to mature.

However, although they did not find mature spirit fruits, just this third-tier spirit fruit tree that could enhance the family's foundation was also of no low value in the eyes of everyone in the Song family.

After Song Yuanxue and the others discovered the fruit tree, they immediately sealed it with a formation, waiting to find a suitable time in the future to find a way to transplant it to the family spirit medicine garden on "Mount Funiu."

In order to prevent anyone from privately embezzling high-tier spirit items during the chaos, Song Changze, Liu Yuxin, and others, after cleaning up the battlefield, immediately gathered the entire cultivator army to the mountaintop.

It was only after the family finished searching for those second-tier or higher spirit items with higher value that they gave them one day to sweep up the remaining spirit items on the mountain.

The reason why the Song family did this could also be considered a small reward for these cultivators who responded to the call to participate in the battle here, allowing them to obtain a bit of fortune based on their respective luck after the great battle.

Learning that there was still an opportunity to search for spirit items themselves, the numerous cultivators on the mountain who heard this news were immediately beaming with joy, feeling incomparably excited in their hearts.

Especially those loose cultivators who originally lived very frugally, for them, even being able to obtain a mature low-tier spirit medicine was something worth being happy about, and they were already incomparably grateful to the Song family for this move in their hearts.

Although when letting these cultivators search the spirit mountain, the family law enforcement team had repeatedly exhorted that no matter what spirit item it was, whoever found it first would own it, and others were not allowed to use excuses to cause trouble and snatch others' fortune.

However, the spirit items on the mountain were limited, and it was inevitable that disputes would arise when there were many people. Not long after, several cultivators had conflicts over snatching spirit items, and the low-tier cultivators under the Huang family and Li family almost fought because of this.

Fortunately, the law enforcement team led by Song Yuanhao and others had been watching from the side long ago and immediately stepped forward to stop them and confiscated the spirit items, which prevented the situation from further expanding.

Spending a full month on "Bai Shiling," with the assistance of numerous low-tier formation masters, Song Qingming finally successfully guided the earth vein spiritual energy and set up the mountain-protecting formation on "Bai Shiling."

Looking at the mountain-protecting formation in front of him that had already enveloped the entire spirit mountain after being activated, Song Qingming calmly waved his hand and summoned a masked man wearing a black robe.

Afterward, under Song Qingming's command, the black-robed man stepped forward, gathered his spiritual power, and fiercely punched directly onto the formation.

Only hearing a loud "bang," a fierce gust of wind immediately rippled around the formation, blowing the clothes on Song Qingming's body to sway immediately.

A moment later, after the fierce wind dissipated, looking at the unscathed mountain-protecting formation in front of him, a smile finally appeared on Song Qingming's face, and he nodded very satisfied.

Because he did not have a suitable mountain-protecting formation in his hand, Song Qingming directly dismantled the third-tier low-quality formation from the original "Jin Shan Workshop" and moved it here, planning to replace it after finding suitable materials to refine a better formation in the future.

Although this mountain-protecting formation was only third-tier low-quality, its defensive ability was still very outstanding.

Just now, Song Qingming tested it and saw that this formation could easily block a full-strength strike from the fifth-layer Jin Dan "Jin Feng," and its power was even a few points stronger than when it was set up at "Jin Shan Workshop" before.

This was also thanks to the fact that the spirit vein of "Bai Shiling" had already reached third-tier low-quality, which was far higher than the second-tier top-quality spirit vein of "Jin Shan Workshop," so the power the formation could exert naturally increased quite a bit.

With this mountain-protecting formation guarding it, except for encountering those formidable late-stage Jin Dan great demon kings, it was very difficult for ordinary demon kings to have the opportunity to break the formation in a short time and pose a threat to "Bai Shiling."

After retracting "Jin Feng" not far away, Song Qingming turned and fled into the formation, flying toward the location of the mountaintop.

After a month of cleaning, there was now completely no trace of demon beasts on "Bai Shiling," and everywhere were human cultivators building courtyards and pavilions and opening up caves, slowly having a bit of the appearance of a human immortal mountain and spirit land.

After Song Qingming arrived at the mountaintop, he directly entered a small pavilion that had just been built not long ago. At this time, Song Changze, Liu Yuxin, and several other Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family were sitting in the main hall discussing some matters about the subsequent reconstruction of the spirit mountain.

"Greetings, Ancestor!" Seeing Song Qingming walk in, everyone hurriedly stood up and bowed to him! Song Qingming smiled and nodded to them, then directly came to a chair at the head and sat down!

Scanning everyone, Song Qingming asked Song Changze beside him: "Is there any news back from Yuanhao and the others? Have those few spirit veins been taken down?"

"Reporting to Ancestor! Yuanhao already sent a letter to report this matter two days ago. Currently, the six spirit veins near the west have all been taken down by them, with only two second-tier top-quality spirit veins that are hard to fight still in the hands of the demon beasts.

Great-Aunt went to help yesterday, and it is estimated that they should sweep up that side and return in a few more days.

As for the five second-tier spirit veins in the east, the Li family and Huang family each led people to conquer one, the several families in Pingyang County also joined forces to take down two, and there is one that was taken down by that Foundation Establishment loose cultivator Jin Boyuan who borrowed troops from us.

Currently, most of the dozen or so second-tier spirit veins south of Bai Shiling have been conquered by us, and Xuanting and the others are also racing against time to set up the mountain-protecting formation."

After occupying "Bai Shiling," Song Qingming, while sitting here setting up the mountain-protecting formation, immediately sent out the cultivators under the family to go and attack the numerous second-tier spirit veins near that side.

There were also many demon beasts occupied on these second-tier spirit veins, and there was no shortage of second-tier or higher Foundation Establishment demon beasts. In order to conquer these spirit veins, Song Qingming also dispersed all the cultivators on the mountain, letting them go and clean up these places one by one.

One reason was that they had just conquered "Bai Shiling" and had not yet stood firm, and to prevent other demon kings from leading demon beast armies to counterattack here, Song Qingming and the others could not easily break away.

Another reason was to temper these family juniors, giving them some opportunities to fight head-on with demon beasts, and exercising their ability to fight on the battlefield. Although it was an order from the family ancestor, facing such a great opportunity to perform meritorious service, everyone naturally did not want to miss it.

Not only were the numerous cultivators in the Song family high-spirited, but even the vassal families under their command and some loose cultivators hired to help also requested to fight one after another, wanting to perform meritorious service so they could obtain more rewards in the future.

Regarding this, Song Qingming naturally did not refuse, so he directly divided a portion of the spirit mountain and gave it to them to go and attack, and promised that as long as they successfully took down the spirit mountain, he would directly bestow these spirit veins upon them.

This immediately made not only those Foundation Establishment families tempted, but also those loose cultivators who were determined to create a cultivation family also ran over to ask the Song family to borrow troops, wanting to take down a spirit vein and find a good spirit mountain for their future family to take root.

Under the active participation of numerous cultivators, in less than a short month, these dozen or so spirit mountains were captured by human cultivators one after another, and they set up formations on them and stationed there. (End of chapter)