Chapter 821

After the great battle ended, not long after, the entire "Guyang Mountain" was soon covered with flags.

The sect's ability to show its majesty was also built on the foundation of the sacrifice of numerous fellow sect cultivators; the "Carefree Sect" naturally also had to arrange their aftermath matters well and give these sect disciples a glorious funeral.

For this reason, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan specially went to the sect to send off their old friend Jin Ziyuan.

Jin Ziyuan was a cultivator of the same generation as Li Wu, and his lifespan was already close to five hundred years, but his cultivation had not yet broken through to the sixth level of Core Formation.

Like True Person Guangling, who sacrificed for the sect back then, Jin Ziyuan could also be considered a cultivator whose path had stopped and whose cultivation potential was exhausted before he fell.

Because he knew that he had no hope of advancing to the Nascent Soul realm in this life, Jin Ziyuan had also somewhat wasted his own cultivation in recent years, which also led to his ability to fight others declining a lot, which was why he was taken advantage of by enemy cultivators in the "Nanyue Market" great battle.

As fellow sect brothers, Jin Ziyuan's relationship with Song Qingming was relatively good among the many sect elders; for his sudden fall, Song Qingming indeed felt a trace of sadness in his heart.

However, for an old-generation cultivator like Jin Ziyuan, whose path potential was exhausted, being able to die in battle for the sect in the end, rather than dying lonely on a sickbed, was also in line with his hot-tempered personality throughout his life.

Relying on his huge contribution of dying for the sect this time, the sect's "General Affairs Hall" would also take extra care of his descendants and disciples, and the pension treatment would definitely be better than the descendants of other elders who passed away.

After sending off the numerous cultivators who fell in battle, the sect soon ushered in a period of peaceful development.

After the "Nanyue Market" great battle, only less than half a year later, another cultivator in the sect successfully formed his core, which could be considered to make up for the vacancy left by Jin Ziyuan's fall.

This newly core-forming cultivator was named Luo Qingyun, a personal disciple of sect Core Formation elder Chu Fengping.

Luo Qingyun's spirit root aptitude was the same as Xu Ziyan's, also a person who successfully formed his core with three spirit roots.

Although his own spirit root aptitude was not top-notch in the sect, Luo Qingyun had a very good talent for alchemy; after apprenticing to Chu Fengping, the master of the sect's "Alchemy Pavilion," his alchemy level also steadily improved to the third-rank low-grade.

It was precisely by relying on his superb alchemy skills that Luo Qingyun was able to accumulate sect merit faster than others.

Plus his master Chu Fengping also gave Luo Qingyun a certain amount of support behind the scenes, allowing him to exchange for the "Five Elements Spirit Objects" to impact the Core Formation realm twice in succession, and finally, he lived up to expectations and successfully advanced to the Core Formation realm.

It had been less than thirty years since Yun Nishang successfully formed her core, and the sect had new Foundation Establishment disciples successfully forming their cores; the entire "Carefree Sect" was naturally full of joy.

For this reason, the sect even specially held a relatively large-scale Core Formation celebration, gradually diluting the trace of residual sadness on the mountain half a year ago.

His disciple successfully formed his core, and Chu Fengping, the master, was also extremely happy; when everyone came to congratulate him, he generously gifted Luo Qingyun a third-rank low-grade magic treasure in public, which also made Song Qingming and the others feel a burst of surprise.

You must know that the value of a third-rank low-grade magic treasure is almost close to ten thousand spirit stones; even for his personal disciple, Chu Fengping was too generous.

Seeing this situation, Song Qingming also guessed that Chu Fengping doing this was likely paving the way for his own future aftermath, wanting to fully support Luo Qingyun so as to leave a backer in the sect for the cultivators of his lineage in the future.

Although Chu Fengping was much younger than Jin Ziyuan, he was also close to four hundred years old.

After his own cultivation advanced to the sixth level of Core Formation, Chu Fengping encountered a huge bottleneck in his cultivation, blocked by the late Core Formation realm for many years.

Finally breaking through the realm was still relying on a rare elixir obtained from the "Thunder Origin Sea" trade fair a few years ago, which allowed him to luckily advance to the seventh level of Core Formation.

Although theoretically he still had a trace of a chance to condense the Nascent Soul, Chu Fengping also knew very well in his heart that relying on his cultivation talent, it would be very difficult to advance to the ninth level of Core Formation in the future, let alone impact the higher Nascent Soul realm.

For this reason, it was normal for Chu Fengping to make some preparations for the descendants and disciples of his lineage in advance; after all, he didn't know if he would suddenly fall outside like Jin Ziyuan in the future.

Since Bai Yuxian condensed the Nascent Soul, the "Carefree Sect's" strength had also developed very fast in these decades.

Not only did they expand thousands of miles of territory by northern expedition against the demon race, but they also took "Nanyue Market" from the "Nine Yuan Sect" in the east, and the sect's territory expanded by nearly 30% at once.

After obtaining so much territory, the resources controlled within the "Carefree Sect" naturally increased a lot, and both the number of cultivators and mortal populations experienced a wave of rapid explosion.

At the celebration of Luo Qingyun forming his core, Xu Ziyan, who managed the sect's worldly affairs, specially took out the "General Affairs Hall" roster and carefully reported the sect's development status over these years to the two sect Supreme Elders.

In less than thirty years, the number of cultivators in the "Carefree Sect" had increased to over twenty thousand, and this did not include the numerous vassal immortal-cultivating family forces under its sect.

Counting them together, the number of cultivators controlled by the entire "Carefree Sect" could be over thirty thousand.

Among them, there were two Nascent Soul Supreme Elders, namely Li Mufeng at the fourth level of Nascent Soul, and Bai Yuxian, who had just formed the Nascent Soul not long ago and whose cultivation was still at the first level of Nascent Soul.

The sect Core Formation elders included Chen Xuanxin (Core Formation 9th level), Song Qingming (Core Formation 9th level), Li Wu (Core Formation 8th level), Chu Fengping (Core Formation 7th level), Zhao Mengling (Core Formation 6th level), Song Qingyu (Core Formation 6th level), Xu Ziyan (Core Formation 6th level), Zhang Tieyang (Core Formation 5th level), Huang Siyuan (Core Formation 5th level), Fang Baixuan (Core Formation 4th level), Shen Tongzhou (Core Formation 3rd level), Yun Nishang (Core Formation 3rd level), Zhao Xingtang (Core Formation 2nd level), Hu Qingyun (Core Formation 1st level), Luo Qingyun (Core Formation 1st level), totaling fifteen people.

Among them, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan, Zhang Tieyang, Hu Qingyun, and Zhao Xingtang, these six people, were not directly integrated into the sect now and still served as guest elders.

(PS: The reason for directly marking the realm of these Core Formation elders is to facilitate everyone's viewing; if there is anything wrong, please help to correct it.

In addition, there are Zhou Ziyang at Core Formation 4th level and Zhang Rong at Core Formation 1st level; although they are also in the Wei Kingdom immortal cultivation world, because they did not directly join the Carefree Sect, I did not write them down directly.) Decades ago, when the northern border demon beast chaos just ended, the "Carefree Sect," which had experienced a great battle, had less than two hundred Foundation Establishment disciples in total.

Now that decades have passed, as the sect's power gradually recovered, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sect had almost doubled, already close to four hundred.

This was also thanks to the sect's continuous development over the years, expanding and occupying quite a bit of territory, which allowed the sect to have more resources to cultivate the cultivators in the sect.

This was also a process that the "Carefree Sect," which was in urgent need of expansion after Bai Yuxian condensed the Nascent Soul, would definitely experience.

If nothing unexpected happens, in another hundred years, the "Carefree Sect" will become a Nascent Soul sect comparable to the "Star Gate" of the Wu Kingdom, possessing the strength to rank among the top three sects in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range immortal cultivation world.

After participating in Luo Qingyun's Core Formation celebration, Song Qingming and the others, who had nothing to do, soon returned to the family to cultivate with peace of mind.

In the blink of an eye, spring passed and autumn came, and another three years passed. —— On this day, on a high mountain by the Qing River, two cultivators, one tall and one short, wearing Song family clothing, were running quickly along the river bank, their figures like clever rabbits.

The one running in front was slightly older, a cultivator of the Song family's "Lin" generation ranked thirty-seventh, named Song Linyuan, whose cultivation had already reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.

The cultivator following hard behind was slightly shorter, a cultivator of the Song family's newest "Si" generation, ranked eleventh in the genealogy, named Song Sibai, who had just broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining not long ago.

Because the cultivation gap was a bit large, even if Song Linyuan intentionally slowed down his pace, he still left Song Sibai behind, and the distance between the two was getting further and further.

"Uncle Linyuan, I can't do it anymore, let's take a break!"

After the two ran more than ten miles along the river bank, Song Sibai, feeling that his footsteps could no longer keep up with the opponent at all, shouted and sat directly on a stone on the bank.

Seeing this, Song Linyuan, who was running in front, laughed at him and could only turn around and walk back.

"Sibai, you look like this, it's somewhat not working; when I was about your age, I was already following Uncle Nineteen and the others to hunt demon beasts everywhere.

With your current physical strength, let alone hunting demon beasts, if you encounter a slightly more powerful one, I'm afraid you won't even be able to catch up.

If you want to join the Law Enforcement Team to earn spirit stones, in the future, besides daily cultivation, you should practice your legs and feet more."

"Uncle Linyuan, you have three spirit root aptitude and will have a chance to successfully build your foundation like the family elders in the future, so the family naturally values you.

I am just a fake spirit root; it would be good if I could break through to the late Qi Refining stage in this life; even if I cultivate harder, I estimate the Law Enforcement Team won't look at someone like me!"

Compared to Song Linyuan, who had already advanced to the late Qi Refining stage early and was about to impact the Foundation Establishment realm, Song Sibai was just a four-spirit-root cultivator with ordinary talent, breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining at the age of nineteen.

Having already realized that cultivation was not easy, he felt somewhat ashamed in his heart when he heard Song Linyuan mention his past.

Hearing the somewhat discouraged words in Song Sibai's mouth, Song Linyuan sighed slightly and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him: "Sibai, what are you saying.

Although individual talent has high and low distinctions, our cultivation path is not entirely determined by talent.

Think about it, back then there were many people in the family with better talent than me; if I thought like you do now, I would have given up the path early, so how could I have today's cultivation.

The family now doesn't look at individual talent, relying entirely on accumulating merit to exchange for Foundation Establishment pills; although you and I are not as talented as others, as long as you are willing to pay for the family, individual effort is not unable to change reality.

Elder Yuanqian and Elder Xuande in the clan, aren't they all four-spirit-root Foundation Establishment successful people? As long as you can show your own ability to the family in the future, why wouldn't you have a chance to build your foundation.

You are so young, and you start complaining about this and that; with such an unsteady Dao heart, how will you cultivate in the future."

"Haha! Uncle Linyuan, I was just saying it with my mouth, why did you start a long-winded speech again? I know I was wrong, rest assured, I will definitely cultivate hard in the future and strive to successfully build my foundation with you."

After Song Sibai finished speaking, he immediately stood up holding the stone, wanting to continue running forward.

But just as his footsteps moved a few steps, he was pulled back by a large hand, and then a protective shield enveloped his body.

"Be careful, there are demon beasts!"

Just as Song Linyuan finished speaking, several water arrows flew from afar and landed directly on the protective shield in front of the two, splashing a burst of water. Until this moment, Song Sibai saw several black giant crabs suddenly emerge in the Qing River not far in front of them, rushing toward their location aggressively.

"How could there be demon beasts here? Could it be that they ran down from above again?"

Since Song Qingming discovered the Qing River cave dwelling and let family cultivators occupy the vicinity, the river had been cleaned by the family several times over the years, and there were no demon beasts left.

But because the upper reaches of the Qing River connect to "Cloud Mist Mountain," demon beasts would still come downstream along the river from time to time.

Seeing these black giant crabs, Song Sibai quickly guessed their origin and couldn't help but shout.

"Care about where they came from, just a few mid-rank Qi Refining demon beasts, what are you afraid of? Hurry up and copy your tools and go up!"

Song Sibai, who had cultivated for such a long time and had never fought with wild demon beasts, was shocked and stunned; standing in place, he didn't know how to deal with it next.

It was Song Linyuan on the side who couldn't help but give him a light kick, which made Song Sibai stabilize his mind, and he hurriedly took out the magic tools on his body and rushed up with Song Linyuan.

Song Linyuan's cultivation had reached the late Qi Refining stage, and he had joined the family Law Enforcement Team for many years, so he had very rich experience in hunting demons.

Even though he was somewhat held back by bringing Song Sibai, the two still solved all the demon beasts that came to ambush them without any accident, and only one more agile demon beast saw that the situation was not good and fled back into the water.

Seeing that Song Sibai still wanted to chase after it and not let the opponent go, Song Linyuan hurriedly stopped him.

"Sibai, I don't know if there are any demon beasts in the water, I'm afraid it's not safe, don't chase anymore.

Let's deal with these two demon beasts first, report to the elder later, and wait for the family to send people to search the vicinity together!"

Song Sibai, who walked back, looked at the two demon beast corpses on the bank and couldn't help but laugh: "I really didn't expect that I could encounter demon beasts while patrolling here; this time I really took advantage of Uncle Linyuan's light, this opportunity came just like that."

"Haha! You kid are still young, as long as you cultivate hard, you will always have a chance to encounter opportunities."

After the uncle and nephew looked at each other and smiled, they immediately started to decompose the demon beast corpses on the bank; in their eyes, these two demon beasts had already become bright spirit stones.

Just as the two were trying to clean up the demon beast corpses beside them, not long after, a loud "Boom!" sound suddenly came from the water, followed by a burst of water splashing out.

This huge movement instantly attracted the uncle and nephew on the bank; turning their heads, they saw a black giant crab with a body width of two or three zhang, waving its huge iron pincers and glaring at the bank.

"This... this is a Foundation Establishment demon beast! Run!"

After feeling the powerful aura emitted from this black giant crab, Song Linyuan was immediately startled and hurriedly dropped the demon beast corpse in his hand, taking Song Sibai and running to the distance.

While running, Song Linyuan threw a crimson spirit talisman from his hand and cast a spell to throw it out.

Just after using the spirit talisman for help, the black giant crab in the water roared and rushed toward the location of the two; its speed was far beyond that of ordinary Qi Refining cultivators.

"Sibai, you hurry to the mountain, don't follow me, otherwise neither of us will be able to run!"

Seeing the black giant crab behind chasing closer and closer, Song Linyuan shouted a sentence to Song Sibai, turned around, gritted his teeth, threw a high-grade spirit talisman at the demon beast behind, and then changed direction and chose to escape separately from Song Sibai.

The high-grade spirit talisman in Song Linyuan's hand only blocked the opponent for a moment, and the black giant crab chased up again.

It's just that this black giant crab did not choose to chase Song Linyuan, who was closest, but turned around and went straight to Song Sibai, who was weaker. —— Song family "Funiu Mountain" mountain top.

As a red light sank into the great array, the Law Enforcement Team cultivator who received the request for help letter opened the letter in his hand and looked at it; not long after, this letter was sent to the family "Discussion Hall."

Song Yuanfang, who opened the letter, just looked at it, and a trace of heaviness immediately appeared on his face.

"Quickly notify Elder Yuanxue and Elder Xuanfeng, let them gather at the Discussion Hall immediately, and say that the family has urgent matters!"

"Husband, where did something happen!" Seeing her husband Song Yuanfang's complexion somewhat bad, Huang Leqing hurriedly asked with concern.

Song Yuanfang heard this and immediately sighed: "It's a situation at the Qing River side; Xuanqing sent a letter saying that a late Foundation Establishment demon beast appeared nearby.

I'm afraid they can't handle it alone; I, Yuanxue, and Xuanfeng will go there, and the family affairs will be left to you first."

"Late Foundation Establishment demon beast, this is something I haven't encountered for a long time; husband still needs to be careful!"

"Rest assured, no matter how powerful that demon beast is, it is enough for so many of us to deal with it; if there is anything, I will send a letter back in time."

Song Yuanfang said while walking out; unexpectedly, a figure suddenly appeared at the door of the "Discussion Hall" at this time, making him stop his footsteps somewhat unexpectedly.

"Pay respects to the Patriarch!"

Seeing Song Qingming suddenly walk in, everyone in the "Discussion Hall" was also surprised and hurriedly bowed to him in unison.

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly waved his hand and asked: "Just saw that Xuanqing sent a request for help letter, did something happen at the Qing River side?"

"Report to the Patriarch!"

Because the family equipped the Qing River side with top-level second-rank high-grade sound transmission talismans, which were different from other places, Song Qingming, who happened to be drinking tea on the mountain top, recognized it after seeing the spirit talisman.

Considering the importance of the Qing River cave dwelling, Song Qingming, who was somewhat uneasy in his heart, came to the family "Discussion Hall" in person to inquire about this matter.

After hearing Song Yuanfang's explanation and learning that a late Foundation Establishment demon beast had come near the Qing River, Song Qingming felt slightly relaxed in his heart and waved his hand to stop Song Yuanfang and the others who wanted to deal with the demon beast.

"I happened to be free after coming out of seclusion, you don't have to go, I'll go there, and by the way, I'll move my hands and feet."

Seeing Song Qingming wanting to deal with the demon beast in person, just as Song Yuanfang wanted to say something, Song Qingming ignored it and turned around to leave the family "Discussion Hall."

Then an escape light flew out of "Funiu Mountain" and rushed south toward the location of the Qing River all the way.

A quarter of an hour later, at a mountain bay by the Qing River.

Stepping on a flying sword and holding a three-legged small tripod, Song Xuanqing was casting a spell to fight fiercely with a huge black giant crab.

More than a dozen Song family cultivators below were holding array flags to form a second-rank array, transforming into a golden wolf demon to help Song Xuanqing contain part of the black giant crab's energy.

Song Xuanqing's cultivation was only at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, and because he practiced the art of alchemy, Song Xuanqing rarely went out to fight with people of the same rank, so his strength was not outstanding among mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Facing a late Foundation Establishment demon beast, even with the help of a second-rank great array below, he still couldn't defeat the opponent and fell below, and there were already many scars added to his body.

"Elder Xuanqing, this demon beast is so powerful, I'm afraid we can't stop it alone, why not retreat first and wait for the family reinforcements to arrive before talking!"

"No, this place is too close to the ancestor's cultivation place; if this guy breaks in, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to explain if the family blames us in the future.

And if we just retreat like this, you will definitely not be able to escape in time, and casualties will inevitably occur.

Let's persist for a while longer, the Great Elder and the others should already be on their way."

After Song Xuanqing finished speaking, he took out a silver second-rank mid-grade spirit talisman, directly transformed it into a fire blade to chop at the opponent, and then swallowed an elixir to restore spiritual energy.

After forcing the opponent back with the power of the spirit talisman and catching his breath, just as Song Xuanqing was about to continue manipulating the magic tool to attack the black giant crab, a sword light suddenly flew from the distant mid-air and landed on the black giant crab.

Immediately after, in the surprised eyes of everyone, this black giant crab shook a few times and completely lost its breath, and then its huge body fell directly to the ground, shaking up a piece of dust.

Just as Song Xuanqing and the others were still somewhat confused and didn't know what had happened, a green-clothed figure flashed and appeared in front of everyone.

"Pay respects to the Patriarch!"

Seeing that the person who came was actually Song Qingming, Song Xuanqing and the others were also full of surprise, not knowing why this matter would alarm the family patriarch who had been cultivating in seclusion on the mountain top all year round.

After scanning Song Xuanqing and the others, Song Qingming smiled and nodded slightly at them.

"I happened to come out of seclusion and heard about this matter, so I came over to take a look by the way; you did well, go back to heal your injuries first, and come to deal with the demon beast corpse later!"

"Thank you, Patriarch!"

Hearing Song Qingming's instructions, Song Xuanqing and the others hurriedly bowed and answered, then walked away from the river bank quickly.

After the people around had all left the Qing River bank, Song Qingming, who glanced at the demon beast corpse on the ground, turned around and immediately transformed into an escape light, plunging into the turbulent river water beside him. (End of chapter)