Chapter 102: Troops to Chifeng Ridge

The Song family group brought the supplies that had been prepared long ago, left Mount Funiu, walked more than two hundred miles to the east, and came to the Huang family's Five Peaks Mountain.

Five Peaks Mountain was a second-level spiritual vein. The Huang family occupied this place after discovering a spiritual spring here hundreds of years ago and had been operating it for more than four hundred years. More than a hundred mu of spiritual fields had been opened up on the mountain. Not only were dozens of Huang family Qi Refining cultivators stationed here, but there was also a powerful second-level array set up on the mountain to guard it. Even if a Foundation Establishment cultivator attacked, so many cultivators relying on the power of the array could resist for a day or two, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

In the cultivation world, many spiritual veins were generated naturally. It took at least ten thousand spirit stones to cultivate a second-level spiritual vein from scratch. The spiritual vein of Five Peaks Mountain could be considered the most important industry of the Huang family besides their ancestral land, Mount Taiyuan.

As soon as the Song family group arrived at Five Peaks Mountain, they saw someone waiting here from afar. After walking closer, they saw that this person was a middle-aged man with a square face and thick eyebrows. A yellow plain-colored Daoist robe gave him a sense of righteousness. After seeing the Song family group, he hurriedly greeted them and put on a smiling face.

"Hehe, I thought it would be Daoist Changfeng who came this time. I didn't expect that it would be the family head Song who came in person. Junior Huang Xianlong has met Senior Song." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he also stepped forward and bowed to Song Gushan.

Facing such a humble Huang Xianlong, Song Gushan was also slightly surprised in his heart. After all, the Huang family was the main family of the Song family. Even if Huang Xianlong was just an ordinary cultivator in their family, he did not dare to be big on the surface, so he hurriedly bowed to Huang Xianlong and said: "Daoist Huang is polite, we are all fellow Daoists, how can I dare to be called a senior by you."

"Sigh! When I first entered the Dao, Senior Song was already a famous cultivator in our Qinghe County. Naturally, I have to call you a senior. Everything on the mountain has been arranged. Please follow me up the mountain, fellow Daoists."

After Huang Xianlong finished speaking, he raised his hand to make a gesture of invitation, and then walked in the front. Song Gushan did not open his mouth to be polite again, and led the Song family group to follow quickly.

After going up the mountain, several Song family cultivators moved into the station that the Huang family had prepared long ago. Song Qingming found that besides the Huang family cultivators, quite a few cultivators from the major vassal families under the Huang family had already gathered on Five Peaks Mountain. He also met several acquaintances he had known in Qinghe Market over the past few years.

The Huang family had dominated Qinghe County for nearly a thousand years, and the entire north of Qinghe County was the Huang family's sphere of influence. There were more than twenty vassal Qi Refining families like the Song family under their door, and some more distant vassal families had not yet arrived, so they could only stay here first and wait for the cultivators who had not yet arrived.

Unexpectedly, Song Qingming and the others waited on Five Peaks Mountain for five or six days before all the vassal families under the Huang family arrived here.

Fortunately, this Huang Xianlong was not only enthusiastic in personality but also very thoughtful in his actions. He not only arranged their accommodation but also sent some supplies such as spiritual rice, and would come over to express his condolences every few days, which made Song Qingming and the others feel very warm in their hearts.

Seeing that all the vassal families had arrived, the Huang family immediately summoned the leading cultivators of each family to the Five Peaks Mountain council hall to discuss the specific matters of this operation.

In the Five Peaks Mountain council hall, including the Huang family cultivators, there were dozens of cultivators standing. Sitting in the upper seat were two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

One was the number one expert in Qinghe County, the current family head of the Huang family at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment, Huang Shengxin. The other cultivator had not been in Foundation Establishment for long and only had the cultivation level of the second layer of Foundation Establishment. He was the current family head of the Qian family, Qian Guangyao.

Seeing Qian Guangyao suddenly appear here, these vassal family cultivators under the Huang family below all showed a hint of surprise on their faces.

Since Qian Guangyao successfully built his foundation more than ten years ago, the Qian family had already been considered to have gotten rid of the status of the Huang family's vassal and had been promoted to a Foundation Establishment family. By reason, they no longer needed to accept the Huang family's conscription.

Unexpectedly, the Qian family gave the Huang family so much face this time that even their Foundation Establishment family head, Qian Guangyao, came in person.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Huang Shengxin stood up and said to everyone:

"You all already know our goal this time. Our goal this time is to encircle and suppress Chifeng Ridge. I hope you can work together to eliminate this place where demonic beasts have been entrenched for many years in our Qinghe County."

"Don't worry, everyone. I have already communicated with Daoist Lu who is stationed in Qinghe Market about this operation. He will watch the rear for us. Our Huang family guarantees here that no matter which family of yours encounters attacks from other forces during the operation, you will receive our assistance in time. Please rest assured about this point."

"This mission, killing the demonic beasts on the mountain is the business of our Huang family and the Qian family, you don't need to worry about it. You are responsible for your respective areas at the foot of the mountain and block those demonic beasts that flee down the mountain."

"The demonic beast materials killed by everyone in their respective areas belong to each of you. After the war, our Huang family will also take out a few spiritual objects to reward those who have made great contributions in this battle, and the fallen cultivators can also get a pension from our Huang family."

"However, the ugly words must be said in front. You are all vassals of our Huang family and have been protected by our Huang family for many years. If I know that any family's cultivator dares to be lazy or play tricks, the Liu family will be their end."

As soon as they heard that the rewards for this operation were so generous, the people below all showed a hint of excitement on their faces, but it didn't take long before they were returned to their original state by Huang Shengxin's harsh words.

Everyone had seen the disaster of the Liu family's extermination back then. These small Qi Refining families were simply not worth mentioning in the eyes of the huge Huang family. Once they offended the main family, they didn't even need the Huang family to do it themselves. There would be a large group of people below who would be willing to share a piece of the pie, and the disaster of extermination would be a matter of a blink of an eye.

Chifeng Ridge was a mountain range close to the boundary of Mount Yunwu. This place was not far from the place where Song Qingming was chased by the Eagle Nest Ridge bandits, only less than a hundred miles away.

This place was originally the only way for cultivators in Qinghe County to enter Mount Yunwu from the north. Many cultivators in Qinghe County would enter Mount Yunwu from here to hunt demonic beasts and pick spiritual herbs in exchange for cultivation resources.

Recently, for some reason, this place was originally the territory of a second-level demonic beast, the Golden-Horned Sheep. This demonic beast was a relatively gentle demonic beast. It basically stayed on the mountain on weekdays and rarely came out, and rarely invaded the territory of Qinghe County.

A few years ago, a second-level middle-grade White Lion came to this place and drove away this Golden-Horned Sheep and entrenched itself here. The White Lion was cruel by nature. Almost all the cultivators passing by the foot of the mountain fell into its mouth, causing no cultivators in Qinghe County to dare to enter Mount Yunwu from here in recent years.

Not only that, but this White Lion also crossed the border into Qinghe County a few months ago, attacked a small fine iron mine of the Huang family, killed several Huang family cultivators and thousands of mortals, and stirred up this mine of the Huang family. A Foundation Establishment ancestor of the Huang family quickly arrived to support and had a fierce battle with this White Lion, which then repelled it.

This White Lion stirred up the situation in the north of Qinghe County at once. As the hegemon in the north of Qinghe County, the Huang family naturally would not let it go. They immediately began to gather manpower, and even the family head Huang Shengxin, who had always been in seclusion, came out of seclusion, preparing to take down this spiritual vein where the demonic beasts were entrenched.

Under the leadership of the Huang family head Huang Shengxin, nearly two hundred cultivators had killed their way to the foot of Chifeng Ridge aggressively. Not counting the last time several major Foundation Establishment families reorganized Qinghe Market, this operation could be called the largest operation of Qinghe County cultivators in the past few decades.

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