Chapter 107: Demonic Beast Turmoil

After saying goodbye to his family, Song Qingming, who returned to Mount Funiu, soon walked out of the grief of the death of his relatives and began to perform the task of transporting supplies to Qinghe Market for the family.

Following the last time he left Qinghe Market with Old Daoist Feng, this was the first time Song Qingming returned to Qinghe Market in more than three months. With only a few months apart, Song Qingming found that there were many more strange cultivators in Qinghe Market. After the cultivators guarding the market gate checked Song Qingming's identity, they did not ask much and let him in. It seemed that Zhou Tangjin's disappearance did not attract anyone's attention.

After killing Zhou Tangjin in Mount Yunwu, Song Qingming had been worried for several months that someone would come to the market to seek revenge after the incident. It was not until he finished handing over the supplies and left the market this time that he finally put his heart down regarding this matter.

After completing this mission, Song Qingming also ushered in a period of stable cultivation on the mountain. Only when the family needed manpower to escort supplies would he walk down the mountain.

In the past, things like transporting supplies were the responsibility of the family's Second Elder Song Changfeng. It was just that now the old family head's lifespan was running out, and the Second Elder had begun to gradually take over the family head's authority and could not go down the mountain often, so this matter fell to Song Qingming, who had a higher cultivation level in the family.

Soon time passed by another two years, and Song Qingming also had two rare years of quiet cultivation on the mountain. In his spare time, he would still make some talismans and other things, and when the family sent him down the mountain to transport supplies, he would go to Qinghe Market to exchange for some spiritual objects needed for cultivation.

In these two years, besides cultivation, Song Qingming's biggest progress was his talisman-making level. Half a year ago, he had already raised his talisman-making technique to the high grade, becoming the third high-grade talisman master of the Song family.

It was just that after he made quite a few high-grade talismans, he suddenly discovered a thing that made him somewhat helpless. Although high-grade talismans had higher profits, they were not as easy to sell as middle-grade talismans in Qinghe Market. Many high-grade talismans he took to Qinghe Market to sell were piled up in his own storage bag.

The reason for this was also because high-grade talismans had good effects, but the finished products were also much higher. A high-grade talisman was generally worth about ten spirit stones, which was four or five times that of a middle-grade talisman. Those who could afford high-grade talismans in Qinghe Market were those old-brand late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

As for the numerous middle- and low-grade Qi Refining cultivators, most of them were not too rich. Even if they had one or two high-grade talismans, they were kept on their bodies as trump cards. Under normal circumstances, they would not be willing to take them out to use, so the overall consumption of high-grade talismans in the market was not large.

For this reason, he could only change back to making middle-grade talismans. The dozens of high-grade talismans he hoarded could only wait until the next time he went far away to sell them in a large market like Guiyun Market.

In the Fuyun Mountain Range, thousands of miles north of Guiyun Market.

A late-stage Qi Refining cultivator with a somewhat short stature was on a high cliff. Only his spiritual power was surging on his hands, and he was climbing rapidly on the smooth cliff wall with great effort.

On the high cliff dozens of zhang away from him, a few Star-Moon Flowers were swaying gently with the breeze on the cliff, and a trace of blue enchanting spiritual light flashed from time to time on the yellow petals.

He came to this dangerous depths of the Fuyun Mountain Range alone for these few spiritual objects. Soon, the middle-aged cultivator climbed to the Star-Moon Flower smoothly. After seeing the spiritual objects, he first carefully patrolled for a while, and after confirming that there was no danger nearby, he carefully picked these few spiritual flowers and put them into his storage bag.

Seeing that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, a happy expression appeared on his face. After checking that there were no missing spiritual herbs nearby, he turned around and prepared to leave this cliff to find spiritual herbs nearby. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged cultivator who had just raised his head saw the scene at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and suddenly fixed his eyes, and a hint of panic gradually appeared on his face.

After rubbing his bright eyes with his hands and confirming that there was no problem with his eyes, the cultivator raised his head again and looked at the foot of the mountain. Only seeing a yellow sand flying all over the sky in the distance at the foot of the mountain, countless demonic beasts mixed in it, approaching him slowly from far to near.

"This is... demonic beast turmoil!"

After confirming that he had not seen it wrong, this cultivator who had been mixed in the Fuyun Mountain Range for decades was already full of fear, shouted, and ran toward the foot of the mountain quickly.

More than ten days later, hundreds of cultivators had encountered the demonic beast group approaching from the north in the Fuyun Mountain Range just like him, and fled the Fuyun Mountain Range in a panic. Quite a few cultivators did not escape in time and fell into the belly of the demonic beasts.

In the council hall of Guiyun Market.

More than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators were carefully discussing in the hall how to deal with this demonic beast turmoil. Even the

"According to the news brought back by Nephew Shen yesterday, there are three waves of spirit beasts targeting our Guiyun Market. Leading them are four third-tier spirit beasts, and there are also over a hundred second-tier spirit beasts. Their strength is quite formidable, and their combined forces include tens of thousands of low-tier spirit beasts. In terms of strength, they have already far surpassed the defensive forces currently in Guiyun Market. Nephew Chen, you must make another trip to the sect yourself and ensure you ask the Sect Master to arrange for reinforcements from the sect immediately. If we are late, I fear some unforeseen events may occur."

"This disciple accepts the order."

A somewhat tall and thin man bowed respectfully to Qin Wenyuan, then received the order and quickly left the place.

Qin Wenyuan nodded, and with a solemn face, he continued to speak to the remaining people: "Pass the word down. Starting from today, Guiyun Market is closed. All cultivators may only enter and not leave. Post notices to inform the cultivators within the market that everyone must accept the deployment of the market's guard team. Anyone who dares to retreat without fighting, I will personally take their head to sacrifice to the flag."

Fortunately, every time there is a spirit beast turmoil in the Northern Frontier, it does not involve cultivators above the Nascent Soul realm or fourth-tier Spirit Emperors. Whether it is the spirit beasts or the human side, those who can take action are all below the Core Formation cultivation base. Otherwise, if a fourth-tier Spirit Emperor appeared on the battlefield, I fear Guiyun Market would not be able to hold out for even half a day.

The Xiaoyao Sect's mountain gate is some distance from Guiyun Market. To wait for reinforcements from the sect, they must hold on for a period of time themselves.

Unexpectedly, before a few days had passed, two great armies of spirit beasts had already killed their way to the vicinity of Guiyun Market from two directions. Leading them were two Thunder Eagles and one large black flood dragon. All three of these were Core Formation spirit beasts. Facing such absolute suppression of strength, Qin Wenyuan did not dare to go out to fight and could only rely on the third-tier mountain-protecting formation of Guiyun Market to hold on to the death.

After the two waves of spirit beasts arrived at Guiyun Market, they quickly directed the low-tier spirit beasts below to surround the market tightly and began to attack the mountain-protecting formation outside the market. It was not just Guiyun Market; several markets in Wei Guo near the Fuyun Mountain Range were soon besieged by spirit beasts. The once-in-a-century Northern Frontier spirit beast turmoil had thus begun without any warning.

After the news of the spirit beast turmoil reached the Xiaoyao Sect, the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators immediately began to organize cultivators to head north to provide support. They quickly issued a conscription order to the family cultivators in the several commanderies near Guiyun Market, letting them take the first step to rush over to provide support.