Chapter 153

Time passed, and another four years passed.

In a shop named Jinbao Hall in Qinghe Market, an old and a young person were arguing with the shopkeeper, and there were many cultivators around the shop watching the fun.

"You are talking nonsense. What we took out just now was clearly a second-rank magic robe. What you are returning to us now is simply not the one from just now." The person speaking was a young woman in her prime, wearing a green shirt and at the fourth level of Qi Refining, holding a top-grade first-rank purple magic robe in her hand.

The shopkeeper of Jinbao Hall, who was confronting them, was already a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator. Seeing that the woman was relentless, he shouted impatiently: "You poor loose cultivators are really ungrateful. The two of you together are not worth a hundred spirit stones, yet you dare to say you can take out second-rank spirit items. Who would believe this? If you are unwilling to sell, return the item to you. For this broken magic robe, you still want to extort two hundred spirit stones from me. Daring to slap a fly on a tiger's head, you don't even go out to inquire about the prestige of our Gao family in Qinghe Market."

The old man standing beside the green-shirted woman pulled her clothes somewhat sadly and whispered: "Hongyu, forget it! This is someone else's territory. We are weak, and we can't fight them even if we are reasonable. It's just that we were too careless and fell into their trap."

Hearing the old man's words, the shopkeeper of Jinbao Hall, although somewhat displeased, didn't continue to speak, only hoping that the two would leave quickly.

"No, this magic robe was passed down by our ancestors. It can't be cheap for this gang of people. I'm going to the market law enforcement team to report them." After the green-shirted woman finished speaking, she angrily threw the purple magic robe in her hand at the Gao family shopkeeper and walked away in a hurry.

"Hongyu, don't go, Hongyu... sigh." Seeing that the woman hadn't looked back, the old man could only sigh, carefully picked up the purple magic robe that had fallen to the ground, and chased after her.

The shop assistant saw that the woman really dared to find the market law enforcement team, and his heart suddenly panicked. He hurriedly called a shop assistant and said: "You go out from the back door quickly and find Captain Hu directly. It's his turn to be on duty today..."

In a cave dwelling with rich spiritual energy in Qinghe Market, Song Qingming was sitting in meditation and cultivating.

Only to see him wrapped in a layer of emerald green spiritual light that flickered on and off. This layer of green light sometimes manifested into shape, and sometimes submerged into his body.

After a long time, the green spiritual light on Song Qingming's body suddenly concentrated in his palm, turning into an invisible color. As Song Qingming's right hand lifted gently, a sound like arrow rain landing suddenly came from the stone wall in front of the cave dwelling, followed by a cloud of dust permeating in front of the cave dwelling.

Song Qingming opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved to release a light breeze to sweep away the dust in front of him, saw more than a dozen dense holes suddenly appearing on the stone wall at some unknown time, smiled with satisfaction, and put away the magic power on his body.

During these four years of guarding in Qinghe Market, Song Qingming finally successfully used the Profound Light Armor and Jade Light Needle spells in the Jade Profound Scripture. Now that he has these two spells to protect himself, plus the several second-rank spirit items in his hands, he has finally ended the embarrassment of just reaching Foundation Establishment and has the strength that a Foundation Establishment cultivator should have.

After finishing cultivation, Song Qingming, who had nothing to do, took out several spirit talisman tools and started drawing spirit talismans daily.

In these few years, his spirit talisman technique had exceeded Fifth Aunt Song Changling and became the person with the highest level of spirit talisman technique in the Song family. Although he hadn't advanced to become a second-rank spirit talisman master, the distance was not far. There were too few second-rank spirit items in Qinghe Market. If Song Qingming wanted to make second-rank spirit talismans, he could only go to other large markets to purchase materials, which was really inconvenient for him who had to guard Qinghe Market. Therefore, he had never tried to make second-rank spirit talismans.

Besides the spirit talisman technique, his formation level had also been upgraded to top-grade first-rank, and he had become a famous formation master in Qinghe Market. He had also helped several Qi Refining families without top-grade formation masters refine the kind of mountain-guarding array used in Mugu Town.

Now the spirit talismans he makes are not only large in quantity but also basically have no rivals in the entire Qinghe Market in terms of quality. These years, they have also helped him earn a lot of spirit stones in the open and in the dark, making his originally empty storage bag gradually saturate.

Before long, Song Qingming, who was concentrating on drawing a top-grade spirit talisman in the cave dwelling, was suddenly interrupted by a sound transmission. After sighing helplessly, he put away the spirit talisman tools on the table and stood up to walk out of his cave dwelling.

"Xinhu, what is Thirteenth Uncle looking for me for?" Looking at Song Xinhu who walked in, Song Qingming asked kindly.

"Reporting to the Supreme Elder, someone just came to the law enforcement team to file a complaint, saying it was related to the Jinbao Hall of the Gao family. Thirteenth Uncle didn't know how to handle it, so he asked me to find you to take a look."

After Song Xinhu had been tempered in a place like Qinghe Market for a few years, he had changed somewhat from when he first went down the mountain, no longer looking so wooden.

Although Song Xinhu's personality was somewhat introverted, he was indeed very diligent in cultivation. Not long ago, he had successfully broken through to the fifth level of Qi Refining, which had exceeded Song Qingming's cultivation speed back then.

This was also because he had been following Song Qingming in Qinghe Market for these few years. Not only was cultivation resource almost never lacking, but there was also a Foundation Establishment cultivator pointing him out from time to time. If he still cultivated slowly, it could only be said that his cultivation talent was too poor.

For these years, Song Qingming had always remembered the Great Elder's kindness to him back then. For Song Xinhu, the descendant of the Great Elder, as long as he could take care of him within his power, he would not be stingy with those spirit items.

"Then let's go take a look. It's been a long time since I went out to walk around." Song Qingming nodded with a smile, took the lead to walk towards the law enforcement team, and Song Xinhu hurriedly followed behind him.

Hearing that the matter was related to the Gao family, Song Qingming also knew that Song Changxiong would definitely not be easy to handle. Although his guarding term would end soon, dragging it without handling it when someone came to file a complaint would not be good for the reputation of the market law enforcement team. If Lu Yuanfeng came out of seclusion early and found out about this, it might make him have a very bad impression of himself.

After arriving at the law enforcement team and listening to Song Changxiong tell the ins and outs of the matter, Song Qingming's heart was suddenly filled with anger.

Because Gao Jinhe broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment in these few years, the Gao family's reputation in Qinghe Market had risen sharply, and the Qi Refining cultivators below had also become quite arrogant. Song Qingming had guarded Qinghe Market for these few years, and this was not the first time he had heard of their shop forcibly cheating weak loose cultivators in the market.

Previously, most of them were occasionally playing tricks on low-grade spirit items. He didn't expect that they would dare to do this to second-rank spirit items now. It was indeed a bit too much. Song Qingming thought to himself: "It seems that I have to beat them this time."

Song Qingming ordered a few words without changing his expression and sat on the main hall of the law enforcement hall.

Everyone, rest early.