[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-161":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Qinghe Immortal Clan",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1927416,2615,"Chapter 161: The Aftermath","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-161",161,"\u003Cp>\"One by one, everyone, all of you must go through the Demon-Expelling Array.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Wu family mortal village at the foot of Mount Longtan, several Wu family cultivators brought the mortals gathered there to an array that had been prepared in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Demon-Expelling Array could expel the demonic Qi from the parts of the mortals’ bodies that had been parasitized by the demonic cultivators. After being cleansed by the array and taking some low-grade demon-expelling talisman water, the demonic Qi on these people would be completely expelled in at most one or two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this low-grade Demon-Expelling Array was of no use to cultivators parasitized by demonic cultivators. Just like Wu Zitong, who was controlled earliest, if one wanted to remove the restriction set by Gu Liangshan in his body, either the person who set the restriction had to voluntarily help him undo it, or one had to completely kill the demonic cultivator who set the restriction to have a chance at freedom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not yet known whether any of the remaining Wu family cultivators had been planted with methods by the demonic cultivators. To find out if there were any others parasitized by demonic cultivators, one needed the methods of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Song Changfeng and the others could only gather them all into a large hall first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Gu Liangshan and his group of demonic cultivators targeted the Wu family was precisely because the Wu family Third Elder had been captured by them by mistake while performing a mission a few years ago. Upon learning that this person was an elder of the nearby Wu family, Gu Liangshan cast a long line to catch a big fish, bewitched this Wu family elder into switching to demonic cultivation techniques, and then released him back to the Wu family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, taking advantage of the Wu family’s lax management of the mortals below, the group disguised themselves as ordinary mortals and mixed into the villages and towns below. Over the years, they had secretly blood-sacrificed many Wu family mortals and controlled several Wu family cultivators, including the stationing guard Wu Zitong. Almost everything below Mount Longtan had been completely controlled by these demonic cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it hadn't been for one of the demonic cultivators this time disliking the poor essence blood of these ordinary mortals and targeting the acquired-stage martial artists valued by the Wu family, which aroused the suspicion of a Wu family law enforcement elder, the Wu family would likely still be kept in the dark. In a few more years, once they controlled most of the Wu family’s cultivators, the entire Wu family’s cultivators and mortals would inevitably face the fate of the entire family being blood-sacrificed by the demonic cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to Mount Longtan, Song Qingming personally checked the remaining Wu family cultivators one by one and confirmed that there were no more cultivators, only then did he feel relieved. After arranging these matters, Lu Yuanfeng, who had previously received Song Qingming’s plea for help, also arrived at Mount Longtan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow Daoist Lu, I am truly sorry. This time, I seem to have used a sledgehammer to crack a nut. After some effort, I only caught a few Qi Refining-stage little mice. That demon Yang Wuqi was not in this vicinity. I have troubled you to make a wasted trip.\" Looking at Lu Yuanfeng, who had arrived in a hurry, covered in dust, Song Qingming hurriedly stepped forward to cup his hands and apologize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuanfeng smiled and waved his hand after hearing this, \"Fellow Daoist Song, please don't be so polite. Since it concerns Yang Wuqi, that scourge of the sect, I would have to come regardless. I wonder if you have left any survivors? I want to see if I can find any traces of that demon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming nodded and beckoned to Song Changfeng on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, Gu Liangshan and the other captured demonic cultivator were brought up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lu Yuanfeng stepped forward to examine the two, a second-grade spiritual talisman suddenly appeared in his hand, which he slapped onto Gu Liangshan’s forehead. After he chanted a spell, a trace of thick black Qi suddenly emerged from Gu Liangshan’s body and merged into the spiritual talisman stuck to his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that the spiritual talisman had been stained with a wisp of black Qi, Lu Yuanfeng immediately took it off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a Soul-Chasing Talisman made by the sect, which can stick a wisp of the demonic soul parasitized by a high-grade demonic cultivator from these low-grade demonic cultivators. With this, as long as the original body is within ten thousand miles of this talisman, we can find his exact location within a month.\" Seeing that everyone on the scene was somewhat curious, Lu Yuanfeng hurriedly explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wisp of demonic soul on Gu Liangshan was precisely what Yang Wuqi used to control his disciples who were parasitized by him. Once these people dared to have thoughts of rebellion, as long as the demonic soul restriction in their bodies was triggered, their lives could be taken instantly. These were common methods used by high-grade demonic cultivators to control their subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this method would also leave some hidden dangers. Once a demonic cultivator planted with a demonic soul restriction was captured, if the original body did not destroy these demonic souls in time, the opponent could use tracking talismans like the \"Soul-Chasing Talisman\" to find the original body’s location within a short time. This was also the reason why Chen Xuanxin was able to accurately block Yang Wuqi when he was tracking him in the Wei Kingdom back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, a second-grade talisman like the Soul-Chasing Talisman was worth two hundred spirit stones, and it was not something that ordinary people could use casually. If it weren't for the sake of hunting down Yang Wuqi, the sect’s key wanted demon, Lu Yuanfeng would not have been willing to take it out easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at the direction indicated by this wisp of demonic soul in the spiritual talisman, Yang Wuqi should be hiding in Pingyang County, not far to the north. Time is of the essence; I must return immediately to notify the sect and appoint personnel to come and assist us in completely removing this scourge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lu Yuanfeng finished speaking and discussed it with Song Qingming, he returned to Qinghe Market first. Song Qingming, however, still had to stay behind to deal with the aftermath of the Wu family, and would only be able to return a day later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wu family’s negligence this time led to the infiltration of demonic cultivators, which almost caused the entire family to face a catastrophe. Such an event occurring under the Song family’s jurisdiction also made the Song family very vigilant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After practicing demonic cultivation techniques, most cultivators would find it difficult to control the various desires in their hearts, especially the greed for the power of the techniques. It was precisely because of this that these demonic cultivators would blood-sacrifice the living beings of the cultivation world to obtain some power from the demonic gods of the upper realm for the sake of taking shortcuts. And once this desire was opened and they came into contact with the demonic gods of the upper realm, it was difficult to turn back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they were given a few years, these demonic cultivators could completely destroy a first-grade Qi Refining family that had been passed down for hundreds of years. If they blood-sacrificed too many cultivators, they might even breed a Foundation Establishment demon, and the nearby cultivation families would inevitably suffer as well. Thinking of such consequences, the cultivators of various families were also very afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, in addition to sternly reprimanding the Wu family cultivators, Song Qingming also reminded the other vassal families that in the coming period, each family must strengthen their own patrol forces to prevent similar events like the Wu family’s from happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Song Qingming was reprimanding the Wu family cultivators, in a dark cave on a deep mountain in Pingyang County, thousands of miles away, a somewhat withered old man suddenly opened a pair of strange blue eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a bunch of useless things. They couldn't even handle such a small matter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the old man muttered to himself, he took out a black spiritual talisman. Next, a stream of black ghost fire suddenly surged from his hand, burning the talisman he was holding to nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>",1424,"2026-06-14T03:09:34.521Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","cecfadde78a3100a2849ebadf4ed6e2fdd8a1cde1b7ee8f268d7f77f8221dc59","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-162","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-160",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]