Chapter 179: Missing

Qinghe County, Funiu Mountain Song Family.

It had been more than a month since Song Qingming left Funiu Mountain. Almost all the Song family cultivators only knew that Song Qingming, the family's Supreme Elder, seemed not to be on the mountain, but they didn't know where he had gone. Only the family head Song Changfeng knew Song Qingming's whereabouts on this trip.

At this moment, a Song family cultivator who had just broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining quietly avoided the crowd on the mountain and came to Song Changfeng's cave dwelling on the side of the mountain top.

"Qingshi, how is it? Have the Huang family's ancestors really all returned?" Seeing the person coming, the anxious Song Changfeng hurriedly asked.

After catching his breath, Song Qingshi replied: "Sixth Uncle, I went to the market to ask a friend from the Xiaoyao Sect. It is indeed true. The Huang family's ancestors have all returned. However, it is a bit strange. After the Huang family ancestors returned this time, they all seemed to have gone into closed-door cultivation. I don't know if something happened. I also asked about Siyuan. She seems to know nothing about it either."

"The genealogy shows that Qingming is indeed still alive. Why hasn't he returned yet? It's really worrying." Song Changfeng paced back and forth in the cave dwelling while speaking, showing the anxiety in his heart at this moment.

"Sixth Uncle, why don't we go to the Huang family and ask directly? I don't know what happened. Waiting for news here is not a way. If the Supreme Elder really encounters danger, we can also make a response earlier."

After listening, Song Changfeng nodded and said: "You are right. Qingshi, when you get to the Huang family, don't look for anyone else. Go directly to Ancestor Shengyue. After seeing her, you say that I sent you. No matter what, Qingming went to help their Huang family this time. They should at least give us an explanation."

Song Qingshi nodded. After leaving Funiu Mountain, he walked west for a few days and arrived at the Huang family's Taiyuan Mountain. After reporting the Song family's name, Song Qingshi was invited to Taiyuan Mountain and didn't see Huang Shengyue, who had a pale face, until two days later.

On the day they encountered the Qingluan Demon King, Song Qingming and the Huang family group finally chose to break out of the encirclement separately. Except for Song Qingming being captured, the other four Huang family members also almost didn't make it back.

The family head Huang Shengxin and Huang Shengyue were fine, only suffering minor injuries. Huang Chengliang, the oldest Huang family ancestor, was hit by Qingluan and was already at the point of dying. After being rescued back to Taiyuan Mountain by Huang Shengyue, he passed away in his cave dwelling a few days later.

Another Huang Chengding, who had joined the Xiaoyao Sect, was also seriously injured in the pursuit of Qingluan and has now returned to the Xiaoyao Sect for closed-door cultivation. If it weren't for the Qingluan Demon King stopping the pursuit after Song Qingming was captured, this one would probably have been difficult to survive.

After Huang Shengxin returned, he chose to go into closed-door cultivation not long after. Although they lost Huang Chengliang, the family's Foundation Establishment ancestor, they still brought back the Level 3 spirit object, the Tianmang Flower. Relying on this, Huang Shengxin exchanged for a Jade Dust Pill from the Xiaoyao Sect that could help cultivators increase the probability of forming a Jin Dan by half a percent.

This pill, in the entire Wei Kingdom, on the surface, only the Level 3 alchemist of the Xiaoyao Sect can refine it, and it is basically consumed within the sect. Huang Shengxin being able to exchange for one, Song Qingming also had a share of the credit.

Seeing Song Qingshi, Huang Shengyue soon guessed his intention and repeated the situation of that day to him. Hearing that his family's Supreme Elder had gone missing after encountering a Level 3 Demon King, Song Qingshi was also stunned and didn't know what to do. If he really fell into the hands of a Level 3 Demon King, it would be too difficult for Song Qingming, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, to survive.

The current Song family, setting aside the deterrent power of Song Qingming, the Foundation Establishment Supreme Elder, has strength almost similar to a larger Qi Refining family. Now the family has a Level 2 spirit vein but not even a set of Level 2 arrays. With this level, if they encounter a powerful Foundation Establishment loose cultivator, the entire Song family will be someone else's possession.

"Little Friend Song, please go back and tell your family head to set his heart at ease. Even if Fellow Daoist Qingming really can't come back, as long as our Huang family is still here, your Song family will definitely not be left unmanaged." Seeing Song Qingshi looking dejected after learning the truth, Huang Shengyue couldn't help but comfort him.

In the Huang family, Song Qingshi couldn't be too out of character in front of others. He hurriedly adjusted his state, got up, and left Taiyuan Mountain.

In the secret room of the Gao family restaurant in Qinghe Market, Gao Jinhe, who looked happy, said to Lu Xingde on the side: "The Huang family suffered a big loss in the Fuyun Mountain Range this time. Even that old thing Huang Chengliang died in the hands of demon beasts. The kid from the Song family seems to have died outside as well.

Fellow Daoist Lu, now that Huang Shengxin has gone into closed-door cultivation to form a Jin Dan, and the Huang family only has Huang Shengyue left, this is their weakest time. If we don't take action now, when they recover, we won't have any more chances."

"Fellow Daoist Gao, I am still a bit worried. If Huang Shengxin really succeeds in forming a Jin Dan, will what we two do today be digging our own graves for the future?" After listening to what Gao Jinhe said, although Lu Xingde was very tempted, he still cautiously put forward his own view.

Gao Jinhe shook his head upon hearing this and laughed loudly: "Fellow Daoist Lu doesn't know that forming a Jin Dan is not such an easy thing. Qinghe County has been established for a thousand years, and there are at least five or six people recorded who formed a Jin Dan. Among them, there is no lack of genius cultivators like Huang Shengxin, but the final result is without exception, all failed.

Huang Shengxin is really too naive this time, thinking that he can succeed in forming a Jin Dan by exchanging a Jade Dust Pill from the Xiaoyao Sect. Little does he know that he is just wasting the Huang family's resources. If he used this Jade Dust Pill in his hand to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, he might be able to cultivate another Foundation Establishment cultivator to take over for their Huang family. By then, we would really have a headache, don't you think, Fellow Daoist Lu?"

Lu Xingde smiled and didn't answer, picked up the tea beside him, and drank a big mouthful.

On the second day after Song Qingshi brought back the news that Song Qingming was missing, a group of loose cultivators suddenly attacked a small refined copper mine that the Huang family had recently controlled, breaking the ten years of peace in Qinghe County after the demon beast chaos.

This refined copper mine is located at the junction of the Huang family and the Lu family's sphere of influence. It is a mine that has just been developed not long ago. The reserves of ore inside are enough to be mined for three or four hundred years, and it can bring a stable income of more than two hundred spirit stones to the Huang family every year.

Subsequently, the Gao family and the Lu family jointly took action to drive away this group of loose cultivators. Afterward, they did not return this mine to the Huang family but jointly occupied this spirit mine. For a time, the situation in Qinghe County also became turbulent.

However, what made all the cultivators in Qinghe County strange was that the Huang family was very calm after knowing this news and did not choose to make a big move immediately. They only sent a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator to discuss the return of the mine with the two families. The result was naturally driven away by the cultivators of the Gao and Lu families.

After Song Changfeng learned of this, he hurriedly notified all Song family cultivators to temporarily withdraw to Funiu Mountain. Even in Qinghe Market, only the Fourth Uncle's family was left, and everyone else withdrew to Funiu Mountain. The shops in Qinghe Market were not just the Song family's; most of the industries of other cultivation families also closed down. Only Huang Siyuan's restaurant seemed to be unaffected and was still operating as usual.