Chapter 284: Heavy Losses

The reason Song Qingyu only returned to Qinghe Market now was because she was too seriously injured before and was poisoned by Chen Zicong's black python poison. For a time, she couldn't even fly with her sword. Later, she relied on a pair of legs to perform the lowest-level light body technique to rush back to the market.

Seeing that Song Qingyu was covered in injuries and poisoned, Song Qingming hurriedly took out several high-level healing pills and handed them to her, letting her recover from her injuries first.

With Song Qingming's help, Song Qingyu soon returned to her cave dwelling and began to go into seclusion to slowly refine the pills she had taken. It wasn't until half a day later that the color on her face recovered a trace of ruddy.

Seeing that Song Qingyu was temporarily out of danger, Song Qingming completely put down his heart and asked her slowly:

"Qingyu, tell me, what happened after you rushed out of the market."

"Yesterday, at first, I didn't know what happened. At that time, I was still in seclusion, and suddenly I heard the sound of the market formation being destroyed, so I hurriedly walked out of the cave dwelling."

Under Song Qingyu's slow narration, Song Qingming finally knew what kind of dangerous situation she had encountered, and how she escaped later. What he didn't expect was that the one who finally saved Song Qingyu was actually Gao Yubai, who had some grudges with him.

Knowing this answer, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of Song Qingming's mouth. For a time, he didn't know what he should say when he saw Gao Yubai next time.

He didn't expect Gao Yubai, this guy, not to take the opportunity to kick Song Qingyu when she was down. On weekdays, he saw him full of arrogance and didn't put others in his eyes, but at the critical moment, he still distinguished right from wrong. It was a great blessing for the Gao family to have such a person to take over in the future.

After retaking Qinghe Market, under Lu Yuanfeng's unified command, each family soon counted their losses and prepared to start restoring daily operations, counting those meritorious officials for future rewards.

For several consecutive days, cultivation families of all sizes in Qinghe County, including the four major Foundation Establishment families, were almost covered with a layer of haze on their faces.

After the market formation was broken this time, although it was less than half a stick of incense time, in that short time, the bandit cultivators had snatched away various spiritual items worth nearly ten thousand spirit stones from the entire Qinghe Market.

There were also spirit stones in the storage bags of the cultivators who died in their hands, which were estimated to be at least a few thousand. It was just because their storage bags were snatched away by those bandit cultivators, so the specific number could not be counted for a time.

Regardless of the loss of spiritual items, many cultivators and hundreds of mortals living in the market also died in this war.

Mortals were easy to say, but the loss of these cultivators was a very bone-breaking thing for every cultivation family. Not only the Qinghe County cultivation families, but Lu Yuanfeng's subordinates also had many disciples who died in this turmoil, even his favorite third disciple Hu Maocai, after rushing out of the market with Song Qingyu, was unfortunately targeted by several robbers with not low cultivation, and finally couldn't escape, dying in a pool not far from the market, without even leaving a whole corpse.

The Song family also suffered heavy losses this time. Three cultivators who entered the law enforcement team with Thirteenth Uncle Song Changxiong died on the spot, and Fourth Uncle Song Changqiu, who managed the family shop, also died tragically under the bandit cultivators' knives in the final battle.

Looking at Fourth Aunt's family who were heartbroken over Fourth Uncle's corpse, Song Qingming was also very sad in his heart. Fourth Uncle had no Dao heart in his life, gave up cultivation early and came to Qinghe Market. After forming a family, he just wanted his family to spend the rest of his life safely, but he didn't expect to encounter this sudden disaster and die tragically here.

Excluding the four who died, most of the remaining Song family cultivators were also injured. Second Sister Song Qingwan was also injured in the meridians when fighting the enemy. Although she had taken healing pills and would not have life-threatening problems, it would take a long time to recover, and it was estimated that she would not be able to refine pills again in recent years.

The family had just developed steadily after the demonic beast turmoil, but he didn't expect to encounter a disaster so soon. Song Qingming didn't take the loss of spiritual items too seriously. The valuable spiritual items in the shop were brought by Song Qingyu in advance, and the losses were all low-level spiritual items, adding up to only one or two hundred spirit stones.

What made Song Qingming's heart ache most was the loss of cultivators. The Song family was already short of people compared to other Foundation Establishment families. Losing so many lives here at once was enough to make Song Qingming, the head of the family, feel a headache.

Like the Huang family, which had more than two hundred Qi Refining cultivators, losing a few cultivators basically wouldn't have any impact on their family, but the Song family had only a few dozen people in total, and losing nearly one-tenth of the cultivators at once, how could this not make Song Qingming's heart ache.

Fortunately, Song Qingyu, who he cared about most, although injured, was generally fine. After a period of recuperation, once Song Qingyu forced the poison out of her body with magic power, she should be able to recover seven or eight out of ten.

Just when Song Qingyu was still healing, Lu Yuanfeng suddenly came here and happened to bump into Song Qingming who was protecting Song Qingyu's seclusion and healing.

"Brother Lu, Qingyu's injury is a bit heavy this time. It is estimated that it will take some time for seclusion. If there is anything convenient, you can also tell me directly."

Hearing that Song Qingyu was in seclusion, Lu Yuanfeng was not too surprised and said to Song Qingming with a heavy face: "This time the market was broken, the incident was a bit strange. After I investigated for several days, I found some strange places and wanted to come over to ask and verify with Fellow Daoist Qingyu."

After learning the purpose of Lu Yuanfeng's visit, Song Qingming was also a bit surprised and asked casually: "Is it that an insider has been found?"

"I haven't mentioned the matter of the insider to anyone yet. How did you guess it, brother?" Lu Yuanfeng asked with a shocked face.

"A few days ago, I heard from the family law enforcement team that on the night of the incident, they encountered several groups of strange cultivators who specifically infiltrated the market to make trouble. Judging from what happened later, they should be bandit cultivators who infiltrated in advance, specifically mixed into the market to wait for an opportunity to destroy the most important mountain-protecting formation of the market guard.

Plus the day they specifically chose, except for Gao Yubai, we were all contained in Taiyuan Mountain. I think they shouldn't be so coincidental that they happened to know we were all away. They must have calculated the time in advance, until before the market was broken, we would find it very difficult to rush back to support."

Song Qingming smiled and told Lu Yuanfeng all the doubts and guesses he had thought of these days.

Lu Yuanfeng nodded and said with a heavy face: "What you said is not bad. I have already found some clues here and found several suspicious people. It is estimated that it won't be long before you will know who the insider is, brother."

"In that case, I will wait and see here, brother."