Chapter 293: Battle Results

As soon as Lu Yuanfeng arrived, he saw Huang Shengxin holding Cheng Yilong's head in his hand, with a headless corpse on the side, and a smile instantly appeared on his face.

"Ah! I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Huang to have already beheaded this thief. I arrived a step late."

"Hehe! Fellow Daoist Lu doesn't know. This thief was not killed by me, but died in the hands of Little Brother Qingming." Seeing Lu Yuanfeng mistakenly think that he had beheaded Cheng Yilong, Huang Shengxin sighed and hurriedly explained.

"If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Huang severely injuring this guy earlier, how would I have had the opportunity to execute this thief? I wouldn't dare to embezzle such a first merit."

Just as Lu Yuanfeng and Huang Shengxin were talking, Song Qingming, who was sitting on the side healing, had also recovered a bit and stood up from the ground.

His battle with Cheng Yilong earlier actually didn't cause him too heavy an injury. The reason he didn't recover so quickly was just to show them how difficult it was for him to kill his opponent, deliberately making his injury look a bit heavier.

Hearing Song Qingming say this and wanting to return this first merit to himself, Huang Shengxin's face was suddenly happy. He didn't expect this kid in front of him to be so sensible and not choose to take this merit actively.

"This is the storage bag on the thief, and a magic tool he just used. I leave them to Fellow Daoist Lu to handle."

After taking the storage bag Song Qingming handed over to him, Lu Yuanfeng returned the black long knife Cheng Yilong had used to Song Qingming.

"There are spiritual items lost in Qinghe Market in this storage bag. It needs to be opened and counted after returning before processing. I will accept it on behalf of the market first."

"As for the magic tool on him, it is not a spiritual item of our Qinghe Market. Since this thief died in your hands, the magic tool on him should naturally belong to Little Brother. You two have no objections, right?" After speaking, Lu Yuanfeng turned his gaze to the two Huang family members.

"Fellow Daoist Lu's words are reasonable. We have no objections. Fellow Daoist Qingming fought this thief just now and was not lightly injured. Now he is still willing to take the initiative to hand over this magic tool, which shows that he is a broad-minded person." Huang Shengxin agreed to Lu Yuanfeng's proposal with a smile and also praised Song Qingming.

Huang Shengyue on the side also nodded and didn't say much. Song Qingming had already given the first merit of killing Cheng Yilong to their side, and the Huang family had already obtained the benefits they wanted most from this trip. Naturally, they wouldn't choose to argue with Song Qingming over a second-tier magic tool.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Song Qingming was no longer polite, took the magic tool, and put it directly into his storage bag.

Just as the few were talking, several more sword lights arrived. It was Gao Jinhe and the others who had solved Chen Zicong.

At this moment, Gao Jinhe was also holding a head in his hand. Their side could be considered relatively smooth, with only Gao Yubai sustaining a minor injury from the enemy's desperate counterattack before death.

"Sigh! This thief is truly hateful, injuring Fellow Daoist Huang and Fellow Daoist Song like this. Killing him just like this is really cheap for him. It's also to blame us for not being able to come and support in time, causing Fellow Daoist Huang and Fellow Daoist Song to be injured so heavily."

Seeing that Huang Shengxin and Song Qingming, who returned here, were both injured, Gao Jinhe, this old guy, didn't forget to intentionally step forward to express condolences and disgust them a bit.

He knew that Cheng Yilong was not easy to deal with, so he took the initiative to choose to chase and kill Chen Zicong. He was thinking about whether he could quickly behead Chen Zicong and then go to Song Qingming and the others to share a piece of the pie. He didn't expect Chen Zicong to be ruthless in the end, delaying them for quite a while. By the time they arrived here, Huang Shengxin was already holding Cheng Yilong's head.

Regarding Gao Jinhe's jealousy, although Huang Shengxin was a bit unhappy in his heart, he didn't argue with him. The greatest merit of beheading Cheng Yilong had already fallen to the Huang family. For them, the purpose of this trip had been perfectly achieved. In the future, after reporting to the Xiaoyao Sect, relying on this first merit of wiping out Eagle Nest Ridge, even if the Huang family wanted to exchange for an opportunity for a Foundation Establishment Pill, it would be enough.

"It's getting late. Everyone, hurry back and see if there are any fish that slipped through the net!" Seeing that Gao Jinhe seemed to be still jealous, Lu Yuanfeng hurriedly came out to smooth things over and led everyone to gather with other Qi Refining cultivators.

At the foot of Eagle Nest Ridge, when Song Qingming and the others returned, the battle here had already ended. The dozens of bandit cultivators who were still resisting were later killed by Lu Yuanfeng, who came back to move reinforcements. Except for a small portion who were lucky enough to escape under the cover of night, the over a hundred bandit cultivators of Eagle Nest Ridge were basically all wiped out.

Facing these bandit cultivators who had no way out, their side also suffered quite a loss in this final battle, with twenty or thirty people killed or injured, including a late-stage Qi Refining elder of the Xu family who came with Song Qingming.

The Xu family had migrated to the Song family's sect for less than ten years, and the cultivators in the clan added up to only a dozen people. Losing a late-stage Qi Refining elder all of a sudden was really bad luck. Fortunately, after returning, the Song family would take out some spiritual items to comfort them. As long as they developed peacefully for a period of time, they would still be able to cultivate new late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

When everyone charged up to Eagle Nest Ridge, they indeed found Wu Xiang, who wanted to surrender earlier, in a hidden cave dwelling. At this moment, he had already turned into a cold corpse. Needless to say, everyone could guess that he should have been killed here by Cheng Yilong and the others after they discovered the clues after he contacted Lu Yuanfeng. Then they used Wu Xiang's identity to agree on the details of surrender with the foot of the mountain, and finally deceived the two Gao family members and rushed down the mountain.

Fortunately, there were enough people this time, and there were two late-stage Foundation Establishment experts, Huang Shengxin and Gao Jinhe, so they didn't let these two escape, which could be considered as catching them all in one net.

Under Lu Yuanfeng's arrangement, many Qi Refining cultivators went up the mountain again to turn over the entire Eagle Nest Ridge, and only left after looting all the spiritual items.

Although Qinghe Market paid quite a price this time, it completely solved the tumor of Eagle Nest Ridge that had harmed the market for decades, which could be considered a great success, solving a major hidden danger in the northeast of Wei Guo.

After returning to Qinghe Market, Lu Yuanfeng led people to count the spiritual items seized this time, and the harvest was also quite rich.

Not only did they take back most of the spiritual items lost in Qinghe Market last time, but they also scraped out spiritual items worth over ten thousand spirit stones from the many bandit cultivators of Eagle Nest Ridge.

For this fruitful battle result, all families in Qinghe Market were very satisfied, including the Cao family cultivators from Pingyang County who came to support, who also shared quite a few spirit stones.

Of course, the happiest was Lu Yuanfeng, who took the initiative to lead everyone to launch this counterattack. Qinghe Market was breached and lost so many spiritual items. If this battle hadn't been won, he, the person in charge of the Xiaoyao Sect stationed in Qinghe Market, would likely have been transferred back to the sect to be held accountable.