Chapter 295: Heavenly Sea Alliance

After wiping out Eagle Nest Ridge in one battle, Qinghe County, which had experienced a devastation, ushered in a period of peace.

Song Qingming, who didn't find what he wanted in the Xiaoyao Sect, returned to Mount Funiu and began days of patient cultivation. The spirit stones obtained from Cheng Yilong also allowed him not to worry about the resources needed for cultivation for a short time.

In the previous battle of Qinghe Market, the Song family also lost several cultivators, and even the biggest pillar of the Song family in the market, Second Sister Song Qingwan, was seriously injured, and she wouldn't be able to help with alchemy for at least a few years.

When Song Qingming went to the Xiaoyao Sect, he also specially went to Yangshan Market to find healing elixirs for her. It's just a pity that what he found were all low-grade first-tier elixirs. Although they would have some effect after taking them, overall they couldn't help her shorten much healing time.

Second Sister Song Qingwan had to be in closed-door healing for a long time, plus the death of Fourth Uncle Song Changqiu, which caused all the Song family cultivators in the market to lose their backbone, and the business of the Song family's shops in Qinghe Market was greatly affected all of a sudden.

Although the clan leader Song Changfeng immediately sent Fifteenth Aunt Song Changyue to take over the market's affairs, Song Changyue was a person of duty and didn't have much of a business brain. After she arrived there, although she temporarily stabilized the Song family cultivators and mortal clerks in the market, the overall business in these shops couldn't recover. Even if she took another shop from the Lu family, the total spirit stone income could only barely maintain the balance of income and expenditure for these industries. For a short time, the Song family couldn't expect how much income this place could create for the family.

Qinghe Market experienced a war, and the damage to the entire market was very great. Under the leadership of several major Foundation Establishment families, everyone spent a full half a year repairing and mending before restoring the market to its original appearance.

However, this battle of Eagle Nest Ridge also showed some of Qinghe Market's prestige. Afterward, for at least twenty years, no one had seen the traces of those bandit cultivators who murdered for money in the vicinity of Qinghe Market. Many loose cultivators who did business in other markets came here by name, just to find a relatively comfortable place to survive.

The business of other shops in the market was getting better and better, but all the Song family's shops were still in a slump. At the year-end family meeting, Song Qingming finally couldn't sit still and could only transfer Shi Chun back from Mount Fengtou, letting him help take over this mess in Qinghe Market.

After Shi Chun went to Qinghe Market, he didn't disappoint Song Qingming, and the Song family's industries in Qinghe Market finally slowly improved.

One year after the great battle of Eagle Nest Ridge, just when Song Qingming was immersed in cultivation on Mount Funiu, another message that surprised him somewhat came. Lu Yuanfeng, who had been stationed in Qinghe Market for nearly eighty years, was suddenly urgently transferred back to the sect by the Xiaoyao Sect. Replacing him was a Xiaoyao Sect disciple named Feng De, who had just established his Foundation not long ago.

Logically, an old-school Foundation Establishment disciple of the Xiaoyao Sect like Lu Yuanfeng would not be easily transferred away from the market he had been stationed in for many years without any unexpected events.

At first, Song Qingming thought it was because of the previous breach of Qinghe Market that led to Lu Yuanfeng's transfer this time. It wasn't until half a month later that he personally made a trip to Mount Taiyuan and inquired about it with the Huang family that he learned a message that shocked him somewhat.

It turned out that the reason Lu Yuanfeng was transferred was because a war broke out between the Lu Guo in the south and the Heavenly Sea Alliance. The two sides had already fought a great battle over the control of the two surrounding small countries. It seemed that the Lingyin Sect had suffered a great loss, and the battle line was slowly pushed to the vicinity of Lu Guo. The Lingyin Sect had already been asking for help from several surrounding countries, and the Xiaoyao Sect was also mobilizing cultivators to rush over to support them.

The dozens of countries around the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, although they would intrigue and break out some friction on weekdays, overall they were still an alliance. Facing this kind of invasion by other regional forces, everyone would still unite to expel external forces.

However, the Heavenly Sea Alliance, which could beat the Lingyin Sect to the point of asking for help everywhere, was not a force to be underestimated. They were an alliance composed of cultivators in the coastal area of southern Lu Guo. In the past few thousand years, the Heavenly Sea Alliance's strength had become stronger and stronger, and it had almost integrated all immortal cultivation forces in the southern coastal area of Donghuangxianzhou. The alliance's strength had also far exceeded that of an ordinary big country around the Floating Cloud Mountain Range.

The Lingyin Sect had also fought them a dozen times over the years, but basically, they lost more and won less. The current strategy was also only passive defense, and they would never take the initiative to attack them.

There were five Nascent Soul cultivators in the Heavenly Sea Alliance, including one great Nascent Soul cultivator. A Lingyin Sect was far from being a match for the Heavenly Sea Alliance. If it weren't for the fact that the many countries around the Floating Cloud Mountain Range had always been relatively united and would support each other, I'm afraid the Heavenly Sea Alliance's power would have long since penetrated into the hinterland of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range.

Around the entire Floating Cloud Mountain Range, besides the demonic beast force range in the north, the coastal area in the east was some forces that had not yet been integrated. The sects in this place were relatively loose, and their actions were relatively friendly. It was a place where many cultivators with accomplishments wanted to go to establish sects. Because it was coastal, the material resources were also relatively rich. Even Wei Guo had many cultivators who liked to travel there after establishing Foundation or forming a Core.

On the west side of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range was a sparsely populated Gobi and Tiexi Desert. Besides using long-distance teleportation arrays, only cultivators above the Golden Core had the ability to cross it. It is said that after crossing the Tiexi Desert in the west, it is the strongest country of the human race on this continent of Donghuangxianzhou, Donghuang Guo. It is said that there are still Soul Transformation cultivators there, and it is the holy land of immortal cultivation for the human race on this continent. Not only are there many spiritual veins in its territory, but after more than 100, 00 years of development by the human race, it is like Guyang County of Wei Guo, where even demonic beasts have become extinct, and it is also the best place for mortals to multiply.

The south is the territory of the Heavenly Sea Alliance. Their style of action is relatively strong, and they often invade the territory of the neighboring Lu Guo and Pei Guo of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, wanting to seize more resources. Often every few decades, a large-scale conflict will break out between the two sides. The dozens of countries around the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, besides fully dealing with the greatest threat, the Northern Xinjiang demonic beast army in the north, the second is to guard against the expansion of the Heavenly Sea Alliance's power in the south.

However, the Heavenly Sea Alliance does not only have the Floating Cloud Mountain Range in the north as an opponent. The coastal demonic beasts are also their heart-and-soul trouble. Like the Northern Xinjiang demonic beasts, every period of time, the demonic beasts in the Leiyuan Sea in the south will also attack the southern coastal area of Donghuangxianzhou. However, the Heavenly Sea Alliance and the Floating Cloud Mountain Range will have a tacit understanding to stop fighting during the demonic beast turmoil. After all, everyone is on the side of the human race and will not stab in the back when the other side is in trouble on the surface.