Chapter 330: Return to Wei State

During the few months when the battlefield was most intense, except for occasionally receiving missions to go out to escort materials, Song Qingming basically stayed on the front line of Fenggu Plain.

In this kind of melee with dozens or hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators of the same rank, cultivators with lower cultivation and strength are the easiest to be targeted. After all, everyone likes to pick soft persimmons. However, even if you are a top expert at the peak of Foundation Establishment with excellent magic tools, once you perform too fearfully, it is very easy to be specifically targeted by the opponent. As soon as you come up, they will send many people to beat you, and both sides have many experts who accidentally fell on the battlefield like this.

The reason why Song Qingming was able to survive smoothly in this very dangerous battlefield is, first, that his own magic tools are still relatively excellent. With top-tier second-tier high-grade magic tools like the Clear Water Bell and the Letter Black Saber, he will not be easily defeated when facing ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators. Even if he can't beat the opponent, as long as he doesn't encounter a top expert of the Foundation Establishment period like Sun Jingya before, he can still do it if he wants to save his life.

Secondly, Song Qingming also performed very low-key on the battlefield. In the battles of more than half a year, Song Qingming only found opportunities to kill two low-cultivation opponents of the same rank. This record could not be ranked at all on his side. Otherwise, he would not have spent so long to gather enough merits to exchange for a second-tier puppet beast.

In this dangerous period of more than half a year, the Senior Wind Crane who had been following him actually helped him a lot in secret. Although this guy didn't directly help him fight the enemy, his powerful divine soul could easily help Song Qingming quickly distinguish which people on the battlefield were not easy to deal with.

It was precisely relying on the occasional guidance of this old senior that Song Qingming was able to successfully avoid those most powerful experts among the Foundation Establishment cultivators sent by the Heaven Sea Alliance, and survived with relatively good luck in the eyes of others.

The continuous fighting with cultivators of the same rank of the opponent also greatly increased Song Qingming's own combat experience, and his own strength also improved significantly. The current Song Qingming can fight back and forth with ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators in a short time without falling into a disadvantage.

In this environment of continuous fighting, it actually helps a lot for some cultivators to realize their own cultivation. Song Qingming had seen many cultivators who had been trapped by their own cultivation bottlenecks for many years break through their cultivation shortly after the battle in the more than half a year.

It is a pity that the magic power accumulated in his body is still far from breaking through to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, and he didn't hit such a good opportunity.

Just like this, after mixing on the relatively dangerous front line of Fenggu Plain for more than half a year, he finally gathered enough merits and exchanged for a second-tier puppet beast he had been longing for in the Merit Pavilion of the Spirit Concealment Sect.

This was the first time Song Qingming controlled and used this puppet beast after collecting the monster beast divine soul, and its combat ability still made Song Qingming very satisfied.

The reason why he chose to exchange for this Chifeng Beast was that Song Qingming took a fancy to its extremely fast speed in battle. Under Song Qingming's control, this second-tier low-grade puppet beast could be thirty percent faster than an ordinary cultivator who had just established Foundation Establishment, making it easy to achieve unexpected results in fighting the enemy.

Song Qingming, who had collected the giant python divine soul, had just returned to the front-line camp when he received a message that made him somewhat happy. The transfer order he applied for to return to the Wei State a few days ago finally received a reply today.

A few days later, Song Qingming stepped on the spirit boat that transferred cultivators back to Mount Baimeng, first returned to the Spirit Concealment Sect, and then waited there for more than half a month before catching a large flying boat returning to the Wei State.

Along the way from Fenggu Plain to Mount Baimeng, all spirit boats transporting materials and cultivators were checked very strictly. Front-line cultivators could not return to the rear of the Spirit Concealment Sect at will without receiving a transfer order. Otherwise, if they were caught fleeing in the face of battle and shaking the morale of the army, not only would they be dealt with seriously, but even the related relatives and disciples would be implicated.

It is not just that the battle on the front line is fierce. In the past six months, the cultivators transporting materials in the rear of both sides have also often been attacked by cultivators sent by the opponent to infiltrate.

The cultivators of the Spirit Concealment Sect's market stronghold stationed on the front line of Fenggu Plain also have to run around to rescue these convoys transporting materials and cultivators from time to time. Many of them have not been able to escape the fate of falling outside.

Fortunately, after the Huanglong Market incident, the Spirit Concealment Sect also strengthened the defense of these strongholds in time. To prevent things like Liu Wenguan's betrayal of the sect from happening again, the Spirit Concealment Sect not only issued a heavy bounty order for him, but also very ruthlessly executed all his relatives and disciples. This also deterred many people who had been slacking off in the great battle, and the combat effectiveness of the cultivators on the battlefield of the Spirit Concealment Sect had obviously improved in the past six months.

It was not until Song Qingming caught the large flying boat returning to the Wei State that the tense atmosphere on the battlefield slowly faded away.

This time, the flying boat returning to the Wei State was relatively empty. Except for some cultivators returning to the Wei State like Song Qingming, it didn't carry much cargo, only carrying some spirit items unique to the Lu State to be sold in the markets of the Wei State.

The Golden Core cultivator sitting on the flying boat had been changed to Chu Fengping. He was a relatively young Golden Core elder in the Xiaoyao Sect, who had broken through to the Golden Core realm for less than sixty years, and his lifespan was now just over two hundred years old.

Although this person's cultivation was ranked behind in the Xiaoyao Sect, he was also a rare third-tier alchemist, and his alchemy level was second only to Elder Wu Tong, who ranked third in the Xiaoyao Sect. And this elder's lifespan was more than five hundred years old, and he had at most a few decades of lifespan left. After he sat down, there would only be this one third-tier alchemist, Chu Fengping, left in the Xiaoyao Sect, which also destined that his status in the future would not be worse than any other elder.

The flying boat returned along the original route and sailed for more than a month before returning to Guyang Mountain of the Xiaoyao Sect. After Song Qingming walked off the flying boat, he didn't rush to return to Qinghe County, but took the opportunity to visit Song Xinyu, who had joined the Xiaoyao Sect.

In these few years, Song Xinyu, who had experienced the miserable passing of Third Uncle Song Qingze, had obviously grown up a lot. Not only was he much more steady in his own actions, but his cultivation had also gone a step further and finally entered the late stage of Qi Refining. Song Qingming estimated that in about ten years, he should also start to plan for Foundation Establishment.

Among all the cultivators of the Song family's Xin generation, Song Xinyu's talent and aptitude were the best, and he was the one with the most hope of Foundation Establishment among the cultivators of his generation. Song Xinyu had been highly valued by his teachers in the Xiaoyao Sect for these years. With his situation, as long as the Song family could help him a little in the future, getting a Foundation Establishment Pill would not be a difficult thing for him.

Song Qingming had been mentally prepared for this point. In the future, when Song Xinyu established Foundation Establishment, even if the clan couldn't take out spirit stones, he would definitely have to support him even if he paid out of his own pocket.

After carefully exhorting Song Xinyu, Song Qingming left him some spirit stones, and then set off to return to Qinghe County, returning to Funiu Mountain, which he had been away from for more than a year.