Chapter 54: Support

After Song Qingming returned to the camp, he took out the materials on the Flame Rat again. After sorting them out, early the next morning, Song Qingming took the Flame Rat’s iron claws and found Shi Mofeng, stating his thoughts directly and spending ten spirit stones to ask him to help refine a magic treasure.

Shi Mofeng looked at the demon beast materials and spirit stones Song Qingming took out and smiled meaningfully. As soon as he saw the fresh demon beast materials in Song Qingming’s hand, he knew that these things must have been obtained by Song Qingming in the last few days.

But he didn't ask much and readily agreed to Song Qingming, and even patted his chest to guarantee that he would definitely help Song Qingming refine a mid-grade magic treasure.

"Daoist friend Song, rest assured. I still have some mysterious refined iron on hand, just enough to refine a magic treasure. I guarantee to help you refine a handy magic treasure within half a month."

Shi Mofeng stroked his graying beard and said to Song Qingming with a serious face.

"Then I will trouble you, Senior." Song Qingming smiled and cupped his hands.

Seeing that this matter was very smooth, Song Qingming hurried away from Shi Mofeng’s place. This old man didn't ask about the source of his materials, which also saved him a bit of argument.

Not long after walking out of Shi Mofeng’s tent, Song Qingming received a sound transmission talisman from the air. After opening it and seeing the content of the sound transmission, it turned out that Lu Yunfei, the team leader of their Flying Cloud Guard, was summoning everyone to gather urgently in the west of the camp.

"Strange, it’s only been half a month since I arrived here, and a part of the location hasn't been fully explored yet. Why is the camp moving so quickly?"

Since joining the Flying Cloud Guard for a few months, apart from the fixed monthly camp transfer, Song Qingming hadn't seen Lu Yunfei issue such an urgent assembly sound transmission talisman, and a trace of doubt couldn't help but appear on his face.

Just as he was pondering, Shi Mofeng also drilled out of the tent, holding a similar sound transmission talisman in his hand, clearly he had also received this news.

When the two arrived in the west of the camp, five or six people had already gathered here. Lu Yunfei was whispering something to two cultivators from the Carefree Sect a little further away.

The few people who had already arrived also looked a bit confused. Song Qingming saw Jia Sixing in the crowd and was just about to step forward to ask.

Seeing Song Qingming walking toward him, Jia Sixing hurriedly shook his head with a smile, indicating that he also didn't know what had happened. Seeing this, Song Qingming simply walked to Jia Sixing’s side, closed his eyes to rest, and waited with the crowd for the others who hadn't arrived.

After a cup of tea’s time, basically all the cultivators of the Eleventh Guard of the Flying Cloud Guard had arrived here. Old Ghost Feng also walked to Jia Sixing’s side, his face seeming a bit displeased, and he muttered a few words to Jia Sixing.

Song Qingming counted, and there were sixteen cultivators in the Eleventh Guard including him. Apart from a few cultivators who were out performing missions, basically all those still in the camp had arrived here.

Seeing that basically everyone had arrived, Lu Yunfei and the other two finally stopped talking and walked toward the crowd.

After looking at everyone, Lu Yunfei said with a heavy face: "Fellow Daoist friends, early this morning, I suddenly received a red distress spirit talisman from Daoist friend Luo Ping in the camp. Daoist friend Luo is afraid that he encountered some danger while investigating demon beasts. Just now, I discussed with the two junior brothers, and we have already sent a spirit talisman to request Senior Uncle Liu to come and support us. Later, Junior Brother Chen will be responsible for staying behind to guard the camp and wait for Senior Uncle Liu’s support, while the rest will follow me to support Daoist friend Luo first."

"What exactly happened to Daoist friend Luo that he actually sent a red distress talisman? Could it be that he encountered a Level 2 demon beast?" A young cultivator who was about the same as Song Qingming and hadn't joined the Flying Cloud Guard for long asked.

"With Daoist friend Luo’s eighth-level Qi Refining cultivation base, why would he send a red distress talisman? I’m afraid it’s not an ordinary Level 2 demon beast."

As soon as the young cultivator finished speaking, someone beside him immediately took over the words.

Hearing this news, everyone began to discuss it one after another.

The Flying Cloud Guard had two kinds of distress spirit talismans. One was an ordinary blue spirit talisman, which was only effective within a hundred li. Generally, it was only when they encountered difficult or multiple demon beasts besieging them and were unable to escape for a short time that they would send a distress spirit talisman to find fellow travelers nearby to come and support them.

Song Qingming had also sent this kind of blue distress spirit talisman before. That time, he also received Old Ghost Feng’s support in time. This kind of spirit talisman was just a mid-grade spirit talisman, and its value was not high. It was often used by cultivators in the Flying Cloud Guard, so it was not a strange thing.

The other kind, the red high-grade distress spirit talisman, had a very different effect. Its effective range was more than twice that of the blue spirit talisman. Generally, the Flying Cloud Guard would only actively send it out when encountering life-threatening danger.

Once such a distress spirit talisman appeared, the Flying Cloud Guard member who sent the spirit talisman must have encountered a powerful crisis. Deep in this Fuyun Mountain Range, the most likely thing to pose a life threat to these Flying Cloud Guard members was these elusive Level 2 demon beasts.

Lu Yunfei interrupted everyone again and said: "Everyone knows that the Flying Cloud Guard has never casually abandoned every member. Today, no matter what danger Daoist friend Luo has encountered, we must hurry to support him. This time supporting Daoist friend Luo, I hope everyone will work together and not be perfunctory. Everyone hurry back and prepare. After a stick of incense, we will set off together."

Everyone nodded one after another, returned to their respective tents, and made preparations before setting off.

After Song Qingming returned to his tent, he always had a strange feeling in his heart. Since joining the Flying Cloud Guard for a few months, no one in their team had ever encountered a Level 2 demon beast during investigation.

This time, Lu Yunfei organized more than a dozen of them to act together to support, which was still a bit of confidence. These people acted together, even if facing a Level 2 demon beast, even if they couldn't save that unlucky Daoist friend Luo, they had a great hope of retreating unscathed.

Before setting off, Lu Yunfei had also notified the Foundation Establishment seniors of the Flying Cloud Guard nearby. Foundation Establishment cultivators stepped on magic treasures and traveled through the air, and they could arrive here in at most half a day. At this time, although these people were a bit surprised, most of them had no fear.

After hearing this news, Song Qingming didn't know why, but he always had a hidden uneasiness in his heart. Although he really wanted to withdraw from this support action, he really couldn't find any suitable reason now, so he could only take one step at a time.

The time of a stick of incense passed quickly, and everyone gathered in the camp again. Led by Lu Yunfei, they went to the north of the camp. The camp, which had just been bustling, soon became quiet.

After they walked for about an hour, a green light passed through the long sky and soon fell to the open space beside the camp.

After the green light fell, it turned into a small boat, from which three young women walked down.

One of the yellow-clad women looked at the empty camp and respectfully said to the palace-dressed woman in the middle:

"Master, it seems that Brother Lu and the others have already gone to support. I will go and see if there is anyone left behind here."

The palace-dressed woman didn't speak, just nodded lightly.

Just as the yellow-clad woman walked into the camp, a middle-aged cultivator who was a bit older in the tent ahead heard the movement outside and ran out in a panic.

The middle-aged cultivator was named Chen Ziyang, who was the cultivator left behind to guard the camp under Lu Yunfei’s arrangement.

Chen Ziyang saw the yellow-clad woman, set aside a trace of tension in his heart, and said to the woman with a smile: "I thought there was a demon beast harassment, so it was Junior Sister Gao. Has Senior Uncle Liu arrived?"

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