Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Chapter 896: Refining the Puppet and Conquering Chiyun Mountain (asking for monthly tickets)
Looking at the "Nascent Soul Puppet" beside him, Song Qingming's face was full of joy, and his eyes were filled with great satisfaction.

Although it cost a lot of spiritual objects and time, and also sacrificed the priceless soul of a Nascent Soul monster.

But being able to successfully repair this "Nascent Soul Puppet" is definitely worth it for Song Qingming.

Now that his own cultivation has reached the second level of the Nascent Soul, with the help of this puppet which is equivalent to half a "Nascent Soul cultivator", Song Qingming's fighting ability can barely be equivalent to that of a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator.

After Song Qingming has refined this "Nascent Soul Puppet", if he adds the blessing of the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array", his fighting ability will be greatly enhanced.

In the future, even if he encounters a sixth-level Nascent Soul expert like the "Black Dragon Demon King", Song Qingming will have the confidence to deal with him on the battlefield without being afraid of fighting with him.

While speeding all the way, Song Qingming's eyes were still on the puppet beside him.

It was not until the escape light reached the outside of "Funiu Mountain" that he reluctantly put the "Nascent Soul Puppet" into the storage bag.

When Song Qingming passed through the "Mountain Protection Array", he suddenly saw a familiar figure on the side of the mountain top, and immediately fell from the sky with a flash of light.

"Yuan Fang, meet your seventh uncle!"

After glancing at Song Yuanfang who was saluting in front of him, Song Qingming waved his hand gently and immediately asked:

"You came here, but what do you want to see me for?"

"Reporting to Seventh Uncle, I just received a message from the East China Sea. Changze and his men want to upgrade the spiritual vein of "Black Cloud Island" and want the family to send a few formation masters to help deliver a set of third-level spirit gathering formation.

It is not convenient to discuss this matter with other people, and I don't dare to make the decision alone, so I want to go to the top of the mountain to discuss this matter with my great aunt.

Who would have thought that today I would meet Uncle Seventh coming out of seclusion, and I would like to ask you to help me make a decision on this matter."

"Changze and the others want to ascend to the Black Cloud Island Spiritual Vein at this time. Could it be that Yu Xin has already successfully formed a pill?"

Hearing what Song Yuanfang said, Song Qingming nodded slightly, but asked with some confusion on his face.

Ever since the family moved some of its cultivators to the "Black Cloud Island" in the East China Sea, Song Qingming has always been concerned about the development of the family branch there.

Because they knew that the family monks from the "Black Cloud Island" had just moved there and had not yet established a firm foothold in the "Red Star Sea".

Almost every few years, Song Qingming would ask Song Yuanfang to arrange for the family to secretly transport a batch of supplies and mortals to the "Red Star Sea" to support the family cultivators there.

Later, Song Changze successfully formed a golden elixir. With this golden elixir cultivator in charge of "Black Cloud Island", Song Qingming and others felt a little relieved about that place.

After several decades of development, the Song family cultivators on "Black Cloud Island" have already established a firm foothold and gradually integrated into the "Red Star Sea".

In addition to Song Changze and his wife, there are more than 80 Song family cultivators on "Black Cloud Island", three of whom have successfully established their foundation.

However, the number of mortals from the families on the island is still small, with less than ten thousand people. For a Jindan force, the foundation is still somewhat insufficient.

However, as long as the family monks over there can develop steadily and slowly, these situations will be gradually made up for in the future, so there is no need to rush.

Due to the shortage of manpower, the spiritual vein on "Black Cloud Island" was originally only of the second-level upper grade.

There is only the cave under the volcano on the island. Because of the existence of the "Spiritual Spring", the spiritual energy is relatively abundant and can barely support the practice of a Jindan monk.

Among the several foundation-building cultivators on the "Black Cloud Island", the others are still a little far from forming a pill, but Song Changze's Taoist partner Liu Yuxin has reached the ninth level of foundation-building for many years.

With the help and support of Song Changze, her Jindan Taoist partner, and her master He Mengxin, who is also a late Jindan cultivator, if nothing unexpected happens, Liu Yuxin does have a great chance of successfully forming a golden elixir.

Upon hearing Song Changze's message about wanting to upgrade the "Black Cloud Island" spiritual vein, Song Qingming couldn't help but wonder if it was because a new Jindan cultivator had appeared on the island that he suddenly had this idea.

In response to Song Qingming's question, Song Yuanfang simply shook his head and said:

“I heard about Yu Xin’s retreat from Chang Ze before, but Chang Ze didn’t mention it in his letter this time, so I don’t know whether Yu Xin succeeded in forming the elixir or not.

Uncle Seven, do you think we should send someone to the East China Sea to inquire about the situation first?"

“No need for that. Regardless of whether Yu Xin succeeds in forming the elixir or not, the Black Cloud Island spiritual vein will need to be upgraded in the future.

Please send a message to Changze first, the family will arrange this matter as soon as possible.

The family can help provide half of the spiritual stones needed to upgrade the spiritual vein, and they can find a way to raise the rest themselves.

I can help you refine the third-level spirit gathering array. I will inform you when it is ready."

"Don't worry, Uncle Seventh. I'll arrange it right away."

After receiving the accurate answer from Song Qingming, Song Yuanfang immediately smiled and nodded, turned around and walked back from the top of the mountain.

After returning to his own cave, Song Qingming was not in a hurry to refine the third-level "Spirit Gathering Array" needed by Song Changze and others. Instead, he buried himself in the stone chamber for practice and fiddled with the newly acquired "Nascent Soul Puppet".

Because before, Song Qingming only had four Jindan-level puppets: "Golden Wind", "Silver Armor", "White Lion" and "Purple Wolf".

When performing the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array", he had to add two puppets in the late Foundation Establishment stage to make up the number, so that he could barely unleash the full power of the array.

Now that he had obtained a "Nascent Soul Puppet", Song Qingming was even more impatient. It took him two full months to successfully integrate the puppet into his own formation.

After replacing the two foundation-building puppet beasts with the "Nascent Soul Puppet" in his hand, Song Qingming tried it and found that the power of the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" had increased by about 30%.

Now, with the help of the formation, he can raise his cultivation to the peak level of the fourth level of Nascent Soul in a short period of time, which is almost the same as the sect's supreme elder Li Mufeng.

Song Qingming had just finished his work here and was preparing to take some time to refine a high-level "Spirit Gathering Array".

Unexpectedly, just when he had refined half of the magic circle in his hand, news came from the sect that he and Song Qingyu were invited to "Guyang Mountain" to discuss matters.

Nearly two years have passed since the outbreak of the "Monster Rebellion" in the north.

Nowadays, in the entire "Floating Cloud Mountains" world of immortal cultivation, except for the cultivators of a few countries who are still confronting monsters, the war has slowly subsided in most places.

As for the Wei State, after defeating the demon army in the battle of "Guiyunfang", they quickly put down the war in the north.

In the "Taiyue Lake" in the south, there was the "Golden Horned Demon King" who had conquered many territories of Pei State.

After learning the news of the defeat of the demon tribe in "Jinyu Mountain" in the north, he immediately gave up the confrontation with the human cultivators in "Zhenyang Mountain" and led his demon army to gradually withdraw to the east bank of "Taiyue Lake".

When Bai Yuxian led a large army of cultivators to return for support, the cultivators of Pei State quickly recovered the lost territory and drove the invading monsters out of Pei State.

After nearly a year of rest, the "Xiaoyao Sect" finally turned its attention and set its sights on the "Chiyun Mountain" located in the north of Zheng State.

Due to the sudden death of the "Red Cloud Demon King", the fourth-level spiritual vein "Red Cloud Mountain" in the north of Zheng State was temporarily vacant.

This priceless high-level spiritual vein suddenly became ownerless, and naturally it quickly fell into the eyes of the surrounding major forces.

This time, Li Mufeng personally sent a message, summoning all the members of the sect to come to "Guyang Mountain" to discuss matters.

They were planning to take advantage of the opportunity when the "Monster Rebellion" had just ended and the nearby monster tribes had not yet recovered their strength, and join forces with the "Tianji Sect" in the south to seize this fourth-level spiritual vein.

By the time Song Qingming and Song Qingyu arrived at the "Xiaoyao Palace", most of the sect's elders had already gathered in the palace, including Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian.

Seeing Song Qingming walk into the hall, Chen Xuanxin, Xu Ziyan and other Jindan elders immediately stood up and bowed to him.

It was not until Song Qingming walked to the head of the hall and waved his hand that everyone turned around and sat down.

After everyone in the hall sat down, Li Mufeng immediately spoke to Song Qingming beside him:
"Junior Brother Song, Fellow Daoist Yang of the Tianji Sect has already sent troops to Zheng State. This is a rare opportunity, so we must hurry and send troops.

I have already made an agreement with the Tianji Sect that after we capture Chiyun Mountain, both sides will jointly defend this place and build a market to resist the northern monsters.

When the time comes, I will need you to stay there for a while. What do you think, Junior Brother?"

"Brother, rest assured. If we can successfully take over Chiyun Mountain, I can go there to take charge."

Just when the battle of "Guiyunfang" had just ended, Song Qingming had already heard Li Mufeng and the supreme elder of "Tianji Sect" Yang Fengyu discussing things about "Chiyun Mountain".

Although Li Mufeng claimed at that time that he was not in a hurry about the matter, in fact, he also wanted the sect to take some initiative in the negotiations for cooperation with the "Tianji Sect".

After all, "Chiyun Mountain" is located on the front line of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, and is basically surrounded by the territory of the demon clan.

Even if the "Xiaoyao Sect" has the ability to conquer this spiritual vein, it would be extremely difficult for them to defend this place for a long time with their own strength, and they would have to cooperate with the "Tianji Sect".

However, now that the “Xiaoyao Sect” has three Nascent Soul cultivators, it has surpassed the “Tianji Sect” in high-end combat power.

Since both parties were cooperating, Li Mufeng naturally did not want to share the fourth-level spiritual vein equally with the other party, so he deliberately delayed time. Although Song Qingming was not directly involved in these matters, he was very clear about them in his mind.

This time Li Mufeng summoned him to discuss the matter of sending troops, and Song Qingming also knew that the negotiations between the two sects had basically been concluded.

Hearing that Li Mufeng wanted him to be in charge of "Chiyun Mountain" in the future, Song Qingming did not think much about it and directly agreed to it.

Now the spiritual vein of the family's spiritual land "Funiu Mountain" is only of the third-grade upper grade, which is not enough to support the daily practice of this Nascent Soul cultivator.

Every year, Song Qingming has to consume a large amount of spirit stones from the sect to subsidize him in order to maintain his own cultivation speed, which is really a waste.

This time, Li Mufeng arranged for Song Qingming to go to "Chiyun Mountain" to take charge, naturally wanting to help him solve this problem completely.

Seeing that Song Qingming agreed immediately, Li Mufeng nodded with satisfaction, and then announced the order to send troops to everyone. In order to successfully capture "Chiyun Mountain" this time, the "Xiaoyao Sect" directly dispatched three large flying boats, carrying nearly 7,000 sect monks.

As for the Jindan cultivators, the sect also dispatched eight Jindan elders, namely Song Qingyu, Chen Xuanxin, Chu Fengping, Zhao Mengling, Yun Nishang, Fang Baixuan, Zheng Zongxun, and Song Yuanhao.

Leading this army of cultivators were the sect's two supreme elders, Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian.

Seeing this army of cultivators, which almost accounted for half of the entire "Xiaoyao Sect"'s strength, marching northward in a mighty manner, both the cultivators and monsters along the way were extremely shocked when they saw it.

Even the Black Dragon Demon King, who was far away in "Golden Feather Mountain", was shocked and felt uneasy when he suddenly heard such a big commotion in "Xiaoyao Sect".

The "Black Dragon Demon King" thought that the other party was coming for him, so he quickly sent a message to shrink his forces and recalled all the demon army under his command to "Golden Feather Mountain".

The army of monks from the "Xiaoyao Sect" went all the way north through the "White Lion Square" and then changed direction to the northeast.

After traveling for nearly half a month, Song Qingming and others finally met up with the army of monks from the "Tianji Sect" led by Yang Fengyu at the foot of the "Chiyun Mountain" in the north.

Compared with the many cultivators brought by the "Xiaoyao Sect", there were also many people coming from the "Tianji Sect", with an army of nearly six thousand cultivators.

In addition, Zheng State's "Tianxing Gate" and several surrounding small countries also sent thousands of monks to participate in this battle.

The reason why these cultivators from small sects appeared here was not because they were specially invited by the "Xiaoyao Sect" and the "Tianji Sect".

The reason why he followed the two Nascent Soul sects was actually very simple. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity when they destroyed "Chiyun Mountain" and follow behind to try to get a piece of the pie.

Although facing the "Chiyun Mountain" spiritual vein that is being coveted by the two Nascent Soul sects, there is definitely no chance for people like them to have a share.

But as long as you can contribute in the upcoming battle, it will not be difficult to get some of the magical herbs from the numerous monsters and beasts on the mountain.

In addition, after taking over "Chiyun Mountain", they will also have the opportunity to occupy one or two of the many low-level spiritual veins in the surrounding area.

Naturally, the "Xiaoyao Sect" and the "Tianji Sect" would not refuse the monks from these small sects who took the initiative to help.

After all, if you want to capture a fourth-level spiritual vein like "Chiyun Mountain", you will definitely have to go through a brutal battle.

With so many monks coming to help, not only the hope of taking over this spiritual vein has increased a lot, but it can also help them avoid some losses.

After the monks of the two sects joined together, after some discussion, they decided to attack "Chiyun Mountain" in three directions.

The "Tianji Sect" attacked from the west, the "Xiaoyao Sect" was responsible for attacking the front, and the weaker defenses in the east were handed over to the monks from many small sects such as the "Tianxing Sect" that followed.

At the command of the three Nascent Soul cultivators, a huge army of tens of thousands of cultivators immediately marched towards the north in a mighty force.

Just as the army of cultivators below began to approach "Chiyun Mountain", many demon kings on the top of the mountain had already received news of the invasion of human cultivators, and they immediately gathered together in panic.

When the "Red Cloud Demon King" died, many of the monsters under his command suddenly lost their backbone and soon fell into internal strife.

Just like human cultivators, the demon race also respects the strong.

After a fierce battle among several great demon kings in the late Jindan stage, the most powerful "Black Wolf Demon King" finally overwhelmed the other demon kings and temporarily became the new leader of "Chiyun Mountain".

However, the "Black Wolf Demon King" had only occupied Lingshan for less than a year. Before he could be happy for long, the human army had already arrived at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing that the human monks outside were attacking from three sides, the "Black Wolf Demon King" hurriedly commanded his monsters to cast spells with all their strength to activate the "Demon Fog Array" guarding the mountain.

Although the Nascent Soul Demon King is no longer in charge, the demon fog formation set up by the "Red Cloud Demon King" on the mountain is still there.

As waves of purple smoke came, the human monks who were rushing in the front soon smelled a very disgusting odor.

Those Qi Refining cultivators with lower cultivation levels, upon smelling the unpleasant odor, immediately felt dizzy and vomited on the spot.

At the same time, a "roaring" sound of monsters galloping was heard in the smoke. Countless monster armies rushed out of the smoke again and headed straight for the weak human monks in the distance.

Although these monsters are also deep in the "purple smoke", they are not affected by the unpleasant-smelling smoke at all.

Faced with the sudden attack of the monster beasts, the human monks who were leading the front immediately let out screams, as they were caught off guard by the monster army.

Seeing that the attack in front was unfavorable, the many Jindan monks standing in the back immediately flew forward and cast a spell to disperse the thick fog in front of them, thus protecting the many low-level monks below and temporarily withdrawing from the area covered by the smoke.

But faced with the continuous flow of "purple smoke" in front of him and the fierce attacks of many monsters.

The army of monks that was attacking "Chiyun Mountain" not only found it difficult to move forward, but was forced to retreat again and again by the army of monsters shrouded in smoke and fell into a disadvantage.

At this time, high in the sky, several figures had already flown to the top of the mountain.

Song Qingming, Bai Yuxian and the other two couldn't help but frowned slightly as they looked at the "Chiyun Mountain" that was already shrouded in purple smoke.

“Fellow Daoist Yang, I have a magic formation in my hand that can temporarily suppress the demonic fog formation on the mountain.

Junior Brother Song and I will take action to suppress the formation later, and Brother Yang will take action to break the center of the formation below."

"That's fine!"

Although Yang Fengyu had also learned some techniques of formation, his formation skills were still slightly inferior to those of Bai Yuxian, a fourth-level lower-grade "formation master".

Seeing Bai Yuxian's initiative to propose a plan to break the formation, Yang Fengyu nodded in agreement without thinking too much, and the three of them quickly separated from where they were.

As several formation flags were shot into the sky, Bai Yuxian and Song Qingming each held a formation flag, and soon a huge white light was arranged above the top of the mountain to form a dazzling magic formation.

"fall!"

Here, Bai Yuxian shouted in a clear voice, and the white light magic circle in the sky above immediately fell down and directly covered the "purple smoke".

As soon as this "white light magic circle" fell into the smoke, the purple smoke below immediately began to boil, and soon became much thinner.

Seeing that the "Demonic Fog Array" in front was weakened, Yang Fengyu immediately rushed to the center of the array on the top of the mountain with his magic weapon in hand.

He swung a sword in his hand, and a stone pillar in the smoke shook immediately, causing the entire "Chiyun Mountain" to tremble slightly.

Seeing that the "eye of the formation" was attacked, several figures hiding in the purple smoke immediately rushed out, trying to stop Yang Fengyu who was attacking the formation.

However, facing a Nascent Soul cultivator, the "Black Wolf Demon King" and several other Golden Core Demon Kings were obviously not strong enough and could not restrain the opponent at all.

They could only watch the flying sword in Yang Fengyu's hand, and the sword light fell one after another. Soon, the center of the formation below was directly destroyed.

After the center of the formation was damaged, the "purple smoke" blocking the many monks below immediately dimmed.

An hour later, as Yang Fengyu broke through several "array eyes" on the top of the mountain one after another, the power of the demon fog array on "Chiyun Mountain" was greatly weakened.

Seeing this, the morale of the monks below was immediately boosted, and they began to stabilize their position and counterattack the attacking army of monsters.

Although there were still nearly ten thousand monsters on "Chiyun Mountain", facing the human cultivators' army which was more powerful in number and strength, even if they fought hard, they were still defeated and could only gradually retreat to the top of the mountain.

At this time, there were five demon kings of the "Black Wolf Demon King" on the top of the mountain.

Because Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian suppressed the power of the "Demonic Fog Array" below, even with the cover of the "purple smoke", they could hardly use the array to stop the opponent.

As a result, after fighting for such a long time, not only did they fail to stop Yang Fengyu from destroying the "eye of the formation" on the mountain, but the other side seized the opportunity to kill a demon king.

Seeing that there were only a few "formation eyes" left on the mountain, the "Black Wolf Demon King" knew that the situation was hopeless, so he could only decisively lead the remaining monsters on the mountain and evacuate from a gap in the north with the help of the "purple smoke" as cover.

This time, the main purpose of Song Qingming and others coming here was to occupy the spiritual vein of "Chiyun Mountain".

Faced with the decisive retreat of the monster army, everyone did not chase them too much, but rushed to Lingshan Mountain to destroy all the "demon fog formations" on the mountain.

After clearing out the monsters on the mountain, Song Qingming and others immediately commanded the army of monks to start collecting the many spiritual objects treasured on the mountain.

Except for spiritual objects below level two which can belong to the monks who find them, all spiritual objects above level two must be handed in and then distributed uniformly.

In order to prevent those low-level cultivators from secretly hoarding high-level spiritual objects, the two major sects, "Xiaoyao Sect" and "Tianji Sect", specially arranged cultivators to guard the bottom of the mountain.

All low-level monks must pass their inspection when going down the mountain to confirm that they are not carrying any high-level spiritual medicines before they can leave.

As a fourth-level spiritual vein that has been occupied by the Demon King for thousands of years, there are naturally many high-level spiritual creatures on "Chiyun Mountain".

After a whole day of searching, there were more than thirty third-level spiritual objects that were voluntarily handed over by everyone.

Song Qingyu and others also found a fourth-level spiritual medicine and a very rare fourth-level spiritual fruit tree in a cave on the top of the mountain.

However, the spiritual fruits on the fruit trees are not yet ripe, and it will take at least several decades before they can be picked.

The number of other spiritual objects below level three was countless, making it difficult for the many monks on the mountain to conceal the excitement on their faces.

It took three full days for everyone to gather all the spiritual objects they had obtained into one place.

Next, it would be time for the participating families to begin distributing the spiritual objects they had obtained.

(End of this chapter)