Qinghe Immortal Clan.

The man in black with a pair of strange red eyes is the Red Cloud Demon King, the overlord of another demon territory east of Jinyu Mountain.

After seeing the Scarlet Cloud Demon King walk in, the man in white nodded to him calmly, then a light flashed in his hand and he took out a palm-sized golden ball.

"Haha! If it weren't for Brother Chiyun's help this time, it would be difficult for me to obtain the spiritual vein of Jinyu Mountain so easily. Now that I'm here, I will definitely have to cooperate with you in the future. This is what I promised you before, take it first!"

After the man in Baiyun finished speaking, he exerted his magic power and the golden ball quickly flew into the hands of the Red Cloud Demon King not far away.

When the Scarlet Cloud Demon King saw the golden ball emitting bursts of spiritual light in his hand, his face suddenly lit up with joy. After quickly putting it into his pocket, he bowed to the man in white.

"Thank you, brother Molong!"

"Hey! Brother Chiyun, you are too polite."

Facing the Demon King Chiyun's thanks, the man in white smiled and waved his hand, then continued, "Brother Chiyun, I think you haven't forgotten what I told you last time.

Now that I have successfully taken over Jinyu Mountain, it is a good time for us to show our skills. In a few years, the monsters from the northern border will also come here. Have you considered it now, brother?"

Seeing the man in white staring at him with a half-smile, Scarlet Cloud Demon King paused for a moment, then smiled and nodded, saying, "Haha! Of course I won't forget what Brother Mo Long said.

I have already thought about this matter. Let's do as you said last time. I have also long wanted to deal with those human cultivators in the south, but Jin Yu has refused to cooperate with me over the years.

Fortunately, Brother Molong is here now. I finally have this opportunity. How can I miss it? Don't worry, Brother, I will fully support you when you go south this time. When the land is conquered, we will divide it according to what we agreed on originally."

"Okay! That's great. I like your temper, brother Red Dragon. It's a deal." Seeing that the Red Dragon Demon King agreed, the man in white was delighted and immediately stood up and praised him.

"Well, it's a deal. If there's nothing else, I'll go back to my Chiyun Mountain to prepare for the next thing. I'll come visit Brother Molong another day when I have time."

Seeing this, the Red Dragon Demon King smiled and nodded, then bowed and said goodbye and left Jinyu Mountain.

After the Red Dragon Demon King left, the man in white turned around and looked at the trembling demon kings kneeling below, and then ordered in a cold voice:

"Send a message to the other demon kings around Jinyu Mountain who have not yet submitted, and tell them that from now on, they are not allowed to go south without my order. From now on, they must obey the orders of Jinyu Mountain in everything."

"I will follow the orders of His Majesty the Demon King!"
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Half a year later, Qinghe County, Lianhua Mountain - Gao Family.

Under the leadership of patriarch Gao Yubai, the Gao family has enjoyed nearly a hundred years of stable development following the Song family. The family's strength has improved a lot compared to a hundred years ago.

In addition to Gao Yubai, whose cultivation had already broken through to the peak of the foundation-building stage, in addition to the increase in a large number of family cultivators over the past hundred years, they also cultivated a slightly younger foundation-building cultivator.

Among the many foundation-building families in Qinghe County, except for the Huang family of "Taiyuan Mountain" who can suppress them, no other family can challenge the Gao family's position as the second largest foundation-building family.

On this day, a middle-aged cultivator in the late Qi training stage with a somewhat panicked look on his face suddenly appeared at the foot of Lotus Mountain and ran quickly towards the mountain protection formation.

The two Gao family monks who were guarding the mountain protection formation at the mountain gate, after seeing the person coming, hurriedly opened the mountain protection formation and let him in.

"Uncle Thirteen, you're back."

After the Gao family's late Qi training cultivator entered the mountain protection formation, he ignored the two people who were saluting him and immediately asked them, "Is the clan leader still in seclusion in the back mountain?"

"Well! I haven't heard that the clan leader has come out of seclusion these past two days. He should still be in seclusion in the back mountain. Did something happen to Uncle Thirteen? Why are you so anxious?"

"Alas! I don't have time to explain to you now. I have to go to the ancestor to report this matter in person. You keep an eye on the mountain gate and remember not to let any suspicious people in."

The middle-aged man gave the two of them a serious instruction, and without caring whether they understood or not, he immediately ran straight up the mountain.

A moment later, the middle-aged man from the Gao family who was in the late stage of Qi training arrived outside the cave where Gao Yubai was in seclusion in the back mountain, and quickly cast a spell to send a sound transmission note inside.

After a while, the restriction at the entrance of the cave suddenly flashed, and then Gao Yubai, who looked like an old man, walked out of the cave.

Gao Yubai is about the same age as Song Qingming, and his life span has long exceeded 200 years. In recent decades, he has tried to form a pill several times, but failed every time.

Because of his failure in breaking through to the Golden Core stage and two serious injuries in succession, his life span has also been affected. He will live about ten years less than a normal foundation-building cultivator.

Although Gao Yubai had taken some spiritual objects to prolong his life after establishing his foundation, he only had thirty or forty years of life left, at most, and he basically had no chance of breaking through to the golden elixir stage.

However, even so, Gao Yubai, like Huang Shengxin back then, never gave up the last chance of forming a golden elixir. Over the years, he has been desperately searching for spiritual objects for forming a golden elixir, trying one last time to reach the golden elixir realm.

"It's bad, clan leader. Something big has happened to the Liu family. There are dead bodies everywhere in Bailin Mountain. I'm afraid the Liu family is..."

"How can you be so panicked when something happens? Think about it first and then talk slowly. What exactly happened to the Liu family? Explain the whole process clearly."

Gao Yubai, who had just walked out of the cave, had an obvious look of displeasure on his face at being disturbed from his retreat. After taking a look at the person who came, he immediately reprimanded him with a serious expression.

After hearing Gao Yubai's reprimand, the middle-aged man calmed down a little before continuing to reply:

"Last month, the clan sent a message to the Liu family, asking them to quickly transport the spiritual rice that was supposed to be handed over this year to Lotus Mountain. Unexpectedly, more than half a month has passed, and the Liu family has neither sent the spiritual rice nor sent a message to explain the matter to us.

The Great Elder noticed something was wrong and asked me to go to Bailin Mountain to check the situation.

I didn't expect that when I rushed over yesterday, I found the bodies of Liu family cultivators and mortals everywhere on Bailin Mountain. I estimated that at least a thousand people died, and their deaths were extremely miserable, as if they were done by evil cultivators.

As soon as I saw that something was wrong, I didn't dare to stay any longer and immediately ran back to report this to you."

When the middle-aged man mentioned this, he couldn't help but recall the miserable appearance of those corpses he had seen before, which made him show a bit of fear on his face again.

"Evil cultivator? How do you think it might be the work of an evil cultivator? Tell me in detail!"

Upon hearing that it might be the work of a demon cultivator, a solemn look immediately appeared on Gao Yubai's already wrinkled face.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly recounted to Gao Yubai in detail what he had seen when he went to "Bai Lin Mountain" and narrated it again with a serious look on his face.

The Liu family of "Bai Lin Shan" is a Qi-refining family affiliated with the Gao family that has been passed down for more than a hundred years.

Because the Liu family was established not long ago, all the cultivators in the Liu family only add up to a dozen people, and the number of mortals is less than ten thousand. Among the dozen or so subordinate vassal families of the Gao family, their strength is not strong and can only be regarded as one of the weakest ones.

Such a small Qi-refining family is too weak in itself. Once they encounter the schemes of several powerful Qi-refining demon cultivators, they are likely to suffer such a catastrophic disaster.

When Song Qingming had just established his foundation, the Wu family, a Qi-refining family under the Song family, was almost plotted against by several Qi-refining demon cultivators led by Gu Liangshan. This incident caused a sensation in Qinghe County at the time.

"According to what you said, there may really be some demon cultivators hiding in our Gao family's territory. I didn't expect that there are still demon cultivators who dare to come to our Qinghe County. These demon cubs are really courageous.

Changliang, go inform the family law enforcement team and come with me to Bailin Mountain to check the situation. The destructive power of the demon cultivators is extremely great. If we don’t find them quickly, I’m afraid that other vassal families will suffer.”

After Gao Yubai gave the middle-aged man an order, he immediately returned to the cave and took some spiritual objects specifically for dealing with the demonic cultivators. He then took five or six Qi-refining cultivators from the Gao family and rushed to "Bailin Mountain".

After flying hundreds of miles southeast from "Lotus Mountain", the group arrived at a high mountain shrouded in clouds and mist.

Before going up the mountain, the people standing on the flying boat smelled a very strong smell of blood in the wind. Two Qi-refining monks of the Gao family who had rarely been on a big battlefield were immediately uncomfortable with the smell.

Gao Yubai raised his hand upon seeing this, and a faint white light appeared in front of him, isolating the bloody aura around him. Only then did the complexion of the people on the flying boat gradually return to normal.

"Be careful, there may be demon cultivators hiding in the mountains. You should be smart and prepare the demon-killing talismans. If you find any alive, bring them to me immediately."

After the flying boat stopped at "Bailin Mountain", Gao Yubai gave instructions to the people behind him, and brought Gao Changliang and two other late-stage Qi-refining cultivators to a hall on the top of Liujia Mountain.

After a few people pushed open the door and walked into the hall, they saw a dozen or so Liu family monks lying in the room, and immediately looked a little solemn.

"Clan leader, the fourteen cultivators of the Liu family are all here. It seems that they have been dead for about ten days. After such a long time, these demon cultivators should have already fled Qinghe County."

An older man went up to check the bodies in the hall, then stood up and explained to Gao Yubai.

Since the Song family of Funiushan was promoted to the Golden Core Immortal Clan, no demon cultivator dared to come out and cause trouble in Qinghe County for many years. They occasionally attacked lone cultivators once or twice, but they fled Qinghe County immediately after they succeeded for fear of exposing their identities. After hearing the old man's analysis, Gao Yubai nodded slightly and said, "To be able to kill so many cultivators of the Liu family silently under our noses, I'm afraid the one who did it is not an ordinary Qi Refining Demon Cultivator.

We still can't be too careless. If we let him hide nearby, it will be too dangerous for us. We must find a way to find him."

"A foundation-building demon cultivator? A foundation-building demon should target a small Liu family, right? Could it be that something in the Liu family has attracted him?" When the old man heard Gao Yubai say that the person who made the move might be a foundation-building demon cultivator, there was some disbelief on his face.

Gao Yubai calmly waved his hand and said, "No matter what his purpose is, as long as we find him out, we will know everything!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Yubai's hand flickered, and a yellow talisman emitting golden light immediately appeared in front of him.

Gao Yubai then quickly made a few spells with his hands, and the magic power in his hands immediately poured into the yellow talisman, making the golden light on the talisman suddenly brighter several times, illuminating the entire hall with golden light.

This yellow talisman is a low-grade second-level talisman that can track the demonic energy on the body of a demon cultivator. Under Gao Yubai's control, the talisman slowly flew above the corpses in the hall and absorbed some dark black spiritual energy from these corpses.

Seeing that Gao Yubai wanted to find the trace of the demonic cultivator through the remaining demonic energy on these corpses, the other two cultivators of the Gao family did not say anything more and immediately stood aside carefully.

As the head of the Gao family, Gao Yubai has already cultivated to the peak of the foundation-building stage for many years. Except for several Jindan ancestors of the Song family in Qinghe County, he, a veteran foundation-building cultivator, is already the one with the strongest fighting ability among all the foundation-building cultivators.

As long as Gao Yubai does not encounter a powerful demon cultivator in the late foundation building stage or above, his strength is enough to kill the opponent. It is because he has enough confidence in his cultivation that Gao Yubai dares to try to cast a spell to track the demon cultivator.

A moment later, Gao Yubai, who was patiently casting a spell to operate the Huang Si Ling Fu in mid-air, suddenly opened his eyes with a look of surprise.

"So close, could this devil really still be hiding in the mountains?"

"Not good, Liangshan, quickly send a signal to the people outside and ask everyone to gather here." Gao Yubai muttered to himself, and immediately gave an anxious order to Gao Liangshan who was standing beside him.

Upon seeing this, Gu Liangshan hurried to the outside of the hall, took out a low-level and inferior talisman, released a huge fireball into the sky, and began to summon other monks who were scattered on "Bailin Mountain" to search for survivors.

Not long after, several monks from the Gao family who had come with him quickly gathered in the hall. Seeing that everyone in front of him was safe and sound, Gao Yubai immediately felt relieved.

Just as he was about to continue casting the spell and controlling the talisman in his hand to find the hiding place of the evil cultivator, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew outside the hall, and then a ball of red snow cloud suddenly appeared at the door of the hall, transforming into a man in black with an evil smile.

"Everyone, are you looking for me?"

"It's a demon cultivator. Quickly form a battle formation to fight him." Seeing the black-clothed man in front of them, the Gao family cultivators in the hall were startled and hurriedly took out their magic weapons and formed a battle formation.

Gao Yubai, who was standing in front of the crowd, glanced at the other party calmly, and a green flying sword and a red talisman appeared in his hands.

"You actually dared to come to me and show yourself before me. It looks like you can't leave today!"

After Gao Yubai finished speaking, he attached the talisman in his hand to the flying sword. Bursts of red flames immediately emerged from the green flying sword, and a powerful magical pressure broke out in an instant. He quickly slashed at the opponent's man in black with a sword.

"Hehe! You're right. It really came to me on my own initiative."

Facing Gao Yubai's fierce sword, the man in black showed a sarcastic look to the people in front of him, slowly released a cloud of blood mist around him, and then disappeared on the spot.

A moment later, as Gao Yubai was shocked, the man in black suddenly appeared beside him. Then the blood mist beside the man in black turned into a gust of wind and quickly swept Gao Yubai and others into the blood.
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Two days later, the Song family was at Huixian Tower on the top of Funiu Mountain.

Song Qingyu sat alone in the attic, sipping the spiritual tea at hand while admiring the beautiful scenery of Funiu Mountain from afar outside the window.

After a while, a handsome young cultivator from the Song family came up from downstairs and came quietly behind Song Qingyu.

"Grandma! Sixteenth Uncle is here. He has something urgent to see you for!"

"Well! Go and get him up." Song Qingyu nodded slightly, put down the teacup in his hand, turned around and sat down on a chair in the middle of the attic.

After a while, the young monk who had just gone down came up with Song Yuanfang, who had a slightly ugly look on his face.

Seeing the anxious look on Song Yuanfang's face, Song Qingyu did not ask him first, but smiled and instructed Song Xuanfeng on the side:

"Xuanfeng, you should go back and practice well first, and prepare for the next foundation-building matters. After Ancestor Siyuan brings back the foundation-building pill from the East China Sea, you should also prepare to retreat and build your foundation immediately.

You don't have to stay in Huixian Pavilion during this period, Yuan Fang will arrange for someone else to take over your place."

"Thank you, great aunt and sixteenth uncle, for your help. Xuanfeng will take his leave first!"

Upon hearing the news that his family was about to support him in building his foundation, Song Xuanfeng, who had already cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining, was delighted and hurriedly bowed deeply to the two family elders, Song Qingyu and Song Yuanfang.

After Song Xuanfeng left, Song Qingyu turned calmly to Song Yuanfang.

"Grandma, something happened at the Gao family!"

Song Yuanfang said this solemnly, took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Song Qingyu, then continued to explain:

"This was just delivered by Gao Changjin himself. A few days ago, a demon cultivator appeared in the Gao family's territory and destroyed one of their vassal families. Gao Yubai went to investigate the matter, but he disappeared and has not returned yet."

On that day, Gao Yubai went to "Bailin Mountain" to investigate the incident of the Liu family being destroyed by the evil cultivators, but they seemed to have disappeared and there was no news of them since, and no one ever returned.

Although the essence and blood left by Gao Yubai and others in the Gao family tree did not disappear, indicating that they were definitely still alive, they had not returned, and the people of the Gao family also realized that something was wrong.

On the second day, they sent two more groups of people to "Bailin Mountain" to look for Gao Yubai. However, there was no news from the people they sent, and no one came back. At this moment, the Gao family was sure that something might have happened to Gao Yubai and the others.

It was discovered that since the head of the family went to investigate the sudden disappearance of the evil cultivator, chaos suddenly broke out on "Lotus Mountain". Gao Changjin, another foundation-building cultivator of the Gao family who was stationed in Qinghefang, hurried to Funiushan for help after learning about this.

Song Yuanfang, who received him, was also shocked when he learned about this. He was very clear about Gao Yubai's cultivation strength. The demon cultivator who could trap him must not be an ordinary character.

He was also unable to make a decision on the matter, so he could only run to the top of the mountain and tell Song Qingyu about it.

After hearing Song Yuanfang's explanation of the whole story, Song Qingyu lowered his head and thought for a while before asking softly:
"Even Gao Yubai is missing. It seems that the demon cultivators who came this time are not simple. Yuan Fang, what do you think about this?"

Upon hearing this, Song Yuanfang nodded solemnly and said, "According to Gao Changjin, the soul lamp that Gao Yubai left in the clan has not been extinguished, so it can be concluded that he should still be alive.

However, Gao Yubai is a cultivator at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and he is also an old fellow with many years of experience in fighting. With his strength, he will definitely not be trapped so easily, and the opponent's strength should not be weaker than his.

Judging from what we know now, there is a high possibility that Gao Yubai was trapped by multiple Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators who joined forces to form a formation. It is also possible that the person who came was not a Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator, but a Golden Core Demon Lord who trapped him intentionally and waited for us to send people for support.

You must not go alone, Old Ancestor. You should wait for Old Ancestor Siyuan to come back and take more people with you. This will be safer."

"Golden Core Demon Head? This is a bit troublesome. You are right. We cannot act rashly. However, this matter is related to the Demon Cultivator, so we cannot ignore it after all."

Yuan Fang, send Gao Changjin back first and tell him that we will immediately arrange for someone to provide support. Tell them to be on high alert after they return and not to be taken advantage of by the demon cultivators."

After Song Qingyu finished speaking, he did not rush to rescue Gao Yubai immediately, but took out a red sound transmission talisman.

After hesitating for a moment, Song Qingyu cast a spell with a determined look and sent it into the air. Soon, the talisman turned into a beam of light and flew directly out of Funiu Mountain.

This red sound-transmitting talisman had just flown out of "Funiu Mountain" for a distance of about dozens of miles. When it passed a high mountain, it was suddenly swallowed up by a giant black bird flying from the other side.

After eating the sound transmission note that had just flown over, the giant black bird circled in the nearby sky for several times before slowly landing on the nearest mountain.

In front of a blue stone on the mountain, a woman in purple had been waiting there for a long time. When she saw the giant black bird coming back, a look of satisfaction immediately appeared on her face.

The giant black bird came to the side of the purple-clothed woman, let out a shrill scream, and spat out the red sound transmission note it had just swallowed. Then a black light flashed on its body, and it turned into a ball of black mist that wrapped around the purple-clothed woman.

"Hehe! The people of the Song family are really too cautious!"

After picking up the red sound transmission note floating in the air and taking a look at it, the purple-clothed woman immediately chuckled, then her figure changed and quickly disappeared from the spot. (End of this chapter)