At Odds Like Fire and Water, Attacking White Lion Ridge

After the Funiu Mountain family council settled on a strategy of expanding northward, the entire Song Family immediately began mobilizing.

Cultivators stationed elsewhere began returning to Funiu Mountain to await the family's deployment, while the family's Treasury Pavilion opened its Treasury and distributed supplies needed for battle to the cultivators confirmed to be joining the expedition.

Aside from Funiu Mountain itself, nearly every cultivation family under the Song Family received recruitment orders issued from Funiu Mountain, requiring them to send some cultivators to join the Song Family in expanding northward.

Upon receiving the recruitment orders, the Foundation Establishment Families of Qinghe County and Pingyang County immediately began mobilizing alongside the Song Family.

Not only that, Chiyan Market, Jinshan Market, and Qinghe Market, the marketplaces within Song Family territory, also began posting notices to hire Rogue Cultivators for this campaign to expand their territory.

In order to draw in large numbers of Rogue Cultivators, the terms offered by the Song Family this time were exceedingly generous. Anyone who slew Demonic Beasts and earned merit would not only receive a certain reward.

Those with outstanding Merit Points could also freely choose a spirit vein below Grade 3 among the newly expanded territory for cultivation, or use it to establish a new cultivation family. They could then become vassals of the Song Family and receive Funiu Mountain's protection in the future.

The moment this notice was posted, it immediately drew a response from countless Rogue Cultivators within Song Family territory.

Upon hearing that following the Song Family in expanding territory might give them a chance to seize a spirit vein and establish a cultivation family, even some veteran Rogue Cultivators from neighboring prefectures and counties who harbored such ambitions hurried to Qinghe County to join in the excitement.

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