Family Cultivation: Evergreen of the Song Family

Song Changsheng tried his best to keep his tone calm, but Zhuang Yuechan clearly noticed the slight tremor in his voice. Even as a Golden Core cultivator, there were still too many things he couldn't control, and this was one of them.

The inner demon tribulation is something that can be controlled by humans in very limited ways. In the past, there were no conditions, so we could only grit our teeth and go for it. Now, when we break through, a calming array and a calming incense are activated in the secluded room.

They even spent a lot of money to create several sets of magical artifacts.

The family has done almost everything they could to the best of their ability.

The rest is really up to fate.

Zhuang Yuechan reached out her soft hand and grasped Song Changsheng's large, kind hand, and said softly, "Let's go together to protect Mother."

"it is good."

Yin and Yang energies filled the air beneath their feet, and the two figures slowly dissipated, arriving at Xia Yunxue's secluded cultivation place. Song Xianming had already arrived first and activated the spirit-gathering array outside the secluded cultivation room. The spiritual energy from all over Cangmang Peak surged in under the guidance of the spirit-gathering array.

The cyclone in the air expanded and grew larger, turning into a large shadow that enveloped the entire Cangmang Peak, making everyone present hold their breath for her.

Song Changsheng watched intently, his palms sweating.

In the secluded meditation room, Xia Yunxue sat cross-legged, calming her mind and focusing her attention.

At this moment, she was immersed in a memory that was both familiar and strange. She saw Song Luyan lying in her arms, covered in blood, his life force draining away, surrounded by the lingering afterglow of the great battle.

The entire Cangmang Peak was in a state of chaos.
The air seemed to be filled with a pungent smell of blood.

"Xue'er... don't cry, we won." Song Luyan forced a smile, revealing a difficult but sunny one, and gently wiped away the tears from Xia Yunxue's eyes with his bloodied fingers.

"But, I'll go find Fifth Brother about your injury," Xia Yunxue said, her voice trembling.

"No." Song Luyan grabbed her fair wrist with his other hand and shook his head slightly. "My heart meridian is broken. Unless the real person from Medicine King Valley comes in person, everything will be in vain."

"Then I'll go to the Great Yu cultivation world and ask the Medicine King for help," Xia Yunxue said stubbornly.

"How foolish. Even if you go, I won't live to see that day. Stay and accompany me on my final journey. It's been so long since we've had such a proper conversation."

Xia Yunxue slumped to the ground, holding Song Luyan's heavy body, two lines of clear tears streaming down her face.

"Do you remember the day we met? My elder brother and I were setting up a formation to capture demons in the Ten Thousand Mountains when you recklessly barged in."

You're really bold, daring to venture into the Hundred Thousand Mountains alone to find the ingredients for brewing wine with only Qi Refining cultivation. I only promised to give you a ride, but I never expected that this ride would lead me into trouble.

"Cough cough cough..." Song Luyan coughed up blood from the corner of his mouth, mixed with some pieces of internal organs, but his face was filled with a happy smile.

"Go to hell." Xia Yunxue lightly punched Song Luyan's chest. Although there was a smile in her eyes, her heart was filled with even more sorrow. She could feel Song Luyan's life force rapidly draining away.

The blood-red setting sun fell on the two of them, casting a hazy glow.

Song Luyan reached out his hand, as if trying to grasp something, but the last rays of the setting sun brushed past his fingertips, leaving nothing behind.

After taking one last look at this magnificent world, Song Luyan fell silent, his soul returning to the heavens and earth.

"Master!"

Xia Yunxue hugged Song Luyan tightly, bursting into tears, her sobs plaintive and heartbreaking.

Unbeknownst to her, wisps of black mist emanated from Song Luyan's body, carefully wrapping around Xia Yunxue from bottom to top, without her noticing.

A seductive voice echoed in her mind: "I feel it, I feel your sorrow, your heartache. The Yellow Springs are long, don't you plan to send your beloved on his way?"

Open your heart, I can help you, I can help you reunite with him...

"Who...who are you..."

"I am someone who can help you. Don't you want to see him again?" the ethereal voice continued to coax.

Xia Yunxue, who was in a state of extreme grief, wavered slightly, and a scarlet light flashed deep in her beautiful eyes.

Outside the illusion of inner demons, Xia Yunxue also emitted a faint black mist, and her aura became somewhat unstable.

Song Changsheng, who had been paying close attention to Xia Yunxue's condition, felt a tremor in his heart and frowned.

Zhuang Yuechan also noticed the abnormality, a sign that she was being tormented by her inner demons. She held Song Changsheng's hand tightly and gently comforted him, "It's just a slight leakage of aura. The family has made full preparations, there won't be any problems, don't worry."

Song Changsheng nodded slightly, but his trembling fingertips betrayed that his heart was not at peace.

"call"

The incense in the secluded room suddenly accelerated its burning, the wisps of white smoke contrasting sharply with the spreading black mist. This was the [Awakening Incense] taking effect, and also the first awakening.

A look of struggle appeared between Xia Yunxue's brows, but the voice in her mind kept bewitching her, and she was deeply immersed in it, unable to extricate herself.

"Om..."

Bright array patterns appeared beneath her, and a hazy light enveloped her, diminishing much of the black mist surrounding her.

Xia Yunxue felt a cool energy flow into her body, which calmed down the turmoil in her heart.

"Squeak... Sizzle..."

A series of sharp, shrill howls lingered in her ears, and veins bulged on her forehead. The demonic energy that had dissipated considerably intensified once more, and her face alternated between pale and flushed.

The second exorcism using the Tranquility Array also failed.

Now, their last hope rests on the magic-exorcising artifacts crafted by the Demon-Subduing Hall at great expense. But to be honest, no one is sure if they will be effective, as they have all witnessed the power of Xia Yunxue's inner demons.

"buzzing"

One by one, the magic-exorcising artifacts worn on Xia Yunxue's body began to glow, including jade hairpins, prayer beads, magic rings... there were more than a dozen of them in total.

These magical artifacts emitted a brilliant golden light, washing over Xia Yunxue's body again and again, completely eradicating the demonic energy that had just begun to grow within her.

A very delicate balance has been achieved between the two.

But if the demonic energy surges again, then there's really nothing that can be done.

Despite her best efforts to restrain herself, Xia Yunxue was trapped deeper and deeper in the demonic illusion, almost completely enveloped by the demonic energy.

Her body stood up uncontrollably, and a bottomless abyss appeared before her. Seduced by the voice in her mind, she slowly raised her foot and stepped into the abyss.

From the pitch-black abyss, a hideous, twisted face emerged, stretching out two large, black hands that grabbed Xia Yunxue's ankles.

Just then, a clear, childlike voice rang in his ears: "Mother!" Xia Yunxue's heart jolted, and she opened her tightly closed eyes to look in the direction from which the voice came. There stood a boy who looked somewhat like Song Luyan, his face revealing a maturity and composure beyond his years, and his eyes were bright and piercing.

"Give birth to a son..." Xia Yunxue said with difficulty, her mind regaining some clarity.

She looked down into the abyss and began to struggle violently, but the two large, dark hands gripped her tightly and pulled her down with all their might. In her current state, she had no way to break free.

Soon, her lower body was swallowed by the abyss.

Suddenly, a passage of scripture flashed through Xia Yunxue's mind. It was the scripture that Song Changsheng often recited in the courtyard in the early morning. At first, it seemed unremarkable, but after hearing it many times, she memorized it.

With a "nothing to lose" mentality, she recited the passage of scripture. The moment the scripture left her lips, the large face in the abyss suddenly let out a sharp, piercing howl, as if it had encountered some great terror.

The pair of dark hands that were gripping her tightly felt like they were holding onto a red-hot iron, sizzling and hissing as they were burned, with plumes of black steam rising from them.

After persisting for a while, it finally withdrew its hands, reluctantly pulling them back...

Almost everything that happened in the illusion of inner demons was mirrored in reality.

That shout was naturally uttered by Song Changsheng in a moment of desperation. Afterwards, those outside the closed-door training room only heard a faint chanting sound, and the demonic energy was slowly dissipated.

“It’s the Demon-Subduing Sutra!” Upon hearing the familiar text, Song Changsheng had a flash of inspiration and blurted out.

The scripture that Xia Yunxue recited came from the Buddhist scripture that Su Ding had given him.

The Buddhist scripture had four chapters: "Enlightenment," "Subduing Demons," "Wonderful Dharma," and "Immeasurable." Each chapter was profound, but extremely obscure and difficult to understand. Although he could recite the entire text from memory, he gained little from it and gradually lost interest in it. He would occasionally recite it when he had nothing else to do.

The "Demon Subduing Chapter" does indeed have the effect of subduing demons, but he had previously used it on Song Chang'an, who had failed to break through and whose body was filled with demonic energy, and the effect was not ideal.

But it was completely different with Xia Yunxue.

"Could it be because Mother herself recited it?"

Song Changsheng's scattered thoughts were quickly pulled back by the exclamations of the crowd. He saw that the spiritual energy vortex in the air had swallowed most of the spiritual energy of Cangmang Peak, and then a powerful aura burst out from the secluded cultivation room and swept in all directions.

"It's done!"

"Success!"

Upon hearing this, Song Changsheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The tension that had been pressing on his heart finally eased, and he stumbled, almost falling over.

A pair of gentle, jade-like hands steadily supported him.

Once the vortex of spiritual energy dissipated and everything settled down, the Song family welcomed another cultivator from the Purple Mansion realm.

Among them, the most gratified was Song Luzhou, who had only been awake for a few days. At present, there are very few cultivators of his generation in the Song family, let alone people of the same era.

During his years of slumber, he had long since become estranged from his family. The family had grown much larger, but the familiar faces of the past were now few and far between.

Xia Yunxue's successful breakthrough is of extraordinary significance to [the person in question].

Before long, the tightly closed door of the seclusion room suddenly opened, and Xia Yunxue, looking refreshed, slowly walked out. She bowed to Song Xianming, who was at the head of the room, and said, "Father, your daughter-in-law is unfilial and has worried you."

"It's good that it worked out, it's good that it worked out. Although it was full of twists and turns, we finally made it through." Song Xianming was secretly worried for her, but thankfully the result was good.

At this moment, Xia Yunxue seemed to sense something, raised her head, and looked past Song Xianming to Song Luzhou behind her. Her face full of astonishment, she said, "Fifth Brother, you..."

"Sister-in-law, how have you been?" Song Luzhou said with a bow.

"This is a long story, we'll talk about it another time. What was that scripture you were reciting just now?"

"It is the 'Subduing Demons Sutra'."

Song Changsheng often recited this scripture, and the elders of the clan had all heard of it, but they never expected that it would also have the effect of expelling inner demons.

“Perhaps we have all underestimated the profound mystery of that Buddhist scripture,” Song Qingxi said in a deep voice.

Given Su Ding's status, the classics he would have specially preserved would certainly not be ordinary things; it's just that they hadn't been able to understand them before.

Song Xianming glanced around and shook his head slightly, saying, "We'll talk about that later. Yunxue's most important task right now is to quickly go into seclusion to consolidate her cultivation."

Although those present were all key members of the Song family, there are many people and many opinions, and walls have ears. Since this matter is of great importance, it is best to be cautious.

"Mother, how are you feeling? Is there anything wrong?" Song Changsheng asked with a solemn expression.

He was still a little uneasy because the demonic energy had been too intense before. He carefully examined Xia Yunxue and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there were no hidden dangers.

"I never imagined this seclusion would last so long. How are Lu Yun and You Lin doing? I must be the last one to finish, right?"

For a moment, everyone was silent.

Song Changsheng said in a hoarse voice, "Youlin has successfully broken through, Aunt..."

Xia Yunxue paused for a moment upon hearing this, then said expectantly, "Then can we be like Fifth Brother...?"

She was met with silence, her last shred of hope was shattered, and the joy of her breakthrough was instantly overshadowed.

Three people went into seclusion, and two of them succeeded. This ratio is already quite remarkable, but no one can ignore the loss of a loved one.

In the following period, Xia Yunxue went into seclusion to consolidate her cultivation, while the Song family, under the leadership of Song Qingxi, began preparations for the Purple Mansion Ceremony.

The Song family rarely holds ceremonies of this kind anymore, because the Song family no longer needs to rely on such methods to demonstrate its strength to the outside world.

For example, Song Youlin did not hold a Purple Mansion Ceremony before, and behaved very low-key.

However, Xia Yunxue's identity is extraordinary after all; the fact that she is the biological mother of Zixu Zhenren alone is enough to attract the attention of the outside world.

Song Changsheng was not idle either. He picked up the Buddhist scripture that he hadn't touched for a long time and began to study it carefully.

If the secrets of the "Demon Subduing Chapter" can be fully understood, its impact will be absolutely revolutionary. The threat posed by the inner demon tribulation will be greatly reduced, and the entire Song family will benefit from it.

This is also extremely important to him.

To break through to the Nascent Soul stage, the Heavenly Tribulation is secondary; the main obstacle is the Great Heart Demon Tribulation, which is one of the biggest obstacles on the path to immortality.

The exceptionally talented and beautiful Ruyu Shuzhenjun was affected by the tribulation of inner demons, failed to transcend the tribulation, and perished.

Deciphering this Buddhist scripture might just bring him some help...

...(End of chapter)