Family Cultivation: Evergreen of the Song Family

Inside the secluded room, Song Youfu frowned, as if waiting for something.

After a while, he opened his eyes, staring at the ceiling, his eyes unblinking, his face full of doubt and confusion.

"hiss……"

"This, this isn't right, what went wrong?" Song Youfu felt like he was in deep trouble.

He is indeed breaking through to the Purple Mansion stage, but strangely, although the spiritual energy vortex has taken shape, the demonic tribulation has not arrived as expected.

At that moment, Song Youfu was very flustered. Under Song Youlin's urging, he had studied many ancient books and was no longer the lazy boy who did nothing and did nothing. There were many records of this situation in ancient books, but the fate of those who broke through was generally not good.

"No, I might already be undergoing a tribulation right now. Everything I'm seeing now could be an illusion created by my inner demons."

Thinking of this, Song Youfu felt a little more at ease and began to think about how to break the illusion in front of him. After observing carefully for a while, he did not find any flaws.

"What a brilliant illusion."

He pointed his fingers like a knife and, with a ruthless heart, slashed his palm. The excruciating pain shot straight into his mind, but the surrounding environment remained unchanged.

"hiss……"

"What's going on? I've already hurt myself, and it's still not okay?" Song Youfu gasped, his heart filled with the urge to curse.

At this moment, a surge of spiritual energy suddenly poured into his body from the spiritual energy vortex above.

He felt as if his entire body was being violently washed over by this force, and every pore on his body was secreting a foul-smelling black substance.

With each flush of spiritual energy, he felt his body become lighter, his soul became exceptionally clear, and even his perception of his surroundings improved considerably.

His dantian and meridians were quickly filled with pure spiritual energy, but there was still a continuous stream of spiritual energy flowing into his body from the spiritual energy vortex.

At first, Song Youfu only felt warm all over his body, but as spiritual energy was injected, he experienced a slight tearing sensation in his meridians and dantian.

He was all too familiar with this feeling; he had experienced it when he broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage. It was his meridians and dantian expanding, which meant that he was indeed breaking through now, and it was most likely not an illusion, because the process was terrifyingly real.

If it wasn't an illusion, then where did his inner demonic tribulation go?
But he didn't have time to think about it, because there was too much spiritual energy surging into his body, far exceeding his body's capacity. He had to find a way out for this massive amount of spiritual energy, otherwise he would surely explode and die.

He sat cross-legged on the futon, mobilizing his spiritual power and sending it upwards along the Du meridian to impact his middle dantian.

Song Youfu's face turned red from holding his breath; each impact was a huge burden on his meridians.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, his body felt relaxed, and all the spiritual energy gathered within him surged into another space.

At this moment, his body no longer resisted spiritual energy, but craved it.

The body was like a dry sponge, greedily absorbing spiritual energy.

He knew in his heart that this "space" was the middle dantian, and reaching this stage was equivalent to stepping into the threshold of the Purple Mansion stage.

But now is not the time to relax. He quickly took out the spiritual materials to be used to smelt the Purple Mansion Furnace.

He possesses the spiritual roots of earth and water, and his Dao foundation is also based on earth and water attributes.

Therefore, the chosen spiritual material is also the [Deep Sea Crystal Sand] with earth and water attributes.

Before long, he successfully created his Purple Mansion Furnace.

It was a short, three-legged, round-eared stove with an earthen-yellow body and a purple flame burning fiercely inside.

The surrounding spiritual energy seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, continuously flowing into the middle dantian and entering the Purple Mansion Furnace.

A faint glow appeared above the furnace, and a wisp of barely visible purple mist rose through the small hole in the furnace lid, circulating throughout the body via the meridians.

Song Youfu immediately felt every pore on his body open up, and the spiritual energy in the air was continuously flowing into his body through them.

These spiritual energies entered his body and were transformed into spiritual power, which was then transformed into pure magic power by the Purple Mansion Furnace.

Under the repeated cleansing of magical power, Song Youfu's entire body underwent a transformation.

He gritted his teeth, enduring the pain that came with the sublimation.

Once all the impurities in his body were expelled, the Purple Mansion Furnace roared, and amidst the radiant light, he finally broke through that invisible boundary!

"what……"

With a long, triumphant roar from Song Youfu, a purple dragon about three feet long with four claws and two horns soared into the sky from his forehead.

"hold head high--"

The dragon's roar resounded through the sky.

The onlookers noticed nothing unusual, except for Song Qingxing, who vaguely sensed something amiss. He looked up at the sky and saw only a faint trail.

"This is... an unusual phenomenon in the Purple Palace."

Why can't we see it? Song Qingxing raised an eyebrow.

As soon as he finished speaking, the vortex of spiritual energy in the air slowly contracted and eventually disappeared.

"We succeeded!" Song Youlin shouted, barely suppressing his excitement.

The surrounding cultivators also revealed expressions of excitement or envy. The Purple Mansion stage meant a lifespan of five hundred years!
"Congratulations to the Song family on gaining another Purple Mansion cultivator!"

"Fellow Daoist Song, congratulations."

A host of allies sent their congratulations, surrounding Song Qingxing and his group.

"The Purple Mansion Ceremony will be held on White Dragon Peak three months from now. I hope that all of you fellow cultivators will grace us with your presence."

Knowing that Song Qingxing disliked dealing with such occasions, Song Youlin quickly stepped forward and cheerfully blocked everyone from the crowd.

Before long, Song Youfu came out of the secluded cultivation room. Although he had broken through to the Purple Mansion stage, there was no smile on his face.

Having known him for so many years, Song Youlin naturally knew his temperament. Normally, he would have been strutting around like a madman, but his current attitude was clearly abnormal.

"What's wrong? Did something go wrong?" Song Youlin quickly went up to him and asked in a low voice.

Upon seeing Song Youlin, Song Youfu's eyes immediately lit up. He pressed on Song Youlin's shoulder and said urgently, "Little Linzi, am I dreaming? Is this some kind of illusion?"

"Of course not, what's wrong with you?" Song Youlin looked completely puzzled. He didn't seem to have gone mad at all. Could it be that he'd lost his mind?
Song Youfu looked around and transmitted his voice, "My little demonic tribulation has disappeared."

"What!" A look of horror flashed across Song Youlin's face, and he quickly led him to Song Qingxing.

"The inner demon tribulation disappeared?" Song Qingxing raised an eyebrow slightly. He had heard of many examples of inner demon tribulations disappearing, but this was the first time he had seen such a smooth breakthrough.

His first reaction was that his inner demons were hiding elsewhere. This phenomenon is relatively rare, but it does exist, and the consequences are very serious.

The reason why True Monarch Yu Shu failed to overcome her tribulation when breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage was because she had not completely eradicated her inner demons, forcing her to undergo physical rebirth. Song Changsheng had specifically reminded them of this.

With his eyes slightly open, Fa carefully examined Song Youfu's entire body, but found no trace of hidden demonic energy.

"Was there anything unusual during the breakthrough?"

Song Youfu immediately recounted the entire process in detail.

The situation between him and Jade Dew True Lord back then was quite clear; it wasn't that he didn't completely eliminate them, but rather that he didn't eliminate them at all.

“There are indeed a very small number of people in this world who do not attract inner demons when they break through to the Purple Mansion stage, but you…” Song Qingxing glanced at him, shook his head and said, “It should be impossible.”

Song Youfu became anxious and quickly pressed, "Just tell me what kind of person it is!"

Song Youlin reluctantly took over the conversation, saying, "Only someone with a mind as pure and innocent as a newborn infant, who has not experienced any major upheavals or crises, could possibly have that kind of childlike innocence. Do you think that could be you?"

"Xiao Linzi, what do you mean? Why can't it be me!" Song Youfu immediately looked as if he had been insulted, his face turning red and his neck thick with urgency.

Unexpectedly, the other party completely ignored him and said to Song Qingxing, "I think we still can't be careless. It would be best if the clan leader personally checked it after he comes out of seclusion."

"As it should be."

After saying that, Song Qingxing took out a jade scroll from his storage bag and handed it to Song Youfu, saying, "This is a Buddhist scripture given to you by my uncle. It has the effect of exorcising demons and purifying evil. From today onwards, study it a hundred times every day."

This is an order; you will personally oversee the process.

That last sentence was said to Song Youlin; he had absolutely no trust in Song Youfu unless someone was put in charge.

Song Youfu's expression immediately turned bitter, but he felt much more at ease...

"call……"

On a snow-capped peak with steep cliffs that soar into the clouds, a seemingly frail figure struggles to move forward, enduring the bitter cold and howling winds.

The surroundings were a vast expanse of white, with no other color except for the striking blue of her clothes, and even oxygen was extremely scarce.

This is the Tianshan Mountains, famous throughout the entire cultivation world.

In this world where people can fly and burrow underground, it has become a natural barrier, dividing the Southern Continent into two parts.

The mountains here are almost at the north wind layer, a height that even Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot reach by using their swords with all their might, and even Purple Mansion cultivators find it somewhat strenuous.

This place also possesses terrifying extreme cold; Foundation Establishment cultivators would be frozen into ice sculptures in less than three hours in the mountains, and even Purple Mansion cultivators would need to expend a great deal of mana to maintain their body temperature.

Clearly, for cultivators below the Purple Mansion level, this place is a forbidden zone, almost a place of certain death.

Even cultivators in the Purple Mansion realm would have to risk their lives to cross it, because the North Wind Layer is a general concept; it doesn't stay at just one altitude. Sometimes, even a slight disturbance can stir up turbulence and terrifying hurricanes.

Once these hurricanes reach a certain size, they are beyond the ability of cultivators in the Purple Mansion realm to withstand; they will be frozen into powder on the spot.

Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you don't know where the turbulence will take you, and you have little control over your life or death.

In addition, its area is extremely vast, with endless layers of snow-capped mountains, so vast that it inspires despair.

Therefore, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains can be considered two completely different worlds.

If the area north of Tianshan is the essence of the human cultivation world, then the area south of the Tianshan Mountains is a remote and desolate land, the southwest region mentioned in the prophecy.

In the past, when they were pioneering, the human race used the Tianshan Mountains as a boundary to stand on equal footing with the demon race.

Even after they expanded outwards, apart from a few places like the Great Qian Cultivation Realm, the rest of the land was considered barren and no one bothered to develop it.

Left with no other choice, the various celestial dynasties could only exile all sorts of criminals, evil spirits, and rogue cultivators to that region to cultivate the land. After millions of years, the pattern of humans and demons living on opposite banks of the Canglan River was finally formed, and the alliance between the two races was also signed at that time.

Today's consequences are the result of past causes; the turmoil that the southwest region is facing today is the result of seeds sown from the very beginning.

This land is daunting, but there are always brave souls who attempt to cross it.

Zhuang Yuechan was one of them.

After leaving the Tianqin cultivation world, she traversed several cultivation worlds, including Yulong, Baiyun, and Dachen.

The journey has truly been filled with endless hardships and dangers; battles and escapes have been commonplace.

During the most dangerous times, he was even hunted down by a Golden Core cultivator while seriously injured.

Fortunately, she had the Jade Cleansing Sword by her side, and her rapid progress in music made her barely able to escape with her life.

Among these, the [Hidden Trace Blanket] given to her by Qingyin Zhenren and the jade slip given to her by Huiyin Zhenren also played a crucial role.

The [Concealment Blanket] can conceal her aura and evade the divine sense of a Golden Core cultivator. The jade slip is called the "Wonderful Sound Treasure Book," a masterpiece painstakingly compiled by generations of Wonderful Sound Pavilion cultivators, containing almost the entire heritage of Wonderful Sound Pavilion.

Zhuang Yuechan studied diligently day and night, and her understanding of the [Laws of Music] progressed by leaps and bounds, making her capable of competing with early-stage Golden Core cultivators.

Otherwise, she would be dead by now.

A year ago, she began trying to cross the Tianshan Mountains, but she has not been able to get out yet, and the dangers she faces are no less than before.

She wasn't asking for trouble. The main reason she didn't take the space teleportation array but instead took this risk was, besides honing herself, that the Tianshan Mountains possessed a variety of unique spiritual plants and materials.

The most famous of them is the Tian Shan Snow Lotus.

This is a unique spiritual plant that grows on the summit of snow-capped peaks. It is generally at the fourth level, but can grow up to the sixth level.

Legend has it that the Tian Shan Snow Lotus can revive the dead and heal the wounded.

The actual medicinal effect is naturally not as exaggerated, but it is not far off. It is a holy medicine for healing in the eyes of alchemists, and it is also the most coveted treasure for cultivators with limb injuries.

Because of its miraculous ability to reshape the physical body, the [Hundred Treasures Body Shaping Pill] that Xu Yunhe took was made from the leaves of the snow lotus.

This is also what Wu Jie and Song Changsheng's divine soul incarnations need most.

Nowadays, naturally growing Tian Shan snow lotus is extremely rare, so most people return empty-handed.

Zhuang Yuechan took this risk because Yu Shu Zhenjun had once picked some and marked several undeveloped Tian Shan Snow Lotus plants.

That is also her goal.

After a difficult ascent of a snow-capped peak, Zhuang Yuechan lifted her hood and looked down at a snow-covered valley, a smile appearing on her face.

"finally reached."

...(End of chapter)