Qinghe Immortal Clan.

"Improve the spiritual veins of Funiushan Mountain!"

"Didn't my husband say at the last family meeting that we don't need to be too anxious about the spiritual veins and that we should wait until Yuan Fang and the others have collected enough spiritual stones before we discuss it? Why did you change your mind this time?

Besides, there is still enough spiritual energy on the mountain. If we use all the spiritual stones on this, if we really encounter any spiritual objects suitable for my husband, we will miss the opportunity!"

Song Qingming's cultivation has reached the eighth level of the Golden Core, and he is not far from breaking through to the ninth level of the Golden Core. Cultivators who have cultivated to this level generally need to prepare in advance for the condensation of their Nascent Soul.

This time, Song Qingming and his companions looted spiritual objects worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones from Ma Wuchen's cave, which could be used to exchange for one or two spiritual objects that could help him form a baby.

When Huang Siyuan heard Song Qingming suddenly propose to use these spirit stones to upgrade the family's spiritual veins first, a look of confusion suddenly appeared on her face.

Just as Huang Siyuan said, Song Qingming actually had a plan in mind for improving the family's spiritual veins from the very beginning.

The reason why he suddenly changed his mind was because during this trip to Song State, he had been targeted by the "Red Blood Demon" because of the killing of Ma Wuchen.

In order to deal with possible crises in the future, Song Qingming must make preparations in advance. The first thing he must do is to strengthen the family's defenses.

Although the mountain protection formation of the Song family's ancestral land "Funiu Mountain" is now of the third-grade upper grade, because the spiritual vein level is slightly lower and is only of the third-grade middle grade, it can only exert 70% to 80% of the power of the formation.

With such defensive spiritual power, it is not a problem to deal with the attacks of Jindan-level cultivators, but if you encounter a Yuanying-level powerhouse like "Red Blood Demon", it will seem a little inadequate.

In order to strengthen the mountain protection formation of "Funiu Mountain", the family must first upgrade the level of the spiritual vein. This is also an urgent thing that must be done immediately after Song Qingming returns.

Just when Song Qingming was about to explain this to Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu on the side spoke up for him first:
"Sister-in-law, improving the family spiritual vein is beneficial to our cultivation. This should be done sooner rather than later. Brother Seven is thinking about this for all of us.

Yuan Fang also did a count last time. There are still quite a few spirit stones left in the family treasury. We don’t need to spend much to upgrade the spirit veins.

Please rest assured, sister-in-law. If we really come across a spiritual object that can be useful to Seventh Brother for forming a baby, we will not let it go easily even if we have to sell everything we have.

After all, this is a major event that concerns the fate of our family, so how can we not give our full support!"

After hearing what Song Qingyu said, Song Qingming also spoke up and said, "Qingyu is right. Although my personal path is important, the overall development of the family is something we cannot ignore.

Improving the spiritual veins is beneficial to both us and other tribesmen. The sooner the spiritual energy on the mountain is improved, the sooner everyone can benefit from it.

My current cultivation level is only the eighth level of Golden Core. It will take at least another 10 to 20 years for me to reach the Nascent Soul stage. There is no need to be too anxious about this matter.

Moreover, rare spiritual objects of this level that assist in forming a fetus are basically things that major sects do not easily pass on, and we can't find them everywhere."

After hearing the two's explanation, Huang Siyuan thought for a moment and felt that what they said made some sense, so she said no more and nodded slightly in agreement.

All of them were born in small families and practiced carefully step by step to achieve their current level of cultivation.

Huang Siyuan naturally understood in her heart that high-level spiritual objects in the world of immortal cultivation were basically in the hands of those large sects, and the spiritual objects that aided in the formation of a fetus were not something that their small Jindan family could easily find.

Even if they already have so many spirit stones in their hands, enough to exchange for a spiritual object to assist in forming a fetus, whether they will have this opportunity or not depends on whether they can find this opportunity in the future.

After the few people had agreed, Song Qingming sent a message to call Song Yuanfang over, and then informed him of the news that the family was about to upgrade their spiritual veins.

On Song Yuanfang's side, after hearing the proposal from Song Qingming and the other two, he was a little surprised but he didn't think much about it and quickly nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, under the personal execution of Song Yuanfang, the family's chief steward, the entire Song family immediately started to move forward, and began to clean up the family's assets and raise spiritual stones to send to the family's spiritual place, "Funiu Mountain".

In addition, family elders such as Song Yuanfang also began to take the lead in voluntarily donating spirit stones within the clan, motivating a large number of cultivators in the clan to donate their surplus spirit stones to the family for subsequent improvement of the spirit veins.

This time, because of what the clan leader Song Qingming had said beforehand, the clan did not resort to forced distribution, and all clan members who donated spirit stones did so on a voluntary basis.

Regardless of one's level of cultivation or status in the clan, the amount of spirit stones donated by everyone depends solely on personal wishes and ability.

The family's treasury will also count the number of donated spirit stones and the clan members, and first distribute family merits equivalent to spirit stones to them.

When the family has more money in the future, these family merits can be exchanged for spirit stones, or other spiritual objects that are useful for their practice.

The major event of improving the family's spiritual veins is closely related to all the cultivators in the Song family.

Faced with this opportunity to contribute to the family to the best of their ability and to perform in front of the clan elders, almost all the cultivators in the Song family were very active.

Especially Song Yuanfang, Song Yuanxue and other foundation-building elders who have been relatively well-off in recent years, took out thousands of spirit stones at a time at the family's donation mobilization meeting.

Although the number of spirit stones taken out by other foundation-building elders was smaller, they still had at least hundreds of spirit stones.

Under the leadership of many family elders, in just less than half a month, the family's treasury collected a total of nearly 40,000 spontaneously donated spirit stones, which was far more than Song Qingming and others had expected at the beginning.

After several months of preparation, the family's treasury has collected more than 90,000 spirit stones, which is not far from the 200,000 spirit stones needed to upgrade the spirit vein.

While the family was raising spirit stones, Song Qingming was also preparing to refine the third-grade top-grade "Spirit Gathering Array" needed to improve the spiritual veins.

Song Qingming's formation level has long been close to the third-grade upper level in recent years. For him now, refining a third-grade upper level "Spirit Gathering Formation" is not a difficult task.

However, in order to be more cautious, he would not waste too much time and high-level materials in refining the formation.

Before going into seclusion to refine the formation, Song Qingming personally went to the "Guyang Mountain" nearby, intending to consult Bai Yuxian, the elder with the highest level of formation skills in the "Xiaoyao Sect" in person.

Since breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, Bai Yuxian's formation level has also made great progress, and now it has further advanced to the fourth-grade lower level.

A few years ago, the "Xiaoyao Sect" went north to attack the demon clan, and the two sides fought outside the "Baiyun Valley" for nearly two years.

Because she was injured in the battle with the Demon King, Bai Yuxian immediately began to retreat to heal her wounds after the war. In the past few years, she has hardly left her cave.

Upon learning that Song Qingming was coming to visit, Bai Yuxian, who had just ended his retreat, immediately asked his disciples to invite him into his cave.

"Disciple greets Uncle Bai!"

Song Qingming, who had just walked into the cave, saw Bai Yuxian sitting at the top seat with a smile on his face. He immediately stepped forward and bowed to her.

Bai Yuxian, who was dressed in plain clothes, waved her hand and said, "There are no outsiders in my cave, so you don't have to be too reserved.

Since you are here to discuss formations with me today, we can just have a conversation over tea as usual."

After Bai Yuxian finished speaking, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the opposite side with a smile, inviting Song Qingming to come over and sit opposite her to drink tea.

As the two people with the highest skills in formation in the entire sect, Song Qingming had taken the initiative to visit Bai Yuxian many times to ask him for advice on formation skills, long before Bai Yuxian had condensed his Nascent Soul.

At that time, because both of them were Jindan cultivators and had known each other for many years and were already quite familiar with each other, Song Qingming naturally behaved more casually in Bai Yuxian's cave.

Now that Bai Yuxian has broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, the status of the two has become very different. When Song Qingming arrived here, he could only call himself a junior, and of course he did not dare to sit opposite him and drink tea as he did in the past.

He originally wanted to find a chair to sit down at the bottom, but when he saw Bai Yuxian waving at him expectantly, he felt a little troubled.

Seeing Song Qingming's hesitant expression and not daring to take a step forward, the smile on Bai Yuxian's face slowly faded away, and she asked with some doubt:
"Junior Brother Song, what's wrong with you?"

Song Qingming, who was still in a daze, reacted immediately after hearing Bai Yuxian's voice. He bowed respectfully and replied, "Thank you, Uncle Bai, for your kindness!"

After carefully glancing around, Song Qingming made up his mind and walked over and sat down in front of Bai Yuxian.

Seeing this, Bai Yuxian's expression recovered a little. She smiled and took the initiative to pour Song Qingming a cup of fragrant spiritual tea, then stretched out her hand and placed it in front of him.

"Thank you, uncle!"

Bai Yuxian, who had just put down the teacup, saw Song Qingming bowing slightly to thank him. His expression, which had just improved, suddenly became ugly again. He sighed and said to Song Qingming:

"Junior Brother Song, today I call you Junior Brother only because I know you are here to drink tea and discuss Taoism with me, and exchange formation skills. Naturally, I welcome you as Senior Sister.

If you want to see Uncle Bai about any matters related to the sect, she needs to practice in seclusion recently and may not have much time to receive you.

I wonder if you are here to see Uncle Bai or Sister Bai today?"

Seeing Bai Yuxian's face suddenly change and look at him seriously, Song Qingming immediately understood what she meant, smiled and nodded to Bai Yuxian:
"Please don't blame me, Senior Sister Bai. I haven't been here much in recent years, so it's a bit unnatural. I came to visit you today just to ask you about some formation techniques, and there's nothing else.

If there is anything wrong, please give me some advice, please don't be polite to me."

This time, when Bai Yuxian heard Song Qingming's tone change slightly, as if he had returned to the time when he was drinking tea and discussing philosophy with her, a smile finally appeared on her face.

"Junior Brother Song, I also know the rules of the immortal cultivation world, but for cultivators like me, besides practicing cultivation, it is rare to have a few true friends to drink tea and chat with.

I have known you for many years, which is a rare thing. I hope you will not become estranged from me because of these old and broken rules in the world of immortal cultivation." "What Senior Sister Bai taught me is that although Qingming has practiced for so many years and has met many friends of the same level, there are indeed not many people with whom he can have a heart-to-heart talk.

As long as Senior Sister doesn't mind, I will definitely come to you often to learn from you in the future."

"Well! Hearing what you said, I feel much more relieved.

Well, there is no need to follow so many rules when you come to me. If you have anything to say, just tell me directly!"

Seeing Bai Yuxian's face gradually smiling more, Song Qingming felt a little relieved and asked Bai Yuxian about the art of formation.

Because of Bai Yuxian's prior instructions, the several disciples who stayed in the cave to take care of his daily life did not dare to enter the hall where the two were talking and disturb them.

Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian chatted from day to night, and until the sunrise of the next day, a look of satisfaction gradually appeared on Song Qingming's face.

It must be said that in addition to his outstanding talent in cultivation, Bai Yuxian is also gifted in the art of formations and has many unique insights of his own.

After a day of communicating with Bai Yuxian about formation techniques, many of the doubts that Song Qingming had encountered in his mind over the years were suddenly cleared up, and his understanding of formation techniques also improved a lot in an instant.

Bai Yuxian also gained a lot when he was exchanging formation skills with Song Qingming.

In the entire "Xiaoyao Sect" and the Weiguo cultivation world, the total number of formation masters above level three is only a handful.

Except for Song Qingming, the formation levels of the other third-level formation masters were only at the lower third level, which was far inferior to Bai Yuxian's formation skills.

That is to say, only when communicating with Song Qingming about the art of formations could Bai Yuxian gain some different insights from it, which also gave her a different understanding of the art of formations.

Seeing that the purpose of his trip had basically been achieved, Song Qingming stood up and prepared to say goodbye and leave.

"Senior Sister Bai, Qingming has benefited a lot this time, and he needs to slowly comprehend it after returning. I won't disturb you too much here today!
I have something that has nothing to do with formation skills, and I want to ask Senior Sister Bai about it. I wonder if Senior Sister could tell me a little bit?"

"I think what you want to ask is about the Lei Yuanhai Trade Fair!"

Seeing that Bai Yuxian heard his words and immediately said what was in her mind, Song Qingming was surprised for a moment, and then nodded to her with an awkward smile.

Seeing this, Bai Yuxian also smiled, stood up and answered:

"Junior Sister Zi Yan also came to ask me last time. I know she told you about it. Today, you must have asked me about this matter as well."

After hearing what Bai Yuxian said, Song Qingming was impressed by her ability to see through other people's minds, and couldn't help but show some respect from the bottom of his heart.

“The Leiyuanhai Trade Fair is held approximately every hundred years. Its scale is much larger than those trade fairs we have here. It is indeed a good place for you to broaden your horizons.

I had been there once with Senior Brother Yao, but my cultivation was still shallow at that time, and I didn’t buy anything good. I don’t know if I’ll be lucky this time.

Don't worry! According to the information I received, the Leiyuanhai Trade Fair will not be held so soon. It is estimated to be at least one or two years away. When the time comes, I will naturally let the General Affairs Hall send a message to inform you in advance.

This time, not only our Xiaoyao Sect will have people going, but the Xingchen Sect, Wuji Sect, and other surrounding sects will also send people to accompany us. I'm afraid there will be quite a lot of people going by then.

In the past, we had to use the Yuchen Sect's teleportation array to go to Leiyuan Sea. Recently, there was a problem with their teleportation array. We may have to go to the East China Sea to transfer to a treasure ship and set off earlier. "

"Oh! Senior Sister Bai is saying that we will take the treasure ship to Lei Yuan Sea."

Hearing this, Bai Yuxian nodded slightly and said, "That's right! I have already made an appointment with Fellow Daoist Zheng from Xingchen Sect.

If the Yuchen Sect's teleportation array cannot be repaired in time, we will all go there together on the treasure ship.

Anyway, there are so many people traveling together, so there won’t be any big problems with safety. It will just take a little more time.

If we take the treasure ship, the requirements will not be so high. If you have any juniors you want to bring along to broaden their horizons, you can go along with them then."

There are two commonly used passages from the Donghuang Xianzhou continent to the "Leiyuan Sea" cultivation world hundreds of thousands of miles away.

One way is to go directly west to the immortal world of "Donghuang Kingdom" and use the large teleportation array of a Nascent Soul Sect "Yuchen Sect" to teleport directly to the immortal world of "Leiyuanhai". It is also the safest way for cultivators.

However, the cost of teleporting on a large teleportation array is very expensive. Generally, at least a hundred people must gather to open it. Except for wealthy high-level cultivators above the Jindan stage, very few low-level cultivators can afford it.

Except for special circumstances, it usually takes at least half a year to gather enough people.

The other way is to go east to the "East China Sea Immortal Realm" and take a treasure ship. This route should pass through some monster territories in the outer sea. Not only will it take longer, it will also be relatively more dangerous.

If you just take the treasure ship, the cost required for the cultivator will be relatively much lower. Even if you are a foundation-building cultivator who wants to go to the "Thunder Yuan Sea" cultivation world, it is not that difficult to do.

After learning about this from Bai Yuxian, Song Qingming nodded immediately. On the way out, he began to wonder whether he should bring other family members with him to broaden their horizons.

After leaving Lingshan where the White Jade Immortal Cave was located, Song Qingming went to the sect's "Shan Gong Pavilion" again and exchanged some materials needed for setting up the formation.

After finishing the things in his hands, Song Qingming was not in a hurry to leave "Guyang Mountain", but turned and came to Lingshan where Song Xinyu practiced.

As soon as Song Qingming arrived at the mountain, a sword light flew over, revealing the figure of a man in white who had just established his foundation.

When the man in white saw Song Qingming, he was slightly surprised at first, then he hurried forward and bowed.

"Disciple Zhao Ruoxu, hello to Uncle Master Song!"

After seeing this person, Song Qingming smiled and nodded slightly. He was about to ask him to lead the way, but at this time a woman in blue appeared in front of him, walked up quickly and bowed to Song Qingming.

"Linxi, meet the ancestor!"

In a blink of an eye, more than 30 years have passed. Song Linxi, whose cultivation level was only in the late stage of Qi Refining in the past, has now successfully established his foundation and become a cultivator of the third level of Foundation Establishment.

His cultivation speed is no worse than that of other younger generations of the Song family in "Funiu Mountain".

After using his spiritual sense to scan Song Linxi's cultivation, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction, and then asked directly:
"Xin Yuke is in the mountains. I hope you guys have nothing to do recently!"

Upon hearing this, Song Linxi immediately replied to Song Qingming:

"Reporting to the ancestor, the master is teaching several junior brothers up there. He has been in good health recently. Last year, he even took me to travel to Pei State!"

As Song Linxi spoke, he took the initiative to lead the way, and soon brought Song Qingming to an open space on the top of the mountain, where they saw Song Xinyu sitting on a huge rock, teaching several disciples to practice.

Song Xinyu, whose hair was already full of white, saw Song Linxi leading Song Qingming towards them from afar. He waved his hand to dismiss the disciples in front of him and quickly came to Song Qingming.

"Uncle Qi, how come you have time to come here today?"

Since the last failure of Danjie, Song Xinyu has spent more than ten years just on healing.

Not long after his injuries healed, he used his good deeds to exchange for a "Jade Dust Pill" from the sect, and then went into seclusion to try to reach the Golden Core realm again.

But the result this time was not unexpected. In the end, Song Xinyu failed and was unable to advance to the Golden Core realm.

After the second failure in forming the elixir, seeing that he had no hope of forming the elixir, Song Xinyu gradually accepted this reality and slowly gave up his own path.

Over the years, he has also devoted most of his energy to his disciples. Not only did he support Song Linxi in successfully building his foundation, he also trained another foundation-building disciple, Zhao Ruoxu, whom Song Qingming just met.

Seeing the already elderly Song Xinyu saluting him, Song Qingming, who had seen many younger people walking ahead of him, still felt a little uncomfortable at the moment. He quickly waved his hand and helped Song Xinyu up.

"Last time I came to Guyang Mountain, I wanted to come and see you, but it just so happened that you took Linxi on a tour. This time I just came to the sect for some business, so I came here on the way."

Hearing this, Song Xinyu smiled and nodded, saying, "Thank you for your concern, Uncle Seventh. I am now a free person with nothing to do, and I should go back to see you and Aunt Qingyu more often.

Now, I still make you worry about me all the time. I am really ashamed of myself!"

"We are all family, why do you always talk about these things? You can always go back and visit whenever you are free. There is no need to rush."

"Uncle Qi is right. I don't know why, but when people get old, they can't help but mutter about useless things.

Linxi, go and get the pot of spiritual tea that I put in the cave."

Hearing Song Qingming's comfort, Song Xinyu nodded slightly in response, and then gave an instruction to Song Linxi beside him.

After Song Linxi left, Song Xinyu turned around and took Song Qingming to sit down at the stone table nearby.

"Uncle Qi, you are here today, and I want to discuss something with you." (End of this chapter)