Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Chapter 840: Retreat and practice, Song Changze forms a pill (asking for monthly votes)

After leaving "Black Cloud Island", Song Qingming was not in a hurry to return.

Instead, he rode his flying boat all the way to the southeast and arrived at the "Wanhu Island" tens of thousands of miles away from the "Chixing Sea". He wanted to visit his old friend He Mengxin in the East China Sea cultivation world before leaving.

Since the last time they came to the "Hundred Flowers Palace" to exchange spiritual objects, although Song Qingming and He Mengxin occasionally exchanged letters, they have not seen each other for decades.

He originally wanted to visit an old friend on the way, but he didn't want to wait until Song Qingming arrived at the "Hundred Flowers Palace". As a result, he arrived at the wrong time, as He Mengxin, Xia Mo and other monks from the sect happened to be out traveling together.

Seeing this, Song Qingming was a little disappointed. After staying on "Wanhu Island" for two days, he quickly left "Baihua Palace".

Although he did not meet He Mengxin as he wished when he came to "Wanhu Island" this time, Song Qingming still confirmed something he had always guessed in his heart.

Xia Mo, the talented cultivator from the "Hundred Flowers Palace", had indeed just as he expected, successfully condensed his Nascent Soul and broke through to the Nascent Soul stage.

The female Nascent Soul cultivator who looked somewhat similar to Xia Mo when I saw her at the Tianxin City auction should be her.

After learning the news that Xia Mo had successfully formed a Nascent Soul, Song Qingming, who was standing on top of the "Phantom Boat", couldn't help but feel a little more yearning for the Nascent Soul path.
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A month later, as a ray of green light flew over and sank into the "Funiu Mountain" mountain protection formation, Song Qingming's figure soon appeared outside the family meeting room.

Song Yuanfang, who was handling family affairs in the hall, heard the noise outside and hurriedly led his people out.

"Seventh uncle! Meet the ancestor."

Song Qingming, who had just returned to the family, glanced at Song Yuanfang and others in front of him, nodded slightly to them, and walked directly into the "conference room".

Seeing this, Song Yuanfang turned around and waved to the people behind him, indicating that they should guard outside the door, and then he carefully followed them in.

"Seventh Uncle, is everything going well in the East China Sea?"

Before Song Qingming left, he told Song Yuanfang that this trip was to the "East China Sea Immortal Cultivation World" and if all went well he would be back in about two months.

As a result, after they arrived at the "Black Cloud Island", they happened to encounter the unrest in the "Red Star Sea" and the forcible occupation of Baisha Island by the "Giant Spirit Sect".

After helping the "Tianxuan Sect" to retake Lingshan, Song Qingming stayed on the "Black Cloud Island" for some more time because he was worried about the unstable situation there.

By the time he left "Baihua Palace" and returned to Qinghe County, more than four months had passed.

Therefore, Song Yuanfang sounded a little worried, thinking that Song Qingming and his companions might have encountered some troubles on this trip.

Seeing this, Song Qingming nodded slightly and said:

“We did encounter some troubles, but it went relatively smoothly. Xuanqing and the others have already settled down in the East China Sea.

During the time I was away, has Qingyu come out of seclusion? Is everything fine at home?"

Hearing Song Qingming's question, Song Yuanfang hurriedly bowed and replied: "Reporting to Seventh Uncle, my great-aunt has not yet come out of seclusion, and there has been no major events at home recently.

Jingyun came to see me last month, wanting to exchange for a foundation-building technique in the family's good deeds pavilion.

This matter concerns his path, so I didn't dare to make a hasty decision. I told him that I would help him choose a suitable technique after you come out of seclusion, and I let him go back first."

Bai Jingyun, a disciple accepted by Song Qingming, cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining a few years ago. He successfully exchanged for a foundation-building pill from the Song family and successfully established his foundation a year ago.

Back then, Bai Yunhua devoted all his energy to the path of this descendant, did the best that an elder could do, and placed all his hopes on him.

Fortunately, Bai Jingyun lived up to everyone's expectations and successfully broke through to the foundation-building realm by using only one foundation-building pill.

It’s a pity that Bai Yunhua didn’t have the chance to see this moment because his lifespan had run out.

But the result is always good. On the first day after successfully building the foundation in "Funiu Mountain", Bai Jingyun bid farewell to the Song family and returned to the family cemetery to inform the ancestor who loved him.

Upon learning the news that Bai Jingyun had successfully established his foundation, Song Qingming was quite pleased and bestowed him a second-level lower-grade magic weapon on the spot.

The technique that Bai Jingyun practiced during the Qi Refining Stage was a foundation-building technique that Bai Yunhua had carefully selected for him and was suitable for his spiritual roots.

However, although this technique is suitable for Bai Jingyun, it can only be practiced to the middle stage of foundation building, and there is no subsequent technique.

For this reason, after Bai Jingyun established his foundation, he thought about it and decided to directly switch to practicing a technique, so as to avoid having to switch to another technique when he reached the later stage of foundation building in the future, which would delay his time to form a pill.

Although Song Qingming had been concerned about Bai Jingyun’s cultivation before, he did not know much about the techniques he practiced.

After hearing Song Yuanfang's explanation, Song Qingming thought for a moment, waved his hand, took out a bamboo slip from his storage magic tool, and handed it directly to Song Yuanfang.

“Although I am Jingyun’s master, I haven’t given him much guidance in his cultivation over the years, so I’m not doing enough.

This volume of skills can be directly cultivated to the Golden Core Stage. I found it by chance when I was away in the past. My spiritual roots are quite compatible with Jingyun. You can burn a copy and give it to him.

However, Jingyun's cultivation is not yet at a high level. You should keep the skills after the Jindan period in the Gold Storage Pavilion for him first, and give them to him when his cultivation reaches the late foundation-building period.

Don't hide this matter deliberately, lest he think too much about it."

Over the years, Song Qingming has found many high-level skills above the Jindan level while traveling. The skills he practiced, such as "Tongtian Wanling Jue" and "Shitian Yulei Jue", were all obtained in this way.

Including the foundation-building cultivators in the family today, except for a part that were exchanged from the sect's "Good Deeds Pavilion", most of them were slowly accumulated by Song Qingming and others.

The volume of wood-attributed Jindan stage practice that Song Qingming took out was found when he and Luo Li and others explored the cave of "Tianshi Taoist". The spiritual root attributes were just suitable for Bai Jingyun's "wood and water" spiritual root cultivation.

This technique was discovered by chance by "Tianshi Taoist", and then it was integrated with other techniques and slowly deduced to the late stage of Jindan.

However, later on, because the life span of "Tianshi Taoist" was coming to an end, he went astray, and the skills after the middle stage of Jindan were no longer suitable for righteous cultivators to practice.

Therefore, after Song Qingming obtained this volume of exercises, he spent a lot of time destroying all the bad parts at the end, and finally only kept the exercises before the early stage of Jindan.

Seeing Song Qingming directly take out a volume of Jindan stage exercises and give it to Bai Jingyun, Song Yuanfang's face was slightly surprised, but he did not ask any more questions and quickly took it.

"Yuan Fang, your cultivation is almost at the ninth level of foundation building, so you should spend more time on your own cultivation. You can ask Yuan Qian and others to help with the household affairs.

As for Linjiang and Linyang, who have just established their foundation, some things can be taught slowly, but they still need to be allowed to go out and do more work so that they can grow faster. "

"Seventh Uncle, I know you care about me.

It's just that Yuan Fang's talent for cultivation is indeed a little bit inferior, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to catch up with Changze, Yuan Hao and others. But don't worry, I have always kept your teachings in mind over the years and have not dared to neglect my own cultivation."

"Yeah! I feel relieved with your words."

Song Qingming nodded slightly, then turned and walked out of the "meeting room".

After Song Qingming left, Song Yuanfang looked at the tall figure of his ancestor as he left, and sighed slightly.

Song Yuanfang's aptitude for cultivation has always been relatively average in the family. Although he is not as good as the two geniuses Song Changze and Song Yuanhao, he is still relatively good compared to other members of the family such as Song Yuanqian.

But in recent years, after his cultivation broke through to the late stage of foundation building, although Song Yuanfang did not neglect his own practice, he still clearly felt the gap between himself and Song Changze and others.

Compared to Song Changze, who had already started to strive for the Golden Core Realm a long time ago, although the elder Song Yuanfang embarked on the path of cultivation several decades earlier than Song Changze, his cultivation has still not yet broken through to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

Song Yuanfang is already over 160 years old!

Since he will successfully cultivate to the ninth level of foundation building, he will probably have only one or two chances to form a golden elixir like Song Xinyu. He also knows in his heart that his chances of achieving the golden elixir are not very high.

Looking at Song Qingming who had just left not far away, Song Yuanfang didn't know how far he could accompany this family ancestor in the future.
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After returning to his family, Song Qingming, who was fully focused on preparing to condense his Nascent Soul, did not leave the family and began a long period of seclusion and cultivation.

Although the Song family and even the entire northern Wei State are currently very peaceful, the family is also thriving and developing.

But Song Qingming still had a trace of worry in his heart, fearing that the Blood Demon Ancestor who was responsible for his sins and the white-clothed woman who was Song Qingyu's boyfriend would suddenly come to him.

Now the family has many powerful enemies both openly and secretly, and Song Qingming is eager to quickly reach the Nascent Soul realm and change the passive situation faced by himself and his family.

However, the matter of forming a baby is no trivial matter after all. Even if Song Qingming is eager, he still needs to proceed steadily and spend time to hone his own magic power before he can take this step boldly.

Not long after Song Qingming went into seclusion for cultivation, Song Qingyu, who had already stabilized his own cultivation, also took the initiative to walk out of the cave where he was in seclusion.

After Song Qingyu finished his retreat, he quickly went to the Tandi Cave in Cangyuan Mountain and took over Huang Siyuan who was stationed there to protect Song Changze.

Before Song Qingyu went into seclusion, her senior sister Li Xuanyi had agreed to come back to see her in two years, and the two of them would travel together to the "East China Sea Immortal Cultivation World".

As a result, three years had passed and Li Xuanyi was still missing. Song Qingming and his sister had not received any news about their senior sister Li Xuanyi, so they became a little worried.

Fortunately, one year after Song Qingyu came out of seclusion, senior sister Li Xuanyi finally appeared at the foot of "Funiu Mountain".

Afterwards, under Song Qingming's patient instructions, Song Qingyu and his senior sister Li Xuanyi left "Qinghe County" together. The two of them passed through "Yunwu Mountain" and headed eastward and soon entered the "East China Sea Immortal Cultivation World".

Two years after Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi left, one day a red sound-transmitting talisman suddenly flew from the north and sank into the "Funiu Mountain" mountain protection formation.

The monk of the family law enforcement team who received the letter hurriedly handed the letter in his hand to the family elder who was meditating in seclusion in the hall nearby. Soon this letter broke the peace of the entire "Funiu Mountain" and came into the hands of the family elder Song Yuanfang.

Song Yuanfang opened the letter and just took a look at it. His expression immediately became solemn. After handing a few words to Huang Leqing beside him, he quickly came to the cave where Song Qingming was in seclusion on the top of the mountain.

As a voice passed through the restrictions outside the cave and flew into it, not long after, a familiar green-robed figure walked out of the cave.

"Greetings, Seventh Uncle. This is the letter that just came from Patriarch Siyuan from Cangyuan Mountain!"

"Oh! What's the situation over there now?" Song Qingming asked as he took the letter.

Hearing this, Song Yuanfang quickly replied, "The ancestor's letter said that a strange phenomenon has appeared near Changze's retreat cave. I'm afraid he will form a pill soon."

"Yuan Fang, send a message to Yuan Hao and the others, asking them to rush to Cangyuan Mountain right now. I'll be there soon.

Also, call back Xuan Ting and Lin Rui.

During this period of time, nothing must happen at home. You must remember not to let the news spread.

Anyone who dares to discuss Changze's Dan-forming matter in private will be punished according to the clan rules!"

"Don't worry, Uncle Seventh. I'll arrange it right away!"

Hearing the serious instructions from Song Qingming, Song Yuanfang, knowing the urgency of the matter, said nothing and immediately turned around and left the top of the mountain.

After Song Qingming returned to the cave and packed up, he quickly rode his flying boat through the "Funiu Mountain" mountain protection formation and then headed northwest.

In order not to attract attention, Song Qingming did not choose to take the shortcut through the "Chiyanfang" family teleportation array when he went to "Cangyuan Mountain" this time. Instead, he directly controlled the flying boat alone and it took two hours to reach the destination.

As soon as he arrived near "Cangyuan Mountain", Song Qingming saw white clouds rolling in the sky above the top of the mountain from afar, and he couldn't help but speed up his escape.

Before Song Qingming could pass through the "Mountain Protection Array", a figure in yellow flew out from it and landed in front of Song Qingming.

"Husband, I was a little worried that you were in seclusion and couldn't get away, I didn't expect you to come so soon!"

Hearing this, Song Qingming smiled and nodded, saying: "Changze's Dan formation is such a big thing, how can I not come? Even if I have to practice in seclusion, I won't miss this little bit of time.

Siyuan, you have worked hard these days!"

"We are all family, why should you be so distant with me, my husband?
Speaking of which, I have not been able to make a breakthrough in alchemy in the past few years, but I have made some progress since I became a guardian for Changze. This place makes me reluctant to leave."

Since joining the "Tian Dan League", with the support of this major alchemy force, Huang Siyuan's alchemy skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and she has successfully broken through to the third-level intermediate level.

More than ten years ago, Huang Siyuan wanted to become a third-level superior alchemist, so she asked Song Qingming to help her buy a third-level superior alchemy furnace from the auction in the "Lei Yuanhai" cultivation world.

After obtaining this third-grade superior quality alchemy furnace, Huang Siyuan immediately began to try to refine third-grade superior quality elixirs to improve her alchemy skills.

What Huang Siyuan didn't expect was that after spending seven or eight years and wasting more than 100,000 spirit stones on high-level alchemy materials, she failed repeatedly and was unable to achieve the breakthrough in her alchemy skills she wished.

For this reason, Huang Siyuan, who had never suffered too much setbacks since she learned the art of alchemy, felt a little discouraged. She took the initiative to put aside the trivial matters of alchemy and came to "Cangyuan Mountain" to protect Song Changze in making the elixir.

It was not until Song Qingyu came out of seclusion and stabilized her realm that Huang Siyuan, who had not made pills for a while, regained her confidence and started to strive to become a third-level top-grade alchemist again with Song Qingming's encouragement.

Perhaps because it had been such a long time since she last saw him, the pressure in her heart was much less, and Huang Siyuan's next attempt to become a third-level top-grade alchemist was quite smooth.

It took only more than half a year to successfully refine the first batch of third-grade top-quality elixirs. Although only one pill was produced, it was considered a relatively successful success.

But Huang Siyuan finally got what she wanted, successfully broke through her alchemy skills, and advanced to the third-level top-grade alchemist.

Seeing Huang Siyuan happily mentioning her alchemy skills again, Song Qingming hurriedly smiled and nodded in agreement. Then the two of them passed through the mountain protection formation and came to the "Tandi Cave Mansion" where Song Changze was in seclusion.

Song Qingming, who was standing outside, immediately closed his eyes and released his spiritual sense. After carefully feeling the changes in the spiritual energy around the cave, he slowly let go of the tension in his heart.

"The spiritual energy inside is relatively smooth. This time Changze should have a good chance of forming a pill, but it is not certain whether it will succeed.
No matter what the final result is, we have to make some preparations in advance."

Huang Siyuan, who was standing aside, nodded slightly and said, "Don't worry, my husband, I have arranged for Yu Xin and the others to control all the intersections within a radius of 100 miles in advance.

As long as there are outsiders approaching Cangyuan Mountain, they will immediately send the news.

In recent years, apart from the occasional harassment from some low-level monsters, the area has been relatively peaceful, so there shouldn't be any problems."

Seeing that Huang Siyuan had made arrangements in advance, Song Qingming immediately showed a look of satisfaction on his face and replied:

"The north is relatively peaceful now, so I'm not afraid of anyone coming here to cause trouble at this time. The reason I'm being cautious is that I just don't want too many people to know about Changze's Dan formation."

"My husband wants to conceal this matter. Could it be that he wants Changze to leave the family?"

Song Qingming heard this and nodded slightly, "Well! You guessed right. If Changze succeeds in forming the elixir this time, I plan to let him go to the East China Sea first.

We have you and I here in the family, so we don't need his help for now.

But in the East China Sea, Xuanqing and his men are weak after all, so I am still a little worried. "

"My husband, I understand your thoughts. It's a good idea to let Changze go to the East China Sea. With Yuxin by his side, she can help if anything happens."

Although Liu Yuxin has been in the Song family for these years, she has always maintained correspondence with her master He Mengxin.

When Huang Siyuan heard that Song Qingming wanted to send Song Changze to Donghai, she immediately understood that Song Qingming wanted to use He Mengxin's relationship, and immediately nodded in agreement.

Song Qingming is now facing the imminent birth of his infant, and the success or failure is still unknown.

Although a Jindan family like the Song family can be a powerful force in the world of immortal cultivation in the Floating Cloud Mountains, it still has to rely on Yuanying sects like the "Xiaoyao Sect" and cannot completely control its own destiny.

Although the relationship between the Song family and the sect has been relatively harmonious in recent years and there have been no conflicts, if the "Xiaoyao Sect" does not want to see the Song family become strong, it will deal with "Funiu Mountain" like it did to suppress the Ma family.

It is indeed difficult to say what the fate of the Song family will be in the future.

Not only the relationship with the sect, the Song family now also has many hidden dangers outside, which can threaten the survival of the entire family at any time.

If Song Qingming can successfully form a Nascent Soul in one go, the Song family will become a Nascent Soul force and of course will have the power to control their own destiny. Now all these problems can be easily solved.

But if Song Qingming fails to conceive a baby next time, the family will always be in crisis, and the Song family must be prepared to deal with it at any time.

In addition to not wanting to show too much family power, Song Qingming also had many considerations when letting Song Changze go to the East China Sea.

While the two were talking, several sword lights flew in from outside the "Mountain Protection Formation". They were Song Yuanhao, Xu Qingyin and others who rushed over after hearing the news.

Since getting married, Song Yuanhao and his wife have been living in harmony. In recent years, not only have their cultivation progressed smoothly, but Xu Qingyin also gave birth to a big fat boy for him.

Upon hearing the letter from the family elder Song Yuanfang, the couple immediately brought people over from "Cangyuan Mountain".

However, because they were accompanied by many Qi Refining cultivators, they walked a little slower on the road and arrived here a little earlier than Song Qingming.

When Song Yuanhao arrived, he saw Song Qingming and the other man guarding outside the cave, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

Under Song Qingming's arrangement, Song Yuanhao and others immediately took the family monks to guard the surroundings of "Tandyi Cave Mansion" and help Liu Yuxin and others prevent outsiders from approaching this place.

Now that Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, the two family Jindan ancestors, are guarding outside the cave, it would be difficult for ordinary cultivators to sneak in and cause trouble. Song Qingming's main worry is that the news of Song Changze's Jindan formation will be leaked.

In the following time, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan stayed outside the "Tandyi Cave Mansion".

It was not until more than a month later that the clouds gathered above the sky of the "Tandyi Cave" suddenly began to roll violently. Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, who were sitting outside the cave, stood up and flew high into the sky.

Huang Siyuan saw the strange phenomenon above her head and knew that Song Changze had successfully passed the Dan Condensation stage. She immediately said to Song Qingming beside her with joy:

"Husband, Changze has successfully condensed the golden elixir!"

Hearing this, Song Qingming, who was also very happy in his heart, said with some relief:
"This kid really didn't disappoint us. He has come this far. Next he should refine his golden elixir."

After Song Qingming finished speaking, he immediately moved away from the spot and returned to the ground.

Then he took out a formation plate from his body, cast a spell to activate a concealment formation that had already been set up around it, and covered the "Tandidi Cave" with mist.

The formation here had just been activated for a short time, and the strange phenomenon of heaven and earth in the white fog was quickly obscured.

A few days later, as the strange phenomena in the sky and earth above the "Tan Di Cave" slowly dissipated, Song Changze, who was in seclusion in the cave, also slowly opened his eyes.

"I have been practicing Taoism for over a hundred years, and today I have finally achieved the Golden Elixir!"

(End of this chapter)