Qinghe Immortal Clan.

After Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian discussed together, they decided to hold the "Nascent Soul Celebration" for him one year later.

Next, the "Xiaoyao Sect" will notify all nearby immortal cultivation sects that are on good terms with it, and they will also send people to "Guyang Mountain" to watch the ceremony and witness Song Qingming's succession as the "Xiaoyao Sect"'s supreme elder.

Originally, Song Qingming was thinking about declining this title and waiting for some time after the "Nascent Soul Celebration".

After all, he has not yet fully integrated into the sect, and it seems a bit against the rules for him to directly take on the position of the supreme elder.

However, Bai Yuxian had already discussed this matter with Li Mufeng. Now that Song Qingming has broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, there is no need to worry about these red tapes and he can directly succeed as the sect's supreme elder.

As for whether the Song family should directly integrate into the sect, it will not be too late to consider it slowly after Song Qingming takes up the position of the sect's supreme elder.

From now on, whether all the cultivators of the Song family want to integrate into the sect, or Song Qingming wants to continue to serve as the head of the Song family, he can decide these matters on his own, and the sect will not interfere too much.

However, there is only one point that the sect is more concerned about right now.

That is, after Song Qingming takes over as the sect's supreme elder, even if he has officially integrated into the sect, he must swear an oath in the sect's ancestral hall that he will not betray the "Xiaoyao Sect" no matter what happens in the future.

Song Qingming didn't mind this too much. He nodded and agreed in front of Bai Yuxian without hesitation.

Now that the Song family is in the territory of Wei State, no matter what Song Qingming wants to do now, the family cannot completely get rid of its ties with the sect.

Before, Song Qingming had considered whether the sect would mind this matter after he had formed his infant, and would not allow the Song family to continue staying in Weiguo.

But at the critical moment when he was in seclusion to form a baby, Bai Yuxian was able to represent the sect to protect him for such a long time.

This has also proved indirectly that the sect has not completely regarded him as an outsider in these years and that he is worthy of his trust.

According to Bai Yuxian, the sect was not only willing to accept him, but also allowed him to continue to serve as the head of the Song family in the future and would not directly sever ties with the family.

This arrangement is indeed a very good choice for Song Qingming and the entire Song family.

Song Qingming's cultivation has now broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. If he still refuses to express his willingness to integrate into the sect, outsiders will think that they are planning to compete with the "Xiaoyao Sect" in the future.

As such, the "Xiaoyao Sect" would never be able to allow the Song family, a "Nascent Soul Family" with ulterior motives, to continue to stay by its side and grow stronger. Conflicts between the two sides are bound to occur.

In order to preserve the family and develop peacefully with the "Xiaoyao Sect", only Song Qingming, the family's Nascent Soul ancestor, can join the sect to achieve both.

However, in order for both parties to discuss this matter properly, they must make some concessions to each other.

After allowing Song Qingming to take over as the Grand Elder, he can also continue to serve as the head of the Song family and take care of the family. This is already an exception made by the sect for him.

As long as they are not forced to leave the family completely, this can be directly accepted by both Song Qingming and other family members.

After the two parties had discussed the matter, both Bai Yuxian and Song Qingming had looks of satisfaction on their faces.

Soon, Bai Yuxian, having completed the purpose of his trip, stood up and said goodbye.

After seeing off the White Jade Fairy, seeing that Huang Siyuan was busy refining the elixir, Song Qingming did not return to the family's "Huixian Pavilion", but went directly to the cave where he practiced.

As soon as he walked into the door, a cold wind from the depths of the cave blew directly in his face, and soon it turned into a "blue-eyed white fox" in front of Song Qingming.

"Senior! Didn't you say a few days ago that you would be in seclusion for a while? How come you came out so soon?"

"I originally planned to retreat for a while, but the Yin energy here is insufficient, and the spiritual energy is also a little lacking. It is really not a good place for retreat. I can't stay here, so I came out to walk around.

Don't worry, I have never left your cave and I won't cause you any trouble."

Hearing Qu Bai's complaints, Song Qingming smiled slightly and said helplessly:
“As you all know, I just formed my infant not long ago, and I have used up most of my savings on this. If I want to upgrade the spiritual veins here, I will probably need a lot of time to accumulate spiritual stones.

If you think my place lacks yin energy, I will help you find a better place later.

Now that the senior already knows where I live, there is no need to stick with me all the time. It will be the same if you come to find me when you have something to do."

When he broke through to the Nascent Soul stage before, because the other party helped him a lot and he also promised to help Qu Bai do something, Song Qingming owed the other party a big favor.

Later, after his cultivation had stabilized, he was ready to return to the "Floating Cloud Mountains" to cultivate immortals. When Song Qingming took the initiative to ask Qu Bai whether he wanted to leave with him, he did not expect the other party to agree immediately.

According to what Qu Bai said, he just wanted to go out for a walk, and since Song Qingming had promised to help him with something, he simply came to the "Floating Cloud Mountains" with him.

However, Qu Bai has no physical body and only his "spiritual body" is left. It is not easy for him to come out to see people, so he needs to hide in the "Soul Nourishing Tree" for the time being.

After hearing Song Qingming's somewhat helpless explanation, Qu Bai chuckled and nodded gently:

"Well! If you can find a suitable place for me to practice, it doesn't matter if I go there.

It's you, kid. It seems that you have offended a lot of enemies. Now that I'm not around, you need to be more careful in the future.

I don't want you to finally break through to the Nascent Soul stage, but die at the hands of others before you can help me."

Song Qingming was a little embarrassed when he ran into two demon cultivators from the Blood Spirit Sect who were causing trouble just after he returned to Qinghe County.

Hearing Qu Bai mention this matter again, he also smiled bitterly, did not continue to explain, and nodded to Qu Bai seriously.

"Thank you, senior, for the tip!"

After seeing Qu Bai talking to him for a few words, he went to the side and started to look through the many manuscripts and books stored in the cave. Song Qingming did not continue to disturb him and went straight to a closed stone chamber inside the cave.

After setting up several magic arrays on the spot, Song Qingming directly took out a bowl-shaped magic weapon and cast a spell to release the two golden talismans sealed inside.

As soon as the talisman appeared, two "original spirits" with negative energy immediately emerged from the air and fled directly outwards.

But the next moment, as Song Qingming cast a spell, the large formation that had been prepared on the side immediately emitted a golden light, directly imprisoning the two demon cultivators' souls in mid-air.

"Senior, we two juniors did not intend to offend you. We are just following orders. Please spare our lives!
"Yes, Senior, the two of us were also held hostage. We hope that you will forgive us and give us a chance to make merit.

I am willing to swear that I will turn from evil to good, serve under you, and help you deal with the Red Blood Demon.

We have followed that old demon for many years and are familiar with his magical powers and weapons. We can definitely help you, senior!"

".."

Hearing two voices begging for mercy in front of him, Song Qingming did not want to pay attention to them. He once again cast a spell on their "original spirits" and released a white spiritual light. Soon the entire stone chamber became quiet.

"Humph! I don't believe in the nonsense of people like you who always betray your teachers and ancestors. If you want to know something, I'd better go and find out by myself!"

After Song Qingming muttered something to himself, he first cast a spell to change his shape and appearance.

Then he released his spiritual consciousness, which directly probed into the "original souls" of the two people and began to use the secret method of searching their souls.

Now that his cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul stage, Song Qingming is obviously much more relaxed than before when using the secret soul-searching technique on the two Jindan demon cultivators.

It took less than half an hour to dig out all the secrets hidden in the two people's "original spirits".

It was not much different from what Song Qingming had expected before. These two disciples of the "Blood Spirit Sect" were indeed the direct disciples of the "Blood Demon Ancestor". They were also ordered by the old demon to come here to track him down.

Moreover, these two people have been guarding near the Song family for more than seven years.

That is to say, Song Qingming came to the Song family's territory and hid there not long after he left Wei State.

All the strange things related to the evil cultivators that have happened near the Song family in recent years were secretly manipulated by the two of them, just to lure out Song Qingming, the head of the Song family.

However, at that time, Song Qingming was already in seclusion in the outer sea of ​​the "East China Sea Immortal Cultivation World" to form a baby, and had no way of paying attention to what was happening on the family side.

The two of them made several secret moves, but they only attracted some Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators of the Song family, or the sect's law enforcement team, and they never encountered any core cultivators of the Song family.

In order not to alert the enemy, the two men were very patient and did not easily attack the Song family cultivators. They just secretly controlled a few people to help him investigate the situation in "Funiu Mountain".

It was not until Song Qingyu returned to "Qinghe County" that the two men finally couldn't bear it anymore, and after some planning, they trapped Song Xuanting and others in "Caotou Mountain".

He wanted to use Song Xuanting and other monks from the market law enforcement team as bait to capture Song Qingyu, the Song family's Jindan ancestor, and then find Song Qingming's trace from her.

(PS: Song Xuanting and the others were fine, and were later rescued by Qingyu and the others. That’s why they returned later than the demon cultivators.

I forgot to write this yesterday, and I saw some book friends left messages wondering about this question, so I will explain it here.)
What they didn’t expect was that not long after the plan was implemented, the two of them unexpectedly received the news that Song Qingming had returned to "Qinghe County".

They thought that Song Qingming had finally arrived, and that the two of them could use the magic weapons in their hands to quickly complete the task and go back to ask for credit and reward from their master, the "Red Blood Demon".

Unexpectedly, when they met Song Qingming in the "Red Flame Square", they found that he had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. Even though the two of them were armed with the fourth-level magic weapon given by the "Red Blood Demon", they were still powerless in front of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

In the end, not only did he fail to complete the mission and return to claim the reward, but he lost his life, and even his "original soul" fell into the hands of Song Qingming.

Shortly after Song Qingming searched the souls of the two, a black mist suddenly emerged from the "original spirits" of the two demon cultivators and quickly gathered into a human figure in mid-air.

Seeing this somewhat familiar scene, Song Qingming immediately understood what was going on. He quickly cast a spell with his hand and directly released a natal sword light with the "Xuan Yang Flame".

Before the black fog took shape, the sword light released by Song Qingming had already pierced through the "original souls" of the two people, and a scream was heard in the air.

"Hey! How could he be a Nascent Soul cultivator? Could it be..."

The black smoke that had just formed in the air immediately showed a look of surprise on its face when it saw Song Qingming, who looked somewhat unfamiliar in front of it.

However, before he could finish his words, the sword light controlled by Song Qingming once again pierced through the black fog and dispersed the black shadow that had just formed directly in the air.

"This old demon is really hard to deal with. I didn't expect that he would notice me before I even made a move."

Song Qingming smiled slightly, then gently raised his hand again and took back the bowl in the air.

After taking away the "original spirits" of the two demon cultivators, Song Qingming took out all the storage magic tools that he had previously seized from them.

Because of the previous soul search of the two people's "original spirits", Song Qingming had already obtained the mantra to open the magic weapons, and he opened the two storage magic weapons without much effort.

However, what disappointed him was that these two people were similar to the Jindan demon cultivators such as Ma Wuchen he had encountered before. They were all so poor that it was a bit disheartening.

Apart from some useless pills and magic weapons contaminated with demonic energy, the total number of spirit stones on the two of them was less than 30,000, which really made Song Qingming speechless.

With his previous experience of dealing with evil cultivators, Song Qingming roughly understood some of the reasons.

The reason why these demon cultivators can’t find a few spirit stones on them is not because they are really that poor.

It's because these people are often hunted by righteous monks and have to hide everywhere, so they leave a lot of backup plans and caves outside, just in case they need to take over another body and make a comeback.

Just like Ma Wuchen at the beginning, most of the spiritual objects they had accumulated were hidden in these hidden caves, and they only carried with them a few things needed for daily cultivation.

After learning that the two men had kept several caves as backup plans, all of which were in unfamiliar places far away from Wei State, Song Qingming temporarily gave up the idea of ​​going there to search for spiritual objects and could only wait for another opportunity in the future.

After sorting out the spiritual stones and magic weapons in front of him, Song Qingming took out the fourth-level magic weapon "Blood Spirit Ten Thousand Bones Plate" that he had seized before and looked at it carefully.

This fourth-level magic weapon is the most valuable thing Song Qingming has ever obtained from the two of them.

Although the "Blood Spirit Ten Thousand Bones Plate" is a magic weapon of the magic cultivator that is tainted with demonic energy, and it was also damaged in their previous battle with Song Qingming.

However, this item is a very rare fourth-level magic weapon after all. Even if the evil spirit on it cannot be completely eliminated, a high-level refiner can directly decompose it into a lot of high-level materials.

No matter how you put it, its value is at least equivalent to a good third-grade top-grade magic weapon, which is Song Qingming's biggest gain this time.

After dealing with the demonic spiritual objects in front of him, Song Qingming cast a spell again to take out a black scroll, and began to open the scroll and study it carefully.

This black scroll is the secret method of "refining puppets" that Song Qingming had obtained from Qu Bai before.

After returning to the family, Song Qingming had nothing else to do in the cave except his own practice, so he had a lot of free time.

While Qu Bai was still by his side, Song Qingming began to study this thing seriously these days. When he had questions, he would take the initiative to ask Qu Bai for advice.

Faced with Song Qingming who was humbly seeking advice, the senior Qu Bai was not too stingy with him. He taught Song Qingming everything he knew without holding back.

Although he had only learned the secret method of "refining puppets" for a period of time, Song Qingming could only refine some of the lowest-level puppets. His talent in this area was really not very high, and he was often laughed at by Qu Bai for this.

But Song Qingming himself was not too disappointed about this. After all, he had known about the art of puppetry for a long time and knew that those who were proficient in this art usually had some personal talent.

Even though he had limited talent in this area, Song Qingming did not give up easily. He still spent a lot of time studying this. Finally, after more than half a year of continuous attempts, he successfully refined the first level 2 "puppet beast".

For an ordinary cultivator, being able to improve his "puppet skills" to the lower level of the second grade within half a year is definitely an extraordinary talent that is very enviable.

However, Song Qingming is now a Nascent Soul cultivator after all, and he has sufficient materials sent by his family, as well as incomplete maps to help him restore his own magic power. Naturally, learning these low-level "immortal cultivation skills" will be much easier for him than for ordinary cultivators.

Even with the constant guidance from Qu Bai, a high-level "puppet master", it still took him more than half a year to reach level two, which was not particularly fast for him.

Fortunately, after spending so much energy and working for such a long time, the "puppet skills" he learned have finally made progress, and Song Qingming feels more gratified for this.

As long as he can spend more time on this in the future, he should be able to upgrade his "puppet skills" to the third level. At that time, he will be able to refine a useful Jindan-stage "puppet beast" to enhance the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" that he has practiced for many years.

Compared to others, Song Qingming, who has the ability to quickly recover his magic power, does have a considerable advantage in learning the "arts of cultivating immortals".

Otherwise, if it were an ordinary person, it would be really difficult to make up their mind and spend so much time to specialize in studying a "cultivation skill".

Even Qu Bai felt at first that Song Qingming had less talent in this area and wanted to persuade him not to waste his energy and time on it, but in the end Song Qingming persisted with his hard work and finally got the results he wanted.

After upgrading his own "puppet skills" to level two, Song Qingming gave orders to Song Yuanfang and others, asking them to find a way to collect a large amount of puppet refining materials of level two and above, and continue to delve into the "puppet skills" to a higher level.

However, the cultivation resources in Wei State are relatively scarce. Even for a relatively powerful immortal cultivation family like the Song family, it is not easy to collect a large amount of second-level or above puppet refining materials in a short period of time.

If Song Qingming wants to speed up his improvement in "puppet skills", he needs to think of some other ways.
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Half a year later, outside Funiu Mountain in "Qinghe County".

On this day, the weather was sunny and windy, and it was the time when the spring breeze and the scorching sun were shining on the earth and bringing new life to the earth. Suddenly, a ray of sword light flew across the sky and came directly to the front of the "Funiu Mountain" mountain protection formation.

The man was wearing a gray Taoist robe. After putting away the flying sword at his feet, a smile immediately came to his face and he quickly walked to the mountain gate below.

At this time, seeing someone coming from a distance, three Qi Refining cultivators wearing Song family clothing hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, bowed respectfully and said:

"Junior greets you, Senior. I wonder why you came to my Funiushan Mountain?"

Upon hearing this, the gray-robed monk smiled and waved his hands, saying, "I am Qiu Yunhe, and I am the steward of the General Affairs Hall of Xiaoyao Sect.

I came here to deliver a letter, and I would like to ask you to let me know that I want to see Taoist Yuan Fang."

After the gray-robed monk finished speaking, he took out a jade token that could prove his identity.

Seeing the jade token in front of him that could only be held by the foundation-building cultivators of the "Xiaoyao Sect", the Song family cultivator at the door hurriedly smiled and nodded at it.

"Oh! It's Senior Qiu, I'm sorry for the rudeness.

The Great Elder had already said in advance that all the seniors from the sect who came here must not be neglected.

Please go to the side hall and rest for a while. We will report to the Great Elder immediately!"

Soon, the news from the foot of the mountain reached Song Yuanfang, who was busy in the family's "meeting room".

Soon, the chief elder of the Song family personally led people down the mountain to greet him, and took the deacon of the sect's "General Affairs Hall" to a reception room on the mountain.

As soon as the two of them sat down, Song Yuanfang had someone bring a pot of spiritual tea, then dismissed his attendants and said to Qiu Yunhe with a smile:
"Fellow Daoist Qiu has come from afar, and I, Song, have not come to greet you. I hope you will forgive me for any impoliteness.

I don't know why you are here, but has Senior Xu replied to the matter of the Yinfeng Ridge mine? "

After hearing this, Qiu Yunhe took a sip of tea, smiled and nodded to Song Yuanfang, saying:

"Fellow Daoist Song guessed correctly. Uncle Master Xu has indeed agreed to the matter regarding Yinfeng Ridge.

However, Qiu came here today, not only to tell you the news, but also to give you an invitation letter on behalf of the sect."

"Invitation! Could it be that the sect has another happy event?"

After hearing what Qiu Yunhe said, Song Yuanfang's face, which had originally been somewhat happy, suddenly showed a hint of surprise, and then he hurriedly took the red invitation from the other party.

"Haha! I am only responsible for delivering the letter, and I don't know the content. You will know what it is when you open it yourself later.

This matter is very important. I hope that after you know it, you will quickly tell the ancestors.

I have to go somewhere else to deliver a letter, so I won't bother you any more here?"

After handing the invitation to Song Yuanfang personally, Qiu Yunhe did not stay for too long and immediately stood up to say goodbye.

(I am very sorry. I have been a little confused these days, so my writing is a bit bad. I have revised the following several hundred words. I hope you can forgive me.) (End of this chapter)