Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Chapter 953 Colorful Fantasy Butterfly, Breaking into the Mural Again (asking for monthly ticket)
"Floating Cloud Mountains" is the world of immortal cultivation and the defense of the country.

On the bank of Qinghe River, south of Qinghe County, a green light flew quickly and soon landed on an open space by the river.

After the escaping light disappeared, an ordinary man with ordinary appearance and dressed in green immediately appeared on the river bank.

It was Song Qingming who had left the immortal world of "Donghuang Kingdom" several months ago and headed eastwards back to the "Floating Cloud Mountains".

After returning to Wei State this time, Song Qingming did not rush back to "Chiyun Mountain" directly, but drove the flying boat to the "Qinghe Cave Mansion" where he had not been for a long time.

As soon as he appeared and landed, he quickly alarmed the Song family cultivators stationed nearby.

After a while, a sword light flew from a distance and landed in front of Song Qingming.

The man was in his early twenties. When he suddenly saw Song Qingming, the ancestor of the family, he looked obviously excited. After a moment of hesitation, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"Yu Ping, meet the ancestor!"

Seeing that the name of the person in front of him seemed familiar, Song Qingming thought for a moment before remembering the other party's identity. A smile of surprise appeared on his face.

"Yu Ping, when did you build your foundation?"

The young man's name is Song Yuping. He has a brother who is the only two cultivators with special spiritual roots in the Song family, Song Yu'an.

When the two brothers first went up the mountain, they were brought to Song Qingming by Song Yuanhao. The name was also given by the ancestor of the family, so Song Qingming had some impression of him.

Since Song Qingming successfully established his foundation, the family has developed rapidly over the past few hundred years, and the number of cultivators has also increased many times compared to hundreds of years ago.

Even if we don’t count the branches in other places, there are now nearly two thousand cultivators in the clan in "Funiu Mountain" alone.

With so many cultivators, it is naturally impossible for Song Qingming, the family ancestor who has been in seclusion for many years, to remember all their names.

Only younger generations like Song Yuping, who were named by Song Qingming himself, would Song Qingming remember some of them.

Seeing that Song Qingming recognized his name at a glance, Song Yuping nodded with some excitement, and then continued to reply:

"Reporting to the ancestor, I just successfully established my foundation and came out of seclusion half a year ago."

"I was wondering why Yuan Fang didn't send me a message to inform me. So that's what's going on.

You should be less than 40 years old. You have successfully established your foundation at such a young age, which shows that you have worked hard on your cultivation over the years.

I hope you will practice well in the future and live up to the expectations of your family.

If there is anything you don’t understand about cultivation in the future and it is inconvenient to ask Yuan Hao and the others, you can also come and ask me.”

Although Song Yuping's three spiritual roots were not too bad, compared with his younger brother Song Yu'an who had special spiritual roots, his talent was not so prominent among the same generation of cultivators in the clan.

Since going up the mountain to practice Taoism, Song Yuping has almost lived in the shadow of his younger brother's glory for the past thirty years.

Compared with Song Yu'an, whose cultivation speed is advancing by leaps and bounds among his peers, although Song Yuping is not as talented as the other, he has shown to be very hardworking and diligent over the years.

Finally, he succeeded in building his foundation half a year ago, was recognized by the family, and took on the position of deacon elder!

At this moment, Song Yuping received praise from the family ancestor in person. While he was excited, he also felt that his hard work in practicing over the years had not been in vain.

"Yu Ping understands, thank you, ancestor!"

"I'm going to go downstairs. You stay here and watch. If anything happens, send me a message immediately!"

After explaining a few words, Song Qingming threw a special sound transmission talisman to the other party before turning around and leaving.

Wait until Song Qingming's figure disappeared in the water.

Song Yu'an summoned out a few spirit insects that he had cultivated for many years from his body, and let them disperse and monitor the surroundings. Only then did he feel at ease and sit down on the rock by the river.

After entering the bottom of the river, Song Qingming quickly found the magic circle he had set up.

After checking his surroundings and finding nothing unusual, he opened the magic circle and flashed into the cave below the restriction.

Although I haven't been here for a long time, there is still not much change in this "river bottom cave", except that there is more dust on the ground around it.

Moving forward, Song Qingming soon arrived at the stone platform in front and stood in front of a familiar mural.

After staring at the mural in front of him for a while, Song Qingming raised one hand lightly, and a ray of light in his hand immediately flew into a rune in the middle of the mural.

I saw a flash of white light in front, and the entire mural began to slowly rotate.

As the white vortex in front of him spun faster and faster, Song Qingming retracted his right hand and stopped injecting magic power into the mural.

Then he put up a protective shield in front of him and strode directly into the white vortex in front.

After passing through the white vortex, a long corridor appeared in front of Song Qingming.

The corridor was about ten feet wide, and the surrounding mountain walls were covered with shiny silver stones. There were also three red lanterns hanging not far above the head.

After arriving here, Song Qingming's expression suddenly became very serious.

He looked cautious and did not dare to take a rash step forward. Instead, he released his spiritual sense to carefully observe the changes in the spiritual energy around him to prevent any danger from suddenly appearing.

Ever since he discovered the "Qinghe Cave" that year, Song Qingming has been thinking about exploring the secrets of this cave all these years.

It’s a pity that the restrictions on the second mural were too powerful. It was not until Song Qingming’s cultivation broke through the Nascent Soul realm more than ten years ago that he was able to barely open one of the rune channels.

However, although this passage was opened, Song Qingming had only walked here after several attempts over the years and had not been able to pass through the corridor in front of him.

Even for him now, it is still difficult to break through the restrictions.

After carefully checking the entrance of the cave, he found that there was nothing abnormal about the spiritual energy around the passage. Song Qingming then retracted his spiritual sense and summoned two colorful butterflies with shining spiritual light from the spirit beast bag.

After so many years of careful cultivation, the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly" in Song Qingming's hands has finally begun to mutate after being fed a lot of All-Spiritual Dew.

The "Golden Fantasy Butterfly", which originally had a dazzling body, now had an additional layer of five-colored light on its golden wings, turning it into a colorful appearance.

Although the size of these spirit insects has become much smaller than before, their aura is obviously much stronger than before, and their wings have become much harder than before.

Through Song Qingming's research on the classics on spiritual insects over the years, and by asking many high-level monks who are proficient in insect taming.

It was confirmed that this was the blood mutation caused by the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly" devouring a large number of high-level spiritual objects, which led to its advancement to the current "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly".

After the advancement, the "Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly" is several times stronger than the previous "Golden Illusion Butterfly", and even its magical powers and illusions are much more powerful than before.

It is almost impossible for today’s Jindan-level cultivators to be able to detect their changes.

Even for ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, if they don't look closely, it would be difficult to see through their disguise in a short period of time. Their strength has increased a lot compared to before.

It’s a pity that this mutated “Colorful Fantasy Butterfly” is extremely difficult to cultivate.

Even though they had been fed a lot of "Wanling Dew", the number of spirit insects that could mutate was still small.

Song Qingming has only cultivated a dozen "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterflies" so far.

After summoning two "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterflies", Song Qingming cast a spell and the two spiritual insects, which were originally small in size, immediately changed and shrank several times to the size of flying mosquitoes.

"go with!"

Under Song Qingming's command, the two "colorful fantasy butterflies" immediately flapped their wings and turned into two rays of spiritual light, heading straight for the three red lanterns above the passage.

But before they got close, the "red lantern" suddenly lit up with a red light.

The next moment, three red sword lights shot out from the lantern and headed straight for the location of the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly".

Seeing this scene, Song Qingming immediately controlled the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly" to quickly cast a spell to avoid it, and turned into a colorful spiritual light to dodge the attack.

After failing to hit the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly", the red sword light quickly fell on the silver mountain wall next to it.

However, it did not disappear after touching the mountain wall. Instead, it bounced back like a mirror and attacked the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly" again.

And after rebounding, the speed of the "Red Sword Light" became much faster than before, and its power also increased a lot.

Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately controlled the two "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterflies" to flash back and direct the red sword lights directly towards himself.

Even though Song Qingming had cast the spell quickly, unfortunately the speed of the "red sword light" was so astonishing that in an instant a "colorful phantom butterfly" had no time to dodge and was caught up by the sword light.

Even though the "Colorful Fantasy Butterfly" had sensed the danger, it used its hardest wings to protect its body in advance.

But the next moment, the "red sword light" easily pierced it with one sword, which shows that its power is far beyond what the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly" can withstand head-on.

Seeing the figure of the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly" in the distance disappear directly in mid-air, Song Qingming, who had cultivated a mutated spirit insect with great difficulty, instantly lost a trace of pain in his eyes.

But in the current situation, he did not have time to be too sad about it, and hurriedly controlled the remaining "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly" to dodge the attack and quickly move towards him.

Fortunately, after the blood mutation of the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly", in addition to the strengthening of its physical body, its escape speed was more than twice as fast as before. It managed to dodge the sword attack and escape at full speed.

When the "Colorful Illusion Butterfly" flew to Song Qingming's position at the end of the corridor, he used his magic power to throw out a blue shield in an instant, and then turned into a giant turtle to block the front. A moment later, "Boom!" There was a loud noise, and several "red sword lights" suddenly appeared on the blue giant turtle.

Faced with the extremely ferocious attacks of these "red sword lights", the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield" blocked Song Qingming steadily, helping him to successfully block these sword lights.

Seeing that the magic weapon he had just obtained was indeed very powerful, Song Qingming's face finally showed a look of relief.

When he first entered this passage more than ten years ago, Song Qingming, without understanding the situation, rashly tried to force his way through the silver corridor.

As a result, he discovered that the power of the restrictions in the passage was far from as simple as he had imagined.

Song Qingming, who did not have many defensive magic weapons on him, could not resist the increasingly powerful "red sword light" with only his own magic weapon, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror", and could only escape in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

It was not until he obtained the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield", a fourth-level intermediate-grade defensive magic weapon, that he regained the confidence to fight against this restriction and came here again.

After the "Xuanwu Spirit Armor Shield" successfully blocked the opponent's attack, Song Qingming hurriedly injected all his magic power into the magic weapon in front of him, and then the shadow of a giant turtle appeared on the shield.

The giant turtle opened its mouth and spit out a breath of white spiritual light, which instantly froze all the "red sword lights" and imprisoned them firmly on the shield.

This spell of icy sword light is also a special magical power of the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield", which can temporarily restrain the opponent's magic weapon at the critical moment.

Seeing that the "red sword light" in front of him was controlled as he wished, Song Qingming felt relieved and continued to walk forward into the silver corridor with the magic weapon.

Not long after walking, just as Song Qingming had expected, the "red lantern" not far ahead flashed red light again, and three "red sword lights" flew out from it.

The main reason why Song Qingming used the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly" to draw out the red sword light in the beginning was to help test the power of the magic weapon in his hand.

After knowing that the "Xuanwu Spirit Armor Shield" was not afraid of the opponent's attack at all, Song Qingming was not as careful as before this time. He walked forward quickly with the magic weapon.

For safety reasons, in addition to fully controlling the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield", Song Qingming also cast a spell to release his own magic weapon, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror", to protect himself.

The reason why he did not dare to use the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" to strengthen himself was because Song Qingming discovered that the power of the restrictions here changed with the number of people passing the level, and it was a natural restraint on puppetry.

The more puppets he releases, the greater the number and power of those "red sword lights" will be. This is one of the reasons why Song Qingming has been helpless here.

Faced with this kind of restriction, one can only rely on one's own magical powers and magic weapons to resist it, and other external objects are unlikely to be of any use.

But now that he has the "Xuanwu Spirit Armor Shield", Song Qingming finally has the confidence to break through.

Facing the three "red sword lights" that attacked again, Song Qingming, who was holding up the huge tortoise shell of the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield", was not afraid at all and blocked them directly head-on.

There were a few "boom" sounds coming from outside the blue turtle shell. The "red sword light" did not bounce back after it fell, but was frozen by the white spiritual light again.

After blocking this wave of "red sword light", Song Qingming did not stay for too long, but continued to walk forward quickly, heading straight to the end of the passage ahead.

Along the way, there were five or six waves of "red sword light" flying over, but without exception, they were all successfully blocked by the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield".

Even though the "red sword light" would occasionally break free from the ice of the white light, their attacks could never break through the defense of the magic weapon in front of them, and would soon be frozen above the shield again.

After walking forward for about several hundred feet, Song Qingming finally came to the end of the passage and saw a transparent light shield blocking his way.

Having come here, Song Qingming naturally would not give up halfway and strode directly into the light shield.

Just after passing the "white light shield", Song Qingming found that the red light in front of him was flashing slightly, and soon it shattered in front of him.

After a while, the red sword lights that were originally frozen above the "Black Tortoise Spirit Armor Shield" turned into shadows and disappeared.

When the surrounding spiritual light faded away, Song Qingming found himself in a square stone chamber.

This stone chamber was not as big as the round stone hall that Song Qingming had entered before. It was also very empty all around, with only a round stone table placed in the middle.

On the stone table was a dark wooden box that looked very simple and ancient. It was very similar to the wooden box he had seen in the round stone hall that year.

When Song Qingming saw the black wooden box on the stone table, a hint of joy suddenly flashed across his face.

According to what I have encountered before, if nothing unexpected happens, the wooden box in front of me must contain some treasure, but it is not clear what kind of good thing it is.

I wish I could find a fourth-level low-grade magic weapon in that hall back then.

The restrictions on the passage this time are obviously more dangerous. Logically speaking, the things hidden inside should not be worse than the last time.

However, before Song Qingming got the treasure in the round stone hall, he encountered a powerful forbidden attack in the hall.

I’m afraid it won’t be that easy to get the treasure this time.

After scanning the surroundings with his spiritual sense, Song Qingming waved his hand and summoned an ordinary wolf-shaped "puppet beast".

Under its control, the wolf-shaped "puppet beast" leaped directly into the air and headed straight for the location of the black wooden box in the middle of the stone chamber.

But before it could get close, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky above the stone chamber, directly smashing the wolf-shaped "puppet beast" of only second-level intermediate quality into pieces.

Seeing the "puppet beast" being shattered in front of him, Song Qingming not only did not show any regret, but instead a smile appeared on his face.

"It seems that this level should be a restriction of thunder attribute!"

After so many years of practicing Taoism, Song Qingming has successively possessed the "Thunder Gathering Bead", "Seven-Colored Lightning Lamp", and has also practiced the "Heaven-Devouring Thunder Controlling Art" which can restrain the world's thunder magic.

He could be said to be the most confident in breaking thunder-attributed techniques and restrictions, so he naturally had more confidence in this.

After checking the restrictions above his head, Song Qingming took out the spirit stone to replenish his mana that he had just consumed just in case.

When his condition had almost recovered, he stood up again and waved his hand to release six figures, forming a "Ten Thousand Spirit Puppet Array" in front of him.

After everything was ready, he took out the "Seven-Colored Lightning Lamp", cast a spell to release a protective shield, and walked forward.

Just as he walked near the place where the puppet beast was destroyed, a white light flashed above his head, followed by a bolt of lightning falling directly down.

Faced with this scene, Song Qingming had already anticipated it.

A white aura flashed on his body, and he immediately cast a spell, "Heaven-Devouring Thunder Control Technique", which transformed into a giant white hand, and he stepped forward to grab the falling lightning.

The giant white hand grabbed the lightning, pulled it out of the air with great force, and then crushed it in mid-air.

Seeing that the power of the lightning did not exceed his expectations, Song Qingming smiled calmly and stepped forward again.

But before Song Qingming could take a few steps, a ball of white light gathered above his head again, and then dozens of even more ferocious lightning bolts fell directly towards Song Qingming's location.

The power of these lightning bolts has reached the Nascent Soul level, and now that they are gathered into a ball, their power has reached a new level.

However, facing so many fierce lightning attacks, Song Qingming remained calm, his eyes were as sharp as torches, and he directly controlled the big white hand to raise up and block all the lightning.

Even though the lightning in front of them was very powerful, facing the "Heaven-Devouring Thunder Control Art" that could restrain them, it still couldn't break through the defense above Song Qingming's head.

Soon, most of the lightning was completely absorbed by the giant white hand controlled by Song Qingming and stored in the "Seven-Color Lightning Lamp" next to it.

Seeing Song Qingming continuing to move forward under the lightning and almost reaching the middle stone table, the lightning restriction above gathered a larger ball of lightning again.

This time, the lightning did not fall directly on Song Qingming as before, but gathered together and turned into two white giants that flashed in front of Song Qingming.

White light kept flashing on the bodies of these two "thunder giants", and they were holding long swords filled with lightning in their hands. Their aura was not much weaker than that of Song Qingming in front of them.

Seeing the "lightning giant" in front of him swinging his sword and attacking, Song Qingming frowned slightly and immediately cast a spell to release a white jade ring magic weapon.

Under Song Qingming's spell, the "White Crane Jade Ring" faced the giant sword and directly circled one of the "Lightning Giants".

The giant sword in the hand of the other "Lightning Giant" was directly blocked by the white giant hand that Song Qingming cast a spell on, and then grabbed the opponent's arm.

After the two sides fought, lightning suddenly flew in the stone chamber and all kinds of spiritual lights flashed everywhere.

With the "Heaven-Devouring Thunder Control Art" one can restrain thunder magic. Even though the opponent's attack hit the shield in front of Song Qingming, it failed to cause much damage to him.

However, the lightning and thunder emitted by these two "lightning giants" still made Song Qingming feel numb, and he did not dare to underestimate the opponent's attack.

Seeing that the other party was struggling hard to break free from the control of the giant white hand, Song Qingming hurriedly mobilized his magic power to suppress the "thunder giant" in front of him.

After an incense stick of time, the last "lightning giant" in front of him fell down.

It turned into lightning again and was soon sucked into the white hand controlled by Song Qingming, and finally merged into the bronze oil lamp in the air.

Seeing that the lightning around him had disappeared, Song Qingming put away the "Seven-Colored Lightning Lamp" in front of him.

The restrictions in this stone chamber are no less powerful than those in the corridor outside.

However, it happened to be restrained by his own martial arts and magical powers.

When Song Qingming passed this level, although the scene seemed a little dangerous, he actually acted more relaxed than before and did not consume too much mana.

Seeing that he had finally made it through, Song Qingming finally showed a smile on his face.

His gaze turned to the black wooden box on the stone table not far away, and he strode forward.

(PS: Let me explain that I didn’t forget the story about the protagonist’s first foray into Qinghe Cave after his Nascent Soul stage. I just didn’t figure out how to write it, so I delayed it for a while.)
(End of this chapter)