Qinghe Immortal Clan.

“Husband!
With so many people coming this time, the things we put up for the auction may seem a bit underwhelming.

Do you want to add some spiritual objects in?

This is to prevent others from accusing us of being stingy when the trade fair is over."

Seeing Song Qingming's happy expression, Huang Siyuan put down the note in her hand after reading it halfway, and asked him with a smile.

Following the example of trade fairs held in other places, "Chiyun Mountain" will also hold an auction as the finale of the trade fair.

Most of the dozens of Jindan cultivators whose names were written on the business cards in their hands came for the final "auction".

At the beginning, when preparing for this "trading conference", Song Qingming and his wife did not expect that so many high-level cultivators would come.

Therefore, the finale spiritual objects put on display at the "auction" were all the third-level spiritual objects they had refined over the years.

Seeing this scene, not only did many nearby sects send cultivators here, but also many Jindan-level cultivators from other places came.

Compared with the enthusiasm of this conference, the previous arrangements of the two seemed a little inadequate.

Hearing Huang Siyuan's reminder, Song Qingming nodded slightly, then took out a silver-white talisman from his hand and put it in her hand.

"I made this talisman a few days ago. It can replace the finale spiritual item at the auction."

Seeing the silver talisman in front of him, it exuded a powerful spiritual pressure.

Huang Siyuan immediately realized that the grade of the spiritual object in front of her had exceeded the golden elixir level. It was obviously a very rare fourth-grade lower-grade spiritual talisman.

At this moment, she couldn't help but reveal a bit of joy in her eyes when she looked at Song Qingming. She didn't expect that during this period of time, his "talisman making skills" had quietly improved to the fourth level.

“This talisman was actually made by my husband himself, so I would like to congratulate you first.

With this fourth-level talisman as the finale, plus the two third-level high-quality elixirs I made earlier, it should be almost done now."

Compared with other large-scale immortal cultivation realms, the "Floating Cloud Mountains" are relatively scarce in terms of high-level spiritual objects. It is difficult for spiritual objects above level four to appear in the "trading conferences" held in most places.

When Song Qingming participated in the Star Conference held once every hundred years by the "Star Gate" of the Wu Kingdom, it was already considered the largest trading conference in the surrounding area.

The only spiritual object they could bring out as the finale was just a relatively ordinary fourth-level spiritual wood.

The fourth-grade low-grade talisman that Song Qingming took out at this moment, although its value is not as high as the fourth-grade spiritual wood of the "Star Gate", it is still enough to be used as the finale spiritual object of this "auction".

Huang Siyuan took the fourth-level talisman that Song Qingming took out, and quickly responded with a smile, then carefully put it away.

Just as Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan were discussing matters related to the "auction", a wave of spiritual energy suddenly appeared at the restricted location at the entrance of the cave.

The next moment, a scarlet name card flew directly into the cave and landed in front of Song Qingming.

"The trade fair has already started, I didn't expect someone would come so late!"

Seeing Song Qingming reaching out to open the business card, Huang Siyuan also leaned over to look at it with some curiosity.

But what was written on the name card was a relatively unfamiliar name.

"Four Seas Merchant Alliance!"

"Husband! I seem to have heard of this Sihai Merchant Alliance somewhere before. Could it be the same merchant alliance we met at the Donghuang Sword Conference last time? Why are they suddenly coming to the trade fair?"

After thinking for a while, Huang Siyuan remembered that the "Qingxin Pavilion" she and Song Qingming had visited that year seemed to be the shop under the "Si Hai Business Alliance".

It's just that such a powerful force in the immortal cultivation world spanning several continents would actually send people to participate in the ordinary "Chiyun Mountain" trade fair held here.

Huang Siyuan was somewhat surprised, but also somewhat confused.

When Song Qingming saw the name "Long Ziyun", the figure who had worked with him in the past came to his mind again, and a slight surprise appeared on his face.

“I didn’t expect that she would be here!”

Back then in the "Qingxin Pavilion", Qi Rong took the initiative to propose cooperation with Song Qingming to extend the "Four Seas Business Alliance" to the immortal cultivation world of the Floating Cloud Mountains.

Faced with his proposal, Song Qingming returned to the sect and discussed it with Bai Yuxian, Xu Ziyan and others, and finally agreed to the other party's request.

A few years ago, Xu Ziyan had asked the sect to send someone to deliver a message to the branch of the "Four Seas Merchant Alliance" in the East China Sea Xiuxian World to respond to this matter.

However, the "Donghuang Xianzhou" and the "Leiyuanhai" cultivation worlds are too far apart, and it took several years for the news to be transmitted back and forth.

Now that I see Long Ziyun coming, I must think that the other party is ready to cooperate with me.

After explaining the matter to Huang Siyuan, Song Qingming took her out and came to the market at the foot of the mountain, where he met Long Ziyun who had just arrived at "Chiyun Mountain".

"Friend Long, it's been many years since we last met!"

"Ziyun greets Senior Song, and congratulates Senior on his Nascent Soul achievement!"

Decades have passed since the two last met in "Tianxin City". Long Ziyun's cultivation has reached the peak of the Golden Core stage and she is only one step away from the Nascent Soul stage.

However, although Long Ziyun's cultivation level was improving rapidly, there was still a huge gap compared to Song Qingming, who had already cultivated to the third level of Nascent Soul.

Compared to their last meeting, this time there was clearly a hint of envy in Long Ziyun's eyes when she looked at Song Qingming.

After all, although there is only one level of realm between the ninth level of the Golden Core and the Nascent Soul cultivators, their status in the world of immortal cultivation is worlds apart.

Even though Long Ziyun came from a large intercontinental force like the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, when she saw Song Qingming in front of her, she had to respectfully address him as "senior".

"Friend Long, please don't be polite. Come and take a seat!"

"I have already agreed to cooperate with your alliance. Fellow Daoist, have you come all the way here for this matter?"

After the two sides met and greeted each other, Song Qingming asked the cultivator outside to serve a cup of spiritual tea, then turned his head and asked with a smile the other party's purpose of coming.

Hearing this, Long Ziyun nodded quickly and said:
“Senior Song is right. I came to Chiyun Mountain this time because I was asked by the elders of the alliance to discuss the future cooperation between the two sides.

To show our sincerity, this is a gift that our alliance has specially prepared for you, Senior. I hope Senior Song will accept it."

As soon as Long Ziyun finished speaking, she took out the jade box that had been prepared on the side and presented it to Song Qingming with a respectful look.

After opening the jade box and taking a look, he found that what was placed inside was actually a valuable third-level elixir. Song Qingming nodded slightly and immediately gave it to Huang Siyuan who was standing beside him.

"Including the last time in Donghuang Country, I have dealt with your alliance twice. I trust you, otherwise I would not cooperate with you.

However, your alliance has never been to the immortal cultivation world of the Floating Cloud Mountains before, and you may not be familiar enough with the situation here.

If both sides want to achieve better cooperation and mutual benefit, it will take some time for us to adapt slowly.

Before you get familiar with this place, the prices of all spiritual objects above level 2 in your alliance shop must be negotiated with us before they can be determined.

This has been explained in the letter I sent you before, and Fellow Daoist Long should also be aware of it!"

After Song Qingming finished speaking, he looked at Long Ziyun who was sitting opposite him with a meaningful look.

Cooperating with a big force like the "Four Seas Merchant Alliance" can indeed bring many benefits to Weiguo and the many cultivators in the "Floating Cloud Mountains".

However, there are many profit-seeking people in the major business alliances in the world of cultivating immortals, so one must be very careful when cooperating with them.

Otherwise, once they enter the major markets, they will start hoarding supplies uncontrollably and deliberately disrupt the prices of spiritual objects in the market. This will not be a good thing for Song Qingming and others.

In order to prevent this from happening, Song Qingming had to make three rules with the other party. This was also a countermeasure that he and Bai Yuxian and others had already discussed.

Hearing Song Qingming's reminder, Long Ziyun nodded with a smile on her face and said:
“Don’t worry, senior, the elders have already explained these things before I came here.

We, the Sihai Business Alliance, have just arrived and are not familiar with the surrounding conditions. Naturally, we still need to listen to the advice of our predecessors on these matters.

The main purpose of my visit this time is to discuss the specific details of cooperation with my seniors.

If the senior agrees, we plan to open a few shops in the Chiyun Mountain Market to try it out first, and if it works, we will make follow-up plans."

"Yes! Of course you can. I'll let Siqing accompany you to the market these days. If you need any help, just tell her directly."

After saying that, Song Qingming asked Song Siqing, who was waiting outside the door, to come in and meet and get to know Long Ziyun.

Song Siqing has been staying in the "Chiyun Mountain" market for these years, and has been learning alchemy from Huang Siyuan for many years. Now, not only has her cultivation advanced to the sixth level of foundation building, but her alchemy skills have also successfully broken through to the second-level upper level.

In recent years, Song Siqing has been highly regarded by the family ancestor Huang Siyuan. He has become the leader of many Song family cultivators in the "Chiyun Mountain" market and is very familiar with the situation in the market.

With the help of Song Siqing, Long Ziyun quickly found five or six shops with good locations in the "Chiyun Mountain" market and signed contracts with the market on the spot.

While Long Ziyun and Song Siqing were looking for shops in the market, the long-prepared "Trading Conference" of Chiyun Mountain Market was opened as scheduled.

Referring to the many "trading conferences" he had participated in, Song Qingming also separated the "Chiyun Mountain" trade fair from the outside market and set up a separate trading place for it.

After receiving the news that the conference was about to start, many monks who came to participate in the "Trading Conference" immediately flocked into a large square to the west of the market.

This square is divided into two rings, the inner and outer rings. The many shops outside mainly sell items commonly used by low-level cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage. There are not many requirements to enter the outer ring. You only need to register your identity at the entrance. All cultivators who come to participate in the "Trading Conference" can enter.

The shops in the middle inner ring sell second-level spiritual items above the foundation-building level.

If you want to enter here, you need a cultivation level above the foundation building level, or enough spirit stones to prove your identity, in order to be allowed in by the law enforcement monks in the market.

In order to prepare for this conference, "Chiyun Mountain" prepared for several years and also invited "Xiaoyao Sect" and "Tianji Sect" to help.

As long as you can find the spiritual object in the market on the east side of the "Floating Cloud Mountains", the "Trading Conference" will have it all, and the prices of many spiritual objects will be slightly discounted by 10% or 20%.

Seeing so many spiritual objects appear at the "Trading Conference", the monks who came to attend the conference naturally became excited and hurriedly began to search around for what they needed.

The merchants who had already prepared well not far away also showed some excitement when they saw the crazy influx of people, and immediately began to get busy.

While the "Trading Conference" was in full swing in the market town at the foot of the mountain, Song Qingming, the main organizer of the trading conference, was hiding in his cave and enjoying some leisure time.

The "trading conference" a few days ago was mainly aimed at the many low-level monks who came to participate in the conference.

These matters were certainly not the turn of him, an old ancestor in the Nascent Soul stage, to worry about. The many cultivators in the market town at the foot of the mountain were able to handle these matters.

After taking out the elixir and feeding the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly" in front of him, Song Qingming turned around and walked out of the insect room and came to the secret room where the puppets were practicing.

Seeing two figures practicing not far ahead, Song Qingming first stepped forward to replace the spirit stones for the "Spirit Gathering Array" in front of them.

Then he turned around and came to a separate high-level "Spirit Gathering Array" next to it, cast a spell and stepped into it.

During the five years of seclusion, in addition to his daily practice and refining of talismans and magic arrays, Song Qingming also spent a lot of time cultivating the spirit insects and puppets around him.

However, because the amount of "Wanling Dew" stored in his body is limited, the number of "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterflies" cultivated by Song Qingming over the years is still very limited.

On average, only two or three "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" mutate and advance every year, and the speed of their advancement is relatively slow.

However, if the number of these "colorful fantasy butterflies" is too small, their power will be difficult to demonstrate, and they can only be used to explore the way and search for treasures.

Song Qingming estimated that at least hundreds of mutated spirit insects would be needed for these "seven-colored phantom butterflies" to reach the Nascent Soul level of combat power.

This will require a lot of resources and time before we can gradually see results.

Compared to the "Seven-Colored Fantasy Butterfly", which advanced too slowly, the "puppet" around him changed much faster after Song Qingming spent a huge amount of money to cultivate it.

Because too much spiritual liquid had been used up before, Song Qingming was not very confident that the remaining "Heavenly Fire Spiritual Liquid" could quickly upgrade the Nascent Soul puppet to the third level of Nascent Soul.

After hesitating for a while, he decided to put all the remaining spiritual liquid into the "Golden Wind" in front of him.

After several years of continuous feeding, "Jinfeng"'s cultivation quickly advanced to the peak of the Golden Core realm as expected, and he was only one step away from breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

In order to cooperate with the "Golden Wind" to successfully break through the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition to feeding him a large amount of "Heavenly Fire Spirit Liquid", Song Qingming also specially refined a high-level "Spirit Gathering Array" to provide him with sufficient spiritual energy for cultivation.

In the past few years, he has used tens of thousands of spirit stones in the "Spirit Gathering Array".

Together with the "Heavenly Fire Spirit Liquid" that had been used on "Jin Feng", its value was already at least hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, more than enough to exchange for an "Infant Pei Pill" at an auction outside.

Song Qingming's purpose in spending so much effort and investing so many resources in "Golden Wind" was to upgrade this puppet that had followed him for many years to the Nascent Soul stage.

And now the situation is almost just as Song Qingming expected. The aura of "Golden Wind" is faintly approaching the edge of a breakthrough, with only one breath left.

Although puppets have no self-awareness and do not need to bear the pain of cultivators breaking their elixir and transforming into infants, in this respect it is relatively easier for them to advance to the Nascent Soul stage than normal cultivators.

But even so, there is still a high probability of failure in the process of breaking through the Nascent Soul stage.

Even though he spent so many spirit stones and effort on "Golden Wind", Song Qingming still wasn't sure whether the other party could successfully advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

However, since the decision has been made, Song Qingming is also very firm in his heart.

Even if "Golden Wind" does not succeed this time, he will find a way to find other spiritual objects for it in the future and slowly cultivate it to the Nascent Soul stage.

After replacing the spirit stone and patiently checking the status of the "Golden Wind", Song Qingming turned around and returned to the cave where he had practiced.

After tidying up the talisman-making materials on the table, Song Qingming's eyes turned to the wooden basin placed aside.

He walked forward, cast a spell, and rummaged around inside. Soon he pulled something out from the pile of dirt and placed it in front of him.

Ever since I got this green bean from the stroke channel of "Qinghe Cave" five years ago.

In addition to practicing over the years, Song Qingming also spent a lot of time looking for relevant books and materials, wanting to study the origin of this thing.

But what disappointed him was that even after he looked through all the classics he had accumulated over the years, he could not find anything similar.

It seems that this thing does not exist at all in the current world of cultivation.

Moreover, this thing is as hard as iron and has no spiritual energy at all. Over the years, whether Song Qingming flooded it, burned it, or buried it in the ground, it did not show any reaction.

If this green bean had not been brought out from the "Qinghe Cave Mansion" by himself, Song Qingming would probably have thought it was just an ordinary stone on the roadside.

Seeing that he had studied it for such a long time but still had no clue, Song Qingming could only sigh softly and put it away.
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Five days later, in a tall attic on the west side of the market town at the foot of the mountain.

After a few days of excitement, it was now the last few days of the "Trading Conference" at Chiyun Mountain. The many cultivators participating in the conference had all gathered in the attic where the "auction" was held.

At the "trading conference" a few days ago, many of the spiritual objects put up for sale in the market were mainly low-level first and second level spiritual objects provided to Qi-refining and foundation-building cultivators.

If you want to purchase precious high-level spiritual objects above level three, you will need to participate in the final "auction".

In order to hold this "auction" successfully, the Chiyun Mountain Market spent several years carefully building this tall attic that can accommodate thousands of monks at the same time.

If you want to enter this attic to participate in the "auction", you also need to verify your identity before you can enter.

At this time, at the top of the attic, in a large room overlooking the entire conference site, Song Qingming, Huang Siyuan, and senior sister Li Xuanyi who had not appeared for a long time, were sitting at a wooden table drinking tea and chatting.

After such a long period of seclusion and recuperation, Li Xuanyi's injuries had almost recovered. He came out half a year ago and traveled around the area.

It was not until recent days that Li Xuanyi, who learned that the "auction conference" was about to be held in Chiyun Mountain, rushed back to "Chiyun Mountain" from nearby, wanting to join in the fun.

After traveling for more than half a year, Li Xuanyi's mood is much better than when he first came out of seclusion. He kept sharing the scenery and interesting things he encountered during this period with Song Qingming and others.

Seeing that his senior sister had completely recovered from the failure of forming a baby, Song Qingming was also happy for her.

Just as the three were chatting, the "auction" held below was officially opened with the auctioneer's loud announcement, instantly attracting the attention of Song Qingming and others.

Compared to the many spiritual objects sold directly at trade fairs outside, the spiritual objects selected for the "auction" are naturally all of higher grades and rare items that are rarely seen in the market.

With the introduction of the auctioneer, the first item soon appeared in front of everyone. It was a golden talisman with a small sword painted on it.

"Is this a level three spiritual talisman?"

"You are really ignorant, this thing is much more expensive than the ordinary third-level spiritual talisman. It is a talisman made by a Jindan cultivator!"

“It’s actually a talisman.”

The sight of the golden talisman on the auction table instantly attracted a lot of discussion among the monks below, and some knowledgeable monks recognized it immediately.

“My fellow Taoists, I’m sure many of you have not seen this thing yet, but let me introduce it to you first.

This thing is called,..."

Compared with the general third-level low-grade talismans, this kind of talisman that can be used multiple times is more valuable, and it is also what many immortal cultivation families like to collect as a treasure.

After hearing the auctioneer's introduction, many monks in the audience were quickly excited and their eyes showed some excitement.

Just as Song Qingming and others had expected, the first item quickly attracted competition from many foundation-building cultivators.

Even some of the Jindan cultivators sitting in the private room on the second floor came out to participate in the bidding.

In the end, this talisman was sold at a high price of more than 10,000 spirit stones and was successfully won by a Jindan cultivator who came to attend the auction.

Next, many golden elixir-level elixirs, talismans, magic weapons, and other spiritual objects appeared on the stage, attracting the monks below to fight for them again.

In fact, not all of the items put up for auction were taken out by Song Qingming.

Half of them were spiritual objects sent by the "Xiaoyao Sect" and the "Tianji Sect", and many were provided by merchants in the market and monks participating in the auction.

However, no matter who provides the items, as long as they are successfully sold at the "auction", the market must take 10% of the spirit stones from them.

This is also the tacit rule that everyone follows when many "auctions" are held in the world of immortal cultivation.

Seeing the spiritual objects being auctioned off one after another being sold successfully, Song Qingming now had a smile on his face.

If nothing unexpected happens, this "auction" should help him earn a lot of spiritual stones. (End of this chapter)