Yunmeng Immortal Clan

On the surface of Qingfeng Lake, all seemed calm and peaceful. Since the failed attempt to steal the spirit fish and the near annihilation of the entire group, no new cultivators have come to steal the spirit fish.

Song Daoxuan spent his days on Qingfeng Lake either refining pills or studying basic spells. During this time, he had already mastered some spells that had reached the high level of proficiency and perfected them.

When a spell is perfected, it means that the spell can be cast instantly without chanting incantations, and both the power and speed of the spell can be displayed at the peak during the Qi Refining stage.

Perfect level Fireball, Perfect level Water Arrow, Wood Binding, and Traction.

As for the perfected level of the Turtle Breath Technique, it is even more exquisite. He can now easily hide and fabricate his cultivation level and aura in front of Foundation Establishment cultivators. However, the Turtle Breath Technique also has limitations. When using the Turtle Breath Technique to conceal himself, he cannot use his magic power. Otherwise, the Turtle Breath Technique will immediately break down and he will not be able to use it again for a long time.

Besides the perfected level of the Turtle Breathing Technique, he had also mastered the Demonic Soul Searching Technique, which he had taken from the red-robed demonic cultivator. This mastered Soul Searching Technique allowed Song Daoxuan to easily search the memories of cultivators whose spiritual power was lower than his own.

However, if this soul-searching technique is used to search for a cultivator whose spiritual power is higher than one's own, it will directly cause a backlash to the soul, at the very least severely injuring the soul and turning one into an idiot.

It was summer, and the ten-mile peach orchard on Qingfeng Lake was suddenly laden with abundant fruit.

These peach groves have existed here ever since the discovery of the spiritual spring at the eye of Qingfeng Lake by the Song family of immortal cultivators on Qinglian Island. They bloom in spring and bear fruit in summer.

Later, the Song clan discovered that the peaches from these peach trees were rich in spiritual energy. Although eating them would not bring any benefit to cultivators, they were beneficial to ordinary people who lacked spiritual roots.

Consuming such a spiritual peach can cure diseases and strengthen the body.

The cultivators of the Song clan on Qinglian Island later called this peach tree the Qingfeng Peach. Any mortal in the clan who made outstanding contributions would be rewarded with this spiritual peach. From then on, the morale of the Song clan was greatly boosted, and everyone devoted themselves to contributing to the clan.

However, any cultivator from Qinglian Island may come to this lake to pick spirit peaches, but there is one condition: they cannot take them out of the Qingfeng Lake area.

Song Daoxuan sat upright in front of the pavilion of the bamboo building at Qingfeng Lake.

Song Hongyu arrived and instructed a pretty maid to bring a jade plate containing several brightly colored Qingfeng Spirit Peaches.

"Dao Xuan, these are spirit peaches, a specialty of our Qingfeng Lake. Since this is your first time visiting Qingfeng Lake, you must try these local specialties!"

Song Daoxuan thanked him, then summoned a ray of spiritual light that enveloped a spirit peach. He picked it up and took a bite.

"Mmm...delicious! Plump, juicy, sweet, and crisp—this spirit peach is truly a top-quality fruit..."

"You can eat as much as you want, Dao Xuan. Qingfeng Lake has no shortage of such things. However, if you can generously help with the harvest of spirit peaches..." Song Hongyu said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Song Daoxuan's expression froze, and he put down the spirit peach in his hand.

"We're all family, there's no need to be so polite about these small things. Even if Uncle hadn't said anything, Dao Xuan would definitely have helped!"

Well done, Uncle Hong Yu. No wonder you came to offer spirit peaches. It turns out you wanted to ask me, a cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Tenth Level of Qi Refining, to help you pick them. It turns out these spirit peaches aren't all that delicious after all.

However, since they were all members of the Song clan of Qinglian Island, Song Daoxuan couldn't refuse their request.

After resting for half a day, Song Daoxuan and many of his fellow cultivators began picking the so-called Qingfeng peaches in the peach grove by Qingfeng Lake in the afternoon.

With the magical abilities of these cultivators, Qingfeng's harvesting speed was naturally extremely fast.

In three whole days, the Qingfeng Picking Tree had been picked almost completely.

However, at this moment, a dozen golden-haired demon monkeys appeared on a Qingfeng Peach Tree. The tree was bare, clearly having been picked clean of all the Qingfeng Peaches by these demon monkeys.

These monkey demons had just finished a hearty meal, their bellies bulging like watermelons. Now they lay on the branches, lazily basking in the sun, looking quite content.

"You bunch of demon monkeys, how dare you steal peaches! You're tired of living..." Soon, the vicious act of these demon monkeys was discovered by a cultivator who had reached the fifth level of Qi Refining. He immediately formed a hand seal, intending to unleash a fireball spell to bombard the demon monkeys.

"Absolutely not! Your fireball spell might not even hit these demon monkeys; the peach trees on Green Wind Lake will be burned to the ground!"

Hearing the advice of others, the clan cultivator's expression softened, and he immediately clapped his hands, dispelling the magic seal.

Immediately, the cultivators from these families stopped using magic and flew directly towards the monkeys, preparing to capture these petty thieves who had stolen the spirit peaches.

Unexpectedly, these demonic monkeys, although they had no offensive capabilities, were extremely fast, reaching a speed comparable to the Great Perfection of the Tenth Level of Qi Refining. Among the many cultivators present, Song Daoxuan was the fastest.

"This is a Ghost Hand Monkey, a first-tier demonic beast. It doesn't have much offensive power, but it's extremely troublesome. Its speed is astonishing. Among first-tier demonic beasts, the Ghost Hand Monkey is considered top-tier! This Ghost Hand Monkey is extremely skilled at stealing, making it one of the most troublesome demonic beasts for many spirit plant cultivators..." As soon as Song Daoxuan thought of this, he started tracking down a Ghost Hand Monkey.

A wooden binding spell quickly entangled a ghost hand monkey, forcibly capturing it alive.

"This group of ghost hand monkeys has scattered. Even with my Qi Refining Stage 10 Perfection cultivation, I cannot capture and eliminate them all. However, these ghost hand monkeys should belong to the same nest. I'll just have to try my Soul Searching Technique and find out the location of the ghost hand monkey's nest from their memories..."

Thinking of this, Song Daoxuan made a hand seal, and a hazy gray light appeared, indicating that he was activating the Soul Searching Technique.

The Soul Searching Technique struck the head of the Ghost Hand Monkey, quickly revealing the location of its lair.

He knew that the ghostly monkeys that had just stolen the peaches would eventually escape to a cave, which was the location he remembered, and fly away.

Soon, Song Daoxuan arrived at a place overgrown with bushes. As he parted the bushes, an extremely hidden cave came into view. The place in front of him was clearly the location of the Ghost Hand Monkey's lair.