Yunmeng Immortal Clan

After returning to the Azure Lotus Islands, Song Daoxuan resolved to go into seclusion. During his trip to the Cloud Dream Market, he encountered several cultivators whose cultivation levels were higher than his own.

With his past life's thoughts, Song Daoxuan felt an inexplicable pressure. Even though he possessed a treasure like the Qi-Gathering Gourd, which could absorb the essence of the moon and the power of the purple clouds for his own use, he could lose his life at any time in this cultivation world if he was not careful.

Upon entering seclusion, the task of guarding the medicinal garden on Qingsui Mountain naturally shifted from Song Daoxuan to Song Daoxu.

Song Daoxu cultivated the Green Wood Technique, a basic Five Elements technique. The Green Wood Technique was only a mid-grade Yellow level technique, a common one in the cultivation world.

However, in this world of cultivation, whether it is a Golden Core True Person or a Nascent Soul True Lord, during the Qi Refining stage, they can only cultivate the Yellow-level Five Elements Basic Techniques. They cannot cultivate any more advanced techniques, because the basic techniques are all Qi Refining Techniques, which are tailor-made for the magical power of Qi Refining cultivators.

If you want to learn more advanced techniques, you can only wait until you break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

In the cultivation world, all cultivators must cultivate a basic cultivation technique to the ninth level before they can attempt to establish their foundation.

Song Daoxu's four spiritual roots were ordained by heaven, and his cultivation method had a lower threshold. Therefore, after many years of cultivation, his cultivation level had reached the sixth level of Qi Refining. Although he consumed fewer Qi Gathering Pills than Song Daoxuan, he was still ahead of Song Daoxuan on the path of cultivation.

The Five Elements Revolving Technique cultivated by Song Daoxuan is quite unique and has been classified as a basic cultivation method of the Five Elements. However, the many limitations of this technique have led those who occasionally obtain it to abandon it.

The first condition is that one must have the five elements spiritual roots to cultivate this method. The second condition is that one must have abundant qi and blood to cultivate this method. The third condition is that this method is several times slower to advance than other basic five elements cultivation methods.

Song Daoxuan's cultivation of the Five Elements Revolving Technique yielded very little result. Although his cultivation level reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, he had only managed to cultivate this technique to the third level.

Like other Five Elements cultivation techniques, the Five Elements Revolving Technique is divided into nine levels, and its effects are to enhance the cultivator's perception of various types of spiritual energy.

The Five Elements Revolving Technique enhances a cultivator's sensitivity to the five types of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, as well as the balance of these five types of spiritual energy within the cultivator's body.

At twenty-seven years old, Song Daoxuan was no longer young. Ordinary Qi Refining cultivators with five spiritual roots would find it difficult to even break through to the late stage of Qi Refining. Fortunately, Song Daoxuan had cleansed his roots with Taiyin Dew. Although his roots were still in the form of five spiritual roots, his cultivation speed was no less than that of cultivators with four spiritual roots.

This also broke Song Daoxuan's cultivation limit. It is estimated that reaching the late stage of Qi Refining is a natural thing, but reaching the Great Perfection or even the higher Foundation Establishment stage will require some great opportunities and coincidences.

Before going into seclusion, Song Daoxuan paid a visit to Song Chuanyuan.

Two children stood in front of Song Chuanyuan's cave. Both children had braids and a bright red cinnabar dot between their eyebrows.

Song Daoxuan heard that the clan chief, Song Zhichu, had searched for two children with spiritual roots in the countryside on behalf of Song Chuanyuan. Although they did not have the bloodline of the Song clan, they were given the surname Song. One was named Song Xiaofu, and the other was named Song Xiaolu.

Song Xiaofu's spiritual roots are average, four spiritual roots, but that's enough for a Foundation Establishment cultivation family.

Song Xiaolu, on the other hand, possessed the aptitude of three spiritual roots: water, fire, and wood, making him a natural candidate for refining elixirs.

The two children had never seen Song Daoxuan before, yet they stopped him outside the cave.

"Stop! Master is resting..."

Upon hearing this, Song Daoxuan didn't bother arguing with the two children, but he thought to himself:

"These past few years, my great-uncle has been sleeping for longer and longer periods of time, probably due to old age. Judging by his age, his lifespan seems to be drawing ever closer. He is a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. Once he passes away, although the Song family won't be wiped out, some of our old enemy families will probably come out and cause trouble!"

"Is that Xiao Daoxuan? Please come in quickly. Xiao Fu and Xiao Lu are really rude. This is your senior brother, who is already a first-level alchemist in the family!" As if sensing the commotion outside the cave, an old hand covered with age spots pushed open the door, coughed lightly, and revealed a face full of vicissitudes.

It was none other than the great-uncle, Song Chuanyuan, the only cultivator in the current generation of the family whose cultivation had reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Upon hearing Song Chuanyuan's words, the two children were startled, then their expressions brightened with joy, and they both called out to Song Daoxuan, "Senior Brother!"

Song Chuanyuan looked at the two children with a kind expression.

"I'm giving you all a day off today. Go and have some fun! I have something to say to your senior brother."

Although Song Daoxuan was apprenticed to Song Chuanyuan in alchemy, within the family, Song Daoxuan and Song Chuanyuan were family members, and Song Daoxuan preferred to directly address him as his great-uncle.

The two children, still innocent and childlike, cheered and jumped for joy upon hearing Song Chuanyuan's words. They had no interest in alchemy or cultivation to begin with, and soon ran off to Tianque Peak.

"My days are numbered, and I've heard you're also going into seclusion for your final retreat. I wish to impart all my knowledge of alchemy to you here on Tianque Peak. Learn as much as you can. My greatest regret in life is that I never broke through from a first-tier alchemist to a second-tier alchemist..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Song Chuanyuan immediately started refining pills on the spot, demonstrating all the alchemy techniques he had learned in his life.

Song Daoxuan gained a lot, and his teachings on alchemy lasted for more than a month. Even though they were both first-level alchemists, Song Daoxuan sensed a significant gap between himself and his great-uncle.

The alchemy skills of his great-uncle improved Song Daoxuan in the following aspects.

First, the proportions for refining pills are more precise; second, the timing for adding spiritual plants and herbs in pill refining is more skillful; third, the control of fire is more proficient; and fourth, I have learned many pill refining methods, including not only fire refining but also rare techniques such as water refining and lightning refining.

The old grand-uncle left Song Daoxuan his alchemy furnace and a book titled "Complete Explanation of the Book of Transmission of Elixir".

After teaching this alchemy lesson...

The old uncle returned to his cave to rest and fell into a deep sleep.

After winter arrived that same year, two children brought a bowl of white jade spirit rice and a bowl of soup made from spirit birds.

"Bang bang!" Two children gently knocked on the door of the old uncle's cave, but no one answered after several knocks.

The two children had no choice but to push open the cave door and go to their great-uncle's bed. They glimpsed the old man, who was icy cold all over and had no trace of human life. Having seen such a scene before, the two children could only shake their great-uncle's stiff arms and cry out to heaven and earth for a long time without getting any response.

After a long while, someone from the family came and spread the news of the old ancestor's passing throughout the peaks of the Qinglian Islands.