Yunmeng Immortal Clan

Song Honghu couldn't help but roll his eyes at Song Daoxuan.

Song Honghu didn't know which parent his son resembled, since neither he nor his wife Jiang Ruyi were the type to be overly cautious!

"Now that Dao Xuan has already established his foundation, and Dao Xuan also possesses Foundation Establishment Pills, then I, as his father, will naturally not waste them. I will first establish my own foundation before considering my contribution to the family. Although I am loyal to the family, having started as a mortal, I ultimately have my own selfish motives!"

"From this day forward, I will continue my cultivation until I reach the Great Perfection of the tenth level of Qi Refining, at which point I will undergo my second Foundation Establishment..."

Upon hearing this, Song Daoxuan placed four Foundation Establishment Pills inside Song Honghu's cave and left on his own.

The meeting between Song Daoxuan and Song Honghu was kept extremely secret, as it was scheduled for noon. As a result, none of the Song clan cultivators on Qinglian Island knew about it.

Several months later.

Inside a cave somewhere on Haoyue Peak, one of the eight famous peaks of the Qinglian Islands.

A man dressed in a brown Taoist robe sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly narrowed. From all directions of the cave, spiritual energy of various colors gathered into his body.

A moment later, a powerful voice resounded throughout the entire Haoyue Peak, and the middle-aged man in the brown Taoist robe couldn't help but open his eyes.

"After swallowing three Foundation Establishment Pills in a row, I barely managed to establish my foundation. I'm somewhat useless, but thankfully I finally succeeded. Although this is my second attempt, I accidentally damaged my meridians during the previous attempt, and I'm already quite old. Even if I can establish my foundation now, I'm afraid my cultivation will only reach the early stage of Foundation Establishment for the rest of my life..."

"However, Foundation Establishment cultivators can live up to two hundred years, which is an extremely exciting thing for most cultivators in the cultivation world. We have to thank Dao Xuan for that. As for what the Foundation Establishment Pill is, I don't plan to ask any further. After all, everyone in the cultivation world has their own secrets..."

"I, Song Honghu, have no regrets in this life for having such a gifted son!"

Several days later, another earth-shattering piece of news came from the Song Clan of Qinglian Island: after Song Daoxuan became the sixth family elder of the Song Clan of Qinglian Island, Song Daoxuan's father, Song Honghu, successfully established his foundation again, becoming the seventh Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivator in the family.

Just as the Song Clan on Qinglian Island was holding the Foundation Establishment Ceremony for Song Honghu in full swing, another major upheaval occurred in the entire Yunmeng Immortal Prefecture. That was the Mu Clan of Qingzhi Ridge, whose strength was greatly diminished after the beast tide.

The two great immortal cultivation families, the Yiling Wang Clan and the Heishan Gu Clan, joined forces, integrating all the Foundation Establishment cultivators within their families, to launch a comprehensive attack on all the cultivation resource points of the Qingzhi Mu Clan.

The Qingzhimu family was actually wealthier than the Song family of Qinglian Island.

One of the beast-taming shops in Yunmeng Market was the first resource point for the Qingzhimu Clan to earn spirit stones.

They specialize in selling spirit beast eggs. The Qingzhimu clan is extremely skilled at cultivating functional spirit beasts. Although these spirit beasts are much inferior to those produced by the Beast Control Sect, they win by sheer quantity, resulting in extremely low prices and securing a place in the low-end spirit beast market.

The Song family of Qinglian Island has some expertise in cultivating spiritual herbs, and they harvest a large amount of spiritual rice every year.

Once the spirit rice is harvested, the withered rice stalks can be crushed into rice bran for the monsters to eat. Although this rice bran is far inferior to the abundant spiritual energy contained in the spirit rice and cannot provide nutrition for the high-quality spirit beasts of the Beast Control Sect, it is more than enough to provide nutrition for the low-end spirit beasts of the Qingzhimu Clan.

However, behind this beast-taming shop is Shouyang Mountain.

Besides Shouyang Mountain, there is Hanyan Valley, where a kind of spirit insect called the White Jade Bee is abundant. This spirit insect produces White Jade Honey, which is the main raw material for brewing the immortal wine, White Jade Immortal Wine.

White Jade Immortal Wine is a second-tier spiritual wine in the cultivation world, and it is very expensive.

Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator can elevate their comprehension to the peak state of Celestial Sensation after drinking a bowl of White Jade Immortal Wine. In this state, cultivators can achieve twice the results with half the effort in both cultivating techniques and comprehending spells and supernatural powers.

However, the White Jade Immortal Wine has a limitation: it is only effective for cultivators in the early to mid-stages of Foundation Establishment. Furthermore, the effect is strongest when a cultivator drinks the first bowl of White Jade Immortal Wine, and then decreases.

After the third bowl of White Jade Immortal Wine, the effect was barely noticeable.

The brewing method for this White Jade Immortal Wine is in the hands of the Qingzhimu clan.

The third cultivation resource point of the Qingzhimu Clan is the Fire Toad Pool. The Earth Fire Toad produced in the Fire Toad Pool can be easily killed even by a low-level Qi Refining cultivator. However, the Earth Fire Toad is a treasure trove.

The skin of the fire toad can not only be used in the making of fire-attribute talismans, but the fire toad's venom glands are also the main ingredient for making the famous Heavenly Fire Toad Poison in the cultivation world. However, the process of making this poison is very complicated.

Foundation Establishment cultivators can easily resist the Heavenly Fire Toad Poison, but for Qi Refining cultivators, it is an absolutely lethal toxin.

However, although there are many fire toads, the amount of toxins they carry is not large.

The most precious part of the Earth Fire Toad is a very small portion of a special mineral called Mystic Fire Crystal that forms inside its body.

This ore is a material for refining top-tier magical artifacts.

The concentration of these three resource points makes the Qingzhimu Clan slightly stronger than the Song Clan of Qinglian Island in terms of overall family wealth.

However, the Qingzhimu clan, despite its magnificent family fortune, suffered a significant loss of strength after the Beast Tide War. In contrast, the Yilingwang clan and the Heishangu clan were each individually no less powerful than the Qingzhimu clan.

However, in terms of family wealth, the two families were far inferior to the Qingzhimu family.

The Mu family's vast wealth had long been the envy of the two family heads, Wang Zhengchun, a cultivator in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and Gu Jingze, also in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

At this critical moment, the two families split up and attacked the Fire Toad Pool and Cold Smoke Valley of the Qingzhimu Clan, forcibly seizing these two cultivation resource sites for themselves.

The Qingzhimu clan had long valued these two cultivation resource sites. One site had many cultivators at the late Qi Refining stage, while the other was even guarded by a highly respected Foundation Establishment stage immortal cultivator from the clan.

As a result, all the late-stage Qi Refining cultivators in Cold Smoke Valley were slaughtered. As for the Foundation Establishment cultivator in Fire Toad Pool, he fought desperately for the sake of the entire cultivation family until the last moment of his life, but was ultimately killed instantly by a spell from a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, leaving not even a trace of his remains.

The entire Cold Mist Valley and Fire Toad Pool have changed their flags, now bearing the banners of the two major Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivation Families, the Yiling Wang Clan and the Black Mountain Gu Clan.

The actions of the two families immediately caused a great stir in the cultivation world of the entire Yunmeng Immortal Continent.