Yunmeng Immortal Clan

On this day, heavy snow fell on the peaks of the Qinglian Islands, covering the layered mountains in a blanket of white.

At the very center of the Qinglian Islands stands a magnificent peak, exceptionally tall. A middle-aged man dressed in black gazes up at the sky, reaching out to scoop up a feather-like snowflake. The snowflake is pure white, crystalline, and icy cold.

A cold wind blew, causing the robes of the middle-aged man to flutter loudly.

If any members of the Song clan from the Qinglian Islands were here at this moment, they would surely recognize this middle-aged man. His name is Song Zhichu, the current head of the Song clan of Qinglian Island, one of the seven great immortal cultivation families on the shores of Yunmeng Marsh.

Song Zhichu was over sixty years old, possessed the aptitude of three spiritual roots, and had a cultivation level in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Foundation Establishment cultivators can live up to two hundred years, so Song Zhichu was at the peak of his life.

However, he shouldered the responsibility for the rise and fall of the entire Song family on Qinglian Island, working tirelessly day and night. If he were not careful, the great ship of the Song family would capsize. Therefore, he had some wrinkles on his face and some silver strands mixed in with his full head of black hair.

Song Chuanyuan's Jade Peak was closest to Song Zhichu's Heavenly Peak, so Song Zhichu was the first to know about Song Chuanyuan's martyrdom.

"The escape route I prepared for you, you ultimately intend not to use it? Father, you are so kind, no wonder you do not receive the favor of the Great Dao..."

In his eyes, Song Chuanyuan's life was one of pursuing the Dao, but the Dao never favored him. In his later years, he broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Given enough time, he would surely be able to break through to the peak of Foundation Establishment, and even try to form the Core.

But the Great Dao did not favor him, and his lifespan eventually came to an end, which shows that the path to immortality is rugged and longevity is hard to come by.

The so-called backup plan was two children with spiritual roots that Song Zhichu found from the common people. Song Zhichu had previously obtained an ancient jade slip.

This jade slip contains a secret technique called the "Yin Yang Soul-Seizing Technique".

This technique requires finding two young children with spiritual roots, one of whom must be a boy born in a yang month and at a yang hour, and the other a girl born in a yin month and at a yin hour. Once the two children have entered the Qi Refining stage, a series of secret techniques and incantations are used to obtain the complete body of one of the children.

Once the secret technique is successfully executed, one can easily and without any bottlenecks cultivate to 30% of their original cultivation level, and then become no different from an ordinary cultivator.

Although the art of possession is common in the cultivation world, it is not easy to cultivate to even 30% of the original owner's cultivation level, which is enough to show the extraordinary nature of this secret technique.

Once this secret technique is mastered, the two children will surely have no chance of survival.

However, Song Chuanyuan, a man of integrity and upright character, would never heed his nephew's suggestion to use this secret technique to possess the bodies of two innocent children...

Soon, the family cultivators on Qinglian Island heard the news of the passing of Ancestor Song Chuanyuan one after another, and they all gathered at Tianque Peak, where the ancestor had lived, to mourn him.

Then, the other cultivation families on the Azure Lotus Islands and the people from the Bamboo Creek Sect sent cultivators to come, and there were even some unnamed rogue cultivators.

Whether these cultivation forces or cultivators are sincere or simply trying to find out the truth, it's impossible to know.

When Song Chuanyuan passed away, Song Daoxuan, who was in seclusion, was the last to learn of the news. So when he was helping his ancestor's coffin to be buried, he felt deep regret because he could not see his ancestor one last time.

He could never repay the kindness of his ancestor in alchemy, nor would he have the chance to do so in this lifetime.

But since he had inherited the entire legacy of his ancestor in alchemy, Song Daoxuan secretly vowed to at least fulfill his ancestor's wish and become a second-tier alchemist.

As for repaying the family, Song Daoxuan did not consider himself a kind person like his ancestor. Unless he possessed a certain level of cultivation that allowed him to influence the overall situation of the family, he would only occasionally help the family.

After the ancestor's funeral was completed.

Song Daoxuan turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside and secluded himself to improve his cultivation level.

With a sum of spirit stones at his disposal, and the help of the Qi Gathering Pill, Song Daoxuan cultivated for three years, reaching the age of twenty-nine. When the cicadas sang in the summer, he broke through his cultivation level and became a true cultivator at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm.

As for the cultivation of the Five Elements Revolving Technique, he also progressed smoothly to about the sixth level.

At this point in his cultivation, he encountered another bottleneck. Even though his cultivation speed was comparable to that of a cultivator with four spiritual roots, cultivators with four spiritual roots still faced bottlenecks, though fewer than those with five spiritual roots.

Over the years, his alchemy skills have also improved frequently. He estimated that he dared not say that his current alchemy skills were the strongest among the first-level alchemists in Yunmeng Prefecture, but on the Qinglian Islands, Song Daoxuan's alchemy skills were unmatched.

He was more than capable of refining first-tier pills, but he was completely unfamiliar with second-tier pills.

Song Daoxuan refined many first-tier pills, but he always secretly concealed his identity and went to Yunmeng Market to sell them, thereby exchanging them for spirit stones to buy Gathering Breath Pills to aid his cultivation, which is how he achieved his current success.

Song Daoxuan used the Purple Dew gathered in his Qi-Gathering Gourd to quickly ripen the spiritual herbs. Then, he used his skillful alchemy to refine first-grade immortal pills, which caused the number of spirit stones in Song Daoxuan's storage bag to increase dramatically.

Ordinary Qi Refining cultivators would need to hoard spirit stones for several years just to buy a single Qi Gathering Pill, but Song Daoxuan had no such worries. He consumed ten times more Qi Gathering Pills than ordinary Qi Refining cultivators.

There is also the concept of drug resistance in the cultivation world, but drug resistance basically does not occur in Qi Refining cultivators, because the number of pills that a Qi Refining cultivator can buy is limited.

However, due to taking too much of the same type of pill, Gathering Breath Pill, Song Daoxuan developed a strong tolerance to it. Now that he was at the bottleneck of the eighth level of Qi Refining, it was impossible for him to continue taking this first-tier pill.

If he wanted to continue improving his cultivation level, there was only one way: to find a substitute pill for the Gathering Breath Pill.

He went to Yunmeng Market again and learned some information from Old Man Ge. Although he, a Qi Refining cultivator, could not enter the inner area of ​​Yunmeng Market, the Yunmeng Immortal Gathering, which was held once every nine years, was in six months.

During the Yunmeng Immortal Gathering, all cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage in the entire Yunmeng Prefecture will receive a Yunmeng Immortal Token. Anyone who holds this token, whether a Foundation Establishment cultivator or a Qi Refining cultivator, will be qualified to participate in the Yunmeng Immortal Gathering.

At the Cloud Dream Immortal Gathering, many good things will appear, including items from Qi Refining to Core Formation, but this is just a rumor. Without the opportunity to experience it firsthand, it is ultimately unpredictable and unreliable.

Upon hearing this news, Song Daoxuan vowed to participate in the auction. Only by obtaining a substitute for the Qi Gathering Pill could he break through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, and then naturally advance to the ninth level, eventually becoming a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining.