Chapter 173 Second Level of Foundation Building

After Huang Shengyue sent the Soul-Bewitching Banner, Song Qingming thought he was about to leave for the Floating Cloud Mountains. Unexpectedly, the Huang family was not in a hurry and postponed the departure time for another half a year. After Song Qingming handed over the garrison affairs to Gao Jinhe, he simply took the monks of the Song family who had been stationed in the market for the past few years back to Funiu Mountain.

Before leaving, Huang Siyuan wanted to return to Funiu Mountain with Song Qingming, but was finally persuaded by Song Qingming to stay in Qinghefang temporarily. After all, Xianfeng Tower was also an asset of the Song family. Her sudden departure would definitely have a great impact on the business of the store. Let her leave after finding a suitable replacement.

The greedy Skyfire Peng was also left by Song Qingming with Huang Siyuan. She has been doing her best to take care of the spirit beast in the past six months. She is much better than Song Qingming who often goes out and retreats. Even when she is not free, there is still Li Hongyu to help take care of it. Generally speaking, it is a bit expensive to ask her to take care of the spirit beast for three spirit stones a day, but it does save Song Qingming a lot of trouble.

After Huang Siyuan's careful training in the past six months, the Skyfire Peng has grown very fast and can already fly around with a cultivator on its back. In order to better train it, Huang Siyuan often takes it to the surrounding areas of the market to hunt some wild beasts.

On the side of Funiushan, after nearly half a year of preparation, Bai Yunhua has also arranged the second-level spirit gathering array used to upgrade the spirit vein. After the remaining spirit stones are refined by the spirit gathering array, the spirit vein upgrade will be completely completed in two months.

In recent months, everyone has clearly felt that the spiritual energy on the mountain is becoming more and more abundant. Every Song family cultivator is looking forward to the improvement of the Funiu Mountain spiritual vein. With the second-level spiritual vein cultivation, everyone will be more convenient in cultivation.

For more than two hundred years, the Song family's ancestral land, Funiushan, which has always been unknown, has finally begun to change. Not only the concentration of spiritual energy, but also the height of the entire spiritual mountain has increased by hundreds of feet, which is much more magnificent than before.

After two months, after the concentration of spiritual energy increased to the standard of the second-level lower-grade spiritual vein, it gradually stabilized, and the Song family's spiritual vein improvement this time was completely completed.

It must be said that Bai Yunhua's formation level is still impeccable. The time required to improve the spiritual vein this time was nearly two months earlier than Song Qingming expected. Even Song Qingsi, who has been his assistant for half a year, has improved his formation level a lot.

It's a pity that there is no suitable second-level mountain protection formation at hand. Otherwise, we can take this opportunity to ask Bai Yunhua to help replace the original Funiushan formation. With the second-level mountain protection formation, the defense ability of Funiushan will be greatly improved. Even if Song Qingming is not there, it will be difficult for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to attack this sacred mountain in a short time.

After accepting the 200 spiritual stones reward given by Song Changfeng, Bai Yunhua found Song Qingming and said goodbye, and soon left Funiushan and returned to Xiaoyao Sect.

For cultivators like him who have very mature cultivation skills, Xiaoyao Sect will normally support them in foundation building. After all, for Xiaoyao Sect, as long as there is a foundation-building pill, it is easy to cultivate foundation-building cultivators, but cultivators who can improve a cultivation skill to the second level are not what they want.

Song Qingming's talisman making level and formation level have long been improved to the first-level upper grade, but he tried to break through the second-level bottleneck several times, and all failed without exception, and he also lost a lot of materials, which made him give up this idea in a short time.

Once a cultivation skill can reach the second level, as long as you have a good reputation, you don't need to collect these materials on purpose in many cases. Others will come to you and ask you to help them with the materials, just like Song Qingming went to Bai Yunhua to set up the formation and Huang Shengyue to refine the magic weapon. This also shows how popular the second-level cultivation skill is.

In the entire Qinghe County, among the thousands of cultivators, only five people mastered the second-level cultivation skill, which is even less than the number of foundation-building cultivators.

Less than two months after the spiritual vein was upgraded, the last ancient-generation cultivator of the Song family, the former third elder Song Gulan, also passed away on Mount Funiu. This elder of the Song family lived to be 120 years old, and was one of the few cultivators in the Song family who could pass away normally and die of old age.

Not only did she see someone in the Song family build a foundation and become a foundation-building family, but before leaving, she also witnessed the Song family's promotion to the Funiu Mountain spiritual vein. For her, who has practiced in the mountains for a lifetime, it can really be said to be very perfect.

After the spiritual vein was upgraded, Song Qingming opened a new cave on the top of Funiu Mountain, where the spiritual energy was the most concentrated. He was now a foundation-building cultivator, and the spiritual energy he needed to absorb was much more than that of a Qi-refining cultivator, so naturally he could no longer practice with other Qi-refining cultivators.

In the cave, Song Qingming felt the concentration of the upgraded spiritual vein, which should be enough for two or three foundation-building cultivators to practice on this mountain. At least for a few decades, the Song family would not have to worry about the spiritual vein.

Practicing on this higher-level spiritual vein is not only beneficial to Song Qingming, a foundation-building cultivator. Every cultivator in the Song family can obtain more concentrated spiritual energy than before, which is helpful for every cultivator to break through the realm.

However, in order to raise spiritual stones to upgrade the spiritual vein, the Song family almost emptied all the spiritual stones in the treasury. In the next few years, the finances of the entire family have almost become a deficit. The ninth uncle Song Changxin, who is responsible for managing the family's gold storage pavilion, can only throw this problem to the two managers of the family.

After discussing with his sixth uncle Song Changfeng, Song Qingming decided to stop paying all the monks' salaries for two years, and convert all of them into merits and record them in the Golden Pavilion. They would slowly make up for it after the family's finances recovered. Only the children of the family school who had not yet broken through to the middle stage of Qi Refining were not included in this policy. These people were the future of the family, and the family could not affect their current practice unless it was absolutely necessary.

During the five years that Song Qingming was stationed in Qinghefang, he found another three-spiritual root cultivator in the new generation of the family. This person was named Song Xinyu, who ranked eighth in the new generation. He was a cultivator with three spiritual roots of gold, wood, and fire, and was able to practice the "Red Flame Art" handed down by the family.

As long as nothing unexpected happens, this child's talent for practice should be better than Qingyu. Although he can't catch up with his third brother Song Qingze, he is not too far behind.

After cleaning up the new cave, Song Qingming quickly entered into a closed-door practice. It had been almost six years since he broke through to the foundation-building realm. The mana in Song Qingming's body had reached a critical point. After a few months, he finally successfully broke through to the second level of the foundation-building realm.

In the foundation-building realm, it usually takes at least five years for a cultivator to break through a level. It took Song Qingming six years to break through a level, which was relatively fast. This was also beneficial because he had never lacked the elixirs and spiritual veins needed for cultivation.

After breaking through, Song Qingming had just walked out of the cave not long ago when his sixth uncle Song Changfeng came to him in a hurry.