Chapter 256 Original Intention

Song Qingming actually had a very complicated heart towards Huang Siyuan.

At first, he really just regarded Huang Siyuan as a pawn of the Huang family, kept some distance from her, and then found something she liked to do, so as not to offend the Huang family or her.

As for Huang Siyuan, marrying into the Song family was indeed something she could not decide. At the beginning, when she was by Song Qingming's side, her main thoughts were also on earning spirit stones and practicing herself.

But now the situation seems to have changed a little, far beyond Song Qingming's original expectations, so that Song Qingyu's words just now touched him a lot, and he was a little caught off guard and didn't know what to do.

"Should I follow my original intention or my current heart?"

After so many years, Huang Siyuan has also changed from a somewhat immature ordinary spirit chef to the owner of Xianfenglou. The two of them have also experienced a lot of things, and Song Qingming seems to be a little accustomed to her existence.

Now, whenever he passed by Qinghefang or wanted to go on a long trip, Song Qingming would involuntarily go to Xianfenglou for a full meal. He himself was a little confused, whether it was because he missed Huang Siyuan or because he missed her food too much.

Sometimes, Song Qingming even thought that if Huang Siyuan didn't want to be with him anymore and took the initiative to ask for separation from him, he would agree even if it meant risking offending the Huang family.

After all, he was no longer in the process of building his foundation, and he had some capital to negotiate with the Huang family. Besides, the Song family and the Huang family had been completely tied to the same front for so many years, and would not collapse immediately because of the cooperation between the two families of Huang Siyuan.

That time, after Song Qingming returned from the Floating Cloud Mountains, he learned that she had not returned to the Huang family after being abandoned by the Song family, but had risked staying in Qinghefang waiting for him to come back. Song Qingming, who had been practicing for decades and had already been very indifferent, could not help but be moved by her.

Since his mother passed away, Song Qingming had long felt the loneliness he had to face in the path of cultivation. Whether it was his childhood friends or his beloved relatives and friends, he would always lose them in the end, and he himself didn't know who could accompany him to the end.

Now, in addition to this loneliness, Huang Siyuan's persistence made Song Qingming feel a different kind of satisfaction. In this world of cultivation full of dangers and only concerned with interests, it was also good for him to have a confidante who stayed at home quietly waiting for his return.

It's not that he didn't feel Huang Siyuan's feelings for him, but he was always wandering in danger. Many times, he really didn't dare to think too much about emotional matters, fearing that he would get too much and easily lose too much.

Song Qingyu, who had not waited for a reply, looked at Song Qingming who was still in a daze, sighed and shook his head and returned to his cave, leaving him alone to face the cold moonlight.

Since Song Qingming proposed the policy reform to encourage cultivation skills, it soon caused a stir within the Song family. Now, almost all cultivators from top to bottom have begun to pay attention to this aspect, and no longer put their own cultivation first.

In the past, apart from a few top-grade talisman makers, the only two people in the Song family who could truly improve their cultivation skills to the top level were the second sister Song Qingwan and the sixth brother Song Qinghe. Even Song Qingyu, who became a foundation-building cultivator, did not have any cultivation skills to this level.

When cultivators improve their cultivation skills, they can use this consumption of low-level materials to earn more spirit stones. With spirit stones, they can buy cultivation pills, and then feed back to their own cultivation, which can form a virtuous circle for the cultivators themselves.

Secondly, the family's spiritual fields have expanded, and there are more materials for making talismans or refining pills and tools. If the family can consume them, there is no need to spend a lot of effort to bring these low-level materials to the market to sell them at a low price. As long as the spiritual objects you make are of qualified quality, there will be no shortage of buyers when they are sold in the market. The family's shops can also earn some spiritual stones by helping to sell them back and forth. The family can also make a little money here and increase the family's internal income.

As the initiator of this opinion, Song Qingming naturally has to lead the gentry. A few years ago, his talisman making level had reached level 2, but because level 2 talisman making materials are really hard to find, the Song family shop in Qinghefang can only send Song Qingming a set of level 2 talisman making materials every few months. Song Qingming has not disclosed his identity as a level 2 talisman maker to the public. The level 2 talismans he made have always been kept on him and not sold in the market.

In order to support the business of the family talisman shop, Song Qingming directly took out five second-level talismans and dozens of first-level high-quality talismans and put them in his own shop. Doing so is almost equivalent to telling others that the Song family is likely to have a second-level talisman maker, which will definitely cause a sensation in the entire Qinghe County.

The second sister Song Qingwan is responsible for alchemy, and Song Qingming is personally responsible for talisman making. These two things are still somewhat famous in Qinghefang and are not inferior to the goods of other families. Only the refining of instruments is left, which is a bit difficult for the Song family at present.

There are quite a few people in the entire Song family who can refine instruments, as many as a dozen people, but the level of refining instruments is generally not high. Only the clan leader Song Changfeng can refine high-quality magic instruments.

Song Changfeng was already shouldering the heavy responsibility of the clan leader, and the injury he suffered when he was building his foundation had not yet fully recovered. He had almost no time to spend on refining instruments. The level of other instrument refiners was too low, and most of the instruments they refined were of average quality. Naturally, few people would buy them in the Qinghefang shop.

Since the reform of the system, everyone has their own goals, and most of the cultivation skills of the entire Song family have improved a lot. Even Song Changfeng has a few more instrument refiners who often come to practice with him.

As the family's foundation elder, Song Qingyu naturally has to take the lead. Since the release of this decree, her talisman making skills have also begun to improve rapidly. As a foundation cultivator, it is still faster to learn the first-level cultivation skills. Under the guidance of Song Qingming, a second-level talisman maker, she quickly successfully improved her talisman making skills to the first-level upper grade.

What made Song Qingming the happiest was that his eighth brother Song Qingchen and fourteenth sister Song Qingsi had broken through to the upper level in formation and weapon refining respectively. They both had some talent in cultivating immortals. This time, with the encouragement of the family, they lived up to everyone's expectations and successfully broke through their own cultivation skills.

In order to reward them and set an example for other clan members, Song Qingming also paid out of his own pocket to reward them each with a medium-grade spirit stone, helping them to break through their own cultivation to the late stage of Qi Refining.