Chapter 454: Retreat in the Cave

After leaving Xiaoyao Sect, Song Qingming went all the way north. Compared with the time when he went to Guyang Mountain, he was not in a hurry this time. He traveled during the day and hid at night. It was not until more than ten days later that he slowly passed through the north of Weiguo and entered the Floating Cloud Mountains.

Perhaps because the turmoil of monsters in the northern border was approaching, there were fewer cultivators on the edge of the Floating Cloud Mountains than before. After going deep into the territory of monsters, Song Qingming also slowly accelerated the speed of the flying sword under his feet and rushed to his destination this time.

After flying all the way for another seven or eight days, the flying sword under Song Qingming's feet finally fell from the air and stopped by a big river.

After carefully looking around and finding that there were no traces of cultivators coming, Song Qingming walked to a small pool not far from the river, unfolded a green water spell and jumped directly into it. After passing through the dark water, Song Qingming soon came to a cave hidden under the pool.

As soon as he entered the cave, Song Qingming suddenly saw a blazing fire cloud coming in front of him. He quickly cast a spell and opened the Xuan Guang Armor that he had practiced for many years. With all his strength, he finally blocked the attack.

Before Song Qingming could breathe a sigh of relief, another more violent fire cloud rushed towards him. Song Qingming was so anxious that he immediately shouted loudly: "Senior Qingluan, don't be excited, it's me!"

After Song Qingming's panicked shout, the fire cloud that was about to reach him slowly stopped and disappeared in front of Song Qingming.

After a while, a blue bird that was much taller than Song Qingming walked towards him slowly with a somewhat arrogant step.

"It's you, kid. Didn't the message say it would take a few days to arrive? How come you're here early again?"

Hearing Qingluan's mocking voice, Song Qingming slowly squeezed out an awkward smile on his face and said slowly: "Originally, it would take two days to arrive, but I was afraid that you would be waiting here anxiously, so I sped up a bit. Senior, please don't be angry!"

"Hmph! It was His Highness who asked me to come here first to wait for you. Wouldn't it be better if you arrived earlier? Why should I be angry? Do I look angry?" Qingluan said with a pair of big eyes staring at Song Qingming.

"Haha! Not like, not like, I misunderstood, senior, please don't mind. These things are specially brought by me this time for you. I will have to trouble you for a while. I hope you don't dislike them."

Seeing that Qingluan's words seemed unfriendly, Song Qingming quickly took out a bunch of delicious cakes and spirit wine that had been prepared long ago from the storage bag and put them directly in front of Qingluan.

"You are becoming more and more sensible, but I have to tell you in advance that I came here because Your Highness sent me to look after this cave, not to listen to your orders. Don't expect me to do anything for you."

Seeing Qingluan happily accepting all the spiritual objects he had just offered, Song Qingming slowly breathed a sigh of relief. Facing this woman who would set fire to him at any time, to be honest, he was really a little afraid of her.

After temporarily dealing with Qingluan, Song Qingming turned around calmly and walked into a stone door in the cave, and came to a spring sealed by a formation.

Looking at the small spring in front of him that was constantly emitting pure spiritual energy, Song Qingming's face suddenly showed a hint of joy. Next, he will prepare to retreat here and impact the Jindan realm again.

The place where Song Qingming was preparing to form the elixir this time was the cave of the Jindan cultivator that he, Gao Yuyao, Duan Xueyi and others found when they went deep into the Floating Cloud Mountains. The small spring in front of him was the "Spiritual Spring" that they found together.

The reason why Song Qingming did not choose to go to the place where the Fire Phoenix was when he formed the elixir for the first time this time, and ran to this abandoned Jindan cave thousands of miles away, was precisely for this "Spiritual Spring" in front of him.

After discovering this place with Gao Yuyao and others, Song Qingming also heard from Duan Xueyi that the "Spiritual Spring" had some effect on cultivators breaking through the realm and forming the elixir under her introduction.

However, Song Qingming only heard Duan Xueyi's explanation of this thing from her mouth at that time, and was not sure how much help this "Spiritual Spring" could help cultivators form the elixir.

In addition, this place is located deep in the Fuyun Mountains, and there are many high-level monsters and monster kings above level three nearby. For ordinary cultivators to come here to form a pill is basically the same as seeking death. After leaving here, Song Qingming did not take this matter to heart.

Since he failed to form a pill at the Fire Phoenix, Song Qingming has often analyzed the reasons for his failure in the past ten years and made some preparations for his next pill formation in advance.

Under such circumstances, Song Qingming suddenly remembered the cave he had visited that year and the "Spiritual Spring Eye" inside.

For this reason, Song Qingming specially searched for many books introducing various spiritual veins in the world of cultivation, and finally found the detailed records and introduction of the "Spiritual Spring Eye" in front of him. After a closer look, he found that as Duan Xueyi said, the pure spiritual energy produced in this "Spiritual Spring Eye" does have a certain effect on cultivators forming pills.

When a cultivator forms a pill, he needs to spend a lot of time to purify the mana in his body first. This is very important for the later condensation of the golden pill. Once the mana in the body is not pure enough and has a little flaw, the condensation of the golden pill will easily fail. The last time Song Qingming failed to break through the golden pill, he also failed at this step.

After understanding the role of the "Spiritual Spring", Song Qingming quickly made up his mind and chose this place to form the pill this time.

Because it is too dangerous to form a pill here, Song Qingming has offered a lot of spiritual objects to Huo Feng over the years, and finally persuaded her to send Qingluan here to help him temporarily guard this cave.

With Qingluan, the demon king, nearby demon beasts naturally dare not come here to disturb Song Qingming's formation of the pill. The only worry is that once Song Qingming succeeds in forming the pill, the strange phenomenon of heaven and earth that lasts for several days will definitely attract other demon kings nearby. At that time, only Qingluan, the demon king, will be here to guard. I don’t know if she can protect herself.

Song Qingming originally wanted to discuss with Huo Feng to ask Long Feng, who was stronger, to come and help him protect the law, but he didn't expect that Long Feng was away during this period of time and was arranged by Huo Feng to work for her somewhere else. So he had no choice but to invite Qing Luan, the hot-tempered lady, to come.

After checking the "Spiritual Spring Eye" and finding no problems, Song Qingming quickly cleaned up the stone room where he was going to retreat. After all, he would stay here for a long time, and facing the dust on the ground all the time would sometimes make people feel unhappy.

Just as Song Qingming set up a ban at the door and was about to start retreating, Qing Luan came over again and threw a small wooden box to Song Qingming.

"This is what the Highness asked me to bring to you. Although this fruit is not as effective as the last red-green fruit, it should be of some help to your Dan-forming. The Highness said that this thing is lent to you first, and you still have to find a way to return it to her in the future, don't forget it."

After Qingluan finished speaking, she left on her own, ignoring Song Qingming who was standing beside with a small wooden box in his hand.

Because he failed to form a Dan last time and wasted a lot of spiritual objects given by the Fire Phoenix, Song Qingming didn't feel embarrassed to ask her for a spiritual object for Dan-forming this time when he was in seclusion to form a Dan. He just wanted to borrow some power from the Fire Phoenix to help him protect the law.

Song Qingming didn't expect that the Fire Phoenix, who usually took what he needed from him most of the time, would take the initiative to ask Qingluan to bring him a spiritual object to assist in Dan-forming. He was a little surprised.

Facing this usually high-handed Yuanying Demon King, although Song Qingming was respectful to her, he always regarded her as his partner in his heart. When dealing with her, Song Qingming also tried his best to keep both parties from owing each other, so as to avoid asking too much from her and the other party coming to him if he couldn't pay her back.

Facing the small wooden box that Huo Feng took the initiative to send this time, Song Qingming also felt a warm feeling in his heart. After opening it and taking a look, he found that it contained a white spiritual fruit that was not much bigger than an ordinary pill.

The spiritual energy emitted by this fruit, although not as strong as the red green fruit he had taken that year, was far more than an ordinary second-level spiritual object, and it must be a third-level spiritual fruit.

When Song Qingming just took over the small wooden box, he heard Qingluan mention that this fruit had a similar effect to the red green fruit, and he roughly knew the function of this fruit in his heart, which should also be used to strengthen the dantian in the body of the cultivator.

After setting up the forbidden array, Song Qingming calmed down and sat back beside the "Spiritual Spring". He patiently meditated and calmed his mind, preparing to start his retreat to break through the bottleneck of the golden elixir.

Because he had another spiritual fruit given to him by the Fire Phoenix, Song Qingming still had to refine this spiritual fruit and strengthen his own dantian, just like before the last time he formed a pill.

After opening the wooden box and swallowing the spiritual fruit, Song Qingming immediately felt a huge amount of spiritual power in his body, rushing straight to his dantian in his abdomen.

Because the quality of the spiritual fruit he took this time was worse than the red and green fruit he had taken more than ten years ago, the spiritual power impact felt by Song Qingming's dantian this time was much better than the last time.

In addition to the experience of refining the red and green fruit last time, Song Qingming did not feel too much pressure when facing the impact of this spiritual power. Instead, he let his dantian absorb and refine more of the spiritual power contained in this spiritual fruit.

It took less than a month for Song Qingming to completely refine and absorb the white spiritual fruit given to him by the Fire Phoenix, and he used much less than last time. Although he still wasted about 20% of the spiritual power in the spiritual fruit because of taking it directly, it was a big improvement compared to the last time he refined the red and green fruit.

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