Chapter 500 Heading to Wu

Song Yuanxue's cultivation talent is average. Although she has the full support of her family, her chance of success in building a foundation is still lower than that of the previous Song family foundation-building cultivators. Song Qingyu and others have always been very worried about Song Yuanxue's retreat to the foundation-building realm.

Seeing that Song Qingming's tone has great confidence in Song Yuanxue's success in building a foundation, Song Qingyu is relieved.

Since Song Qingming's retreat, Song Qingyu has spent a lot of energy in personally guiding Song Yuanxue in the past year or so. In his heart, he has already regarded her as half of his disciple. For Song Yuanxue's retreat to build a foundation, Song Qingyu should be the one who hopes that she can succeed the most among the Song family.

Two months later, in the Song family meeting room.

Looking at Song Yuanxue, whose aura has been completely renewed, the faces of several foundation-building elders of the Song family are all delighted.

This time, Song Yuanxue spent nearly four months in seclusion to successfully break through to the foundation-building stage. Except for Song Qingming at the beginning, she was the one who spent the longest time in foundation-building among the several foundation-building elders of the Song family. At the beginning, everyone was really worried for a long time.

After experiencing the hardships of foundation-building, Song Yuanxue was secretly lucky. She almost fell at the first level of foundation-building during this retreat. Even with the protection of the foundation-building pill, the pain of body forging and marrow washing for dozens of days made Song Yuanxue almost give up foundation-building.

Song Yuanxue is different from the other foundation-building elders of the Song family. Since she entered the Taoism and practiced, she has always stayed in the clan to study the skills of spiritual plants. She has hardly participated in hunting monsters outside. Her experience in fighting with others is also pitiful. She has not experienced any life-and-death crisis.

Such a dull practice experience also made Song Yuanxue a little panicked when facing the stage of building the foundation, washing the marrow and strengthening the body. Fortunately, with Song Qingyu's guidance for more than a year in advance, Song Yuanxue adapted to the pain and gritted her teeth to stabilize her mind, and finally survived this stage.

Song Yuanxue's practice method is the same as Song Qingyu's, which is also a water-attributed method. When building the foundation, she inhaled more water-attributed spiritual energy into the body, which will be slightly helpful in repairing the meridians and blood vessels of the body after strengthening the body. Although it takes a little longer, as long as she survives the first period of time, the later tempering of the body will be smoother.

Seeing Song Yuanxue, the latest junior of the Song family to build the foundation, the two elders Song Qingming and Song Qingyu were also very happy. They each gave her a second-level one. In addition, Song Qingyu also specially gave Song Yuanxue a second-level middle-grade talisman that he had drawn not long ago for self-defense.

The cultivation skills of several foundation-building cultivators in the Song family have made considerable progress in recent years. Song Qingming, who has entered the Jindan stage, has steadily improved his formation and talisman-making skills to the second-level upper grade.

Song Qingyu, who specializes in talisman-making, has successfully drawn several second-level middle-grade spiritual talismans in recent years, taking advantage of the fact that there are many second-level monster materials in the family's gold storage pavilion that can be used to make talismans, and has become a second-level talisman maker.

Song Yuanfang was originally a weapon refiner. After he recovered from his injuries, he successfully broke through this skill to the second level with the help of Song Xinde, becoming the second second-level weapon refiner in the Song family.

In addition to them, Song Yuanli, who also majored in talisman-making, has been focusing on his own cultivation speed in recent years, and has neglected the improvement of his cultivation skills. Until now, he has not yet broken through his cultivation skills to the second level.

Huang Siyuan has already upgraded her spiritual cooking skills to the second level, but this skill is of limited use in Qinghe County and even the entire Wei State. Therefore, in recent years, Huang Siyuan has gradually given up improving her spiritual cooking skills and switched to the art of alchemy.

Although the two immortal cultivation skills of spiritual cooking and alchemy are very different, there are still many things in common. They are also more suitable for cultivators to practice fire-attributed techniques, and the ability to control the temperature when refining spiritual objects is very high. Huang Siyuan happens to have both of these requirements.

After switching to the art of alchemy, Huang Siyuan, because she is already a foundation-building cultivator, learns the art of alchemy much faster than ordinary Qi-refining cultivators. With sufficient resources, it only took her a few years to become a first-level upper-grade alchemist. She is also the cultivator in the Song family who is most likely to advance to a second-level alchemist.

With Song Yuanxue who just established his foundation, the Song family now has two or more important cultivation skills, namely formation, talisman, refining, and spiritual plants. Once Huang Siyuan breaks through to become a second-level alchemist in the future, the Song family's foundation in these areas will be able to catch up with those old-fashioned cultivation families in Weiguo.

Because the spiritual veins in Funiu Mountain are only of the second-level upper grade, there is already a lack of spiritual energy just to support Song Qingming, Song Qingyu and other foundation-building cultivators. After Song Yuanxue successfully established his foundation, he simply stayed in Jingyuan Mountain to cultivate.

The Song family now has two second-level spiritual veins. In order not to share the spiritual energy of the family's ancestors, in recent years, under the arrangement of Song Qingyu and others, many of the lower-level Qi-refining cultivators have also moved to Jingyuan Mountain.

The family had a new foundation-building cultivator, so naturally the Song family had to celebrate. Just when everyone was preparing to hold a foundation-building celebration for Song Yuanxue, Song Qingming suddenly received a secret letter from the Xiaoyao Sect. A few days later, he hurried to Guyang Mountain alone.

The one who sent an urgent letter from Guyang Mountain to Funiushan to invite Song Qingming was Yao Qianshu, the head of Xiaoyao Sect.

In Yao Qianshu's letter, he mentioned that Wu State, located southeast of Wei State, would hold a large trade fair next month. Xiaoyao Sect had just received an invitation not long ago. Yao Qianshu was going to take several Jindan elders from the sect to Wu State to participate in the trade fair, so he sent a letter to invite Song Qingming.

Since he advanced to the Jindan stage, Song Qingming has not left Wei State for these years. The only place where he has the opportunity to exchange useful spiritual objects is the Good Merit Pavilion of Xiaoyao Sect. He also had the idea of ​​going to other places for a long time. After receiving Yao Qianshu's letter, Song Qingming prepared and immediately rushed to Xiaoyao Sect.

When Song Qingming arrived at Yao Qianshu's place, several Jindan elders of the sect had already arrived.

In addition to Yao Qianshu and his several foundation-building disciples, the Jindan elders who went to Wu State on this trip included Li Wutong, Chu Fengping and Chen Xuanxin, as well as Bai Yuxian who arrived here last.

After a group of ten people boarded the third-grade high-quality flying boat taken out by Yao Qianshu, the blue flying boat quickly turned into a spiritual light and left Guyang Mountain.

There are more than 30 countries around the Floating Cloud Mountains, of which there are only eight major countries with Yuanying sects. Weiguo Xiaoyao Sect is one of them. Now Song Qingming and his team are going to Wu, which is also a major country with a Yuanying sect.

Wu is located in the southeast of Weiguo. It is a larger country among the dozens of countries around the Floating Cloud Mountains. The leader of the cultivation world here is the Yuanying sect Xingchenmen. The overall strength of Xingchenmen is three points stronger than Xiaoyao Sect. There are still two Yuanying cultivators in the sect. It is currently the strongest sect among the many sects around Weiguo.

The journey from Guyang Mountain to Qixingfang, where Xingchenmen holds a trade fair, is long. In the middle, they have to pass through Taiyue Lake, which spans tens of thousands of miles. Even if they take Yao Qianshu's third-grade high-quality flying boat, Song Qingming and his team still need about a month to arrive.

Along the way, except for Yao Qianshu, whose injuries had not yet fully recovered, Song Qingming and several other Jindan cultivators also needed to take turns to use their magic power to control the flying boat and control the direction of advance.

Because they had to pass through Taiyue Lake, where monsters were entrenched, in addition to controlling the flying boat, everyone had to be careful to guard against the harassment of monsters below. There were many high-level monsters in Taiyue Lake, and there were two powerful monster kings deep in the bottom of the lake. This place was also a big disaster for the surrounding countries.

Fortunately, the monsters in Taiyue Lake were all water-attributed monsters, and they preferred to stay in the lake. Unlike monsters in other places, they would often invade the human territory for no reason. Only when the monsters in the northern border were in turmoil, would monsters in Taiyue Lake take the initiative to harass the surrounding countries.

These monsters usually stayed in Taiyue Lake, which did not seem so scary, but if a cultivator dared to accidentally enter their territory, these monsters would not sit down and reason with you.

Fortunately, many Jindan cultivators came to Xiaoyao Sect this time. As long as they didn't encounter those powerful demon kings, Song Qingming and others on the flying boat didn't need to take them seriously if ordinary demon kings dared to come out to block the way.

After half a month, after sending away more than a dozen waves of harassing demon beasts, they successfully crossed Taiyue Lake and did not encounter those difficult demon kings. They couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Among the six Jindan cultivators who came out of Xiaoyao Sect this time, except for the headmaster Yao Qianshu, he couldn't attack at will for the time being because of his injuries.

The other five people were slightly weaker than Song Qingming, who had just formed a pill. The others were masters above the middle stage of Jindan. That's why they had enough confidence to cross Taiyue Lake. Otherwise, if they took a detour, they would have to spend more than half a month to travel.

After traveling on the flying boat for nearly a month, Song Qingming and others finally entered the territory of Wu. Looking at the Wu Kingdom with many rivers below and a denser population density than Wei, Song Qingming also showed a hint of surprise on his face.

Although the sphere of influence controlled by the Wu Kingdom's cultivation world is not much different from that of the Wei Kingdom's cultivation world, this country has many spiritual veins and very fertile land resources, which can support more cultivators and mortals. Therefore, the overall number of Wu Kingdom's cultivators is also much larger than that of the Wei Kingdom.

It is precisely because of the control of the resource-rich Wu Kingdom's cultivation world that the Xingchen Sect is able to rely on these resources to cultivate more cultivators, making the Xingchen Sect the most powerful sect in the surrounding area.

After traveling through the Wu Kingdom's territory for another three days, the flying boat finally landed in the Qixingfang, a large market in the middle of the Wu Kingdom, under the control of Chen Xuanxin.