Chapter 540: Qingyu in Seclusion, the Demon King Attacks (Combined Chapter)

After the Li family swallowed up the Iron Immortal Mountain, they quickly took all the territory of the Lu family. The family strength was immediately strengthened. Although it was not as good as the old foundation-building families such as the Huang family and the Gao family, it already had the foundation that a foundation-building family should have.

Moreover, the head of the Li family, Li Chengyue, had a very good talent for cultivation. After building the foundation, his path was also very smooth. In just a few decades, his cultivation had broken through to the fifth level of the foundation. His cultivation speed was not much worse than that of a second-level spiritual root cultivator like Song Yuanli. In the long run, the development prospects of the Li family were much better than those of the Lu family.

The Gao family of Lotus Mountain was still the same, without much change. Gao Yubai was about the same age as Song Qingming, and his cultivation speed was also very fast. He was already impacting the ninth level of the foundation-building realm. If nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely be able to reach the stage of forming a pill, and there was still a little chance of forming a pill.

The Gao family also earned a lot of good deeds in this monster turmoil, but they did not choose to train another foundation-building cultivator, but instead concentrated all the family resources on Gao Yubai alone, and also wanted him to impact the golden elixir realm.

The Huang family in Taiyuan Mountain has also developed well in recent years. After the monster turmoil, they cultivated another foundation-building cultivator, and the family already has four foundation-building cultivators.

However, the life span of Huang Shengyue, the head of the Huang family, is not much, and she will die in at most 10 to 20 years. Her blood and qi have begun to decline, and her cultivation level will eventually stop at the seventh level of foundation-building in this life.

Among the other three Huang family cultivators, Huang Sibo has low potential and has only reached the fifth level of foundation-building. During the last monster turmoil, he was in the battle of Jinshanfang, and Huang Sibo was accidentally injured by the monster, which delayed a lot of time to recover. If nothing unexpected happens, his cultivation level will eventually be difficult to surpass that of Huang Shengyue, the predecessor of the family.

Huang Mengde's cultivation talent is much better than Huang Sibo. Although he has been building his foundation for decades later, his cultivation level has reached the sixth level of foundation-building, surpassing his elder Huang Sibo. As long as his cultivation goes smoothly, Huang Mengde will definitely be able to break through to the late stage of foundation-building, but it is hard to say whether he can reach the step of impacting the elixir like Huang Shengxin did back then.

The last newly-established cultivator of the Huang family is named Huang Leling, a female cultivator. It is said that this woman is also a second-level spiritual root cultivator. She has just established her foundation not long ago, and it is still unclear what her cultivation talent is.

During the monster turmoil, the Huang family also lost more than 20 cultivators in a battle, suffering a considerable loss, but compared with other foundation-building families, their family foundation is much stronger, and they have basically recovered in just 20 to 30 years.

If there had not been the sudden rise of the Song family, the Huang family would definitely still be able to sit on the chair of the first immortal cultivation family in Qinghe County, but now with Song Qingming's Dan formation, the Huang family has become a vassal family under the Song family.

In just over a hundred years, the identities of the Huang family and the Song family have directly changed, which is something that all the immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County could not have imagined.

Fortunately, after the Song family came to power, they did not intend to suppress the Huang family in these years. The Huang family also has a relationship with Huang Siyuan in Funiu Mountain. In addition to being somewhat envious of the sudden rise of the Song family, they don’t have to worry too much about any major changes in their own family.

In addition to the four major foundation-building families of Huang, Gao, Li, and Wang, Qinghe County has attracted many foreign Qi-refining and immortal-cultivating families and wandering cultivators because the Song family has been promoted to a Jindan family in recent years. The number of cultivators has more than doubled compared to decades ago.

Even Qinghefang is now overcrowded, with more and more wandering cultivators squeezing in, and even the caves that can be rented in the back mountain of the market are in short supply.

In the past few years, Feng De, who was in charge of Qinghefang, went to Tuoyun Mountain to consult Song Qingming and wanted to expand Qinghefang. After discussing this with the Song family and the Huang family, they all agreed to his request.

After several years of joint reconstruction by many families headed by the Song family, the expansion of Qinghefang is now nearing completion. Compared with the original market, the overall scale has doubled, and it is almost the same size as Jinshanfang in Pingyang County. It can accommodate at least thousands of cultivators and millions of mortals.

After the reconstruction of Qinghefang, everyone's share was redistributed. Xiaoyao Sect and the Song family each occupied 30% of the shares, and the remaining 40% was divided up by several other immortal cultivation families. The management rights of the market are still the same as before, managed by Xiaoyao Sect and everyone.

The Song family has always attached great importance to the expanded Qinghefang. Relying on more than a dozen shops in the market, the Song family can get at least thousands of spiritual stones of profit from Qinghefang every year, which is also a considerable income for the family.

After solving the problem of the Wang family, Song Qingming stayed in Funiushan for another month, and finally received a letter from Song Qingyu that he was going to retreat to form a pill, so he left the family and rushed back to Tuoyun Mountain directly.

Since Song Qingyu got a "Jade True Water" to assist in forming a pill in Wu State, she has been polishing for more than a year. Whether it is her own cultivation or cultivation state, she has adjusted to the best state, and she can retreat to form a pill at any time.

After rushing all the way to Tuoyun Mountain, Song Qingming gave Song Qingyu some careful instructions before giving up his own cave to Song Qingyu to practice seclusion and form the elixir.

Song Qingming's cave was the one left by Chen Jinliang. It was also the place with the most abundant spiritual energy on the spiritual vein of Tuoyun Mountain. It was enough for retreating to break through the Jindan realm.

Although the cave at the bottom of the pond where he retreated to form the elixir would be better for forming the elixir, Song Qingming's current cultivation level was only the second level of the Jindan realm. He was not very sure that he could protect Song Qingyu from forming the elixir in the depths of the Fuyun Mountains where monsters were rampant.

If Song Qingyu attracted a powerful demon king during the process of forming the elixir, not only would the process of forming the elixir fail, but the two of them might also be in danger of their lives. For the sake of entrustment, Song Qingming gave up this idea in his heart.

After all, Song Qingyu was not old enough to be in a hurry. Even if she failed to form the elixir this time, she would still have the opportunity to form the elixir next time. With the support of Song Qingming, the Jindan brother, it would not be too difficult to find one or two elixir spiritual objects for Song Qingyu in the future.

"Qingyu, there are a few drops of thousand-year-old spiritual milk in this jade bottle. I got it from a senior many years ago. It will be useful for you to condense the golden elixir. Take it first.

And this talisman was given to me by Senior Brother Chu. It can be used to stabilize the mind when facing the inner demon in the last step. I didn't use it when I was condensing the elixir. Although you have broken through to the second level of the Soul Devouring Art and are not afraid of ordinary inner demon interference, you should still take this talisman just in case."

Seeing the two spiritual objects handed over by Song Qingming, Song Qingyu waved his hand and said, "Seventh Brother, the thousand-year-old spiritual milk is a very rare and precious spiritual object. You should keep it for your sister-in-law when she condenses the elixir.

Although I have Jade True Water and Jade Dust Pill in this retreat, I am not sure that I can successfully form a pill in one go. It is better not to waste such useful spiritual objects. "

Song Qingming smiled and shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I still have some on me, and Siyuan will definitely have some when she forms a pill. Although these spiritual objects are precious, as long as they can help you take the step of forming a pill, I am willing to spend more. Don't worry about these, just form a pill with peace of mind."

Seeing Song Qingming say this, Song Qingyu hesitated for a moment, but still took the two spiritual objects handed over by Song Qingming, turned around and walked into the retreat cave.

In the entire cultivation world, those who can successfully form a pill in one go are basically extremely talented cultivation geniuses. Among the more than a dozen Jindan cultivators in Xiaoyao Sect, except for the head Yao Qianshu and Bai Yuxian, the others, like Song Qingming, took at least two attempts to finally form a pill.

This time Song Qingyu was in seclusion, and Song Qingming knew that her chances of success were not high. However, as long as Song Qingming could go a little further in the first Dan formation, it would be able to lay some foundation for her next Dan formation, so that her chances of success in the next Dan formation would be increased a lot.

In addition to Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan had already started to break through the ninth level of foundation building two months ago.

Last time in the Seven Star Pavilion of Wu State, in order to repay the help of Song Qingming and Chu Fengping, Liu Zongping gave each of them a second-level spiritual fruit unique to the Star Gate.

Although the level of this spiritual fruit is not high, it can help foundation-building cultivators break through their cultivation. After Song Qingming got the spiritual fruit, he directly gave it to Huang Siyuan.

Huang Siyuan's cultivation had already reached the peak of the eighth level of foundation building. Like Song Xinyu, she had tried several times to break through the ninth level of foundation building but had never succeeded. After returning from Wu this time and getting the spiritual fruit given to her by Song Qingming, Huang Siyuan quickly started thinking about retreating to break through.

As long as she could break through to the ninth level of foundation building as soon as possible and polish her mana for a period of time, Huang Siyuan could also start trying to form a pill.

Whether it was Song Qingyu or Huang Siyuan, although they both succeeded in building the foundation at once, forming a pill was not an easy thing for them. If they wanted to embark on the golden pill road like Song Qingming, they had to be prepared to form a pill at any time as soon as possible.

Even if they could not form a pill successfully at once, as long as they could cultivate to the ninth level of foundation building as soon as possible, they could gain more opportunities to form a pill for themselves, which would always be more than others.

After Song Qingyu closed the cave and activated the formation restriction at the door, Song Qingming came to a slightly smaller cave next to it with confidence and began his retreat cultivation.

Since Song Qingming took charge of Tuoyun Mountain for ten years, although he has almost cleared the monsters around Tuoyun Mountain under his leadership, Tuoyun Mountain is located on the edge of the Fuyun Mountain Range, and some monsters still come to harass from time to time.

Regardless of whether a cultivator succeeds or fails in retreat, it will take at least a few years. In order to prevent any unexpected situation during Song Qingyu's retreat, Song Qingming still plans to stay in Tuoyun Mountain to protect her during her retreat.

After sitting cross-legged in the cave, Song Qingming took out a square wooden box from the jade pendant on his waist and carefully took the "Golden Marrow Spirit Fruit" he had obtained not long ago.

Before going to Xiaoyao Sect's Good Merit Pavilion to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill, Song Qingming also went to find Chu Fengping on purpose, wanting to ask if he could use the "Golden Marrow Spirit Fruit" in his hand to make pills. Unfortunately, Chu Fengping just started to make pills in retreat a few days ago, and it was unknown when he would come out.

After being turned away, Song Qingming then asked an alchemy disciple under Chu Fengping. Although this person's alchemy skills had not yet broken through the third level, he had followed Chu Fengping for many years and had learned his true teachings. He was already familiar with some of the third-level alchemy recipes in the sect.

According to what he said, there is indeed a third-level elixir recipe in Xiaoyao Sect, which can use the "Golden Marrow Spiritual Fruit" in Song Qingming's hand as the main medicine to refine a third-level elixir that can improve the cultivation of Jindan cultivators and increase the effective value of the spiritual fruit in Song Qingming's hand.

However, in this elixir recipe, the auxiliary spiritual medicine also needs a third-level lower-grade spiritual herb, which is not currently available in the sect's alchemy pavilion, and it will take at least a few years for the Xiaoyao Sect's spiritual medicine garden to provide it.

If the "Golden Marrow Spiritual Fruit" is used to refine the elixir, as long as Chu Fengping does not fail, it can indeed earn a few thousand more spiritual stones, but hearing that it will take so long, Song Qingming is a little reluctant to wait.

Anyway, according to Chu Fengping's disciples, the effect of refining the "Golden Marrow Spiritual Fruit" into an elixir is not much different from taking it directly. What he needs most at present is to improve his cultivation, and there is really no need to toss for these uncertain thousands of spiritual stones.

After running the "Five Elements Xuan Gang Jue" of his internal cultivation method, Song Qingming took out a second-level Qingxin Talisman, stuck it on his arm, and began to concentrate and adjust his mana.

After his own cultivation state had been adjusted to a very good state, Song Qingming opened his eyes and looked at the "Golden Marrow Spirit Fruit" in his hand, and then swallowed it without hesitation.

After the spirit fruit entered his stomach, Song Qingming soon felt a continuous flow of pure spiritual energy, which began to enter his eight extraordinary meridians, limbs and bones, and finally gathered suddenly in his dantian.

Such a huge spiritual energy would easily make a cultivator panic if he encountered it for the first time, but Song Qingming was obviously very familiar with it. He immediately closed his eyes to stabilize his mind and began to use the mana in his dantian to quickly refine this huge spiritual energy that was constantly gathering.

Before he formed his own elixir, Song Qingming had consumed and refined many of these spiritual objects that contained huge spiritual power. Compared to the "Red Green Fruit" that Huo Feng gave him when he was still in the foundation-building stage, this "Golden Marrow Spiritual Fruit" is not a very difficult spiritual object for Song Qingming to refine now.

In less than half a year of seclusion, Song Qingming successfully refined the "Golden Marrow Spiritual Fruit" in his body completely, and his own cultivation base also increased sharply, reaching the peak of the second level of the Golden Core.

Although he was not able to use this "Golden Marrow Spiritual Fruit" to break through his cultivation base in one breath, Song Qingming is not far from the third level of the Golden Core now. He only needs to work hard and polish for a few more years, and he should be able to advance to the third level of the Golden Core.

It is relatively easy to break through the first three levels of the Golden Core stage. Even if a person with a relatively average cultivation talent advances to the Golden Core stage, as long as he patiently cultivates for 20 to 30 years, he can basically break through one level of cultivation.

However, starting from the third level of Jindan, the difficulty immediately began to increase rapidly. Once one's own cultivation talent is relatively average and there are not many spiritual objects to assist cultivation, it is possible to stay in this realm for a long time. Some people with bad luck may not be able to break through and advance to the middle stage of Jindan in their lifetime.

Among the many Jindan cultivators in Xiaoyao Sect, the Jindan elders such as Jin Ziyuan, Lu Boyang, and Guangling Zhenren who practiced slower all stayed in the third level of Jindan for nearly a hundred years before successfully breaking through to the middle stage of Jindan. With their cultivation speed, it is basically impossible for them to have the opportunity to cultivate to the late stage of Jindan in this lifetime.

Li Wutong and Zhao Menglian, who broke through the middle stage of Jindan faster, still have the hope of advancing to the late stage of Jindan before they die as long as nothing unexpected happens.

Compared with these old Jindan cultivators in the sect, Chen Xuanxin, who formed the Dan later, has a much faster cultivation speed. At present, he is the one with the greatest potential among the many Jindan elders except Bai Yuxian. In the future, there is a great hope that he can cultivate to the ninth level of Jindan, and be on par with the two highest-level Jindan cultivators in the sect.

As long as there is support from the sect, maybe Chen Xuanxin will have some chances to condense the Nascent Soul in the future.

Although Song Qingming's current cultivation speed is not particularly fast, he can barely keep up with Chen Xuanxin's pace in the past. As for whether he can have the same potential as Chen Xuanxin, it depends on when Song Qingming can break through to the fourth level of Jindan in the future.

After refining the "Golden Marrow Spirit Fruit", Song Qingming, who had been in seclusion for several months, took the initiative to open the formation restriction of the cave, walked out from it, and came directly to the cave where Song Qingyu was in seclusion.

The caves of Song Qingming, Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan are not far from each other and are all on the top of Tuoyun Mountain. Usually, the Song family and Tuoyun Mountain monks are on duty day and night. Ordinary people cannot disturb them without permission.

Seeing that no one has touched the restrictions outside Song Qingyu's cave, Song Qingming was relieved. He came to the cave of Huang Siyuan next to him and sent a sound transmission sound inside.

After a while, the restrictions at the entrance of the cave suddenly dissipated, and Huang Siyuan, dressed in white, walked out of the cave with a smile.

"Hey! You actually succeeded in breaking through. This is really a happy thing." Seeing that the aura of Huang Siyuan in front of him had advanced to the ninth level of foundation building, Song Qingming's face suddenly showed a few smiles.

Huang Siyuan replied with a smile: "I tried for so long before but failed to break through. I didn't expect that the spiritual fruit you gave me would help me regain my good luck all of a sudden. It's still a little bit of my husband's light!"

Song Qingming waved his hand and said, "You can't say that this is due to my efforts. It's nothing but the result of your hard work. Your cultivation has been polished almost to the point before. You haven't been able to break through successfully. It's nothing but your character is still a little bit lacking and you are a little impatient.

Last time I took you out for a walk, it seems that it did you a lot of good. Your cultivation has come naturally. Even without the spiritual fruit I gave you, you will definitely be able to break through successfully after a while."

Huang Siyuan was slightly stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then slowly said, "Well! But husband, why do you seem to be credited for what you said?

In that case, please come in! How about I make a pot of good tea for you, your great benefactor?"

"Haha! Then I will be disrespectful to refuse." Song Qingming smiled and walked into the cave with Huang Siyuan.

Since Huang Siyuan started to retreat half a year ago, the two have not seen each other for a long time. Huang Siyuan was brewing spiritual tea while listening to Song Qingming talking about some things that happened in Funiushan a few months ago. From time to time, she laughed a few times.

Just as the two were talking and forgetting the time, Song Qingming suddenly felt a strange fluctuation in the surrounding spiritual energy. His face changed slightly and he slowly put down the teacup in his hand.

At the same time, Huang Siyuan, who was sitting next to him, also felt the abnormality of this spiritual energy fluctuation. She immediately stood up and said, "It seems that there are blind monsters attacking the mountain protection formation again. How about I go and take a look first!"

"It doesn't matter! Even if there are a few level 2 monsters, Lin Yutang and the others are enough to deal with it now. It's rare that you are so happy today, so don't worry about these trivial matters." Seeing that Huang Siyuan wanted to go out to take a look, Song Qingming quickly stretched out his hand to stop her.

Tuoyun Mountain is located at the edge of the Fuyun Mountain Range after all, and is too close to the territory of monsters. It is no longer a big deal if one or two level 2 monsters occasionally break in here. Even when Chen Jinliang was still there, the powerful Tuoyun Mountain could not avoid such a situation.

Seeing that Song Qingming was unwilling to leave, Huang Siyuan did not insist and sat down with a smile.

But before the two of them could taste a few sips of spiritual tea, a red sound transmission note suddenly flew directly into the cave and fell into Song Qingming's hands.

"What's wrong with Lin Yutang and his people? Can't they handle a few monsters with so many people under their command?" Seeing the sound transmission note in front of him, Song Qingming frowned slightly and put down the teacup in his hand again.

Seeing the sound transmission note in Song Qingming's hand, Huang Siyuan said with a serious face: "Lin Yutang has always been steady in doing things over the years. Seeing that he is so anxious to send a sound transmission, I am afraid that there is really a trouble that they can't solve. Husband, you should open it first!"

"Haha! He has so many people under his command, but there are still troubles that he can't solve. Could it be that a third-level demon king has come!" Song Qingming smiled and opened the sound transmission in his hand. After a while, his face gradually darkened.

"A demon king has really come. It seems that we can't drink today." Song Qingming stood up immediately after speaking.

Huang Siyuan asked with some concern: "Is it the Cloud Crane Demon King? Didn't my husband deal with him once last time? How dare he come to invade my territory again!"

"It seems not this time! Even Lin Yutang and the others can't recognize him. I guess he came from the depths of the Floating Cloud Mountains. I'll go out and take a look. You stay here to protect Qingyu. Don't disturb her retreat unless it's absolutely necessary."

Song Qingming shook his head, and after telling Huang Siyuan a sentence, his eyes revealed a hint of solemnity, and he turned around and walked out of the cave.