Chapter 600: An Old Friend Passed Away, and the Benefits of the Market (Combined Chapter)

In the meeting hall of the Song family in Funiu Mountain.

Song Yuanfang sat at the head of the group, discussing some issues in the construction of the "Chiyan Mountain" market with Song Yuanxue, Song Changze and other elders of the Song family.

Just as everyone was exchanging opinions, a monk from the Song family law enforcement team who was guarding the door suddenly walked in, came to Song Yuanfang lightly, and whispered in his ear.

After hearing the other party's message, Song Yuanfang's face changed slightly, revealing a hint of strangeness, and then greeted everyone in the hall and left the meeting hall directly.

A moment later, Song Yuanfang had just returned to his cave in a hurry, and a purple-clothed woman in her thirties saw him and immediately came up to him anxiously.

"Leqing, didn't I tell you that when the family is discussing matters, try not to disturb us. What is going on that you have to call me back so urgently?"

Huang Leqing, smiling, looked at her beloved Taoist partner Song Yuanfang in front of her, and said helplessly: "Third brother just came from Taiyuan Mountain. He wanted to see you. I saw that third brother seemed a little anxious, so I asked someone to call you."

Since the Song family was promoted to a Jindan family, the status of the Song family has also risen. Not only the Huang family, but also the major immortal cultivation families around Qinghe County have more or less taken the initiative to marry into the Song family.

Like Huang Siyuan, Huang Leqing is also a cultivator who married into the Song family from the Huang family of Taiyuan Mountain. She has been a Taoist partner with Song Yuanfang for nearly 20 years, and their relationship is relatively good.

"Oh! Didn't he tell you about something urgent? Isn't it about Chiyan Mountain this time?"

Huang Leqing heard this and shook his head slightly and said, "I don't think so. I didn't see him so anxious last time. I just asked him a question, but he didn't tell me directly. He insisted on seeing you first.

If it's the same as last time, he would have told me just now. This time it seems that he has something urgent to find you. Come with me to take a look."

"Okay, let's go and take a look first!" Hearing his wife say this, Song Yuanli nodded thoughtfully.

Song Yuanfang and Huang Leqing became Taoist couples, which was different from Song Qingming's situation back then. They were completely together voluntarily after they fell in love with each other.

Huang Leqing is the direct descendant of Huang Shengxin, the former patriarch of the Huang family. Her status in the Huang family has always been relatively high. Although this woman has average talent in cultivation, she has some business acumen. At a young age, she is in charge of many industries of the Huang family in Qinghefang.

Soon after Song Yuanfang established his foundation, he also took over the management of the Song family's industries outside, so he soon met Huang Leqing in Qinghefang.

Although Song Yuanfang had successfully established his foundation at that time, Huang Leqing was only a Qi-refining cultivator, and there was already a big gap in their status.

However, the two still had a lot of consensus on the management of the family industry, and often met to discuss some issues related to the market business.

Later, as time went by, Song Yuanfang asked Huang Siyuan, an elder of the family, to come forward and take the initiative to bring the betrothal gifts to the Huang family, which facilitated this marriage.

After the two were together, Huang Leqing soon became Song Yuanfang's virtuous wife. Although she had not participated in any of the Song family's affairs in the past few years, she also helped Song Yuanfang with many good ideas in secret.

The idea of ​​the Song family to build a market in "Chiyan Mountain" this time was originally thought of by the couple when they were chatting. When Song Yuanfang handed this suggestion to Song Qingming, he got the consent and praise of the family ancestor on the spot.

After the couple talked for a few words, Huang Yueqing took Song Yuanli out of the cave and came to a more elegant courtyard not far away.

As soon as they entered the door, a middle-aged cultivator of the Huang family who was sitting next to them saw the figures of Song Yuanfang and the others, and immediately stepped forward and bowed to Song Yuanfang.

"Hello, Senior Song!"

Seeing this, Song Yuanfang waved his hand slightly and said, "There is no need to be polite for family members. I heard from Yueqing that you came here to find me for something."

The cultivator of the Huang family nodded and handed the letter in his hand directly to Song Yuanfang.

"When I came here, the ancestor only said that I should quickly hand this letter to you in person. He didn't say anything, and I don't know it yet. You should know it after you open it first."

Song Yuanli took a look at the envelope in his hand and found that the name written on it was Huang Sibo, the foundation-building cultivator of the Huang family.

Seeing that something seemed a little wrong, Song Yuanfang opened the letter in front of the two people.

After Song Yuanfang glanced at the contents of the letter, Huang Leqing saw that his Taoist partner's face suddenly became a little unhappy, and hurriedly asked again:

"Husband, what happened?"

Song Yuanfang slowly put down the letter in his hand, sighed and said to the two people:

"The letter said that the ancestor Shengyue has passed away, which should be what happened yesterday."

"What, the ancestor has passed away!" Hearing what Song Yuanli said, Huang Leqing and the others exclaimed, and their faces immediately became a little sad.

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On the top of Tuoyun Mountain, in a cave full of spiritual energy.

Song Qingming, who was standing on one side of the cave in a green robe, disappeared immediately after a flash of spiritual light.

The next moment, Song Qingming's figure suddenly appeared out of thin air on the other side of the cave, more than ten feet away from the previous position. A moment later, another flash of spiritual light flashed, and Song Qingming appeared in another position in the cave.

After changing positions more than a dozen times, Song Qingming finally stopped with a satisfied look on his face.

"It took so long to finally master this escape technique. Although it is still a long way from perfection, it is basically enough now."

Song Qingming performed the secret technique that he brought out from the "Babel Tower" that year, the Nine Palace Meteor Escape.

After more than six years of closed-door training, Song Qingming can now perform this escape technique skillfully. Now his escape speed plus the "Phantom Boat" may make it difficult for ordinary late Jindan cultivators to catch up with him in a short time.

In the past few years, Song Qingming has basically been practicing in seclusion in Tuoyun Mountain. Not only has he mastered the "Nine Palaces Meteor Escape" escape technique, but his own cultivation has also steadily improved a lot.

Having already refined the "Emerald True Water", his cultivation speed has increased a lot compared to before, and in recent years he has also refined a third-level "Blood Dragon Fruit" and many high-level elixirs.

Song Qingming's mana is now close to the perfection of the third level of the Golden Core. It is estimated that with a few more years of polishing his mana, he can try to break through the fourth level of the Golden Core in seclusion.

In less than fifty years of forming a pill, Song Qingming has been able to cultivate to this level. In Xiaoyao Sect, except for Bai Yuxian and a few people with outstanding cultivation talents, Song Qingming's current cultivation speed has surpassed most of the Golden Core elders.

After putting away his own mana, Song Qingming sat cross-legged again, closed his eyes and began to practice his other technique "Tongtian Wanling Jue".

Although his own cultivation and other skills were all going very smoothly, Song Qingming was always a little disappointed with the "Tongtian Wanling Jue" that he had practiced for so long.

This skill is not only a little painful to practice, but also the progress of practice is too slow, which is very tempering to the heart of the practitioner.

For more than six years, Song Qingming has never neglected the practice of this skill. Even though he has worked very hard, he has only practiced to the late stage of Qi Refining.

The Qi Refining stage alone tortured him enough. Song Qingming really couldn't imagine what this ghost skill would be like when he practiced to the foundation building and golden elixir realms in the future.

In the early stage, "Tongtian Wanling Jue" can help cultivators purify the mana in their bodies, but it has no other great use. Ordinary cultivators spend a lot of time practicing this skill, which will also affect the practice of other skills. It is indeed a bit uneconomical in the early stage.

Fortunately, Song Qingming has a fragmented map to help him, and the speed of recovering mana is much faster than that of ordinary cultivators.

In this case, practicing "Tongtian Wanling Jue" will not affect Song Qingming's daily practice and the practice of other skills.

It is precisely because of this that Song Qingming has been working hard to persevere.

After practicing "Tongtian Wanling Jue" for a while, Song Qingming suddenly felt a wave of spiritual power coming from the entrance of the cave.

As soon as he opened his eyes, a yellow sound transmission talisman flew in front of Song Qingming. After opening it and taking a look, Song Qingming immediately stood up and opened the restriction at the entrance of the cave.

After a while, Huang Siyuan, dressed in purple, walked in with a trace of worry on her face.

Seeing that her face was not very good, Song Qingming hurriedly asked: "Siyuan, what happened?"

Huang Siyuan sighed slightly and said: "Just now Yuan Fang sent a message saying that the ancestor Shengyue has passed away. I want to go back to Taiyuan Mountain to see her off. After all, she also watched me grow up."

Hearing the news that Huang Shengyue passed away, Song Qingming was also slightly surprised. After silently calculating in his heart, he found that her life span was almost over, and he couldn't help but sighed slightly.

Huang Shengyue is the last person in Qinghe County who is older than Song Qingming. When Huang Shengyue just built his foundation, Song Qingming was just an ignorant boy who had just entered the Tao.

Although he had a smooth journey when he was young and successfully built his foundation early, Huang Shengyue's cultivation talent was average. Before he passed away, his cultivation level only stayed at the seventh level of foundation building, and he did not reach the stage of forming a pill.

On the contrary, Song Qingming performed averagely in the Qi Refining Stage, and his cultivation talent was not particularly outstanding.

But after building his foundation, Song Qingming's path gradually became smooth. He soon surpassed Huang Shengyue, who had built his foundation decades earlier than him, and finally succeeded in forming a golden elixir, stepping onto the golden elixir path that thousands of cultivators envied.

"Huang Daoyou is my old friend, and he was the one who helped us get married. I should go and see you off. Don't worry, I'll say hello to Qingyu and accompany you back!"

Seeing that Song Qingming was going to accompany her back to the Huang family, Huang Siyuan felt warm in her heart, and she didn't say anything more, but nodded slightly.

After leaving a message to Song Qingyu who was still in seclusion, the two of them quickly set off to return to Qinghe County.

In the past few years, in addition to Song Qingming's improvement in cultivation, the "Hiding Yuan Technique" practiced by Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu is almost complete.

After another year or so to polish their magic power, the two can almost try to start retreat to form a pill.

Because Huang Siyuan is trying to break through the Jindan realm for the first time, although there is the assistance of "Hiding Yuan Technique", the chance of success is still not too high, only about 30% at most.

Fortunately, Huang Siyuan's life span is still sufficient. She is less than 150 years old now. Even if she fails this time, she still has the opportunity to form a pill next time, so she doesn't need to be too nervous about this.

Compared with Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu's chance of forming a pill next time is much higher. With the experience of the last failed breakthrough, plus the practice of "Hiding Yuan Technique", Song Qingyu's chance of successfully forming a pill this time should be about 50% to 60%.

Compared with other cultivators who are trying to break through the Jindan realm, this is already very high.

Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan first returned to Funiu Mountain on the "Phantom Boat", and after taking Song Yuanfang and his wife, they rushed to Taiyuan Mountain together.

Seeing Song Qingming, the Golden Core Patriarch, coming in person, Huang Sibo and Huang Mengde, the two heads of the Huang family, were also a little surprised, and hurried to the outside of the mountain protection formation to greet him.

"Greetings, ancestor!"

"No need to be polite, get up!" After glancing at the two people in front of him who were saluting, Song Qingming paused slightly when he looked at Huang Mengde.

Compared with Huang Sibo, who had an average cultivation prospect, Huang Mengde's path was much smoother. He has now broken through to the seventh level of foundation building. If he cultivates at this speed, he will definitely be able to cultivate to the stage of forming a pill in the future.

After Huang Shengxin passed away, although the Huang family has not developed very fast in recent years, compared with a hundred years ago, the overall strength of the Huang family has not weakened much, and the number of cultivators and mortals has increased.

This is also mainly due to the rise of the Song family, which brought a relatively peaceful time to Qinghe County. Many immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County, such as the Huang family, have lived a much more stable life and have more or less obtained some opportunities for development.

After several people went up the mountain together, they first went to the mourning hall to pay tribute to Huang Shengyue, and then greeted everyone. Song Qingming accompanied Huang Siyuan to the back mountain to pay tribute to her relatives.

With the success of Song Qingming's Dan formation, the status of the Song family has become higher and higher, and the weight of Huang Siyuan in the hearts of the Huang family has also risen to a very high level.

In recent years, the Huang family has not only rebuilt her father's tomb, but also made a tomb for her mother, who had long been forgotten by the family, and buried her mother next to her father. It is indeed very thoughtful.

Maybe it's because of the long time. Huang Siyuan is no longer as sad as before when facing the tombstone of her parents. She burned some paper money for the two elders with a calm face. After saying a few words, Huang Siyuan smiled and left with Song Qingming.

After bidding farewell to the elder Huang Shengyue, Song Qingming led the Song family members to leave Taiyuan Mountain.

As soon as the "Phantom Boat" left Taiyuan Mountain, Song Yuanfang immediately bowed to Song Qingming and asked, "Seventh Uncle, Huang Sibo just came to me again and asked about Chiyan Mountain.

Now the spiritual veins over there are almost ready. Do you think we should send a message to gather all of them and give them a briefing first?"

After hearing Song Yuanfang mention "Chiyan Mountain", Song Qingming thought for a moment and nodded and replied:

"Well! Let's do as you say. We can talk to them about other things first, but we shouldn't let them participate too much in the specific construction of the market. It's better to use our own people."

Although Song Qingming has been far away in Tuoyun Mountain these years, Song Yuanfang will send a message to Tuoyun Mountain every once in a while to report to him about the family affairs. Song Qingming is basically well aware of the important things happening in Qinghe County.

The reason why the Song family created the new market of "Chiyan Mountain" was not only to earn spiritual stones, but Song Qingming also wanted to take this opportunity to enhance the control of the Song family within their own territory.

Since the Song family was promoted to the Jindan Immortal Clan and led the northeast of Weiguo, many immortal cultivation families in Qinghe and Pingyang counties have been affiliated with the Song family in recent years, although they have been affiliated with the Song family on the surface, but each family has its own territory and business.

Except for occasionally coming to Funiushan to pay tribute, the Song family has not had much influence on them, which has made Song Qingming somewhat dissatisfied.

Now it is a peaceful and prosperous era, and nothing happens. Once the Song family encounters a powerful opponent or crisis, they need to rely on these people to help, and the situation is a little uncertain.

If you want to control these foundation-building families under the door and let them follow the Song family wholeheartedly, it is obviously not enough to have superficial deterrence. You also need to find a way to give them some sweetness that the Song family can always control.

It is often easier to win the hearts of the people by combining kindness and severity.

Qinghe and Pingyang counties have been established for a thousand years, and the large mineral veins that can be found in the territory have basically been developed by Xiaoyao Sect and major families.

The Song family has also organized spirit explorers to explore in the two counties over the years, but they can only find some small veins of low value. It is indeed a coincidence that the Wang family can easily find a large Gengjin vein at their doorstep.

Qinghefang and Jinshanfang are also involved by Xiaoyao Sect, and the Song family cannot get full control of the discourse there. These are not suitable for the Song family to win over and control the immortal families under their command.

Since the old interests can no longer be redistributed, it is better to develop new interests. Therefore, Song Qingming quickly set his sights on the new market of "Chiyan Mountain".

When the Song family leads these immortal families in the future, they will slowly operate this market.

While earning spiritual stones for themselves, they can also bring certain benefits to the immortal families under their command. Then these people will definitely be willing to follow the Song family wholeheartedly. After all, no one will be so stubborn as to make trouble with spiritual stones.

As long as they control this new market, the Song family will also firmly control part of the interests of these immortal cultivation families in their own hands, which is convenient for them to crack down on them at any time and can also save a lot of effort.

These days, Song Yuanfang has been cold to those major immortal cultivation families who came to Funiushan to inquire about the news and wanted to invest in the "Chiyanshan" market.

It is also to highlight the importance of "Chiyanshan" to the Song family and the Song family's determination to invest heavily in the operation of this new market in their hearts.

It was with this idea that the Song family deliberately did not recruit other foundation-building families in Qinghe County to participate in the battle to sweep "Chiyanshan" before, and only brought several immortal cultivation families like the Wang family who were directly under the Song family near Funiushan.

The construction of the "Chiyanshan" market was proposed by Song Yuanfang, and Song Qingming basically handed it over to him to handle it, but occasionally reminded him a few words.

After returning to Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan also stayed in Funiu Mountain for a few days.

In recent years, the two of them have been practicing in seclusion in Tuoyun Mountain. This rare leisure time also makes Song Qingming feel like he has returned to decades ago when he had not yet formed a pill.

A few days later, a white light flew from the foot of Tuoyun Mountain. Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, who looked relaxed, landed from the flying boat together.

"Siyuan, I want to go to Guyang Mountain again, so I won't go with you."

"But the sect has something to do, and it will take a long time to come back?" Hearing that Song Qingming was going to Guyang Mountain, Huang Siyuan asked with concern.

Song Qingming smiled and shook his head slightly, saying, "It's not that the sect has something to ask me. I went to see the head brother again some time ago and asked him to help exchange a Jindan spiritual object.

According to calculations, there should be news soon. I'd better go and take a look and bring it back quickly, so as not to be targeted by others and something unexpected happens."

"Well! If there is nothing, don't be too anxious. Our Qingyu has enough life span, so there is no need to rush for a moment.

If the sect is really not okay, we will try our luck elsewhere in the future. Although Jindan spiritual objects are rare, the world of cultivation is so big that there is always a way."

Knowing that Huang Siyuan was worried that he was too anxious, Song Qingming nodded and nodded in response, and then took the flying boat alone to Guyang Mountain.

In order to help Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan form the Dan in recent years, Song Qingming has also been looking for ways to find Jindan spiritual objects everywhere, and he and Chu Fengping went out to Wu Kingdom again.

However, Jindan spiritual objects are relatively precious spiritual objects everywhere, so they are not so easy to buy.

Song Qingming asked for a long time in Qixingfang, but still did not get the news of the five-element spiritual objects he wanted. He only relied on his familiarity with Liu Zongping to exchange for a "Jade Dust Pill" in Qixing Pavilion.

A few years ago, Xiaoyao Sect obtained a five-element spiritual object "Jade True Water" from a mine in the territory, which was very suitable for Song Qingyu's practice.

It's a pity that when Song Qingming heard the news and ran to the sect's Good Merit Pavilion to exchange for this object with his good merits, it happened that another Jindan elder of the sect, Lu Boyang, was also fully supporting one of his disciples to form a Dan.