Family Cultivation: Evergreen of the Song Family

Chapter 109 Collective Breakthrough (Big Chapter)
After sending Zhu Yiqun away, Song Changsheng's life returned to peace again, and he continued to retreat to understand the minor magical power [Mountain Seal]. As long as he mastered this method, there were not many foundation-building monks who could threaten him.

He originally planned to retreat for a long time this time, but a piece of news from the Great Elder Song Xianyun forced him to leave the retreat early.

But this time it's not a bad thing, but a real good thing...

After Song Changsheng came out of seclusion, he hurriedly came to the meeting hall. Except for Song Lutong and the clan leader, all the senior officials of the family came.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's let Lu Zhou announce the good news." Song Xianyun stroked his beard and said with a smile.

Many people present didn't know what happened, so they could only look at Song Luzhou in confusion.

Song Luzhou stood up and said with some complacency: "Everyone, a certain person was in seclusion to refine the [Shenglong Pill]. Fortunately, he lived up to his command. There were two furnaces in total, and the pills were made into ten pills, which can be used by all the foundation-building monks in the family."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present suddenly showed expressions of surprise.

[Shenglong Pill] is a second-level high-grade elixir. The main material for refining it is the very rare [Ruby Vermilion Fruit]. This pill is very magical. After taking it, the foundation-building monks can increase the chance of breaking through the bottleneck.

You know, after a monk reaches the foundation-building stage, it is very difficult to break through the bottleneck. If the karma is not enough, he may even be trapped there for the rest of his life, unable to move.

For example, Great Elder Song Xianyun, he was already in the late stage of Foundation Establishment 30 years ago, but he was trapped by bottlenecks and was unable to break through to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

30 years, even if a foundation-building monk has a lifespan of 250 years, how many 30 years can he squeeze out?
Originally, he had given up hope, but the appearance of [Shenglong Pill] gave him new hope.

"Great, with this batch of [Shenglong Pills], the family's strength will definitely be able to reach a higher level!" A hundred-year-old clan elder said excitedly.

"Yes, the situation in Lingzhou is changing now, and the family is at the center of the storm. It must have stronger strength to face it calmly. This is really a timely rain." A clan elder said excitedly.

"This is exactly the purpose of calling everyone here. Among the current foundation-building monks in the family, except for the young patriarch and Lu Tong who have just broken through and the patriarch has reached the peak, five of them, including me, have reached the bottleneck.

I have informed the clan leader that in the next period of time, the five of us will retreat together to refine the [Shenglong Pill] to deal with the increasingly severe situation in Lingzhou. Song Xianyun nodded and said seriously.

The meeting hall suddenly became quiet. A clan elder stood up and said worriedly: "Isn't it inappropriate for five elders to retreat together?"

They can't help but worry. These five elders represent more than half of the Song family's high-end combat power, and it will take at least a year and a half to refine the [Shenglong Pill]. If there is an emergency, how will the family respond?

After hearing this, Song Xianyun said confidently: "You don't have to worry, during the period of our retreat, the young patriarch will have full authority to handle the family's general affairs.

If there is an invasion from a foreign enemy and the young clan leader is unable to deal with it, the clan leader will leave the country personally. "

"This..." Several clan elders looked at each other, still feeling something was not right in their hearts.

Seeing this, Song Xianyun couldn't help but frowned and said: "Everyone, time waits for us not. The wolfish ambitions of the Earth Fire Sect and the Lieyang Sect will come back at any time. If we don't hurry up and improve our strength now, the enemy will not give us a chance in the future. "

The words had come to this point, and although several clan elders still had doubts, they had to agree with Song Xianyun's decision.

Seeing several clan elders relenting, Song Xianyun looked at Song Changsheng and said, "Changsheng, during this time, the family will be in your hands."

Song Changsheng had already been prepared in his heart. Hearing this, he quickly stood up and responded: "Elders and clan elders, please rest assured that your longevity will definitely live up to your destiny!"

"Shan, after the meeting, you can follow me to the General Affairs Hall for handover."

After the meeting, Song Changsheng looked at the mountains of jade slips and said with a grimace: "Grandpa 21, you really screwed up your grandson this time. I haven't dealt with family affairs much before, and now it's all under my control." It’s on me.”

Song Xianyun put his hands behind his back and said earnestly: "These things will be handed over to you sooner or later. Do you think you can escape? Now you have more contact. If anything goes wrong, we, the old bones, will help you deal with the aftermath. Wait. Once we're in the ground, it's all up to you."

"You have strong bones in your body. Now that you have the [Shenglong Pill], it is quite possible to set foot in the Zi Mansion in the future. Why should I be anxious?" Song Changsheng said with a smile.

"Hey, little slippery man, just say nice things." A smile appeared on Song Xianyun's face, but he quickly said with a straight face: "But it's useless to say nice things. From tomorrow on, you will officially start handling general affairs. Until we get out of customs.”

Song Changsheng's smiling face suddenly fell, and he lamented in his heart: "I still can't escape!"

The next day, Song Xianyun and others each received a [Shenglong Pill], and then they announced their retreat together, while Song Changsheng plunged into the mountains of mundane affairs...

Song Changsheng had no experience at first and caused a lot of troubles. Fortunately, the elders of the family came to help and taught him experience. Gradually, Song Changsheng became more and more comfortable in handling general affairs.

The family is also running smoothly in his hands, without any trouble...

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, a year passes quietly.

On this day, Song Changsheng, who was dealing with general affairs in the main hall, suddenly felt something. When he looked up, he saw that spiritual energy from all directions was gathering in a certain direction, and clouds were moving in all directions for a while.

He raised his eyebrows, and then he was overjoyed. This was a sign that someone had broken through to the realm of foundation building. Song Changquan had been in seclusion for nearly two years, and it seemed that he was about to officially break through.

There was no time to be careless at this time. Song Changsheng took a few steps and turned into a rainbow and headed towards the retreat room...

As soon as Song Changsheng landed, a group of law enforcement disciples surrounded him and saluted him.

He waved his hand, looked at the person in charge, Song Changan, and said, "Brother, how is the situation? Is the spiritual energy sufficient?"

Song Changan nodded and said: "So far everything is normal, the spirit gathering array has been opened, and the spiritual energy is very abundant."

"Well, so good."

Song Changsheng nodded, but he didn't feel relaxed at all.

Although Song Changquan is of the same generation as him, he is already a second-level alchemist in his family. He is thirty-three this year, and his body is no longer at its peak.

Although his soul is far superior to monks of the same level, his physical body and spiritual power are below the level. Even with the help of [Foundation Establishment Pill], it is still not optimistic for him.

"I hope he has good luck and can survive this crisis." Song Changsheng murmured softly in his heart, silently praying for Song Changquan.

"boom……"

A thunder exploded in the sky, and the dazzling thunder light shone thousands of miles away. Dark clouds as thick as lead began to gather, with thunder snakes surging among them. The roars of thunder were like the roar of gods, making people feel heart-stopping.

Light rain began to fall in the sky, and soon turned into heavy rain, and the water was mist for a while.

The seemingly ordinary heavy rain made Song Changsheng's heart thump. A bad premonition emerged, and he subconsciously clenched his fists.

"Wow!" The sudden condensation in the air gathered into a cyclone, wildly devouring the surrounding spiritual energy. Everyone's hearts suddenly rose to their throats. This was the last step!

The cyclone continued to expand, absorbing as much spiritual energy as possible around it. Suddenly, the expansion speed of the cyclone suddenly stopped and began to shrink.

"Father!" A young man at the scene suddenly roared, his eyes fixed on the increasingly smaller cyclone, like a furious bull.

Song Changsheng's eyes were blank and his knuckles were clenched until they turned white. He knew that Song Changquan had failed...

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, all the cyclones disappeared, and a violent aura emitted from the secret room.

"Rescue!"

Song Changsheng turned into a stream of light and rushed over. Ordinary people would have died immediately, but he had taken the Foundation Establishment Pill and could have survived if he had been rescued in time.

"do not come."

Unexpectedly, a loud shout came from the retreat room. Song Changsheng froze, suddenly thought of something, and raised his head again.

The cyclone started to gather again, and everyone was shocked. Song Changquan was gambling with his own life for the last chance.

A big bet, if you knew that you would lose 90.00% of the time, then... would you still dare to bet?

Song Changquan took the gamble and put everything on him...

Everyone stared blankly at the cyclone that gathered tenaciously and then disappeared again, a feeling of sadness welling up in their hearts.

Song Qingshi's eyes were dull and he sat slumped on the ground, letting the rain hit his body and his heart. He knew that his father had left him...

Song Changsheng slowly closed his eyes, with mixed feelings in his heart. This [Foundation Establishment Pill] became his talisman!

Heavy rain was still pouring down from the sky, thunder was like drums, lightning was like snakes, but there was no more sound in the secret room.

In the Soul Lantern Hall on the mountainside, a breeze blew by, and a soul lamp with a swaying blue flame quietly went out...

Song Changsheng waved his hand to open the retreat room, and took out Song Changquan's skinny body, as light as a ball of cotton.

"Father..." Song Qingshi knelt in front of the corpse, with his long hair disheveled and his eyes red from crying.

Song Changsheng seemed to see his own shadow in this underage boy. He also lost his father more than ten years ago.

"Alas... My condolences." The thousands of words in his heart finally turned into this sentence, because he knew that no amount of words could comfort a child who had lost his father.

The young man wiped his eyes vigorously, raised his head and looked at Song Changsheng and said: "Young patriarch, please allow me to take my father's body back to the mortal world for burial."

Song Changsheng frowned and said, "Don't you want to be buried in the ancestral grave?"

Song Qingshi slowly shook his head and said: "My father was born in the ordinary world, and returning to his roots after falling leaves was his only wish during his lifetime. I hope the young clan leader will fulfill his wish."

This request is undoubtedly against the rules. After all, even if a monk dies, his body can still make a big fuss. If it is used by evil monks, it may turn into a zombie, or it may be refined into an evil weapon to cause harm to the world.

Therefore, after the death of the family's children, they would be buried together to avoid being involved by evil spirits and heretics. Song Qingshi's request made him a little embarrassed.

After a long time, Song Changsheng sighed quietly. He still couldn't refuse a son who had just lost his father, not to mention that this request was not too much.

"I can agree to your request, but in order to prevent the evil heretics from disturbing the purity of my clan brother, you need to cremate his body and take his ashes back to the mortal world for burial."

The young man did not hesitate, bowed to the end, and said with tears of gratitude: "Thank you, Young Patriarch, for your support!"

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Song Changquan's funeral was not grand and he left quietly, but it cast a shadow on everyone's heart.

After Song Luyou got the news, his mood was extremely complicated. He didn't know if he had gotten that [Foundation Building Pill], would the result be different?
No one can give him an answer to this question. After all, if you want to break through the foundation building, qualification is one aspect, and luck is another aspect. No one knows what his luck will be like that day.

Just in the second month after Song Changquan's death, the five elders in seclusion finally made some movement. The first one to break through was Song Xianyun, who broke through from the late stage of foundation building to the great perfection of foundation building.

He became the second in the Song family and the third in Lingzhou.

Then came Xia Yunxue and Song Luhuai, both of whom had broken through to the middle stage of foundation building, and Song Luzhou had further broken through to the late stage of foundation building.

It's a pity that Song Luyao's body is not intact and his meridians are damaged, so he can't break through the bottleneck. He is still in the middle stage of foundation building, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment.

However, Song Luyao didn't care much. For her now, there was no difference between the middle stage of foundation building and the late stage of foundation building.

The overall strength of the Song family has completed a leap, completely overwhelming the Earth Fire Sect. Just waiting for another great monk from the Zifu to appear, he will be able to compete with the Lieyang Sect.

After Song Xianyun consolidated his cultivation, he went through all the general affairs that Song Changsheng had handled for more than a year, and he was very satisfied with the results.

"Son, you are far better than I imagined. You will definitely be a qualified clan leader in the future." Song Xianyun said with a smile.

"You think too highly of me. If it weren't for the help of the clan elders, my grandson would have caused so much trouble." Song Changsheng laughed at himself.

"Excessive modesty is hypocrisy. Your ability is obvious to all." Song Xianyun said with a straight face.

"Yeah, even if it were us old guys, we wouldn't be able to do better than you."

Song Changsheng smiled bitterly and shook his head. He was really not humble. Although he dealt with a lot of general affairs every day, they were just daily chores. They were not difficult at all. Anyone else could do it just as well.

"Okay, okay, if you keep blowing this guy's tail will rise to the sky. Let's get down to business first." Song Luzhou knocked on the table to interrupt everyone's flattery, and said with a serious face.

Song Xianyun cleared his throat, looked around the crowd and said, "Everyone, the family's strength has greatly increased this time, and it has completely suppressed the Earth Fire Sect. I think it's time to reorganize the interests of Liuyunfang City. What do you think?"

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(End of this chapter)