Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Chapter 1 Qinghe Song Family
Qinghe County, Weiguo, Donghuangxianzhou.

In the northeast corner of Qinghe County, there is a fairy mountain shrouded in mist and filled with fairy spirit, called Funiu Mountain.

Funiu Mountain is nearly a thousand feet high. The mountain is covered with green grass and trees, like a giant green cow lying among the mountains. There are dozens of fairy-like pavilions and pavilions standing on the top of the mountain. It is the residence of the Song family, a Qi refining and immortality family in Qinghe County.

The ancestor of the Song family was originally a foundation-building monk in the "Xiaoyao Sect", the overlord of the immortal cultivation world in Weiguo.

After his death, his descendants were ostracized by the sect, so they had no choice but to lead their clan members to leave the sect and come to the relatively remote Qinghe County. They occupied the high-grade spiritual vein of Funiu Mountain and have taken root and thrived for two hundred years.

In a secret cave on the mountainside on the west side of Funiu Mountain, a young man in Tsing Yi with a youthful appearance was sitting at the table looking at an earth-yellow animal skin bag on the table.

After a while, the young man picked up the animal skin bag and slowly opened the small purple rope tied to the mouth of the bag. Then there was a "ding" sound of metal colliding, and a pile of faintly shiny stones fell out of the bag.

These stones are colorful, each with its own dazzling light.

The young man then took out two stones that glowed faintly red from his body and placed them among these stones, and began to count the pile of glowing stones in front of him softly.

"A total of seventy-five yuan, plus the fifteen points of meritorious deeds recorded in the family's golden pavilion, no more, no less, just ten spiritual stones are left. According to the current speed of accumulating spiritual stones, it should be smooth in half a year at the earliest. Change to a Qi Gathering Pill, so that you can break through the middle stage of Qi Refining."

After thinking quickly, the young man who calmed down repacked all the spirit stones on the table and carefully hid the bag in a wall in the cave.

The young man in green is named Song Qingming, and he is the seventh among the fourth generation monks of the Song family who are named "Qing".

Ten years ago, he was a mortal. Fortunately, his tribe discovered that he carried spiritual roots that could be cultivated, and he was able to enter the family's holy land, Funiu Mountain, to practice. He is just twenty years old this year and has reached the third level of Qi refining.

If an ordinary mortal possesses spiritual roots like him, and successfully introduces Qi into the body after practicing, he can enter the Qi refining period and become a cultivator, also known as a monk.

During the Qi refining period, monks can cleanse their body and strengthen their physique through daily practice of swallowing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. They can also use the spiritual power refined in the body to use various spells. High-level monks can even ride on the wind and clouds, move mountains and fill seas, and transform into Decay becomes magic.

In this world of immortality, ordinary mortals can only live to be seventy or eighty years old at most, while monks in the Qi Refining Stage can normally live for two decades and one hundred and twenty years, which is almost twice as long as ordinary mortals.

If you break through to a higher level of cultivation, your lifespan will be doubled. When you practice to become an immortal, you will be able to ascend to the immortal world and live as long as heaven and earth like the legendary immortals. This is also the path to longevity that all monks pursue.

The cultivation levels of monks in the human world are mainly divided into five levels: "qi refining, foundation building, pill formation, Yuanying, and god transformation".

It is said that there are higher levels for the monks who transform into gods, but the spiritual energy in this world is relatively thin and cannot support the monks in the world to practice to higher levels. After the monks reach the late stage of transforming into gods, they will be affected by the interface if their cultivation level is further improved. It can be repelled by force and automatically ascend to other upper interfaces. Therefore, the highest cultivation level of monks in this world can only reach the late stage of divine transformation.

The luminous stones in Song Qingming's hands are an item in the world of immortality that can increase the speed of monks' own cultivation. They are also the mainstream currency used among monks in this world to trade various cultivation resources needed for cultivation.

And the "Qi Gathering Pill" he just mentioned is a common pill in the world of immortality that helps monks like him in the early stage of Qi refining to break through to the middle stage of Qi refining.

Every time a monk reaches the peak state of a level of cultivation, he will encounter a bottleneck if he needs to break through to the next level, unless you are a genius monk with outstanding spiritual roots. Ordinary monks can only rely on slowly cultivating to absorb spiritual energy to eliminate bottlenecks during normal cultivation. It is difficult to break through in a short period of time. If you want to quickly break through the bottleneck, you need to rely on the help of external substances such as swallowing some pills and spiritual objects.

Although the Qi Gathering Pill is not a rare elixir in Qinghe County, it is still a top-grade elixir. One normal pill in the market costs at least a hundred spirit stones. Song Qingming has been saving it for almost ten years, but he is still short of ten spirit stones. .

There are not many ways for low-level monks like him to earn spiritual stones. The spiritual stone salary distributed by the family every year, plus occasionally receiving some low-level family tasks, and following the elders of the family to hunt monsters, after a year At most, he can only save a dozen spirit stones.

Song Qingming relied on the formation skills he had learned in the clan over the past few years. He usually helped other people in the clan draw some auxiliary formation diagrams and arrange some low-level magic formations on the magical weapons and robes they refined, and earned some spiritual stones. Coupled with the frugal spending in recent years, we are finally getting it together.

Although his cultivation speed is average and he has not yet broken through the middle stage of Qi refining at the age of twenty, fortunately he was born in a family of cultivators. He has been protected by the elders of the clan since he was a child, and his cultivation has been smooth.

Compared with those wandering casual cultivators, at least Song Qingming had a fixed spiritual practice since he started practicing, and he could always be taught by the elders of his clan if he had any questions about his cultivation.

In Qinghe County, the monks who have more backgrounds are still practicing in various walks of life. Most of them do not have a fixed spiritual practice, and have long been running around all day for a few cultivation resources.

Spiritual veins are the foundation of a monk's cultivation. A monk who cultivates on the spiritual veins will be full of spiritual energy, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy will be several times faster than that of the outside world, so he can practice with twice the result with half the effort. A high-grade spiritual vein like Funiu Mountain can easily be used by more than twenty monks in the Qi refining period of the Song family.

If there is no spiritual veins and one is practicing in the barren mountains and ridges of the outside world, the supply of spiritual energy from heaven and earth is limited. If a cultivator wants to increase his cultivation speed, he can only rely on refining spiritual stones to fill it, which will consume a lot of resources for cultivating immortals.

Song Qingming also tried to break through the middle stage of Qi refining in the past two years. However, not only did he not succeed in breaking through, but the backlash caused by the failed breakthrough damaged his meridians. It took him several months of cultivation to fully recover. This made him gradually give up and understand. He himself is not a cultivation genius.

Nowadays, if he wants to successfully break through the cultivation level, he can't rush it. He has to practice slowly and polish off the bottlenecks. Normally, it would take five to ten years for him to let nature take its course and successfully break through.

It's just that this consumes too much training time, so I choose to take pills to assist in breakthrough. This is also the method used by most monks in the world of immortality.

Although Song Qingming has been working very hard in cultivation, he is only a monk with the four spiritual root attributes of gold, wood, fire and earth. In the world of immortality, these are just ordinary low-level spiritual root qualifications, and the types of spiritual roots in monks also have different levels. divided.

Generally, they are specifically classified according to the number of five elements spiritual roots in the body. Spiritual roots have five attributes: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. The monks with fewer spiritual roots in the body refine the spiritual energy between heaven and earth during cultivation. The purer it is, the faster the cultivation speed will be. On the contrary, the more spiritual roots exist in a monk's body and the refined spiritual energy is too complex, the slower the cultivation speed will be.

Monks with mixed spiritual roots who have all five elements in their body and five spiritual roots have the slowest cultivation speed. Unless they have a large supply of resources, it will be difficult for such monks to even reach the late stage of Qi refining.

The four types of spiritual roots like Song Qingming are pseudo-spiritual roots, and their cultivation speed will be slightly faster. If you practice harder, and if your family can provide some resources and help, you will have a good chance of cultivating to the late stage of Qi refining. .

More than 80% of the monks in the entire world of immortality are ordinary monks like him with four or five spiritual roots. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for monks like them to break through to the next foundation-building stage.

However, in the path of cultivating immortality, in addition to spiritual root qualifications, luck and opportunity are also very important. Although Song Qingming has average spiritual root qualifications, he has been diligent in the past ten years since he entered the path of cultivation, and has never slacked off. Practice.

(End of this chapter)