Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Before he formed his Dan, Song Qingming had participated in several "Tian Dan League" auctions, but because his cultivation level was too low at the time, he did not have a deep understanding of this organization.

All we know is that this is a large-scale commercial organization that mainly engages in alchemy and spans more than a dozen countries around the Floating Cloud Mountains. It also opened a shop in Weiguo Yangshanfang that sells various first- and second-level elixirs.

Apart from attending a few auctions and purchasing some necessary elixirs at Yangshanfang, Song Qingming did not have much interaction with the cultivators of the "Tian Dan League".

Until six years ago, Song Qingming was searching for the Five Elements Dan spiritual objects for Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan. By chance, Song Qingming met a Jindan elder named Gu Qing in the "Tian Dan League" through Chu Fengping's relationship.

Because they were both third-level alchemists and Gu Qing happened to be in charge of Weiguo's business, Chu Fengping and he had known each other for a long time. The two often discussed philosophy together and exchanged experiences in alchemy, and their relationship was quite good.

It was also through the relationship with Gu Qing that Song Qingming finally gained a deeper understanding of the "Tian Dan League" organization.

The headquarters of the "Tian Dan League" is not in the Floating Cloud Mountains, but in the East China Sea immortal cultivation world thousands of miles away from here. There are three Nascent Soul elders in the organization, all of whom are fourth-level alchemists who are famous in the East China Sea immortal cultivation world.

However, these three Nascent Soul elders are not from the same sect, and one of them is even a casual cultivator. They all joined the "Tian Dan League" because they were obsessed with alchemy.

Apart from this, there are not many restrictions and regulations for the "Tian Dan League" to recruit members. Whether you are a casual cultivator, a family cultivator, or a cultivator from other sects, you can join this organization.

As long as a cultivator joins the "Tian Dan League", he can view the various alchemy recipes and alchemy notes left by some predecessors in the league, and enjoy the various alchemy resources provided by the league.

In addition, the "Tian Dan League" will regularly organize alchemists of similar levels to discuss the art of alchemy and exchange experiences with each other. If they are lucky enough to be appreciated by the Yuanying elders of the league, they can also get some advice from these high-level alchemists.

The "Tian Dan League" is also an alchemy organization that all alchemists in the East China Sea's immortal cultivation world dream of joining. Even near the Floating Cloud Mountains, there are many cultivators who love alchemy and choose to join the "Tian Dan League".

However, once you join the "Tian Dan League", you cannot withdraw at will without the permission of the elders within the organization. Although you are not subject to any restrictions at ordinary times, when the organization needs you, you must choose to help them.

In order to improve his alchemy skills, Chu Fengping once considered joining the "Tian Dan League", but he gave up the idea later because the sect did not agree.

After all, he is the only level three intermediate alchemist in the Xiaoyao Sect. If Chu Fengping joins the "Tian Dan League", he will inevitably divert too much of his energy there. By then, the sect might not even have anyone to refine some commonly used high-level elixirs. This will have a very big impact on a Nascent Soul Sect.

At that time, under the introduction of Chu Fengping, Song Qingming met the deacon elder of the "Tian Dan League" Gu Qing at Tian Dan Pavilion.

It’s a pity that although the “Tian Dan League” would occasionally put the Five Elements Pill Spiritual Objects up for auction, they were very rare, with only one appearing every ten to twenty years at least. At that time, Gu Qing did not have the Five Elements Spiritual Object that Song Qingming urgently needed.

A few days ago, after Song Qingyu joined Xiaoyao Sect, the sect gave her a lot of merits from the Good Deeds Pavilion. Song Qingming planned to combine her and his own merits and go to the sect's Good Deeds Pavilion to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

As a result, on the way to Guyang Mountain, he happened to meet Gu Qing who was going to Yangshanfang. After the two greeted each other and chatted for a few words, Song Qingming happened to learn that Gu Qing had recently refined a furnace of foundation-building pills.

Upon learning the news, Song Qingming took out two beads of third-grade lower-grade spiritual medicine and five or six beads of second-grade spiritual medicine, and exchanged them for a foundation-building pill from Gu Qing.

These two level three spiritual medicines were brought out by Song Qingming from the "Tower of Babel". He had originally intended to exchange them for five-element elixir-forming spiritual objects with Song Qingyu and others. However, he failed to achieve his wish after two visits to the Kingdom of Wu, so the medicines have been kept by Song Qingming ever since.

As a third-level alchemist, Gu Qing naturally wants high-level spiritual medicines, spiritual fruits and the like, which can be used to refine pills.

Seeing that Song Qingming took out two third-grade low-grade spiritual medicines in one breath, Gu Qing immediately agreed and exchanged a foundation-building pill with Song Qingming on the spot.

Originally, Song Qingming wanted to exchange one more with him, but unfortunately he no longer had any spiritual medicine above level three, and the other party didn't think highly of the other spiritual objects he could take out, so he could only give up and wait for the next opportunity.

With the rapid development in recent years, the Song family can now cultivate to the ninth level at around sixty years old. There are more and more cultivators who can build the foundation, and the demand for foundation-building pills is also becoming greater and greater.

Spiritual objects such as the Foundation Establishment Pill, like the Five Elements Pill, are precious spiritual objects that are extremely difficult to obtain, whether in Wei State or in other neighboring countries.

Over the years, the Song family has mostly relied on Song Qingming to exchange his own merits and other spiritual objects for the Xiaoyao Sect, and only occasionally have the opportunity to obtain them through some external channels.

Song Qingming occasionally had to use the merits accumulated in the Xiaoyao Sect to exchange for elixirs and spiritual objects needed for his own cultivation. There was no way he could use all of them to exchange for Foundation Building Pills, so the number of Foundation Building Pills he could exchange for the family was very limited.

After explaining to Song Qingyu, Song Qingming turned to Song Yuanfang and said:

"Yuan Fang, first tell me who in the clan are suitable candidates for foundation building. We don't need to consider those with relatively low cultivation levels. Only those who can surely cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining within five years can be included in this selection of candidates for foundation building.

Secondly, I would like to add two more requirements. The first is that the age must be under 80 years old. The second is that there must be a family member with more than 1,000 points of merit in the family treasury. There are no other requirements.

You think carefully and write a list first, and the three of us will discuss this matter first, and then when Changze, Yuanxue and the others come back, we will convene a meeting of the family elders to discuss and decide. "

After Song Yuanfang nodded upon hearing this, he took out a pen and paper from his body, and quickly wrote down the names of all the clan members who could currently meet the requirements mentioned by Song Qingming, and handed them to the two Jindan elders.

The number of cultivators in the Song family now is about ten times that of when Song Qingming went down the mountain. Excluding the core elders of the family who are in the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages, there are now a total of 247 remaining Qi Refining stage cultivators.

Among these tribesmen, there are a total of sixty-eight people who have cultivated to the late stage of Qi Refining.

According to Song Qingming's requirements, those who are older, those who have only broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining in recent years, and those whose merits do not meet the requirements were screened out, and there are still a dozen people left.

Holding the list handed over by Song Yuanfang, Song Qingming read it carefully and couldn't help but reveal a trace of embarrassment on his face.

Unlike before, when they only had to choose between a few people, now even if there are two Foundation Establishment Pills, it is far from enough for these family cultivators who have reached the foundation-building stage.

Song Qingyu, who was standing by, finished reading the list. When she looked up, she saw the embarrassment on Song Qingming's face, so she spoke softly:
"So many people meet the requirements. I think we should raise the requirements a bit more this time. Otherwise, two foundation-building pills are too few, and it will be difficult for us to make a decision."

Song Qingming nodded slightly and said, "Then let's lower the age to under 70 years old and raise the merit points to 1,500. This way there shouldn't be many people left."

A moment later, when Song Yuanfang put the candidates he had crossed out in front of Song Qingming and the others, there were only five people left.

After Song Qingyu glanced at the revised list, he took the lead and said, "Although Yuan Qian is a little older, we have all witnessed that she has assisted Yuan Fang in managing the family affairs over the years.

Moreover, she is a top-grade first-class alchemist with good skills. There is a chance that her alchemy skills will be upgraded to the second level in the future. I agree to leave one Foundation Establishment Pill for her.

Among the remaining few, Changwen and Changrui both have decent talents in cultivation. I think Changrui will be better. This kid is more stable and has a better character than Changwen."

"I agree with Yuan Qian. Her cultivation foundation is more solid than the others. In addition, she took life-extending spiritual objects in the past few years. Her foundation-building state should not be worse than others.

I think Changwen and Changrui have similar conditions, and the chances of them building a foundation are not very different." After hearing Song Qingyu's analysis, Song Yuanli on the side also spoke up for his opinion.

Song Qingming nodded to the two of them and said, "Then let's first decide on Yuan Qian as the candidate. As for the other four, we can discuss them together at the next family meeting. Whether we choose Changwen or Changrui, it will be fine as long as everyone agrees.

The family is currently lacking in sources of foundation-building pills. The amount that Qingyu and I can exchange for at the sect is always limited. We still need to find more ways to obtain foundation-building pills."

Song Yuanfang nodded slightly and said:

"Seventh Uncle is talking about the almost mature Jadeite Golden Ganoderma that was transplanted from Tuoyun Mountain a few years ago in the family's spiritual medicine garden. After Yuan Xue's careful cultivation over the years, it will be ready for harvesting and use as medicine in another ten years. When the time comes, we can take it directly to the sect and exchange it for a foundation-building pill.

However, in the spiritual medicine garden, the two remaining five-element spiritual fruit trees and several other jade-marrow golden mushrooms are only more than 500 years old. According to the current progress, it will take at least 100 years to cultivate them to maturity. At present, we can only think of a solution outside. "The "jade-marrow golden mushroom" and "five-element spiritual fruit" mentioned by Song Yuanfang are the main medicines commonly used in the cultivation world to refine the "foundation-building pill".

However, in order to use it to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, it must be a mature spiritual medicine.

The cultivation method of "Jadeite Golden Ganoderma" is a little faster. It only takes about 800 years for the medicine to mature and can be directly used to refine the "Foundation Building Pill".

The "Five Elements Spiritual Fruit" is a little more troublesome. The spiritual tree must reach a thousand years of age before it can bear spiritual fruit, and the fruit will need to mature once every hundred years or so.

The so-called medicinal age is not the actual growth age of the spiritual medicine. It is just a unified term created by spiritual plant masters in the world of immortal cultivation in order to judge the detailed quality of the spiritual medicine.

For example, a second-level spiritual medicine will take at least two hundred years to mature in a place with relatively poor spiritual energy in the wild. However, if it is placed in a high-level spiritual land with abundant spiritual energy, and a high-level spiritual plant master invests in spiritual objects such as spiritual stones or spiritual water to cultivate it every day, the time can be shortened by a hundred years and it can mature earlier.

Although it only took a hundred years to cultivate the elixir in this way, its quality is the same as that of the elixir that has grown in the wild for two hundred years, so the age of the medicine should still be calculated as two hundred years.

The time required for a cultivator to cultivate a spiritual medicine to maturity is closely related to the grade of the spiritual land, the amount of resources invested, and the personal ability of the spiritual plant master. This is also the biggest reason why major families and even large sects like the Xiaoyao Sect will spend resources to cultivate spiritual plant masters.

When the Song family was still a Qi-refining family, the plants planted in the family's spiritual medicine garden had always been first-level spiritual medicines. The oldest medicine was only more than a hundred years old, and there had never been a spiritual plant master above second level in the family.

It was not until more than a hundred years ago, after Song Qingming successfully built his foundation, that he slowly began to plant some second-level spiritual medicines. However, because the family had not yet cultivated its own second-level spiritual plant master, these spiritual medicines matured very slowly.

Some of the second-level spiritual medicines planted by Song Changfeng when he was the clan leader have not yet fully matured. Therefore, Song Qingming did not put too much energy into managing his own spiritual medicine garden. Most of his spiritual medicines and fruits were obtained by himself from outside.

It was not until the Song family was promoted to the Golden Core Immortal Clan that the family gave birth to its first second-level spiritual plant master, Song Yuanxue. In recent years, the Song family began to increase its investment in this area, and the scale of the spiritual medicine garden in the back mountain has now expanded several times.

Under the guidance and careful care of Song Yuanxue, a second-level spiritual plant master, in just over twenty years, the annual output of spiritual medicines in the Song family spiritual medicine garden has increased several times compared to before. On average, one or two second-level spiritual medicines can mature every year.

Today, the family's spiritual medicine garden, after the careful investment of several generations of cultivators in the Song family, has finally seen some results and can already bring the family a good fixed income every year.

In order to facilitate the sect's rule over the immortal cultivation world of Wei State, the Xiaoyao Sect ordered its foundation-building and Qi-refining families to be prohibited from secretly cultivating the two main medicines that could be used to refine foundation-building pills, and only allowed them to grow some auxiliary spiritual medicines.

Before this, apart from the Xiaoyao Sect's spiritual medicine garden, in the entire Wei State, only Tuoyun Mountain and Tiexian Fort before the incident, as well as another Wu family in Donglin County in the south of Wei State that had a fake pill cultivator, would grow some of these main ingredients for refining foundation-building pills.

Before the Song family was promoted to the Golden Elixir Immortal Clan, they had never cultivated the main medicine for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill. Now the two "Five Elements Spiritual Fruit Trees" and five or six Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma in the family's spiritual medicine garden are all immature spiritual medicines collected by the Song family from various places in recent decades.

One of them was a "Jadeite Golden Ganoderma" that was about to mature. It was found by a casual cultivator who had established his foundation when Song Qingming was guarding Tuoyun Mountain. The cultivator sold it to the Song family at a high price.

Most of these immature main ingredients for foundation-building pills were only two or three hundred years old when the Song family obtained them. Even if they were transplanted to the Song family's spiritual medicine garden in the back mountain where the spiritual energy was richer, it would take at least one or two hundred years to cultivate them to maturity.

Moreover, it takes more than just time to cultivate this kind of high-level spiritual medicine. Without the care of professional spiritual plant masters and sufficient resource investment, the spiritual medicine may mature prematurely or its spirituality may be damaged, which will greatly reduce the efficacy and value of the whole spiritual medicine.

It is basically impossible for an emerging Jindan family like the Song family to achieve self-sufficiency in "Foundation Building Pills" by relying on their own cultivation of spiritual medicines in a short period of time.

Even before the Ma family encountered the accident, with more than 500 years of accumulation by two generations of Jindan cultivators, they could only barely make enough for their daily needs.

Once encountering a rebellion of monsters and beasts, and the foundation-building monks under their command suffered heavy losses, the Ma family would still have to exchange some foundation-building pills from the sect to make up for the lack of family combat power.

After hearing Song Yuanfang talk about the main herbs used to refine the foundation-building pills in the family's spiritual medicine garden, Song Qingming smiled and nodded slightly.
"Things about the Spiritual Medicine Garden cannot be rushed. The family can increase investment in this area appropriately, but don't put too much pressure on Yuan Xue and the others.

I had a chat with fellow Taoist Gu this time. According to him, the spiritual resources in the East China Sea's immortal cultivation world are much richer. It is much easier to purchase spiritual objects such as foundation-building pills there than in the surrounding areas of our Wei country.

I already have a plan. After Qingyu has finished refining his natal magic weapon in seclusion, I will go to the East China Sea to see if I can buy some foundation-building pills.

Yuan Fang, you should also make some preparations in advance and exchange the low-level spiritual objects accumulated in the family treasury for spiritual stones or other high-level spiritual objects, so that it will be more convenient for me to take them out when the time comes."

Song Qingyu heard this and said with joy: "Seventh Brother, if you really go to the East China Sea to cultivate immortals, you must take me with you. I have traveled there once before, so I have some understanding of the general situation in the East China Sea.

If we can't find any information about the Foundation Establishment Pill, we can ask Sister He and the others for help. It will definitely be more convenient for you if I come with you."

"Well! Let's talk about it after you come out of seclusion. There's no rush for this matter. We still need some time to prepare!"

After Song Qingming and the other two had a preliminary discussion, they sent out a message a few days later to gather all the family elders who were away to Funiushan Mountain to discuss the ownership of the family's two foundation-building pills.

Except for Song Yuanli who was unable to attend due to his expedition to the front line in Lu State, the remaining dozen elders of the family were basically all present, including Huang Siyuan, who also stopped her retreat to recuperate and participated in this very important meeting for the family.

In the meeting room, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan, the three most senior ancestors of the family, sat at the top.

The dozen or so family elders sitting below are all family foundation-building cultivators, or people who hold important positions in the family and manage important family industries.

After Song Yuanfang, who was in charge of family affairs, mentioned the several backup candidates for the Foundation Establishment Pills that had already been selected, everyone discussed it and quickly decided on the final ownership of the two Foundation Establishment Pills.

They are Song Yuanqian, who has managed the family's treasury for many years, and Song Changwen, who has decent talent and aptitude among the "Chang" generation.

Song Yuanqian ranks low among the "Yuan" generation cultivators of the Song family. Although she is of the same generation as Song Yuanfang and others, she is much younger than them.

She is already 68 years old, but because she has taken some longevity and anti-aging pills, her face does not show any signs of aging.

Because Song Yuanqian's spiritual root talent is relatively poor and he is a cultivator with four spiritual roots, his cultivation speed is not very fast. He only cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining a few years ago.

The reason why she was able to successfully cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining and reach the stage of building a foundation was, on the one hand, because she was quick-witted and had the trust of her brother Song Yuanfang. After becoming a family elder, she was able to receive much more family salary every year than other members of the family.

On the other hand, Song Yuanqian has invested a lot of resources and energy in alchemy, and has raised his alchemy skills to the first-class upper grade very early. Now he is the one with the highest alchemy skills in the family except for Huang Siyuan, the second-class alchemist.

Relying on these two points over the years, Song Yuanqian is now earning spirit stones and family merits at a speed far exceeding that of other ordinary members of the clan. Among the many cultivators in the Song family, except for Song Qingming, Song Yuanfang and other Jindan and foundation-building cultivators, she is already the richest one at present.

Another person named Song Changwen, who ranks 21st in the "Chang" generation, is one of the few cultivators of this generation whose talent is second only to Song Changze.

Compared with the "Yuan" generation, which produced two gifted geniuses, Song Yuanli and Song Yuanhao, although the Song family's "Chang" generation also had a large number of cultivators, their overall talent was obviously much worse than that of the "Yuan" generation.

Among the dozens of cultivators of this generation, there is not a single cultivator with dual spiritual roots. Song Changze, who has the best talent and has successfully built his foundation, is also only a cultivator with three spiritual roots.

Among the remaining cultivators with three spiritual roots, Song Changwen was considered to have a better talent for cultivation. However, he was almost fifty years old when he cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining, and his foundation was not as solid as Song Yuanqian's.

The situations of the other few people who were not selected were not much different from Song Changwen. Although they were all cultivators who had cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining and reached the stage of foundation building, their basic talents were significantly different from those of Song Changze, Song Yuanhao and others who had built their foundations before.

After receiving the foundation-building pill with the support of the family, Song Yuanqian, the elder who had participated in the family meeting but did not speak because Song Yuanfang specifically instructed him to, shed tears of excitement on the spot.

After obtaining the foundation-building pill, Song Yuanqian and Song Changwen soon began to retreat to the Funiu Mountain to reach the foundation-building stage. (End of this chapter)