Qinghe Immortal Clan.

After the two of them came down the mountain, they strolled around the streets of "Tiandan City" and then walked through the market town to the beach, where they admired the unique sunset scenery in the East China Sea.

Huang Siyuan, who always appeared very quiet in front of Song Qingming, seemed to have completely changed her personality after arriving at the beach this time, and completely let go of the dignified image she had maintained for many years.

Seeing Huang Siyuan like a little girl, happily looking at the sea in front of her, talking loudly to herself about many little wishes she wanted to fulfill in the future, Song Qingming, who was standing aside, was also somewhat surprised by her innocent appearance.

Since Huang Siyuan began to practice Taoism, she was first neglected by her family and sent to the Song family as a pawn. Later, in order to build her foundation, she went out alone for decades and experienced life and death before returning.

Huang Siyuan, who has suffered the fickleness of human nature since childhood and is used to relying on herself in everything, is a dozen years younger than Song Qingyu, but her personality is much more mature than her. Since Song Qingming met her, he has rarely seen her so innocent.

The two watched the sunset at the beach that day, and waited for the moonrise. It was not until the early morning of the next day that they returned to the cave where Song Qingming rented in "Tiandan City" to greet the sunrise.

After Huang Siyuan successfully formed a golden elixir, the "Tian Dan League" specially held a small golden elixir formation celebration for her in Tian Dan City to show their importance to her, and invited many cultivators in the league to come to watch and congratulate her.

Although Huang Siyuan is still only a peripheral member of the "Tian Dan League", internal elders such as Ye Qiuyuan are indeed quite caring towards her, a cultivator who has just formed a new Dan.

Not only did he send a lot of gifts in person, but he also took the initiative to teach Huang Siyuan a lot of things related to alchemy during the celebration. This benefited Huang Siyuan, who was well versed in alchemy, a lot, and her understanding of some elixirs was greatly improved.

After staying in "Tian Dan City" for more than a month, Song Qingming, who was ready to leave, took Huang Siyuan, who had already accepted her alchemy mission for the next three years, bid farewell to Ye Qiuyuan and others, and set off to return to the immortal cultivation world in the Floating Cloud Mountains.

The two of them rode the "Phantom Boat" all the way west, spending half a month crossing Duanyun Mountain. After passing through several small countries of Zheng State, they finally returned to Qinghe County, which they had been away from for a long time, five years later.

As soon as he passed through Yunwu Mountain, Song Qingming saw the sound of fierce fighting coming from a high mountain not far ahead.

After controlling the "Phantom Boat" to move closer, Song Qingming discovered that it was actually a large group of cultivators who were struggling to encircle and suppress a second-level, lower-grade Foundation Establishment Stage monster.

"It's Changze and Xuanting and the others. I didn't expect that Xuanting has also successfully established his foundation!" After taking a glance at the crowd, Huang Siyuan on the side quickly recognized that the two leading foundation-building cultivators among the group of cultivators were none other than the Song family of Funiu Mountain.

The many cultivators below who were fighting hard with the low-grade second-level monster suddenly saw two sword lights flying quickly in front of them and directly falling on the foundation-building monster that had been confronting them for a long time.

After a moment, the monster let out a miserable cry, then slowly fell to the ground, without any breath.

Everyone who saw this scene was also shocked. They quickly looked up in the sky and found the figures of Song Qingming and the other man in the air in the distance. There was an immediate cry of surprise from the crowd.

After a while, two sword lights flew directly from the mountain to Song Qingming and bowed to them.

"Changze and Xuanting meet the clan leader!"

Looking at the two people in front of him, Song Qingming first smiled and nodded to Song Xuanting, the newly promoted family foundation-building cultivator, and then asked Song Changze beside him:
"Why are you hunting monsters here? Did Yuan Fang ask you to come? Nothing happened at home in the past few years, right?"

"Reporting to the clan leader, not long ago this monster attacked a mine near Chiyanfang. Uncle Sixteen asked us to lead the Fangshi Law Enforcement Team to strengthen patrols. These few days, Xuan Ting and I happened to track the monster's trail, so we led people to surround it here!

In the past two years, apart from Xuan Ting and Aunt Sixteen building their foundation, the family has been peaceful and nothing major has happened."

"It's a bit dangerous for you guys to hunt level 2 monsters or above in a place where there are many monsters. What if there are other level 2 monsters nearby that come looking for you? How are you going to deal with them?

Don’t be so reckless in the future, and wait until you have organized your forces before taking action.”

After hearing Song Changze's reply, Song Qingming spoke up to remind them both, then turned the flying boat around and left the original place, flying towards the nearby Funiu Mountain.

When Song Qingming just arrived outside the Funiu Mountain protection formation and was about to pass through the formation, a green sword light suddenly flew out from Funiu Mountain and stopped beside Song Qingming and the other man.

"Qingyu, you happen to be at home too. This is really a coincidence. We thought you should be in Tuoyun Mountain now!" Seeing Song Qingyu just coming out to greet them at home, Huang Siyuan and Song Qingming both showed a hint of surprise on their faces.

Song Qingyu did not answer the two of them. Instead, he stared directly at Huang Siyuan. When he saw that the aura emanating from Huang Siyuan was different from before and she had become a Jindan cultivator not much different from her.

Song Qingyu suddenly jumped onto the "Phantom Boat", came to Huang Siyuan with a happy face, and hugged her shoulders tightly.

"Haha! Sister-in-law, you really didn't disappoint me. You have successfully formed a golden elixir and broken through to the golden elixir realm. This is really great."

"Look how excited you are. I didn't see you so happy even when you succeeded in forming the elixir on your own!" Huang Siyuan smiled and nodded in response, then quickly pushed her away.

"Qingyu! If you have anything to say, let's talk about it slowly after we get back!"

Seeing the two people standing on the flying boat, who seemed to have endless things to say after not seeing each other for many years, Song Qingming shook his head slightly, and hurriedly controlled the flying boat into the Funiu Mountain protection formation, and brought the two women to the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain.

After the three of them sat down and chatted for half a day, Song Qingming and the other two finally slowly learned about some major events that had happened in the Song family and even in the Wei Kingdom in the past few years when Song Qingming and the others were away.

The reason why Song Qingyu happened to appear in Funiu Mountain to greet Song Qingming and the others was because during the five years when Huang Siyuan went to the East China Sea to form the elixir, a major event occurred in the northern cultivation world of Wei State.

Just over a year ago, Zhang Rong, a disciple of Chen Jinliang from Tuoyun Mountain, had succeeded in forming a golden elixir before Huang Siyuan.

Back then, with the introduction and guidance of Song Qingming, after fellow apprentice Lin Yutang obtained the Demon King's inner elixir from Chen Xuanxin, they began to fully support Zhang Rong in taking the path of fake elixir.

After so many years of careful preparation, Zhang Rong, who had been meditating in a rented cave to form the elixir, finally succeeded in forming a fake elixir and returned to Tuoyun Mountain in Wei State a year ago.

After Zhang Rong came back, because there was a fake elixir cultivator on Tuoyun Mountain, Song Qingyu realized that he no longer had to stay on "Tuoyun Mountain" all the time, so he went straight back to Funiushan Mountain to practice.

Although the fighting power of the fake elixir cultivators is much weaker than that of ordinary golden elixir cultivators, Zhang Rong would definitely find it difficult to deal with a monster of the level of the Cloud Crane Monster King.

However, with the support of the two third-level mountain protection formations of "Tuoyun Mountain" that had been strengthened by Song Qingming, even if Zhang Rong could not defeat the opponent, he could still deal with it.

Even if they were besieged by numerous monsters, as long as the cultivators on Tuoyun Mountain could hold the mountain protection formation for a period of time, they could send a message for help and wait for reinforcements from the Song family or the Xiaoyao Sect.

When Song Qingming heard that Zhang Rong had successfully formed a fake pill, he was somewhat surprised.

Although he helped Lin Yutang and others at the beginning, he wrote a letter of introduction to Chen Xuanxin.

However, Song Qingming did not intend to inquire about what happened between them later. He also did not expect that Zhang Rong actually got the demon king's inner elixir from Chen Xuanxin, and used it to form a fake elixir and successfully entered the golden elixir realm.

You have to know that although taking the path of fake elixir is relatively easier than the normal cultivator's impact on the Golden Core realm, the probability of success will not exceed 30% at most, and it is not certain to succeed with just a third-level demon pill.

In addition to being less powerful than a true Jindan cultivator, the amount of spiritual resources required to form a fake elixir is far greater than the normal impact on the Jindan realm, and there is still a high probability of failure in forming the elixir.

It is for this reason that in the world of immortal cultivation, no matter whether they are independent cultivators or cultivators in sects, the vast majority of foundation-building cultivators who face the problem of forming a pill will not choose to go the route of making fake pills.

Just like Huang Shengxin back then, even if these people cannot find the five elements spiritual objects to assist in forming the golden elixir, they will only choose to use the second-rate "Jade Dust Pill" to impact the golden elixir realm, and will not waste resources to try to form a fake pill.

Only someone like Feng Yangde back then, whose own path is hopeless and who has the full support of a Jindan cultivator behind him, would take the shortcut of fake elixir without any worries.

In fact, Song Qingming was not very optimistic about the matter from the very beginning when he learned that Zhang Rong chose to form a fake pill.

Before this, although the "Jinyun Pavilion" still had a high status on Tuoyun Mountain, the lifespan of Lin Yutang and his fellow disciples was not long. In addition, Zhang Rong had failed to form a golden elixir twice. In fact, Chen Jinliang's lineage was in a dangerous situation with no successors.

Once the two brothers passed away, the remaining members of the "Golden Cloud Pavilion" would not be able to protect the property. It would not be long before the "Golden Cloud Pavilion" and even the entire Tuoyun Mountain spiritual vein would fall into the hands of others.

That's why Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong, two brothers, were so depressed that they chose to let Zhang Rong take the path of fake elixir.

In Song Qingming's opinion, Zhang Rong's condition meant that even if his fellow apprentices exchanged for the demon pill from Chen Xuanxin, they would most likely fail to form the pill. However, this matter was after all an internal matter of Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong's "Golden Cloud Pavilion", and Song Qingming didn't want to get involved too much. He just reminded them briefly at the time, and when he saw that Lin Yutang and the others had made up their minds, he didn't say anything more.

Unexpectedly, Song Qingming was a little bit wrong this time. Zhang Rong actually withstood the pressure and successfully formed a fake pill when the "Jinyun Pavilion" was now facing internal and external troubles.

Zhang Rong succeeded in forming the elixir, which not only reversed the dangerous situation of the "Golden Cloud Pavilion", but also brought about great changes in the entire Tuoyun Mountain.

Tuoyun Mountain, which originally needed to rely on the Song family and Xiaoyao Sect for protection, now has some self-protection ability with Zhang Rong, a fake elixir cultivator. This also makes the influence of "Jinyun Pavilion" in Tuoyun greatly increased.

However, the Tuoyun Mountain Market is still under the joint management of three parties, and the "Jinyun Pavilion" has not put forward any ideas in this regard so far.

In addition to Zhang Rong's Dan-forming event at Tuoyun Mountain, the Song family has also experienced several events that have had a significant impact on the family in recent years.

The biggest event was that half a year after Song Qingming and his companions left the family for the East China Sea, Song Xuanting and Huang Leqing successfully established their foundations one after another, adding two more foundation-building cultivators to the family.

As a cultivator with two spiritual roots, Song Xuanting's probability of successfully building a foundation is higher than that of ordinary people. Huang Leqing's cultivation base before building the foundation was not bad either, and he had Song Yuanfang, a cultivator in foundation building, to help him with all his strength. Song Qingming was not too surprised that both of them succeeded in building the foundation.

After learning the news that Huang Leqing and Song Xuanting had successfully established their foundation, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan were very happy. On the second day, they summoned them both separately in the cave on the top of the mountain and gave each of them a second-level magic weapon as a gift to compensate them.

After Huang Siyuan successfully formed a Dan and returned to Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming did not want to appear too low-key this time. He immediately decided to hold a Dan ceremony for her to celebrate the event.

However, Huang Siyuan thought it was too troublesome and was anxious to retreat to refine her own magic weapon, so she directly declined her family's idea of ​​holding a grand celebration for her.

Seeing this, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu did not insist too much. They just held a banquet for her within the family like Song Qingyu did last time, and did not send invitations to other cultivators outside.

However, although the Song family acted very low-key and did not publicize the fact that Huang Siyuan had formed a pill, the Xiaoyao Sect still learned of the news very quickly.

Song Qingming and his companion had only been back for a dozen days when Xu Ziyan, the elder of the General Affairs Hall of Xiaoyao Sect, came in person on behalf of the sect to present a gift to Huang Siyuan, who had just reached the stage of Dan.

Xu Ziyan came to Funiushan for the same purpose as Zhao Menglian and Chu Fengping did last time, in order to bring Huang Siyuan into the sect as a guest elder.
Song Qingming did not want to hide this matter from the sect. After entertaining Xu Ziyan, he immediately followed her to Guyang Mountain and met with the sect leader Yao Qianshu to discuss the matter in person.

As a guest elder of Xiaoyao Sect, although there is nothing to do normally, one still has to accept the sect's call at any time and place. If there is a fight with other sects or a major war such as the invasion of Tianhai League, once summoned, it may be difficult for him to return for several years.

If Huang Siyuan's situation was the same as Song Qingyu's, with no other identity constraints besides being in the Song family, Song Qingming would naturally agree to let Huang Siyuan become a guest elder of the sect.

But before this, Huang Siyuan had reached an agreement with the "Tian Dan League" in order to successfully break through the Jindan realm and joined them as an outer sect elder. Given her situation, it is indeed difficult for her to take on the position of guest elder of the Xiaoyao Sect as well.

Therefore, when Song Qingming went to Xiaoyao Sect this time, he also wanted to explain the matter in person to avoid any misunderstandings on the sect's side.

After returning from the East China Sea last time, Song Qingming had actually revealed the fact that Huang Siyuan had joined the "Tian Dan League" to Chu Fengping, Xu Ziyan and other elders who were familiar with him in the sect.

As the leader of Xiaoyao Sect, Yao Qianshu naturally knew about this matter a long time ago.

However, when Song Qingming mentioned this matter in person, hoping to use it to help Huang Siyuan refuse the position of guest elder of the sect, Yao Qianshu did not agree with Song Qingming's idea and still insisted on letting Huang Siyuan join the sect.

In order to reassure Song Qingming about this matter, Yao Qianshu was well prepared and directly stated that the sect did not mind Huang Siyuan continuing to serve as the outer sect elder of the "Tian Dan League". After she joined the sect, she could interact with the "Tian Dan League" normally.

Moreover, Yao Qianshu also promised Song Qingming in person that after Huang Siyuan became the sect's guest elder, the sect would not easily recruit her to go out on missions.

According to Yao Qianshu's idea, since Huang Siyuan is a second-level mid-grade alchemist, after she becomes a guest elder of the sect, she can directly join the sect's Alchemy Pavilion.

On weekdays, he only needs to come to Guyang Mountain to help refine some pills when the sect needs him. He does not need to go out to perform other sect tasks. He can still receive the same sect merit salary as Song Qingming and others every year.

In this way, even if Huang Siyuan takes on the position of outer sect elder of the "Tian Dan League" and joins the sect, there will not be much impact on each other. It's just that he will have to devote more energy to alchemy.

For Huang Siyuan, who mainly practices alchemy, as long as it does not affect her daily practice, it is not a bad thing to have more opportunities to practice alchemy and improve her alchemy skills.

The reason why Yao Qianshu did this was mainly because he saw that Huang Siyuan had now joined the "Tian Dan League" and sooner or later she would be able to improve her alchemy skills to level three and become a high-level alchemist.

One should know that among the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Xiaoyao Sect, there are only a few alchemists above level three, and each of them is a very important talent in the sect.

Yao Qianshu did not want to let Huang Siyuan, the future third-level alchemist, go, and was determined to bring her into the sect. This was also a result of his consideration as the head of the Xiaoyao Sect for the overall development of the sect.

Xiaoyao Sect has always given priority to protecting the high-level alchemists in the Alchemy Pavilion of its sect. These talents, who may influence the development of the sect, are never easily recruited to go out and take risks to perform sect missions.

On this point, Song Qingming naturally believed what Yao Qianshu said.

Seeing that Yao Qianshu had already laid his cards on the table to this extent, Song Qingming thought about it and did not refuse. He immediately agreed to Yao Qianshu's agreement to Huang Siyuan joining the sect.

The reason why Song Qingming had not dared to agree to this matter before was mainly because he was afraid that the Xiaoyao Sect would not be able to accept Huang Siyuan's identity as an outer sect elder of the "Tian Dan League", so he personally came to Guyang Mountain to explain the matter.

But now Yao Qianshu has expressed on behalf of the sect that he does not mind the relationship between Huang Siyuan and the "Tian Dan League" and will not arbitrarily recruit her to go out to perform sect tasks. This leaves Song Qingming with no other reason to refuse this matter.

After discussing the matter with Yao Qianshu, Song Qingming immediately returned to Funiu Mountain to discuss it with Huang Siyuan. Half a month later, he took her to Guyang Mountain and officially joined the Xiaoyao Sect as a guest elder of the sect.

In just less than a hundred years, three people from the Song family successfully formed the Jindan and served as guest elders of the sect. This event also caused shock among the other Jindan elders in the Xiaoyao Sect.

Even Chu Fengping, Zhao Menglian, and Xu Ziyan, who had always had a close relationship with Song Qingming, all felt that there seemed to be something fishy going on behind the Song family.

Li Wutong and Guangling Zhenren, who had always had a mediocre relationship with Song Qingming, went to the head of the sect Yao Qianshu to inquire, but they did not get any useful information and were quickly sent back by Yao Qianshu.

Not long after joining the sect and becoming a guest elder of the Xiaoyao Sect, Huang Siyuan began to retreat and refine his own magic weapon.

Song Qingming, who had been training in the East China Sea for several years, had almost reached the peak of the fourth level of the Golden Core. Now that he had returned to Funiushan and had some free time, he began to retreat and try to break through his cultivation level.

Because he still had a third-grade intermediate "Red Dragon Pill" in his hand, Song Qingming's breakthrough in cultivation was very smooth this time. After less than two years of seclusion, he successfully broke through the bottleneck of the fourth level of Golden Core and raised his cultivation to the fifth level of Golden Core.

Song Qingming had just achieved a breakthrough in his cultivation not long ago, and Huang Siyuan had also successfully refined her own life-saving magic weapon, the "Purple Gold Seal", and walked out of her secluded cave.

After Huang Siyuan failed in her first attempt to form a golden elixir, she switched to practicing the "Jin Yuan Jue" which was left by Chen Jinliang.

Just like the "Five Elements Profound Gang Jue" practiced by Song Qingming, this technique also comes with a set of methods for refining one's own magic weapon.

Long before Song Qingming returned from "Tian Dan City", he had already helped Huang Siyuan collect all the materials needed to refine magic weapons. That's why she was able to refine her own magic weapon so quickly.

Both of them came out of retreat, and each of them had made considerable gains during their retreat, so they were naturally very happy. They took Song Qingyu, who happened to be free, to the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain to set up a banquet to celebrate.

Just as Song Qingming and the other two were happily drinking wine and chatting in the "Huixian Pavilion", a boy of about fifteen or sixteen, with a slightly childish face, ran up in a hurry with a letter in his hand.

"Xuanfeng! Do you have something to talk to me about?" Seeing Song Xuanfeng standing not far away with a somewhat anxious look on his face, Song Qingming hurriedly asked in a low voice with a slight smile on his face.

Upon hearing this, Song Xuanfeng immediately stepped forward and handed the letter in his hand to Song Qingming with a respectful look on his face.

"Reporting to my Third Uncle, a letter just came from Yinfeng Ridge. It's from my Eighteenth Uncle looking for you."

"What does Yuanli want to see me for? Didn't he tell me in the letter?" When Song Qingming heard that Song Yuanli had sent a letter from Yinfeng Ridge to find him, a hint of doubt appeared on his face. (End of this chapter)