Qinghe Immortal Clan.

After entering the valley, although he could see some spiritual herbs and medicines along the way, Song Qingming was still a little worried about the spiritual herbs in this "spiritual medicine garden". Most of them might have been damaged as no one had taken care of them for so many years.

Unexpectedly, the spiritual medicines here have not been damaged much after thousands of years. Only some lower-quality spiritual medicines have aged and withered prematurely because they have not been picked at their mature age.

Looking at the large areas of high-level spiritual medicines in the "Spiritual Medicine Garden", Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan looked at each other and both showed delighted expressions.

If these elixirs could be brought back to the family, they wouldn't have to worry about resources for cultivation for at least a few decades.

Not to mention other members of the clan, Song Qingming, Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu, the three Jindan ancestors, have so many spiritual medicines of level three or above in their hands. It should not be a problem for them to successfully cultivate to the late Jindan stage in the future.

After taking a quick look at the "Spiritual Medicine Garden", the two of them took out a storage bag each and began to pick the many spiritual objects in front of them like a whirlwind.

Except for those that were not yet mature, all other spiritual medicines, regardless of their grade, fell into the storage bags of Song Qingming and the other person.

In order to act faster, Song Qingming also specially summoned "Jinfeng" and arranged for him to help pick the lower-grade spiritual medicines in the "Spiritual Medicine Garden".

The three of them worked for half an hour and finally picked all the mature spiritual objects in the "Spiritual Medicine Garden". With a great harvest, they soon gathered together next to the spirit gathering array in the middle of the "Spiritual Medicine Garden".

This "Spirit Gathering Array" is very cleverly designed. After thousands of years, it has been continuously growing spiritual medicines that collect spiritual energy from heaven and earth. Almost half of the elite spiritual energy in the entire valley has been gathered into the array to supply the dozen or so high-level spiritual medicines inside.

Although so many years have passed, most of the high-level spiritual medicines in the "Spirit Gathering Array" are still not mature, and only two are ready to be picked.

Without exception, these two spiritual medicines are both precious spiritual medicines with a history of more than two thousand years and have reached the fourth level of quality.

Level four spiritual medicines are extremely rare spiritual objects in the world of immortal cultivation. Their value is difficult to measure with spiritual stones. Any one of them put on auction will attract competition from top Nascent Soul cultivators.

Song Qingming has been practicing Taoism for so many years, but he was fortunate enough to see a fourth-level lower-grade "Crystal Lotus" only when he went to Yue Country with Xia Mo and others to explore the Nascent Soul Cave.

However, because Song Qingming went to help at that time, he could not compete with them for this item. In the end, this precious fourth-level elixir fell into Xia Mo's hands.

The quality of these two level four spiritual medicines in front of him was no less than the "Crystal Lotus" that Song Qingming had seen that year. The value of these two spiritual medicines alone was much higher than the combined value of the hundreds of spiritual medicines that Song Qingming and his companions had picked before.

"My dear, this Azure Bailing Grass is already mature and can be picked at any time, but the other Mutan Flower is still not old enough. If we pick it now, its efficacy may be damaged, and the value of the spiritual medicine may be reduced by 10% or 20%.

Should we pick them together or wait until next time?"

As an alchemist, Huang Siyuan was already very familiar with various spiritual medicines. She quickly recognized several of them in front of her and pointed out the problems with them.

"Let's take them all away. This secret realm can only be opened once every seventy or eighty years. We don't know when we will come in next time. If we need it urgently, we won't be delayed."

After hesitating for a while, Song Qingming quickly made a decision. Together with Huang Siyuan, he took out the two fourth-level spiritual medicines from the "Spirit Gathering Array".

Although picking the spiritual herbs in advance would damage the efficacy of this fourth-level spiritual herbs a little, Song Qingming and his team now have so many spiritual herbs in their hands, so there is no need to feel bad about the loss of the value of these herbs.

After picking all the mature spiritual herbs in the spiritual medicine garden, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan made a rough count and found that they had harvested nearly three hundred mature spiritual herbs in total.

Among them, there are two spiritual medicines of level four quality, and more than forty spiritual medicines and spiritual fruits above level three. Among them, seven or eight can be used to refine the main medicine for foundation building. Most of the remaining more than two hundred spiritual medicines are of level two or above quality.

If estimated according to the market value, the value of these spiritual medicines is no less than 400,000 spirit stones. Song Qingming and the others were quite excited to have obtained such a huge fortune in this secret realm.

However, the reason why Song Qingming and his team were able to obtain so many spiritual medicines at once in the spiritual medicine garden this time was because no one had come here for more than two thousand years, and the spiritual medicines had never been touched by anyone.

After their large-scale picking this time, there definitely won’t be so many mature medicinal herbs when they come in again next time. At most, they will probably only get two or three percent of this harvest.

Even so, not to mention other places in the secret realm, this "Spiritual Medicine Garden" alone can pick spiritual objects worth 100,000 spirit stones every hundred years. It is an extremely important place for Song Qingming and the entire family.

As long as the Song family can firmly control this secret realm in the future and rely on the resources here, the family's development prospects will be limitless and they can continuously cultivate Jindan monks.

When the family foundation is sufficient, it is not impossible for the Song family to one day cultivate a Nascent Soul cultivator like other Nascent Soul forces in the world of immortal cultivation.

By then, the Song family will be able to become a Nascent Soul family that can control its own destiny, and will no longer be subject to the control of the sect or other Nascent Soul forces in the surrounding area.

Thinking of this, Song Qingming felt quite excited, wondering if he would have the chance to see this day.

After carefully collecting all the spiritual herbs they had picked, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan spent a lot of time tidying up this "spiritual herb garden".

Although the two were not high-level spiritual plant masters, they had learned some basic knowledge about growing spiritual medicines in the world of immortal cultivation.

After clearing away the useless weeds in the "Spiritual Medicine Garden", they took out several hundred spirit stones and filled them around. Only when the spiritual energy of the entire "Spiritual Medicine Garden" had improved a little compared to before did Song Qingming and the other person show some satisfaction.

"The spiritual energy here is still sufficient. After we completely refine these spiritual stones, we can recover some of it. Next time we come here, we can bring Yuan Xue with us.

Her spiritual plant level is about to break through to the second-level upper grade, so there shouldn’t be any problem in taking care of these spiritual herbs.”

Hearing Huang Siyuan's words, Song Qingming nodded slightly and said, "This time, I came in a bit hastily because I didn't know what was going on inside. Next time I come in, I must be more fully prepared.

We have almost finished dealing with this place, let's hurry up and look somewhere else first!"

After the two walked out of the valley, Song Qingming cast a spell to remove the flags on the "Xuanbing Formation". After the restriction protecting the valley was restored and the ice cave that had been pierced by Song Qingming was sealed again, they turned around and left.

With this "Mysterious Ice Array" in place, it is impossible for ordinary monsters to break into the valley. In the past two thousand years, no monster has been able to enter the "Spiritual Medicine Garden". This is enough to prove the power of this restriction and is enough for them to feel at ease.

After leaving the "Spiritual Medicine Garden", Song Qingming took Huang Siyuan to several other places in the secret realm where high-level spiritual objects were recorded to appear.

However, it is a pity that most of these places have been occupied by monsters because there are no powerful formations or prohibitions to protect them, and most of the spiritual objects inside have fallen into the monsters' stomachs.

After Song Qingming and his companion walked around for a long time, they only found a few third-level spiritual fruits that were useful to them. In order to compete for the spiritual objects, they also encountered a rather unlucky third-level low-grade demon king.

This monster, like "Chi Yan", was a demon king that had only broken through the Jindan realm for one or two hundred years, and its cultivation was only in the early Jindan stage. Song Qingming and his companions killed it with their swords without much effort, and obtained a lot of high-level monster materials.

Three days later, above a bottomless canyon in the southeast corner of the secret realm, two beams of light suddenly flew from a distance and landed on an open space at the edge of the canyon.

"Is the place you are talking about just down there?" As soon as they arrived above the canyon, Song Qingming immediately asked "Chi Yan" who was standing on Huang Siyuan's shoulder.

After taking a careful look around, "Chi Yan" nodded quickly and said, "Yes, it's right below. Let me lead the way for the two masters!"

After the blood-red "Chiyan" replied to Song Qingming, he immediately jumped off Huang Siyuan and flew quickly down the canyon.

Seeing this, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan immediately turned into two beams of light and followed.

After searching in the secret realm for two days, Song Qingming and Song Qingming had already explored the places recorded in Zhao Jibai's notes. Not knowing where to go to find the spiritual object for a moment, Song Qingming and Song Qingming followed "Chi Yan" to the place where it stole the spiritual water.

Although the lifespan of monster beasts is much longer than that of human cultivators, they are in an unenlightened state most of the time. Only after they have cultivated to the Golden Core Stage can they slowly open up their own intelligence and gradually catch up with human cultivators in cultivation.

In addition to relying on ascetic practice, monsters, like human cultivators, can also use some means and take some special spiritual objects to purify and improve their bloodlines and open up their own spiritual intelligence in advance.

The two demon kings, Longfeng and Qingluan, whom Song Qingming knew at the beginning, as well as the "Ice and Fire Dragon" that Song Qingming was hatching and cultivating, were all demon beasts that had already awakened their spiritual intelligence in advance.

However, there are many low-level monsters in the world of immortal cultivation. The monsters that can have this opportunity to open their spiritual intelligence in advance are almost rare, just like those lucky people among human cultivators who are born with outstanding spiritual roots and talents.

The fact that "Red Flame" could have such good fortune was beyond the expectations of Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, so Song Qingming was also very curious about the spiritual water that could change its fate.

After following "Red Flame" into the canyon, they quickly passed through the clouds in the air that obscured their vision and arrived at the bottom of the canyon.

The canyon below is extremely narrow, less than ten feet wide, with a shallow stream running through the middle. The sound of fast-flowing streams can be heard from time to time. "The spiritual spring is in a cave not far upstream. It was originally my cave, but it has been occupied by that hateful black bear for decades."

After arriving at a place that he was very familiar with, "Chi Yan" was reminded of a wave of bad memories. He complained to Huang Siyuan behind him about his grievances.

Seeing this, Huang Siyuan immediately comforted him: "Don't worry, it's just a demon beast in the middle stage of the Golden Core. It can't run away with us helping you get revenge."

Under the leadership of "Chiyan", Song Qingming and his companions soon arrived at a dark cave located upstream of the stream.

Before Song Qingming and "Chi Yan" could confirm the location of the monster, a violent roar came from the cave entrance, shaking the entire canyon.

Soon, a tall and strong black bear ran out of the dark cave and came to "Chiyan" who was running in the front.

When the Black Bear Demon King first saw his old rival "Chi Yan", he was very disdainful and wanted to drive it away by relying on his more powerful cultivation level of the middle stage of the Golden Core.

However, before it could start to attack, two more powerful auras suddenly appeared behind "Chi Yan", causing the "Black Bear Demon King" who was about to attack to suddenly put down his claws.

"Haha! Stupid bear, you are going to be in trouble today."

After seeing the appearance of the "Black Bear Demon King", a ball of red flame also emerged from the body of "Chi Yan". He was ready to avenge his previous humiliation and the hatred of having his cultivation cave robbed by the other party for so many years.

After a ball of flames gathered above his head, "Chi Yan" immediately flashed into the air and launched an attack at the "Black Bear Demon King", shooting out a stream of red flame.

As soon as the attack flew in front of him, the "Black Bear Demon King" shook his hair lightly, and suddenly slapped the ground with his front paws. A transparent water mirror appeared in front of him, which easily blocked the attack of "Red Flame".

"It's actually a monster that has cultivated water-attributed skills. No wonder Chi Yan is no match for it. This monster is a bit tricky!"

Seeing that the "Red Flame" in front of him was restrained by the "Black Bear Demon King" in the fight with the opponent and quickly fell into a disadvantage, Huang Siyuan whispered something, and quickly took out his own life-saving magic weapon "Purple Gold Seal" and stepped forward to help join the battle.

In fact, the "Black Bear Demon King" had just advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Core not long ago. Facing the siege of Huang Siyuan and "Chi Yan", two early stage Golden Core cultivators, he could no longer gain much advantage.

After the two sides fought for a while, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the air, and a big man in black with a high level of cultivation joined the battlefield, causing the "Black Bear Demon King", who had been able to cope with it originally, to gradually lose the battle and fall into an extremely passive situation.

However, although he was at a disadvantage, the "Black Bear Demon King"'s body was very strong. Facing the siege of Huang Siyuan and others, he did not suffer many injuries.

Seeing that the other side had more people and more power and that he had no chance of winning if he stayed, the "Black Bear Demon King" made a quick decision and used his magical powers to force Huang Siyuan to retreat quickly to the sky, trying to leave the battlefield and escape from the canyon.

However, the "Black Bear Demon King" did not make any moves. Several golden lights suddenly flew out from the mountain wall, and directly bound the "Black Bear Demon King"'s limbs like ropes, leaving it in the air when it wanted to escape.

This sudden change caught the "Black Bear Demon King" off guard. He struggled hard in mid-air, trying to break free from the golden rope.

But although the rope formed by the golden spiritual light was torn into a mess by the "Black Bear Demon King", it was unexpectedly very strong. No matter how it struggled, it could not be broken. Instead, the "Black Bear Demon King" bound it tighter and tighter.

Seeing this scene, Huang Siyuan, "Chi Yan" and "Jin Feng" who were chasing closely below suddenly looked happy, and hurriedly joined the battle to continue besieging the trapped "Black Bear Demon King".

Not far above their battlefield, Song Qingming was concentrating on manipulating a golden formation flag in his hand, casting a spell to control the golden rope that was tied up the "Black Bear Demon King" below.

Just now when Huang Siyuan and the others went forward to fight with the "Black Bear Demon King", in order to prevent the other party from finding a chance to escape, Song Qingming had already set up a "Golden Light Demon Binding Array" above the canyon in advance.

Although there was not enough time, Song Qingming casually set up this formation. However, the "Golden Light Demon Binding Formation" was a third-level formation after all. Even if its power was weakened, it was not difficult to trap a "Black Bear Demon King" who had just broken through the middle stage of the Golden Core.

Being besieged by three Jindan cultivators including Huang Siyuan, and with his body restrained by the "Golden Light Demon Binding Formation" and unable to exert his full strength, the "Black Bear Demon King" soon suffered many injuries.

After struggling to hold on for half an incense stick, the unlucky "Black Bear Demon King" screamed, but finally fell down in front of everyone unwillingly, and was killed by Huang Siyuan's life-saving magic weapon.

"Stinky bear, you bullied me and robbed my cave, now you have come to this day!"

Seeing the "Black Bear Demon King" lying motionless on the ground in front of him, "Chi Yan" immediately jumped onto its head and began to show off his power and feel proud.

Huang Siyuan had just split open the belly of the "Black Bear Demon King" and taken out the inner elixir hidden in its body. Song Qingming, who had put away the formation flags above, had also flown to their side.

"This guy is really tough. He seems to be much thicker-skinned than the average demon king. If it weren't for my husband's final move, the three of us might not have been able to stop him!"

Seeing this, Song Qingming nodded and said, "This monster has average strength, but its body is quite strong. If we don't come in, it should have no rivals in this secret realm.

If he is given a few hundred more years, he might be able to break through to the late Jindan stage. After eliminating this calamity, there shouldn’t be any powerful monsters in the secret realm.”

“Humph! This stupid bear wasn’t much stronger than me. It just occupied the spiritual spring in the cave and used the spiritual water to strengthen its body and break through to the middle stage of the golden elixir. Otherwise, the master and I would be enough to deal with it.”

"You mean it broke through to the middle stage of Golden Core after drinking the spiritual water. Can this spiritual water also strengthen the physical body?" Song Qingming asked with some confusion.

The reason for some confusion is that "Chi Yan" is also a monster that drank spiritual water, but its physical body is not that different from the rat monster king that Song Qingming had encountered before. It's just that its spiritual intelligence has been opened in advance.

Upon hearing this, Chi Yan nodded immediately and said, “When I first fought this guy, his body was not so strong. Later, after he took away my cave, I gradually discovered that he became more and more powerful.

This guy has changed so much in just over a decade. If I'm not mistaken, it must be because he drank the spiritual water."

"Oh! So according to what you said, this spiritual water can not only open up the spiritual wisdom, but also strengthen the body. It is indeed somewhat amazing."

Song Qingming nodded thoughtfully, and without asking any more questions, he turned and came to Huang Siyuan to help deal with the huge corpse of the "Black Bear Demon King".

In addition to the golden elixir in his body, the bear paws and bear gall on the body of this "Black Bear Demon King" are all rare high-level monster materials out there.

Regardless of whether the spiritual water that "Chi Yan" mentioned is valuable or not, this time Song Qingming and his team were able to capture a demon king in the middle stage of the Golden Core and obtain tens of thousands of spirit stones and demon beast materials, so the trip was worthwhile.

It took the two of them a long time to finally collect all the materials from the "Black Bear Demon King". Then, under the leadership of "Chi Yan", they walked into the dark cave next to them.

The cave is very large, large enough for five or six people to walk side by side, but it is so dark that one cannot see the bottom of the darkness, making people feel a sense of invisible oppression after entering.

Seeing that the "Red Flame" in front of him was illuminating the entire cave with flames coming out of its body at the signal of Huang Siyuan, Song Qingming hurriedly put away the night pearl he had just taken out.

After the two followed "Chi Yan" into the cave for hundreds of feet, they finally came to a large cave with a radius of more than ten feet.

After arriving here, "Chi Yan" suddenly became excited. After a few jumps on the ground, he came to a depression in the middle of the cave, looking greedily at the pool of white spiritual water gathered inside.

"This damn black bear must have drunk a lot of spiritual water over the years. Fortunately, he didn't drink it all up!"

"This is the spiritual water you mentioned!"

After hearing the complaint from "Chi Yan", Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan carefully glanced at the entire cave and followed over.

The white spiritual water in the pool looked somewhat similar to the "Millennium Spiritual Milk" that Song Qingming had seen. Although it did not look particularly eye-catching, it did emit bursts of very rich spiritual energy, and it was obviously not an ordinary thing.

Just as Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan were carefully observing the white spiritual water in the pool, the "Red Flame" on the side had already buried its head in the pool and began to devour the spiritual water in it.

"Hey! Who told you to drink secretly?"

Seeing that this guy actually started to devour the spiritual water in front of them, Song Qingming hurriedly frowned, picked it up, threw it to the ground beside him, and scolded it angrily.

This time, it was not easy to find so much spiritual water. Song Qingming still doesn't understand the value of these things. He can't feed them all to the greedy little mouse in front of him before he gets them.

Being thrown aside, Chi Yan was also a little scared when he saw Song Qingming staring at him fiercely. He ran to Huang Siyuan with a wronged look on his face. (End of this chapter)