Qinghe Immortal Clan.

The spiritual vein of "Funiu Mountain" is only of the lower third grade, and the quality of spiritual energy is not as good as that of "Tuoyun Mountain" where Song Qingming was in charge in the past. It seems to be insufficient to support hundreds of cultivators and three Jindan ancestors of the Song family.

After breaking through to the late Jindan stage, as his own cultivation level improved, Song Qingming also felt that the spiritual energy on the mountain was somewhat unable to meet his daily cultivation needs.

Therefore, after coming out of seclusion, improving the quality of the spiritual veins of the family's sacred mountain, "Funiu Mountain", immediately became Song Qingming's top priority.

Fortunately, after so many years of hard work and development, the various industries outside are sufficient to maintain the expenses of the entire family, and there is still a lot of spirit stones left over every year.

Although the 100,000 spirit stones needed to improve the family's spiritual veins are a lot, it is no longer a difficult task for the Song family today.

The family no longer needs to be like before, where they would have to save money for several years to accomplish such a big thing.

Moreover, after Song Qingming returned from the East China Sea, he obtained spiritual objects worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. Compared with the average Jindan cultivator, his wealth is already very wealthy. Even if his family cannot come up with too many spirit stones, he can easily make up the remaining gap.

Hearing that Song Qingming was going to upgrade the family spiritual vein, Song Yuanfang quickly nodded and agreed, "Now that there are more and more cultivators in the family, the spiritual energy on the mountain is indeed a little insufficient. Even if Seventh Uncle didn't mention this today, I would like to find time to discuss this matter with you.

Although there is still a shortfall of quite a few spirit stones in the family treasury, the rent from Chiyanfang has not been collected this year. I sent a message to Changze to ask him to collect the 20,000 spirit stones first, and then divide the shares among other families, and then slowly calculate the amount for them later.

The sect still has some balance payments for the ores that have not been settled with us. I'll send a message to urge them to do so and I should be able to gather another ten thousand spirit stones.

Yuan Qian and I will think of a way to transfer the rest from other parts of the family. Please rest assured, Seventh Uncle, we will definitely be able to gather these 100,000 spirit stones within two months.

In previous years, Uncle Seven had to use his own spiritual stones to supplement the family's spiritual veins. Now that the family is wealthy, we younger generations can no longer always rely on you to worry about this matter. It's time for us to contribute to the family."

"Well! It's good that you have this intention. You can go ahead and do it first. Just collect as much as you can. I can also take out the rest. Don't worry too much."

After seeing Song Yuanfang off, Song Qingming took out a lot of high-level materials for refining magic arrays from his body, and began to retreat again to refine the high-level "Spirit Gathering Array" needed to improve his spiritual veins.

Song Qingming has been a third-level formation master for many years. Over the years, he has tried to set up many third-level mid-grade and above formations. In fact, his formation level has already been very close to the third-level mid-grade realm.

Although it was the first time he tried to refine a third-level intermediate magic array, Song Qingming was already full of confidence. Relying on the incomplete map to help speed up the recovery of his own magic power, in less than a month, he successfully refined this relatively simple "Spirit Gathering Array".

After Song Yuanfang received Song Qingming's order, he immediately summoned all the elders of the Song family who were away the next day and went to "Funiu Mountain" to discuss the matter of the spirit stones needed to improve the family's spiritual veins.

After hearing what Song Yuanfang said, they learned that the family was going to upgrade the spiritual vein of the ancestral land of "Funiu Mountain", and almost all the family elders were in favor of this matter.

To this end, everyone immediately mobilized actively and tried to find a way to exchange the stockpiled spiritual objects from the family businesses they were in charge of for spiritual stones and send them to the "Funiu Mountain" family treasury.

Less than two months later, Song Yuanfang and his companions had already collected the 100,000 spirit stones needed to upgrade their spirit veins, and informed Song Qingming, who was in seclusion, of the good news in advance.

A few months later, Song Qingming, who was already prepared, set up the third-level intermediate-grade "Spirit Gathering Array" that he had refined directly on the top of the mountain.

As the formation began to operate and refine and absorb the spiritual stones that had been buried in the formation in advance, the spiritual energy of the entire "Funiu Mountain" began to slowly increase.

After feeling the changes in the spiritual energy around him, Song Qingming showed a satisfied smile on his face.

According to past experience, it will take about two to three years for the "Spirit Gathering Array" to refine these 100,000 spirit stones. After all the spirit stones in the array have been refined into the spirit veins, the quality of the spiritual energy in "Funiu Mountain" will truly reach the third-level intermediate level.

A third-level intermediate-grade spiritual vein can provide cultivation for at least five mid-stage Jindan cultivators, which is sufficient for the current Song family.

If a new Jindan cultivator appears in the family in the future, or if Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan both break through to the late Jindan stage and the spiritual energy is no longer insufficient, then they can consider upgrading the spiritual vein of "Funiu Mountain" to the third-grade upper grade.

Nowadays, the Song family has many industries outside that can earn spirit stones. As long as there are enough spirit stones, these can be done at any time, and there is no need to worry too much about insufficient spiritual energy for cultivation.

The many family elders standing behind Song Qingming also couldn't hide the excitement on their faces when they saw the bursts of spiritual light emitted by the "Spirit Gathering Array" on the top of the mountain.

The improvement of the family spiritual vein is beneficial to every cultivator in the Song family. The higher the level of the spiritual vein, the purer the spiritual energy it produces, which will be more beneficial to the cultivator's daily practice or breakthrough in cultivation.

After the family spiritual vein was upgraded, within a few days, the top of "Funiu Mountain" was lit up with colorful rays of light again. Huang Siyuan, who had been in seclusion for more than half a year, also successfully broke through his cultivation and walked out of his secluded cave.

However, compared to the strange phenomena in heaven and earth caused by Song Qingming's breakthrough in cultivation, the commotion caused by Huang Siyuan this time was not that big. It only lasted for more than half an hour and then quickly disappeared.

Because she was only breaking through the relatively simple third level of the Golden Core realm, Huang Siyuan did not choose to take too many elixirs and spiritual objects to assist in breaking through her cultivation during this retreat. Instead, she relied solely on her own magic power to forcefully break through the bottleneck.

Even so, she, who had already honed her cultivation to perfection, successfully broke through and raised her cultivation to the third level of the Golden Core.

Huang Siyuan, who had stabilized her cultivation, just walked out of the cave and saw Song Qingming who had been waiting at the door. She walked up to him with a happy look on her face.

The two of them didn't say anything, just kept looking at each other quietly, with only the afterglow of the setting sun moving slowly on them.

After a moment, Song Qingming suddenly took the initiative to step forward, took Huang Siyuan's hand, and took her to the "Funiu Mountain" trail at the foot of the mountain.

The two walked side by side, enjoying the beautiful mountain scenery at dusk and exchanging their gains from the retreat, and soon they arrived at the foot of the mountain.

Looking at the mortals of the family who were still working hard in the distance, Song Qingming recalled the days when he was in "Taixu Gate" and worked with the mortals of "Yanhu Village", and his eyes were involuntarily attracted over there.

"Husband, did you do these things when you were a child? Should we go over and take a look?" Seeing that Song Qingming's expression was a little strange, Huang Siyuan beside him asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Song Qingming smiled and nodded, and the two of them soon arrived at the fields at the foot of the mountain.

Smelling the familiar scent of straw coming from the rice fields, Song Qingming's memories became clearer and clearer. He couldn't help but tell Huang Siyuan about the years of farm work he had done in the past.

Huang Siyuan looked somewhat incredulous when she heard that Song Qingming, a dignified Jindan ancestor, actually had experience working with mortals.

If Song Qingming hadn't said this himself, she would definitely not believe it if it was someone else.

In this world of immortal cultivation, although cultivators and mortals need to rely on each other, there has always been a distinction between them. Monks live on high sacred mountains all year round, while mortals can only bury their heads in the fields at the foot of the mountain.

"Are you saying that these are the training tasks given to you disciples by the sect, and Senior Sister Li is also going to do these things?" After Song Qingming finished speaking, Huang Siyuan couldn't help but ask again.

Hearing this, Song Qingming nodded slightly and replied, "That's right! She joined there earlier than me, and she is no worse than me in doing these things."

"Husband, I also want to experience this kind of practice, why don't you teach me!"

"Ah! You also want to experience this?" Hearing that Huang Siyuan was actually interested in this kind of work-based practice, Song Qingming's face immediately showed a look of surprise, and he looked at the other party with some confusion.

To be honest, although Song Qingming had experienced this kind of practice for several years, he did not do it voluntarily at the beginning. Instead, he listened to Zheng Xingyun and patiently practiced for half a year because he wanted to obtain the subsequent exercises of the "Yuxuan Sutra".

If it weren't for his own path, it would be impossible for Song Qingming to get along with ordinary mortals under normal circumstances.

Huang Siyuan actually took the initiative to ask to experience this kind of practice after just listening to it once, which was something he couldn't even do at the beginning. No wonder Song Qingming was so surprised.

"What's wrong? Don't you believe what I said, or do you think I can't do this?" Huang Siyuan asked with some doubt in her eyes.

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly shook his head and said, "This is not difficult for us cultivators. As long as we have patience, we can do it. I'm just a little curious why you are interested in this."

Huang Siyuan replied with satisfaction after hearing this: "Yes! If even Senior Sister Li can do it, I think I can do it. As for my interest, I don't have much. I just think this kind of practice is interesting and I want to experience what it feels like."

"Haha! It's not difficult to experience it. I'll take you to see it, and then you'll know!" After Song Qingming finished speaking, he took the initiative to walk towards a rice field in front where someone was weeding.

Although the cultivators of the Song family all recognized their two ancestors, due to the difference between immortals and mortals, few mortals living down the mountain had heard of Song Qingming and his companions. When they saw that the two of them were dressed rather noble, they thought that they were the young masters and young ladies from the wealthy families in the town who came here to play.

Song Qingming went up to the man and politely greeted him. He quickly borrowed a weeding hoe from him and began to show Huang Siyuan the "weeding skills" he had learned that year. Seeing Song Qingming doing these things with great concentration and proficiency, and obviously having experience and not just pretending, Huang Siyuan soon believed that he had really learned these things.

"Although I can't use magic power, it doesn't look difficult. Let me give it a try!"

After watching for a while, Huang Siyuan felt eager to try, so she took the hoe from Song Qingming's hand and continued weeding following his movements.

For those who practice cultivation, as their cultivation level increases, their physical abilities in all aspects will continue to increase, and their ability to learn common things will far exceed that of ordinary mortals.

Although it was the first time that Huang Siyuan tried to use the farm tools in her hands, she quickly adapted to it. In just a few moments, she had cleared a large area of ​​weeds, and her speed was no slower than Song Qingming's just now.

"Husband, how is it like this?"

After completing the weeding task, Huang Siyuan immediately turned around happily and asked a question, but found that Song Qingming was smiling and shaking his head gently at her.

"Siyuan, the purpose of weeding is to prevent them from absorbing nutrients from the field, so that the crops can have a better growing environment. It is not okay to remove the weeds while destroying a lot of crops."

"It can't be destroyed at all? This is a bit troublesome. It seems that all my work just now was in vain!" He took a closer look at the crops that had just been dug up by him when he was weeding, and a look of disappointment suddenly appeared on his face.

"Well! You can't be too hasty in doing these things. You still have to take your time. It took me a long time to learn it. Your performance is no worse than mine back then.

This practice mainly tempers the inner heart of the monk. You need to temporarily forget your identity as a monk, completely integrate yourself into the crowd of mortals, and deeply experience their inner joys and sorrows, ups and downs.

These are indeed helpful for personal cultivation. When I broke through the fifth level of the Golden Core, I felt a touch of spiritual touch during my cultivation, which allowed me to quickly break through the bottleneck of cultivation."

"Oh! So that's how it is. It seems that I should try it more often when I have time. Maybe I can also gain something from my practice like you."

After hearing Song Qingming's explanation, Huang Siyuan nodded slightly, and quickly understood the meaning of what Song Qingming said about cultivation. She turned around and continued to weed with the hoe in her hand.

This time, with Song Qingming's guidance, Huang Siyuan was obviously much more patient. She carefully avoided the useful crops and slowly cleared the surrounding weeds.

Although Huang Siyuan's weeding speed slowed down, the damage to the crops was suddenly much less. The two of them seriously discussed how to do the farm work in their hands well, and they seemed to slowly integrate into the mortals working in the fields.

"Young man, it's almost dark. If you don't go home quickly, it will be difficult to walk in the dark."

Just as the two of them were working hard on the farm work, an old mortal who had just lent Song Qingming a hoe came over and reminded them when he saw that it was getting late.

Seeing that the people working in the surrounding fields had packed up their tools and started to go home, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan immediately stopped what they were doing and returned the borrowed hoes to them.

"I see you guys are from town. My home is the second house on the east side of the village. If it gets dark and you can't go back early, why don't you stay at my house for a night? It will save you the trouble of traveling at night.

Although the village is not as simple as the town, it is much safer than the wild mountains and wilderness outside. "The old man who took the hoe looked at the sky which was gradually getting darker, and kindly reminded Song Qingming.

"Haha! Thank you for your reminder, old man. Don't worry, we can go back. We just ruined a lot of your crops for fun. These silver coins are our compensation."

After Song Qingming explained with a smile, he took out some small change for ordinary people from his pocket and gave it to the old man.

Seeing this, the old man wanted to politely decline, but when he saw that Song Qingming looked very determined, he slowly put away the silver in his hand.

Seeing that Song Qingming took Huang Siyuan and walked away from the fields without appreciating his kindness in letting them stay, the old man didn't say much. He lowered his head to pack up the farm tools in his hands, then stood up and walked towards home.

A moment later, two beams of light suddenly flew over the field where everyone was, and flew quickly towards the high "Funiu Mountain" behind them.

"It's the Immortal Master! Look, it's the Immortal Master on the mountain!"

A mortal who had just walked out of the fields accidentally caught a glimpse of two rays of light high in the sky. He shouted hurriedly, and then many mortals of the Song family stopped and looked up at the sky with a look of piety on their faces.
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Half a month later, in Huixian Pavilion on the top of "Funiu Mountain".

Song Qingming, who had just finished his daily practice, was sitting in the attic with Huang Siyuan, drinking tea and chatting, when suddenly a slight sound of footsteps was heard downstairs.

After a while, Song Yuanfang, with a hint of joy on his face, came up with a boy of about eleven or twelve years old, and quickly came to Song Qingming and the others.

"Lin Rui pays respect to the two ancestors!"

As soon as they met, Song Linrui, who had just come up the mountain and was still a little confused, under the guidance of Song Yuanfang, hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully paid his respects to Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan.

“You’ve been able to draw the energy into your body so quickly. Your talent is indeed not inferior to Yuan Li and the others.” After scanning Song Linrui with his spiritual sense, Song Qingming smiled and waved his hand, asking him to stand up from the ground first!
Song Linrui possesses dual spiritual roots of fire and earth. He is the second dual spiritual root cultivator to appear in the four hundred years since the establishment of the Song family. Because he is a descendant of his fourth brother Song Qingrui, he also took the single name "Rui" after going up the mountain.

Looking at Song Linrui in front of her, Huang Siyuan nodded slightly and said, "This child has a better fire attribute spiritual root. He is quite suitable for learning alchemy skills in the future. We can train him well."

"Well! This is possible. Let Yuan Qian guide him first and see what Linrui's talent for alchemy is. If it is suitable, let him go down the path of alchemy." Hearing Huang Siyuan's words, Song Qingming immediately spoke up to express his agreement.

Hearing the two ancestors discussing his future, Song Linrui stood there and didn't dare to speak casually. He could only nervously glance at Song Yuanfang who was also standing nearby.

After a while, Song Qingming picked up a bag of spirit stones that had been prepared long ago from the table, cast a spell and sent it to Song Linrui.

"These spirit stones are our welcome gift to you. You should practice hard in the future and listen more to the elders in the clan!"

Although Song Linrui had just come up the mountain and didn't know what the alchemist Song Qingming and the others were talking about was, he still knew something about the spirit stones in his hands that could help him practice.

Seeing dozens of colorful and sparkling spirit stones in the bag, Song Linrui's face suddenly showed a hint of joy. He hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground, expressing his sincere gratitude to Song Qingming and the others.

After Song Linrui stood up and stepped aside, Song Yuanfang took out an unopened white letter from his pocket and handed it to Song Qingming.

"Seventh Uncle, this is a letter I received from Guyang Mountain half an hour ago. It was written specifically for you by Elder Xu from the General Affairs Hall."

When Song Qingming heard Song Yuanfang say that Xu Ziyan had sent him a letter, he quickly put down the teacup in his hand, opened the letter handed over by Song Yuanfang and took a closer look. After a while, a hint of joy appeared on his face again.

"What did Senior Sister Xu say in the letter? Your husband is so happy, but what good news does the sect have to inform you about?" Seeing the joy on Song Qingming's face, Huang Siyuan immediately asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Song Qingming smiled and nodded, then handed the letter in his hand directly to Huang Siyuan who was standing beside him.

"Junior Sister Xu sent a message saying that the Wu Kingdom will hold another Star Conference in two months, and asked if we would like to go together. I plan to go with them to take a look. If you have nothing to do, why not go with me!
The Star Conference is a large-scale trade fair rarely held in the world of immortal cultivators in the Floating Cloud Mountains. Even Jindan spiritual objects can be found there, so we can't miss it.

Yuan Fang, you can also notify the other foundation-building elders of the family to see if anyone wants to accompany me to Wu State, and ask them to prepare in advance."

Having just completed the task of upgrading his family's spiritual veins, Song Qingming was looking for an opportunity to go out and search for Dan-forming spiritual objects for Song Yuanfang and the others. Unexpectedly, Xu Ziyan just happened to bring him the news that the Wu Kingdom was going to hold the "Star Conference", which really made Song Qingming feel happy.

The "Star Conference" is held approximately every hundred years, and is basically held after the monster riots. It is considered the largest trade fair held in the vicinity of Wei State.

In addition to the independent cultivators and immortal cultivation families near the Wu Kingdom, those invited to participate in the "Star Conference" also included many large immortal cultivation sects on the east side of the Floating Cloud Mountains that were on good terms with the "Star Gate".

At that time, Song Qingming had just formed his Dan, and he followed the former leader Yao Qianshu to participate in a "Star Conference". At the final auction, he obtained the "Phantom Boat" that had been with him for many years.

At large-scale trade fairs such as the "Star Conference", Foundation Establishment Pills and even Pill Forming Spiritual Objects that are extremely rare and hard to come by in normal markets will definitely appear.

In addition, this kind of Jindan-level trade fair will also see many other precious spiritual objects above level three. Regardless of whether Song Qingming can find a Jindan-level spiritual object or not, he will not miss this good opportunity to search for spiritual objects.

"Although I have been to Wu, I have never participated in this Star Conference. I will definitely go this time if I have the opportunity to broaden my horizons." (End of this chapter)