Qinghe Immortal Clan.

If one day he can also try to form a baby and break through to the Nascent Soul stage like Feng He, then this formation can also help him resist the Nascent Soul thunder tribulation.

Song Qingming spent so much effort repairing the "Tiangang Five Elements Formation" and naturally had some plans in mind in this regard.

Spring went and autumn came, and three years passed quickly after Song Qingming's retreat.

On this day, a sword light flew from the northeast of Qinghe County and landed at the foot of "Funiu Mountain".

The three monks from the Song family law enforcement team who were guarding the mountain gate smiled and took the initiative to open the mountain gate formation to welcome the people coming out after seeing the people coming from the foot of the mountain.

"Uncle Jiu, you're back!"

Song Changze, who had just rushed back from "Chiyanfang", glanced at the three people who came to him and asked softly, "It's your turn to guard the mountain gate today.

Is Uncle Sixteen in the mountains these days? Has the ancestor come out of seclusion?"

"Reporting to Uncle Nine, the ancestor has not come out of seclusion yet. The Great Elder has been here recently and should be in the conference room now!" Hearing Song Changze's question, a leading cultivator with the surname "Xuan" hurriedly opened his mouth to reply.

After hearing the reply he needed, Song Changze nodded slightly without saying anything more. He walked quickly up the mountain and soon disappeared from the sight of the three people.

"It's only been a few months since we last met, but Uncle Nine's cultivation has improved a lot. I'm afraid he will soon break through to the eighth level of foundation building. I really envy him. He succeeded in foundation building so early and is now not far from forming a pill.

In the future, maybe Uncle Nine will also form a golden elixir like the other ancestors on the mountain top and become the fourth ancestor of the family."

A younger monk of the "Lin" generation who was standing in place looked at the direction where Song Changze disappeared with shining eyes, and couldn't help but speak with envy.

As soon as he finished speaking, another monk of the same generation standing beside him immediately shook his head and said:

"Hmph! I don't think so. Although Uncle Nine's cultivation is higher now, Uncle Yuanhao's cultivation speed is not slow either. And Uncle Yuanli's injuries are said to be recovering soon.

Both of them have the talent of earth spirit roots, so their chances of forming a golden elixir are definitely higher than Uncle Nine, and they have a better chance of becoming the fourth golden elixir ancestor of the family."

"The formation of a cultivator's elixir is not just based on the difference in spiritual roots. Your vision is a bit shallow. I think that since Uncle Nine has cultivated to the late stage of foundation building so quickly, he must be no worse than the two great uncles."

"Having said that, however"

"Alright! You two youngsters have no right to make irresponsible comments about the family elders. Why are you still standing there in a daze? If you practice hard, you will have the opportunity to build a foundation and form a pill sooner or later. Why are you envious of others?"

Seeing that the two juniors behind him were getting more and more excited, the late Qi Refining cultivator from the "Xuan" generation quickly turned around, reprimanded them, and took them back to their posts.

After Song Changze went up the mountain, he went straight to the family's "meeting room" and soon found Song Yuanfang who was teaching several younger family members.

"Uncle Sixteen is well!"

"Hey! Changze, why did you come back early? There was no news from the market. Could it be that someone from the law enforcement team was slacking off again?"

Seeing Song Changze in front of him, Song Yuanfang was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked the younger generations standing in front of him to leave first.

Upon hearing this, Song Changze quickly waved his hand and said, "I forgot to tell you this in advance, please don't blame me, Uncle Sixteen.

I made a last-minute decision to come back this time. Some things are difficult to tell you by message, so I need to talk to you in person. I was in a hurry so I just came back first.

Junior Sister Xuanting and Junior Sister Yuxin are in the market, don't worry, nothing will happen."

"Oh! What's the matter that requires you to come to me so urgently? Xuanfu, you two should go out first. Don't let anyone in without my permission."

Seeing that Song Changze seemed to have something important to tell him, Song Yuanfang immediately asked the two family monks who were assisting him in handling family affairs to guard the door first to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on their subsequent conversation.

After finding a chair and sitting down, seeing that there was no one else in the "meeting room", Song Changze spoke seriously:
"Uncle Sixteen, a month ago, Junior Sister Yu Xin and I led a group of people to kill those two Fierce Wind Tigers and seize the Twin Peaks Mountain Spiritual Vein. I have sent a message back about this, so you should know about it!"

"Yes! I know about this. Didn't I ask you to quickly send people to occupy this mountain first?" Song Yuanfang nodded slightly with a calm face, waiting for Song Changze's next words.

"A few days ago, I asked Xuande and his team to search for spiritual objects on that mountain. He came back and told me that there might be a spiritual stone vein in that Shuangfeng Mountain."

"A spiritual stone vein has been discovered in Shuangfeng Mountain! What you said is true. Has Xuande confirmed this?"

Upon hearing that Song Changze and his team might have found a spirit stone mine, Song Yuanfang's originally calm expression changed instantly, and he quickly stood up and spoke to confirm.

In the world of immortal cultivation, the spiritual stones used by cultivators are mined from underground spiritual veins just like ordinary ores. However, "spiritual stone veins" are extremely rare in the world of immortal cultivation. They are basically controlled by the major sects, and are also an important source of spiritual stones for them.

In the entire Wei State, there are still about seven or eight "spiritual stone veins" that have not yet been exhausted, and without exception, they are all controlled by the "Xiaoyao Sect".

Surviving under the protection of the "Xiaoyao Sect", ordinary Qi-refining and foundation-building immortal-cultivating families dare not mine spirit stone mines at will even if they discover them. They can only offer them to the sect voluntarily, just like the Lu family did hundreds of years ago, in exchange for some contributions from the sect.

Otherwise, if someone dares to mine secretly without telling the Xiaoyao Sect, once the incident is discovered and angers the sect, they will surely be killed and their clan destroyed.

Upon hearing the news that a "spiritual stone vein" might be discovered in Shuangfeng Mountain, Song Yuanfang immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. He hurriedly walked to Song Changze's side, waved his hand, and carefully set up a soundproof barrier.

Seeing this, Song Changze immediately shook his head and said, "I just received the news this morning and rushed back to see you. I'm not sure whether this is true or not, but I heard from Xuande that there is a high possibility of a spiritual stone vein.

You also know that he is the only psychic hunter here, and the others don’t understand these things, so we can only listen to him first.

There are still many independent cultivators in the market law enforcement team. Shuangfeng Mountain is crowded with people and eyes. I dare not let them dig for mineral veins casually. If the news leaks out, I will not be able to explain the matter to the family when I return."

"Changze, are there any other people who know about this besides you two?"

Seeing Song Yuanfang looking at him seriously, Song Changze hesitated for a moment before replying, "Xuan De only told me about this, the others probably don't know.

But Junior Sister Yuxin has been staying at Shuangfeng Mountain these days. She knows that Xuande came back to find me. I think she might have guessed something."

"We just captured the spiritual vein, why did you leave her there and run back to the market? I don't know when you will change your temper.

All right! Now that things have come to this, you should go back and keep an eye on it. I will go to the top of the mountain to discuss this matter with the ancestor.

You have to remember that before we go there, all those who have been to Shuangfeng Mountain must be kept under my watch, including Liu Yuxin, and they are not allowed to leave there at will."

Hearing that Liu Yuxin might already know about this, Song Yuanfang, who had already guessed what was going on, reprimanded Song Changze, then shook his head helplessly and quickly sent him back.

After seeing Song Changze off, Song Yuanfang immediately hurried to the top of the mountain and sent a sound transmission talisman to the cave where Song Qingming was in retreat.

After a while, there was a sudden fluctuation from the formation at the door, followed by a voice. Upon hearing this, Song Yuanfang hurriedly walked in.

Song Qingming, who was sitting in the cave fiddling with a formation flag in his hand, saw Song Yuanfang walk in and immediately turned around and asked, "Why did you come to me today? Could it be that Xuan Ling had problems with his foundation building again?"

Song Yuanfang stepped forward and bowed, then shook his head and said, "Xuan Ling has not yet come out of seclusion after building his foundation, Uncle Qi, don't worry, his foundation is better than Xuan Xin's, I think he should be able to succeed this time.

I came to disturb Uncle Seventh's practice today because there is an important matter concerning the family. I cannot make a decision on my own, so I came to ask Uncle Seventh for advice."

After hearing Song Yuanfang's story about the discovery of the "spiritual stone vein", Song Qingming slowly put down the formation flag in his hand and his face began to become serious.

"You mean, Changze and his men might have discovered a spiritual stone vein in Yunwu Mountain?"

"Reporting to Uncle Seven, we haven't confirmed whether it is a spiritual stone vein yet. I have asked Changze to go back first and will take people to Shuangfeng Mountain to confirm whether it is true or not."

After thinking for a moment with a calm expression, Song Qingming nodded slightly and agreed with Song Yuanfang's idea.

"Well! Then you go first. If this is true, send a message back to me immediately. As for Liu Yuxin, no matter whether she knows about this or not, don't make things difficult for her. Let me handle it."

"Don't worry, Uncle Seven! I've made a note of it."

After Song Yuanfang nodded in agreement, he turned and walked out of Song Qingming's cave. Soon he took the remaining few "spiritual explorers" of the family and left "Funiu Mountain" together.

An hour later, the flying boat controlled by Song Yuanfang arrived at a high mountain with two peaks. As soon as it landed on the top of the mountain, Song Changze, who had arrived earlier, immediately led people to meet it. Under the leadership of Song Changze, Song Yuanfang and others quickly arrived at a valley at the angle between the two peaks, and met up with a middle-aged man who was about 30 years old and holding a red gold compass in his hand.

"Xuan De, how can we confirm that there is a spirit stone mine below?" Song Yuanfang, who was a little anxious when they met, asked immediately.

Upon hearing this, Song Xuande immediately bowed and said, "Reporting to Sixteenth Uncle, I have carefully explored the area nearby. The mineral vein is right under our feet. The spiritual energy here is much richer than that on the top of the mountain. It is very likely to be a spiritual stone mineral vein."

"Hmm! What Xuande said is correct. The spiritual energy at the top of this spiritual vein mountain is only the second-level middle grade, while here it is almost close to the second-level upper grade. There must be another spiritual vein that has been separated out.

In this case where there are two spiritual veins in one mountain, it is indeed very likely that they are spiritual stone veins.

I never thought that I would be able to find a spiritual stone vein after traveling all over Qinghe County all my life and yet I couldn’t find a medium-sized mine for my family. But I finally found a spiritual stone mine. God has been very kind to me.”

The person who spoke was a white-haired old man who came with Song Yuanfang. His name was Song Yuanxi. He was one of the few remaining cultivators of the Song family's "Yuan" generation, and he was also the best at probing spirits in the family.

Hearing what Song Yuanxi said, Song Yuanfang suddenly felt more confident and quickly asked the people accompanying him to cooperate with Song Xuande to start digging the mineral vein below.

With the help of two foundation-building monks, Song Yuanfang and Song Changze, the group worked continuously for several days and finally dug through the mineral vein below.

Holding a spirit stone that he had just taken from the mine and feeling the pure spiritual energy coming from his hands, Song Yuanfang, who had been nervous for several days, slowly showed a hint of excitement on his face.

Then he immediately took out a red talisman from his body and reported this important news to his family who were thousands of miles away.

Not long after, Song Qingming, the family's Jindan ancestor, came to "Shuangfeng Mountain" in person. Seeing that Song Yuanfang and his team had indeed found a "spiritual stone vein", Song Qingming's face also showed some joy.

According to Song Yuanxi and his team's estimation, this "spiritual stone vein" probably has a reserve of over a million spiritual stones. If the family invests the greatest manpower in mining it, they can mine about three thousand spiritual stones a year. It will take at least three to four hundred years to mine all the spiritual stones in the vein.

However, the ore in the "Spirit Stone Mine" is relatively mild and does not pose much harm to mortals. Mortals can directly enter the mining area to mine, and the cost of mining the vein is relatively low.

With an annual income of three thousand spirit stones, after deducting the mining costs, the family can harvest at least two thousand five hundred spirit stones.

As long as this "spiritual stone vein" is successfully mined, the profits it will bring to the Song family in the future will be much greater than that of the "Yin Fire Stone" vein discovered by Song Qingming and others.

Although the "Yinfengling" mine can produce ore worth more than 4,000 spirit stones every year, that mine was jointly developed by the Song family and the "Xiaoyao Sect". After deducting the mining costs each year, the Song family can actually only get more than 1,000 spirit stones.

When the "Yinfengling" mineral vein was first discovered, the Song family was unable to mine the mineral vein on their own due to a lack of cultivators in the family, so they had no choice but to take the initiative to cooperate with the sect.

The "spiritual stone vein" discovered this time is relatively easy to mine. The Song family now has nearly 500 cultivators, as well as a large number of mortal family members. They have enough ability to mine the vein on their own.

Song Qingming only thought about it for a moment, and immediately decided to mine the "Shuangfeng Mountain" spirit stone vein on his own and no longer seek cooperation from the sect.

This mineral vein was discovered in Yunwu Mountain, hundreds of miles east of "Chiyanfang". Although this place was not originally the territory of the Song family, it was not under the jurisdiction of the sect either. According to the rules set by the sect, the Song family did not need to report the matter to the "Xiaoyao Sect".

After the Song family was promoted to a Jindan family, Qinghe County developed stably for more than a hundred years, and the strength of the major immortal cultivation families was greatly improved.

Especially after the establishment of "Chiyanfang", many foreign independent cultivators and small immortal cultivation families came to the vicinity of the market to find a sacred mountain to settle down, which also caused the number of cultivators in Qinghe County to increase sharply.

Originally, the spiritual veins in Qinghe County had basically been occupied by major immortal cultivation families. In order to accommodate these independent cultivators who came to Qinghe County, the Song family has been trying to expand new family territories in recent years.

The "Xiaoyao Sect" has occupied the Wei State for thousands of years and has always been very supportive of the immortal cultivation families under its command in expanding their territories. Sometimes it would even take the initiative to help them deal with those powerful monsters.

It was precisely because of receiving the task from the family to expand to the eastward "Yunwu Mountain" that Song Changze and his men suddenly sent troops to the depths of Yunwu Mountain and captured the "Shuangfeng Mountain", a second-level medium-grade spiritual vein.

Nowadays, most of the monsters near "Shuangfeng Mountain" have been cleared out by the Song family. As long as there is stable development for a few decades, this place can be connected with "Chiyanfang" and become the new family territory of the Song family.

According to Song Qingming's idea, if "Chiyanfang" develops in the future, it will sooner or later catch up with Qinghe and Pingyang counties.

After confirming the reserves of the "spiritual stone vein" in front of him, Song Qingming immediately asked Song Yuanfang to return to the family and dispatched family monks to take over "Shuangfeng Mountain" and replace all the monks of the "Chiyanfang" law enforcement team who were originally left here.

This "spiritual stone vein" is very important to the family. The Song family must strictly control this place in the future to prevent the news from leaking out and causing any accidents that would attract the covetousness of other cultivators.

After arranging for Song Yuanfang to return to the family, Song Qingming came to the top of "Shuangfeng Mountain" again and summoned Song Changze and Liu Yuxin separately.

It has been more than fifty years since Liu Yuxin returned to Qinghe County from the East China Sea immortal cultivation world. Her cultivation has also improved from the second level of foundation building to the peak of the sixth level of foundation building. She is only one step away from entering the late stage of foundation building.

Although Master He Mengxin would occasionally come back to give her some spirit stones over the years, Liu Yuxin stayed alone in Qinghe County to practice, and also had to take care of the Liu family of "Jingyuan Mountain" which had just been established. It was indeed not easy for her to practice to her current level.

Seeing Song Qingming coming to "Shuangfeng Mountain" in person, Liu Yuxin, who had already guessed what the Song family had discovered on the mountain, did not look too surprised and hurriedly stepped forward to salute him.

"Yu Xin greets Senior Song!"

After Song Qingming glanced at Liu Yuxin with his spiritual sense, he nodded slightly to her and said with a smile:
"At the beginning, I promised Fellow Daoist He that I would take care of you, but you never came to Funiushan to visit us in these years, so I never had the chance to fulfill my promise to your master.

Seeing that your current cultivation is about to break through to the late stage of foundation building, this barrier-breaking pill is just what you need. Just think of it as my care for you over the years. I hope you can practice well and break through to the late stage of foundation building as soon as possible."

After he finished speaking, Song Qingming's hand suddenly flashed, and a green jade box immediately appeared. He handed it to Liu Yuxin with a kind face.

"Yu Xin has opened several small shops in Chiyanfang over the years, and has actually received a lot of support from Funiushan. Senior and my master have not broken their promises, so there is no need to spend money to send me elixirs."

When Liu Yuxin saw the "Barrier Breaking Pill" that Song Qingming gave her, her expression did not seem very excited. Instead, she acted very calmly and declined.

Song Changze, who was standing aside, suddenly became nervous when he saw this scene. He wanted to step forward and persuade Liu Yuxin, but because of Song Qingming who was standing beside him, he didn't dare to speak after thinking about it. He could only wink at her desperately.

However, Liu Yuxin seemed not to see it and ignored Song Changze, keeping her eyes on Song Qingming in front of her.

"Well! I have also heard about your work in Chiyanfang over the years from Yuan Fang and the others. You were able to run the store business so well by yourself, and you also gave us a lot of ideas to help us run the market. You are much better than them.

Your master and I are close friends, and you have called me a senior. You have been in Qinghe County for so many years, and as an elder, I have to show my appreciation. You don't have to refuse this pill."

"Yuxin thanks you very much for the treasure!"

Seeing Song Qingming say this, Liu Yuxin did not continue to refuse. She carefully took the jade box floating in front of her. Her eyes were on the exquisite jade box in her hand, but she was not in a hurry to open it.

Song Changze, who was standing by, immediately brightened up when he saw this, and was very happy for her.

Seeing that Liu Yuxin's personality was indeed much more stable than when she just returned to Qinghe County decades ago, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction and continued:
"I came to you today because I have one more thing I want to ask you about."

"Senior, if you have anything to say, please speak frankly." Hearing Song Qingming's question, Liu Yuxin quickly raised his head and replied.

After Song Qingming paused for a moment, his expression gradually became serious, and he directly asked Liu Yuxin in front of him: "The situation in Jingyuan Mountain has stabilized now, so you don't have to worry about it anymore.

You and Changze are both not young anymore, I would like to ask if you are willing to become his Taoist partner and support each other in spiritual practice in the future.

Your master discussed this matter with me back then. If you are willing, I can make the decision directly and hold a weekend ceremony for you in Funiu Mountain. Our Song family is also a Jindan immortal clan and will definitely not treat you unfairly.

If you don't want to, it's okay. I'm going to the East China Sea to cultivate immortals in a while, and I can take you back with me.

Your cultivation is not too far from the Jindan stage. If you stay in Qinghe County, you may delay your path in the future. We can feel more at ease if you return to the East China Sea and have your master take care of you."

"Seventh Uncle, you don't need to worry about Yuxin and I. We..."

"Shut up first, I didn't ask you a question!"

Hearing Song Qingming bring the matter between him and Liu Yuxin to light, Song Changze, who was standing nearby, immediately looked embarrassed.

Just as he stepped forward to help Liu Yuxin out, Song Qingming, who had been speaking very kindly before, suddenly interrupted him with a scolding, forcing Song Changze to swallow the rest of his words.

Seeing that his seventh great-uncle's face suddenly became very serious, Song Changze was extremely anxious, but he did not dare to speak again. He could only retreat with some frustration, showing a helpless look to Liu Yuxin beside him. (End of this chapter)