Qinghe Immortal Clan.

The fact that Bai Yuxian retreated to break through the Nascent Soul stage has always been the most secretive matter in the Xiaoyao Sect. Over the years, the Xiaoyao Sect has kept the news strictly confidential to the outside world.

Even Song Qingming knew about this, it was only because Xu Ziyan had a good relationship with him and indirectly revealed a little bit to him.

However, it would take at least a dozen years of seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Bai Yuxian had not appeared in public for many years, so it would be impossible to keep it secret completely over time.

After Song Qingyu came back, he went to the sect several times but did not see the sect leader Bai Yuxian. Naturally, he also heard some rumors about her retreat to form a baby.

However, she was still somewhat skeptical about this matter until Song Qingming said it directly to her face just now, and then Song Qingyu confirmed her previous guess.

Song Qingming nodded and confirmed, "Senior Sister Bai has been in seclusion for more than ten years. According to the time it takes for ordinary cultivators to condense their Nascent Soul, she should be out of seclusion in the next few years."

"Seventh Brother, do you think Senior Sister Bai has a good chance of successfully breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage this time?"

Seeing this, Song Qingming shook his head and said to Song Qingyu with a smile, "Haha! I, your seventh brother, don't have any experience in breaking through the Nascent Soul stage, so I can't just say such things.

Senior Sister Bai has a natural talent for spiritual roots and has already had the experience of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. Logically speaking, her chances of success this time should be high.

However, breaking through the Nascent Soul stage is much more difficult than forming a Core. Many talented cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation have been blocked at this step. I really can’t say for sure whether Senior Sister Bai can succeed this time.

No matter what changes will happen in the sect next, we need to plan ahead and make some preparations in advance."

"Well! Brother Qi always thinks farther than I do. With you in our family, things will definitely get better and better in the future."

Hearing Song Qingyu's flattery, Song Qingming couldn't help but shake his head slightly and said: "The development of the family is not just my business, you and Yuan Fang are also very important to the family.

Regardless of whether I am here or not, I hope that the family can flourish in your hands."

“Back then, there were only a dozen people on the mountain, and we have come this far step by step. How could the family be any worse than it was then?

Don't worry, Seventh Brother, even if we are gone, I believe Yuan Fang and the others can take good care of the family." Song Qingyu said, with a confident smile on his face.

Seeing this, Song Qingming nodded slightly and said, "You are right. Each generation has its own mission. No matter what happens in the future, the family will always be handed over to the younger generations.

All we can do is try to pave the way for them!"

"Well! Anyway, no matter what happens, I will definitely listen to you.

Seventh brother, I'll be able to take care of my sister-in-law here. You must have a lot of things to do since you just came out of seclusion. You should go back and take care of your own things for the next few days!
I will notify you as soon as my sister-in-law is released from quarantine."

Seeing that Song Qingyu was willing to stay and protect Huang Siyuan during her retreat, Song Qingming nodded slightly in agreement without saying much, then turned and walked towards his own cave.

In the past few years, Song Qingming has been concentrating on retreating and trying to break through his cultivation. Although he has not succeeded yet,

If Huang Siyuan's breakthrough today had not caused strange phenomena in heaven and earth, allowing Song Qingming, who was in seclusion in the cave, to suddenly feel the changes in the surrounding spiritual energy, he probably would not have come out so early.

Song Qingming, who had just returned to the cave, took two bottles of pills from the wooden shelf beside the hall outside, and then came to a newly opened stone chamber inside the cave.

Although this stone chamber is not small, being about five or six feet long and wide, it is very empty and contains almost nothing. There is only a small spirit gathering formation in the middle of the chamber, which emits bursts of dazzling spiritual light.

Song Qingming walked directly to the "Spirit Gathering Array", waved his hand to open the outer layer of restriction, and then walked directly into the array.

In this operating "Spirit Gathering Formation", there are two people wearing black iron masks sitting upright, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy and meditating.

Song Qingming came to the two men and handed over the two porcelain bottles he had just taken. Upon seeing this, the two masked men immediately reached out and took one of the porcelain bottles.

Then the two of them opened the porcelain bottle in unison, poured out a pill from it and put it into their own mouths, then continued to meditate and practice.

During the whole process, the two men wearing the black iron masks did not say a word, and completed the actions just now as if they were controlled by someone.

After giving the pill to the other party, Song Qingming released his spiritual sense and scanned the two people sitting on the ground, and then a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

"Although I have consumed a lot of medicinal pills, my current cultivation speed is indeed not slow. As long as there is a sufficient supply of medicinal pills, you will be able to catch up with me sooner or later."

These two people wearing black iron masks are not normal cultivators, but corpse puppets refined by Song Qingming himself.

One of them is "Jinfeng", who has followed Song Qingming for many years and has now broken through to the fifth level of Jindan.

The other person was another corpse puppet named "Silver Armor" that Song Qingming had spent a lot of time refining over the years. His cultivation was lower and he had just broken through the third level of Golden Core not long ago.

At the beginning, Song Qingming spent more than half a year wandering around the immortal cultivation world of "Donghuang Country". Although he did not find the high-level fire-attribute materials that he most wanted to repair the formation, he also purchased a lot of good things.

In a large market in Liangzhou, Song Qingming happened to see someone selling a "ghost pill" of good quality in a shop, so he spent a lot of spirit stones to buy it.

After returning to Wei State, Song Qingming spent most of his time on refining corpse puppets except for his daily practice. After spending more than a year, he finally used this "ghost pill" to refine his second corpse puppet, "Silver Armor".

Because he happened to have a bottle of "Flame Spirit Water" in his hand that he had obtained from Duan Longshan's storage bag that year, after refining it with the secret method given by Li Xuanyi, Song Qingming quickly raised his "Silver Armor" cultivation to the third level of Golden Core.

The main reason why Song Qingming spent so many resources and energy to cultivate a second Jindan corpse puppet was to set up the "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Array" that he obtained from the Heavenly Corpse Taoist that year.

After so many years of research, Song Qingming discovered that this "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Formation" was not an original formation created by Tianshi Taoist, but a copy he made from an ancient formation diagram he obtained by chance.

After obtaining the numerous secret manuals of martial arts left by Taoist Tianshi, Song Qingming quickly found the original ancient formation diagram in it and discovered that the original power of this formation was even greater.

However, this formation diagram was already a little incomplete, and Song Qingming tried hard but still failed to completely restore it.

In the end, he had no choice but to give up and settle for the next best thing. He transformed the original "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Array" through his own comprehension and obtained a new array "The Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array".

The power of this formation is not much different from the original "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Formation", but the requirements for its deployment are much simpler. As long as you have three corpse puppets or puppet beasts of the same level, you can try to deploy a relatively simple formation.

Moreover, as the number of puppet beasts and corpse puppets increases, the power of the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" will become stronger and stronger. If there are more than a dozen Jindan corpse puppets of the same level forming a magic array, even a Yuanying cultivator will be able to fight with them.

However, for Song Qingming, this situation is just something he can think about at the moment, and it is difficult to actually realize it.

As for corpse puppets, because cultivators have limited spiritual awareness, they can usually only control one corpse puppet of the same level. Even though Song Qingming's spiritual awareness is much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators of the same level after practicing the "Soul-Devouring Art", he can only control two at the same time at most.

If it were replaced with a puppet beast with weaker strength, Song Qingming would now be able to control a lot of them at the same time. However, the strength of the puppet beast controlling the formation would be weakened, and the power of the formation would also be weakened a lot.

Moreover, puppet beasts above level three are basically treasured collections of large sects and are extremely rare on the market.

Song Qingming traveled around the "Donghuang Country" for several years and only saw a third-level low-grade puppet beast, and had no chance to purchase more high-level puppet beasts.

Even the immortal cultivation world of the resource-rich "Donghuang Country" is like this, let alone remote places like the Floating Cloud Mountains.

Gathering enough puppet beasts to form a magic circle to fight against enemies of higher levels is not something that can be done overnight. Song Qingming can only try his best, but there is no way to ensure that he can do it.

Fortunately, when Song Qingming first obtained the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array", he understood the difficulty involved and did not force it too much. He was already very satisfied at the moment that he could find a way to set up the simplest one.

After letting "Golden Wind" and "Silver Armor" stay in the inner room to practice alone, Song Qingming quickly walked out and went into a nearby stone chamber where he kept his spiritual insects and monsters.

As soon as he entered the door, the "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" that sensed Song Qingming's appearance gathered around him. The "Ice and Fire Dragon" that was squatting in a corner of the stone room also smelled a familiar scent and immediately jumped towards Song Qingming.

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly took out the elixir he had prepared long ago, as well as a bottle of white spiritual water brought from the secret realm of "Tianyuan Sect", and poured them into the sink beside him.

Seeing Song Qingming's move, the greedy "Ice and Fire Dragon" quickly led a group of "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" and rushed directly to the water tank. It didn't take long before they devoured all the spiritual creatures brought by Song Qingming.

Ten years have passed, and the spiritual beasts and insects following Song Qingming have also undergone significant changes. The cultivation of the "Ice and Fire Dragon" and the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly" has improved rapidly after being fed with white spiritual water by Song Qingming, and they are now close to the peak of the foundation-building stage.

Even the slower "Sky Fire Peng" successfully broke through to the late stage of foundation building with the help of a spiritual fruit that Huang Siyuan exchanged from the "Heavenly Pill Alliance" a few years ago. If these spiritual beasts practiced on their own in the wild, they would probably only be able to build their foundation for a short time. In recent years, they have been following Song Qingming and have been well fed and well fed, and have never lacked elixirs and spiritual objects. Their cultivation speed has at least doubled.

However, they have also helped Song Qingming a lot over the years, especially the "Golden Illusion Butterfly", which can help explore the way and guard silently, and can also restrain a mid-stage Jindan cultivator by attacking in groups, so their strength is also not weak.

Although the initial investment for spiritual beasts is a bit large and it is difficult to see returns in a short period of time, their potential if properly cultivated is much greater than that of inanimate objects such as corpse puppets.

Song Qingming is spending so much effort to cultivate them now, also hoping that they can help him a lot in the future.

After taking care of his spirit beast, Song Qingming turned around and came to the hall outside the cave and collected some martial arts books that were scattered around the cave.

After tidying up his cave, Song Qingming did not choose to continue sitting down to practice, but went to the stone table beside him, took out a high-level talisman illustration book and began to study it carefully.

After returning from the "Donghuang Kingdom", the strength of the spirit beasts and corpse puppets around Song Qingming has increased significantly over the years, but his own cultivation has not changed much until now, and is still stuck in the seventh level of the Golden Core realm.

Although Song Qingming, who returned to "Funiu Mountain", brought back many elixirs and spiritual objects from the immortal cultivation world of "Donghuang Country", he had already cultivated to the peak of the seventh level of Golden Elixir three years ago.

However, in recent years, Song Qingming has tried several times to break through the realm, but found that he had encountered a bottleneck that was difficult to break, and several attempts ended in failure.

The bottleneck of the late Jindan stage is much more difficult than Song Qingming had imagined before. No wonder most of the Jindan cultivators Song Qingming knows are stuck at the sixth or seventh level of Jindan for a long time, and very few can quickly cultivate to the ninth level of Jindan.

After practicing for so many years, Song Qingming also knows that when one reaches a certain level of cultivation, one cannot just force oneself to practice hard in order to break through the level. Many times, one needs to wait for an opportunity or a chance to successfully break through the bottleneck and make further progress.

Seeing that his own cultivation level could not make a quick breakthrough, Song Qingming changed his mind and gave up on continuing his retreat. He planned to shift his focus to other things first and deal with them later.

This atlas of high-level talismans was also what Song Qingming brought back from the immortal cultivation world of "Donghuang Country". It recorded many high-level talismans above level three, and even recorded several types of level four talismans.

Ever since his talisman-making technique broke through to the third-level intermediate grade, Song Qingming has been troubled in recent years by the fact that he does not have many high-level talisman illustrations and has rarely had the opportunity to improve his talisman-making skills.

Last time, when he was in the immortal cultivation world of "Donghuang Country", he happened to find a high-level talisman illustration book, which finally gave him the opportunity to make some progress in talisman making.

Over the years, Song Qingming not only drew many third-level mid-grade talismans, but also tried to make third-level high-grade talismans.

However, so far, after spending several sets of materials, he has only successfully drawn a slightly flawed inferior product, and has not yet truly improved his talisman-making skills to the third-level superior level.

Although he has not yet successfully improved his talisman-making skills, Song Qingming has great confidence in improving his talisman-making skills after obtaining this high-level talisman illustration book.

After practicing Taoism for so many years, Song Qingming has always been fond of things like talismans. He always carries a few useful talismans of high quality with him in case of emergency.

However, with the improvement of his own cultivation, Song Qingming has found it very difficult to purchase third-grade top-quality talismans that match his cultivation level in the market over the years.

In the "Xiaoyao Sect", the one with the highest skill in talisman making is the law enforcement elder Li Wutong. Although he is already a third-level superior quality talisman maker, due to the shortage of talisman making materials in the Floating Cloud Mountains, Li Wutong seldom draws third-level superior quality talismans.

Therefore, among the many Jindan elders in the entire "Xiaoyao Sect", few people have such high-level talismans as the third-grade upper-grade talismans. Song Qingming had always wanted to exchange one from the sect but never succeeded.

Since it is difficult to get talismans outside, I think it is better to rely on myself than to ask others for help, so I might as well find a way to improve my talisman-making skills. This way, if I want any talisman in the future, I can easily draw it as long as I can find all the materials.

Improving the skill of talisman making will not only satisfy one's own needs in the future, but also allow one to take the extra talismans out and exchange them for other spiritual objects that one needs. These are also very important for Song Qingming.

After carefully studying the talisman illustration in his hand for a long time, Song Qingming suddenly stood up and took out a piece of high-level talisman paper and spread it on the table. Then he picked up the talisman pen on the table and dipped it in some cinnabar on the side, and shifted his gaze to the blank talisman paper in front of him.

Then he adjusted his breathing, recalled the steps he had just thought of in his mind, and his eyes gradually became very focused.

As the spiritual light on his body moved, the magic power in Song Qingming's body suddenly poured into the talisman pen in his hand along the meridians, and he began to control the talisman pen to move slowly on the talisman paper.

Three days and three nights passed in a flash. With the last stroke of the talisman pen in Song Qingming's hand, the runes that had been connected together instantly began to emit a sparkling light.

Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately put down the talisman pen, made a hand gesture, and quickly cast a spell to release a restriction that fell on the talisman paper, sealing all the spiritual light on it.

High-level talismans above level three can be easily sensed by others even if they are stored in a storage bag, because the spiritual power contained in the runes is very powerful.

Therefore, when the talisman maker draws the talisman, he will finally place a small restriction on it to conceal its aura. This will help the cultivator achieve unexpected effects when using it.

After completing this step, Song Qingming picked up the talisman in his hand and examined it carefully. Seeing that there were no flaws on the runes, he smiled with satisfaction.

"After spending so many high-level materials, it finally worked!"

Although he did not succeed in making a breakthrough in his cultivation after such a long period of seclusion, Song Qingming was still very happy that he successfully advanced to become a third-level top-grade talisman maker.

Song Qingming put away the talisman in his hand and was about to go out for a walk when a sound transmission note happened to fly into his cave.

After opening the talisman and taking a look at it, Song Qingming's face suddenly showed some joy again. He hurriedly packed up the remaining talisman-making materials on the table, then walked out of the cave and quickly came to the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain.

Song Qingming, who had just walked up to the third floor, saw Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan, who had just come out of isolation, chatting. He immediately stepped forward and congratulated Huang Siyuan.

"Haha! I was just about to go out and take a look, but I didn't expect you to have come out early. It seems that your breakthrough this time is a little different, much smoother than mine back then."

Huang Siyuan, who had just achieved a breakthrough in her cultivation, was also very happy at the moment. She nodded and smiled and replied, "I have indeed gained a lot from this retreat. Not only did I successfully achieve a breakthrough in my cultivation, but I also feel that the path ahead of me has become much clearer.

But speaking of it, experiencing worldly life over the years has indeed improved my character a lot, and helped me a lot when I was in retreat and breaking through.

I also want to thank my husband for his guidance. Otherwise, it would not be so easy for me to break through this time, and I would definitely have to waste a lot of time. "

Seeing Huang Siyuan suddenly bowing to thank him, Song Qingming hurriedly stepped forward and waved his hand, saying, "You and I have supported each other for many years, why should we be so polite.

Besides, not everyone can gain so much from practicing in the secular world. How much you can understand depends entirely on your own opportunities. You don’t have to attribute all the credit to me.”

"Yes! Brother Qi is right. Sister-in-law, you see, I have been practicing with you for quite some time, but I still can't keep my temper. Now it seems that I still don't have this opportunity."

Since returning to the family from traveling, Song Qingyu often saw Huang Siyuan going down the mountain to practice, and curiously followed her several times.

However, compared with Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu's experience in worldly practice was obviously much worse. He did not have much patience in practice and only persisted for less than a month before gradually slacking off.

Seeing that Huang Siyuan had finally reaped some rewards after years of practice, Song Qingyu's face showed envy and helplessness.

Seeing the look on Song Qingyu's face, Song Qingming immediately spoke to comfort her, "Qingyu, you are practicing the way of sword cultivation, which emphasizes decisiveness in killing. Entering the secular world to practice may not be useful for you, and you don't have to keep worrying about it.

You have a complete sword cultivation heritage, and you can at least cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage. This is your greatest opportunity in cultivation. Why should you envy these things anymore?"

"Yes! Qingyu, you practice the way of sword cultivation. Whether it is fighting or practicing, you are half a point stronger than us. In the future, you will definitely have a greater chance of condensing your Nascent Soul than us. Don't envy my little opportunity."

Hearing this, Song Qingyu immediately opened her heart and laughed, "Haha! I just couldn't help but say a few words of envy. My sister-in-law said it so nicely, how dare I disobey her.

Brother Qi, please come and sit over here. I personally brewed the spiritual tea today. Please try it and see how it tastes!"

Seeing Song Qingyu holding a cup of freshly brewed spiritual tea and placing it in front of him, Song Qingming hurriedly took it and found an empty seat to sit down.

The three of them hadn't gotten together for a long time, and this time they celebrated the happy event of Huang Siyuan's breakthrough in cultivation.

After chatting for a while, Song Qingming started discussing with the two girls about the family's future development towards the north, and wanted to hear the two girls' opinions.

Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu both strongly supported Song Qingming's idea of ​​developing northward, and gave many ideas. The three of them quickly worked out a rough action plan together.

(Finally, let me say that the Mid-Autumn Festival lucky draw event has reached its last day. The draw will be held tomorrow. Book friends who haven’t joined the group should hurry up.) (End of this chapter)