Chapter 123: Ninth Layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua

After chatting with the fourth uncle's family for a meal, Song Qingming obtained the mountain-protecting great formation and strolled around the Qinghe Market to purchase some elixirs needed for cultivation. When he returned to the Song family shop again, he found that Song Qingyu, the little girl, had also returned and was asking for elixirs from the second sister Song Qingwan in the back hall.

"Second sister, please give me a new Face-Returning Pill. Or consider it as borrowing from you. Recently, in order to break through to the late stage of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua, spirit stones have really been spent."

"No. How long has it been since you borrowed ten spirit stones from me last time? You haven't returned them to me yet. Besides, Face-Returning Pills only have an effect when taken by older people. Little girl, how old are you? What do you want this for? Can elixirs be taken randomly?"

Facing Song Qingyu's acting like a spoiled child, the second sister Song Qingwan remained unmoved. The little girl saw that Song Qingming had returned and hurriedly leaned over, transferring her hope to him.

Looking at the pitiful Song Qingyu, Song Qingming shook his head helplessly and said to Song Qingwan: "Second sister, is this kind of new Face-Returning Pill easy to refine? How many are left now?"

"The Qingli grass needed for this kind of Face-Returning Pill is very rare now. I also accidentally received two plants last time and refined a total of over ten pills. There are only four left now." Song Qingwan said with some difficulty.

"Is that so? Then give me all these four. I will give you spirit stones directly!"

"This kind of elixir can only be taken once in a lifetime. Why do you want so many?" Song Qingwan asked with some confusion.

"Hehe, this kind of elixir is rare after all. I want to take a few back to give to people."

Seeing that this kind of elixir was not easy to refine, Song Qingming simply took all the remaining four Face-Returning Pills into his storage bag and made an agreement with Song Qingyu that when she broke through to the late stage of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua, he would definitely give her a Face-Returning Pill, indirectly encouraging her to cultivate.

It was already dusk when he left the Qinghe Market. The little girl Song Qingyu kept arguing to return the next day before setting off. Song Qingming did not spoil her this time, directly took out the elder's majesty to reprimand her, which made her somewhat reluctant to follow behind. The two did not delay on the road and soon returned to Funiu Mountain.

Song Qingming set up the new top-grade mountain-protecting great formation in Mugu Town, returned to his cave dwelling, and immediately went into seclusion, taking out the elixirs purchased this time, preparing to break through his cultivation to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua in one go.

The ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua is the last layer of the Qi Mount Mount Lianhua realm and also the most difficult bottleneck. Song Qingming had already cultivated his mana to the peak of the eighth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua half a year ago and tried to break through to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua several times, but none of them succeeded.

After going to the Qinghe Market for a stroll this time, he finally found an elixir in the market that could help break through the late stage of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua, which gave him the confidence to impact the bottleneck again.

The elixir Song Qingming purchased this time is called Jade Green Pill, a first-tier top-quality spiritual elixir refined from jade green flowers over a hundred years old, which can assist in breaking through the late stage of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua. The value of this elixir in the market is one hundred and fifty spirit stones. Even so, there are still many cultivators who want to buy it. Song Qingming being able to buy one this time was also due to a bit of the relationship he built when he was in the Qinghe Market back then.

With this elixir plus a mid-grade spirit stone, Song Qingming now had great confidence that he could successfully break through to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua.

Song Qingming used a Pure Heart Talisman to adjust his mental state to the best, and swallowed this precious Jade Green Pill in one gulp.

A moment later, a violent spiritual energy quickly spread from his dantian in his body, and then began to impact the many meridians and acupoints in his body.

Although the Jade Green Pill is still a first-tier spiritual elixir, the spiritual power in the spiritual elixir is very large, already close to half of an ordinary second-tier spiritual elixir, and the spiritual energy contained is far more domineering than the many spiritual elixirs Song Qingming had taken before.

Such a very domineering spiritual energy flowing into the spiritual meridians is a great test for every Qi Mount Mount Lianhua cultivator.

Enduring the severe pain of the meridians, Song Qingming concentrated his mind, fully guided the operation of mana in the meridians in his body, and then slowly guided the violent mana back to the dantian bit by bit.

As time passed slowly, the mana in Song Qingming's dantian also accumulated more and more, and finally reached a critical point a few days later.

Without any hesitation, Song Qingming quickly ran the powerful mana in his dantian into the ninth meridian in his body. With a roar in his body, he soon successfully broke through the barrier in this last meridian, allowing him to advance to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua.

After the violent spiritual power in his body gradually calmed down, Song Qingming took out a mid-grade spirit stone, slowly refined it, and stabilized his cultivation realm. Only then did Song Qingming breathe a sigh of relief. This breakthrough was finally successful.

In previous breakthroughs, Song Qingming also had one successful breakthrough to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua. As a result, because of insufficient preparation, he failed to stabilize his realm in time and fell back to the eighth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua. Therefore, this time when breaking through, he prepared a mid-grade spirit stone in advance. It was precisely because of this that he did not repeat the same mistakes this time.

Although breaking through like this costs much more spirit stones than ordinary cultivators, this is also a helpless thing for Song Qingming. His spiritual root quality is too poor. Although he cultivated a relatively good technique like the Jade Profound Scripture, his cultivation speed is far behind those geniuses with excellent spiritual roots. In order to establish his foundation early, he can only continuously refine elixirs to increase his cultivation speed, which naturally led to his unstable foundation and increased the difficulty of breaking through bottlenecks.

After breaking through to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua, next he will face the biggest difficulty of Foundation Establishment. Even if he cultivates to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua, he is still the lowest existence in the cultivation world. In the eyes of high-tier cultivators, Qi Mount Mount Lianhua cultivators are all pawns in a chessboard whose fate is manipulated. Only by successfully establishing his foundation can he better control his own fate.

Once a cultivator successfully establishes his foundation, not only can he learn various more powerful spells, but his lifespan will also increase by two sixty-year cycles. After becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even if he still cannot escape the fate of a pawn, he is a larger pawn on the chessboard and will not be easily discarded by the person playing the chess.

This time breaking through to the ninth layer of Qi Mount Mount Lianhua, Song Qingming went into seclusion for a full month until his cultivation was completely stabilized before opening the cave dwelling door.

After walking out of his cave dwelling, Song Qingming went directly to find patriarch Song Changfeng.

The mountain-protecting great formation of Mugu Town had already been set up, and Song Qingsi's formation level had also successfully entered the door, being able to set up some simple formations. Song Qingming did not have any relatively important things on Funiu Mountain for the time being, so he prepared to go to the Xiaoyao Sect first.

Song Changfeng did not say much this time, gave Song Qingming a few instructions, and agreed to his request, also letting Song Qingming go to the Treasury Pavilion to collect dozens of spirit stones. After all, going out on a long journey is expensive, and going to the Xiaoyao Sect to see a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it is good to spend some spirit stones to handle things.

The beast unrest had passed for a year. The entire Wei Guo, except for the Pingyang County in the north which was severely damaged and still somewhat chaotic, other places had slowly returned to the stable state before the unrest.

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