Chapter 300: Skyfire Peng Advances

The person standing in front of everyone was Song Qingming, who had been away from home for more than ten days. At this moment, he greeted everyone with a happy face.

Looking at the few elders who were dumbfounded in front of him, Song Qingming raised his hand and pointed at the Skyfire Peng still in the sky, saying to Song Changfeng and the others:

"Don't worry, it won't attack us. Everyone, stop looking and go quickly to close the mountain-protecting formation. It will be a waste of spirit stones if you wait!"

Hearing Song Qingming say this, Song Changfeng also came to his senses and let the few people who were still in a daze go to close the mountain-protecting formation first.

Long Feng did not break his promise. When Song Qingming went to the Fuyun Mountain Range again half a year later, the Skyfire Peng he brought back had indeed advanced successfully.

Although the advancement of demonic beasts is relatively more difficult than that of human cultivators, Long Feng is, after all, a Golden Core demon king who dominates one side. With his strength, supporting a demonic beast to advance to the Foundation Establishment realm is not a big problem, and the Skyfire Peng advanced to the second tier smoothly.

Logically, most of Song Changfeng and the others had seen the Skyfire Peng. The reason they couldn't recognize it just now was that after the Skyfire Peng advanced, its body size had increased by more than double compared to before, and the color of its feathers had also changed from the golden yellow at that time to the current gray-white. That was why Song Changfeng and the others couldn't recognize it all of a sudden.

After the mountain-protecting formation was lifted, under Song Qingming's guidance, the Skyfire Peng finally landed beside his cave dwelling at the top of Mount Funiu. After demonic beasts advance to the second tier, their spiritual wisdom is already comparable to that of human children. For some simple instructions from Song Qingming, the current Skyfire Peng can fully cooperate with him.

After bringing the Skyfire Peng back to Mount Funiu, Song Qingming planned to open a separate secret room for the Skyfire Peng beside his cave dwelling. From now on, he would not let the Skyfire Peng go to Qinghefang again. As an important trump card of the family, he would let the Skyfire Peng stay on Mount Funiu for a long time in the future. With it guarding this spiritual mountain, Song Qingming could be more at ease when he went out.

The Skyfire Peng, which had advanced to the Foundation Establishment realm, still had considerable strength. It had several powerful fire-attribute supernatural powers in its own talent. After Song Qingming sparred with it, he found that this guy's fighting ability was already comparable to a human cultivator who had just established his foundation.

In the Qi Refining stage, the spiritual wisdom of the demonic clan is too low, and their strength is worse than human cultivators of the same tier. After reaching the Foundation Establishment realm, not only is their spiritual wisdom greatly opened, but their own supernatural powers will also be much stronger. Demonic beasts with relatively strong bloodlines like the Skyfire Peng already have strength not inferior to human cultivators of the same Foundation Establishment tier after advancing to the second tier.

After hearing Song Qingming tell the process of the Skyfire Peng's advancement, Song Changfeng, as the clan leader of the Song family, couldn't help but be very excited. If the previous Song family was still slightly lacking in foundation as a Foundation Establishment family, now that the family had an extra second-tier mountain-guarding spirit beast, it had completely filled this shortcoming.

The lifespan of demonic beasts is generally two or three times that of human cultivators. Like this feather clan demonic beast, the Skyfire Peng, it can normally live for six or seven hundred years. As long as it is there, even if the Song family loses all Foundation Establishment cultivators, it will not decline rapidly. As long as this spirit beast does not have any accidents, the Song family can still be glorious in Qinghe County for at least a few hundred years.

After returning to Mount Funiu, Song Qingming soon summoned a beast tamer who had just joined the family and handed the Skyfire Peng to him for daily care. Not long after the Skyfire Peng was settled, Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng came to find him with a smile.

"Qingming, at the family spiritual root test ceremony a few days ago, two more cultivators were added to the Yuan generation this year, which can be considered a rare happy event. I want to take this opportunity to hold a grace ceremony in the Song family to celebrate for these children of the Yuan generation who have come up the mountain in the past few years, so as to encourage them. What do you think?"

Song Qingming nodded and said: "Sixth Uncle's idea is good. Since we want to hold it, let's notify the cultivators outside. Tell them to come back if they can. If they really have something to do and can't come back, then forget it. We can't delay the serious business at hand for this."

Song Changfeng's suggestion was actually something Song Qingming had thought about in his heart. Now that it was proposed by him, Song Qingming agreed to Song Changfeng's proposal.

Back when Song Qingyu established her foundation, the Song family originally wanted to hold a Foundation Establishment ceremony for her. In the end, Song Qingming blocked the matter for the sake of keeping Song Qingyu's Foundation Establishment a secret. At that time, some cultivators didn't quite understand the family's approach to this matter.

Nowadays, the Song family is developing steadily and is becoming more and more like a Foundation Establishment family. Song Qingming and Song Qingyu are not very old and can still protect the Song family for quite some time. It is time for the clansmen to relax and celebrate properly.

Under Song Changfeng's personal arrangement, the Song family began to get busy. The Song family cultivators outside received the news and asked for leave one after another to return to Mount Funiu. The entire Mount Funiu also ushered in a lively scene like never before.

Not only the family cultivators on Mount Funiu, but even the mortals at the foot of the mountain also relaxed and celebrated properly during this festival.

In the council hall of Mount Funiu, five children of different heights, about ten years old, were led by their elders to kowtow and salute the two Foundation Establishment ancestors of the family sitting in the upper seat.

Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, who had specially rushed back from Qinghefang to participate in the grace ceremony, each gave a gift to these juniors of the Yuan generation to encourage them to cultivate diligently in the future.

Looking at these still young and tender faces in front of him, Song Qingming couldn't help but recall the green and shy appearance he had when he first came up the mountain.

At that time, the Song family was merely a small Qi Refining family with an average foundation, and all their cultivators combined numbered no more than twenty. Back then, Song Qingming had not initially held much hope for his own path, and it was only by steadily moving forward step by step that he managed to carve out a great Dao of cultivation.

Now these children grow up in the Song family, which has risen to a Foundation Establishment family, and have a higher and better starting point. In the future, these people might also be able to surpass their predecessors and carry forward the entire Song family even more.

The Song family has developed rapidly over the years, and the newly built town at the foot of the mountain has also given mortals a lot of room for development. The overall number of mortals has almost doubled since Song Qingming just established his foundation, and the generation of cultivators has also been passed from the Xin generation to the Yuan generation.

It is precisely because of these mortals as the foundation that the number of cultivators in the Song family has also doubled in the past few decades. The Chang generation and the Qing generation only had a dozen people each, and by the Xin generation, they began to usher in explosive growth. The youngest one has already been ranked twenty-sixth.

The birth of a new generation of cultivators also means the aging of the older generation of cultivators. The cultivators of the Chang generation have gradually begun to wither. Among the old cultivators of the Chang generation who are still alive today, the oldest Second Uncle Song Changwu returned home to retire a few years ago.

(End of chapter)