Chapter 339: Bai Yu Elixir

In Mount Yunwu, after scaring Song Qingyu away, the Fire-Scaled Leopard gathered its subordinates scattered everywhere again. However, it did not choose to return to its lair next, but raised its eyes and looked at the huge volcano not far away with great fear, then roared softly and took these low-tier demonic beasts to change direction and head south.

Not long after the Fire-Scaled Leopard left, a somewhat cold voice suddenly sounded in a scorching rock cave behind the volcano.

"Sigh! Someone has already arrived nearby. Good disciple, it seems we have to change places again!"

"This ghost place is too stuffy, and I haven't wanted to stay here for a long time. Now there are only a few spiritual items left to refine this last magic treasure, and I still need to go to the market to find them. Master, don't worry, we are about to reach the day of success."

"Haha... disciple is right!"

After a burst of frantic laughter, these two voices quickly disappeared in the rock cave.

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Below Mount Guyang, in a guest inn in Yangshan Market, Song Qingming was carefully observing a golden elixir in his hand in the room.

"Senior Feng He, after I refine this Bai Yu Elixir, do I really have hope of breaking through to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment?"

After Song Qingming muttered to himself, a gust of wind blew past his ear, and a palm-sized immortal crane puppet beast on the table suddenly made a somewhat old voice.

"Your magic power has long been polished to perfection, but you have failed to break through. What you lack is just a spiritual item that can guide the cyclone of magic power in your body. Although the effect of the Bai Yu Elixir is not as good as the Breakthrough Elixir, for you, the hope of breaking through your cultivation after refining this elixir is still very great.

It is also because your aptitude is too poor. If it were an ordinary cultivator with better spiritual roots, they wouldn't even need the Bai Yu Elixir in your state, and they could almost automatically break through their cultivation before long."

Hearing this Senior Feng He mention his spiritual root aptitude again and strike a blow at him, Song Qingming could only shake his head helplessly.

Spiritual root aptitude was something a cultivator was born with, and there was no way to change it later. Although he had deeply felt the many disadvantages brought by his spiritual roots not being as good as others since he started cultivating, he had long since gotten used to it after so many years.

What Feng He said was not wrong. Some people were born with powerful spiritual roots and could stand at the top of the cultivation world without much effort. But what this former peerless genius who stood at the top, the Nascent Soul big shot, couldn't see was that more people in this cultivation world didn't even have spiritual roots and could only be ordinary mortals with a lifespan of a few decades.

Although Song Qingming knew very early on that his four-spiritual-root talent would not have much cultivation prospect, he had never complained about the unfairness of heaven in this regard all these years. Compared to those playmates from childhood who had already turned into yellow soil, his fate was already much better than many people's because he could enter the Dao and cultivate to live until now.

Whether it was a cultivator or an ordinary mortal, people should always be content to be better.

He had been here at Yangshan Market for four or five days. This time, Song Qingming was lucky, and the few spiritual items he wanted to purchase were all found. He was also lucky enough to find a Bai Yu Elixir in the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion that might help him break through his cultivation.

Ever since his cultivation reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, Song Qingming quickly discovered that his cultivation had encountered the biggest bottleneck since Foundation Establishment. Even though he had tried many elixirs, he had never been able to successfully break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Song Qingming succeeded in Foundation Establishment at the age of forty-six, and forty years had passed since then. In the first thirty years, he broke through one layer of cultivation on average every five or six years. Although this was not particularly fast among Foundation Establishment cultivators, it already exceeded seven or eight out of ten cultivators of the same tier.

However, after reaching the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, nearly twelve years had passed. Although Song Qingming had long since polished the magic power in his body to perfection, he had never been able to successfully break through his cultivation. The last time he encountered such a powerless situation in cultivation was when he broke through the fourth layer of Qi Condensation before going down the mountain.

At that time, Song Qingming finally relied on the help and support of his Big Brother and the others to finally gather enough spirit stones to exchange for a Qi Gathering Elixir from the family's Golden Treasury Pavilion to assist in a successful breakthrough.

Now that Song Qingming's cultivation had reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, the elixir with the best effect to help Foundation Establishment cultivators break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment was a third-tier spiritual elixir called the Barrier-Breaking Elixir.

It was a pity that spiritual items above the third tier basically would not appear in the market in the Wei Kingdom. The only place Song Qingming knew that had this kind of spiritual elixir was the Merit Pavilion within the Xiaoyao Sect. However, the merit required to exchange for the Barrier-Breaking Elixir was very high, and the merit accumulated by the Song family for so many years was not enough to exchange for such a spiritual item.

Although Song Qingming was not short of spirit stones now, he had not found a way to exchange for this kind of spiritual elixir. He had also inquired about the news of the Barrier-Breaking Elixir in Yangshan Market many times in recent years, but he had never found a way.

Even in the few auctions of the Heavenly Elixir Alliance he attended, he had never seen this kind of elixir, which truly made Song Qingming somewhat disappointed. If the Bai Yu Elixir in his hand this time still couldn't help him break through his cultivation, he would only be able to go to other countries near the Wei Kingdom to inquire about the news of the Barrier-Breaking Elixir.

The Bai Yu Elixir Song Qingming obtained this time was also a suggestion given to him by Feng He after he failed to find spiritual items to break through several times. Unexpectedly, he was lucky enough to buy one of this kind of elixir from Yin Ling of the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion this time.

The Bai Yu Elixir was different from the Barrier-Breaking Elixir. Although it also had some help for Foundation Establishment cultivators to break through their cultivation, the effect was far worse. This kind of spiritual elixir was generally used by cultivators to assist other spiritual items in breaking through.

Although the Bai Yu Elixir was not a particularly popular spiritual elixir, it was also a second-tier top-grade spiritual elixir. This kind of spiritual item was already the highest-grade spiritual elixir even in the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion. Song Qingming had also reserved it with Yin Ling for more than a year before he got one from her.

"Senior! The junior promises you that as long as I can successfully break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment this time, I will set off as soon as possible to help you visit and find the physical body you want, and I won't let you wait too long."

"Hmm! As long as you haven't forgotten this matter. Although my lifespan is not much left, there are still many things I haven't completed. If you can successfully help me find a physical body, once I recover to my previous cultivation, even helping you form a core in the future won't be too difficult. You can rest assured about this."

Over these years, although Feng He would occasionally remind Song Qingming to go out and help him find a suitable physical body, he also knew that Song Qingming's current cultivation strength was not high, so he did not urge him too much.

When Feng He discussed cooperation with Song Qingming back then, he also promised to help Song Qingming successfully form a core. Although Song Qingming was still far from forming a core, Feng He also understood that if he couldn't even help him pass this hurdle of the late stage of Foundation Establishment now, it would be very difficult to inspire Song Qingming with words about forming a core in the future.

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