Chapter 365: Rebirth through Possession

In a secret chamber in the backyard of Liufeng Hall, a middle-aged man with rather ordinary features was focused on crafting a palm-sized mechanical puppet beast.

Seeing Song Qingming suddenly push open the door and enter the room, the middle-aged man glanced at him, then tossed the unfinished puppet beast in his hand to the side.

"Hehe! Little Friend Song, it's been a while!"

Song Qingming looked at the man before him, who bore a seven or eight-part resemblance to Wang Sihai, smiled, nodded slightly, and then removed the bamboo hat he had been wearing to conceal his face.

"Senior! It looks like you've almost gotten used to this place. Everything you asked for is inside here. In the future, if you need anything else, there's no need to send me a sound transmission directly; just send someone to Xianfeng Restaurant to order some spirit meals, and the shopkeeper there will inform me in time!" After saying this, Song Qingming tossed a yellow storage bag toward the middle-aged man.

This person who looked somewhat like Wang Sihai was none other than Senior Feng He, who had been by Song Qingming's side for over a dozen years. However, he had now successfully possessed Wang Sihai's physical body, transforming from a high-and-mighty Nascent Soul monster into an ordinary rogue cultivator with a cultivation base of only the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

A year ago, after Song Qingming brought Wang Sihai's body back to Mount Funiu, Feng He soon used his methods to purge the restrictions left behind by the demonic cultivators on the body and obtained this vessel.

The original owner of this body, Wang Sihai, was a bandit cultivator who roamed the Fuyun Mountain Range. Aside from that group from the Sihai Gang, no one else would care about his disappearance, which was the reason Song Qingming had chosen him in the first place.

After Feng He possessed Wang Sihai, although he used secret techniques to slightly alter his original appearance, he was still a Qi Refining cultivator with a relatively unfamiliar look. After all, Mount Funiu had many eyes and ears, and Song Qingming couldn't keep him hidden on the mountain forever, so he came up with a way to send him to Qinghe Market.

It just so happened that the few rogue cultivators who originally operated this shop in the market were looking to transfer the business due to poor sales. To avoid attracting attention, Song Qingming had Shi Chun come forward to introduce the shop and help Feng He, his "good friend," take it over, making him the owner of this shop named Liufeng Hall.

Shi Chun was originally a rogue cultivator from Guiyun Market. After joining the Song family, many in Qinghe Market were clear about his background. Letting Feng He pose as a good friend he once had at Guiyun Market wouldn't arouse suspicion in the short term.

After the possession, Feng He's cultivation base was still relatively low. For his safety, and for Song Qingming's own safety, keeping him here in Qinghe Market until he reached Foundation Establishment was currently the most secure method.

After Feng He took the storage bag Song Qingming tossed over, he opened it to take a look, then smiled and nodded at him with satisfaction.

"Not bad! To have gathered all these things so quickly, you've certainly put in the effort. Once I refine the Wind Spirit Pill, I should have a thirty to forty percent chance of Foundation Establishment, which will save you the trouble of looking for a Foundation Establishment Pill."

"Thirty to forty percent chance? Senior, does this Wind Spirit Pill really have such a great effect on a cultivator's Foundation Establishment? Why have I never heard of this pill before?"

Hearing what Feng He said, Song Qingming felt a sudden surge of surprise. He found it hard to believe that in the cultivation world, besides the Foundation Establishment Pill, there were other elixirs that could be so helpful for Foundation Establishment.

Feng He naturally knew why Song Qingming would ask this. He shook his head decisively and said: "Although the Wind Spirit Pill has some help for Foundation Establishment, this pill mainly relies on being combined with the cultivation techniques I practice and other elixirs to have such a high success rate. If given to others, it would likely only increase the Foundation Establishment success rate by one or half a percent at most; it's not some miraculous elixir."

"I was, after all, a Nascent Soul cultivator once. Having cultivated for so many years, I naturally have some clever methods for Foundation Establishment, but these things cannot be directly taught to others. Don't harbor any crooked thoughts about this."

Seeing Feng He pierce through his thoughts, Song Qingming smiled awkwardly and continued: "I didn't expect that Senior is not only proficient in puppet secret techniques but also quite accomplished in the way of alchemy. It seems I will still need to seek Senior's help in the future."

"Hehe! Since you and I are now in a cooperative relationship, helping to refine a few pills is naturally no problem. In my previous life, I primarily practiced the art of alchemy, and my alchemy level had already reached the third-tier top-quality. Although my cultivation base is not what it used to be, refining ordinary second-tier pills is still no problem."

Hearing that Feng He's alchemy skills were unexpectedly so brilliant, Song Qingming's eyes lit up. It seemed that in the future, when he needed some rare pills, he wouldn't need to search everywhere; he only needed to collect the materials required for alchemy and ask Feng He to help refine them.

It was just a pity that because Feng He's identity could not be known to others, Song Qingming couldn't let the younger generation of the Song family follow him to learn the way of alchemy. Otherwise, with Feng He's alchemy skills, as long as there was time, he could certainly help the Song family cultivate one or two more alchemists.

To tell the truth, having known Feng He for so many years, Song Qingming didn't actually understand this person very well. When he met him in the State of Lu back then, Song Qingming had only chosen to cooperate with him to escape.

Aside from knowing that he was once a Nascent Soul cultivator proficient in puppet secret techniques, Song Qingming knew absolutely nothing else about this former high-tier cultivator. Even the name Feng He was likely something the other party used casually to deal with him.

One must know that the total number of Nascent Soul cultivators across the dozens of countries in the Fuyun Mountain Range was only a dozen or so. These people were basically big shots who had been famous for a long time. Although Song Qingming hadn't met these people, it was very easy to find out the names of these big shots.

Among these Nascent Soul monsters, there was no one named Feng He, nor was there any expert who had disappeared for hundreds of years like him. Therefore, Song Qingming guessed that Feng He was likely not a Nascent Soul cultivator from the vicinity of the Fuyun Mountain Range; he most likely came from the Tianhai Alliance in the south or those sects on the islands to the east.

A Nascent Soul cultivator's normal lifespan was at least over 1,200 years. Feng He must have cultivated for at least four or five hundred years to break through to Nascent Soul in his previous life. After losing his physical body in the State of Lu and hiding for several hundred years, logically speaking, his remaining lifespan was not very much now.

Although Feng He had successfully been reborn through possession this time, whether he could return to his former cultivation base was truly hard to say.

After leaving Liufeng Hall, Song Qingming didn't linger in Qinghe Market and returned directly to Mount Funiu.

Just as he returned to the mountain, Song Qingming saw from afar a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy sitting on the bluestone in front of his cave dwelling, eyes closed in meditation.

"Yuanli, you are waiting for me here—is it because you've encountered some difficulty in your cultivation again?"

Hearing Song Qingming's voice, Song Yuanli immediately opened his eyes, stepped forward, and bowed: "Patriarch, the Great Elder has an urgent matter to discuss with you, which is why he asked me to wait for you here."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 366 =====