Chapter 413: Falling Short of Success

After chatting with Song Qingshi for a few words, Song Qingming began to ask about what had happened in the clan during the half year he was in seclusion.

Since Song Qingming succeeded to the position of Clan Leader, for these decades, the trivial matters at home were basically handled by Song Qingshi and several family elders. Only when encountering some major events that were difficult to decide would they come to the top of the mountain to ask for the opinion of Song Qingming, the Clan Leader.

However, although Song Qingming, the Clan Leader, did not manage specific matters, he would still call Song Qingshi, the Great Elder of the family, to talk to him every few months to understand some things that had happened in the family recently.

"During the half year you were in seclusion recently, the clan was safe and sound, and nothing major happened. It's just that Mount Bai Yang was harassed by a group of demonic beasts for a few days last month. Xintang has already taken the Law Enforcement Team to beat back the demonic beasts. However, to prevent those demonic beasts from sneaking back, it is estimated that he will stay there for a period of time. This child handles things with care. With him there, as long as he doesn't encounter second-tier demonic beasts, there won't be any major problems."

"Since the demonic beasts have already been beaten back, let someone else go to replace him. In recent years, Xintang has been performing family tasks everywhere, and even his cultivation has been somewhat neglected. Let him rest for a while. If he refuses to come back, you say it is my order." Hearing Song Qingshi mention Song Xintang, Song Qingming sighed slightly with a calm face.

After seeing off his eldest brother Song Qingshi, Song Qingming came alone to the boulder that Song Qingyu liked the most back then, looking at the sparse cooking smoke at the foot of the mountain.

Following the Spirit Gathering Array set up by Song Qingming ten years ago, which consumed nearly twenty thousand spirit stones, the spiritual vein of Mount Funiu was successfully upgraded to second-tier mid-quality. The mountain trend today is also more majestic than it was more than ten years ago.

With the continuous development and growth of the family, there are more Song family cultivators than there were more than ten years ago. The upgrade of the spiritual vein of Mount Funiu finally temporarily satisfied the daily cultivation needs of the Song family cultivators, and also allowed Song Qingming, a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, to no longer be troubled by the lack of spiritual energy during cultivation.

Since Song Qingyu and the others left, in these ten years, the Song family, which was still relatively calm, has also had a few major events.

Besides the upgrade of the spiritual vein, the biggest thing was Song Xintang's impact on the Foundation Establishment realm.

Half a year after obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Song Xintang, who had prepared everything, began to seclude himself to impact the Foundation Establishment barrier. In order to allow him to have a place with sufficient spiritual energy, Song Qingming even specifically gave his cave dwelling to him.

Although he had prepared for this Foundation Establishment in terms of his own cultivation foundation and auxiliary spiritual medicine, and Song Qingming had personally taught him a lot of experience in Foundation Establishment before he went into seclusion, Song Xintang still failed to impact the Foundation Establishment realm this time and walked out of Song Qingming's cave dwelling with a disappointed face.

For a four-spiritual-root Qi Refining cultivator like Song Xintang to establish a foundation, even with the assistance of a Foundation Establishment Pill, the success rate is actually less than 40%. Song Qingming was very clear about this in his heart. Therefore, after Song Qingming learned that Song Xintang had failed in Foundation Establishment, he did not blame him, but patiently comforted him.

When Song Qingming decided to hand the Foundation Establishment Pill to Song Xintang, he was also prepared in his heart. No matter who he handed the Foundation Establishment Pill to back then, it was impossible to guarantee that he would succeed in Foundation Establishment 100%. Foundation Establishment mainly depends on the cultivator himself.

Even when Song Qingyu was establishing her foundation back then, Song Qingming's expectations for her were only this high. Besides her own efforts, Song Qingyu's successful Foundation Establishment back then also had a trace of heaven's favor for the Song family. But whether it is an individual or a family, luck cannot always stand on the side of the Song family. Song Xintang's failure in Foundation Establishment just happened to prove this point.

However, although the family's decision to hand the Foundation Establishment Pill to Song Xintang was the result of discussions among many family elders, and Song Qingming and other family elders did not blame him on the surface afterwards, Song Xintang himself seemed to have not walked out of the shadow of his failure in Foundation Establishment for these ten years.

Especially a few years after his failure in Foundation Establishment, after Uncle Thirteen, Song Changxiong, who loved him very much, passed away, Song Xintang felt more and more guilty in his heart, feeling sorry for the support the family elders had given him back then. In recent years, he has been desperately performing family tasks and rarely stays on Mount Funiu to cultivate.

Over the years, many elders, including Song Qingshi, have repeatedly persuaded and enlightened Song Xintang, but the effect was minimal, and instead, he gradually closed his heart.

Regarding this, Song Qingming did not interfere too much. Being chosen by the family to support Foundation Establishment, but failing in the end, in just one year, Song Xintang experienced such ups and downs, which indeed put a lot of pressure on his heart. It is very difficult for others' comfort and persuasion to really let him walk out of this shadow in his heart. It still requires him to let go of it actively in his heart in the future before he can walk out completely.

Besides these two major events that happened to the Song family over the years, the changes in other places were not small, and the family as a whole was still developing in a good direction step by step.

Ten years have passed, and the other major Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County have each had many changes.

The biggest thing that happened to the Huang family of Mount Taiyuan was naturally Huang Shengxin's seclusion to form a core more than ten years ago. However, in the end, this cultivation genius, who was rare in a hundred years in Qinghe County, exhausted his life and fell short of success, failing to take the step of forming a core. A few years ago, he was found to have passed away in his cave dwelling. The Huang family Clan Leader has now been officially succeeded by Huang Shengyue.

Besides this, ten years ago, Qinghe County had another Foundation Establishment cultivator. This person was a young cultivator of the Huang family, named Huang Mengde.

Huang Mengde was the one with the best spiritual root talent among the young cultivators of the Huang family in this generation. He was less than forty years old when he succeeded in Foundation Establishment. His cultivation talent was even better than that of his predecessor, Huang Sipo.

After learning that the Huang family had another cultivator who established a foundation, Song Qingming was also somewhat surprised. Back then at the Tuoyun Mountain Trade Fair, Huang Shengxin did exchange for a precious spiritual object, but Song Qingming, who was traveling with him, did not know what the Huang family had exchanged for at that time. He had always thought that since he still wanted to impact the Golden Core realm at that time, what he wanted to exchange for must be those spiritual objects that were useful for Golden Core formation.

Until the news of Huang Mengde's Foundation Establishment reached Mount Funiu, Song Qingming suddenly remembered this matter. The Huang family could have someone else succeed in Foundation Establishment in such a short time. The Foundation Establishment Pill was very likely from the Tuoyun Mountain Trade Fair a few years ago. Now it seems that Song Qingming was somewhat wrong about this point at the beginning.

As a major cultivation family that has developed for a thousand years, it is indeed not a surprising thing for the Huang family to be able to take out a spiritual object to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Although the Huang family's two older generation cultivators, Huang Shengxin and Huang Shengyue, have had a rough path in recent years, the luck of the younger generation of cultivators seems to be much better. Huang Sipo and Huang Mengde succeeded in Foundation Establishment one after another, which can be considered as replenishing fresh blood for the Huang family, which was originally somewhat disconnected.

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