Chapter 457

When Fire Phoenix helped open this space magic tool years ago, Song Qingming clearly saw all kinds of good things piled up like a mountain inside. But now, the cyan jade pendant that had returned to Song Qingming's hands was empty, with only a short sword floating lonely inside.

Seeing this scene, Song Qingming felt extremely disappointed in his heart. The surging gratitude toward Fire Phoenix that had just welled up in his heart disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Fire Phoenix had also said years ago that she would return the jade pendant to him after he formed his core. Unexpectedly, she really kept her word and was not polite to Song Qingming at all.

Thinking of this, Song Qingming also shook his head helplessly. Although he really wanted to find her and reason with her about this matter now, thinking that he had just formed his core and the other party was a temperamental Nascent Soul monster emperor, Song Qingming sighed and quickly dismissed this thought in his heart.

After a flash of white light, a cyan short sword about a foot long quickly appeared in Song Qingming's hand. After picking up the short sword in his hand and examining it carefully, Song Qingming soon saw the two small characters "Qing Liu" engraved on the side of the short sword.

Although this "Qing Liu" sword looked very ordinary, the aura emitted from it far exceeded that of a Tier 2 magic tool, and it was clearly a "magic treasure" whose grade had reached Tier 3.

Song Qingming had just formed his core and hadn't had time to possess a handy magic treasure. Fire Phoenix leaving this sword in the cyan jade pendant seemed to show she had already thought of this point for him long ago.

"Since you already have a name, let's call you the Qing Liu Sword from now on!" After speaking, Song Qingming directly injected his magic power into the Qing Liu Sword in his hand and immediately started to refine this magic treasure.

Magic tools above Tier 3 are also called magic treasures in the cultivation world. After a cultivator breaks through to the Golden Core realm, besides being able to use ordinary magic treasures like the "Qing Liu Sword" that Song Qingming was currently refining, they can also refine a natal magic treasure by themselves.

A natal magic treasure not only has power a bit stronger than ordinary magic treasures, but it can also be placed in the cultivator's dantian for nourishment. As the cultivator's own cultivation base improves, the power and grade of the natal magic treasure will also become stronger and stronger.

However, Song Qingming, who had just broken through to the Golden Core realm, had not yet refined his own natal magic treasure and could only refine the "Qing Liu Sword" in front of him first.

Besides the natal magic treasure, Song Qingming, who had just successfully formed his core, also had many urgent problems that needed to be solved.

The first is that after breaking through to the Golden Core realm, the Jade Profound Scripture Song Qingming practiced no longer had subsequent techniques. To continue practicing normally, he must quickly switch to a suitable technique.

In the Wei State, most of the techniques above the Golden Core stage are in the hands of the Carefree Sect. Apart from forces with Golden Core ancestors like Camel Cloud Mountain and Iron Immortal Valley, only those powerful old-established cultivation families might have them.

The techniques a cultivator practices are basically their biggest secret. Unless facing the crisis of death or family destruction, ordinary people would not pass their own techniques to other cultivators. Once someone else studies them and finds the flaws in the technique, it might be equivalent to being controlled by others for a lifetime in the future.

Although Song Qingming had obtained many Foundation Establishment techniques over the years, he had never obtained a technique above the Golden Core stage. Even at the Heavenly Pill Alliance auction, Song Qingming had never seen anyone take out Golden Core stage techniques for auction.

After returning to the Wei State, Song Qingming planned to go to Mount Guyang first to think of a way to see if he could directly exchange for a Golden Core stage technique from within the Carefree Sect. If it didn't work, then Song Qingming could only leave the Wei State and go elsewhere to find a suitable technique.

Song Qingming being able to practice to the Golden Core realm had a large part of the credit due to the "Jade Profound Scripture" he obtained from the Void Sword years ago. Song Qingming actually hoped in his heart to obtain the subsequent techniques of the "Jade Profound Scripture."

After breaking through to the Golden Core realm, Song Qingming, who was somewhat unwilling to give up, also tried to search the Jade Profound Scripture hidden in his body again, but it was a pity that there were indeed no subsequent Golden Core stage techniques inside.

The only thing that gave Song Qingming some harvest was that this time, at the very end of the Jade Profound Scripture technique, he unexpectedly saw a line of text. These characters had not been seen when he flipped through the technique before and should have appeared on it suddenly because Song Qingming had broken through to the Golden Core realm.

"Jade Profound Mountain, Void Palace."

This line of text that appeared at the end of the Jade Profound Scripture looked like a place name, but in Song Qingming's impression after practicing for so many years, he had never heard of these two places. Now he also didn't know whether this sentence had anything to do with the subsequent techniques of the Jade Profound Scripture, so he could only wait for an opportunity to inquire about this matter later.

Now that Song Qingming had broken through to the Golden Core realm, the spirit vein of Mount Funiu was only Tier 2 mid-grade, which was certainly not enough for his daily cultivation in the future. After returning to the Wei State, Song Qingming also had to find a way to temporarily find a place for himself with sufficient spiritual energy.

Actually, the cave dwelling at the bottom of the pool where Song Qingming was located was also very suitable for his daily cultivation now. It was just that this place was already deep in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, plus the northern monster beast turmoil was near, so Song Qingming alone did not dare to hide here to practice.

After spending nearly another month in the cave dwelling at the bottom of the pool, Song Qingming finally successfully refined his first magic treasure, the "Red Willow Sword." Looking at the cyan short sword in front of him that he could control as he wished, a satisfied smile also bloomed on Song Qingming's face.

After putting away the "Qing Liu Sword" floating in mid-air, Song Qingming walked out of the cave dwelling at the bottom of the pool with long strides and came to the open space above the pool.

After arriving outside, Song Qingming closed his eyes and drove his own spiritual sense. Soon, all the movements within a few miles around the pool fell into Song Qingming's eyes.

As his cultivation base improved to the Golden Core realm, the spiritual sense in Song Qingming's body also increased several times. Moreover, next, after he practiced the "Soul-Devouring Art" to the third level, Song Qingming's spiritual sense could continue to improve.

After Song Qingming broke through to the Golden Core realm, his lifespan had also increased to more than five hundred years. Now Song Qingming had enough time to practice these powerful techniques. For Song Qingming, who had already practiced the "Soul-Devouring Art" to the peak of the second level, breaking through to the third level next should be a matter of course.

After putting away his spiritual sense, Song Qingming flew directly into mid-air, stepping on the void. After taking a look at the entrance of the cave dwelling at the bottom of the pool, he turned and flew south.

After a cultivator forms a core, they can directly absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to walk on air, no longer needing to rely on magic tools to fly. Moreover, the flying speed of a Golden Core cultivator will also far exceed that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

After flying south for thousands of miles, Song Qingming had already entered the outer area of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range. What surprised him somewhat was that he hadn't even seen a single human cultivator along the way.

Since his closed-door cultivation to form his core, Song Qingming didn't know exactly how much time had passed. Now that the northern monster beast turmoil could erupt at any time, he was also somewhat worried in his heart that he would return too late and miss this big battle.

After flying south for another stretch of road, on a small mountain thousands of miles away from Guiyun Market, Song Qingming finally encountered several Qi Refining cultivators who were fighting with monster beasts.

In a hilly area full of yellow soil, five loose cultivators with different attire had already formed a battle formation and were struggling to deal with two Tier 1 high-grade monster beasts that had been forced into a depression by them.

Their group had been preparing here for nearly half a month to hunt these two monster beasts. Today, they finally managed to lure these two monster beasts into the formation they had set up in advance, and all of them were full of excitement.

The group took turns attacking the two monster beasts for several hours. Now, the monster beasts, still struggling to resist in the formation, had their strength gradually consumed by more than half. It was thought that it wouldn't be long before they could successfully kill these two monster beasts.

The two Tier 1 high-grade monster beasts in front of them could be exchanged for at least more than a hundred spirit stones in the market, and each person should be able to get about thirty spirit stones. For these loose cultivators, this was already a considerable income.

Hu Yu, who was still rushing to the front to besiege the monster beasts, had already started to calculate in his heart how to spend the spirit stones after returning this time.

"Should I go to the market first to buy some pills for cultivation, or should I find a good friend to refine a mid-grade magic tool for that Daoist companion at home? It's really hard to choose!"

Just as Hu Yu was still struggling in his heart, a cyan shadow suddenly flashed in front of him. Before everyone could react, the two high-grade monster beasts that were still struggling to resist them just now suddenly swayed and fell to the ground with a "thump."

"Damn! Who is it that dares to snatch our prey?" Seeing the two monster beasts on the ground that seemed to have no breath, Hu Yu, who was dumbfounded, was shocked for a moment before looking at the cyan figure still standing beside the monster beast corpses with anger in his eyes.

Hearing Hu Yu's angry shout, he was about to step forward to reason with the other party, but the two companions standing beside him hurriedly reached out to stop him directly.

Compared to Hu Yu, who was not mature enough, these two were obviously much more experienced and quickly saw that the cyan-clothed man who killed the two monster beasts just now was not simple.

Although they couldn't see through this person's cultivation base at once, being able to kill two injured high-grade monster beasts in one move showed that this person was at least an expert at the ninth level of Qi Refining. Seeing that he looked so young, it was possible that he might even be a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Thinking of this, one of the round-faced big men immediately broke into a cold sweat and hurriedly stepped forward with a smile to smooth things over, bowing to the other party: "My brother here has a somewhat bad temper, and I hope this Fellow Daoist can be magnanimous."

Song Qingming, standing beside the monster beast corpses, looked at them with a peaceful expression and said directly: "I am just passing through this place and have no malice. You don't need to be nervous. You only need to answer me one question, and these two monster beasts will belong to you. You all have no objections, right!"