Chapter 464: Five Elements Profound Gang Art

Ten-odd miles to the south of Funiu Mountain, two rays of spiritual light suddenly shot over. Before long, two figures stopped in mid-air; they were precisely Chu Fengping and Zhao Fenglian, who had left the Song family not long ago.

"Senior Sister Zhao, Song Qingming being able to successfully achieve Core Formation was indeed due to the help of an expert. It is just a pity that we could not ask for the specific identity of this senior this time." Chu Fengping looked at Zhao Fenglian beside him and sighed lightly.

Zhao Fenglian, upon hearing this, immediately waved her hand and said: "There are many people with strange abilities in the cultivation world. Although our Wei State is not considered a wealthy place, it is not strange for an expert hiding their identity to travel here occasionally."

"Since this matter involves a senior expert who is unwilling to reveal their identity, it does not matter if we know less. After returning, just report it truthfully. Even if Uncle-Master Li were here today, he would not want to touch the mold of a Nascent Soul senior for no reason."

"Senior Sister Zhao's words are reasonable. Just now, Junior Brother Song also said that he had taken a vow with his Dao heart, so it is truly not easy for us to ask more. When I saw this Junior Brother Song back then, I secretly felt that this person's fortune was not bad. I did not expect that I truly felt it right. It is truly heaven's will in the dark."

After Chu

On the top of Mount Funiu, Song Qingming stood alone on the peak, looking in the direction where Chu Fengping and the other had left, lost in thought.

This time, when faced with Chu Fengping asking about his place of Core Formation, Song Qingming had actually thought that the Xiaoyao Sect would ask about this sooner or later before he returned from Core Formation, and he had already thought of a countermeasure in his heart.

Saying that he used formation restrictions to cover up the Core Formation celestial phenomenon might work to deceive Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu, but when facing Jin Dan cultivators like Chu Fengping and Zhao Fenglian who had practiced for many years, Song Qingming knew it was impossible to deceive them with such words.

Regardless of whether he formed his Core in Wei Guo or other surrounding countries, a major sect like the Xiaoyao Sect that dominates one side can always find some clues if they are willing.

After thinking for a long time in the cave at the bottom of the pool, Song Qingming decided to tell the truth and not deliberately hide the location of his Core Formation this time. Otherwise, once the Xiaoyao Sect noticed something wrong, it would be even harder for him to explain it then.

Therefore, Song Qingming finally chose this half-true and half-false statement, only secretly saying that the Fire Phoenix that supported him was a senior human expert.

Now that Song Qingming is a Jin Dan cultivator, second-tier Spirit-Asking Talismans can no longer be used on him. To judge whether Song Qingming is lying, the Xiaoyao Sect would have to use those soul-searching secret techniques that affect a cultivator's soul and memory.

Although such soul-searching secret techniques are not rare in the cultivation world, once used on a cultivator, it will cause damage to the soul and affect the path of cultivation at best, and cause a normal cultivator to have memory confusion and lose their cultivation at worst. Generally speaking, unless there is a deep hatred, no one will easily use such means on others.

After all, Song Qingming is now a Jin Dan cultivator, and he just agreed to join the Xiaoyao Sect as a guest elder. There is no reason for them to use such a desperate measure to deal with him.

Moreover, Song Qingming just told Chu Fengping that he was also supported by a senior expert behind him to successfully form his Core, which also set up a protective barrier for himself. In case the Xiaoyao Sect really wants to turn against him, they will also have to consider whether this senior behind him will come out to pursue this matter in the future.

"Husband, I just heard that two elders from the Xiaoyao Sect came to the mountain. Is there any major event looking for you?" Just as Song Qingming was still lost in thought, Huang Siyuan, dressed in plain clothes, quietly came to his side and asked softly.

Just now on the mountain, Huang Siyuan heard that two Jin Dan elders from the Xiaoyao Sect had come to find Song Qingming, and she was also very surprised. She was somewhat worried for Song Qingming, fearing that the other party had come to make things difficult for him.

Although Song Qingming had successfully formed his Core, in front of the Xiaoyao Sect, a behemoth that had dominated Wei Guo for thousands of years, a small Song family still appeared too weak.

Song Qingming looked back at Huang Siyuan, who had a worried look on her face, and hurriedly comforted her with a smile: "It is a good thing that they came to find me. Don't think too much."

Seeing that Huang Siyuan still didn't quite believe it, Song Qingming could only tell her directly about Chu Fengping and the other inviting him to serve as a guest elder of the Xiaoyao Sect.

Hearing that the Xiaoyao Sect actually valued Song Qingming so much that they came to invite him to join the sect, Huang Siyuan didn't quite believe it at first. It wasn't until Song Qingming took out the jade bracelet magic treasure that Zhao Fenglian had just given him that Huang Siyuan's expression softened, and she happily accepted the gift.

Three days later, in the Xiaoyao Hall of Mount Guyang, amidst the congratulations of everyone in the hall, Song Qingming, wearing a green Daoist robe, slowly walked forward and took a silver jade plaque from the hand of Li Mufeng, the Supreme Elder of the Xiaoyao Sect.

Although Song Qingming had been to Mount Guyang many times before and had seen many Jin Dan elders of the Xiaoyao Sect, this was the first time he had seen the true helmsman of the Xiaoyao Sect, the Nascent Soul Supreme Elder Li Mufeng, and he felt inexplicably nervous.

As a Nascent Soul cultivator, although Li Mufeng was already eight hundred years old, he looked much younger than most of the Jin Dan cultivators present, but his face still gave people a somewhat cold feeling.

"Qingming, three thousand points of merit have been added to the elder token in your hand. In addition to the five hundred points of merit you should receive every year, I have also decided to reward you with an extra two thousand five hundred points of merit to congratulate you on joining the sect."

"Many thanks to Elder Song Qing for the reward!"

Li Mufeng nodded with satisfaction and said to Chu Fengping, who was to the side: "Fengping, you are in charge of the Merit Pavilion recently. Why don't you take Qingming there first and let him choose a suitable Core Formation period cultivation technique inside.

As for other high-tier spiritual items in the Merit Pavilion, as long as Qingming has enough merit in his hands to exchange for them in the future, they can also be exchanged for him directly."

After Chu Fengping and Zhao Fenglian returned to the Xiaoyao Sect, as Song Qingming had expected, no one in the Xiaoyao Sect pursued the matter of his Core Formation anymore. Until the initiation ceremony for Song Qingming joining the Xiaoyao Sect ended, Li Mufeng did not mention this matter.

After obtaining the jade plaque symbolizing the sect elder, under the guidance of Chu Fengping, Song Qingming soon followed him to the Merit Pavilion of the Xiaoyao Sect.

"Junior Brother Song, the sect's Merit Pavilion has four floors. Except for the fourth floor, which you cannot go up to alone for the time being, you can enter and leave the other three floors at will in the future. However, after finding the spiritual items you want from inside, you still need to go to the cultivator on duty on the first floor to deduct the sect merit before you can take them away.

You have been here before, so you should understand some of these rules. I won't say these useless words to you anymore. Let's go to the fourth floor together to help you pick a cultivation technique first!"

In the Xiaoyao Sect's Merit Pavilion, each floor is separated by formation restrictions. Whether it is ordinary disciples or high-tier elders like them, they must use their sect tokens to pass through safely.

It's just that the permissions of the tokens held by the Jin Dan elders above and the ordinary disciples on the lower floors are different.

The first floor of the Xiaoyao Sect's Merit Pavilion is very spacious, and it contains all kinds of the lowest-tier first-tier spiritual items. Qi Refining disciples can enter it by holding a token that proves their identity.

The second floor contains some relatively rare first-tier spiritual items and some more common second-tier spiritual items. Only those inner sect disciples of the sect or disciples who have already reached Foundation Establishment can come up here.

The third floor is only accessible to disciples above the Foundation Establishment stage or guest elders of the sect like Song Qingming. It contains some relatively rare second-tier spiritual items and a small number of third-tier spiritual items of low value.

After the two arrived at the fourth floor of the Merit Pavilion, under Chu Fengping's introduction, Song Qingming learned that everything placed on the fourth floor of the Merit Pavilion was third-tier spiritual items or above, which was also the accumulation of the Xiaoyao Sect over thousands of years since its founding.

And this fourth floor of the Merit Pavilion requires at least the token in the hands of a Jin Dan elder of the Xiaoyao Sect to have the authority to enter.

Chu Fengping took Song Qingming to a row of places where various cultivation technique scrolls were stored and introduced directly: "Junior Brother Song, since the founding of the sect, more than twenty cultivation techniques above the Core Formation period have been collected, and they are all here. Whichever cultivation technique you choose, you can just take it down later and use a blank sect scroll to record a copy."

"In addition, when you leave later, Junior Brother, you will need to sign a contract not to pass on the cultivation techniques obtained from the sect to others, not even to your relatives or Dao companions. This is also a rule established by the sect's Merit Pavilion for thousands of years, and Junior Brother needs to understand this."

Song Qingming nodded slightly and asked with a smile: "Senior Brother Chu, I don't understand the types of these high-tier cultivation techniques yet. Could you please introduce them to me first?"

"Among these twenty sets of cultivation techniques, most have requirements for spiritual roots. Junior Brother Song, tell me first what attributes of cultivation techniques you practiced before, and I will help you pick them out first, and then you can make a decision."

"Before forming my Core, I practiced two cultivation techniques, one was earth-attributed, and the other was one that could be practiced with all five elements." Song Qingming replied directly.

Hearing this, Chu Fengping pulled out three scrolls from those scrolls and slowly said: "There are not many earth-attributed cultivation techniques collected by the sect. Only this scroll can be practiced to the sixth layer of Core Formation, and you will need to switch to other cultivation techniques later.

The other two scrolls can be practiced with all five elements, and both can be practiced directly to the ninth layer of Core Formation. I suggest that Junior Brother Song should just choose these two cultivation techniques."

After Song Qingming nodded in agreement, Chu Fengping picked up one of the scrolls and continued to introduce:

"This cultivation technique is called the Five Elements Profound Gang Art. It is a technique practiced by many disciples in the sect. The several spells contained within it have very impressive power, and there is also a secret method for refining life-bound magic treasures."

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