Chapter 499: Second Layer of Core Formation

Northwest of Wei Guo, Mount Tuoyun Mountain.

As the smoke of the demon beast turmoil slowly dissipated, the number of cultivators near the Fuyun Mountain Range slowly increased. Many rogue cultivators who had temporarily fled to southern Wei Guo had slowly returned to the north.

More than thirty years after Chen Chen Jinliang and the Xiaoyao Sect reached an agreement, not long after, both sides rebuilt a larger new market on the basis of the original market at Mount Tuoyun Mountain.

Although the scale of this market was not as good as large markets like Mount Guiyun Market and Yangshan Market, it was already one of the few large markets in Wei Guo, attracting countless rogue cultivators in northern Wei Guo to come here to trade spirit items.

On the street of Mount Tuoyun Market, a teenager of ten or so cleverly shuttled through the dense crowd, then walked into a shop selling pills with ease, and then carefully opened the small cloth bag at his waist, took out two spirit stones from it, and placed them in front of the shop owner.

"Still five Rejuvenation Pills. Has your mother's injury been better recently?" The shopkeeper of the pharmacy looked at the spirit stones on the table and asked the teenager with concern.

The teenager, whose appearance was still very green, curled his lips and did not answer directly, just nodded slightly.

Seeing a trace of disappointment on the teenager's face, the shopkeeper sighed lightly, took out a white porcelain bottle from the back cabinet, poured out five yellow pills, counted them, and then took out an empty bottle to put the pills in and handed them to the teenager.

"There are many people on the street, you must keep the pills well."

"Thank you, Uncle Liu, I know!" After the teenager took the pills in the bottle, he bowed slightly and walked out of the shop quickly.

Hearing her mother's call, the teenager hurriedly put down the spirit rice he had just picked up and came to the bed with a smile to lean beside his mother.

"It seems that Seventh Brother's retreat cultivation has reached a critical moment. Song Yuanfang, you go and call someone to start the mountain-guarding formation, let the law enforcement team guard the mountain gate, and from now on, everyone on the mountain can only enter and not leave, and no one is allowed to approach the top of the mountain, nor is anyone allowed to discuss this matter at will."

"Mother, I have bought the Rejuvenation Pills. I will put them on the table for you first, and I will go to cook."

After coming out of the market, the teenager walked for a long time after turning around, and finally came to a cave rented by rogue cultivators on Mount Tuoyun Mountain at the foot of the mountain.

"Don't be busy yet, Song Yuanhao, come here, I want to talk to you." Hearing the teenager's voice, the woman lying on the hospital bed turned over and sat up, smiling and beckoning to the teenager on the side.

By the time Song Song Qingyu arrived at the east side of the top of Mount Funiu Mountain, a figure had already arrived here one step ahead. After seeing Song Song Qingyu walking over, Song Song Yuanfang hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "Just heard that someone on the mountain discovered a piece of spiritual light, I came up to take a look and found that it was transmitted from the cave of Seventh Uncle."

After hearing Song Song Qingyu's instructions, Song Song Yuanfang responded and hurriedly left the spot. Not long after, the mountain-guarding formation on Mount Funiu Mountain immediately lit up.

Song Song Qingyu, who was meditating in the cave, felt the abnormality in the spiritual energy beside her. After opening her eyes and showing a trace of surprise, she immediately ended her retreat and walked out of her cave.

Looking at the green teenager in front of her, the woman coughed a few times, then said slowly: "Song Yuanhao, originally there were some things that mother didn't want to tell you so early, but you have spiritual roots, and sooner or later you still have to walk your own path. I can't be so selfish to keep you by my side and delay your Dao path in the future."

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On the top of Mount Funiu Mountain, on this day, the top of the mountain was suddenly overflowing with spiritual light, and even the passing white clouds were illuminated into gold.

Half a day later, the glow on the top of Mount Funiu Mountain finally slowly dissipated. Song Song Qingyu, who was sitting on the top of the mountain, discovered this situation and immediately came to Song Song Qingming's cave. Just as she took out the sound transmission talisman and wanted to send it in, the restrictions at the cave door were suddenly opened from the inside, and Song Song Qingming, with a smile on his face, walked out of it with big strides.

Although this cave looked relatively simple, the space inside was quite large, and two independent rooms were separated on both sides, one of which was lying on the bed with a woman with a pale face and a thin and haggard look.

"Seventh Brother, seeing you so happy, having retreated for such a long time this time, it must be that your cultivation has broken through, right?" After Song Song Qingyu finished speaking, she put away the sound transmission talisman in her hand and walked slowly toward Song Song Qingming.

"Retreated for so long, it was finally not in vain for these two years. Today, I finally gained something. This Core Formation cultivation is really impermanent. I didn't expect that I would retreat for such a long time just to break through a small layer of realm." Song Song Qingming nodded slightly and smiled.

After retreating for more than two years, Song Song Qingming finally got his wish and successfully broke through to the second layer of Core Formation with the help of the "White Dew Pill." His cultivation could be considered to have taken a small step forward in the Core Formation stage.

The third-tier mid-grade pill was indeed very domineering. The reason why Song Song Qingming spent so long in this retreat breakthrough was mostly spent on refining the "White Dew Pill." Just this step alone cost Song Song Qingming nearly a year before he completely absorbed and refined the medicinal power of the pill into his body.

This "White Dew Pill" almost instantly added more than ten years of magic power to Song Song Qingming's body. Coupled with the assistance of refining more than ten mid-tier spirit stones, it didn't take long for the magic power in Song Song Qingming's body to successfully break through the realm and enter the second layer of Core Formation. This retreat breakthrough was actually relatively smooth overall.

"Has Song Yuanxue started to retreat for Foundation Establishment? My breakthrough just now didn't have any impact on her, right?" After walking out of the cave, Song Song Qingming also immediately felt the spiritual energy outside, which seemed to have some abnormality because of his breakthrough this time, so he hurriedly asked.

"Seventh Brother, don't worry. Song Yuanxue is not retreating on the mountain. I let her go to Mount Jingyuan Mountain. She started retreating three months ago, and Song Yuanli is guarding her there."

"Hmm! Fortunately, you thought of it comprehensively and let her go to Mount Jingyuan Mountain in advance. I also know now that the breakthrough of Core Formation cultivation will have such a big impact. Next time I retreat, the family should make more preparations and notify those cultivators who are anxious to retreat and break through to go to other spirit lands of the family to cultivate first." Song Song Qingming nodded and smiled.

"The spiritual energy on Mount Funiu Mountain is not sufficient enough now. Last year, I discussed with Song Yuanfang and others, and now I have migrated some cultivators to Mount Jingyuan Mountain. Now that side has opened up many spirit fields and can accommodate many cultivators."

"Retreated for a long time, just want to go out for a walk. Song Qingyu, you go with me to Mount Jingyuan Mountain to see. Song Yuanxue has been retreating for three months, and you can see some situations."

After chatting with Song Song Qingyu for a few words, Song Song Qingming directly drove the second-tier flying boat on his body, and not long after, the two came to Mount Jingyuan Mountain, southwest of Mount Funiu Mountain.

Since the Song family was promoted to a Core Formation immortal clan, the Song family's sphere of influence had expanded to the entire Qinghe and Pingyang counties. In these two counties, except for the markets and mineral veins now managed by the Xiaoyao Sect, all other spirit veins were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Song family.

Mount Jingyuan Mountain was also a second-tier spirit vein, very close to Mount Funiu Mountain, only less than two hundred miles away, and was the spirit mountain of the Liu family in Qinghe County more than a hundred years ago.

More than a hundred years ago, because the matter of the water spirit fruit tree was exposed, the Liu family was completely destroyed by the Xiaoyao Sect, and Mount Jingyuan Mountain became a land without an owner. The Xiaoyao Sect directly transferred this second-tier spirit vein to Qinghe Market for management.

For this second-tier low-grade spirit vein of Mount Jingyuan Mountain, many cultivation families in Qinghe County had been coveting it for nearly a hundred years. It was just that Lu Lu Yuanfeng, the Foundation Establishment cultivator who managed Qinghe Market at that time, was reprimanded by the sect because of the Liu family's matter, and he hated Mount Jingyuan Mountain very much in his heart.

In order to warn other cultivation families in Qinghe County, Lu Lu Yuanfeng simply abandoned Mount Jingyuan Mountain, this spirit vein. Even if many cultivation families who wanted to occupy this spirit mountain came to Qinghe Market to buy Mount Jingyuan Mountain, they were all rejected by him directly. Over time, no one went to hit Mount Jingyuan Mountain's idea again.

Until a hundred years later, because Song Song Qingming successfully established Core Formation, the Song family was promoted to a Core Formation immortal clan, and the Xiaoyao Sect divided the entire Qinghe County into the Song family's territory. Feng De, who managed Qinghe Market, in order to please Song Song Qingming, the sect's guest elder, simply transferred all the ownerless spirit veins in Qinghe Market to the Song family, including this second-tier low-grade spirit vein of Mount Jingyuan Mountain.

Compared with other messy spirit veins in Qinghe County, Mount Jingyuan Mountain not only reached the second tier in spirit vein quality, but also very close to the Song family's Mount Funiu Mountain, which was a very good gift for the Song family.

Because more than a hundred years had passed, the spirit fields on Mount Jingyuan Mountain, this spirit vein, had all been abandoned. There were many low-tier demon beasts gathered on the mountain, and it had become a place without a trace of people.

After getting the spirit vein of Mount Jingyuan Mountain, the Song family immediately organized a demon hunting team, led by Foundation Establishment elder Song Song Yuanli, and cleaned up the entire spirit mountain properly. Subsequently, Song Song Qingming personally took action to arrange a second-tier mountain-guarding formation on Mount Jingyuan Mountain.

After more than ten years of operation by the Song family, the Song family now has stationed dozens of cultivators here, and has successively migrated tens of thousands of mortals over. The current Mount Jingyuan Mountain has long restored the smoke of the past, and it is not worse than when the Liu family was there a hundred years ago.

Just after arriving at the foot of Mount Jingyuan Mountain, Song Song Yuanli, who had received the news and was waiting here, immediately greeted him and soon led Song Song Qingming and the two to a cave on the top of the mountain.

After scanning around the cave, Song Song Qingming said with a high-spirited look: "Looking at the spiritual energy fluctuations near the cave, they are very stable. Song Yuanxue should have successfully passed the body-tempering pass. It seems that her possibility of successfully establishing Foundation this time is very high."

"Seventh Brother, this is really great!"

Hearing Song Song Qingming say this, the faces of Song Song Qingyu and Song Song Yuanli on the side also showed a trace of joy. Their cultivation was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, and their sensitivity to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was not as keen as Song Song Qingming, the Core Formation cultivator.

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