Chapter 500: Heading to Wu Country

Song Song Yuanxue's cultivation talent is average. Although the family has fully supported her, the probability of her successfully establishing Foundation is still a bit worse than the several Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Song family before. Song Song Qingyu and others have always been very worried about Song Song Yuanxue's retreat to impact the Foundation Establishment realm this time.

Seeing that Song Song Qingming had great confidence in Song Song Yuanxue's successful Foundation Establishment in his tone, Song Song Qingyu also felt relieved in her heart.

Since Song Song Qingming retreated, Song Song Qingyu had spent a lot of energy to guide Song Song Yuanxue personally for more than a year, and she had long regarded her as half of her disciple in her heart. Among all the people in the Song family, Song Song Qingyu should be the one who hoped most that she could succeed in this retreat for Foundation Establishment.

Two months later, in the Song family council hall.

Looking at Song Song Yuanxue, whose aura had taken on a completely new look from head to toe, the several Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family were also overjoyed.

This retreat for Foundation Establishment lasted for nearly four months. Song Song Yuanxue successfully established Foundation and broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage. Except for Song Song Qingming at the beginning, she was the one who spent the longest time establishing Foundation among the several Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family, which also made everyone worry for a long time at the beginning.

After experiencing the hardships of Foundation Establishment, Song Song Yuanxue also secretly felt lucky in her heart. She almost fell at the first pass of Foundation Establishment in this retreat. Even with the protection of the Foundation Establishment Pill, the pain of body-tempering and marrow-cleansing that lasted for dozens of days still made Song Song Yuanxue almost give up Foundation Establishment herself.

Song Song Yuanxue is different from the several other Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family. Since she started cultivating, she has always been studying spirit planting techniques in the clan, and has almost never participated in hunting demon beasts outside. Her experience in fighting with others is also pitifully small, and she has not experienced any test of life and death.

Such a plain cultivation experience also made Song Song Yuanxue panic when facing the pass of Foundation Establishment marrow-cleansing and body-tempering. Fortunately, with the guidance of Song Song Qingyu for more than a year in advance, Song Song Yuanxue gritted her teeth and stabilized her mind after adapting to the pain, and finally survived this pass dangerously.

The technique Song Song Yuanxue cultivates is the same as Song Song Qingyu, which is also a water-attributed technique. She inhaled more water-attributed spiritual energy during Foundation Establishment, which would be slightly helpful when repairing the flesh, meridians, and blood vessels after body-tempering. Although it took a slightly longer time, as long as she survived the first period of time, the later stage of tempering the flesh would be relatively smooth.

Because the spirit vein of Mount Funiu Mountain is only second-tier top-grade, it is already a bit insufficient in spiritual energy to support several Foundation Establishment elders like Song Song Qingming and Song Song Qingyu. After Song Song Yuanxue successfully established Foundation, she simply stayed on Mount Jingyuan Mountain to cultivate.

After turning to the path of alchemy, because Huang Huang Siyuan is already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, learning alchemy is much faster than ordinary Qi Condensation cultivators. With the supply of sufficient resources, she has become a first-tier top-grade alchemist in just a few years. She is also the cultivator in the Song family who has the most hope of advancing to a second-tier alchemist.

Seeing Song Song Yuanxue, the latest junior of the Song family to establish Foundation, the two elders Song Song Qingming and Song Song Qingyu were also very happy. Both of them bestowed a second-tier item on her. In addition, Song Song Qingyu also specifically gifted a second-tier mid-grade spirit talisman she had drawn not long ago to Song Song Yuanxue for self-defense.

Song Song Yuanfang was originally an alchemist. After his injuries recovered, with the help of Song Song Xinde, he also successfully upgraded this skill to the second tier, becoming the second second-tier alchemist of the Song family.

Song Song Qingyu, who specializes in talisman-making, has also successfully drawn several second-tier mid-grade spirit talismans by taking advantage of the many second-tier demon beast materials that can be used for talisman-making in the family's Cangjin Pavilion in these years, becoming a second-tier talisman-maker.

Huang Huang Siyuan has already upgraded her spirit chef skill to the second tier, but the effect of this skill in Qinghe County and even the entire Wei Guo is relatively limited. Therefore, in recent years, Huang Huang Siyuan has gradually given up on improving her spirit chef skill and turned to the skill of alchemy.

Besides them, Song Song Yuanli, who also specializes in talisman-making, has not upgraded his cultivation skill to the second tier because he has been focusing on his cultivation speed over the years.

Although the two cultivation skills of spirit chef and alchemy are very different, there are still many commonalities. They are both suitable for cultivators who cultivate fire-attributed techniques, and they have high requirements for the cultivator's ability to control the heat when refining spirit items. These two requirements happen to be possessed by Huang Huang Siyuan.

Coupled with Song Song Yuanxue, who just established Foundation, the Song family now has inheritance skills above the second tier in the four relatively important cultivation skills of formation, talisman, refining, and spirit planting. Only waiting for Huang Huang Siyuan to break through and become a second-tier alchemist, the Song family's foundation in these aspects can catch up with those old-brand cultivation families in Wei Guo.

The cultivation skills of the several Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family have also made considerable progress over the years. Song Song Qingming, who has entered the Core Formation stage, has also steadily improved his formation and talisman-making levels to second-tier top-grade.

The Song family now has two second-tier spirit veins. In order not to share the spiritual energy for the cultivation of several elders of the family, many low-tier cultivators have also moved to Mount Jingyuan Mountain under the arrangement of Song Song Qingyu and others in these few years.

The family added a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the Song family naturally had to celebrate properly. Just when everyone was preparing to hold a Foundation Establishment celebration for Song Song Yuanxue, Song Song Qingming suddenly received a secret sound transmission letter from the Xiaoyao Sect, and then he rushed to Mount Guyang Mountain alone a few days later.

The person who urgently sent a letter from Mount Guyang Mountain to invite Song Song Qingming to Mount Funiu Mountain this time was Yao Yao Ganshu, the Sect Master of the Xiaoyao Sect.

Yao Yao Ganshu mentioned in the letter that a large-scale trading fair would be held in Wu Country, southeast of Wei Guo, next month. The Xiaoyao Sect had just received an invitation not long ago, and Yao Yao Ganshu was preparing to take several Core Formation elders of the sect to Wu Country to participate in this trading fair, so he specifically invited Song Song Qingming.

Since advancing to the Core Formation stage, Song Song Qingming had not left Wei Guo for these years. The only place where he had the opportunity to exchange for spirit items useful to him was the Xiaoyao Sect's Merit Pavilion. He had long had the idea of going to other places to see. After receiving Yao Yao Ganshu's letter, Song Song Qingming prepared for a while and then rushed to the Xiaoyao Sect.

By the time Song Song Qingming rushed to Yao Yao Ganshu's place, several Core Formation elders of the sect had already arrived one step ahead.

Besides Yao Yao Ganshu and his several Foundation Establishment disciples, the Core Formation elders who went to Wu Country this time also included Li Li Wutong, Chu Chu Fengping, and Chen Chen Xuanxin, as well as Bai Bai Yuxian, who arrived last.

After the ten people boarded the third-tier top-grade flying boat taken out by Yao Yao Ganshu, this blue flying boat soon left Mount Guyang Mountain as a streak of spiritual light.

There are more than thirty large and small countries around the Fuyun Mountain Range. There are only eight large countries with Nascent Soul sects now, and the Xiaoyao Sect of Wei Guo is one of them. The Wu Country that Song Song Qingming and others are going to now is also a large country with a Nascent Soul sect.

Wu Country is located southeast of Wei Guo and is a relatively large country among the dozens of countries around the Fuyun Mountain Range. The cultivation world here is governed by the Nascent Soul sect, the Star Sect. The overall strength of the Star Sect is three points stronger than the Xiaoyao Sect, and there are now two Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect. It is also the most powerful sect among the many sects around Wei Guo at present.

The journey from Mount Guyang Mountain to the Seven Stars Market where the Star Sect holds the Star Assembly is long, and it also needs to cross the Taiyue Lake of tens of thousands of miles. Even if they take this third-tier top-grade flying boat of Yao Yao Ganshu, Song Song Qingming and others still need to spend about a month to arrive.

Along the way, except for Yao Yao Ganshu, whose injuries have not fully recovered, several Core Formation cultivators like Song Song Qingming also need to take turns using magic power to control the flying boat and control the direction of progress.

Because they have to pass through the Taiyue Lake where demon beasts are entrenched, everyone has to be careful to guard against the harassment of demon beasts below at all times. There are many high-tier demon beasts in Taiyue Lake, and there are two powerful Demon Emperors deep in the lake. This is also a major disaster for surrounding countries.

However, fortunately, the demon beasts in Taiyue Lake are all water-attributed demon beasts, which like to stay in the lake more. Unlike demon beasts in other places, they will often invade human territory for no reason. Only when the Northern Frontier demon beast turmoil occurs will demon beasts in Taiyue Lake actively come out to harass surrounding countries.

These demon beasts usually stay in Taiyue Lake, which seems not so terrible. However, if any cultivator accidentally enters their territory, these demon beasts will naturally not sit down and reason with you.

Fortunately, the Xiaoyao Sect brought many Core Formation cultivators this time. As long as they don't encounter those powerful Great Demon Kings, Song Song Qingming and others on the flying boat don't need to take ordinary Demon Kings who come to block the way into their eyes.

After half a month, after dealing with more than a dozen waves of demon beasts that came to harass them, everyone still successfully crossed the Taiyue Lake without encountering those difficult Great Demon Kings, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

The six Core Formation cultivators who came out together from the Xiaoyao Sect this time, except for Yao Yao Ganshu, the Sect Master, who could not take action at will because of his injuries.

The other five were all experts at the mid-stage of Core Formation or above, with Song Song Qingming, who had just established Core Formation, being slightly weaker. Precisely because of this, they had enough confidence to cross the Taiyue Lake. Otherwise, if they took a detour, everyone would have to spend another half a month on the road.

After traveling by flying boat for nearly a month, Song Song Qingming and others finally entered the territory of Wu Country. Looking at the Wu Country below, which had many rivers and a higher population density than Wei Guo, a look of surprise also appeared on Song Song Qingming's face.

Although the sphere of influence controlled by the cultivation world of Wu Country is not much different from that of the Wei Guo cultivation world, because this country has many spirit veins and the land resources are very fertile, it can support more cultivators and mortals. Therefore, the overall number of cultivators in Wu Country is also much more than that in Wei Guo.

Precisely because they control the resource-rich Wu Country cultivation world, the Star Sect can rely on these resources to cultivate more cultivators, making the Star Sect the most powerful sect around.

After traveling through the territory of Wu Country for another three days, the flying boat finally landed in a large market in the middle of Wu Country, the Seven Stars Market, under the control of Chen Chen Xuanxin.

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