Chapter 514: Leisure Time

After Huang Siyuan took the Barrier-Breaking Pill a few years ago, her cultivation base also successfully broke through to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment. Her cultivation speed had actually almost caught up with Song Qingyu's. However, breaking through each layer in the late stage of Foundation Establishment is much more difficult than the previous ones. Huang Siyuan still needs at least a dozen years to reach the realm where she can form a core.

Although the current cultivation speeds of Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan are not as good as those core-forming seeds with gifted talents in the Xiaoyao Sect, as long as they can start impacting the core-forming realm before the age of one hundred and fifty, they will at least have two chances to form a core in this lifetime.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators to form a core, apart from Heaven Spirit Root cultivators, very few cultivators can succeed in forming a core at once. Among the dozen or so Jin Dan cultivators in the State of Wei, apart from the genius Bai Yuxian, only Sect Master Yao Ganshu of the Xiaoyao Sect succeeded in breaking through to the Jin Dan realm at once back then.

Most others, including Song Qingming, succeeded in forming a core on the second attempt. The True Person Guangling, who had the most core-forming attempts, only barely succeeded in forming a core on the fourth attempt. His path was also the most bumpy, and his cultivation base had only reached the fifth layer of Jin Dan when his lifespan was nearly five hundred years old. His path in this lifetime could be considered to have come to an end.

"A few days ago, Qingyu said she was going to participate in the trading fair held in Guiyun Market. I thought you had followed her too."

Huang Siyuan shook her head: "Sister Qingyu is already preparing to form a core, so she is anxious to search for core-forming spiritual objects everywhere. I am still some distance away from forming a core, so it is not very interesting to go. It is better to practice with peace of mind on the mountain and break through to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment early."

"Staying on the mountain every day is also somewhat boring. Why don't we go out for a walk together!" Song Qingming smiled, reached out and took Huang Siyuan's hand, and the two walked out of the cave dwelling together.

After walking down the summit, Song Qingming took Huang Siyuan and chatted as they walked, strolling through the beautiful scenery everywhere on Mount Funiu.

In these few years, Song Qingming was busy refining the Jin Dan corpse puppet, and Huang Siyuan was studying the art of alchemy. Most of the time, both were in seclusion, and it had been a long time since they enjoyed such leisure time together.

Unlike Song Qingming, who ventured out alone while still in the Qi Refining stage and whose footprints had long since covered half of the Wei State, Huang Siyuan had spent most of her time cultivating in a fixed location since she began her path of cultivation. She had rarely traveled alone, and being able to have some free time to come out and enjoy the flowers and scenery made her mood instantly much more pleasant.

With the promulgation of many policies beneficial to mortals by the family, the demon beasts within a hundred miles around Mount Funiu were soon swept away by the family's law enforcement team. Now, even at a position dozens of miles away from Mount Funiu, mortals have begun to appear.

The population in the current Wood Flood Dragon Town has also increased several times compared to a hundred years ago, becoming a large town gathering over eighty thousand mortals. The streets in the town are also much more prosperous than before, and it can already be compared with the mortal towns that have developed for a thousand years under the Taiyuan Mountain of the Huang family.

Song Qingming and the other two who walked into the town specially restrained their own cultivation bases, disguised themselves as ordinary mortals, and did not alarm those family cultivators stationed in the town.

The two went down from the summit, walking and stopping between the mountains and rivers, and soon arrived at the foot of Mount Funiu, beside Wood Flood Dragon Town, where Song Qingming was born back then.

Because Huang Siyuan's parents were both cultivators, she had lived on the mountain since she was a child and had not had much contact with ordinary mortals. Now that she walked into the mortals at the foot of the mountain, she, a Foundation Establishment cultivator who was high above on weekdays, was also full of curiosity, pulling Song Qingming to watch without stopping.

Without the threat of demon beasts, the lives of these ordinary mortals in Wood Flood Dragon Town were also more prosperous than before. Most of the people on the streets had the light smiles that only exist in a good life.

The current Song family almost has children with spirit roots discovered and sent up the mountain every year. Even three-spirit-root cultivators are no longer a rare thing, and the overall number of cultivators has long exceeded several times what it was when it was a Foundation Establishment family.

In recent years, because the Song family advanced to become a Jin Dan immortal clan, the family territory expanded rapidly, and the number of cultivators in the family was often not enough. Elders like Song Yuanfang who managed the family's daily affairs also made many policies to encourage mortal reproduction for this reason.

The growth in the number of mortals will also cause the number of new Song family cultivators to increase rapidly. When Song Qingming first established his foundation, the family would only discover a child with a spirit root every two or three years on average. Even if it was just a four or five-spirit-root cultivator, Mount Funiu would celebrate it.

Learning that their own Chen Chen Laozu suddenly came down the mountain to them, the "Yuan" generation cultivator stationed in Wood Flood Dragon Town was also startled and hurriedly sent a large bag of gold and silver to Song Qingming, this Chen Chen Laozu, in person.

Seeing Huang Siyuan's envious look when seeing others buying things, Song Qingming remembered that their two family Old Ancestors did not seem to have the gold and silver used by ordinary mortals, so he hurriedly took the initiative to send a sound transmission to the Song family cultivator guarding Wood Flood Dragon Town, asking him to send some gold and silver over.

The number of mortals directly controlled within the Song family territory has risen to nearly three hundred thousand after continuous rapid growth over these years. If there are no accidents, in another twenty or thirty years, the Song family should surpass the Huang family of Taiyuan Mountain and become the cultivation family with the largest number of mortals in Qinghe County.

With money on her, Huang Siyuan, walking on the street, also had a much brighter smile on her face.

"Husband, this noodle is clearly not very delicious. You say, how can these people eat so happily? Could it be that the taste we cultivators taste will be different?" Huang Siyuan, sitting in a noodle shop, asked with a puzzled look on her face.

Clearly a bowl of clear soup noodles that looked exactly the same, Huang Siyuan only took one bite and immediately frowned and put down the chopsticks in her hand. Several ordinary mortals sitting not far from the two had already finished eating the noodles not long after they were served, and at this moment, they were still holding the soup in the bowl and drinking it with great relish.

Song Qingming shook his head slightly and explained: "It is the same taste. I also ate it at the foot of the mountain when I was a child. However, for them, noodles are delicious things as long as they can be full. The delicious food you want in your heart is different, so naturally, the feeling will also be different."

"It seems so. Looking at the way they eat, they are much happier than us cultivators."

After the two strolled on the street for half a day, Song Qingming took Huang Siyuan and walked to a residence on the west side of Wood Flood Dragon Town.

The past emerged like smoke, one after another. Since his parents passed away, Song Qingming had not returned here for a long time. A hundred years passed in a flash, and the several family members who were once in front of his eyes had all left, leaving only him walking alone in this world.

Looking at the familiar scenery at the door, Song Qingming stopped for a moment, but did not walk into his former home. After a while, a smile appeared on his face, and he turned and left this place directly.

"Husband finally came back once, why not go in and take a look?" Seeing that Song Qingming had arrived here but chose to turn and leave, Huang Siyuan asked somewhat puzzled.

Song Qingming nodded upon hearing this: "Looking at the outside, there is no change. I think the descendants at home should be doing quite well. They are all juniors I have never seen, so we should not go in and scare them."

"Haha! You, this Chen Chen Laozu, look so young, and you still want those juniors leaning on crutches to kowtow to you. It really doesn't look very good." Huang Siyuan pursed her lips and smiled softly.

"It has also been many years since I went to offer incense to Mother and the others. Follow me to take a look at them!"

Seeing Huang Siyuan nod in agreement, Song Qingming and the other two did not hide their own cultivation bases and transformed into two spiritual lights, leaving this place directly.

"Ah, it's an immortal! The immortal on the mountain has come down!" After the two left, a burst of exclamation immediately came from the mouths of several mortals who passed by and saw this scene, causing a commotion nearby.

Decades passed, and seven or eight more grave mounds appeared here at Song Mother's tomb, all of which were buried with Song Qingming's own descendants.

Song Qingming's second sister, fourth younger brother, and nephew Song Yunshan and other Song family descendants all chose to be buried here after death, forming a cemetery on this small mountain. Most of the family members Song Qingming was familiar with in his memory were here, not in the residence at the foot of the mountain.

After offering a stick of incense to his mother with Huang Siyuan, the two stood at the summit, admiring the afterglow of the setting sun, as if they had returned to the appearance of sending his mother away decades ago.

The difference is that Song Qingming has now become a Jin Dan True Person who shakes one side, and Huang Siyuan is no longer that small Qi Refining cultivator who was too weak to fight against fate.

A few days later, outside Song Qingming's cave dwelling.

After a black figure flew to mid-air, he cast a spell with both hands to release a cyan short sword. After the cyan short sword circled around the black shadow a few times, it suddenly surged with spiritual light and directly transformed into a streak of spiritual light, flying down quickly, cutting a giant rock on one side of the summit into two halves.

Looking at Jin Feng in mid-air who could already freely control the "Green Willow Sword" on the side, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction, flew to mid-air, and cast a spell to release his life-bound magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

Under Song Qingming's control, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" released a burst of five-colored divine light toward Jin Feng in mid-air.

Encountering the attack of the five-colored divine light, Jin Feng moved his arms to release a black protective shield in front of him, and without much effort, he forcibly took Song Qingming's attack.

After seeing this scene, Song Qingming smiled with satisfaction and put away the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror." "Although it cannot refine a life-bound magic treasure and the attack ability is slightly worse, the defense ability is already not inferior to cultivators of the same tier."

After successfully refining the "Green Willow Sword," Jin Feng's strength was even better, already almost comparable to an ordinary first-layer Jin Dan cultivator. After three years of careful cultivation, Song Qingming finally obtained a Jin Dan assistant he had always dreamed of.

After coming down from the sky, Song Qingming just wanted to take Jin Feng and walk back to his cave dwelling. On one side of Mount Funiu, a golden spiritual talisman suddenly flew over quickly.

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