Chapter 643

After the two went down the mountain, they strolled around the streets of "Tiandancheng," then passed through the market and came to the beach by the sea, enjoying the beautiful scenery unique to the East Sea where the sun sets into the sea.

Huang Siyuan, who had always appeared very quiet in front of Song Qingming in the past, seemed to have changed her personality completely after arriving at the seaside this time, completely letting go of the dignified image she had maintained for many years.

Seeing Huang Siyuan happily shouting out many small wishes she wanted to complete in the future to the sea before her like a little girl, Song Qingming, who was standing on the side, was also a bit surprised by her innocent appearance.

Since Huang Siyuan entered the Dao to cultivate, she was first cold-shouldered by the family and sent to the Song family as a pawn. Later, in order to establish her foundation, she went out alone for decades and experienced life and death before returning with the Dao.

Huang Siyuan, who had suffered the cold and warmth of human feelings since she was a child and was accustomed to relying on herself for everything, although she was more than ten years younger than Song Qingming, her personality was much more mature than hers. Since Song Qingming knew her, he had really not seen her have such an innocent side.

The two watched the sunset at the seaside that day and waited for the moon to rise. It was not until the next morning that they returned to the cave dwelling rented by Song Qingming in "Tiandancheng" facing the sunrise.

After Huang Siyuan successfully formed her core, the "Tiandan Alliance" specially held a small core-formation celebration for her in Tiandancheng to show their importance to her, and invited many cultivators in the alliance to come to watch the ceremony and congratulate her.

Although Huang Siyuan was still only an outer member of the "Tiandan Alliance," Ye Qiuyuan and these inner Elders were indeed quite caring for this newly core-formed cultivator.

Not only did they send quite a few congratulatory gifts face-to-face, but they also took the initiative to teach Huang Siyuan quite a few things related to alchemy techniques during the celebration, which also benefited Huang Siyuan, who was well-versed in alchemy, a lot, and her level of understanding of some elixirs was also greatly improved.

After staying in "Tiandancheng" for more than another month, Song Qingming, who had prepared to leave, took Huang Siyuan, who had already received her alchemy tasks for the next three years, bid farewell to Ye Qiuyuan and the others, and set off to return to the Fuyun Mountain Range cultivation world.

The two took the "Phantom Boat" all the way west, spent half a month crossing the Duanyun Mountain, and then passed through several small countries of the Zheng Kingdom before finally returning to the long-lost Qinghe County after five years.

Just after crossing Mount Yunwu, Song Qingming saw a burst of intense fighting sounds coming from a high mountain not far ahead.

After controlling the "Phantom Boat" to approach directly, Song Qingming discovered that it was a large group of cultivators who were struggling to encircle and suppress a second-tier low-grade Foundation Establishment demon beast.

"It is Changze and Xuanting and the others. I didn't expect Xuanting to have also successfully established his foundation!" After scanning the crowd, Huang Siyuan on the side quickly recognized that the two Foundation Establishment cultivators leading the group were people from the Song family of Mount Funiu.

The many cultivators below who were struggling to fight with that second-tier low-grade demon beast suddenly saw two sword lights flying over quickly before their eyes, landing directly on the Foundation Establishment demon beast that had been confronting them for a long time.

A moment later, this demon beast let out a miserable cry, then slowly fell to the ground without any breath.

Everyone who saw this scene was also shocked in their hearts. They hurriedly raised their heads to search around in the sky before discovering the figures of Song Qingming and the other in the mid-air in the distance, and a burst of exclamations suddenly came from the crowd.

Before long, two sword lights flew directly from the mountain to Song Qingming and bowed to them.

"Changze, Xuanting greet the Clan Leader!"

Looking at the two before him, Song Qingming first nodded to Song Xuanting, the newly promoted family Foundation Establishment cultivator, with a smile, then asked Song Changze on the side:

"Why are you hunting demons here? Did Yuanfang ask you to come? Has anything happened at home these years!"

"Reporting to the Clan Leader, not long ago this demon beast attacked a mineral vein near the Red Flame Market. The Sixteenth Uncle asked us to lead the market law enforcement team to strengthen patrols. These few days, Xuanting and I happened to track the traces of this demon beast, which is why we brought people to encircle it here!

In these two years, besides Xuanting and the Sixteenth Aunt establishing their foundations, the family has also been peaceful, and nothing major has happened."

"Hunting demon beasts above the second tier in places with many such demon beasts, it is still a bit dangerous for you few people. If there are other second-tier demon beasts nearby that hear the sound and come looking, how will you deal with them.

In the future, don't be so reckless when encountering things. It is still better to wait until you have organized enough manpower before taking action."

After hearing Song Changze's reply, Song Qingming reminded the two of them again before turning the direction of the flying boat and leaving the place, flying toward Mount Funiu not far away.

Just as Song Qingming arrived outside the protective formation of Mount Funiu and was about to pass through the formation, a green sword light suddenly flew out from Mount Funiu and stopped voluntarily beside Song Qingming and the other.

"Qingyu, you happen to be at home, this is truly a coincidence. We thought you should be at Mount Tuoyun now!" Seeing Song Qingyu happen to be at home to welcome them, both Huang Siyuan and Song Qingming revealed a trace of surprise on their faces.

Song Qingyu did not answer the two's words. As soon as she came up, her gaze was fixed directly on Huang Siyuan. When she saw that the aura emitted from Huang Siyuan's body was different from the past and she had become a Jin Dan cultivator not much different from her.

Song Qingyu jumped onto the "Phantom Boat" suddenly, came to Huang Siyuan's side happily, and hugged her shoulders tightly.

"Haha! Sister-in-law, you really didn't let me down. You have successfully formed your core and broken through to the Jin Dan realm. This is truly great."

"Look at how excited you are. I didn't see you so happy when you successfully formed your core back then!" Huang Siyuan nodded with a smile and hurriedly pushed her away slowly.

"Qingyu! If you have anything to say, wait until we go back and talk slowly!"

Seeing the two standing on the flying boat, who had not seen each other for many years and seemed to have endless words, Song Qingming shook his head slightly, hurriedly controlled the flying boat to enter the protective formation of Mount Funiu, and brought the two women to the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain.

After the three sat down and chatted for half a day, Song Qingming and the other finally slowly learned about some major things that had happened in the Song family and even within the Wei Kingdom in the years when Song Qingming and the others were away.

The reason Song Qingyu happened to appear at Mount Funiu to welcome Song Qingming and the other was also because during the five years Huang Siyuan went to the East Sea to form her core, a relatively major thing happened in the northern cultivation world of the Wei Kingdom.

That is, more than a year ago, Zhang Rong, a disciple of Chen Jinliang of Mount Tuoyun, had already successfully formed his core before Huang Siyuan.

Back then, through Song Qingming's introduction and guidance, after the Lin Yutang brothers exchanged for the demon king's inner core from Chen Xuanxin, they began to fully support Zhang Rong in taking the path of a false core.

After so many years of careful preparation time, Zhang Rong, who went out to rent a cave dwelling to go into seclusion to form his core, finally successfully formed a false core a year ago and returned to Mount Tuoyun in the Wei Kingdom.

After Zhang Rong returned, because there was this false core cultivator sitting in Mount Tuoyun, Song Qingyu saw that she did not need to stay at "Mount Tuoyun" all the time, so she returned directly to Mount Funiu to cultivate.

Although the combat power of a false core cultivator is much worse than that of an ordinary Jin Dan cultivator, if they encounter a demon beast of the level of the Cloud Crane Demon King head-on, Zhang Rong will definitely find it difficult to deal with the other party.

However, relying on the two third-tier protective formations on "Mount Tuoyun" that had been strengthened by Song Qingming, even if Zhang Rong could not beat the other party, he could still manage to deal with it for a while.

Even if they encounter an encirclement by many demon beasts, as long as the cultivators on Mount Tuoyun can hold the protective formation for a period of time, they can send a message to ask for help and wait for reinforcements from the Song family or the Xiaoyao Sect.

Hearing the news that Zhang Rong had successfully formed a false core, Song Qingming was also a bit surprised in his heart.

Although he helped Lin Yutang and the others write an introduction letter to Chen Xuanxin back then.

However, Song Qingming did not intentionally inquire about the things between them later, and he did not expect that Zhang Rong had actually obtained that demon king's inner core from Chen Xuanxin and used it to successfully form a false core and enter the Jin Dan realm.

One must know that taking the path of a false core, although relatively easier than ordinary cultivators impacting the Jin Dan realm, the probability of success will not exceed thirty percent at most, and it is not that one can definitely succeed just by having a third-tier demon core.

Forming a false core, besides the strength not being comparable to a real Jin Dan cultivator, requires far more spiritual item resources than normally impacting the Jin Dan realm, and there is still a high probability of failing to form a core.

It is precisely because of this that whether it is loose cultivators or sect cultivators in the cultivation world, the vast majority of Foundation Establishment cultivators facing core formation problems will not choose to take the path of a false core.

Just like Huang Shengxin back then, even if these people could not find the five-element spiritual items to assist in core formation, they would only choose to use the secondary "Jade Dust Pill" to impact the Jin Dan realm, and would not waste resources to try to form a false core.

Only people like Feng Yangde back then, whose own path was already hopeless and who had Jin Dan cultivators fully supporting them from behind, would walk on this shortcut of a false core without any worries.

Song Qingming actually did not think highly of this matter in his heart from the beginning when he knew Zhang Rong chose to form a false core.

Before this, although the status of "Jin Yunge" on Mount Tuoyun was still very high, the Lin Yutang brothers did not have much lifespan left. Plus, Zhang Rong had also failed to form his core twice in succession, so Chen Jinliang's lineage had actually appeared in a dangerous situation of having no successors.

Once the two brothers passed away, the ability of the remaining people in "Jin Yunge" was simply insufficient to protect this industry. I fear it would not be long before "Jin Yunge" and even the entire Mount Tuoyun spiritual vein would fall into the hands of others.

The Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong brothers were also because of this that they were dispirited and chose to let Zhang Rong take the path of a false core.

In Song Qingming's view, Zhang Rong's state, even if their brothers exchanged for the demon core from Chen Xuanxin, I fear there was a high probability that he would fail to form his core.

It is just that this matter was after all an internal affair of Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong's "Jin Yunge," and Song Qingming did not want to manage too much. He only reminded them slightly at the time, and seeing Lin Yutang and the others had made up their minds, he did not say anything more.

He did not expect that Song Qingming had really misjudged a bit this time. Zhang Rong had actually forcibly withstood the pressure and successfully formed a false core under the situation where "Jin Yunge" was already facing internal and external troubles.

Zhang Rong successfully forming his core not only reversed the dangerous situation of "Jin Yunge" at once, but even the entire Mount Tuoyun had undergone great changes.

Mount Tuoyun, which originally needed to rely on the Song family and the Xiaoyao Sect for protection, now had Zhang Rong, this false core cultivator, so it could be considered to have some self-protection ability. This also made the influence of "Jin Yunge" on Mount Tuoyun suddenly become much larger.

However, the Mount Tuoyun market is still in a state of joint management by the three parties. Up to now, "Jin Yunge" has not put forward any ideas in this regard.

Besides the matter of Zhang Rong forming his core on Mount Tuoyun, the Song family had also had several things that had a relatively large impact on the family in these few years.

Among them, the biggest thing was that half a year after Song Qingming and the others left the family to go to the East Sea, Song Xuanting and Huang Leqing successfully established their foundations one after another, adding two more Foundation Establishment cultivators to the family.

As a two-spiritual-root cultivator, the probability of Song Xuanting successfully establishing his foundation was originally higher than ordinary people. Huang Leqing's cultivation foundation before establishing her foundation was also not bad, and she had Song Yuanfang, this Foundation Establishment cultivator, fully helping her by her side. For the two of them successfully establishing their foundations, Song Qingming was not too surprised in his heart.

Learning the news that Huang Leqing and Song Xuanting had successfully established their foundations, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan were also very happy. The next day, they summoned the two of them alone in the cave dwelling on the top of the mountain and bestowed each of them a second-tier magic tool as a congratulatory gift to compensate them.

After Huang Siyuan successfully formed her core and returned to Mount Funiu, Song Qingming did not want to appear too low-key this time and immediately decided to hold a core-formation ceremony for her to celebrate this matter.

However, Huang Siyuan herself disliked it being too troublesome and was anxious to go into seclusion to refine her own natal magic treasure, so she directly declined the family's idea of wanting to hold a grand ceremony for her.

Seeing this, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu did not insist too much, and just held a banquet for her within the family like Song Qingyu did last time, without sending invitations to invite other cultivators outside.

However, although the Song family appeared very low-key and did not publicize Huang Siyuan's core formation to the outside world, the Xiaoyao Sect quickly learned of this news.

Song Qingming and the other had only been back for more than ten days when Xu Ziyuan, the Elder of the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall representing the Xiaoyao Sect, came to the door in person and sent a congratulatory gift to Huang Siyuan, who had just formed her core, on behalf of the sect.

Xu Ziyuan coming to Mount Funiu was naturally the same purpose as Zhao Menglian and Chu Fengping last time, to pull Huang Siyuan into the sect to become a guest Elder.

Regarding this matter, Song Qingming did not want to hide it from the sect. After entertaining Xu Ziyuan, he immediately followed her to Mount Guyang and met Sect Master Yao Qian to discuss this matter face-to-face.

Becoming a guest Elder of the Xiaoyao Sect, although there is nothing to do on weekdays, one must also accept the sect's conscription at any time. If one encounters a battle with other sects or a major war like the invasion of the Heavenly Sea Alliance, once conscripted, it might be difficult to return for several years.

If Huang Siyuan's situation was the same as Song Qingyu's, without other identity entanglements besides being in the Song family, Song Qingming would naturally agree to Huang Siyuan becoming a guest Elder of the sect.

But in order to successfully break through to the Jin Dan realm before this, Huang Siyuan had already reached an agreement with the "Tiandan Alliance" and joined them to become an outer Elder. With her situation, it is indeed difficult for her to take care of the position of guest Elder of the Xiaoyao Sect again now.

Therefore, Song Qingming's trip to the Xiaoyao Sect this time was also to explain this matter face-to-face, so as not to have any misunderstandings on the sect's side.

After returning from the East Sea last time, Song Qingming had actually already revealed the matter of Huang Siyuan joining the "Tiandan Alliance" to Chu Fengping, Xu Ziyuan, and several other Elders he was familiar with in the sect.

Yao Qian, as the Sect Master of the Xiaoyao Sect, was naturally already clear about this matter.

However, when Song Qingming mentioned this matter face-to-face and wanted to use this to help Huang Siyuan decline the position of guest Elder of the sect, Yao Qian did not agree with Song Qingming's idea and still insisted on letting Huang Siyuan join the sect.

In order to let Song Qingming rest assured about this matter, Yao Qian was also well-prepared and directly stated that the sect did not mind Huang Siyuan continuing to serve as an outer Elder of the "Tiandan Alliance." After she joined the sect, she could normally interact with the "Tiandan Alliance."

And Yao Qian also promised Song Qingming face-to-face that after Huang Siyuan served as a guest Elder of the sect, the sect would not easily conscript her to go out to perform tasks.

According to Yao Qian's idea, since Huang Siyuan is a second-tier mid-grade alchemist, after she becomes a guest Elder of the sect, she can directly join the Alchemy Pavilion of the sect.

On weekdays, as long as the sect needs it, she can come to Mount Guyang to help refine some elixirs, without needing to go out to perform other sect tasks. Every year, she can also receive the same sect merit salary as Song Qingming and the others.

In this way, even if Huang Siyuan holds the position of outer Elder of the "Tiandan Alliance," after joining the sect, there will not be too much influence between each other. It is nothing more than having to spend more energy on alchemy.

For Huang Siyuan, who mainly cultivates alchemy techniques, as long as it does not affect her daily cultivation and she can have more opportunities to refine elixirs and improve her alchemy level, it is naturally not a bad thing.

The reason Yao Qian did this was mainly because he saw that Huang Siyuan had now joined the "Tiandan Alliance" and would sooner or later be able to improve her alchemy technique to the third tier and become a high-tier alchemist.

One must know that among the tens of thousands of cultivators in the entire Xiaoyao Sect, there are only a few alchemists above the third tier, and each of them is a very important talent for the sect.

Yao Qian did not want to let go of Huang Siyuan, this future third-tier alchemist, and must pull her into the sect. This was also a result of his consideration for the overall situation of the sect's future development as the Sect Master of the Xiaoyao Sect.

The Xiaoyao Sect has always protected high-tier alchemists in the Alchemy Pavilion who will affect the development of the sect, and has never easily conscripted them to go out to take risks to perform sect tasks.

On this point, Song Qingming naturally believed what Yao Qian said.

Seeing that Yao Qian had already laid his cards on the table and spoken to this point, Song Qingming thought for a while and did not refuse anymore, and expressed his agreement to Yao Qian on the spot to agree to Huang Siyuan joining the sect.

The reason Song Qingming had not dared to agree to this matter before was mainly because he was afraid that the Xiaoyao Sect could not accept Huang Siyuan's identity as an outer Elder of the "Tiandan Alliance," which is why he rushed to Mount Guyang in person to explain this matter.

But now that Yao Qian had represented the sect and expressed his position that he did not mind the relationship between Huang Siyuan and the "Tiandan Alliance," and would not arbitrarily conscript her to go out to perform sect tasks, this left Song Qingming with no other reason to refuse this matter.

After discussing this matter with Yao Qian, Song Qingming immediately returned to Mount Funiu to discuss it with Huang Siyuan. Half a month later, he took her to Mount Guyang and officially joined the Xiaoyao Sect to serve as a guest Elder of the sect.

In less than a hundred years, three people from the Song family had successfully formed their cores and served as guest Elders of the sect. This matter also caused a shock among other Jin Dan Elders in the Xiaoyao Sect.

Even Chu Fengping, Zhao Menglian, and Xu Ziyuan, who had always been relatively close to Song Qingming, vaguely felt that there seemed to be something not simple behind the Song family.

Li Wutong and True Person Guangling, who had always had an average relationship with Song Qingming, also went to Sect Master Yao Qian to inquire one after another, but the two of them also did not get any useful information and were quickly dismissed by Yao Qian.

After joining the sect and becoming a guest Elder of the Xiaoyao Sect, Huang Siyuan went into seclusion not long after and began to refine her own natal magic treasure.

Song Qingming, who had been training in the East Sea for several years, had also cultivated his cultivation base to the peak of the fourth layer of Jin Dan. Now that he had returned to Mount Funiu, he happened to be free, so he also began to go into seclusion to try to break through his cultivation base.

Because he still had a third-tier mid-grade "Red Dragon Pill" in his hand, Song Qingming's breakthrough in cultivation this time was still very smooth. After going into seclusion for less than two years, he successfully broke through the bottleneck of the fourth layer of Jin Dan and improved his cultivation base to the fifth layer of Jin Dan.

Just after Song Qingming broke through his cultivation base, Huang Siyuan also successfully refined her natal magic treasure "Purple Gold Seal" and walked out of the cave dwelling where she was in seclusion.

After Huang Siyuan failed to form her core for the first time, she had already switched to practicing the Jin Dan stage cultivation technique "Golden Abyss Technique" left by Chen Jinliang back then.

Like the "Five Elements Profound Gang Technique" practiced by Song Qingming, this cultivation technique also came with a set of natal magic treasure refining methods.

Song Qingming had already helped Huang Siyuan collect all the materials needed to refine the magic treasure when he was in "Tiandancheng" and had not yet returned, which is why she was able to refine her own natal magic treasure so quickly.

The two came out of seclusion one after another, and both had gained quite a lot in their seclusion, so they were naturally very happy. They pulled Song Qingyu, who happened to be free, to set up a banquet in the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain to celebrate properly.

Just as the three of Song Qingming were happily drinking and chatting in the "Huixian Pavilion," a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy with a still slightly immature face ran up anxiously with a letter in his hand.

"Xuanfeng! Is there something to look for me?" Seeing Song Xuanfeng, who was standing not far away anxiously, Song Qingming, who still had a trace of a smile on his face, hurriedly asked softly.

Hearing this, Song Xuanfeng immediately stepped forward and handed the letter in his hand to Song Qingming respectfully.

"Reporting to the Third Uncle-Grandfather, a letter was just sent from Yinfeng Ridge. It is the Eighteenth Uncle-Grandfather looking for you."

"What is Yuanli looking for me for? Didn't it say in the letter?" Hearing that Song Yuanli had specially sent a letter from Yinfeng Ridge to look for him, a trace of doubt also appeared on Song Qingming's face. (End of chapter)