Chapter 706

Since knowing Song Qingming, "Chiyan" had long since learned his temper over these past few days. Even knowing that the other party wasn't really angry, it didn't dare to be too presumptuous before Song Qingming.

Standing by the pool and looking carefully for a good while, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan also couldn't confirm what this white spiritual water was, and couldn't help but shake their heads one after another.

The cultivation world is too vast, and there are numerous spiritual items within the five continents and four seas, and many spiritual items have already gone extinct since ancient times and are unknown. Even though Song Qingming and his companion were already successful Golden Core cultivators, the spiritual items he could recognize now were also very limited.

Compared to the thousands of strange treasures in the entire cultivation world, the spiritual items they had seen and could recognize were estimated to be less than one-tenth. Encountering such an unknown spiritual water was not too strange a thing.

"These spiritual waters, I don't know what spiritual items they are or what their uses are. Let's pack some and take them out to see. We'll make plans after confirming what they are!"

After the two discussed it, they each took out some empty bottles and jars and began to pack the spiritual water in the pool.

"Master, these spiritual waters were clearly discovered by me first. I haven't drunk them for a long time, and just now..." Seeing Huang Siyuan fill an empty jade bottle with a bottle of spiritual water, "Chiyan" to the side couldn't help but explain to her pitifully again.

"You have also done a great job in finding these spiritual waters. Considering your great contribution, I will reward you with some of this item. However, when we determine the use of this item, you must not be so gluttonous again."

"Hmm! Thank you, Master." Looking at the bottle of spiritual water Huang Siyuan handed over, "Chiyan" was full of joy, hurriedly hugged the jade bottle, and hid to the side, fearing that Song Qingming would turn his face and scold it again in a moment.

Looking at the cute appearance of "Chiyan," Huang Siyuan also smiled slightly at Song Qingming to the side and explained: "This spiritual spring has not yet dried up. Even if we take all the spiritual water this time, it will still be able to slowly accumulate again by the time we enter next time.

Rewarding it with some won't have too much impact on us, so you don't have to be so stingy!"

"Hmm! I'm not such a stingy person; I just can't stand it being too gluttonous." Song Qingming shook his head lightly and didn't say anything more, then patiently packed the white spiritual water in the pool.

It didn't take long for the two to pack over a dozen full bottles. Seeing that the spiritual water in the pool was already close to drying up, they took the initiative to stop.

"The remaining spiritual water just happens to be able to cover the spring eye below, so let's leave it for now to avoid destroying the spiritual vein in the spring eye. It is estimated that in another hundred years, it will be able to accumulate this much spiritual water again.

Regardless of whether this spiritual water is useful to us or not, draining the pond to catch the fish is not worth the loss. Let's stop here this time." Looking at the spiritual water remaining in the spring eye, Song Qingming said with satisfaction.

After the two had packed the porcelain bottles with spiritual water, Song Qingming cast a spell to set up a small "spiritual gathering array" on the edge of the spring eye to help this spring eye better absorb the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy, which could also make it produce spiritual water faster.

Afterward, Song Qingming spent a lot of time at the entrance of this cave dwelling to set up a second-tier high-grade concealment array, completely covering the entire cave entrance to prevent other demon beasts in the secret realm from breaking into the cave and stealing the spiritual spring water.

With this second-tier high-grade concealment array, demon beasts below the Golden Core stage in the secret realm would have no chance to break into it. Even if a Golden Core-level demon king passed by the canyon, as long as it wasn't one of those very sensitive demon beasts, it would be very difficult to discover the clues behind this array.

Moreover, there were not many Golden Core demon beasts in this array, and most of them had already been cleaned up by Song Qingming and his group through their search and the information "Chiyan" knew over these few days. It was thought that there shouldn't be any major problems.

After covering the cave entrance, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan left the canyon together and went to the next place to search for spiritual items. — Three days later, in a large array above an unnamed sea island.

Song Yuanqian and Song Xuanfeng were hiding behind the array, carefully watching a snow-white golden-crowned bird on a reef on the east side of the sea island, several hundred zhang away from them.

This golden-crowned bird looked small, only half a person high, but the aura it emitted was very powerful, no less than an early-stage Golden Core cultivator.

Looking at the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" in the distance, Song Yuanqian and his companion were also very nervous, fearing that the other party would discover them hiding in the array on the mountain top.

Although the second-tier high-grade array Song Qingming set up could perfectly hide their figures and the aura on their bodies.

But encountering a Golden Core-level demon king was hard to say. Some demon beasts with very sensitive noses could smell some of the aura on them even with the isolation of the array.

This "Golden-Crowned Demon King" had stayed on the island for half a day and had shown no signs of leaving, which also put Song Yuanqian and his companion, who were hiding in the array, in a dilemma.

As long as the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" didn't leave, they would always be in danger and could be discovered by the other party at any time.

But if they sent a sound-transmission spirit talisman at this time to inform Song Qingming and his companion below that a Golden Core demon king had come to the island, it would inevitably affect their actions below and might also alert this "Golden-Crowned Demon King," causing them to actively expose their position.

"Great-Aunt, this demon king is probably not going to leave for a while. Should we send a sound-transmission talisman to inform the Patriarch and the others?"

Facing Song Xuanfeng's repeated inquiry, Song Yuanqian still shook her head as before: "This guy hasn't discovered our position yet, so don't be anxious.

The Patriarch and the others have been down for so long and haven't come up yet; I'm afraid they have also encountered some trouble. Let's not disturb them for now and wait for another hour to see the situation."

Song Yuanqian had been in Foundation Establishment for many years. Although her cultivation was not high and she had always been helping Song Yuanfang manage worldly affairs in the family, rarely going out to hunt demons or execute family missions, her personal courage was no worse than other elders in the Song family.

During the last demon beast turmoil, she had also led cultivators from the rear Qinghe County to transport supplies to the front line of "Jinshan Workshop" many times and had participated in several great battles against demon beasts.

In terms of experience in dealing with demon beasts, Song Yuanqian was much stronger than juniors like Song Xuanfeng who had not been in Foundation Establishment for long, and she was also more calm when facing such a crisis.

Just as the two were staring at the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" motionless on the reef, a wave suddenly rose on the sea surface not far away, and a black sea fish over three feet long suddenly jumped out of the water and leaped into mid-air.

Before this sea fish could fall back to the sea surface, a more massive demon beast figure suddenly jumped out from underwater, opened its blood-red mouth, and swallowed this sea fish directly into its belly.

Just in the blink of an eye, the "Golden-Crowned Demon King," which had been motionless on the reef for half a day, also reacted, directly transforming into a white arrow and flying toward the sea surface, plunging directly into the sea where the demon beast had just appeared.

A moment later, this "Golden-Crowned Demon King" flew out from the seawater, with a massive sea monster that could no longer move in its mouth, and returned to the reef just now.

Watching the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" happily enjoying its food not far away, Song Yuanqian and his companion in the array did not dare to relax for a moment, their eyes tightly fixed on this powerful demon king before them.

Fortunately, not long after, the "Golden-Crowned Demon King," which had eaten its fill, did not stay any longer, spread its wings directly, and flew toward another island in the distance, soon disappearing from the eyes of the two Song family members.

Only then did Song Yuanqian and Song Xuanfeng slowly breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts. After looking at each other, a smile of survival after a disaster appeared on both their faces.

But before they could relax for long, a loud noise suddenly came from the sea surface below, instantly attracting their attention.

"Haha! Great-Aunt, the Patriarch and the others are back!"

Seeing the two familiar figures slowly flying over from the sea surface, Song Xuanfeng, who was already excited, immediately took the initiative to walk out of the array and waved his hand hard at Song Qingming and his companion who were approaching.

"Greetings, Patriarch!"

"Thank you for your hard work. You didn't encounter any trouble on the island these past few days, did you?" Seeing Song Yuanqian and Song Xuanfeng before him both safe and sound, Song Qingming, who had been worried about them for days, also showed a hint of relief at this moment.

After killing the "Black Bear Demon King" and obtaining those white spiritual waters, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan searched in the secret realm for a few more days, but only obtained a few third-tier spiritual herbs and didn't find any other good things afterward.

Seeing that most of the places with spiritual items in the secret realm had been searched by them, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan discussed it and took the initiative to leave the secret realm through the barrier entrance and return to the island.

"Patriarch, don't worry. No other cultivators have come here these past few days. Only a Golden Core demon king came to the island to hunt yesterday, and it has already left this place not long ago."

Song Yuanqian to the side bowed and replied to Song Qingming, and also incidentally mentioned the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" they had encountered earlier.

"There was also a Golden Core demon king hunting here? What kind of demon beast was it, and what was its cultivation?"

Hearing Song Yuanqian say that a Golden Core demon king had come to the island, Song Qingming's expression changed slightly, and he asked another question, seeming very interested in this Golden Core demon beast that had appeared nearby.

Seeing this, Song Yuanqian also immediately told the detailed process of the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" hunting just now, as well as the direction the other party had left in.

Confirming that the other party had gone to another island not far from here, Song Qingming took the two of them onto his flying boat without a word and flew quickly toward the small island pointed out by Song Yuanqian with Huang Siyuan.

Just as they approached that small island, a sharp cry was suddenly heard, and soon the four saw the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" that had left the eyes of Song Yuanqian and his companion not long ago.

At this moment, this "Golden-Crowned Demon King" was still patiently waiting for prey to appear on this deserted island, not expecting a streak of light to suddenly fly from afar, instantly startling it. Looking at the white flying boat that appeared before it, the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" was also very unhappy and fired several wind blades at the location of the crowd, wanting to break the "Phantom Boat" Song Qingming and his group were riding in one blow.

"Stop being arrogant!"

Seeing this "Golden-Crowned Demon King" coming aggressively, Song Qingming shouted angrily, immediately drove his magic treasure, jumped out of the flying boat, and rushed directly toward the location of the "Golden-Crowned Demon King."

Huang Siyuan also resisted the wind blades released by the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" while controlling her magic treasure to counterattack the opponent, and the two sides immediately launched a great battle.

"..."

A quarter of an hour later, on a beach by the deserted island, Song Qingming held the inner core he had just obtained and looked at the corpse of the "Golden-Crowned Demon King" before him, his face also showing a hint of satisfaction.

These natural spiritual items in the cultivation world had very different effects on different demon beasts. "Chiyan" could open its spiritual wisdom in advance after swallowing these spiritual waters, while that "Black Bear Demon King" only strengthened its physical body and cultivation after occupying the spiritual spring.

The "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" Song Qingming obtained from the Nascent Soul cave dwelling in the Yue Kingdom years ago was also like this. This item could help the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" on Song Qingming break through their cultivation realm, but the effect of feeding it to the "Heavenly Fire Peng" was unsatisfactory, and it could only be said to be a waste.

Although he knew that this white spiritual water had a great effect on demon beasts, Song Qingming couldn't figure out the origin and true use of this item, so he didn't dare to use it casually, so he first tried feeding some to his own spirit insects, the "Golden Illusion Butterflies."

The "Golden Illusion Butterflies" that swallowed these spiritual waters didn't have any major changes at first. It wasn't until Song Qingming broke through his cultivation this time that he discovered that the aura on them was much stronger than before he went into closed-door cultivation, and a few of the larger ones were vaguely approaching the late Foundation Establishment cultivation.

Seeing that this item was indeed useful to them, Song Qingming didn't begrudge the spiritual water in his hand anymore and took out a large bottle and poured it into the early-dried groove nearby.

Anyway, he had brought back quite a lot of spiritual water from the secret realm this time. As long as it wasn't wasted, Song Qingming would definitely not be stingy with these spirit insects that had followed him for many years.

After smelling the scent of this white spiritual water, the hundreds of "Golden Illusion Butterflies" in the secret room immediately swarmed over and soon surrounded the place tightly.

The "Ice Fire Dragon" coiled on Song Qingming saw this scene and also poked its head out from Song Qingming's shoulder, seeming to want to step forward to taste the white spiritual water.

Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately shook his head at it and said: "You have just broken through your cultivation not long ago, so don't be too anxious. After your cultivation is completely stabilized, there will definitely be no shortage of yours."

Just as Song Qingming finished speaking, a burst of spiritual energy fluctuation suddenly came from the cave dwelling door. Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly walked out of the secret room and returned to the cave dwelling outside.

After tidying up the spiritual items placed in his cave dwelling, Song Qingming waved his hand lightly to open his cave dwelling door. A moment later, Song Yuanfang, who had received the news of Song Qingming's exit, walked in from the outside with a respectful face. "Congratulations to Seventh Uncle-Grandfather for his cultivation progress!"

After entering the door, Song Yuanfang, feeling the not-small changes in Song Qingming's aura, hurriedly stepped forward with a happy face, bowed, and congratulated him.

"It's just closed-door cultivation to break through some cultivation, no need to be so polite. I've been in closed-door cultivation for these two years, nothing happened outside, right?"

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly waved his hand with a smile to signal Song Yuanfang before him to stand up, then took him to the stone table not far away and sat down.

Hearing Song Qingming's question, Song Yuanfang, who was prepared in his heart, hurriedly replied seriously:

"Reporting to Seventh Uncle-Grandfather, everything in the clan has been very normal these two years. The businesses in Qinghe Workshop, Jinshan Workshop, and Chiyan Workshop outside have also slowly recovered now.

Last year, the clan held a spiritual testing conference, and five more cultivators were added to the mountain. Among them, we also discovered a child with dual spiritual roots in Muguzhen. I checked the clan genealogy under the mountain and found that he was a descendant of Fourth Uncle-Grandfather's lineage."

"Oh! A dual spiritual root cultivator, and a descendant of Fourth Brother's lineage. This is truly a coincidence. Next time you bring him to see me!" Hearing the news of discovering another dual spiritual root cultivator in the clan, Song Qingming's face also showed a hint of joy.

The Song family had developed rapidly over the years, and because Qinghe County had been peaceful these years, the number of mortals under the mountain had also risen, already surpassing nearby cultivation families like the Huang family that had been established for thousands of years.

After years of cleaning up by the family law enforcement team, there were no traces of demon beasts within a hundred miles of "Funiu Mountain," and the Song family had built many mortal towns in the surrounding area. It is estimated that in a few decades, the number of mortals in the family should be able to break through one million.

These huge mortal bases under the mountain could provide the family with several children with spiritual roots every year. It was no longer rare for the family to encounter a three-spiritual-root cultivator every few years.

However, cultivators with dual spiritual roots or higher were still relatively rare in the Song family. In the hundred-plus years Song Qingming had served as the clan head, the family had only discovered that Song Yuanli and Song Yuanhao were talents with dual spiritual roots or higher.

Back then, Song Yuanli was discovered by Fourth Brother Song Qingrui when he tested his spiritual roots and brought him up the mountain. Unexpectedly, another dual spiritual root cultivation genius appeared in his lineage. Hearing this news, Song Qingming was also somewhat emotional about the cleverness of fate.

"How are Yuanli and the others' injuries? Have they all recovered? And is there any news from Xinyu?" After listening to the good news reported by Song Yuanfang, Song Qingming nodded and asked another question.

Hearing this question, the joy on Song Yuanfang's face slowly calmed down, and he replied softly:

"The healing pills you brought back from the East Sea last time have all been distributed. Most of the injured cultivators in the clan have recovered these two years. Only Eighteenth Brother and the others haven't fully recovered because their injuries were too severe.

They all had too severe physical damage. Even with the assistance of pills, they need a long time of recuperation to slowly recover. I estimate that they should all be able to recover in a few years, so you don't have to worry too much.

Eighth Uncle sent a letter half a year ago saying that he had obtained the Yuchen Pill and was preparing to go into closed-door cultivation to impact the Golden Core realm. It is estimated that he should be prepared and started closed-door cultivation by now."

Song Qingming sighed slightly upon hearing this: "Hmm! I know about Yuanli's injuries. It will delay his future path. You should take care of him when you have time and let him recuperate with peace of mind without thinking too much.

Yuanfang, you are all people who have made great contributions to the family. No matter who can reach the core formation step in the future, the family will try its best to support them. However, personal paths cannot be forced. How far this cultivation path can go depends on your own opportunities."

Among the many Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family, Song Yuanli and Song Changze's cultivation had broken through to the late Foundation Establishment stage, and Song Yuanhao, Song Yuanfang, and Song Yuanxue's cultivation had also reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment. On the surface, they all had a few chances to cultivate to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment and impact the Golden Core realm.

They were all people who had made great contributions to the family's development over the years. Although he certainly couldn't support them all to the Golden Core realm, Song Qingming didn't want to treat them unfairly in this regard.

He had brought back so many high-grade spiritual herbs from the "Tianyuan Sect" secret realm last time, and Song Qingming had also made plans in his heart. After he broke through his cultivation, he would go out to search for core formation spiritual items in other nearby places to make some preparations for them to impact the Golden Core realm in the future.

As an elder, what Song Qingming could do was to try his best to find core formation spiritual items for them. As for whether they would have the chance to step into the Golden Core realm in the future, that would depend on their personal opportunities.

Suddenly hearing that his own clan head would support him to impact the Golden Core realm in the future, Song Yuanfang's face also immediately showed a hint of unexpected joy, and he hurriedly bowed to Song Qingming before him to thank him!

"Thank you, Seventh Uncle-Grandfather, for your cultivation. Yuanfang understands!"

Since Foundation Establishment, because his personal cultivation talent was average, Song Yuanfang had spent most of his energy managing family affairs over the years, and his personal cultivation speed was not fast, and his cultivation had already been surpassed by the juniors Song Yuanhao and Song Changze who had later established their foundations.

Although Song Yuanfang knew that his talent was average and he was not as good as Song Yuanli and the others in cultivation, facing the temptation of the Golden Core Great Dao, it was impossible not to be moved.

Originally, Song Yuanfang thought that Song Qingming would not have the idea of supporting him to form a core. When he just heard that Song Qingming would treat the several family elders equally, he was also very excited at this moment.

After waving his hand at Song Yuanfang with a smile, Song Qingming asked again: "Yuanfang, how many spirit stones can the family treasury take out now?"

"On the account book of the Treasury Pavilion that Yuanqian gave me last month, there were still over thirty thousand spirit stones. Adding the treasury on the Chiyan Workshop side, it should be able to gather about fifty thousand spirit stones. If Seventh Uncle-Grandfather is in a hurry, I will send a letter to Changze to send all the spirit stones over tomorrow."

Song Qingming nodded lightly: "Hmm! Now that the family already has several Golden Core cultivators, the spiritual energy on the mountain is a bit insufficient. I plan to refine a set of high-grade spiritual gathering arrays first to improve the spiritual vein of Funiu Mountain.

Improving the spiritual vein this time will also take about one hundred thousand spirit stones. I can still take out thirty thousand spirit stones on my side. You go think of a way for the remaining gap and strive to gather these spirit stones within two months."

The scenery of the past was still there, but the old friends of the past were no longer to be seen. Recalling the path he had taken step by step to the Golden Core realm, Song Qingming was also very emotional.

Who could have thought that the ordinary-talented green-clothed boy on Funiu Mountain two hundred years ago would one day become the Song family ancestor who shook the northeast cultivation world of the Wei Kingdom!

After enjoying a carefree life with Huang Siyuan for more than half a year, Song Qingming, who had adjusted his state to perfection, finally said goodbye to Huang Siyuan and walked into his closed-door cave dwelling.

After the demon beast turmoil ended, Song Qingming's cultivation had reached the peak of the sixth layer of the Golden Core realm. Now that he had a "Qianyuan Pill" exchanged from Ye Qiuyuan, he could begin to try to break through his own cultivation realm.