Chapter 723: Spirit Beast Changes, Third-Grade Mid-Grade Alchemist

Huang Siyuan's previous magic treasures were only third-grade low-grade. A few years ago, at the "Dengyun Pavilion" exchange meeting, although she obtained a third-grade mid-grade defensive magic treasure.

However, besides her natal magic treasure "Purple Gold Seal," she did not have other powerful attack-type magic treasures for the time being.

This third-grade mid-grade metal-attribute flying knife happened to be relatively compatible with the "Golden Abyss Technique" she cultivated. After Huang Siyuan obtained this magic treasure, her ability to fight with others increased by a few points.

Huang Siyuan, who received the flying knife magic treasure, immediately played with it in her hand and liked this newly obtained magic treasure very much.

After giving this magic treasure to Huang Siyuan, Song Qingming took out twenty thousand spirit stones from those spirit stones and distributed them to her, before putting away the remaining spirit stones and other spiritual objects on the table.

This time going to rescue He Mengxin, Song Qingming originally wanted to explore the situation and help, and he did not expect that he could also get a "windfall" by misfortune.

Naturally, Song Qingming was very satisfied with this. With such a large extra income of spirit stones, for Song Qingming, it at least helped him solve many troubles in cultivation again.

After putting away the spiritual objects on the table, seeing that Huang Siyuan had gone to the side to start removing the imprint left by the previous owner of the flying knife magic treasure, intending to start refining this magic treasure, Song Qingming took out the array disk and array flags he had specifically collected before.

Having experienced the power of the "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" at Fish Dragon Mountain, Song Qingming was also very interested in this grand array and wanted to try to see if there was any way to repair it.

This "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" was refined using a fourth-grade array disk. Although its grade was still far from a fourth-grade magic array, its power was much stronger than ordinary third-grade high-grade arrays.

If Xia Mo hadn't used the Spirit-Transforming Talisman to forcibly raise her strength and split the grand array from the inside that day, it would indeed not have been so easy for Song Qingming and the others to come out from inside.

Song Qingming currently only had the "Heavenly Dipper Five Elements Array" with outstanding defense, and happened to lack a powerful magic array like the "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" that included trapping enemies and attack capabilities.

If he could repair this "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array," it would undoubtedly increase his strength by a few points for Song Qingming.

Moreover, a complete "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" had much more powerful power than the "Heavenly Dipper Five Elements Array" in Song Qingming's hands. In terms of value, I fear it was higher than all the other magic treasures on the white-haired old man combined, and it was absolutely worth Song Qingming spending his mind to try.

After carefully and earnestly checking the damaged grand array, he found that the damage to the entire grand array was indeed somewhat serious. Several array flags had a few large holes in them, and it was already difficult to repair them and they could only be refined again.

The most important array disk, as Xia Mo said, needed at least two high-grade materials of water and fire attributes before Song Qingming had a way to repair it completely.

The array flags were still okay. The materials needed for refining were not too rare. Song Qingming could find the materials needed by spending some merit points at the Xiaoyao Sect's Merit Pavilion and refine them out.

The trouble was still at the array disk here. Third-grade high-grade materials of water and fire attributes were not only very expensive things but also very rare. Song Qingming wanted to collect these materials, I fear he still needed to spend some effort.

However, Xia Mo had already promised to exchange a "Water Cloud Stone" for Song Qingming, and the rest only needed to find another third-grade high-grade material of fire attribute.

Although this kind of material was very rare, it was not a precious spiritual object that could not be met but not sought after above the fourth grade. As long as he was patient and spent more time, there would always be a way to find it.

Fortunately, Song Qingming was not in a hurry to use this array to do anything now. If he couldn't find it in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, he could go to the East Sea cultivation world.

If it didn't work, he could find an opportunity to inquire about it after going to the "Donghuang Kingdom" cultivation world in the future. Now he had sufficient spirit stones in his hand, as well as many high-grade spiritual medicines and magic treasures. As long as there was time, why worry about not being able to exchange for this thing.

After studying the "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" in the cave for a few days, Song Qingming was fascinated and forgot the time.

By the time he remembered to walk out of the cave and wanted to go to "Red Flame Workshop" to see off He Mengxin and Xia Mo and the others, he learned from Song Yuanfang that He Mengxin and the others had already left and returned to the East Sea a step earlier.

Seeing that he had delayed time because of being addicted to arrays and failed to see them off in person, Song Qingming could not help but feel a little regretful in his heart.

This time he was able to take risks and successfully obtain so many spiritual objects, as well as that damaged "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array," in the final analysis, it was still because he got some of Xia Mo's light.

If she hadn't taken action to help behead that white-haired old man in the end, just relying on Song Qingming alone to beat back the opponent would not be difficult, but it would definitely be difficult to leave the opponent so smoothly.

Knowing that He Mengxin and the others had already left Qinghe County, Song Qingming could only return to his cave dwelling with some regret, and wait until he went to the East Sea next time to properly apologize to the other party in person.

After Xia Mo and the others left, Qinghe County ushered in a relatively quiet time again, and the entire Song family was in a state of steady and slow development.

Except for occasionally caring about the collection of the "Shuangfeng Mountain" spirit stone mine, Song Qingming rarely asked about other trivial matters of the family, basically handing them over to Song Yuanfang and the others to handle.

He himself was hiding on the mountain top with Huang Siyuan to cultivate with all his heart, occasionally going down the mountain together to walk around, enjoying the very rare peaceful days now.

Because it is located in the northern part of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range cultivation world, there are threats from numerous demon beasts everywhere in the Wei Kingdom, and Qinghe County, which is adjacent to "Yunwu Mountain," is the same.

Since Song Qingming went up the mountain to cultivate for more than two hundred years, for most of the time, the entire Qinghe County has not been very peaceful, often suffering from invasions by demon beast armies or trouble from low-grade demonic cultivators.

Peaceful days like now without any turmoil have always been rare. Seeing that the entire Qinghe County has become more and more prosperous after being taken over by the Song family, Song Qingming is also very gratified in his heart.

Cultivating for a lifetime, how far he can go in the future and whether he has a chance to achieve the Nascent Soul Great Dao, Song Qingming does not know in his heart now.

However, he has been able to develop the family to the present and protect the peace of Qinghe County for hundreds of years, which can be considered a contribution to all human races in this area, not in vain for this life.

Since He Mengxin and the others left, time soon passed by in a hurry for another two years.

On this day, Song Yuanfang, who was handling miscellaneous affairs in the family "Discussion Hall," suddenly received a letter from outside sent by the family Law Enforcement Team.

Song Yuanfang, who got the letter, opened it and scanned it carefully. Seeing the content on the letter, he could not help but feel somewhat surprised.

After giving a word to the family juniors who were assisting him in handling affairs, Song Yuanfang got up, took the letter, and walked directly toward the location of the mountain top.

On a piece of open space on the top of "Funiu Mountain," a flood dragon snake with an ice-blue body and two small horns on its head was staring tightly at a giant gray bird not far in front of it, occasionally opening its mouth to spit out a cold breath to provoke the other party.

This giant gray bird had a huge body, standing a zhang high on the ground, and was a fierce second-grade demon beast whose cultivation had reached the peak of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment.

And that blue flood dragon snake that was provoking it, although its body was not big, only four or five feet long, the demon beast aura emitted from its body was more powerful than that giant bird, and it had already reached the late-stage Foundation Establishment realm.

Seeing that blue flood dragon snake keep provoking itself, the gray giant bird, which had endured for a long time, finally couldn't help it anymore. It directly opened its mouth to let out a long whistle, spread its huge wings, and fanned a thunder light toward the position where the flood dragon snake was.

Although its own cultivation was not as good as the other party, the gray giant bird had the bloodline of the Heavenly Peng and naturally restrained all kinds of snake-like demon beasts, so it did not have half a fear of the blue flood dragon snake in front of it.

Seeing this, the blue flood dragon snake did not panic, curled up its body, and before the thunder light arrived, it bounced from the ground in advance and flew into the air to avoid the other party's attack.

Afterward, it spat out a huge ice wind toward the gray giant bird that flew over, freezing the gray giant bird in mid-air until it trembled, almost falling from the sky.

However, although this ice wind was powerful, it came fast and went fast. As the ice wind slowly disappeared in the air, the gray giant bird also immediately returned to normal, lifted its huge claws, and went up to grab the blue flood dragon snake, wanting to press it under its feet.

But it didn't want that flood dragon snake to suddenly emit a ball of scorching flames, scalding the gray giant bird until it hurriedly opened its claws and threw it into the bamboo forest on the side from mid-air.

On top of a giant rock not far from where the flood dragon snake and the giant bird were fighting, Song Qingming, who was naked, was sitting on the giant rock, trying hard to control the "Tongtian Wanling Jue" to absorb the pure heaven and earth spiritual energy from all around.

Seeing that the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" and the "Heavenly Fire Peng" beside him were fighting again, after revealing a helpless smile, he immediately put away his own magic power and stood up from the giant rock.

"Why do you two fight at every turn? Can't you just stay well and let me cultivate quietly for a while!"

Hearing Song Qingming's reprimand, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" and the "Heavenly Fire Peng," which had been fighting very fiercely just now, hurriedly took the initiative to come to Song Qingming's front.

The "Heavenly Fire Peng" had been in the Song family for many years and had been guarding the clan, becoming the family's mountain-protecting spirit beast. However, its cultivation progress in these years had been relatively average, and it had been more than a hundred years since it broke through to Foundation Establishment, and it was still a step away from the late-stage Foundation Establishment realm.

Although the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" had followed Song Qingming for a shorter time, because its bloodline was more powerful, coupled with Song Qingming's careful care over the years, its cultivation had risen very fast, and it had already broken through to the late-stage Foundation Establishment after the demon beast turmoil ended.

Coupled with the fact that Song Qingming had fed it a lot of mysterious white spirit water brought out from the secret realm in recent years, its cultivation had improved a lot. Song Qingming estimated that at this rate, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" cultivation would not be too far from attempting to form a core.

After reprimanding the two spirit beasts in front of him, Song Qingming took out a small bottle of white spirit water from his body, gave a part to the "Heavenly Fire Peng," and gave the rest to the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon."

Seeing the white spirit water that it loved to swallow very much, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" eyes were instantly full of greed.

After curling up its own share of spirit water with its tail, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" tasted it while its gaze did not forget to stare at the "Heavenly Fire Peng" that was also swallowing spirit water, seemingly wanting to snatch the other party's share as well. "You've been given so much, why are you still not satisfied? If you have no rules like this again, I will punish you for two months without spirit water next time."

Hearing Song Qingming's reminder on the side, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" suddenly retracted its head and began to focus on enjoying the delicious food in its hand.

Song Qingming's two spirit beasts, although both swallowed a lot of white spirit water, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" cultivation progress was obviously much faster than the "Heavenly Fire Peng" on the side after swallowing and refining it.

This also proved once again that the effect of this thing on different types of demon beasts is indeed very different after use.

Although the "Heavenly Fire Peng's" cultivation progress was relatively slow, after swallowing the spirit water, its body was obviously much stronger than before, just like the black bear demon king who died in Song Qingming's hands, which could be considered not wasting the spirit water Song Qingming fed it.

In addition, the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" on Song Qingming's body had also made very obvious progress in cultivation after swallowing this white spirit water. Most of them had advanced to the mid-stage Foundation Establishment, and many had broken through to the late-stage Foundation Establishment realm.

After Song Qingming's cultivation broke through to the late-stage Golden Core, the number of "Golden Illusion Butterflies" he could command and mobilize at one time had reached nearly a thousand.

With so many second-grade "Golden Illusion Butterflies" gathered in one place, the overall strength they could exert now was not to be underestimated, and even ordinary mid-stage Golden Core cultivators could go up and contend with them for a while.

Seeing that these spirit waters were so useful to the "Golden Illusion Butterflies," Song Qingming also told Huang Siyuan about this method, letting her use it to cultivate the spirit insects on her body.

When Huang Siyuan was still in the Foundation Establishment realm, she had already learned the insect-driving technique and subdued a batch of "Golden Illusion Butterflies" for herself.

It's just that her energy had been placed on the cultivation of core formation all these years, and she had not put too much effort into the cultivation of spirit insects. The number and quality of the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" in her hands were far behind Song Qingming's.

Until Song Qingming confirmed that the white spirit water was useful to the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" after testing, Huang Siyuan, after these few years of cultivation, changed the number of two-grade "Golden Illusion Butterflies" on her body from only a few dozen to more than two hundred.

Nowadays, although Huang Siyuan's cultivation is only at the third layer of the Golden Core, she not only has several powerful mid-grade magic treasures on her body but also has the help of Golden Core spirit pets like "Red Flame" and numerous "Golden Illusion Butterflies." Her fighting strength is not much worse than ordinary mid-stage Golden Core cultivators.

And as long as there is sufficient white spirit water, the speed of strength improvement for both "Golden Illusion Butterflies" and other spirit pets will accelerate a lot. For Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, this will also be a way to improve their own strength in the future.

After feeding some white spirit water to the two guys in front of him, Song Qingming just wanted to return to the rock to continue meditating and cultivating the "Tongtian Wanling Jue," but suddenly felt someone walking toward this side not far behind him.

Turning around and looking up, he found that it was Song Yuanfang. Song Qingming hurriedly waved his hand, put on his outer garment, and walked toward him.

"Seventh Grand-Uncle, this is the letter just received from the Zhang family of Iron Immortal Castle, inviting you to go to Iron Immortal Castle to attend the banquet next month."

After seeing Song Qingming, Song Yuanfang first stepped forward to salute, and then handed the letter he had been holding in his hand to Song Qingming.

"Attend the banquet? What happened to Iron Immortal Castle again?"

Hearing that Zhang Tieyang invited him to attend the banquet, Song Qingming was slightly stunned, hurriedly opened the letter in his hand and looked at it, and then revealed a somewhat surprised expression like Song Yuanfang before.

"Didn't Junior Brother Zhang just marry a Dao companion the year before last? Why is he going to hold a big banquet again after such a short time? This guy is really interested in this matter."

"Last time I personally went to Iron Immortal Castle, which can be considered giving him face. I won't go this time. Yuanfang, you go for me. Let the Hidden Gold Pavilion prepare a similar spiritual object and bring it over as a congratulatory gift at that time."

"If Junior Brother Zhang asks about me and Siyuan, you just say that we are both in recent seclusion and cultivation and have no time to go over."

After the demon beast turmoil, under the intentional support of the Xiaoyao Sect in recent years, "Iron Immortal Castle" had also slowly begun to recover, and the spirit mountain markets within its territory had all been rebuilt.

After Zhang Tieyang led the Zhang family to take over "Iron Immortal Castle," it was indeed not beyond everyone's expectations. It only took less than a few years to gradually control the control power there.

Those cultivation families and forces that were originally attached to the Hu family's command, seeing that the wind direction was not right, all turned to take refuge under the command of the new Golden Core family, the Zhang family, making the Hu family, which had originally dominated one side, fall from the core of interests and be slowly squeezed out.

Although the Hu family was gnashing their teeth at the Zhang family's move, they were helpless. After all, the other party had Zhang Tieyang, a Golden Core ancestor, sitting in town, and their strength was obviously greater. If they wanted to turn against them, the ones who would suffer would definitely be themselves.

For this reason, Hu Qingyun, whose injuries had not yet healed, even ran to "Guyang Mountain" a few years ago to complain and cry about the Zhang family's suppression of them.

It's just that after the old Sect Master Yao Qian Shu passed away, the Hu family had no particularly strong relationship in the sect, and not many people were willing to stand up and speak for them.

Therefore, the Sect's Miscellaneous Affairs Hall also had loud thunder and small rain on this matter. Although they called Zhang Tieyang to "Guyang Mountain" to scold him in person, they did not have too much obstruction to the Zhang family's actions.

Since then, although the Zhang family did not continue to suppress the Hu family, the territory of "Iron Immortal Castle" had already become dominated by the Zhang family, and the Hu family's influence was far less than before and could only stand on the side.

After the Zhang family dominated and controlled the entire "Iron Immortal Castle," the nearby cultivation families who invested in their command naturally also had to try their best to curry favor with the Zhang family.

Especially knowing that Zhang Tieyang, this Golden Core ancestor, liked female beauty, some Foundation Establishment families took the initiative to come to the door, wanting to send their own suitable beautiful female cultivators to Zhang Tieyang as concubines, in order to seek the family to get closer to this Golden Core ancestor.

Zhang Tieyang, as a Golden Core cultivator with successful cultivation, also liked male and female love, so marrying a wife and taking a concubine was no longer a strange thing for him.

However, this guy was a bit different from other high-grade cultivators in one point: he would not choose to handle this matter in a low-key manner.

Whenever he married a female cultivator into the door, Zhang Tieyang would choose to hold a big banquet and invite nearby friends to come and observe the ceremony, giving the other party enough etiquette and respect, which could be considered one of the few people in the cultivation world who were relatively honest about this.

It's just that in this way, Song Qingming and the others who were close and were friends with Zhang Tieyang were somewhat uncomfortable.

Not only did they have to spend time to attend the banquet, but they also had to send a good congratulatory gift to the other party, so as not to let the family appear too stingy.

Zhang Tieyang had only been in charge of "Iron Immortal Castle" for less than ten years, and this was already the third time he had sent an invitation to the Song family. The first two times, Song Qingming gave Zhang Tieyang enough face and went to the scene in person to congratulate him. This time, he really didn't want to go and join in the fun again.

Although Huang Siyuan had helped Zhang Tieyang refine pills and earned a lot of spirit stones for the Zhang family over the years, all of them were returned at once. Thinking of this, Song Qingming could not help but shake his head and sigh.

After giving a word to Song Yuanfang, Song Qingming was in no mood to continue cultivating, so he turned and came to the family alchemy pavilion located on the east side of "Funiu Mountain."

Huang Siyuan, who was in seclusion refining pills, was carefully checking the three pills she had just refined in her hand, when she suddenly saw a sound transmission talisman flying outside the array, hurriedly picked it up and looked at it, and then walked out of the alchemy room with a happy face.

"Husband, how did you know that I had finished refining pills today?"

"I have observed that the time you spent in seclusion refining pills each time is not much different. Counting the days, it should be about the same, so I came here to see." Hearing Huang Siyuan's inquiry, Song Qingming immediately explained.

Huang Siyuan did not pay too much attention to this, directly took out three small porcelain bottles containing pills from the storage bag at her waist, and excitedly placed them in front of Song Qingming.

"This time refining pills, luck was not bad, three pills were formed, and I finally made a small profit. Husband, you take these pills first!"

"Oh! Actually refined three Cave Origin Pills at once. It seems that your alchemy technique has improved again, and it is not much worse than Senior Brother Chu now."

Seeing the three small porcelain bottles in Huang Siyuan's hand, Song Qingming was also somewhat surprised and hurriedly congratulated Huang Siyuan.

The "Cave Origin Pill" refined by Huang Siyuan was the pill formula she copied from Zhang Tieyang when she cooperated with him to refine pills back then.

Because the few demon king inner cores harvested by Song Qingming and the others during the demon beast turmoil happened to be used to refine this pill, Huang Siyuan had let family cultivators collect auxiliary spiritual medicines everywhere in recent years, and had now successfully refined three furnaces of "Cave Origin Pills."

The first two times, only two pills were formed, and there was no loss of materials for refining pills. It was not until this time that Huang Siyuan finally made progress and formed three pills, making some profit.

Being able to successfully refine three "Cave Origin Pills" at once, it can be seen that Huang Siyuan's alchemy technique is a well-deserved third-grade mid-grade alchemist. Seeing the joy on Huang Siyuan's face, Song Qingming was also very happy for her in his heart.

"I have already taken one, and refining this pill is of little use to me. You take these pills first."

"I will leave one for Qingyu in the future, and take the others to the Heavenly Pill Alliance to exchange for other spiritual objects. You can decide this matter yourself, don't worry about my thoughts."

Seeing Huang Siyuan wanting to hand over all three "Cave Origin Pills" to him, Song Qingming waved his hand and only took one of the small porcelain bottles.

Hearing Song Qingming's words, Huang Siyuan did not insist, nodded slightly, and put the remaining pills back into the storage bag.

"Siyuan, I want to go to the East Sea in two days to find Fairy Xia and the others to exchange for a high-grade material for repairing the array. Do you want to go with me this time?"