Chapter 723: Changes in spirit beasts, third-tier mid-grade alchemist (Please vote for monthly tickets)

Huang Huang Siyuan's previous magic treasures were all third-tier low-grade. A few years ago, at the "Dengyun Pavilion" exchange meeting, although she obtained a third-tier 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-tier mid-grade metal-attribute flying knife was just right for her cultivation technique "Golden Abyss Art." After obtaining this magic treasure, Huang Huang Siyuan's ability to fight with others increased by a few points.

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

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

This time, going to rescue He He Mengxin, Song Song Qingming originally wanted to explore the situation and help out, and he didn't expect that he could also turn misfortune into fortune and make a "windfall."

Song Song Qingming was naturally very satisfied with this in his heart. With such a large amount of extra income from spirit stones, it at least helped him solve many troubles in his cultivation.

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

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

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

If Xia Mo hadn't used the Spirit Transformation 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 Song Qingming and the other to come out of it.

Song Song Qingming currently only has the "Heavenly Dipper Five Elements Array" with outstanding defense, and just happens to lack a powerful grand array like the "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" that contains both trapping and attacking capabilities.

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

Moreover, an intact "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array" is much more powerful than the "Heavenly Dipper Five Elements Array" in Song Song Qingming's hands. Its value is probably higher than all the other magic treasures on the white-haired old man combined, and it is definitely worth Song Song Qingming spending his mind to try.

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

The most important array disk, as Xia Mo said, requires at least two high-tier materials of water and fire attributes for Song Song Qingming to have a great chance of completely repairing it.

The array flags are okay. The materials needed for refining are not too rare. Song Song Qingming can find the needed materials to refine them by spending some merit points at the Xiaoyao Sect's Merit Pavilion.

The trouble is still here at the array disk. Third-tier top-grade materials of water and fire attributes are not only very expensive items but also very rare. Song Song Qingming wants to collect these materials, I am afraid he still needs to spend some effort.

However, Xia Mo had already promised to exchange a "Water Cloud Stone" for Song Song Qingming, and he only needs to find one more third-tier top-grade material of fire attribute.

Although this kind of material is very rare and hard to find, it is not a precious spiritual item that is hard to come by like those above the fourth tier. As long as he is patient and spends more time, there will always be a way to find it.

Fortunately, Song Song Qingming is not in a hurry to use this array for anything now. If he can't find it in the Fuyun Mountain Range, he can find an opportunity to inquire about it in the East Sea cultivation world.

If that doesn't work, he can find an opportunity to inquire about it when he goes to the "Donghuang Kingdom" cultivation world in the future. Now that he has sufficient spirit stones, as well as many high-tier spiritual medicines and magic treasures, as long as he has time, why worry about not being able to exchange for this item.

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

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

Seeing that he had delayed time because of his obsession with array techniques and failed to see them off in person, Song Song Qingming couldn't help but feel a bit of regret in his heart.

That I was able to risk my life this time and successfully obtain so many spiritual items, as well as that damaged "Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Formation," was ultimately thanks to Xia Mo.

If she hadn't made a move at the end to help kill that white-haired old man, it would not have been difficult for Song Song Qingming alone to repel the opponent, but it would have been absolutely difficult to leave the opponent behind so smoothly.

Learning that He He Mengxin and her companions had already left Qinghe County, Song Song Qingming could only return to his cave dwelling with some regret, waiting until he went to the East Sea next time to properly apologize to her in person.

After Xia Mo and her companions left, Qinghe County ushered in a period of relative tranquility, and the entire Song family was in a state of steady, slow development.

Aside from occasionally caring about the mining at the "Twin Peaks Mountain" spirit stone mine, Song Song Qingming rarely asked about other trivial family matters, basically leaving them all to Song Song Yuanfang and the others to handle.

He himself, along with Huang Huang Siyuan, hid on the mountain peak to cultivate with focus, occasionally going down the mountain together to walk around and enjoy the rare peaceful days they had now.

Because they were located in the northern part of the Floating Yunshan Range cultivation world, the Wei Kingdom was surrounded by threats from numerous demonic beasts, and Qinghe County, adjacent to "Mount Mount Yunwu," was the same.

In the two hundred-plus years since Song Song Qingming began cultivating on the mountain, most of the time the entire Qinghe County had not been very peaceful, frequently suffering from invasions by demonic beast armies or harassment by low-tier demonic cultivators.

Peaceful days like the present, without any turmoil, had always been rare. Seeing the entire Qinghe County become increasingly prosperous after the Song family took over, Song Song Qingming felt very gratified.

Having cultivated for a lifetime, Song Song Qingming did not know in his heart now how far he could go in the future or if he would have the opportunity to achieve the Nascent Soul Great Dao.

However, being able to develop the family to its current state and guard the peace of Qinghe County for hundreds of years could be considered a contribution to all the human race in this territory, and he had not lived this life in vain.

Since He He Mengxin and her companions left, time hurried by for another two years.

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

Song Song Yuanfang took the letter, opened it, and scanned it carefully. After seeing the contents, he couldn't help but look surprised.

After giving instructions to the younger family members assisting him with affairs, Song Song Yuanfang stood up, took the letter, and left the "Council Hall," walking directly toward the location of the mountain peak.

On an open space at the top of "Mount Mount Funiu," an ice-blue dragon-snake with two small horns on its head was staring intently 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.

This giant gray bird was huge, standing over a zhang tall on the ground, and was a fierce second-tier demonic beast whose cultivation had reached the peak of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

As for the blue dragon-snake provoking it, although its body was not large, only four or five feet long, the demonic beast aura it emitted was even more powerful than that of the giant bird, having already reached the late-Foundation Establishment stage.

Seeing the blue dragon-snake continuously provoking it, the giant gray bird, which had endured for a long time, finally couldn't hold back. It opened its mouth and let out a long cry, then spread its huge wings and fanned a streak of lightning toward the dragon-snake's location.

Although its own cultivation was not as high as the other's, the giant gray bird possessed the bloodline of the Heavenly Peng and was naturally a restraint against all kinds of snake-type demonic beasts; facing the blue dragon-snake before it, it had no fear at all.

Seeing this, the blue dragon-snake did not panic, coiled its body, and before the lightning arrived, it sprang from the ground and flew into the air to dodge the opponent's attack.

Subsequently, it spat out a massive ice wind at the giant gray bird that had flown over, freezing the giant gray bird in mid-air until it trembled uncontrollably, nearly falling from the sky.

However, although this ice wind was powerful, it came and went quickly. As the ice wind slowly disappeared in the air, the giant gray bird recovered to normal, lifted its huge sharp claws, and stepped forward to grab the blue dragon-snake, wanting to pin it under its feet.

But it didn't expect that a mass of scorching flames would suddenly erupt from the dragon-snake's body, burning the giant gray bird so much that it hurriedly opened its sharp claws and threw it into the bamboo forest nearby.

On top of a giant rock not far from where the dragon-snake and the giant bird were fighting, Song Song Qingming, stripped to the waist, was sitting on the giant rock, striving to manipulate the "Tongtian Wanling Jue" to absorb the pure heaven and earth spiritual energy from all around.

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

"Why do you two fight at the drop of a hat? Can't you just stay put and let me cultivate in peace for a while!"

Hearing Song Song Qingming's reprimand, the "Ice-Fire Dragon" and the "Heavenly Fire Peng," which had been fighting very fiercely just a moment ago, hurriedly scrambled to come before Song Song Qingming.

The "Heavenly Fire Peng" had stayed in the Song family for many years and had been guarding the clan, becoming the family's guardian spirit beast. However, its cultivation progress over these years had been quite average; having broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage over a hundred years ago, it was still a step away from the late-Foundation Establishment stage.

Although the "Ice-Fire Dragon" had followed Song Song Qingming for a shorter time, because its bloodline was more powerful, and because Song Song Qingming had taken meticulous care of it over these years, its cultivation had advanced very quickly, and it had already broken through to the late-Foundation Establishment stage after the demonic beast turmoil ended.

Plus, in the last few years, Song Song Qingming had fed it quite a bit of the mysterious white spiritual water he had brought back from the secret realm, which had further improved its cultivation. Song Song Qingming estimated that at this rate, the "Ice-Fire Dragon's" cultivation would not be too far from attempting to form a Core.

After reprimanding the two spirit beasts before him, Song Song Qingming took a small bottle of white spiritual water from his body, divided a portion for the "Heavenly Fire Peng," and gave the rest to the "Ice-Fire Dragon."

Seeing the white spiritual water that it loved to swallow so much, the "Ice-Fire Dragon's" eyes were instantly filled with greed.

After coiling its tail around its own portion of spiritual water, the "Ice-Fire Dragon" tasted it while its gaze didn't forget to stare at the "Heavenly Fire Peng" that was also swallowing spiritual water not far away, seemingly wanting to snatch the other's portion as well. "I've already given you so much, why are you still not satisfied? If you continue to be so unruly, next time I'll punish you by not giving you any spiritual water for two months."

Hearing Song Song Qingming's reminder from the side, the "Ice-Fire Dragon" suddenly retracted its head and began to focus on enjoying the delicacy in its hands.

Although both of Song Song Qingming's spirit beasts had swallowed quite a bit of white spiritual water, the "Ice-Fire Dragon's" cultivation progress after swallowing and refining it was clearly much faster than that of the "Heavenly Fire Peng" beside it.

This once again proved that the effect of using this item on different types of demonic beasts was indeed vastly different.

Although the "Heavenly Fire Peng's" cultivation progress was relatively slower, after swallowing the spiritual water, its body, like that of the black bear demonic king that died at Song Song Qingming's hands, was significantly stronger than before, so it could be considered not a waste of the spiritual water Song Song Qingming had fed it.

In addition, the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" on Song Song Qingming's body had also shown very obvious progress in cultivation since swallowing this white spiritual water in the past few years; most had advanced to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and many had broken through to the late-Foundation Establishment stage.

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

With so many second-tier "Golden Illusion Butterflies" gathered in one place, the overall strength they could exert now was not to be underestimated; even an ordinary mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator could be held off for a while.

Seeing that this spiritual water was so useful for the "Golden Illusion Butterflies," Song Song Qingming also informed Huang Huang Siyuan of this method, letting her use it to cultivate her own spirit insects.

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

It was just that over these years, her energy had been focused on cultivating to form a Core, and she hadn't put much effort into cultivating the spirit insects; the number and quality of the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" in her hands were a far cry from Song Song Qingming's.

It wasn't until Song Song Qingming confirmed after testing that the white spiritual water was useful for the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" that Huang Huang Siyuan, after several years of cultivation, increased the number of second-tier "Golden Illusion Butterflies" on her from only a few dozen to over two hundred.

Now, although Huang Huang Siyuan's cultivation was only at the third layer of the Jin Dan stage, she not only had several powerful mid-tier magic treasures on her, but also had the assistance of a Jin Dan spirit pet like "Red Flame" and numerous "Golden Illusion Butterflies," so her fighting strength was not much worse than that of an ordinary mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator.

And as long as there was sufficient white spiritual water, the speed at which the strength of both the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" and other spirit pets improved would accelerate significantly. For Song Song Qingming and Huang Huang Siyuan, this would also be a way to improve their own strength in the future.

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

Turning around and lifting his eyes to look, he discovered that the person coming was Song Song Yuanfang. Song Song Qingming hurriedly waved his hand to put on his outer garment and walked toward him.

"Seventh Great-Uncle, this is a letter just received from the Zhang family of Mount Tiexian Castle, inviting you to attend a banquet at Mount Tiexian Castle next month."

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

"Attend a banquet? What happened at Mount Tiexian Castle again?"

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

"Didn't Junior Brother Zhang just marry a Daoist companion the year before last? Why is he holding a grand banquet again after such a short time? This guy truly has a zest for such things."

"Last time I personally went to Mount Tiexian Castle, which could be considered giving him face; I won't go this time. Song Yuanfang, you go in my stead. Have the Hidden Gold Pavilion prepare a decent spiritual item, and bring it over as a congratulatory gift."

"If Junior Brother Zhang asks about me and Huang Siyuan, just say we have both been in closed-door cultivation recently and have no time to go."

After the demonic beast turmoil, in the last few years, with the intentional support of the Xiaoyao Sect, "Mount Tiexian Castle" had also slowly begun to recover, and the spirit mountain markets within its territory had all been rebuilt.

After Zhang Zhang Tieyang led the Zhang family to take over "Mount Tiexian Castle," it was indeed as everyone expected; it only took less than a few years for them to gradually gain control of the place.

Those cultivation families and forces that had originally been vassals under the Hu family, seeing that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, all turned around and defected to the newly arrived Jin Dan Zhang family, causing the Hu family, which had once dominated the region, to instantly plummet in status and slowly be squeezed out of the core of interests.

Although the Hu family gritted their teeth at this move by the Zhang family, they were helpless. After all, the other side had a Jin Dan ancestor like Zhang Zhang Tieyang sitting in command, and their strength was clearly greater; if they wanted to turn against them, they would certainly be the ones to suffer.

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

It was just that after the old Sect Master Yao Yao Ganshu passed away, the Hu family no longer had any particularly strong connections in the sect, and not many people were willing to stand up and speak for them.

Therefore, the sect's General Affairs Hall handled this matter with a lot of thunder but little rain; although they called Zhang Zhang Tieyang to "Mount Mount Guyang" to reprimand him in person, they did not obstruct the Zhang family's actions too much.

Since then, although the Zhang family did not continue to suppress the Hu family, the territory of "Mount Tiexian Castle" had already become dominated by the Zhang family, and the Hu family's influence was far from what it used to be, so they could only stand on the sidelines.

After the Zhang family dominated and controlled the entire "Mount Tiexian Castle," the nearby cultivation families naturally had to try their best to curry favor with the Zhang family if they wanted to join their ranks.

Especially knowing that the Jin Dan ancestor Zhang Zhang Tieyang was fond of female beauty, some Foundation Establishment families took the initiative to come to their door, wanting to send their own beautiful female cultivators to Zhang Zhang Tieyang as concubines, in order to seek to bring their family closer to this Jin Dan ancestor.

As a Jin Dan cultivator with successful cultivation who also enjoyed the pleasures of the flesh, Zhang Zhang Tieyang taking wives and concubines had long since ceased to be a strange thing for him.

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

Whenever he welcomed a female cultivator into his home, Zhang Zhang Tieyang would choose to hold a grand banquet and invite friends from all around to come and witness the ceremony, giving the other party enough etiquette and respect, which could be considered one of the few people in the cultivation world who was relatively honest about this.

But because of this, Song Song Qingming and the others who were close to him and were also friends with Zhang Zhang Tieyang felt somewhat uncomfortable.

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

Zhang Zhang Tieyang had only taken over "Mount Tiexian 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 Song Qingming had given Zhang Zhang Tieyang enough face by attending in person to congratulate him; this time, he truly didn't want to go and join in the fun again.

Although Huang Huang Siyuan had earned quite a few spirit stones for the Zhang family by refining pills for Zhang Zhang Tieyang over these years, it was all returned again. Thinking of this, Song Song Qingming couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

After giving instructions to Song Song Yuanfang, Song Song Qingming no longer had the mood to continue cultivating, so he turned and came to the family's Alchemy Pavilion located on the east side of "Mount Mount Funiu."

Huang Huang Siyuan, who was in closed-door alchemy, was carefully checking the three pills she had just refined when she suddenly saw a sound transmission talisman flying in from outside the formation. She hurriedly picked it up, took a look, and then, with a happy face, stood up and walked out of the alchemy room.

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

"I've observed that the time you spend in closed-door alchemy these few times doesn't differ much, so calculating the days, it should be about the same, so I came here to take a look." Hearing Huang Huang Siyuan's inquiry, Song Song Qingming immediately explained.

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

"This alchemy session, my luck wasn't bad; I refined three pills, so I made a small profit. Husband, you take these pills first!"

"Oh! You actually refined three Dongyuan Pills at once. It seems your alchemy skills have improved again; now you are not much worse than Senior Brother Chu."

Seeing the three small porcelain bottles in Huang Huang Siyuan's hands, Song Song Qingming was also somewhat pleasantly surprised and hurriedly opened his mouth to congratulate Huang Huang Siyuan.

The "Dongyuan Pills" that Huang Huang Siyuan refined were exactly the pill formula she had copied from Zhang Zhang Tieyang when she was cooperating with him in alchemy.

Because the few demonic beast king inner cores that Song Song Qingming and his group had harvested during the demonic beast turmoil were just right for refining this pill, Huang Huang Siyuan had had family cultivators collect auxiliary spiritual herbs everywhere in the last few years, and by now, she had successfully refined three batches of "Dongyuan Pills."

The first two times, she only refined two pills, barely avoiding a loss on the materials for refining the pills, until this time when Huang Huang Siyuan finally made progress and refined three pills, making a profit.

Being able to successfully refine three "Dongyuan Pills" at once showed that Huang Huang Siyuan's alchemy skills were truly those of a third-tier mid-quality alchemist. Seeing the joy on Huang Huang Siyuan's face, Song Song Qingming was also very happy for her in his heart.

"I have already taken one; refining this pill doesn't have much effect on me anymore. You keep these pills first."

"I'll keep one for Song Qingyu for later, and take the others to the Heavenly Pill Alliance to exchange for other spiritual items. You can decide this matter yourself; don't worry about my thoughts."

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

Hearing Song Song Qingming's words, Huang Huang Siyuan didn't insist, nodded slightly, and then put the remaining pills back into her storage bag.

"Huang Siyuan, in two days I want to go to the East Sea to exchange with Fellow Daoist Xia and her companions for a high-tier material to repair the formation. Do you want to go with me this time?" (End of chapter)